Last night’s Impact had a smorgasboard of Knockouts all over the place! Apparently the holiday spirit hadn’t infected these ladies just yet as they were all set on beating the hell outta each other. Which made for some great television! Find out what happened below…
Backstage, we see Angelina Love and Velvet Sky chattering by a food table, discussing their individual action figures, which are in their hands. Ric Flair walks up, inviting them both to Fortune/Immortal’s Thanksgiving party. He promised the guys he’d bring back candy (I’d be pulling out the mace at that point…) and Angelina grins, saying, “Eye candy?” They seem to be interested, when Mickie James walks up, wanting to speak to Angelina. She extends a hand, thanking the blonde for a great match last week. Velvet interrupts, putting her hands over Angelina’s ears, singing. Mickie gives her a look, “What are you, 12?” In response, Angelina holds up her action figure, extends the tiny hand, and says, “Talk to the hand.”
Before this could go any further, however, we hear loud voices off camera. Into the shot walks Madison Rayne and Tara. Then, it’s well-nigh impossible to hear what any of them are saying because they’re all talking at once. After a few moments, it’s not necessary since words become actions as Tara shoves Mickie James. James retaliates and it seems like Tara spits at MJ (although it looks more like she just blew air at her, trying to make it come off like she spat) – and then it’s on. As The Beautiful People and Madison (who’s expression is hilarious!) look on, both women start fighting. Flair’s trying to restore order, but not even the Nature Boy can control these two! Mickie gets shoved into Madison, and at that point, Velvet and Angelina decide to join in, ganging up on Rayne. When Tara gets the upper hand on Mickie, she sees her partner getting beaten up, and goes after Velvet Sky. Mickie switches out, joining Angelina in pummeling Madison. The Knockout Champion is sent to the ground, and when Angelina puts a hand on Mickie’s shoulder, as if to hold her back, Mickie lays Love out with a hard back elbow! It’s unclear if she meant to do this or not, for when she looks down at who she hit, Tara attacks from behind.
Velvet, Angelina, and Madison are down at this point. Mickie and Tara continue to brawl all over the lot, shoving each other into a truck, eventually disappearing around the side of the truck. By then, the Beautiful People have recovered, and Velvet is holding Madison. As Angelina comes in to attack, Madison gets a kick in, and frees herself from Velvet. Straight outta nowhere though, a brunette enters the shot and takes out both Velvet and Madison with some kind of large sign. It’s Sarita! She’s here to kickass and chew bubble gum – and she’s all outta bubble gum! After taking out those two, she narrows in on Angelina, kicking her when down. She’s screaming at Angelina, and doesn’t see the unseen-before-now Winter come up behind her. She grabs Sarita by the hair and pulls her away from Love. Her expression is wild, her eyes are flashing and she speaks in an absolutely demonic voice, “Leave. Her. She’s with ME now.” Sarita asks who she is, but when Winter points at her, she decides descretion is the better part of valour and makes a get away. Winter kneels down by Angelina and cradles her head lovingly. She softly croons, “Safe…” a psychotic smile on her face.
Musings: Wow. Just wow. Everyone came off really well in this huge segment. I believed the strong emotions that everyone radiated: the tension between Angelina and Mickie; the unbridaled rage between Mickie and Tara; Sarita’s fustration and anger finally letting lose on everyone; and the obsession of Winter for Angelina. I didn’t even know who Sarita was until I saw her face actually! It’s fantastic to finally see her breaking out and becoming more prominent in the title picture. However, once again, Winter stole the segment for me. Her acting is downright flawless; when she spoke in that demonic voice, I actually got chills, it was damn believable! Now she’s able to be seen by others, which adds a new element to this angle. I hope it stays interesting as it starts to unfold a bit further! But we weren’t done with the Knockout’s action…
Madison Rayne drags Earl Hebner out to the ring and gets a mic. She screams at Sarita, pissed off that she had the nerve to put her hands on the champion. Rayne says Sarita has been “playing for the JV team on Xplosion” (I admit, I laughed!) but Impact is HER show and she’s the champion. She’ll “say this real slow since I know you’re only fluent in El Spaniard – get your ass out here NOW!” Madison’s in jeans and a shirt, but it’s not stopping her from wanting a match with Sarita. The Dark Angel answers the call, wearing jeans and an amazingly cute black corset top – not exactly proper gear either, but she’s willing to take the challenge.
Musings: Quite an enjoyable match! The pin was a bit sloppy, but otherwise these two worked very well together. I loved how Sarita continually taunted Madison, calling her a loser, getting her all riled up. At one point, Madison turned the tables and did a little shimmy dance of her own – priceless! Unless I’m wrong, Sarita’s had four wins, this last one being over the Knockout Champion herself. Surely this would shoot her to the top of the title contenders list. Officially, Mickie is still the number one contender, but at the next pay per view, she’ll be facing Tara in a rematch, this time in a falls count anywhere match. Perhaps Sarita could make her case to face Madison for the belt while Mickie finishes up with Tara? At any rate, it’s nice to see her pushing her way upwards! She fully deserves the push she’s receiving at the moment. All in all a good Impact for all the women involved!
38 Comments
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this was enjoyable, “winter” was a bit cringy, the kick mickie gave to tara at the beggining was hoot, i loled at angelina faces when it started xd.
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Whenever the KOs brawl it keeps me coming back as a viewer. The Tara/Mickie feud could last for months & I’d tune in. The new visual style of the backstage segments adds to distinguish the product and the blows landed during brawls add to that package.Great use of Sarita, even if she and Madison were essentially wearing the same outfit. I’d love to get Daffney back and into this craziness as well.
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Good write up and segment but for me Mickie was MVP of this segment with her comments to Velvet and her fighting. Winter was good to but wasn’t best of segment to me.
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I’m glad things are getting heated with the Angelina/Winter storyline. I hope it doesn’t fail like Beth/Rosa. The only reason the madison/sarita match was sloppy was because they were wrestling in tight jeans, that must definetly feel uncompfortable but they still pulled it off.
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The brawl was brilliant, and Im glad to see they are progressing this whole Winter thing now, and although I love the hell out of Kat, when she screamed ‘LEEEEEAVE, HEEEEER!!!’ she sounded half drunk, it was really bad. The rest was fine, but that was a funny fail. x-D Loved Madison when the fight started she was like ‘HEHEHEH- *Tara and Mickie start going wild* 0.0′
And for the actual match, considering both were in their street clothes, they did rather well, although the finish was terrible, I mean a random sweep, really? Herber didn’t make it any better when he didn’t even count to 3 properly. ¬__¬ But oh well, its great to see Sarita being pushed more into the Knockouts Title picture while Mickie & Tara go at it, and as long as Sarita is getting the better end out of this push then Im all for it. =-)
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I like how madison and tbp was watching mickie and tara go at it, and if you listen really closely you can hear angelina say “I think we should help Mickie now”, before she got into it with madison. My favorite part of the brawl was when mickie delivered a crotch shot to Tara in the beginning, which made me laugh. And did anyone else see the spot where it looked like Tara got ran over by a golf cart.
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great impact! i truly love all the knockouts haha they have so much personality! I really believe madison as a heel now
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It’s refreshing to see the Knockouts getting more time. And also being supported with backup coverage on Reaction. I wasn’t that crazy about the match though. It was alright. But the timing was kind of awkward throughout. Unless it is part of an individual’s standard wrestling gear, I think TNA should shy away from non wrestling garb matches.
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I love Winter. good match. I see Mickie beating tara at Final Resloution. (P.S. I see Sarita winning every match during the firts part of my predictoion Then the next month mickie beats Madison for the title. she faces Madison for a rematch the next month and beats her again. But after the match Sarita comes and attacks Mickie. The next month before the match Sarita attacks mickie during her entrance. And the next month Sarita beats mickie for the title.
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I Love Winter even more than I Did The brawl was awesome Then she came in and stole the whole segment.
As for the match it was OK but not memorable.
Winter Stole The Night For Me. I Just Love Her
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Wow Winter is a psycho!! haha she freaked the fuck out. I’m glad to see the storyline is progressing past Angelina being the only one who can see her. We’re getting closer and closer to a Winter in ring debut! I for one can’t wait for that.
I love how the Nature Boy came to get some eye candy in the form of The Beautiful People, *sigh* if only Lacey was there(it’s going to take me awhile to get over her being gone haha)
Madison is such a good heel, she does a phenomenal job. She is such a bitch! hahah
I thought that was a good match! Lots of action. Sarita was very impressive in that match, we saw shades of the high flying quick Sarita we haven’t seen in awhile. I think the knockouts championship is in her future.
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This division is so refreshing. Unlike WWE I would take any as these women seriously as a title contender. I wanna see a 6 way cage match, like back in the old days with Winter, Angelina, Mickie, Tara, Madison and Sarita for the Knockout’s Championship. Hell it could even be an 8 way and you could throw Velvet and Daffney into the fray.
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I can’t wait for Daffney to return from injury. I wan’t to see how she will fit into the mix. I miss the scream queen! I also really want to see Mickie James vs Daffney.
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and you’re right Jennifer, Winter sounded down right demonic! awsome acting by Katie!
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Can you review reaction.?
I almost peed myself when Madison said
“I don’t know if you throw jumping beans at eachother an hit people with cookie sheets down there in Mexico, but in TNA we wrestle.”
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ok match was abit off & both dressing almost the same did nothing for me either…
backlstage brawl was good with WINTER showing her protective side which was awesome shes getting the job done she seems real now & i like it…
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I really liked the Knockouts part of Impact even if the show itself failed as a whole. I didnt find the match sloppy as some reports (and people) said. The only part that was iffy was when Sarita almost tripped on the top rope and the pin. But this was better than RAW. Overall, great week for the women.
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Another Good Showing for the Knockout’s Division on Impact. Great Brawl Outside the Building ! So Winter has finally appeared. What’s Velvet’s reaction going to be ? Guess that’ll have to wait until the next set of tapings. Nice match with Madison Rayne and Sarita with Sarita going over. It’s been long overdue for Sara Stock to be in the title picture. I say add Madison Rayne vs Sarita for the Knockout’s Title at Final Resolution. Hey the more Knockout’s Action the better and it couldn’t hurt with PPV Buyrates that TNA doesn’t get. Plus Madison Rayne has taken a back seat since Mickie James returned and that’s not right. She’s the Champ and deserves to be in the spotlight. Mickie James vs Tara 2 Falls-Count-Anywhere and Madison Rayne vs Sarita for the Knockout’s Title at Final Resolution ? TNA make it happen !
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everyone went crazy when w/ winter
sarita hitting velvet was awesome
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Lol I love winters cameo. N how Angelina decides to join in the fun n attack Madison lol. The match itself is fine too.
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I would of loved or Angelina to say “eye candy? Oh. Sorry Ric, we aren’t divas.”
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Once again, another great night for the Knockouts. I just love them. I love all the KOs. As I said before, they are the highlights each week for me. They are the #1/best women’s divison in mainstream wrestling. Great matches & segments on a regular basis from the KOs prove this. Knockouts>Divas for me.
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Winter is down right creepy and I applaud Katie Lea for being an interesting character.
I really liked Impact this week, but I thought the Madison-Sarita match was a bit sloppy to be honest. But a very good night for the Knockouts.
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most of the ko’s are former divas
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Amazing this only got 25 comments and was a great segment and good match till the ending. Yet a 1 min. match on SD with a weak beatdown gets 42 comments. Shame Shame Shame, KOs greater then Divas this week.