Madison Rayne vs Tara Announced for July 14th Impact
Former allies Madison Rayne and Tara will finally meet in the ring on July 14th, it was announced on Impact Wrestling tonight.
In a special episode of Impact, the former Knockouts Champions will square off after months of animosity stemming from Madison’s mistreatment of Tara.
Last year, Madison brought Tara ‘out of retirement’, in storyline, as her personal ally and problem solver. However, the relationship disintegrated earlier this year with Tara helping Mickie win a match at Sacrifice that ensured Tara’s freedom from Rayne.
Who do you think will win this big match?
adifferentsame
June 24, 2011 at 3:09 am
It’s a pity they delayed this, but I hope they air a promo chronicling their relationship breakdown. They built up a nice story and left many wanting Tara to slap the holy hell out of Madison.
Kaledrina
June 24, 2011 at 3:12 am
it feels a bit premature to announce it, yet at the same it is great that they are hyping a knockouts match.
i don’t really care who wins the match that much, unfortunately i’ve been a bit bored with both madison and tara of late.. well, not bored, i just haven’t missed them being on screen the last couple weeks! ideally, madison winning would be the best result as it would leave the feud ongoing – can’t really see either of them doing anything else due to the other ongoing ko feuds.
laqisha
June 24, 2011 at 3:15 am
Madison been outta action like a month or so…
Does anyone know if Madison will evar return to SHIMMER???
Kaledrina
June 24, 2011 at 3:20 am
probably not while she’s with tna.. can’t remember where it was said or who said it but apparently tna were asking shimmer for way too much money to be allowed to use madison, sarita, etc.
The_JM
June 24, 2011 at 3:29 am
It was mentioned on the shimmer forum by dave prazak.
laqisha
June 25, 2011 at 3:24 am
WTF thats not cool at all, just another reason to hate TNA.
Piggie James
June 26, 2011 at 3:41 pm
It’s fairly acceptable for a promotion like TNA to protect their contract talent by giving their hiring rates a premium price over indy wrestlers. If indy promotions aren’t prepared to pay the prices asked for, then no one is forcing them to hire anyone. Instead, more opportunities are opened up for newer indy talent to get a booking, and not for TNA wrestlers to dominate the indies to the extent where no rookies have a chance of getting booked.
The only real issue is if the prices are so high, that the TNA talent doesn’t get hired at all, but as it would appear, none of the talent who want to work in other promotions have trouble getting booked.
BC757
June 24, 2011 at 3:15 am
It’s a toss up but Madison needs to get back some heattt cause shes hasn’t been featured in a lil while
velvelove
June 24, 2011 at 3:21 am
i love them both but i want madison to win bcuz she needs to get back in the ko’s division well
p.s. cant wait for street fight!
adifferentsame
June 24, 2011 at 3:22 am
Unfortunately Tara’s character and wrestling is beginning to stagnate — and that pains me to say such a thing as I love her to bits. The wiser outcome would be for Madison to retain credibility as the killer queen bitch, since she has more potential to progress in her career.
Melina&Mickie4ever!
June 24, 2011 at 3:28 am
cant wait to see this match. Team Tara all the way. The Queen Bee has nothing on The Black Widow !
number1AngelinaLovefan
June 24, 2011 at 3:34 am
Well i love Madison but i REALLY hope Tara wins
VelvetLoveFan
June 24, 2011 at 5:14 am
Same ;)
The_JM
June 24, 2011 at 4:00 am
The queen bee has this in the bag, I like Tara but I love the killer queen <3
shameronstar
June 24, 2011 at 8:04 am
Is Madison Rayne’s character based on Bloody Mary because back in those times I heard that when Mary rose to power in England it kind of turned her into a psycho bitch?
laqisha
June 25, 2011 at 3:29 am
Possibly it could be true Because Roxxi’s Voodoo character was based on a Voodoo preistess who lived in Louisiana during 1920′s her name was Marie Laveuaxe.
JillianHallTNA
June 24, 2011 at 9:38 am
Tara will win. With her new finisher or maybe with Widow’s Peak
Kaledrina
June 24, 2011 at 3:21 pm
ooh, i completely forgot about that spinebuster move she did on rosita! loved it, haven’t seen the widow’s peak in ages, though.. wonder if she struggles doing it since her arm injury or something??
nathaniel
June 24, 2011 at 4:06 pm
Tara pinned Rosita with what she calls a TaraBomb. Tara tweeted that it was a new move, but her widow’s peak is her finisher. She peaked Winter at a house show last week in NY, so her arm is good to go.
nathaniel
June 24, 2011 at 1:23 pm
Wrestling 101 dictates that Tara will win because the last time her and Madison had a match one-on-one, Madison won. However, this could be the night that Isis makes her debut, costs Tara the match and then you see those two face off at the Hardcore Justice ppv.
Piggie James
June 24, 2011 at 4:46 pm
I think Tara and Madison have lost a lot of momentum since Sacrifice, but I think it should be pretty easy for them to pick it backup again leading into this match. They have a great personal chemistry, and I remember their last matches against each other were good.
I’d actually like to see them feud for a while (beyond this match) because their storyline has already been built quite extensively, so their conflict is very highly anticipated (at least for me).
I think a lot of people will want to see Tara redeem herself against Madison, but Madison’s the one who needs the rub from Tara, and going over Tara will help her career much more. So it’s going to be quite unpredictable what happens. Personally I can’t wait for them to start going at it!
Also their backstage promo last Impact was awesome!
nathaniel
June 24, 2011 at 5:04 pm
Tara gave her the rub at last year’s Sacrifice.
nathaniel
June 24, 2011 at 5:06 pm
…at it worked. Madison became the longest reigning KO champ, and her heel character was much elevated.
Piggie James
June 24, 2011 at 5:24 pm
Oh, I forgot that Tara already did that for her, although Madison still needs to build back her credibility as a dominating force in the Knockouts division. I guess as long as they get a good feud then they can both come out very strong from it, no matter who goes over. Not to mention it will keep them out of the title picture that they were both dominating last year while they build themselves back up again.
I suppose you get problems like this when most of your talent is ‘over’, but I keep hearing people criticise Madison’s wrestling ability, so if they could do a good series of matches, maybe she could finally silence these critics. I’d love to see the feud culminate at Hardcore Justice.
nathaniel
June 24, 2011 at 6:46 pm
Whatever the outcome between those two, I would love to see a Tara/Jacqueline feud.