Hello everyone, and welcome to this week’s Impact Write-Up. It’s been a pretty big week for the Knockouts over the past seven days, as we crowned a new Knockouts Champion at Bound for Glory in Tara, and not only that, but she revealed to the world that her much talked about Hollywood boyfriend is none other than my mortal enemy from his consecutive appearances/times as a contestant on CBS’ Big Brother, Jessie Godderz. Nonetheless, this week, Tara gets a shot to impress her male friend as she takes on ODB. But ODB’s male friend, Eric Young, has got some other plans up his sleeve. Not only that, but Miss Tessmacher also makes an appearance (albeit brief) to hype up her big rematch against Tara next week on Impact! That was surely a mouthful, so let’s start, shall we?
Backstage, Tara and Jessie are hilariously posing for a photoshoot which consists of him hoisting her into the air up and down to show both his strength and her ability to look good in a sideways position. Tara claims they are huge news… even bigger than Honey Boo Boo! (Uh oh… who smells Tara’s next challenger for the belt with that line?!) The Knockouts Champ summons the photographer away when he asks for a few more shots because in her words, “If TMZ can take it in one shot, he can to.” Jessie makes a reference that I don’t get, but after the photographer heads out, Tara continues to brilliantly hype them up in only a way she can pull off by seeming completely serious yet amusing me with the delivery in how excited and hyped she is. Jessie tries to leave, but oh no, Tara has other plans as she yanks him back in for a brief makeout session before her match against ODB next!
After a brief intermission, Tara and Jessie make their way out to the ring for the bout. Once ODB’s music hits, she is nowhere to be seen however, and we pan backstage to see her on the phone. She looks to be pretty angry at who we can assume is Eric Young. It seems Eric has decided to no show tonight, opting instead to have a dinner. Hmm… but even if he isn’t there, ODB drops the phone and interrupts a kiss between Tara and Jessie to start the match! She drags Tara to the corner and levels her with some shots, before knocking the champ down with a shoulder tackle. ODB scores with a running front powerslam, before going back for the phone asking if Eric is still there. She tells him to stay on, but then turns around to see Jessie scream that Tara’s his girlfriend. Unfortunately, he must not know much about ODB because she walks right up to him, screams “well these are my girlfriends right here!” and proceeds to shove his face all in her chest area. (Side note: This seriously elicited maybe the biggest laugh I’ve had in a while.)
He hops down, as she gets back on the phone… but now Tara looks to have snapped at the sight of ODB smothering him in her boobs. Tara grabs her by the hair in a reverse position, before dropping her to the floor as Taz comments on ODB’s bloomers. Tara with a choke hold, as the crowd gets behind ODB to not much avail just yet. Taryn Terrell tries to keep things in control, as Tara just continues this dominance. Jessie hops up onto the ring to kiss Tara’s pain away, but this ends up giving ODB some time to power up with the flask, hoist Tara onto her shoulders, spit the drink in Jessie’s face and then drill Tara with the TKO for the win! As ODB celebrates, out comes Miss Tessmacher to the ramp to stare off with her downed competition next week!
Thoughts: Alright I know this is going to be in the minority… but I really like Tara and Jessie together. The segment between the two of them really entertained me. No shame. This is the type of character for Tara that fits so well because she combines the comedic side when she’s doing these skits, but in the ring she’s all business like the badass type that she also played well. I still wish Brooke would’ve gotten a stronger reign as Knockouts champion, but on the bright side there have been far worse treated reigns, and also if Tara’s going to continue getting these segments, matches, and attention then I’m happy the title is being put to good use as well. I crave funny skit type segments backstage, because if you know me, you know that I thrive on the randomness. I like when people show they aren’t just sort of a one dimensional character of “I’m champion.” or “I want your title.” It makes the backstage stuff more fun to watch (for me at least) when there’s something humorous going on in the background or some funny line that’ll get stuck in my head for weeks… even years (for instance, the entire Madison Rayne segment mocking Mickie James to two step her way on in the ring and finish her plate of corn bread). It’s probably just my random sense of humor, but dang it I love it.
Onto the match, I thought it was much better than their last outing in terms of how I enjoyed it. Last time I felt the match was too one sided, but this time they seemed to get equal exchange, and not only that but provide some story within it in ODB legitimately talking on the phone while wrestling, as well as going crazy in shoving Jessie’s face in her boobs, which ultimately caused Tara to snap and get too distracted with him to focus on what was going on in the ring. I love matches like this where something more happens within it aside from just bell rings, fight, then finish. The ending was really creative and fresh from anything we’ve seen in a long time and it completely worked for me. Personally, I don’t feel Jessie took away from the action at all and I’m actually kind of excited to see what’s going to happen next within the division. Is Brooke getting her title match so ODB can be next in line with the victory over Tara tonight? It would make sense (and I am all for more ODB on screen), but again I just hope we don’t find any more women sitting out for months. Tonight definitely felt fresh to me though, so I’m not even going to use that as a complaint. Kudos for getting some fun stories going, and I’m definitely looking forward to whatever comes next.
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Tara and Tiffany …wow! very beauty and hot, But again Tara limited, weak, and with stupid story line… Even when this bad use of Tara?
magicmike191 Reply:
October 19th, 2012 at
I luv Tiffany/taryn with the bun
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I am enjoying “Hollywood Tara.” I’m glad she got another title reign because it had been along time since she was champ. In addition, she never got a particularly long reign so I hope this is it. She is making those skits with Jessie funny. I can deal with him as long as shes champ!!
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Jessie Godderz is my new #1 reason to watch Impact. O_O
And I know it seems like I’m biased because of my gravatar, but seriously, I’m still not over how good Brooke looked last night.
Anyway, I I found last night’s match enjoyable enough. ODB is always entertaining to me. I definitely foresee a mixed tag team match in the very near future.
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Last week the match between Gail Kim and Miss Tessmacher was awesome!!
I really loved this match because it was so entertaining, ODB always makes me laugh! :D
Also can’t wait for the taped match between Gail and Madison (Finally back, haven’t seen her since August) vs The Blossom Twins for British Boot Camp! :D
I’m still waiting for KO Tag Team titles to be defended or maybe being introduced as a single championship if ODB maybe ends up breaking up with EY.
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Jessie is SUCH a huge star! He’s so huge, they mistakingly mentioned him from being on BB9, although he was on BB10 and BB11! OMG. He’s so famous.
Come on. If they’re even going to bring it up, the least they could do is get their facts straight.
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The backstage kiss between tara and jessie was way too fake, she could had at least moved her head a bit to the side so one can’t see their lips to make it look more real. :p
Other than that I LOVED everything about the match and the whole involvement.
“Hey! This is my girlfriend”, “and these are MY girlfriends!!!” hehe. ^_^
Best spot ever!
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odb needs to change her attire. She’s been wearing that same one since 2009 =l
Nevertheless , the match was awesome.
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Why have ODB win but have Tessmacher face Tara next week. Would have made more sense if Tessmacher distracted Tara and then ODB picked up the win. Why TNA!!!??? You were doing so good for a while there
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their teasing an odb split??
jesse has a great body i seen a couple of his matches
tara really knows how to play out her characters
cant wait to see where this all goes
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I just can’t wait for the day that Tara decides to hit Taryn, and Taryn goes crazy skirt Tiffany on her! Hahaha. They keeps teasing.
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What are the chances of Tara hitting the widows peak on Jessie, and then becoming her own heel without any assistance and more psychotic?
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There’s hope, they mention ODB is a tag champ…
VarsityBaseDude Reply:
October 20th, 2012 at
I might be wrong, but I’m starting to feel this is going to lead to Melina/JM debuting… who else is more “Hollywood” than Melina?
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does taryn gave double jointed elbows??..kinda eik….love when tara & odb have a match its more physical….
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Not the best night for the knockouts in my opinion. I loved the back stage segment. The match was eehh for me. I for one am not a huge fan of comedy parts or anything during the match. ODB talking on the phone was kinda ok. But the whole Tara and Jessie thing during the match is VERY annoying. And I can just see for the next couple of months “Baby I got her. I got her” idk it just takes me outta the moment. I want to see Tara kick some ass. I wanted her to win this title so bad. An now im kinda dreading her title reign. Damn u TNA lol
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when I announce the match thought it had no desire to see ODB for the title but when I hear his entrance theme and She started talking,i thought PUSH ODB,BAM!!!!
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OK, so I know Diva Dirt is essentially the TMZ/OMG of women wrestling websites. But it’s still a little depressing to read someone say write “I love matches like this where something more happens within it aside from just bell rings, fight, then finish.”
What, like an actual wrestling match? Yeah, all those matches over the years where people just wrestle are soooo boring, right?
In fact, let’s just forget about appreciating the wrestler’s talent and ability, let’s stick some z-list reality TV reject at ringside and make it all about him. Hell, why stop there? We could have some dancing flamingos in the ring and maybe have that Hilton bloke on commentary cos, OMG, he’s like soooo funny.
Meh.
divaindemise Reply:
October 20th, 2012 at
Bingo.
madslam2009 Reply:
October 20th, 2012 at
1. Well Jesse Godderz is an actual wrestler. He’s not there for just some lame storyline and is working in OVW.
2. I don’t see how it is all about him. It is just as much about Tara being distracted by love. And ODB was booked just as well in terms of screen time and storyline devolpment.
3. I like it when there are more stories than in-ring action. Bobby is giving the women credit, he is simply stating that he enjoys matches with more stories in it. Alot of people do.
4. If you don’t like Diva-Dirt so much, then why are you still commenting? If you think what is on here is so depressing, then leave.
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This is somewhat unrelated but I’d love for Jillian get signed and debut and form a tag team with Taryn.
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this match annoyed the hell outta me!
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I think ODB is the shizz…. But wtf??? It’s Tara’s first match as new champ and they made her look weak! So glad she is heel & champ again but ef me the bf storyline is crap. They should of at least given her a wrestler, unfortunately I doubt this title reign will last long which sucks!
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Anyone else have a feeling that the KO Tag Titles are fixin to turn into the Mixed Tag Title (Something i wanted to see for a long time.)