Sigh. That’s all I can do at a time like this. For those of you hoping, much like I was, to see a fun Impact Write-Up before you, I am sorry for what you’re about to witness. In fact, if you want to see a positive recap, I beg you to please X out of this page right now. You see, last night on Impact Wrestling, the shocking discovery of the foolish stipulation to fire one of the Jarretts lead to both hitting the bricks. Nothing against Jeff, but my world has crumbled. There was no warning that this was going to happen! I was given no time to prepare myself. I can’t even continue on right now, but you can find what else I have to say on this topic below. Also, we got to see one half of the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champions, Madison Rayne, in singles action as she squares off with Traci Brooks, and I apologize to both ladies for spotlighting this intro on Miss Karen, but once again, I plead… there was no warning!
As we head out to the ring Christy Hemme introduces our now former Aunt Traci makes her way to the ring. We are shown a few replays from last week where Traci took the fight to the Knockouts Champion, Gail Kim, before heading back to the stage where Gail’s fellow title holder, Madison Rayne, steps out. She attempts to execute her beloved wave, but is stopped with a spear on the stage by Traci! Traci shows the same fire we saw last week, before throwing Madison’s tiara at her and dragging her into the ring. She then tosses Madison into the ring and the bell sounds as this match officially gets started.
Traci grabs Rayne by the hair and throws her across the ring before charging forward into the corner where Madison landed. Rayne gets her two boots up, but Traci catches them and blocks whatever Madison had attempted. Brooks then hits a sick clothesline, following it up with some old fashioned choking. The crowd gets behind Traci, but Madison takes control as she tosses Brooks into the ropes and proceeds to do some chokes of her own… complete with Killer Queen screaming!
Madison then uses her knees to punish Brooks some more as the crowd gets insanely behind her. Brooks lands on the ring apron as Madison drags her in between the top and middle ropes and twists her around to land an absolutely sick neckbreaker. Traci falls to the outside, while our Killer Queen smirks at the work she has done and gets the wave in that was earlier interrupted. Traci crawls back into the ring, but Madison slams her face first on the canvas for a two count. “Traci” chants erupt, as Rayne just seems relentless in her attack.
Following some choking in the corner, Madison charges forward… only Brooks moves and hits an awesome jawbreaker to send Madison into the ropes. Traci fires back with a running knee to the back, then continuing with a clothesline. She tries to pick Madison up, but Rayne with the knee to the stomach. She then connects with the Rayne Drop… for a two count?! Traci kicks out as Madison heads to the corner and gives one of the most evil glares I’ve ever seen. She then charges forward with a boot to the head for the victory! Madison celebrates with her title as Traci tries to recover from the fight she put up.
Ugh… We then head backstage after the match to see my new most disliked wrestler in the world today, Sting, questioning if Jeff and Miss Karen have had a stressful night. They agree that they have spent the night consoling each other, and that they want the other to be the one that remains hired with Impact Wrestling. Sting doesn’t believe either of them, being he is the one who spoke to both of them earlier in the night. He mentions that Jeff said a woman’s place is at home, and that Karen claimed there were a hundred “Jeff Jarretts”, and that she needs to be running the Knockouts. (TRUTH!)
They believe that Sting is trying to cause problems between the two of them; citing that he’s crazy. Sting pulls out some footage from earlier with Miss Karen talking to Sting about wanting Jeff to be the one fired. She immediately rises from her seat and tries to turn the television off, as Jeff becomes enraged. It pains me to watch Miss Karen this upset, as the world’s worst boss, Sting, just laughs at them. Suddenly, the video heads over to footage of Jeff telling Sting that Karen should be sent home to be a mother for their children.
He tries to stop the tape, as Miss Karen becomes furious with his words. She screams that Jeff is a liar, as he claims its her. Suddenly, Sting interrupts them and says that we will either have both Jarrett’s or neither… and then decides to fire them both…
I think I had an even worse reaction than the Jarretts who begin to go off on one another as the most unfortunate segment ever has come to a close… as has Miss Karen’s TNA career.
Thoughts: I’m going to discuss the match first because if I go off on that segment, there’s no way I’d be able to talk about a match after it. I thought Traci and Madison put on a solid outing. I loved the start which showed more of Traci’s aggression, in that she ran all the way up the ramp because all of her frustration has been building up for so long that she just wants to destroy Madison and Gail. Perhaps Traci could find herself a partner in the future to challenge for the titles, which I’d guess would be Velvet? Anyways, the finish seemed a little strange to me, but I liked that they easily recovered being I’m not sure if Traci was supposed to kick out of the Rayne Drop or not. Either way, I enjoyed the match and I want to see more Traci in the ring because she’s a breath of fresh air.
Now… TNA, why do you do this to me? I’ve been a big fan of the Knockouts for a while, and a good bit of that was the melodic screaming of Miss Karen. Every Thursday, I looked forward to seeing her on TV and seeing what she was going to put the ladies through, and now it’s all gone. Granted, I’m not sure if she really is leaving or not, but the mere thought of going ONE episode of Impact without her calling someone a prostitute is enough to send me into mourning. I had heard previously that it was only Jeff who had been fired, so I went into tonight’s show assuming that would happen. Needless to say, I went into a downward spiral the moment Sting uttered his vile decision. Nevertheless, I beg TNA to rehire Miss Karen, and you can expect me to start three million online petitions that I will send to Dixie Carter herself.
