Jeff Hardy, after waiting all day for him to appear, in engaged in a backstage brawl with Abyss. Predictably, Abyss gets the upper hand, and they brawl through the back, out into the crowd, and down to ringside. They blur out Jeff Hardy’s buttcrack, which was sticking out of the top of his jeans, as Abyss continues to batter him around ringside. We actually see the fans filing into the building as they fight, and Hardy turns things around with a chairshot as they brawl back through an unpopulated section of the crowd and backstage again, past where Orlando Jordan’s couch used to be, and Abyss wraps electrical cables around Hardy’s face and yanks back. Hardy gets free and they continue fighting through the backstage area as I continue to be distracted by Hardy’s blurry buttcrack. They brawl out of the building to where the fans are waiting in line to get in, and Overzealous Security Inc run out and choke Hardy with their nightsticks and pull him away.

Right from there, we go back into the (now full) arena as Dave Scherer’s favorite person, Eric Bischoff, makes his way into the ring. He says that never in his 20 years has he seen something as horrific as what we saw last week. He holds Ric Flair responsible for the attack on EV2.0, and he apologizes to Dixie Carter and swears that they will hold Ric Flair accountable. Words cannot describe what they did to RVD, and then he uses words like horrific and despicable to describe what they did to RVD. Before Bischoff goes, he wants to update us on RVD’s condition: he went to the hospital and visited Rob, who is held together by staples, stitches, and pins, and his doctor fears that he has numerous punctured organs, and…get this…he may have had trauma. Eric promises that when RVD is able to crawl out of that hospital, everyone will welcome him back because he’ll always have a home in TNA, but the fact is that the show must go on, and after meeting with RVD’s doctors, Dixie Carter, and Hulk Hogan, they made the decision he knows the fans and RVD would want: they have decided to vacate the TNA World Title. There will be a tournament that will begin this week and will conclude at Bound For Glory, and his thoughts and prayers are with RVD, but the show must go on and it will…

World Title Tournament, First Round: Rob Terry vs Jeff Hardy

Winner: Jeff Hardy

Meanwhile, in the back, Ric Flair and Fortune are getting out of a limo…and with them is a suit-clad Douglas Williams. Ah, the plot thickens…

We go to a video package recapping the events of last week, as Fortune attacked EV2.0 at the end of the show and Tommy Dreamer tells Dixie Carter to make it right, because she doesn’t want them making it right.

From there, we catch Hulk Hogan outside talking on his cell phone and teases us by saying he’s thinking of quitting over the RVD situation. He’s appalled that they want to replace RVD because it’d be like replacing the President. Hogan says he’s going to sit outside and pout because he doesn’t think he can go back inside.

World Title Tournament, First Round: Jay Lethal vs Ken Anderson

Winner: Ken Anderson

Backstage, Christy tells Angelina Love that Madison Rayne has invoked her rematch clause and she’ll be challenging for the Knockouts Title tonight. Angelina says she never expects a fair fight from Madison, and she was able to whine and cry until she got her title handed back to her last night, but it’s not going to happen tonight. She says to go ahead and bring Dumpy Ass, because Angelina has some backup of her own.

We go back to last week on TNA Reaction, as the Motor City Machine Guns were backstage saying they proved that they are the best team in the world, and then we see a clip of the finish of last week’s Match 5 of the Best Of Five Series between the MCMG and Beer Money. The feeling of being out there in front of the people was greater than anything, and they’ve been teaming for four years and they are now at the top of the mountain. The other teams have a lot to live up to with the MCMG, and it won’t be easy. We now go to a video package wondering what’s next for the MCMG, and the champs will be in action next week! But right now, another title is on the line…

Knockoots Title Match: Angelina Love vs Madison Rayne

Winner: Angelina Love

Velvet joins Angelina in the ring and they have a short staredown, then raise each other’s hands. Madison and Dumpy Ass jump them from behind and leave them laying.

Meanwhile, Ric Flair and Fortune are backstage, and they’re…WALKING!

We watch the same video package recapping the EV2.0/Fortune/Abyss angle from last week, then we head back to the ring where Flair is in the ring with Fortune. He asks if someone used the word power, and he says this is what you call Impact with power. Kazarian, AJ, Beer Money, and now we add Doug Williams and Matt Morgan. Flair throws up the four fingers even though there’s six of them, and he says you’d better love Fortune because they’re not going anywhere anytime soon. He goes on to call EV2.0 a circus act and a bunch of undisciplined animals, and says they’re not wrestlers and don’t belong in the business. The marquee says pro wrestling, not garbage cans and kendo sticks. Flair tells EV2.0 to kiss his ass and Fortune’s ass, and just smile and be glad about the fact that they’re part of TNA. AJ takes the mic and says that EV2.0 couldn’t leave well enough alone, they just had to come in and be on TV one last time. They wanted a hardcore finale, and that’s exactly what they got. Nobody has wrestled in this ring more than AJ Styles, he is TNA and TNA is AJ Styles, this is the house that AJ STyles built. Dixie Carter comes out from the back and tells AJ that he helped build this house, but make no mistake, she owns it. It’s her house, and if it’s her house, it’s their house…and here comes EV2.0, looking like they got beat up again before they walked out. Dixie says she’s given Flair the benefit of the doubt since he came here and that’s over. Before last Thursday, none of these guys had contracts, but now they all do. Flair asks what on his resume says he takes any crap from women, and Dreamer says that he is the living legend of this business, and if Dixie didn’t tell them to stay back, they’d all come kick their asses right now. But what she did was acknowledged last night, and it’s all about now, and it’s time to leave Hogan and everything else in the past, because now it’s TNA. Foley told Flair how great it was to be part of TNA and to forget what anyone else said about what to do, and to make the move that’s right for him, so Flair came to TNA. Foley has a life full of regrets, but if he could change one thing, he would have never brought Flair to TNA. Flair challenges him to roll around in the thumbtacks with him one more time, but Foley says he doesn’t take his orders from Ric Flair, he takes them from Dixie Carter. Flair said Flair is here for Flair, and tells Foley to go home and get soft in his chair. Dreamer says that RVD is their friend and they will get Abyss, then tells AJ that he did build this house and they had nothing but respect for him until last week. They may all be tired and beat up, but tonight it’s going to be Dreamer vs Styles in his house, and they’re definitely going to make it…EXTREME.

We go backstage to Kurt Angle, who said it’s been a living hell to get through the first half of the Top Ten, but now it’s a tournament and he’s been through these before in high school, college, and on the Olympic level, and he’s only three wins away from regaining the TNA World Title.

World Title Tournament, First Round: X-Division Champion Douglas Williams vs Kurt Angle

Winner: Kurt Angle

Kurt Angle is now only two wins away from regaining the TNA World Title. Still to come tonight, AJ Styles vs Tommy Dreamer.

Sting and Kevin Nash are backstage, and they’re…WALKING!

Backstage, Ken Anderson says that he’s in the final four and he hopes RVD will be okay, but the show must go on and a win’s a win.

Sting and Kevin Nash come out to the ring and I can guarantee you right now, before they even open their mouths, that we won’t understand a damn thing that happens in this segment. Nash says he’s known Sting for 20 years, and they’ve had their disagreements, but there’s nobody in this business he respects more than Sting. Nash has been called a cancer and a lot of other things, but after 20 years and 20 operations, he’s not out here for just the money, he’s here because he loves to do what he does, and he’ll be damned if somebody tells him it’s his time to step aside. First, nobody tells him anything, they ask him, and if they want his spot, come take it. Nash says TNA is this close to turning the edge and making it happen, but the cancer isn’t in this ring, it’s in the back, and the whole magic act and smoke and mirrors, he says he’s wasting his time and maybe he is, but he wants to tell us the truth…and here comes Jeff Jarrett, who asks if Nash really wants to tell the truth, because the guy who’s really full of BS is Nash. A leopard never changes his spots, and it’s always been about Big Sexy Kevin Nash, who never gave a damn about anybody and that’s never going to change. And as far as Sting goes, Jarrett can open a closet door and talk about all his skeletons and tell the world what kind of man he really is, but he’s not going to do that. What Jarrett will do, is that there’s a locker room full of guys who are tired of the games they’ve been playing, and as far as Hogan and Bischoff go and all they’ve done for the company, the whole company has been better off since they got here. So what Jarrett will do tonight will be in honor of a 20 year wrestling executive in Eric Bischoff and the greatest box office attraction ever in Hulk Hogan, he’s going to grab a chair and beat both their asses. Suddenly, Hulk Hogan comes out and says Jarrett’s not going to do it by himself. Jarrett built this company up, and he and Eric came in to help him finish the job. Everyone knows what Nash and Sting are all about, and they’re jealous because the spotlight’s on the young guys right now and not them. So right now, they’re going to come down to the ring and settle this, and challenges Sting to put the bat aside and do it like a man for a change. Sting tosses the bat out of the ring and Jarrett and Hogan come down to the ring and step inside…and the lights go out. When they come back up, Fortune is in the ring beating up Kevin Nash and Sting while Hogan and Jarrett are laid out on the other side of the ring. They finish beating up the old men and flash their new Fortune hand signal as we go to commercial.

Backstage, Raven is telling Tommy Dreamer that they should have killed Fortune, and Tommy says not to tell him anything, and to look at the bigger picture. They once again put over the opportunity Dixie Carter gave them as everyone tries to talk sense into Raven.

World Title Tournament, First Round: Matt Morgan vs The Pope

Winner: The Pope

Backstage, Mick Foley says he watched what happened to EV2.0, and he was spared the worst of it because he got knocked out early, but he is part of EV2.0 and there will be revenge. His doctor said he won’t be ready to get in there for another couple of weeks so he’ll need to let the others lead the charge, but he’ll eventually join his guys in their fight against Fortune.

AJ Styles vs Tommy Dreamer

Winner: AJ Styles

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