The broadcast opens with a highlight package of Kurt Angle and Frank Trigg attacking AJ Styles last week.

Following the Impact music opener, Mike Tenay and Don West inform us that tonight's show will feature another First Round X Cup Tournament Match, Booker T taking on Kevin Nash in the main event, and more.

Match #1: Consequences Creed vs. AJ Styles:

Kurt Angle is shown watching the bout from a backstage monitor as Styles and Creed exchange holds. Creed leapfrogs over AJ, but is caught in a schoolboy rollup for a two count before taking Styles down with a pinning combination of his own, which gets a near fall. Creed runs into a dropkick, but manages to avoid Styles as he springboards into the ring. Creed catches AJ with a boot in the corner and connects with a front flip into a clothesline. Creed attempts another front roll into a leap, but Styles catches him; AJ, however, later misses a flying forearm in the corner. Creed lands on his feet to counter a Styles back suplex, but The Phenomenal One sees an opportunity and nails him with a Pele kick. AJ follows up with a Styles Clash to put away the TNA rookie. Post-match, Jeremy Borash appears in the aisle and calls AJ over. JB informs Styles that Kurt Angle is in the parking lot awaiting Karen's arrival, which sends AJ running to the back.

Following a commercial break, AJ Styles and the Angles are shown having a shouting match. Styles insists that Karen stay in his locker room tonight.

Brother Ray makes his way to the ring:

Ray says that he and Devon attempted to break Rhino's neck backstage last week and promises that Christian Cage will be carted out of the arena tonight. Ray vows that this will be Cage's final match. Christian's music hits before we head for commercials.

Match #2: Brother Ray vs. Christian Cage:

Cage begins the bout by stinging Ray with punches, but soon runs into a high backdrop. Cage dodges Ray in the corner and connects with a flying bodypress from the top turnbuckle. Christian goes upstairs again and delivers a Frog Splash after sending Ray back down to the canvas. Johnny Devine enters the ring and attempts to hit Cage with a kendo stick, but Christian uses the weapon to execute an inverted Russian legsweep on the Team 3D sidekick. The distraction, however, allows Brother Ray to come from behind and drive Cage to the mat with a back suplex. Ray picks up the kendo stick and nails Cage with the object in clear view of the referee, causing a DQ. Following the decision, Tomko and Brother Devon bring a glass table into the ring. Ray powerbombs Cage through the wood and glass, causing shards to fly everywhere. Eric Young, Kaz, and a TNA trainer tend to a bleeding Christian following the heels' departure. This was an effective scene, although glass tables are a concept that could have been promoted on PPV.

JB is with Kevin Nash in his dressing room. When Borash asks Nash what he had to gain by helping Samoa Joe, the TNA Champion enters the room and mocks Big Sexy's lack of training for his match with Booker T later on. Nash again tells his former charge that the game is physical, not mental, and Joe hints that he may be at ringside for the main event.

Awesome Kong and Raisha Saeed arrive for this week's Twenty-five Thousand Dollar Challenge. A woman from Buffalo, New York named Danielle is chosen from the stands.

Match #3: TNA Knockout Champion Awesome Kong vs. Danielle (Non-title Twenty-five Thousand Dollar Challenge):

Last week's challenger, Taylor is shown in the front row as Kong brutalizes Danielle in and outside of the ring, picking up the hopeful by the legs and throwing her into the guardrail. Back inside, Kong delivers an Awesome Bomb for the easy victory. Following the pin, Taylor hits the ring and brawls with Kong - knocking down Saeed in the process - before the two are separated by security. Jim Cornette arrives and reprimands Taylor for hopping the guardrail, but agrees to consider her request for a match against Saeed to earn another opportunity at Kong.

A career retrospective airs featuring Angelina Love. The Beautiful People member's days in Border City Wrestling are profiled and Love expresses her dislike for Gail Kim even back then. Scott D'Amore claims he knew Love would be a success in the business after getting squashed on television during TNA's early days and refusing to quit.

Moose is shown backstage gathering weapons in preparation for her Bimbo Brawl against ODB later in the program.

Frank Trigg interrupts David Penzer's introductions of Team Japan's X Cup competitors by making his way to the ring:

Trigg calls out AJ Styles in response to The Phenomenal One's inadvertent parking lot attack on him last week. Styles and Karen Angle are shown watching backstage before AJ angrily makes his way to the ring. As Styles and Trigg exchange words, Kurt Angle confronts his wife and then allows The Beautiful People to assault and brown bag her. Styles hurries back to his dressing room upon seeing these events unfold on The Impact Zone's big screen.

Booker T's dressing room door is shown and Mike Tenay tells us that the former World Champion has apparently remodeled the inside.

Match #4: Team Japan (Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino) vs. Team Mexico (Rey Buchanero and Ultimo Guerrero) - World X Cup Tournament Match:

Team International and Team TNA watched this bout from separate entrance ramps. Yoshino and Buchanero begin the match, with Yoshino delivering another lightning-fast dropkick and later came down onto the Mexican star's arm with a double foot-stomp. Yoshino and Doi team up for a drop toehold/dropkick combination on Buchanero before again working together to deliver a chain of moves ending with Doi applying a Boston crab on Buchanero while Yoshino dropkicks the Latino representative in the midsection. Buchanero is finally able to make the tag and teams with Guerrero to deliver a double-hiptoss on Yoshino, sending the Team Japan member front-first to the mat. The Mexicans use a double-dropkick to send Doi outside. Guerrero lifts Yoshino into the air and into his partner, but the young Japanese grappler catches Buchanero with a spinning hurcanrana. With both Team Mexico wrestlers on the arena floor, Yoshino and Doi deliver simultaneous suicide dives onto Buchanero and Guerrero. When the action returns to the ring, Buchanero places Doi into a reverse spinebuster position before flipping him into the air and back-first onto the mat. Doi turns the tide and nails Buchanero with a dropkick as the Latino competitor is tangled in the ropes. As Doi holds Guerrero, Yoshino comes off the top buckle with a high double-stomp dropkick. With Guerrero and Yoshino legal, Ultimo delivers a nice front-first reverse suplex from the second rope. Guerrero baseball slides Yoshino to the outside and this is followed by a baseball slide splash from Buchanero. Back inside, Guerrero executes a second reverse suplex from the second buckle onto Doi and tags off to Buchanero. With Doi across Guerrero's knees in a slingshot position, Buchanero comes off of the top rope with a corkscrew senton splash. Both teammates cover the fallen Doi to earn Team Mexico a point in the X Cup Tourney.

2008 World X Cup Tournament Standings:

Team TNA - 1 Point

Team Mexico - 1 Point

Team International - 0 Points

Team Japan - 0 Points

Lauren interviews Jay Lethal and SoCal Val. After Lethal expresses his rage about Sonjay Dutt ruining the couple's wedding, Val tells him that she feels the second ceremony should be postponed. Lethal is upset by this and Val leaves the room. This appears to be the beginning of a heel turn for Val, although I personally feel it would be a better idea to keep her with Lethal and eventually marry the two.

A package airs encouraging viewers to send in videos explaining why they should be chosen for ringside during the Fan's Revenge Match for the Tag Team Titles between LAX and the Robert Roode/James Storm duo at Victory Road.

Sonjay Dutt comes to the ring for a promo:

Dutt announces the creation of the Save Val Foundation and encourages the crowd to pray for her release from the "shackles" of Jay Lethal. Val appears on the ramp and continues to whine about Dutt ruining her wedding (Honestly, can't they give her something else to say? It's been three weeks!). Lethal charges the ring and begins to pummel Sonjay. Black Machismo sends his former best friend into a large urn decorating the ring and Dutt eventually flees.

Backstage, Booker T shows off his newly renovated dressing room, complete with a velvet couch, sushi, and Booker memorabilia. The former "King" of WWE says that Kevin Nash is beneath him and threatens to bust Nash's "punk ass" tonight.

Matt Morgan's Rough Cuts story continues, where he speaks about playing basketball in university before auditioning for WWE's Tough Enough II show. Morgan's wife Larissa says that she knew her husband had made the cut when he qualified as one of the contest's top twenty-five competitors.

Backstage, Tomko tells Kurt Angle that they are looking silly every week due to Kurt's obsession with Karen and AJ Styles. Team 3D arrive and Brother Ray mocks Karen's looks before promising to set Kurt up with two blind dates next week.

Match #5: Moose vs. ODB (Bimbo Brawl):

ODB tosses Moose to the outside early on and tosses her into the shopping cart that the Beautiful People representative brought to ringside; ODB then pushes the cart into a guardrail. Inside the ring, Moose turns the tables by whacking ODB across the back with a hockey stick (one of the many weapons ODB retrieved from the shopping cart). Moose wraps a chain around ODB's neck and proceeds to climb to the second turnbuckle while choking her, but the powerhouse Knockout uses her strength to overhead slam Moose to the mat. ODB goes to work on Moose with clotheslines and a fallaway slam before clocking her with a shovel. ODB attempts a running powerslam, but Moose shoves her into the corner. Moose places a chair on the canvas and double-arm DDTs ODB onto the steel for the win.

A highlight package airs documenting the recent heat between Kevin Nash and Samoa Joe.

Match #6: Booker T vs. Kevin Nash (No-disqualification Match):

Samoa Joe takes a seat at ringside as the bout gets underway. Nash clotheslines Booker over the top rope and follows him to the outside, where he proceeds to punish the former monarch by throwing him into the ringpost. Booker catches Nash as he re-enters the ring and goes on the offensive as we head for commercials. When Impact resumes, Nash has regained control on the arena floor and tosses Booker head-first into the ring stairs. Back inside, Booker ducks a clothesline and catches Nash with a kick to the face. Booker confronts Joe on the outside and levels him in the head with the steel chair that Joe was sitting on. Booker returns to the ring and continues his assault on Nash, gaining a two-count following a chair shot to the back. Joe recovers and enters the ring, going to work on his Victory Road challenger before accidentally nailing Nash with a superkick when Booker ducks the move. Booker covers Nash for the three-count quickly exits the ring. Nash confronts Joe following the loss and the two are separated by security while a smiling Booker T watches from the aisle.

TNA presented another solid edition of Impact this week. I didn't think tonight's show was as good as the previous two, but there certainly appears to be a more serious atmosphere surrounding the broadcasts recently. The comedy is still there, of course (as it always has a place on a wrestling show), but the matches and angles have been featured in a far more credible way.