By Wade Keller, PWTorch editor

Spike TV issued a press release detailing plans for two weeks of special TNA programming. This week, TNA Global Impact 2 airs after Impact. Next week, Impact expands to three hours with a loaded line-up to promote that Sunday's Bound for Glory PPV.

GLOBAL IMPACT LINE-UP:

-Kurt Angle & Kevin Nash & Masa Chono & Riki Choshu vs. Giant Bernard (a/k/a Prince Albert) & Takashi Iizuka & Tomohiro Ishii & Karl Anderson

-Team 3D vs. Togi Makabe & Toru Yano

-Motor City Machine Guns vs. Yujiro & Tetsuyo Naito

THREE-HOUR IMPACT SPECIAL

-A.J. Styles vs. Kurt Angle

-Booker T vs. Matt Morgan

-Bobby Lashley vs. Rhino in a stretcher match

BOUND FOR GLORY LINE-UP

-A.J. Styles vs. Sting

-Samoa Joe vs. Bobby Lashley

-Matt Morgan vs. Kurt Angle

-Abyss vs. Mick Foley with Dr. Stevie as special referee

Keller's Analysis: TNA hasn't done anything so far to hook people on watching Global Impact. A highlight video teaser on this week's Impact would go a long way to hooking viewers to stick around. It also always helps TNA image as being more than a regional theme park attraction and B-league to WWE by showing their stars wrestling in the Japan environment. The three-hour Impact is taped tonight (if you attend, we'd love to get results via email tonight). I sure hope that Morgan is given a clean, decisive win over Booker T. Booker is pretty close to useless to TNA at this point unless he's used to elevate emerging younger main eventers such as Matt Morgan, and this is a great opportunity for TNA to actually use one of the veteran name-value guys to elevate someone younger that can make a difference going forward.

FULL PRESS RELEASE

'Global Impact 2' Premiere Thursday, October 8 at 11:00 PM, ET/PT 'Super iMPACT!' Premieres Thursday, October 15 Starting At 9:00 PM, ET/PT

NEW YORK, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Spike TV goes to the mat with Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling with two special programming events in October.

On Thursday, October 8 at 11:00 PM, ET/PT, immediately following the regular weekly telecast of TNA "iMPACT!," Spike will present "Global Impact 2," a one-hour special featuring an international showdown between TNA Wrestling and New Japan Pro Wrestling from the world-famous Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan.

"Global Impact 2" matchups include "Main Event Mafia vs. New Japan Main Event" featuring Kurt Angle, Kevin Nash, Mashahiro Chono and Riki Choshu vs. Giant Bernard, Takashi Iizuka, Tomohiro Ishii and Karl Anderson; "IWGP Tag Team Championship Match" with Team 3D going up against Togi Makabe and Toru Yano and "IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Title Match" featuring the Motor City Machineguns vs. Yujiro and Tetsuya Naito.

The following week, on Thursday, October 15, Spike will present a three-hour (9:00 PM - Midnight, ET/PT) super-sized installment of "iMPACT!" as the superstars of TNA make their final preparations before TNA's "Bound For Glory" pay-per-view event taking place that weekend.
The main event on Spike that evening will feature two of the biggest stars in TNA, as "The Phenomenal" A.J. Styles wrestles for the first time since becoming TNA World Champion in a Grudge Match against the leader of the Main Event Mafia, Kurt Angle. Also, "The Boss" Bobby Lashley takes on "The War Machine" Rhino in a Stretcher Match. "The Blueprint" Matt Morgan takes on Booker T. from the Main Event Mafia. "Super iMPACT!" will also give wrestling fans a behind-the-scenes look at some of the biggest stars in TNA as a preview of the AJ-Sting, Mick Foley-Abyss, Lashley-Samoa Joe and Matt Morgan-Kurt Angle matches at "Bound For Glory." Viewers will see the warriors away from the ring, training, with family, with unprecedented access.

"Cross The Line" to TNA Wrestling. TNA Wrestling is the most innovative experience in professional wrestling today. Join TNA World Heavyweight Champion "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles, "The Boss" Bobby Lashley, Olympic Gold Medalist Kurt Angle, "The Icon" Sting, Mick Foley, the lovely and lethal TNA Knockouts and the no-limits X-Division inside the six-sided ring of "TNA iMPACT!" every Thursday night (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) only on Spike TV.

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