Dixie Carter and Sting are in the ring with the entire roster surrounding them. Hulk Hogan comes out to address them and the crowd and says thing around here are going to change with him as the new general manager.

Knockouts #1 Contender Match: Mickie James vs Winter vs Angelina Love vs Tara vs Madison Rayne vs Velvet Sky

Tara and Winter start us off and trade wristlocks, but Tara slams Winter and hits a standing moonsault, she goes for a cover but all four of the other girls come in to break up the pin. Angelina tags herself in and goes face to face with Winter. They circle one another, but Winter tags out to Mickie rather than fight Angelina, and Mickie rolls over Angelina with a shoulderblock. Mickie cartwheels past a shot from Angelina and connects with a dropkick. Angelina throws Mickie into the second rope, but Mickie ducks another wild swing and hits a neckbreaker. She makes a cover and Madison tries to come in and break up the fall, but Mickie moves out of the way and Madison hits Angelina instead. Velvet tags in and plows over her former partner Angelina with a series of shoulderblocks, but Velvet catches a back elbow to the midsection, followed by a front powerslam from Angelina that puts her down for 2. Madison and Tara tag in and Tara shoves Madison into Angelina, knocking her to the floor, then destroys Madison with a big boot and spinning side suplex. Winter breaks up the cover at 2 and allows Madison to thumb Tara in the eye, and Velvet tags in and tries an O’Connor Roll on Madison. Madison holds the ropes and catches Velvet with a clothesline before hitting her neckbreaker, but now Angelina comes in and gets a backbreaker of her own. Tara comes in and hits the Widow’s Peak on Angelina, Winter comes in and hits a spinning uranage backbreaker on Tara, Mickie hits the leaping DDT on Winter, and finally Velvet hits the sitout Pedigree on Mickie for the win.

Winner: Velvet Sky

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Velvet Sky is backstage whining about getting screwed out of another title shot and says it’s not going to happen anymore. Angelina Love and Sarita come out and start making fun of her and shoving her around, Velvet decides to pick a fight with them and gets her ass kicked until Mickie James runs in and chases them off. She asks Velvet if she’s okay, and a very upset Velvet says no, she’s not. Those two teams will face off later tonight.

Velvet Sky and Mickie James vs Angelina Love and Sarita

The women brawled to start the match, and Sky and Love eventually settled in as the starting participants. James and Sarita tagged into the match, and James took control briefly.

Love pulled the rope down as James ran the ropes, causing her to spill to the floor. The heels took over and began working over James.

Sarita locked in a cross between a Boston crap and a surfboard stretch. James managed to battle out and hit a wheelbarrow slam on Sarita.

James and Sarita tagged out and Sky hit a flurry of offense on Love. James fell to the floor as Sky battled both of the heels. James returned with a thesz press on Sarita, Love attempted to hit the Botox injection on Sky, but Sky was able to reverse it into a butterfly facebuster for the pinfall victory.

Winners: Velvet Sky and Mickie James

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Knockouts #1 Contender’s Battle Royal

Okay, the participants are Tara, Brooke Tessmacher, Sarita, Rosita, ODB, Mickie James, Velvet Sky, Winter, and Angelina Love. Oh, and Gail Kim and Madison Rayne are sitting ringside to observe the match in their evening wear. Madison cuts a prematch promo saying what a gracious champion Gail Kim is because she’s giving everyone in the ring the chance to become the #1 contender for the Knockouts Title, then tells the timekeeper to ring the bell. He obliges and we’re off. Winter voluntarily hops over to choke Mickie from the apron and gets driven off the apron by ODB, then Brooke gets tossed right behind her. ODB picks Rosita up and press slams her onto Brooke and Winter to eliminate her as well. Mickie tries to headscissor ODB to the floor and several others try to dump the both of them, but they save themselves on the apron. Mickie goes up top but ODB shoves her off to the floor and then everyone else rushes ODB and sends her to the floor as well. Sarita dumps Tara to the apron and Angelina dropkicks her out to the floor where she appears to tweak her knee, and we’re down to Velvet, Angelina, and Sarita. Angelina and Sarita try to work together on Velvet but she fights them both off, taking Sarita out with a clothesline before Angelina blindsides her. Velvet still takes them both out with a double clothesline and tries to dump Angelina, but Sarita nails Velvet from behind and the two of them double team Velvet in the corner. Velvet comes back with more clotheslines and back elbows and she tries to dump Sarita but Angelina stops her and she tries to eliminate Velvet. Sarita comes over and goes after Angelina now, they argue briefly before Angelina lays Velvet out with the Botox Injection and Gail and Madison laugh it up at ringside. Angelina tries to dump Velvet but Sarita comes up and “accidentally” dumps her from behind. We’re down to Velvet and Sarita, and Sarita drills Velvet with a dropkick, but Sarita charges and Velvet pulls the top rope down and Sarita sails out to the floor. Velvet thinks she’s won, but suddenly Madison Rayne pops out of her chair and rushes the ring, dumps Velvet over the top rope, and apparently she is now the #1 contender to the Knockouts Title.

Winner: Madison Rayne

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- On Sunday at “Against All Odds”, Gail Kim successfully defended the Knockouts Title against Tara! On Thursday’s IMPACT on SpikeTV, a new #1 Contender will be determined in a 10-Knockout Battle Royal! The winner of the Battle Royal will get the next shot at the Knockouts gold. The participants are: Sarita, Rosita, Brooke Tessmacher, Winter, Tara, ODB, Mickie James, Velvet Sky, Madison Rayne and Angelina Love!

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I’ve added 3 sets of candids from iMPACT tapings given to us by Dennis who attended the three tapings. The episodes taped aired last month. These are fantastic shots, so be sure to check them all out in our gallery now!

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