Spike TV Announces Free Pay-Per-View Lineup

Source: Press Release & The Miami Herald
Spike TV will telecast a special Total Nonstop Action Wrestling iMPACT! event at 9 p.m. EST/PST Thursday, Aug. 12 with the biggest names in TNA, including TNA champ Rob Van Dam, Abyss, Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle, The Phenomenal AJ Styles, The Charismatic Enigma Jeff Hardy and more.
The special TNA Thursday Night iMPACT! features a lineup of matches originally planned for the Hard Justice pay-per-view on Sunday, Aug. 8 from Universal Studios Orlando.
The card was moved to Spike TV after TNA President Dixie Carter and The Extreme Original Tommy Dreamer announced the special one night only HardCORE Justice pay-per-view event to celebrate the superstars who helped develop hardcore wrestling.
“The change to HardCORE Justice provided TNA with the opportunity to take the original August pay-per-view card and move it to Spike TV,” Carter said in a release. “This will allow TNA fans a pay-per-view type experience on TNA iMPACT! If you’ve never seen a TNA pay-per-view event before, this is your chance to see what you’ve been missing.”
The special Aug. 12 edition of TNA iMPACT will be two hours of nonstop wrestling, featuring only matches originally slated for pay-per-view.
Pop culture icon and TNA Wrestling superstar Hulk Hogan will oversee the special iMPACT!, which includes two world title matches as well as a possible fifth and final installment of a best-of-five-match series between top tag teams Beer Money and Motor City Machine Guns.
Matches showcased on Aug. 12 include:
TNA champ Rob Van Dam vs. Abyss.
Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle vs. The Phenomenal AJ Styles.
TNA Knockouts champ Madison Rayne vs. Angelina Love.
TNA tag champs Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley) vs. Beer Money (Robert Roode and Tennessee Cowboys James Storm).
The Pope D’Angelo Dinero vs. The Blueprint Matt Morgan vs. Mr. Anderson.
Ink Inc. (Shannon Moore and Jesse Neal) vs. Generation Me (Jeremy and Max).
The Charismatic Enigma Jeff Hardy’s open challenge.