Lineup Announced For August 12th TNA Impact Special

TNA Wrestling and Spike TV issued the following press release, revealing the lineup for the August 12th edition of Impact which is scheduled to be a special "pay-per-view quality" show:

SPIKE TV TO TELECAST SPECIAL 'TNA IMPACT!' EVENT AUGUST 12 FEATURING ROB VAN DAM VS. ABYSS FOR THE TNA WORLD TITLE

NETWORK TO TELEVISE TNA'S WRESTLING'S ACTION-PACKED FIGHT CARD ORIGINALLY SLATED FOR PAY-PER-VIEW

Spike TV will telecast a special Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling "iMPACT!" event on Thursday, August 12 at 9:00pm ET/PT featuring the biggest names in TNA, including TNA World Heavyweight Champion Rob Van Dam, Abyss, Olympic Gold Medalist Kurt Angle, "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles, "The Charismatic Enigma" Jeff Hardy and many more.

The special "TNA Thursday Night iMPACT!" features a lineup of matches originally slated for the "Hard Justice" pay-per-view event on August 8. The card was moved to Spike TV after TNA President Dixie Carter and "The Extreme Original" Tommy Dreamer announced a one-night-only "HardCORE Justice" pay-per-view event to celebrate the superstars who created 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. 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," 

TNA President Dixie Carter said.

The special August 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 the top tag-teams in wrestling, Beer Money and Motor City Machine Guns.

Matches showcased on August 12 include:

• "THE WHOLE F'N SHOW" ROB VAN DAM vs. ABYSS (TNA WORLD TITLE MATCH)
• OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST KURT ANGLE vs. "THE PHENOMENAL" AJ STYLES
• ANGELINA LOVE vs. MADISON RAYNE (TNA KNOCKOUTS TITLE MATCH)
• "THE CHARISMATIC ENGIMA" JEFF HARDY'S OPEN CHALLENGE
• "THE POPE" D'ANGELO DINERO vs. "THE BLUEPRINT" MATT MORGAN vs. MR. ANDERSON
• BEER MONEY vs. MOTOR CITY MACHINE GUNS (IF NEEDED, TNA WORLD TAG TEAM TITLES MATCH)
• -OR-
• INK INC. vs. GENERATION ME (#1 CONTENDER'S MATCH FOR TNA WORLD TAG TEAM TITLES)