My TNA Archive Catch-up, Show 55 23 Jul 03

Jeremy Borash is ring ammouncer, Don West & Mike Tenay are on colour.

NWA Heavyweight Championship Best Of 3 Match Series, D-Lo Brown vs AJ Styles (with Trinity) - Match 1 on Pinfalls. Styles takes the pin after Trinity distracts the ref on the apron long enough for Sonny Siaki to run in and hit a Pumphandle Piledriver.

Elix Skipper vs Mad Mikey - Mikey will be better known to WWE viewers as Crash Holly but Skipper took the win off some spinning slam move I have never seen before but it was amazing.

Handicap Match, Legend vs Altar Boy Luke & Matt Sydal - After 2 stunners Legend took the win even though Jeff Jarrett had come out onto the ramp to distract him.

NWA Heavyweight Championship Best Of 3 Match Series, D-Lo Brown vs AJ Styles (with Trinity) - Match 2 on Submissions. This one started on the entrance ramp with Sonny Siaki being sent back to the locker room. After reversing the Sharpshooter Brown took the submission off a Sharpshooter of his own.

Nurse Veronica and Valentina (the previously unnamed Cheerleader from last week) announce they are known as The Bitch Slap Girls.

Nurse Veronica and Valentina vs Lollipop & April Pennington - Technically not an officially sanctioned match as Ref Rudy Charles seemingly decided to let them go at it after 3 weeks of p**sing about. The Dancers were on top until Trinity did a run-in pretty much knocking them both out herself.

3 Live Kru do yet more c**p proving TNA had no work for them. Glenn Gilberti tries to make Borash look stupid and gets pantsed by AMW for his trouble.

Tag Team Championship, AMW vs Simon Diamond & Johnny Swinger - This one started with Swinger & Diamond jumping AMW while they were working over Gilberti. This wasn't a great match ending in a DQ after Gilberti ran in with a bullrope so AMW retained the titles.

6 Man Tag Match, The Disciples Of the New Church (Brian Lee & Slash with Father James Mitchell) & Shane Douglas vs Julio Deniro, CM Punk & Raven. This one was pretty crap and broke down with Douglas bailing & Raven following him to the entrance only for an arm to appear and drag Raven away. Punk was almost cut in half off a Doomsday Device from Douglas, Raven eventually came back crawling to the ring face coated in blood to fight off all Mitchells team DDT'ing everyone before Douglas eventually speared him through an upright table to take the win.

Mike Tenay introduces various NWA legends who are:- Sara Lee, Corsica Joe, Ricky Morton, Larry Zbyszko & Harley Race. Eric Watts is appointed the Director Of Authority.

NWA Heavyweight Championship Best Of 3 Match Series, D-Lo Brown vs AJ Styles (with Trinity) - Match 3 is a Ladder Match. Styles took the win off possibly the worst and most chickens**t ref decision by Rudy Charles I have ever heard.

My TNA Archive Catch-up, Show 54 16 Jul 03

Mike Tenay & Don West are on colour, Jeremy Borash is ring announcer & Scott Hudson is doing interviews.

D-Lo Brown vs Sonny Siaki (with Trinity) - Brown took the win off a Bridge after Trinity nailed Saiki with a Fly Crossbody Block by mistake.

Last Man Standing Match, Justin Credible vs Jerry Lynn - The stipulation here was you had to score a pin and THEN keep your opponant down for a 10 count to get the win, this was very bloody and went in & out of the ring. Tables were used, blood flowed. Lynn took the eventual win after a Tombstone Cradle Piledriver for the pin then he swept Credibles leg to put him down for the duration of the 10 count though the call was VERY iffy.

The 3 Live Kru debate the meaning of life in Nashville.

X Division Championship, Frankie Kazarian vs Chris Sabin - Kazarian took the win to become new X Division champ after nailing Sabin with the belt whilst the ref was down. Then a 2nd ref came out, threw the decision out after explaining how the win was gained and the call was reverse with Sabin retaining his title.

Tag Match, The Harris Brothers vs New Jack & Shark Boy - Heavy D took the win off New Jack with the 8 Bomb. Shark Boy was unmasked but escaped having his face seen after Nwe Jack gave him the mask he'd been wearing.

Failed attempt at a Cat Fight between Dancers Lollipop & April Pennington against Nurse Veronica and an unnamed Cheerleader. This was NOT any kind of official match, it was just a brawl on the entrance ramped broken up by security.

Elix Skipper vs Amazing Red - highlights were Skipper standing on the floor nailing a DDT on Red who was laying on the canvas, Reds Flying Headscissors into a DDT & Reds Standing Hurricanrana (f**king AWESOME) but Skipper took the eventual win after nailing Red with a set of scales.

Edward Chastain (with Don Callis) vs Screamin' Norman Smiley - Smiley had a pretty ok match on the whole but Chastain took the win off the Ground Zero Splash.

Simon Diamond & Johnny Swinger (with Glenn Gilberti) call Jeremy Borash into the ring to bitch about their match last week. AMW end up coming in to make a save but a couple of chairshots floored them. It took Raven coming in from the crowd to p**s on their party though, hitting a lovely combination Bulldog & Clothesline. AMW took advantage beating Diamond & Swinger out of the arena as Raven called out Shane Douglas & James Mitchell. Raven was pretty much owning Douglas about the nail the Even Flow DDT when Brian Lee & Slash of The New Church made the save on Douglas, Raven ended up taking 4 Droptoe Holds into a chair.

Legend vs Jeff Jarrett - I apologize for calling him Joe in the previous review but thats how the colour guys were referring to him, he was billed and introduced this week as Legend. Jarrett took this into the crowd but a run in by Vince Russo distracted the ref long enough for Legend to use the bat and take the win here.

D-Lo Brown gets his 5 minutes to kick Vince Russo's ass. Which never happened because AJ Styles tried to interfere and got himself locked in a cage, then Sonny Siaki tried to interfere and got himself handcuffed to the top rope, then Trinty stupidly tried to jump Brown from behind which earned her a Sit-Out Powerbomb. Even Legend made a run-in but he eventually got thrown into the side of the cage containing Styles. Brown got the s**t beaten out of him when Styles kicked the cage door open.

My TNA Archive Catch-up, Show 53 09 Jul 03

This is the oldest TNA show I own back when they did weekly PPV shows from The Asylum in Nashville - TNA had no weekly tv show at all then and was ONLY available by purchase, if this is show 53 then TNA were 1 year and 1 week old on this very show.

Show starts with a catch-up of what happened the previous week:- Father James Mitchell & Shane Douglas attack CM Punk, New Jack took on Sandman in the finals of the HARD 10, Abyss took on Eric Watts with Kid Kash ringside, Tracey & Nurse Veronica made an open challenge, Justin Credible faced Jerry Lynn in a chain match & Jeff Jarrett confronted Vince Russo.

Don West (in a horrible yellow shirt & tie) & Mike Tenay (who looks VERY overdressed) are manning the colour desk.

Tag Team Championship, Simon Diamond & Johnny Swinger (With Glenn Gilberti) vs Americas Most Wanted (Wildcat Chris Harris & The Cowboy James Storm) - Gilberti is probably better known to fans as WCW's Disco Inferno. Chris Harris made the pin & AMW retained the title.

Joe Legend rants on the mic & Vince Russo parodies Jeff Jarretts old WCW gimmick.

6 Way X Division #1 Contenders Match, Kid Romeo vs Matt Sydal vs Altar Boy Luke vs Delerious vs Matt Stryker vs Frankie Kazarian - Prime Time Elix Skipper joins the colour desk. Sydal might be better known to WWE fans as Evan Bourne, ROH fans will certainly know Delerious. Frankie Kazarian took the win to become #1 Contender.

X Division Championship, Frankie Kazarian vs Chris Sabin - This match started literally seconds after the previous match finished, obviously Sabin took the win to retain his title.

Dancer Lollipop calls out Nurse Veronica but its broken up by Security. Mike Tenay interviews James Mitchell.

Julio Dinero (with Alexis Laree) vs Shane Douglas - Laree might be better known to WWE fans as a pre breast implanted Mickie James, Douglas took the win off a nice Belly To Belly Suplex.

"Heavy D" Don Harris (with Ron Harris) vs Shark Boy - Harris took the rather predictable win followed by a beatdown on Shark Boy from both of the Harris boys.

3 Live Kru (Konnan, BG James & Ron "The Truth" Killings) do some comedy news skit.

Kid Kash (with Abyss) vs Jerry Lynn - Kash took the win after interference from both Abyss & Justin Credible. Abyss sold a wicked Hurricanrana off Lynn though!

The Sandman receives his HARD 10 trophy only to be squashed by Edward Chastain accompanied by ECW's Don Callis.

NWA Heavyweight Championship, D-Lo Brown vs AJ Styles - Styles won to retain his title after interference from Trinity & Sonny Siaki.