My TNA Catch-up, Sacrifice PPV May 08

After being injured this week, Kurt Angle has not been cleared to wrestle by his doctor.
Deuces Wild Tag Tournament Quarter Final Match, Team 3D vs James Storm & Sting. 3D get the win off Storm after Sting threw him through a table for leaving him high & dry during the match.

Deuces Wild Tag Tournament Quarter Final Match, Robert Roode & Booker T vs Rhino & Christian Cage. Roode seemed to want to fight this all on his own, eventually Booker tagged himself in but Roode tagged himself back in not long after that. Rhino got the won off a spear on Roode. The post match Booker T heel swerve was a Russo inspired idea for sure.
Deuces Wild Tag Tournament Quarter Final Match, Kip James & Matt Morgan vs LAX (with Hector Guerrerro). With Matt Morgan stealing Undertakers "old school" rope walking trick (I don't know whether it was a homage or not?) but Hernandez took the win off Kip James after Morgan nailed him with the big boot after some miscommunication.

Deuces Wild Tag Tournament Quarter Final Match, Super Eric & AJ Styles vs BG James & Awesome Kong. Well BG predicted this last week & sure enough it came true. BG started it off, selling nicely & putting Super Eric over. He was in for a bit with Styles then Awesome Kong tagged herself in. Styles was certainly selling hugely for Kong & Kong was certainly returning the favour too, I couldn't tell who was doing the better job of putting whom over! Kong & BG made a good team, with fast tags looking pretty solid on the whole. Was AJ's fall onto his face a botched spot? I totally couldn't tell but assume so. Styles got the eventual win off a small package (although it was VERY tough to call exactly whose shoulders were or weren't down in that one!) but BG & Kong made a darn good team!

X Division #1 Contenders Terrordome Match (1st man to escape out of the top of the cage becomes #1 Contender) - Lots of people might say this thing looks a lot like the elimination chamber but its a pretty unique design as far as I'm concerned. Curry Man vs Sonjay Dutt vs Consequences Creed vs Shark Boy vs Jimmy Rave vs Kaz vs The Motor City Machine Guns vs Johnny Devine vs Jay Lethal. Cornette comes out & says not only does the winner become #1 contender for the X Division title but they ALSO get to take the injured Kurt Angle's place in the 3 way match for the heavyweight title. There were so many good moves being done here its hard to pick the best out. Devine's Hurricanrana on the Tower Of Doom was awesome, Curry Man's Spice Rack on Jimmy Rave off the top rope was pretty crazy too. Kaz was the eventual winner of this great match to become #1 contender for the X Division title & also earned himself Angle's spot in the main event tonight.

Deuces Wild Tag Tournament Semi-final match, Team 3D vs Rhino & Christian Cage. 3D had to be the pre-match favourites here after Cage & Rhino got attacked by Booker after their match, 3D were always going to focus on their opponants necks too. Devon took the win off Rhino after Devine gave Ray a kendo stick & he hit Rhino in the head as Devine distracted the ref.

Deuces Wild Tag Tournament Semi-final match, AJ Styles & Super Eric vs LAX (with Hector Guerrerro & Salinas). Homicide took the pin off Styles after Salinas distracted the ref whilst Hector turned over a small package to LAX's favour.

TNA Knockout Makeover Battle Royal & Ladder Match, basically a standard battle royal until it gets to the last 2 women then it's a ladder match. 1st to climb the ladder & grab the contract wins & gets a shot at the title but the loser gets their head shaved unless its Gail Kim who had already won immunity from that. Angelina Love vs Velvet Sky vs Rhaka Khan vs Salinas vs Christy Hemme vs ODB vs Roxxi Laveaux vs Jacqueline vs Traci Brooks vs Gail Kim.
Clearly the refs weren't paying attention (like I was) as Salinas DID NOT go over the top rope (she went through the middle rope) but she was classed as eliminated 1st (by Roxxi Laveaux). 1st legal elimination but 2nd counted was Velvet Sky (by Traci Brooks). Traci Brooks was 3rd eliminated (by herself, the kick from Angelina Love didn't have the push required, Brooks made it look AWFUL too!). Christy Hemme was 4th eliminated by Rhaka Khan who was 5th eliminated by Jacqueline, ODB & Angelina Love working together. 6th eliminated was Jacqueline (by Gail Kim) & ODB was 7th eliminated (by Roxxi Laveaux). 8th eliminated was Angelina Love (by Roxxi Laveaux) leaving Gail Kim & Roxxi Laveaux in the ladder match final.
Kim's Hurricanrana (or whatever it was!) on Roxxi off the top of the ladder was insane (was Roxxi bleeding from the side of her head at that point?), Gail Kim took the eventual win & Roxxi Laveaux had her head shaved to a "FIRE RUSSO!" chant (I couldn't agree with you folks more!) & considering she lost Roxxi got big love from the crowd showing good appreciation for her. The fans were also chanting "B*LLS**T!" as Roxxi was getting shaved with some wicked cuts on her head & a very bloody skull (Roxxi had definately been busted open at some point during the match but its tough to say exactly when), West & Tenay were doing their best to ignore all the chants as they like their jobs too much to comment impartially on stuff like that.

Deuces Wild Tag Tournament Final match, Team 3D vs LAX (with Salinas & Hector Guerrerro). With 2 distractions at ringside and 3D having reached the finals via the heel route this one was going to be a win for LAX. It's funny how Hebner was protesting to 3D that they couldn't pin Homicide ("He's not legal, He's not legal" you could hear him saying) however only a few moments later he was more than happy to count Homicide's pin on Devon as LAX took the expected win. Hectors dropkick onto Devine on a table from the top rope looked awful showing some serious ring rust on Hectors part but this was a VERY predictable win with LAX as new TNA Tag Champions.

World Heavyweight Championship, Scott Steiner vs Kaz (replacing Kurt Angle) vs Samoa Joe. Not a brilliant match really, Steiners Frankensteiner looked good & was the best thing he's done in ages, Joe's Suicide Dive was great, Kaz made the best of a good opportunity considering the match he'd already been in tonight but Joe won off the Musclebuster on Steiner & retains his TNA Heavyweight Title.