Robert Roode vs Hernandez. Having fought Storm last week, Hernandez completes the double here. Roode jumped Hernandez as he climbed through the ropes. Beer Money were working the double teams pretty much every time Hernandez got out of the ring but generally on the in-ring stuff both guys were equally on top, giving as good as they got. Hernandez took the eventual win after both Storm & Jackie interfered with Salinas stopping Jackie.
Tag Match - Eric Young & BG James vs The Motor City Machine Guns. This one was kicked off by Young & Sabin with Sabin putting over Young extremely well. BG seemed happy to be putting both the Guns over (its starting to look more & more like he'll be taking a managerial or colour role in TNA any day soon) but saved himself with a nice looking double DDT. Young's roll-up was good but that ref made one of the slowest counts I've ever seen. Young took the win making a pin on Sabin. Pretty decent match! Shame about this postmatch bulls**t that's setting the Guns up for a heel turn.
Karen's Angle with SoCal Val. Be honest, does ANYONE watch this at all?
Matt Morgan vs Frankie Capone. Capone may as well have been billed as Frankie "The Jobber" Capone here. Capone jumped Morgan & tried to start some sort of offence but it was pretty obvious what the outcome was going to be here. Morgan won with the Hellavator. Post match bulls**t with Team 3D, Abyss made the save.
Four Ways To Glory Qualifying Match, Booker T vs Rhino. After a load of dancing around this eventually got going. Booker was on top at 1st (I'm still not really sure why he's even being given a chance to qualify after losing 2 title matches?) but Rhino quickly put a stop to that. Booker did a lot of selling for Rhino & Sharmell cheated Rhino out of an easy win by putting Bookers foot up on the ropes but she was forcibly removed to the backstage area by Christian Cage who came down to help his tag partner out. Coming back from the break (I wish they'd stop taking breaks during matches, it shows VERY poor timing) Booker managed to rally himself without Sharmell after dodging a gore. Rhino dodged the axekick, hit a gore then went high risk but missed allowing Booker to take the easy pin & qualify for the PPV.
X Division Championship, Consequences Creed vs Petey Williams. With both guys now fully fit I was really disappointed to see how often this match kept going back to the mat & too much technical wrestling made for a very slow & boring start to this match. Creed was doing all the aerial stuff with Williams choosing to go for a power based offence. As soon as Sheik Bashir came out onto the ramp you knew he was going to interfere with this match at some point. (I could almost hear Russostanding backstage saying to him "Go make this match into a complete pile of s**t"). Rather obviously once Creed got on top, Bashir tried to enter the ring but Creed cut him off and sent him to the floor pretty hard. Creed made a nice flipdive taking out both Williams & Bashir on the ground (best move of the match right there). Creed had set up for the DDT but Bashir came into the ring and the ref stopped it (DQ on outside interference I assume). Yet another sh**ty Russo finish.
Knockout Streetfight, Awesome Kong (with Raisha Saeed) vs Gail Kim. Yet again we got to see Katie Kim as Awesome Kong came down to the ring. With this being a no DQ you had to assume Saeed was going to interfere & that Katie was going to get involved as they'd been hinting at this for the last few weeks. Kong tried to jump Kim before she entered the ring but Kim pulled
the ropes, flooring Kong who came back very quickly. Kong took this one into the crowd. Predictably once it came back out of the crowd Saeed got involved to allow Kong to get the upper hand by which point I was just counting the seconds before Katie Kim joined in here. Kim got a nice necktie neckbreaker on Saeed and a good chair dropkick into Kong leading to a near fall. Kong kicking out of Kim's roll-up after running head first into the chair was pretty good, Kong
took the eventual and a far too easy looking win off the Implant Buster. With Kong & Saeed setting up Gail for an Awesome Bomb onto a chair, it was predictable Katie was going to get into the ring (actually I was amazed she hadn't jumped the rail once Saeed got involved in the match!). Roxxi & ODB saved Katie from an Awesome Bomb & I guess this was a good way for TNA Creative to write Gail Kim out of TNA for a while (I am highly doubting the "Gail Kim has left TNA" story as you don't spend all those weeks setting up to involve Katie, getting her involved then just leave the company like that. It's just stupid & makes no sense. It's far more likely she's having time off to promote her movie).
Ladder match for Kurt Angle's Olympic Gold Medal. Kurt Angle (with Booker T) vs AJ Styles. Booker was trying to stop Styles entering the ring as Angle set up the ladder & started climbing it (it'd be difficult for him to win a match where the bell hadn't even gone yet!). Samoa Joe came down and grabbed Booker to help out Styles & get another chance to beat on Booker. Styles yanked Angle off the ladder & the bell went to start this. After a lot of brawling outside the ring
& yet another badly timed break Angle got back on top after a nice droptoe hold putting AJ face 1st onto the ladder (I was half expecting him to blade there to make up for cutting Angle's head a few weeks ago). From the co-operation of Joe & AJ are we seeing the begining of a new tagteam forming there? (I hope so, they'd be outstanding together!). Styles smashed Angle's head into the leg of the fallen ladder & Angle looked like he'd reopened that cut from a few weeks back. Angle made an Olympic Slam as AJ climbed the ladder but Styles managed to recover to push Angle almost off the top of the ladder. The double clothesline was a bit of a bad idea at that point. Booker knocked out Joe with the baseball bat that Sharmell gave him & that left Angle & Styles duking it out on the ladder. The lights went out & Jeff Jarretts music hit, when they came
back on Styles had a guitar and hit Angle in the head to take the Gold Medal & the win continuing the set-up for Jeff Jarrett's return.
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