Mick Foley calls out various people for a chat - AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, The Motor City Machineguns, Eric Young, Petey Williams, Jay Lethal & Consequences Creed. Foley says he'll deal with Alex Shelley next week, he also gives Eric Young his X Division Title shot tonight and arranges a match for the tag titles between Beer Money & AJ Styles and Samoa Joe (why are they even deemed contenders?) and Jay Lethal is also given a shot at the Heavyweight title.
Knockout Tag Match - Awesome Kong & Rhaka Khan (with Raisha Saeed) vs Roxxi & Taylor Wilde. Basically this is the rubber match from the PPV and it's the only title not on the line tonight. Kong jumped Wilde on the ramp and everyone was duking it up outside the ring before finally making it into the ring where Kong & Khan were on top. Roxxi & Wilde doubleteamed Kong & Khan pretty well until Khan flubbed being thrown over the top rope and made a bad landing hurting herself making the flub even worse. Wilde took it to Khan on the floor but Kong hit Roxxi with the Implant Buster to take the win.
X Division Championship - Eric Young vs Sheik Abdul Bashir. Taking one look at who was referee for this indicated where the win was going before the opening bell even rang. Clearly putting Shane Sewell in to run things was a Russo inspired idea to allow Bashir to get s**t cheap heat because he can't get any other kind due to not being over in any way, shape or form. Bashir had his usual slow mat based match. Bashir's "unseen" low blow was pretty much the end of the match and having the ref get involved effectively ended a very shit match with an even worse finish. Despite Young getting the pin this decision will be reversed very quickly as Sewell ceased to be a referee the moment he removed the striped shirt. Eric Young is the new X Division Champion, we'll see how long it takes before he's stripped of the title. If no-one questions the title change then it's clear Russo has complete creative control in TNA.
Scott Steiner vs Rhino. I'm not even sure why this match was happening, its not as though theres any heat between these 2 but who I am to question the TNA match bookers. This was short and c**p, Steiner took the win after Rhino was distracted from the gore by Kurt Angle who'd come out to the ring with Steiner.
World Heavyweight Championship - Jay Lethal vs Sting. Lethal took charge of this from the get go and owned the match, directing Sting all over the ring. All credit to Sting, he ran with all the moves Lethal pulled and sold them all very well too. After a very badly timed break we came back to discover Sting had turned things around in his favour, it was hard to understand exactly why Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin were sent out to cheer from the apron as their intereference in the match was no only pointless but it also cost Lethal the match as Sting hit The Scorpion Death Drop to retain the title. They've been pushing this c***py heel turn for The Guns for a long time now and I wish they'd just get to the point with it.
Pointless backstage segment with Petey Williams getting beaten down by The Main Event Mafia, so we can expect a rebranding of Williams fairly soon. It's been pretty clear tonight by the amount of video packages about the various wrestlers and the complete playing of the TNA theme video that TNA clearly doesn't have the money to pay enough wrestlers to actually work and fill a full show. It's also fairly clear that going to HD was a mistake as it was money that could have been better spent on paying the wrestlers to wrestle. Likewise the money spent on remodelling the Impact Zone was a waste as well (unless someone can actually prove they can get more people in the audience with 1 less ramp and they are actually selling tickets to that many people every week).
Tag Team Championship - Samoa Joe & AJ Styles vs Beer Money. Joe didn't have any facial scar so his bladejob at the PPV clearly wasn't a very deep one as there are no visible after effects. Storm came down to the ring wearing his Beer Helmet so I was guessing that's where the win was going to come from before the bell even rang. Team 3D came down to the colour position during the match and this left me thinking if they were going to run a revenge angle and have 3D cost Beer Money the title. Brother Ray was doing a good job running colour but after Joe's snap slam on Roode was painful to see how badly out of position the ref was to make his count. Joe had Roode set for The Muscle Buster but Storm spat the beer in his face, by this time 3D had seen enough and Brother Ray grabbed the beer and spat it into Storm's face which Earl Hebner deemed as outside interference and called for the bell awarding the match to Beer Money who retain the titles (I assume he did, no announcement was made about the decision). Did Joe's Muscle Buster break Roode's nose? His face was covered with blood when he walked back up the ramp. Another crap finish, blame Russo - I do.
The Main Event Mafia come out to induct Christian Cage as their newest member. The induction turns into a going away party (a storyline specifically written to allow Cage to leave to go to WWE).
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