6 Woman Knockout Tag Match - The Beautiful People & Madison Rayne vs Taylor Wilde, Roxxi & "The Governor" AKA WCW Queen Of Scream, Daffney. I assume the guy doing the introductions was either caught off guard or his mike was on the fritz as he introduced the faces here. West & Tenay bantered and Sky & Daffney kicked this off, can anyone confirm if Mottolla was at this PPV taping as some idiot in the front row behind the ring was holding a sign that read "Botchmania 71 = This Match", what a f**king retard judging a match that had barely started like that. It wasn't actually a bad match with Roxxi bumping well for Love & Sky, Wilde getting a nice run too and Daffney making what to appeared be her 1st slingshot crossbody block over the top ropes (which probably would have looked a lot better if she'd worn a proper ring outfit with some stretch & a pair of boots with grip). Roxxi sold a good looking Enzuigiri off Rayne but Wilde took the eventual win off a nice bridging suplex on Rayne in a match that could have done with being about twice as long as it was.
Brutus Magnus vs Eric Young. Young is introduced by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jesse Neal (actually a graduate of the Team 3D Wrestling Academy according to 411Mania.com, in case you couldn't tell from his VERY long hair over his collar), this was an open challenge match from Magnus & someone in the gallery was a bit keen throwing up his intro graphic before the previous backstage segment had finished, also yet again there were mic issues with the introductions for this match. I realise such things happen on live tv but when you f**k up the 1st intro you'd think the director would quickly make sure the same thing didn't happen again on the same PPV. I wasn't exactly sure who was supposed to be jobbing to whom here or who was supposed to be getting over, both guys had a fairly decent match with Magnus taking the eventual win by The Tormentum off the 2nd rope.
Sheik Abdul Bashir comes out to whine that he's not on tonights card and Jim Cornette shoots him down.
Match Of 10,000 Tacks - Matt Morgan vs Abyss. The rules are simple, the winner is whoever puts the other guy into the thumbtacks. Sadly the result of this was pretty obvious as soon as Morgan took his robe off as I felt there was no way in hell he was going to take a fall into the thumbtacks in just his skin. Morgans main issue since day 1 in TNA is he doesn't bump and neither does he job, he just doesn't seem to like putting other people over at his own expense. As predicted Morgan took the win using The Carbon Footprint to put Abyss into the 2 beds of thumbtacks he'd positioned by the side of the entrance ramp.
The Winner of One Night With ODB is announced, the 3 finalists were Cody Deaner (Ontario wrestler Cody Steele who worked the Gold Medal Challenge against Kurt Angle in WWE according to Ewrestling.news.com), Shark Boy & Bernie Weber, a mortgage consultant (TNA Vice President of Marketing Mike Weber according to 411Mania.com). After the dance off (where Shark Boy channelled Norman Smiley & Jay Lethal) the cameraman enjoyed an EXTREME closeup of ODB's amazing rack and she chose Cody Deaner as the winner.
Womens Knockout Championship Match - Sojourner Bolt vs Awesome Kong (With Raisha Saeed). Bolt actually got booed and there were shouts of "You Suck" as she came to the ring, this was way too short & Bolt got to put up little offence before trying a Hurricanrana which Kong caught her from and turned into The Awesome Bomb for a pretty quick and EXTREMELY predictable win.
Scott Steiner vs Samoa Joe. Should WWE be suing for gimmick infringment here as I almost called him Umaga, Steiner bladed VERY early (in the opening moments) and Joe was doing very well to get a PPV spot as his comeback match to TNA after a short break off "injured" (actually with his wife & new baby), Steiner got the win in a few a minutes after Joe was DQ'd for throwing the ref out of the ring and this was a match that was never really ever going to get started. Joe did take Steiner out through the crowd & out of the arena so expect lots more of this cr**py sounding feud.
Legends Championship (AKA Belt I Bought) AJ Styles vs Booker T (With Sharmell). Bookers usual low level of performance bought WAY up by Styles who won off a Pele which lead to the Styles Clash and AJ Styles is the new Legends Champion.
Tag Team Championship - Beer Money vs Team 3D. With yet another "Off The Wagon" challenge where the loser leaves TNA, as no announcements have been made by Ray or Devon this match was only going 1 of 2 ways with either 3D winning by DQ or Beer Money losing the belts. 3D had the match and as predicted Storm got Beer Money DQ'd by using a chair until Cornette stepped in and restarted the match stipulating no DQ. Storm was about get pinned after a 3D when Roode yanked out the ref, carried Storm off over his shoulder and took the belts (Don West passed them to him) and left the arena with Cornette in hot pursuit, Team 3D took the win off a count out.
X Division Championship Ultimate X Match - Consequences Creed vs Chris Sabin v Alex Shelley vs Jay Lethal vs Suicide. The rules are simple, whoever gets the belt and lands in the ring with it is the champ. Chris Daniels was in the Suicide costume tonight and this is the actual match debut of the Suicide character so Kaz who will eventually play him must be really happy. A few fans were obviously in the know as I heard chants of "Fallen Angel" which neither West nor Tenay acknowledged in any way at all. For me the moves of the match were Suicide doing a cross bodyblock off the apron whilst carrying Consequences Creed across his shoulders, Sabins jump off Shelleys back to spike Creed off the X, the 4 man Tower Of Doom, Lethal Powerbombing Suicide off the X, Sabins Tornado DDT on Lethal and Shelley hitting Sliced Bread on Creed as Sabin Powerbombed him at the same time. Suicide made an amazing dive from the corner to the middle of the X to knock Lethal, Creed & Sabin off, undid the belt and dropped to the ring to become new X Division Champion in his very 1st match.
World Heavyweight Championship - Kurt Angle vs Sting (they STILL haven't fixed those clips of upside down rain in Stings video package?). Jeff Jarrett was special guest referee here with Mick Foley as the special guest enforcer to ensure the other MEM members didn't get up to any shenanagins and pre-match rumours had abounded that there would be some sort of swerve by either Foley or Jarrett and oddly enough Sting came out of the heels tunnel tonight. Not a great match by either guys standards, too long as well at around 15 minutes or so. Angle clotheslined Jarrett after Sting ducked (how many times do I have to say it "All ref bumps are S**T") and it allowed Sting to hit the Scorpion Deathlock that Angle actually tapped out of (and Foley MUST have felt that on the canvas) but with no ref the match went on with Foley taking the helm, Foley made a fair 2 count so Angle kicked him in the balls (you have to question why the timekeeper didn't then ring the bell as that was pretty much an instant DQ right there for Angle) and you knew as soon as Foley grabbed hold of the chair Angle had taken into the ring he was going to "accidentally" bean Sting with it because you could see the move coming from a mile away. Angle slammed Foley and revived Jarrett but Sting still kicked out at 2 and 99/100ths. Angle spat in Jarretts face & slapped him (should have DQ'd him for either of those) but Jarrett punched Angle back which allowed Sting to hit the Scorpion Death Drop and take the win retaining his title.
Not a very good PPV, the Ultimate X match saved this from being bog awful.
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