Show opens with Kurt Angle & the MEM including the masked Scott Steiner hiding the "injuries" received from Samoa Joe at the PPV. Jeff Jarrett refuses to book a tagmatch & its left to Mick Foley to book the "dream" tagmatch which will be tonights main event. More on that later.
Tag Match - The Motor City Machine Guns vs No Limit (with Kiyoshi). The Guns wore their IWGP Junior Tag Team title belts to the ring just to rub it in as they had won them from No Limit who are Yujiro Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito. This was a really good match but got better when No Limit were on top, Naito's bridging German Suplex to Sabin was a definate hard move as Sabin was holding the back of his head as he got up and it didn't look like an attempt to sell either. Naito took the eventual win off Sabin after reversing a hurricanra into a small package. Excellent match.
Beer Money call out Team 3D and all the gold (TNA Tag belts & IWGP Tag belts) will be up for grabs at the Lockdown PPV.
Knockout Tag Match - Awesome Kong & Raisha Saeed vs ODB & Taylor Wilde. At the start of this match they showed Cody Deaner, the man who had won the "1 Night With ODB" at the PPV. ODB & Saeed bumped and worked each other well, Wilde made an excellent hurricanrana on Saeed & Kong sold a great top turnbuckle dropkick off Wilde. Kong went for a standing press and Wilde wriggled out turning it into a modified schoolboy roll-up for the win. ODB was given a post match Implant Buster which lead to Cody Deaner jumping the guardrail to prevent a 2nd one which was a predictable work to start to get his character more involved in TNA as he is a wrestler as reported in the PPV catch-up.
Sheik Abdul Bashir vs Samoa Joe. This match was WWE style and lasted all of 5 seconds before Joe was pulled off Bashir by the ref who took one in the chops for his trouble meaning Bashir got the win as Joe was DQ'd. Pointless bit of storyline thats not going anywhere and is resulting in truly s***ty matches that are only hurting Joes status in TNA.
Madison Rayne (with The Beautiful People) vs The Governor (WCW's Queen Of Scream, Daffney). A really scrappy match, I'm not sure if Daffney is really ring rusty or if Rayne isn't as polished as her SHIMMER profile suggests. It must be hard for Daffney to be able to make any decent moves in that suit as its really not designed to stretch in ways a wrestler would subject it to and she always wrestles barefoot with ankle strappings so it must be hard to get any kind grip on the canvas to run at all. The Governor took the win off a nice inside cradle but got a postmatch beatdown and haircut.
Kurt Angle & Sting vs Jeff Jarrett & Mick Foley. This is the dream match as promised earlier in the show. Poor match that should have been thrown out on a DQ for outside intereference as soon as MEM Security got involved and got even worse after a c**p & predictable ref bump, Foley beaned Sting with a chair to take the win. P**s poor match where they had no clue what they were going to do or how to fill the 11 or so minutes they had until the end of the show. Sting calls out Foley for a match at Lockdown to fill some of the remaining 5 minutes of airtime.
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