My TNA Catch-up, Lockdown PPV 09

I was lucky enough to see the preshow as well so we are kicking off with this:-

Special Challenge Match - Danny Bonaduce vs Eric Young. I assume the "fan" whose finger Bonaduce bit was a plant from some local Indy fed? Bonaduce had already made himself look a twat in the opening minute by dropping the nunchucks and didn't fare much better from then in, his Senton barely made contact and he didn't do a good job in going with the small package that allowed Young to take the win. I assume they'd already agreed beforehand that Young wouldn't use the Death Valley Driver on Bonaduce who jumped Young with the nunchucks postmatch to choke him out but Rhino made the save with the Gore.

X Division Championship Xscape Match - Jay Lethal vs Kiyoshi vs Consequences Creed vs Sheik Abdul Bashir vs Suicide. Tonight its Kaz in the costume finally back from his injury rehab and I was wondering how he was going to enter the cage but they did a lights out/lights on to avoid him having to drop from the zipline and potentially reinjure himself again. Rules are simple, its elimination by pin or submission until there are 2 guys left then the 1st to escape the cage wins the title. 1st to be eliminated was Kiyoshi by Creed & Lethal working together followed by the exit of Creed who was eliminated by Bashir who also eliminated Lethal leaving Bashir vs Suicide. Suicide took the win by jumping from the top of the cage onto the security guys who had come out to stop Kiyoshi interfering. Not a great match and its pretty clear Kaz is far from recovered as he didn't take many bumps in this match at all.

Queen Of The Cage Match - Madison Rayne vs Sojourner Bolt vs Daffney vs ODB (with Cody Deaner). It was painfully obvious from the get go that 1 referee wasn't enough as he totally failed to notice Daffney hitting the bridging suplex on Madison Rayne right near the start of the match. Daffney bumped well (the snap off ODB's back was well sold) and was certainly getting into the mix as well. If anyone was wondering Daffney wasn't waiting for a cue or the right time, she hurt herself on the missed elbow drop as she was still rubbing that elbow when ODB hit the sideslam on Madison Rayne but with a Powerslam on Sojourner Bolt ODB took the win to become Queen Of The Cage.

3 Team Tornado IWGP Junior Tag Title Match - LAX vs No Limit vs The Motor City Machine Guns, the rules here are that everyone is on the ring together and whoever makes the pin or submission gets the belts. A decent amount of action and West & Tenay making an extremely rare catch on Homicides flub where he overshot the backdrop, you rarely hear them point stuff like that out as they normally try to cover for flubs. Sabins Tornado DDT was pretty cool and Hernandez hitting the belly to belly sending Sabin into the cage (check Ref Slick Johnsons reaction!) were the highlights of the match and The Guns took the win off Made In Detroit to retain their titles.

Doomsday Chamber Of Blood Match - Matt Morgan vs Abyss. You can only pin your opponant if they are bleeding. Abyss blooded fairly early (with the colour desk trying to sell that it'd been off Morgans use of the chair which he then threw out of the cage) and the match went downhill once the ref was taken out (Andrew Thomas took one hell of a bump from Matt Morgan!), Abysss used the glass (and Morgan was a bit TOO obvious putting his blade back into his right boot) and Morgan bladed pretty deep, Slick Johnson ran out and came into the cage to take over as Ref and as Abyss tried to take a chair back into the ring "Dr Stevie" (Steven Richards) stopped him allowing Morgan to hit the Carbon Footprint that Abyss kicked out of. The crowd were chanting "E-C-Dub!" at Richards and Morgan looked genuinely pissed off (I think he gave the crowd the finger?), Abyss bought in thumbtacks and Stevie took his jacket off and got in the ring and started paintbrushing Abyss which allowed Morgan to hit the lowblow and powerbombed Abyss into the thumbtacks which allowed Morgan to take the win.

Womens Knockout Championship - Angelina Love (with Velvet Sky) vs Taylor Wilde vs Awesome Kong (with Raisha Saeed). Kong hadn't done anything to the hair that Love had cut this week on Impact so Kong went straight for Love who tried to climb out of the cage. Wilde & Kong teamed up until Kong hit Wilde with a front face slam, the action was just above average on the whole but for Love this was probably the best match she has had since she worked as Angel Williams (before she got the implants and was better known for her talent than her fake large breasts).

Kong made an outstanding somersault flip from the top rope which hit nothing but canvas (still an outstanding move as well as a great bump from such a big lady) and that allowed Sky to tie Kongs braids into the cage keeping her on the mat, Wilde hit a nice flying cross body block (I assume this hurt Love somehow as both Wilde and the ref were checking on her during the various counts), Wilde released Love from a side headlock (put on to conceal whatever injury Love had sustained and allow some recovery time) to go and work Kong (to allow Love even more recovery time as the crowd were chanting "You f**ked up") who kicked Wilde back to allow Love to make a quick roll-up to take the win and become new the TNA Knockout Womens Champion.

Philadelphia Street Fight for IWGP Heavyweight & TNA Tag Titles - Beer Money vs Team 3D. Falls count anywhere and whoever wins gets both sets of titles. Whoever set up the split screen clearly didn't bother checking it on any kind of tv or monitor as those images were TINY! If you have action in 2 places at once then split your screen down the middle and give each set of guys half the screen so the viewers can see. It was tough to tell if Devon was actually hurt or if it was a work from the suplex through the table by Beer Money, it gave Ray a chance to blade off camera (selling the cage door to the face from earlier) and Ray worked Beer Money in the cage on his own as Devon was still on the floor exactly where he'd fallen after the suplex. Ray hit Roode with a great Bubbabomb off the top turnbuckle and Devon made it back into the ring and was able to hit The Doomsday Device (yet another move that the colour desk failed to call correctly) as well as the Wassup but Team 3D took the win after putting Roode through a table with the 3D and are new TNA & IWGP Heavyweight Tag Champions.

Lethal Lockdown - Team Angle vs Team Jarrett. Starting off for Team Angle was Kurt Angle and starting for Team Jarrett was Chris Daniels (just introduced as Daniels), it was pretty even with Daniels coming out on top putting Angle into a headscissors lock and the 2nd guy in for Team Angle was Booker T. Booker and Angle worked on Daniels and next in for Team Jarrett was AJ Styles and that evened the playing field as the 2 former tag partners beat on Booker & Angle to wear them down as much as possible. Next out for Team Angle was Scott Steiner who took charge on his own (making a well sold Frankensteiner on Styles), next in for Team Jarrett was Samoa Joe or so we thought but he was standing backstage talking to someone we couldn't see behind a curtain. Joe did eventually come out after a minute and took care of business allowing Styles and Daniels to catch their breath and get back on top. Kevin Nash came down as the last guy for Team Angle and Joe took him out by kicking the cage door into him and they duked it out on the floor until it was time for the last man to enter, Jeff Jarrett as Team Captain.

With everyone in the cage the door was locked and the roof lowered and the weapons came into play, Jarrett made sure he handed everyone in his team a weapon (the 6 split screen idea in this was even worse than the 2 split screens in the tag match, they've done this before and it didn't work then either so it appears they haven't learnt from their mistake yet. Hopefully this WILL be the final time we see this stupid split screen idea where all the screens are so small you can't actually see anything at all). Angle and Styles got onto the top of the cage and were fighting up there and Angle hit a lowblow then came back down into the ring but Styles dived through the roof onto Team Angle with an insane flying crossbody block (that hurt Steiners left knee, watch him grab it!).

Joe hit the Musclebuster on Steiner but Booker stopped the pin and Jarrett managed to bean Styles with a chair whilst swinging at Booker but Styles kicked out of the attempted pin. Steiner managed to hurt himself sending Daniels into a chair (watch the stupid f**ker grab the back of his own head), Jarrett then nailed Booker with the guitar allowing Styles to make to pin and take the win for Team Jarrett. No clue why Bobby Lashley came out afterwards, nor do I care.

TNA World Heavyweight Championship - Mick Foley vs Sting. According to Foley this was actually Cactus Jack vs Sting and in a "tweak" to the already established rules of winning by pin or submission you can also win this match by escaping the cage. Foley blooded himself in the opening seconds and this was fairly dull to be honest as Foley took the large percentage of the bumps, Foley putting the figure 4 leglock on Sting was quite cool but as Sting put the same on Foley it allowed him to get the barbed wire baseball bat and bring it into the ring. Foley hit Sting twice in the back of the knee but after a lot of bat work on both men Foley took the win by escaping the cage 1st to become the new TNA Heavyweight Champion.