Steel Asylum Match, Alex Shelley vs Chris Sabin vs Amazing Red vs Daniels vs Jay Lethal vs Consequences Creed vs Suicide vs D'Angelo Dinero (aka The Pope otherwise known as former WWE star Elijah Burke who is doing really well to get into a potential title shot match & get a PPV spot for his very 1st match in TNA) - The winner of this becomes #1 contender for the X Division title and the rules are simple, you win by escaping through the hole in the top of the cage. Way too much action to call but highlights were Suicides Tower Of Doom Powerbomb, Lethals Faceplant on Shelley, Sabins Tornado DDT on Lethal, Reds Inverted DDT but Daniels took the eventual win by escaping the cage.
$50,000 Bounty Challenge, Jethro Holliday (with Dr Stevie) vs Abyss - Weapons are legal, very poor match. Holliday went to use some brass knucks but Abyss hit the Black Hole Slam to take the easy and very boring win.
Feast Or Fired Briefcase Match, Big Rob (with Brutus Magnus & Doug Williams) vs Hernandez - I guess the only point of this match is to further Hernandez as a solo wrestler and to move him towards a title shot. Hernandez had a waffle on the mic, challenging Rob, Magnus & Williams. Hernandez took the extremely quick win off a Shoulder Block.
IWGP Heavyweight Tag Championship, Beer Money vs The British Invasion - I guessed titles were going to change hands here as New Japan had clearly said Team 3D losing these belts was an unsanctioned match. This match was VERY boring with no action at all, Beer Money were on top and close to a pin when Eric Young threw in one of the belts and distracted the ref long enough for Magnus to take out Roodes legs and for Williams to make a Small Package to take the surprise win.
Womens Knockout Championship, ODB & Cody Deaner vs Angelina Love & Velvet Sky (with Madison Rayne) - Rules weren't explained at all, no-one mentioned if its possible for Deaner to take the womens title if he were to pin Love or Sky. Deaner only ever entered the match twice, his 1st time was just for comedy and pure fetish value spanking Love on the turnbuckle and the seconds time consisted of kissing all the Beautiful People earning him a mule kick off Sky who set him up for the "hairspray" in the face off Rayne who missed and hit Sky with a Schoolboy Roll-up to take the win and ODB is the new TNA Womens Knockout Champion and about time too quite frankly! No doubt Love will say she wasn't pinned or a women didn't win the match so the title can't change hands for one or both of those reasons.
X Division Championship, Samoa Joe (with Taz) vs Homicide - Very poor match with almost no action where Joe took the win off the Rear Naked Choke Hold.
Tag Team Championship, Team 3D vs Scott Steiner & Booker T - Not a match I expected anything from and it didn't disappoint me. TNA STILL haven't learnt their lesson on that stupid TINY split screen action thing (read these reviews, you can't see whats happening and its REALLY annoying to be missing BOTH sets of action). If anyone explained exactly why there were 2 referees calling this match and why it seemed to not be a proper tag match with all 4 guys going at each other though they seemed to make up the "falls count anywhere" stipulation once the match was well underway which then went towards explaining both of the referees.
With 2 referees it was pretty obvious there was going to be some kind of swerve involving a double count and a difference of opinions over the winner. Both refs went off to review the video footage and The MEM retained their title, what really should have happen was the match should have continued until there was a clear winner. Poor match, super weak finish.
TNA Legends Championship, Kevin Nash vs Mick Foley - Another match I didn't expect much from, Foley bladed fairly late into the game with the ref selling the injury way more than Foley was. Foley was seriously blooded and fought that way for a good 10 minutes before finally blading Nash who looked in a fairly bad state too. The ref took a bump and Foley grabbed the barbed wire baseball bat from under the ring which caused Russo to send Traci to do a run in which allowed Nash enough time to get back up and thumb Foley in his "good" eye before landing a big boot, the effect of which bumped Traci off the apron into a "cameraman" (I assume he was some jobber?) but the idiots in the control room focused too much on her bump and totally missed how Nash decked Foley to take the win and Kevin Nash is the new Legends Champion. Nash did try and beat on Foley with the barbed wire bat but Abyss came down with a barbed wire bat of his own and made the save so it looks like we might be getting a hardcore tag team in the near future?
World Heavyweight Championship, Matt Morgan vs Sting vs Kurt Angle - It wasn't really worth me watching this match because I already knew the outcome after reading it in a newsgroup. With the extremely drawn out introductions by Borash and the video package of each guy before his entrance I assume they wanted to get this over and done to get Angle away to his lawyers after the incident this weekend before the PPV.
This one spilled out of the ring and Morgan really showed how much of a 1 trick pony he is with his extremely minimal skillset. After hitting the Carbon Footprint on Angle outside the ring I have zero clue why Earl Hebner felt he needed to check on Angle or involved the crew member as Sting was in the ring and Morgan was on his way back there, Morgan had Sting pinned. Hebner had no business looking over Angle as the match was still in progress & I assume the injury was a gimmick to kill time, Sting hit the Scorpion Death Drop & easily had the 3 count because Hebner wasn't even in the ring for the 1st few seconds Morgan was pinned.
Morgan hit the Carbon Footprint (which the camera was totally out of position for and totally no-sold the move showing how much it missed Sting by) & Hebner was WAY out of position outside the ring again about to make a 3 count when Angle miraculously recovered enough to get up, drag Hebner off his count to the floor and grabbed a chair. Sting ducked the chairshot to hit Morgan, Hebner flubbed his climb into the ring but made it in on his 2nd try to count out Morgan and Kurt Angle retains his Heavyweight title but he'll have to lose it soon with his current legal problems.
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