Semi-final Match TNA Knockout Tagteam Title Tournament, Tara & Christy Hemme vs The Beautiful People - Because of various reasons I already knew the result of this before the bell, that Love & Sky took the win. The match didn't have a great start & was more of a brawl, I get the feeling Hemme & Tara also knew Love was going & took every chance they had to whale on her big time. The match did pick up after Taras Bridging Suplex & Standing Moonsault, Hemme hit the FFG that Love had to make a save to stop the pin but Tara took Love out of the ring to level things.
Madison Rayne came down (Russo at work then I guess?) & it seemed like she was going to spray Sky who moved so Hemme got a facefull of spray in her eyes allowing Sky to make a Schoolboy Roll-up to take the win. It seems Raynes departure from The Beautiful People was a work as they showed her apologising to Love & Sky so I guess Rayne will be replacing Love now she is gone? As this was being recorded 2 weeks ago Loves future in TNA was already in danger due to a work visa issue as it was due to expire, it was announced the visa expired & that Love had been released from TNA.
D'Angelo Dinero vs Suicide - I can't believe how much of a push Dinero is getting especially at the expense of already established & very over X Division guys. Suicide jumped Dinero and this was just a fist fight until Dinero started doing some actual moves. Dinero had an ok match but the weardown came at the wrong time, Dinero took a bad bump off the Dropkick hitting his head on the turnbuckles. Dinero took the expected win off the DDE. P**s poor match where it sounded like everyone was booing the finish of this, Dinero is NOT over.
Handicap Match, Sheik Abdul Bashir & Kiyoshi vs Hernandez - Not a very good match, Hernandez took the win off The Border Toss on Kiyoshi who had a very bad landing on the back of his neck. Homicide came out as a distraction but Eric Young nailed Hernandez from behind with a chair as well as hitting him across the neck with the Feast Or Fired Briefcase. Hernandez spitting out foam was a bit stupid though, does he have rabies?
TNA Knockdown Lumberjack Match, Alissa Flash vs Cody Deaner - All the Knockouts were ringside acting as Lumberjacks and Flash started this sending Deaner over the top rope to the floor, he thought he wasn't going to get hit until Awesome Kong blindsided him with a Splash then everyone started kicking the c**p out of him. Roxxi & Sojo Bolt Suplexed him on the ramp (so she didn't go home after her tag match then!) & I'm pretty sure it was Daffney & Traci who Slingshotted him into the ring post then Brooks got them to roll him back into the ring and Flash made the easy pin.
Post match Kong jumped Tara & Rayne was fighting with Hemme, Kong & Tara fought off into the backstage area & Deaner backed up the ramp into ODB who floored him with a big right hand holding the flask setting the stage for their match this Sunday at the PPV.
Legends Championship Title Match, Kevin Nash vs Mick Foley - This match was going nowhere with zero action to speak of when Russo sent out Abyss with a barbed wire baseball bat which led to Foley getting DQ'd on outside interference so Nash retains his title. Yet another p**s poor Russo finish tonight, the guy keeps knocking 'em out of the park doesn't he?
Tag Match, Scott Steiner & Brutus Magnus (With The British Invasion & Booker T) vs Robert Roode & Brother Ray (with James Storm & Brother Devon) - The winner of this match gets the man advantage in the Lethal Lockdown match at this weekends PPV, not a good match at all & it eventually broke down into chaos when Big Rob distracted the ref allowing Doug Williams to nail Roode with the IWGP belt allowing Magnus to make the pin.
Semi-final Match TNA Knockout Tagteam Title Tournament, Awesome Kong & Raisah Saeed vs Sarita & Taylor Wilde - A fairly good match, Wilde & Sarita were the far superior team in terms of both skill & entertainment and Wilde took the win off a Bridging German Suplex out of nowhere.
Kurt Angle joins the colour team.
Samoa Joe vs Matt Morgan - I'm not exactly sure why the announcer doing the introductions felt the need to tell us this was a non-title match as Morgan isn't X Division material anyway but thats by the by. TNA really had no interest in this match as it was only ever going to be a maximum of 6 minutes long at best by the time the bell rang, Joe kicked Morgan in the head real early in a very fast start with Morgan selling for Joe. Morgan turned things around with a big boot, some elbows to the head & a Splash followed by a Sideslam.
Morgan had set up for The Hellavator but Joe cut him off with some kicks to Morgans legs and a suplex that Morgan totally no-sold by getting up & nailing Joe with a Chokeslam. Morgan was going for The Carbon Footprint but Joe bailed to the floor where they were scrapping outside the ring with Joe sending Morgan into the colour desk with a Drop Toe Hold takedown which hit Angle & angered him into beating on Morgan which resulted in the bell so I assume Morgan won with Joe being DQ'd off outside interference.
Morgan & Angle went at it by the ramp and Daniels came out to jump Joe and security had to separate them several times but Angle eventually hit The Olympic Slam putting Morgan through the table that had been used during the show by The Motor City Machine Guns as an announce position
Its worth catching up with a few other bits of TNA related news. Jim Cornette, BG James, Savio Vega & Dutch Mantel have been fired. Savio & Dutch both worked in a backstage capacity & the general feeling is all Jeff Jarretts friends are being released. Traci Brooks did not appear in Playboy magazine, her shoot was offered online instead (the pictures aren't great & don't flatter her at all) & Kurt Angle has been in court with Rhaka Khan. Daniels was arrested for DUI so it seems things are going very badly for TNA at the moment.
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