Show opens with Abyss calling out Mick Foley, quite frankly this angle has been too long in finally coming and no-one cares any more.
X Division #1 Contender Ladder Match, Amazing Red vs Sheik Abdul Bashir vs Kiyoshi vs Consequences Creed vs Jay Lethal - The winner of this gets themselves a shot at the X Division title next week, Red had a great start but was at a huge disadvantage being against 2 tagteams. Creed took a wicked looking inverted Piledriver off Bashir however Reds Headscissors DDT was outstanding as was his standing snap Hurricanrana on Creed that caused him to barf, Amazing Red climbed the ladder to get the contract & take the win here.
Dr Stevie (with Daffney) vs Kevin Nash - Stevie bailed in the opening second suckering Nash out to the floor where Daffney distracted him allowing Stevie to unload on Nashs legs, back in the ring Stevie was whaling on Nash who spent most of the match on his back until Stevie tried a Sleeperhold but Nash broke it giving Stevie a facefull of boot but everything was over after Kevin Nash hit the Jack Knife Powerbomb for the win.
Battle Of The Playboy Models, Traci vs Christy Hemme - Actually TNA were being very brave by sticking 2 fingers up to kayfabe by acknowledging not only Hemme having posed for Playboy but with their main rivals WWE. Traci was on top from the get go with Hemme jobbing like crazy for the opening few minutes but getting a nice comeback until she missed the FFG, Christy Hemme took the win off an excellent Roll-up from the corner. Traci making a postmatch beatdown didn't really do much to further her as a heel.
TNA Knockout Championship, Awesome Kong (with Raisha Saeed) vs ODB - Tara had joined the colour desk so there was always going to be some interference here, this match was actually so boring they cut away to Saeed getting in Taras face who left her chair for a confrontation only to be suckered into the grasp of Kong. Kong took a Neckbreaker into the top rope off Tara allowing ODB to hit a Schoolboy Roll-up to make the win. I said it would happen, didn't I? The post match scrap between Tara & ODB was better than the actual match until Kong decided to jump them both nailing both Tara & ODB with an Implant Buster each.
Kurt Angle vs Hernandez - Well this match was a staggering array of f**k all that ended in a double countout,but allowed World Elite to jump Angle & Hernandez then beat them up backstage. Angle was saved from his beating by the intervention of MEM.
The Beautiful People come out & address Angelina Love being gone (very brave & anti-kayfabe) then invite Sarita & Taylor Wilde out so they can apologise to their for being horrible (claiming Love made them do it, ah - The Nuremburg Defence!). They both shake hands but Sky & Rayne jump them once their backs are turned which Wilde & Sarita turn around in seconds. Sarita is then jumped by a mystery blonde in a gold jacket who then levels Wilde & Tenay ID's her as Lacey Von Erich who hits the Von Erich Claw on Sarita.
Eric Young vs Matt Morgan - If there was ever a match with no heat that no-one really wants to see it was going to be this, the match itself was going nowhere when Morgan did his usual move of dropping a leg across Youngs neck on the top rope then Morgan went to the floor to celebrate with the fans only to be nailed in the head with a chair by a fan dressed as Abyss (who had been in the front row for the whole show, I was going to mention him earlier) and the chair had "Abyss, use my chair" written on it. The fan scaled the guard rail & pulled off the Abyss mask to reveal it was actually Kurt Angle as the ref called for the bell so I assume the win went to Morgan on a DQ off outside interference which allowed the rest of The MEM to beat Eric Young but World Elite ran out to even things up with complete chaos. I did wonder how they were going to kill the last 13 minutes of the show but it turned out there was going to be another match.
6 Man Tag Match, Brutus Magnus, Doug Williams (with Big Rob) & Rhino vs Team 3D & Bobby Lashley - Beer Money join the announce team for this match, by the time it got going there was only 7 minutes of show left so it was never really going to shape up to be any kind of decent match but I had my fingers crossed it wasn't going to turn into the 3rd shitty brawl of the night. Nothing worth calling in this match, Lashley took the win off a submission hold after Brutus Magnus tapped out.
I'm not sure why they bothered with Samoa Joe jumping Lashley in the closing seconds of the show, it gets neither guy over.
Lacey Von Erich had a good debut and I look forward to seeing her 1st proper match and what kind of ring outfit they put her into.
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