My TNA Monthly Catch-up, Feb - Mar 07

Yep, it's catch up time again. This is my review of the TNA Impact shows and this months PPV. I call it how I see it, the only bias is mine. My reviews vary from everyone else's, I won't go into the minutae of the show and If I think something is b**ls**t I won't even mention it, hence some reviews are shorter than others.

Impact 15th Feb 07 - The show opens with Scott Steiner boring us on the mic. Kurt Angle gives us a few words too. Angle puts the hurt on Steiner, Cage & Tomko but is outnumbered. He's saved from a beatdown by Samoa Joe & the rest of the locker room.

LAX vs Sharkboy & Norman Smiley. You knew where this was going before the bell rang. Predictable win for LAX.

Armwrestling match - Gail Kim vs Jackie Moore. Kim wins (surprisingly) and the post match cat fight is much better entertainment. Petey Williams saves Kim from a double team and Chris Harris saves him.

14 man gauntlet match. Sting & AJ Styles start it off. Rhyno joins them a minute later. During the break James Storm, Chris Sabin & Kip James entered the match (yes, they had a commercial break during a match, stupid, isn't it?) with Abyss next in and he eliminates Sabin. Kurt Angle is next in and he eliminates James Storm. Tomko is next in and he eliminates Styles & Rhyno. Samoa Joe is next in and he eliminates Kip James. During another break Robert Roode, BG James and Eric Young joined the match, last man in is Scott Steiner who eliminates BG James. Samoa Joe eliminates Abyss. Steiner eliminates Angle, Sting throws out Roode and is thrown out himself by Steiner. Tomko exits Eric Young. Joe hip tosses Steiner out from the apron and Joe takes the win from Tomko with the Muscle Buster.

Impact 22nd Feb 07 - AJ Styles comes out to bore us on the mic. LAX vs Team 3d (with big cousin Steve) in some sort of leather strap lumberjack style match., Team 3d get the win off Hernandez with the 3d.

Robert Roode, Eric Young & James Storm vs BG James, Kip James & Lance Hoyt in a 6 man tag match. Storm gets the win off Hoyt for his team.

5 way ladder match to find the X division Number 1 contender, Jay Lethal, Senshi, Jerry Lyn, Sonjay Dutt & Austin Starr. Jerry Lynn gets a decent win.

Impact 1st Mar 07 - Chris Sabin, Austin Starr & Alex Shelley vs Jerry Lynn, Senshi & Jay Lethal. Nice action filled match with lots of good moves. Senshi eventually took the win off Austin Starr for his team with a little aid from Bob Backlund.

Scott Steiner vs Chase Stevens. Stevens jobbed in a VERY short 1 move match.

Alex Shelley comes out to bore us on the mic.

Tomko vs Samoa Joe. Tomko gets the win with help from Cage.

Impact 8th Mar 07 - Kurt Angle starts the show by boring us on the mic.

The VKM with Lance Hoyt vs Seratonin. Hoyt gets the win for his team.

TNA welcomes Hector Guerrerro who will now be part of the Spanish Announcement Team.

Robert Roode, Eric Young & James Storm vs Petey Williams, Jay Lethal & Sonjay Dutt. Storm gets the win for his team.

Scott Steiner, Christian Cage & Tomko vs Samoa Joe, Kurt Angle & their mystery partner who turned out to be Rhyno. This ended up being a no-contest after a run in from Abyss.

Destination X PPV 07 - Non-title Ghetto Brawl, LAX vs Team 3d with Johnny Rodz. The win finally came for LAX after help from Alex Shelley and The Latino Nation, It was great to see Johnny Rodz back in action again.

Double Texas Bullrope match - James Storm & Jackie Moore vs Petey Williams & Gail Kim. My main issue with this match was they weren't proper bullropes as there were no cowbells in the middle. Jackie helps Storm to the win off Williams with a low blow in a pretty good match.

Cross Face Chicken Wing Submission Match - Austin Starr vs Senshi. Basically this was an X Division match with only 1 way to win. Both these guys impressed me throughout this match, I hope RVD does come to TNA as him vs Senshi would be excellent. Senshi gets the win after a nice roll-up into the middle of the ring.

Tag Team Match - Kip and BG James vs Christy Hemme's mystery team The Heartbreakers Antonio Thomas and Romeo Rozelli. The new guys gave a good account of themselves against VKM. BG makes the win for his team after a decent match and a bit of help from Lance Hoyt.

X Division Title Match, Best 2 out of 3 falls - Chris Sabin vs Jerry Lynn. Lynn won fall 1 off a Tornado DDT. Sabin won fall 2 with help from the ropes and super blind ref Earl Hebner. Sabin got fall 3 and the win with help from Chris Daniels in a Sting mask.

Elevation X match - Rhyno vs AJ Styles. Styles was 1st up to the catwalk and Rhyno took his time climbing up. Rhyno got the win after Styles spent most of the match hiding under the scaffold and taking his own ring chalk in his face, Rhyno then gored him and Styles was sent to the canvas.

Scott Steiner vs Kurt Angle - This match reminded why I don't like the modern Steiner. He doesn't wrestle much, he just relies on power. I would have liked to have seen more classic mat work from Steiner. Neither Steiner or Angle wanted to sell the final sunset flip but Angle got the win.

Last Rites Match - Sting vs Abyss. This was a slightly reworked angle on the casket/coffin match to close the opponent in a "death bed". Sting was truly busted open with a candle stand. I loved the "Fire Russo" chants from the crowd which went unremarked on by West & Tenay who obviously value their jobs but not their impartiality. I wasn't too sure why the crowd were chanting "Boring" during the match? I was amazed Hebner didn't try and end this one early as Sting was bleeding a lot. Sting took the win after smashing Abyss in the head with another candle stand and supplexing Abyss through a tombstone.

NWA Heavyweight Championship - Samoa Joe vs Christian Cage. With no Tomko to interfere and Scott Steiner leaving Cage to his own devices could the title stay around Cage's waist? TNA's creative department showed their uselessness again with having no clue what to do with a huge star like The Great Muta. At least this month the main event actually was the main title belt on the line unlike that previous 2 months PPV's. For a main event this was a truly weak match with neither man giving their all considering this was for the big prize. Joe was the crowd favourite, and they were enjoying the action even if I didn't, they weren't doing very much.

Where was Rudy Charles when Joe had Cage on his back for a 5 count? Did Cage step on Rudy Charles left ankle on purpose when he was "knocked out"? Cage took the win with the aid of the ropes, this was a very weak main event and TNA now need to raise their game.

My TNA Monthly Catch-up, Jan - Feb 07

Once again, it's that time of the month. Time for my monthly TNA catch-up. As always I have to state the caveat that I call the matches how I see them, the only bias is my own.

Impact 18 Jan 07 - Show opens with Team 3d vs LAX for the tag team title. After interference from Moody Jack, LAX get the win using the slapjack.

Gail Kim & Miss Tennessee (jaqueline) are seen fighting back stage.

Christie Hemme interview vid.

Christian Cage comes out to bore us on the mic and is interupted by Kurt Angle. Boring chat until Cage teases us with the promise of an advisor who knows & hates Angle.

Lance Hoyt vs James Storm (with Miss Tennessee aka Jaqueline). Storm gets the win after 2 baseball players double team Hoyt.

AJ Styles vs Kurt Angle. Was Tomko doing the Anvil beard rub supposed to be a clue? Angle gets the win after slamming Styles onto a chair.

Impact 24 jan 07 - Show opens with Samoa Joe boring us on the mic. Kurt Angle interupts him. Christian Cage interupts them. And TNA fans? Stop shouting "what?", your not in the WWE, ok?

Rhyno vs Raven (with Seratonin), Raven turns out to be AJ Styles dressed as Raven. Match is thrown out (dq by outside interference I assume), and Rhyno is floored by a chair.

Chris Sabin vs Senshi vs Austin Starr vs Jerry Lynn in a non-title 4-way. Jerry Lynn gets the win off Sabin from a roll-up after an overly long match.

VKM insert.

Sting comes out to bore us on the mic, with details of Abyss's secret. No-one cares about storylines like this, we just want to see wrestling. By doing this kind of thing, TNA are becoming the thing they hate the most - WWE. Abyss does a number on Sting.

Chris Daniels vs Christian Cage in a non-title match. Cage gets the win after a low blow.

Impact 1 feb 07 - 5 way no limits X division match - Jay Lethal vs Alex Shelley vs Sonjay Dutt vs Austin Starr vs Jerry Lynn. Austin Starr gets the pin after interference from Chris Sabin and Jay Lethal.

Samoa Joe gives us a lecture - dull.

Robert Roode vs Petey Williams. Roode gets the win after interference from James Storm.

James Mitchell bores us on the mic.

Aj Styles vs Samoa Joe. Match is thrown out after Rhyno climbs in to chase Styles back in the ring. Lots of after match trash to "develop storyline" that we didn't need.

Impact 8 feb 07 - Abyss vs Chase Stevens. Abyss gets the very quick win off the black hole slam. Team 3d mouth off to LAX who give them a beat down.

6 man Tag team match Chris Sabin, Austin Starr & James Storm vs Senshi, Jerry Lynn & Rhyno. Starr gets the win for his team.

Sting comes out to bore us on the mic.

Tag Team match - AJ Styles & Christian Cage vs Samoa Joe & Kurt Angle. Angle gets the win from an Olympic slam off the top rope with some help from Rhyno. Cage's "special consultant" turns out to be Scott Steiner.

Against All Odds PPV 07 - Little Italy Street Fight with Team 3d vs LAX. Pretty even both ways the whole match. LAX got the win with The Border Toss.

Austin Starr vs Sensi - Overly long match where Senshi got a win that was very difficult to call.

Tuxedo Match - Christy Hemme vs Big Oily Fat Guy. Hemme gets the win going the whole match with a boot unlaced, and yes the match was that dull I noticed that!

Basebrawl Match - Dale Torborg vs Lance Hoyt. How low have TNA sunk to have a wrestler fight a baseball player? Torborg gets the win but it's overturned to Hoyt for use of a chair.

Motor City Chain Match - Aj Styles vs Rhyno. Pretty even match, heel Aj is quite cool. It was pretty obvious Rhyno would never use the nightstick and that AJ would free himself from the chain 1st. Aj got the win after Rhyno missed a gore through the tables.

X Division Title - Chris Sabin vs Jerry Lyn. Another overly long but even match. Sabin got the win by holding the ropes.

Mixed tag match - Miss Tennessee & James Storm vs Gail Kim & Petey Williams. Very good & very even match with Jackie getting the win for her team.

Prison Yard Match - Abyss vs Sting. The match started outside The Impact Zone, and ended with barbed wire on a table and Sting getting the win by locking Abyss in the solitary confinement cage.

NWA Heavyweight Title match - Kurt Angle vs Christian Cage. Tomko was sent back the locker room as per Jim Cornette's instructions. After some major interference by the world and his dog, Cage gets the win by using a lead pipe.

I want to go on record and say I also saw episodes 1 and 2 from WSX and I was damned impressed. Good names like Vampiro (who is now their champ) and X-pac, Teddy Hart impressed the hell out of me. If WSX offer that kind of level every week then fans are going to be leaving ECW, leaving Raw & Smackdown and leaving TNA because WSX are offering an excellent piece of serious hardcore wrestling.
If you haven't watched it yet, I highly recommend it!

My TNA Monthly Catch-up, Dec 06 - Jan 07

It's that time of the month again - Time for my monthly TNA catch-up on Impacts and the PPV. The views inside are my own and I call it the way I watch it.

Impacts:- 14th Dec 06 - Robert Roode calls out Eric Young but is ousted by Kurt Angle, b**ching about a rematch with Samoa Joe, A prerecorded tape of Joe says no rematch. Don West earns himself an Ankle Lock, very funny stuff.

Ron "The Truth" Killings vs Abyss in a non-title match. Killings works a good match against Abyss with Sting watching from the rafters, Killings dominated the whole match until James Mitchell suckered him into chasing him and Abyss got the win with the Black Hole Slam.

Christian bleats about wanting a rematch.

PCS Championship event #2, the push-up contest with Nash ragging on Sonjay Dutt yet again with steriod jibes.

Petey Williams vs Chris Daniels in a very even match, Williams gets the win in the non-title event after Chris Sabin stole the title belt & was interupted by Jerry Lynn getting it back only to get done over by Daniels who never saw Sabin.

VKM video insert.

AMW vs LAX Tag title match. Konnan is locked in a cage to stop him interferring, and if AMW lose they have to disband as a tag team. Storm hits Harris in the face with a beer bottle, Homicide takes the easy win and AWV are officially disbanded.

A bit of dull b**ls**t involving Abyss ended the show.

21st Dec 06 - The team of Seratonin (Maverick Matt, Johhny Devine) newly created by Raven backing Kazarian vs Sting. Sting gets an easy win in a short match off The Scorpion Death Drop.

Team 3D vs The Naturals in a tag team Tables match. Team 3d gets the win with a power bomb thru a table.

Truth comes out to do an Xmas rap while Petey Williams, Sonjay Dutt, Jay Lethal and Lance Hoyt pass out gifts to the fans.

PCS event #3, The Pogo contest? Nash takes the piss in this. Santa (AKA Brother Runt) thows more gifts to the fans but is interupted by LAX.

VKM video insert from RAW on Knoxville.

Sting & Abyss exchange words in the ring after a vid from Cage.

4 man Tag match - AJ Styles & Samoa Joe vs Rhyno & Kurt Angle. Both teams have a good match and generally kick the shit out of each other, AJ gets the win for his team off Rhyno with an inside cradle and handfull of Rhyno's ring outfit.

28th Dec 06 - Chris Sabin & James Storm vs Petey Williams & Chris Daniels. Storm gets the win from a chair unseen by the ref.

Samoa Joe has a memory lapse during an interview and forgets his 5 losses in his so-called "18 month unbeaten streak".

Runt goes crazy with Team 3D & LAX.

PCS Event #4 - The Limbo Contest (Does anyone give a FLYING F**K about this S**TE any more?), utter b**ls**t that I won't discuss. Get this type of C**P off the air, TNA.

VKM Knoxville video insert.

Robert Roode vs Lance Hoyt (Ron Killings comes to ring with him). Roode gets the win after Miss Brooks finally comes down to the ring and distracts Hoyt.

Night stick on a pole match (Sounds suspiciously like a Russo idea, eh?) Christian Cage (with Tomko) vs Sting vs Abyss (with James Mitchell). Sting wins after Tomko drops the nightstick.

Cornette annouces a 3-way elimination match at Final Resolution.

Samoa Joe wins Mr TNA 2006, Joe gives Angle the rematch after he hurts some faceless tart that Joe brought with him to the show.

4th Jan 07 - Robert Roode vs Rhyno. Rhyno gets the win after Miss Brooks f**ks up the interuption.

VKM bore us on the mic.

PCS Event #5, Musical chairs. Kevin Nash, shut the F**K up, please?

No DQ Lucha/Mexican street fight Runt vs Homicide from LAX. Homicide wins after Hernandez uses The Border Toss onto a ladder as Konnan distracted the ref.

Dull vid insert from Abyss about prison. BORING!

Christian Cage (with Tomko) vs Kurt Angle. Samoa Joe jumps Angle on his way to the ring, Cornette turns them loose and lets them fight into the crowd & outside. This is a PPV quality no holds barred scrap and I loved it all! Don Harris in the back guiding them into the table (WWE Creative, TNA were doing Creative on the fly! Learn from this stuff!). Cage & Tomko work over Angle with Sting breaking things up.

11th Jan 07 - Seratonin walk out to back Maverick Matt vs Kurt Angle. Angle wins with the ankle lock.

6 Man tag match James Storm (with Gail Kim), Chris Sabin & AJ Styles vs Petey Williams, Chris Daniels & Rhyno. AJ made the win for his team after pulling the "knee injury cheat" yet again.

PCS Final Event - Texas Hold 'Em. (F**k you & your boring b**ls**t Kevin Nash).

VKM vid insert from San Antonio.

Tomko (with Cage) vs Abyss in a non-title event. Cage is put in a cage at ringside by Angle. Abyss wins on a DQ for outside interference from Cage after Joe jumps Angle & Cage unlocks himself. Sting makes the save on Abyss who uses the Shock Treatment & Abyss goes back to Mitchell.

Final Resolution 07 PPV - Last Man Standing Match - AJ Styles vs Rhyno. Rhyno wins 2 falls to 1 after AJ refuses to get up after fall #2. Rhyno comes back to gore AJ thru a table at the top of the entrance ramp.

X Division title 3 way match - Chris Sabin vs Jerry Lynn vs Chris Daniels - considering how long Jerry Lynn has been out of the ring, he's still got the moves & ability. Sabin gets the win off Jerry Lynn after very long & pretty good match.

Paparazzi Championship Series Final - that lanky streak of p**s Nash comes out to call the match with West & Tenay. Austin Starr vs Alex Shelley. The judges for the match are masked wrestler Samolian Joe, Big Fat Oily Guy & wrestling legend Mr Bob Backlund! I think Samolian Joe was Hercules Hernandez? Shelley won in extra time after no falls and the judges called a tie.

James Storm (with Gail Kim) vs Petey Williams - not really 2 people I'd have matched together for a ppv quality match. Williams worked good match, Storm was awful & boring. Storm cheats the win using the ropes in a roll-up. Miss Jackie saves Storm from a bottling from Gail Kim.

VKM declare victory over WWE. Christie Hemme demands to wrestle. Womens division soon?

Tag Team Title - LAX vs Team 3D, LAX are without the injured (IRL having a kidney op) Konnan. Team 3d were way in front and about to take the win when Runt cost them the win by getting them DQ'ed (outside interference, I assume?).

30 Minute Ironman Match - Kurt Angle vs Samoa Joe. Joe wins submission 1 from the rear naked choke hold with 17:05 left on the clock. Angle wins his 1st submission from the ankle lock with 13:58 left. Angle wins his 2nd submission with the ankle lock with 11:05 left. Joe wins a fall from the muscle buster with 7:40 left. Angle wins a fall from rolling over an inside cradle with 5:17 left. Angle wins 3-2 but Joe almost took him to a dead heat by having the ankle lock on Kurt who held on until time ran out.

NWA Heavyweight Title - 3 Way Elimination Match, Sting vs Christian Cage (with Tomko) vs Abyss. To make this fair Tomko was locked in a cage at ringside. Which you knew he was going to get out of. Sting eliminated Abyss, James Mitchell freed Tomko and Cage won after Abyss hit Sting with the chain that held the cage closed after Tomko tried and failed 3 times to hurt Sting enough for Cage to pin him. Pretty rubbish for a title and main event to be honest.

My TNA Monthly Catch-up, Nov - Dec 06

Welcome to this months TNA Catch-up as reported by the totally unimpartial me, I call it as I see it. Last months catch-up was killed/lost by that annoying little T**T Outlook Express, as it decided to crash after I'd written up all the Impacts and 2/3's of the ppv. It didn't ask to save the posting, it just crashed and lost over 1hrs worth of writing. Hence no catch-up last month. This months catch-up is being done on wordpad to avoid that problem.

Impact 23rd Nov 06 - Show opens with Abyss & James Mitchell boring us on the mic. Run in from Christian Cage dressed as Sting, he bores us on the mic. The real Sting calls out Cage.

AJ Styles & Chris Daniels vs The Naturals. Aj & Daniels get the win in "their last match together as a tagteam".

VKM vid insert.

Cornette on the mic, LAX break up a flag raising. Seriously CHEAP heat! Angle cleans house. Enter Samoa Joe, who now believes the hype about his so called "undefeated" streak (during which he was beaten 5 times, including losing a title).

More vid insert from the VKM.

Robert Roode bad mouths Eric Young (dressed as turkey for thanksgiving I assume, why though - he's Canadian, not American) and demands a rematch. Young gets the win and this is The Gobbledy Gooker all over again.

Nash vid insert, BORING!

Cage V Sting (#1 contender match, though why bother? Sting was already anyway) - an even match until Tyson Tomko (formerly of WWE) nails Sting while the ref is "out cold", no winner.

Impact 30th Nov 06 - New blonde girl Latisha interviews LAX.

Christian Cage (with Tomko) comes to the ring & bores us on the mic.

Cornette calls a 3 way dance for the PPV title match.

VKM vid insert.

3 way #1 contender match for the X-Division, Chris Sabin vs Sonjay Dutt Vs Jay Lethal. Sabin gets the win as he's flavour of the month. VKM vid insert.

Nash Vid insert, boring!

Tag team match, Truth & Lance Hoyt vs Alex Shelley & Austin Starr (AKA Austin Aries) - return match from the last ppv, Shelley gets the win by grabbing the trousers, but is then DQ'd and the win is reversed thanks to Aries.

More VKM vid insert rubbish from the WWE raid.

Sting talks to Abyss, Cage & Tomko jump Abyss.

Tag Title match - LAX vs Kurt Angle & Petey Williams, Williams had already been jumped by LAX backstage before the match. Samoa Joe comes out to watch Angle's back as promised last week. Joe & Angle make an excellent tagteam! Match is ruled a no contest by Cornette, LAX keep the belts. (Who is LAX's Attorney? He looks so familar, he's obviously a wrestler - he's huge!).

Impact 7th Dec 06 - Rhyno comes out and bores us on the mic, calling out AJ Styles.

Petey Willams vs Homocide. Williams gets the win in a fair fight then LAX jump him just like last week. AMW run in to make the save.

VKM news insert (can someone who watches WWE explain the whole "no pants" thing?).

Nash vid insert, really dull!

Eric Young Vs Senshi. Senshi wins thanks to assistance from Miss Brooks.

VKM news vid insert again.

Cornette books a flag match challenge AMW vs LAX for Turning Point PPV.

Cage bores us, Abyss jumps him but gets done over by Tomko. Sting saves Abyss and gets beaten down for his trouble by Abyss.

The All Star War - Sting vs Samoa Joe vs Christian Cage vs Rhyno (who gets jumped by AJ Styles) vs Kurt Angle vs Abyss. Rhyno vanished off fighting backstage with Styles before the match even began. This was a PPV quality match on regular tv. Angle gets the win after making a save on Samoa Joe from Cage.

Turning Point PPV 06 - Kevin Nash comes out to provide colour for the 5 way Papparazzi Championship Series X Division match. Senshi vs Jay Lethal vs Alex Shelley vs Sonajay Dutt vs Austin Starr (aka Austin Aries dressed like Macho Man). This was an elimination match for points.

Dutt eliminates Shelley with a Camel Clutch thanks to help from Starr and Senshi, Shelley scores a point and is eliminated. Senshi eliminates Lethal who scores 2 points. Nash needs to know about Slander by the way as he keeps saying Dutt is on steroids. Nash, call your lawyer you fool.
Were the crowd chanting "Suck his d**k" to Dutt about Starr? Sonjay scores 3 points as Starr eliminates him. Senshi eliminates Starr who scores 4 points and Senshi gets the win and 5 points thanks to help from Alex Shelley.

Eric Young vs Miss Brooks in a Bikini Contest (judged by the fans) - Traceys outfit was a swimsuit with cut-out tummy panel, very nice in red trimmed with black. Eric wore a t-shirt with a bikini printed onto it, underneath that was a pair of Spongebob Boxer shorts, underneath that were Spongebob trunks. Miss Brooks outfit wasn't a bikini either, a bikini is 2 pieces, not a slashed 1 piece. This should have been a double dq as neither person wore a proper bikini. Eric got the fan verdict, but was beaten down by Roode.

X Division Title - Chris Sabin vs Chris Daniels, Jerry Lynn as special referee. This was called right down the middle by Lynn, lots of in and out ring action which was very even by both Daniels & Sabin. Daniels took a well deserved win from the BME (Best Moonsault ever). little bit of an aftermath with Lynn slapping Daniels for not showing respect. Weird. Is this setting up a Jerry Lynn comeback match?

Cornette chats to some baseball people who we Brits have no clue about, this was obviously set up as a scrap and it was S**TE!

Aj Styles vs Rhyno - This started backstage as Rhyno was being interviewed and AJ jumped him. Lots of backstage area fighting which came through the bleachers and the crowd onto the ramp and into the ring. Then the bells rings, funny t**t that timekeeper. Aj hurt his knee being backdropped out of the ring over the ropes. Aj says "I heard it pop" and AJ was faking as he ran into the ring and pinned Rhyno (with the wrong ref making the count by the way so it wasn't a legal win however it's called as Hebner counted it but Rudy Charles was the official).

Some garbage backstage thing pastiching Vince (who was playing him?).

Non-title Flag Match - AMW vs LAX. Russo's "Things on a pole" influence is very clear in the booking of this match. LAX get the win after AMW bump heads.

VKM come out dressed as Shaun Micheals and HHH. I assume the 4 guys were The Spirit Squad having never seen them ever. Can someone who watches WWE, explain the fat greasy guy? VKM shoot on Vince big time. VKM call out Dx for $1 million and call Vince "a gutless pice of s**t".

Heavyweight Title - A 3 way dance between Sting, Abyss & Christian Cage (again for some reason the title isn't the main event match, another case of TNA s***ting on the NWA title for the 2nd time in 2 months). Every time Abyss uses thumbtacks or a chokeslam both Mick Foley & The Undertaker must cringe at him stealing their gimmicks. Abyss won after a Black Hole Slam but this was a really scrappy awful match that didn't belong in a tv show, let alone a ppv.

Kurt Angle vs Samoa Joe - No titles involved, just a rematch and this was the main event? F**k that s**t, the main title belts are the main event and TNA need to learn that pretty darn sharpish. This was a mainly technical wrestling match, lots of holds, submission moves and mat work. Angle tapped out while the ref was "unconcious", please don't b**ls**t us with that very old idea of a knocked out ref. FFS. Nice kick in the balls from Angle on Joe (he'd never feel it, those guys wear cups anyway). Joe wins with the rear naked choke hold, having made Angle tap out twice in 1 match.

My TNA Monthly Catch-up, Oct - Nov 06 (not complete)

Currently missing, here is some details of the PPV.

TNA Genesis PPV Nov 06

Angle V Joe as the main event? TNA doesn't give a fuck about it's heavyweight title then?
Isn't the title supposed to be THE ultimate accolade that a wrestler can win?
So if TNA set this as their main event they just told the champ to get fucked, basically. Didn't they?

The Sting match was ok. I do get pissed off about TNA's "lose the title on DQ" bullshit rule.
Abyss doesn't deserve to be champ. He isn't a strong enough character.

They are getting a bit silly with these short X-division title reigns too.
Can someone at least hold that title longer than 5 minutes?

The James Gangs VKM rebranding is a right old load of bollocks and thats a fact you can take to the bank.
Bobby Roodes rebranding along with Tracey is him in the vein of Ted DiBiase/Bradshaw and her as Miss Jones/Stacey Keibler.

My TNA Monthly Catch-up, Sept - Oct 06

Impact 28th sept - Jarrett straps Lance Hoyt, Jarrett bores us on the mic & threatens Joe.

Raven Vs Joe in a borefest, West & Tenay forget Joe losing the x-div belt to Senshi (yet again) as they continue to call him "unbeaten" which he isn't.

Team 3d return to tv vs 2 no-name jobbers (Thomas Selly & Vaughan Doring - any relation to dangerous Danny Doring?) to warm them up.

Angle announced as ringside enforcer for BFG PPV.

Impact 5th Oct - Team 3d vs Kazarian & Maverick Matt. (watched by AMW, The James Gang & The Naturals).

Abyss fails to take the belt from Joe as West & Tenay continue to have memory loss about Senshi winning the x-div belt from Joe.

LAX stomp no-name jobbers (Tyler Black & Jeff Luxon) in seconds, Konnan bores us on the mic (as usual).

Eric Young in some weird 5-way match with Norman Smiley, Sharkboy and 2 of Diamonds In The Rough (Elix Skipper & David Young). Sharkboy gets the win and Eric Young is fired?

Christopher Daniels teams up with Ron Killings (who the f**k says he isn't getting good matches?) as AJ is injured to meet Christian Cage & Jeff Jarrett, Truth subs well for AJ. Jarrett steals the win after LAX interfere.

Rhyno goring Cage means Joe keeps the title belt.

Impact 12th oct - Joe gives us an NWA title history lesson.

LAX get beaten down by AJ Styles & Christopher Daniels who give it right back to 'em.

Senshi gets stuck with Williams, Shelley & Devine in yet another Jackass match he doesn't want to be in with Sharkboy joining the idiots Sabin, Dutt and Lethal.

Kevin Nash bores us on the mic (30 yr career? funny f***ker).

Truth tags with Lance Hoyt against David Young & Elix Skipper of Diamonds In The Rough with Truth making the win for his team - getting yet another good match.

Kurt Angle tells us Vince called him s**t and says he ain't seen nothing yet.

Joe vs Cage in a ladder match with West & Tenay pulling the "undefeated" b**ls**t saying no pin & no submit yet again, f**k it's getting old. Sorry to keep repeating myself but he lost his X-div title to Senshi but I have to be the memory of accuracy. A loss is a loss - there are no provisions, so f**k you Don West & Mike Tenay. Good run-ins from Abyss, Runt & Abyss. Rhyno helps Joe to keep the belt again.

Impact 19th oct - Joe is told to give the belt back or leave TNA.

Raven vs Abyss vs Runt in a preview of the monsters ball match for the upcoming PPV. Mark like a crazy ass MOTHER F**KER for Jake The Snake Roberts! The return of the 1st ever DDT! He's only going to be a f**king Ref! F**k YES!!!!!!!

Kurt Angle shows up.

Christian Cage vs Norman Smiley who jobs big time to him.

Sharkboy jobs also. Eric Young goes back to being blonde.

Senshi finally kicks some Jackass butt, Jay Lethal jobs & Sabin gets worked over big time.

Nash bores us about his battle royal. Oh and Kev, They already made Croc Dundee 3 (actually called crocodile dundee in Los angeles) you lanky f**kwit!

BG James marks for Jeff Jarrett the man. LAX & AMW meet The James gang & Aj Styles with Chris Daniels. AJ makes the pin for his team. Gail Kim takes one for AMW.

Joe refuses to turn in the belt as fans chant "Keep the title", cue Kurt Angle in an excellent entry on a lift ;-)

Jarrett finally steals the belt back & Chris Jericho's band Fozzy (named after the Muppet Bear?) get a video promo (tons of vocoder on Chris's vocals btw).

Bound For Glory Pre-show - just a bunch of boring s***ty promo vids of how we got to the BFG matches fronted by pre-taped inserts by Borash and Hemme in an empty Impact Zone. Christy Hemme must be getting used to filming inserts in an empty Impact Zone by now, She's never at tv tapings. The Fozzy vid gets another airing as well. Is Jericho coming to TNA perhaps?

Bound For Glory PPV 22nd Oct 06 - Kev Nash brings a very fake looking trophy that you know is going to get smashed over someone's back.

X-division invitational gauntlet match. Austin Starr (Who?), Sonjay Dutt, Maverick Matt, Jay Lethal, A1 (too heavy to be x div, sorry guys), Zach Gowen (in his 2nd run in TNA), Kazarian (another one who's too heavy to be x div) who eliminated sonjay dutt with the help of maverick matt, Sirelda (the girl who beat up gail kim) gets eliminated by A1 who is eliminated by
Maverick matt & Kazarian, Sharkboy, Alex Shelley, D-Ray 3000 (Who?) eliminates maverick matt with sharkboy, Johnny Devine who eliminates zach gowan, Elix Skipper, Kazarian is eliminated by Austin Starr, Midget wrestler Short Sleeve Sampson, d-ray 3000 was eliminated by Austin Starr and Alex Shelley eliminated sharkboy (both off camera), Norman Smiley, Alex Shelley eliminates short sleeve sampson, Petey Williams, Outside Ring Official Slick Johnson "eliminates" elix skipper & norman smiley (is that even legal?) and is eliminated by Petey Williams who is eliminated by Alex Shelley and Johnny Devine. johnny devine is eliminated by Austin Starr who eliminates Alex Shelley as well. Austin Starr pins jay lethal with a brain buster for the win! Amazingly the trophy isn't used as a weapon.

4-way tag match - The Naturals, The James Gang, AMW (with no gail kim) & Team 3d. Team 3d make the win. Weak Match for a PPV.

Monsters Ball no DQ - Special Ref JAKE THE SNAKE ROBERTS! Abyss, Brother Runt, Raven & Samoa Joe. Everyone teams up on Joe. Jake generally enjoys the show upclose and personal. Joe thru a table off the ramp, Runt onto a platform & Abyss diving on top of him from the scaffolding, Dunno why Jake tried to stop Abyss using thumbtacks (it's a no dq, idiot!). Raven
t**ts Jake, Joe puts Abyss face 1st into the tacks, Jake ddt's Raven as he's hitting Joe with a chair, Joe hits the musclebuster on Raven for the win. Raven gets a faceful of snake as the aftermath of Jake.

Loser Gets Fired From TNA - Larry Zybsco vs Eric Young - Eric Young steals the victory, obviously. Utter s**t for a PPV match.

Jim Cornette comes to talk to us (with a really sore throat). (excellent sign in the crowd - 100% Mcmahon Free). Cue Kurt Angle. Joe tries to have a go, Security splits it up. Twice. Joe begs Cornette "let me fight" and Angle rushes him. Security splits it up again.

X-Division Title Match - Senshi vs Chris Sabin. Sabin wins in a Jackass free match. Can he go back to being serious now?

8-Mile Street Fight - Rhyno vs Christian Cage. Wow, What a s**t match this was. It started in the carpark, worked through the backstage area onto the ramp finally into the ring. They may as well have billed this as a falls count anywhere no dq match. What was the 8 mile link? Was there one? Apart from the street sign? This was a real big push to make Cage a bigger heel. What was the point of the straightjacket? Excellent piledriver thru the table by rhyno on Cage. Cage's pin at the end was total and utter S**T! Could they not make a better finish than this? I assume they stopped on such a c**p finish as Rhyno's head was cut too much or he was hurt.

6 Sides Of Steel Tag Title Match - LAX vs Aj Styles & Christopher Daniels. The rematch from the last PPV. They really should have had this match last or prepared a match on tape whilst the cage was being built. Something short just to fill the space as Tenay & West were c**p at doing that. You do realise how much Konnan does when he's kept out of a match. AJ's frogsplash off the top of the cage was pretty awesome (should have been the match winner right there). LAX win with the gringo killer due to Konnan's outside interference. All the b**ls**t attacking after the match should really be an instant belt loss right there.

Heavyweight Title vs Career - Kurt Angle as Special Ring Enforcer with Sting vs Jeff Jarrett. I can't recall Angle having ever worked with either man here so this was going to be very open. Sting combined his old looks to create a new one. (How did that beardy guy in the front row get away with holding his "Screw Sting" sign?). Sting was being played as ring rusty and Jarrett
was on top at the start for a decent amount of time. Jarrett knocked a cameraman over just after having a dust-up with Angle on the outside. Jarrett managed to nail Angle with a chair (accident, but nicely set-up though). Angle knocking out the ref to take over himself was predictable rather than end by a double count out (how would that have worked then?
Sting gone and Jarrett still champ?). Stings piledriver on Jarrett was on the wrong camera showing how far his head was from canvas. Sting didn't fancy selling Jarrett's figure 2 leglock either. Sting totally punked Jarrett, no-selling the guitar shot which was an excellent "f**k you,
Jarrett" moment. Sting wins the title from the Scorpion Death Lock. Hardly no interference from Angle. West & Tenay gave JJ his props, not too sure about the claim that Jarrett held the NWA belt the most times or the longest. I think Harley Race might have that honour.

I guess this sets up future matches for Jarrett vs Angle and Angle vs Joe. Any chance of Luger and Bagwell getting back in the ring again? Teases of Jericho maybe coming to TNA (unlikely if he's still signed with WWE).

My TNA Monthly Catch-up, Aug - Sept 06

Before I get started a few things. TNA still can't get it timings right and still go to commercial in the middle of matches. Can't they do this during backstage interviews? Plus they have to stop calling samoa joe undefeated because he isn't. a loss is a loss, this pinfall/submission only b**ls**t is exactly that. joe is defeated, get the f**k over it TNA. Anyway, now here's the highlights of the last 6 weeks.

17th aug 06 - daniels & styles get beat down by LAX, Naturals win a title shot, Killings jobs to joe & their still calling him undefeated in 14 months (B**LS**T! wot about the belt lost to senshi?), jarrett dares sting to put his career on the line for a title shot.

24th aug 96 - christian cage comes to the ring and bores us. rhyno sells a c**p chair shot.
zybsco's wigs get worse. sting puts his career on the line, jarrett promises a public execution, LAX meet styles & daniels in a border war title match, konnan cheats LAX to the win.

31st aug 06 - LAX come out & bore us. Sharkboy jobs to eric young, christians c**p heel turn continues, runt Vs abyss in the 10,000 thumbtack match (how was this not held back for a ppv? answer = worst ending EVER!) - raven puts abyss thru 2 tables of thumbtacks, jarretts execution is 3 guys dressed like PIRA (google those initials, ok?) and the public execution of stings career. nice word play jeff. the impact zone show what marks they are. cornette tells jarrett he's taking a polygraph.

7th sep 06 - LAX try a warm-up match against jobber nobodies (the mack brothers). the james gang run with sharkboy & norman smiley against amw, maverick matt & kazarian. gail kim cheats them to a win. jarretts polygraph (was he SMOKING a cigarette on Tv?). heel cage v killings in a very even match. rhyno bores us on the mike. jarret fails the polygraph, cornette
makes a fans revenge lumberjack match against samoa joe at the no surrender ppv.

14th sep 06- styles & daniels go against maverick matt & kazarian. raven v abyss in a hangman match (another ppv style match with a poor finish). cornette reinstates earl hebner as a ref, cornette hikes up samoa joes unbeaten run to 18 months (it was 14 months mere weeks ago, and it's still B**LS**T - senshi took the x division belt from him). I'm assuming the female "fan" jarrett knocked down was some jobber.

21st sep 06- jarretts bores us on the mike bleating about how he's a victim, issues an open challenge and samoa joe comes out. jarrett hip tosses a male "fan" over the railings (yet another jobber, no doubt). norman smiley jobs to eric young who's obviously getting a push now. monty brown v rhyno in a falls count anywhere match, cage interferes and gives yet another s**t chair
shot to rhyno. bobby roode speaks to sensational sherri in another of his series to scout managers. LAX bore us on the mike, styles beomes a pinyata. and despite having the ultimate x ropes up for over 3 weeks of taping we saw no such matches take place.

No Surrender PPV 24th sep 06 - eric young v A1, A1 jobs in EY's continued push.
petey williams v jay lethal. wlliams jobs & i hope the Jackass people paid jay lethal & his guys a lot to pull all that jackass style b**ls**t over the last few weeks.

Abyss vs Brother Runt vs raven in a no dq match. abyss wins, no shock there.

Tag battle royal - amw, the naturals, the paparazzis, sharkboy & norman smiley, kazarian & maverick matt, ron killings & lance hoyt, diamonds in the rough and the james gang. (who put out who) - norman smiley by elix skipper, elix skipper by lance hoyt, lance hoyt by kazarian, jonny devine by truth, sharkboy by alex shelly chase stevens by maverick matt, maverick matt by truth, david young by truth, truth by alex shelley, bg james by alex shelley, kazarian by maverick matt from the outside, alex shelley by kip james, james storm by kip james, chris harris by kip james (who cheated his way back in cuz the refs never saw him touch the floor due to a fight on the ramp), kip james by chris harris (illegally).

amw v the naturals tag match (right after the battle royal). naturals win after help from the james gang.

x division championship. sabin vs senshi. sabin tries to pull some b**ls**t jackass stunt but senshi wins.

christian v rhyno - an over-long match that was pretty even. cage wins off an unprettier off a chair behind the refs back.

interview with styles & daniels (who shows no sign of the 2 head cuts he recently got).

Ultimate x tag championship match - styles & daniels V LAX. daniels takes the win for his team. awesome match, specially the angels wings thru a table.

Fans Revenge Lumberjack match - jarrett Vs samoa joe (non title contest). jarrett padded himself up in as many layers of clothes as possible for this. (i counted 3 layers in total) we saw the female "fan" in pink and the black male "fan" in yellow that jarrett had hit over the last 2 weeks (definately jobbers, as most likely were the rest of the lumberjacks). the cameramen in
a very in a very bad position to show how fake the stroke into the guitar was. joe wins off a musclebuster (and jarrett was strapped 7 separate occasions by the fans).

cornettes announcement #1 - impact goes prime time on november 16th.
cornettes announcement #2 - angle is coming to TNA. it's damn real!
(oh, and i noticed some FU cena shirts in the crowd).