Hello, and welcome to Part VIII of the Rebooking Series. Yes,
this is not a misprint. We’ve finally completed Part VIII and uploaded it for
your reading pleasure. I will warn you, this is easily the longest Rebooking
Series article to date – no excuses for the year between articles though – so it
may be worth reading in stages.
Part VIII as I’m sure you’ll have guessed from the oh so
imaginative title is based on 2010 TNA and it actually follows on directly from
Part VII in the Rebooking Series which was based on the January 4
th
2010 episode of TNA Impact (which can be read
here). From there though we pick
up where we left off and booking all the way from that rebooked January 4
th
edition of Impact all the way through until Bound For Glory 2010 – TNA’s
biggest show of the year.
Anyway, this article has been long enough in the making so
let’s get straight on with it, and we hope you guys enjoy it!
11/01/2010 TNA Impact
(Summary):
Four Corner Survival Match for #1 Contendership to the
X-Division Title: Kazarian d. Homicide, Jay Lethal and (the debuting) Shannon
Moore when Kaz hits the Flux Capacitor on Homicide for the win.
Samoa Joe enters the ring and says he is throwing out an
open challenge for Genesis. Christopher Daniels comes out and accepts his
challenge.
Sarita and Taylor Wilde are interviewed by SoCal Val
backstage and they reveal that they get their rematch for the Tag Team
Championship’s at Genesis.
Jeff Jarrett comes out and cuts a cryptic promo about
testing the loyalty of the so-called “TNA” guys. He is interrupted by The Pope
who comes out and challenges Jarrett to a match at Genesis since he is offended
by the insinuation that just because he hasn’t been here for as long as Jeff
that that somehow means he doesn’t love TNA. Jarrett accepts.
Desmond Wolfe d. Douglas Williams. Wolfe beats Williams
after countering the Chaos Theory into a roll-up to pick up the victory.
Post-match Williams offers Wolfe a place in World Elite.
Wolfe politely declines leading to Magnus and Williams beating Wolfe down until
Kurt Angle make the save. Angle and Wolfe clear the ring and then show respect.
Later in the show Tenay announces that Angle and Wolfe will team up at Genesis
to take on British Invasion.
Beer Money cut a promo backstage talking about their victory
last week. They refer to their match at Genesis and insist they’re going to
make it 2-0 on Sunday. 1 away from making sure the gold stays around their
waists, “Sorry, about your damn luck!”
Tara comes out and cuts a promo about not being the one
pinned in the three way Knockouts match last week. She says she will get her
rematch at Genesis and when it’s one-on-one, she will not lose.
The final segment is a contract signing for the TNA World
Heavyweight Championship Match at Genesis. AJ and Jeff sit either side of your
stereotypical contract signing table with Bischoff and Hogan mediating. AJ cuts
a fired up babyface promo about “I’ve been here since day one. I’ve defended
this company against people who just wanted to come in, coast by on their
reputation and make a quick buck (looks at Hogan) and I know that’s you Jeff
(turns to Hardy) because you’ve been here before”.
Jeff retorts saying he’s not here to do that, he’s here to
entertain the people and make TNA the biggest wrestling company on the planet.
“I’m the guy to take TNA to the next level. And AJ, you’re just upset that you
weren’t.”
This infuriates AJ who flips the table and gets in Hardy’s
face. Hogan pushes himself between them and AJ responds by pushing Hogan to the
ground. He then backs off, raises the belt and leaves the ring as Mike Tenay
yells “That’s all we’ve got time for. We’ll see you all on Sunday at Genesis.
AJ, Hardy. First time ever!”
Genesis PPV:
1. Frankie Kazarian d. Amazing Red © to become the new
X-Division Champion
Red tries to hit the Sunset Flip (Code Red) on Kazarian but
Kaz manages to block it and hits the Fade to Black to pick up the win.
2. Alissa Flash and Daffney © d. Sarita and Taylor Wilde to
retain the Knockouts Tag Team Championships
Daffney hits Sarita with a Shining Wizard that knocks her
out of the ring and allows herself and Flash to focus on Taylor. Eventually
Daffney heads up top and hits a diving hurricanrana on Wilde before Flash hits
the Air Raid Crash to get the pin and the win.
3. British Invasion (Brutus Magnus and Douglas Williams) w/
Eric Young d. Desmond Wolfe and Kurt Angle
EY is eventually ejected from ringside for interfering in
the match. The contest is a hard fought one but eventually Magnus and Williams
win because of their greater cohesion. Wolfe and Angle had a few episodes of
miscommunication at important times in the match and eventually Williams hit
the Chaos Theory on Angle to pick up the victory for his team. Post-match Angle
tries to cheer Wolfe up who is clearly bitterly disappointed at the loss.
4. Samoa Joe d. Christopher Daniels
Joe picks up the win in a fairly long match clean following
a Muscle Buster.
5. Awesome Kong © d. Tara to retain the TNA Knockouts
Championship
Kong pins Tara clean following the Awesome Bomb.
6. “The Pope” D’Angelo Dinero d. Jeff Jarrett
At several times during the match Jarrett seems to be
punishing Pope just to test his resolve and see how much fight he has in him.
Eventually Jarrett brings a guitar into the ring, he swings for Pope but Pope
ducks and then hits the DDE for the win.
7. Beer Money (James Storm and Robert Roode) © d. The Motor
City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) to go 2-0 up in the Best of
Five Series for TNA World Tag Team Championships
Beer Money pick up the win when Storm pins Shelley with a
roll-up after a long, hard fought encounter. Both teams shake hands once again
after the match as a show of respect.
8. AJ Styles © vs. Jeff Hardy for the TNA World Heavyweight
Championship
The match goes fairly long and is comfortably older than
twenty minutes when Jeff finally looks like he has the upper hand. He goes to
the top rope and is in position for the Swanton (he is on the side closest to
both the hard cam and the ramp) when Kazarian enters from the opposite corner
distracting him. The referee goes over to stop Kazarian getting involved as
Tenay and Taz sell the confusion of what Kazarian is doing out here. Then out
of nowhere Beer Money come down the ramp and hit Jeff with a double beer bottle
shot to the back of the head knocking Hardy off the top rope and into the ring.
AJ has recovered by this point and he picks Jeff up before delivering the
Styles Clash and the referee counts to three as AJ retains the World
Heavyweight Championship. The newly aligned foursome (who will henceforth be
referred to as Fortune) throw up their hand sign for Fortune and all four raise
their respective title belts.
Hogan comes out to confront them but they attack him.
Jarrett’s music hits and he comes out to make the save! Fortune back off but
Jarrett immediately turns on Hogan and starts to beat him down before rolling
him out of the ring with his foot. Jarrett then turns around so he is standing
across the ring from Fortune. They then come closer together and have a big
group hug as the PPV goes off the air with Tenay and Taz totally shocked.
Impact’s between
Genesis and Against All Odds
- Mike Tenay welcomes us to Impact Wrestling and
brings out Jeff Jarrett and Fortune. He asks the five men to explain their
actions from the night before. Jarrett takes the microphone and says he created
this company and he loves it more than anything in the world. He says for years
now people have been coming in thinking they could get a free ride and I let it
pass thinking it would bring us publicity and more fans and once that happened
we could get rid of those people and let the most deserving talents rule the
roost. But Hulk Hogan and his cronies coming in is the straw that has broken
the camel’s back. He says the five men in the ring with him right now
“including you Mike” are the real TNA. “We’ve all been here for a long time and
we’ve bled for this company, we’d do anything to see it succeed and last night
we proved just how much it meant to us. We will not stop until we’ve got back
OUR company and got rid of these invading a**holes.”
- Amazing Red demands his rematch against Kazarian
but Kaz refuses saying he is already wrestling Christopher Daniels tonight.
Kazarian and Daniels go back and forth with a series of roll through pin
attempts until Daniels finally gets the
three count picking up the win in a non-title match. Kazarian gets on the
mic after the match and says Daniels got the better of him tonight but he wants
to face him at Against All Odds with the Championship on the line to see who
the better man truly is. Red interrupts and mentions his rematch clause.
Kazarian says great, let’s make it a three-way dance. All three men agree and
Tenay later tells us that Hulk Hogan has made the match official.
-
Alissa and Daffney come out to the ring to
celebrate retaining their Knockout Tag Team Titles against Taylor and Sarita
when they are interrupted by The Beautiful People. TBP say Alissa and Daffney
obviously hit every branch of the ugly tree on the way down. They continue to
run the Champs down until Alissa and Daffney offer to fight them right here,
right now. TBP refuse but say they’ll fight them at Against All Odds for the Tag
Team Titles.
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Jeff Jarrett comes out and says The Pope showed
him something at Genesis. He’d always thought of him as just another reject
that didn’t have a clue about what this company was but now he’s not so sure.
Jarrett invites Pope out but it is instead Matt Morgan who comes out. Morgan
walks down to the ring and grabs a mic. He says they’ve found Pope backstage
taken out and he knows that this is all Jarrett’s doing. Jarrett protests his
innocence but Morgan won’t hear any of it and attacks Jarrett before laying him
out with the Carbon Footprint.
-
Next week Hulk Hogan approaches Morgan and asks
him if he would like to avenge what happened to his friend The Pope by facing
Jarrett at Against All Odds. Morgan gleefully accepts.
-
A #1 Contenders Tournament takes place to create
a challenger for Awesome Kong. There are four singles matches (Sarita d. Tara;
Taylor Wilde d. ODB; Alissa Flash d. Madison Rayne and Angelina Love d.
Daffney), followed by a fatal-4-way between the four winners which sees Sarita win by pinning tag team partner
Taylor Wilde.
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AJ Styles comes out in the final segment of the
first Impact following Genesis to talk to the crowd before he can though Samoa
Joe comes out and demands a title shot. AJ says he isn’t in the business of
just handing out title shots but he has so much respect for Joe and everything
he has done for TNA that he will gladly put his belt on the line. The two men
agree to fight it out at Against All Odds, but Joe warns AJ not to pull
anything like what happened at Genesis. AJ almost looks offended at the
insinuation.
-
With Samoa Joe already set as the #1 contender
to AJ Styles when Jeff Hardy returns after missing two Impact’s due to the
beating he received at Genesis Jeff simply demands a match at Against All Odds.
Hogan comes to the ring and agrees, he knows Jeff was screwed at Genesis so
he’s going to give him a #1 Contenders match at Against All Odds against Rob
Van Dam.
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Kurt Angle comes out and asks Desmond Wolfe to
come out to the ring, Wolfe comes down and Angle says he knows they lost at
Genesis but that doesn’t mean this is over, he wants to team up one more time
to take on the British Invasion. Wolfe accepts after a bit of cajoling from
Angle. He and Angle team up in several warm up matches to work on their cohesion
and they clearly become more and more confident with every week. After they win
a match on the final Impact before the PPV British Invasion hit the ring and
take both men down. They zip tie Wolfe to the ropes and focus their attack on
Angle working on his ankle. Eventually Magnus goes to the top rope as Doug
holds a chair around Angle’s ankle. Magnus jumps off the top rope and stamps on
the chair.
-
Later in the show Hogan offers Wolfe the chance
to postpone the match with it looking likely Angle won’t be able to make the
show following the attack. Wolfe refuses and says he wants to fight the British
Invasion, even if he has to do it alone.
Against All Odds
1)
X-Division Championship: Frankie Kazarian © d.
Amazing Red and Christopher Daniels
A good X-Division match comes to an end when Daniels hits
Angels Wings on Red, he looks to finish it off with a Best Moonsault Ever but
when he gets to the top rope he is pushed off by Kazarian who steals the
pinfall and retains the Championship.
2)
Knockout Tag Team Championship: Alissa Flash and
Daffney © vs. The Beautiful People (Angelina Love and Madison Rayne)
Velvet repeatedly tries to interfere which leads to Daffney
forcibly ejecting her from the ringside area. This leaves Alissa alone with
Angelina and Madison though who double team her, Angelina hits the Botox
Injection but Daffney gets back in to break the pin attempt up at 2.9. Madison
knocks Daffney to the outside and then distracts the referee which allows
Angelina to retrieve one of the title belts. She lines up Alissa who ducks and
Daffney, who is back on the ring apron, sprays green mist in Angelina’s eyes.
Alissa rolls Angelina up as Daffney tackles Madison to the outside and the
referee counts to three.
3)
Jeff Jarrett d. Matt Morgan
Jarrett cuts a promo pre-match about how he will teach
Morgan a lesson in respect, this is his company and he’s not going to let
rejects like Morgan bring it down. Morgan comes straight out and attacks
Jarrett. After about ten minutes Jarrett manages to hit The Stroke on Morgan
for the win.
4)
#1 Contenders Match: Jeff Hardy vs. Rob Van Dam
(30 Minute Time Limit Draw)
Hardy and RVD go thirty minutes before the time limit
expires. Both men want five more minutes, as do the crowd but Hulk Hogan comes
out and says he can’t give them any more time tonight but as a result of the
draw they will both face the winner of tonight’s World Heavyweight Championship
match between AJ Styles and Samoa Joe in a triple threat match at the next
pay-per-view: Destination X.
5)
Knockouts Championship: Awesome Kong © vs.
Sarita
A hard fought match between Kong and Sarita comes to an end
when Kong reverses an attempted hurricanrana into the Implant Buster. After the
match Angelina, Madison and Velvet beat Kong down until Daffney and Alissa
Flash come out to make the save. The faces send The Beautiful People scurrying.
6)
Handicap Match: British Invasion (w/ Eric Young)
vs. Desmond Wolfe
With Angle injured, Wolfe puts up a hell of a fight but in
the end he succumbs to the numbers and British Invasion pick up the victory.
Wolfe is once again offered a spot in World Elite with EY noting this is his
“final opportunity to make something of himself”. Wolfe refuses and is
mercilessly beaten down by all three men. The beatdown finally ends with Young
hitting a top rope elbow drop on Wolfe through a table.
7)
Match 3 in the Best of 5 Series for the TNA Tag
Team Titles: Beer Money © [2] vs. Motor City Machine Guns [0]
With Beer Money winning the first two matches they are full
of confidence and dominate the early stages, beating down Chris Sabin and
isolating him from tag team partner Alex Shelley. Eventually Sabin makes the
hot tag to Shelley who cleans house, the match from then on is very back and
forth until Beer Money go for the DWI on Shelley, this time though Sabin breaks
it up. The two teams trade forearms until the Guns’ superior pace shows as they
duck the forearms from Beer Money and hit a series of moves before Sabin picks
Roode up and hits him with the Cradleshock. Shelley meanwhile sends Storm to
the outside and the Machine Guns pick up the victory. Both teams show respect
once more after the match.
8)
TNA World Heavyweight Championship: AJ Styles ©
vs. Samoa Joe
Joe and AJ have a great back and forth match that ends when
Joe locks in the Coquina Clutch but AJ manages to flip it into a bridging pin
attempt for the three count. After the match AJ offers Joe his hand. Joe looks
confused and doesn’t trust AJ so he slides out of the ring. AJ looks
disappointed but nonetheless celebrates retaining his World Heavyweight
Championship.
Impact’s between
Against All Odds and Destination X
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Samoa Joe comes out and asks for a rematch with
AJ Styles. He says he was seconds away from beating AJ and wants to prove it.
Styles doesn’t come out but Jarrett does. Jarrett says he can’t speak for AJ
but Joe is exactly the type of person Jarrett sees as the future of this
company. Joe asks Jarrett to get to the point. Jarrett says we don’t want to
fight against you, we want to fight alongside you to rid this company of the
cancer within. Joe refuses and attacks Jarrett. This sets up a match between
the two for Destination X.
-
Daniels comes out and talks about being so close
to becoming the X-Division Champion. He wants Kazarian one-on-one at
Destination X, Kazarian accepts.
-
Generation Me debut and are telling the crowd
they want the winners of the Best of 5 Series in a Tag Title match when they
are interrupted by World Elite. World Elite challenge them to a match and Gen
Me accept, saying they will be happy to face any two of them. EY says he and
Kiyoshi will see them at Destination X.
-
Awesome Kong, Alissa Flash and Daffney come out
and demand a match with The Beautiful People. The Beautiful People say no but
Hogan comes out and makes a Six Person Tag match for Destination X in which all
the Championships will be on the line.
-
The Motor City Machine Guns come out and call
out Beer Money. Beer Money come to the ring and the Guns say while they are
loving their best of five series they want to spice it up and suggest picking a
stipulation for Match Four. Beer Money like this and suggest a Street Fight for
the match, the Guns agree providing they get to pick the stipulation for Match
Five should it be required. Beer Money agree and say they’ll see the Guns at
Destination X “SORRY, about your DAMN luck!”
-
Mr. Anderson debuts on Impact and says how happy
he is to be there. Fortune come out and run Anderson down, saying he’s another
reject that’s just come to collect a cheque. Anderson challenges any one of
them to get in the ring but all of the members of Fortune get in instead and
attack Anderson. Pope comes out with a steel chair in hand and Fortune scarper.
Pope picks Anderson up and they embrace. Pope says it would be an honour to
face Anderson in his first pay-per-view match. Anderson agrees and the match is
set.
-
AJ trades insults with Hardy and RVD throughout
the month. At the contract signing it all breaks down and AJ tries to attack
both men. They team up and take AJ out but while both men celebrate Jeff turns
round into a spinning heel kick from RVD who then goes to the top and hits a Five
Star Frog Splash. RVD raises AJ’s Championship over a fallen Jeff Hardy while a
furious AJ clutches his head in pain as he sits midway up the ramp as the show
goes off the air.
-
British Invasion come out on the second Impact
after Against All Odds to brag about how they took Desmond Wolfe out when they
are interrupted by a returning Kurt Angle. Angle comes down to the ring and
says he wants a match with them at Destination X. Williams and Magnus laugh and
ask Kurt if he’s sure. He is, so they agree to the match. Kurt then says “But
boys, I won’t be coming alone.” With that Desmond Wolfe’s theme hits and he
heads down to the ring (albeit bandaged up). Williams and Magnus are fuming and
attempt to attack Angle and Wolfe but the faces get the upper hand and clear
the ring. Magnus grabs a microphone and says “This time we’re gonna beat you
boys so badly that neither of you will ever be able to return again. We’ll face
you, but only if it’s No Disqualification”. Angle and Wolfe look at each other
and smile. Wolfe picks up a mic and says “You’re on, and come Destination X you
two pricks are gonna get what’s coming to you!”
Destination X:
1)
X-Division Championship: Frankie Kazarian © vs.
Christopher Daniels (20 Minute Time Limit Draw)
Kazarian and Daniels wrestle until the 20 minute X-Division
time limit expires. After the match Kazarian shakes Daniels hand and offers him
a place in Fortune. Daniels refuses and leaves the ring.
2)
Generation Me d. Eric Young and Kiyoshi
Generation Me pick up the victory when they hit More Bang
For Your Buck on Kiyoshi. Post-match Young attacks Kiyoshi, kicking him out of
World Elite.
3)
Street Fight Match 4 of 5 for the TNA World Tag
Team Championships: Beer Money © [2] vs. Motor City Machine Guns [1]
A great back and forth encounter ends when Sabin spears
Roode through a table on the outside this allows Shelley to hit Sliced Bread #2
on Storm through 4 set up chairs in the ring for the pin and the win to level
up the series. Post-match Hogan comes out and announces that with the series
now being level Beer Money have a choice to make. At Lockdown it will be Team
Hogan vs. a team of Jeff Jarrett’s choosing in a 5-on-5 Lethal Lockdown match,
it will also be the location of the final match in the Beer Money vs. Machine
Guns best of five series. Beer Money will have to either appear in both matches
or forfeit the titles to the Machine Guns, the choice is theirs.
4)
All Knockouts Championships on the line: Awesome
Kong © and Alissa Flash and Daffney © vs. The Beautiful People (Angelina Love,
Madison Rayne and Velvet Sky)
The Beautiful People constantly use underhanded tactics to
get the upper hand on first Alissa and then Daffney leaving Kong on the outside
the entire match, frustrated by her inability to get in the match. Eventually
Daffney manages to escape and tags her in leading to Kong cleaning house – with
a little help from Alissa – before she hits the Implant Buster on Velvet for
the victory.
5)
Jeff Jarrett vs. Samoa Joe
Joe unleashes all his frustrations from not winning the
World Title on Jarrett. Joe hits a Muscle Buster and arguably could beat
Jarrett but he wants to continue the punishment, this mistake allows Jarrett to
small package Joe to pick up the victory. After the match Jarrett offers his
hand again but Joe, even more exasperated, pushes him to the floor and leaves.
6)
“The Pope” D’Angelo Dinero d. Mr. Anderson
Anderson’s first match in TNA is a competitive one but it
ultimately ends in defeat when Pope hits the DDE for the victory.
7)
No Disqualification Match: British Invasion vs.
Desmond Wolfe and Kurt Angle
In what is a brutal affair both sides beat the living hell
out of one another. The finish comes when Angle hits an Angle Slam from the top
rope through a table on Magnus but Williams breaks it up at the count of 2.9.
Wolfe comes in the ring though and locks the London Dungeon in on Williams.
Angle recovers and locks in an anklelock on Magnus. A simultaneous tap out
follows and Wolfe and Angle pick up the win.
8)
TNA World Heavyweight Championship: AJ Styles ©
vs. Jeff Hardy vs. Rob Van Dam
AJ wins clean after hitting a Stylesclash on RVD.
Impact’s between
Destination X and Lockdown
-
The Machine Guns come out and call out Beer
Money. They say they feel what Hulk Hogan said last night at Destination X was
unfair. They offer to fight Beer Money next week instead of waiting until
Lockdown. Beer Money say they appreciate this and they look forward to locking
horns with the Guns in seven days. Beer Money go to leave but Shelley says
“we’re not done quite yet. Since we took it to match five we get to pick this
match’s stipulation. And we choose… a ladder match!” The Guns smile and Beer
Money look a little worried but regain their composure and bump fists with the Guns
“See you next week boys”.
-
Impact
Main Event: Match 5 of 5 in the Best of 5 Series for the TNA World Tag Team
Championships: Beer Money © [2] vs. Motor City Machine Guns [2] in a Ladder
Match:
-
After a hellacious bout Beer Money hit the DWI
on Sabin and Storm sets up a ladder. Both he and Roode climb towards the top
but at the last second Alex Shelley hits a springboard dropkick knocking both
men off the ladder. Storm falls to the ring and rolls to the outside as Roode
rolls to the corner of the ring. Shelley hits an Air Raid Crash on Roode and
re-sets up the ladder. He’s almost at the top when Storm crawls back into the
ring. Storm tries to pull Shelley down but Shelley kicks him away. Undeterred
Storm climbs right up to where Shelley is and starts punching him in the back
of the head. Shelley fights back with elbows and grabs a hold of Storm’s head
before hitting Sliced Bread #2 from the top of the ladder through a table
below. With Roode taken out in the corner and Shelley and Storm lying
motionless in the wreckage of the table a recovering Sabin ascends the ladder
and grabs the Championships to give Motor
City their first ever TNA World Tag Team Championship win.
-
Post-match all four men hug and Beer Money wrap
the Tag Team titles around the waist of the new Champions before raising their
hands as the show goes off the air.
-
British Invasion, frustrated with their tag team
loss at Destination X, come out and call out World Elite leader Eric Young.
They question where he was and why he didn’t help them. Eric tries to explain
his actions but Magnus and Williams brutally destroy him in the fashion that
has become expected of the duo. Eventually Generation Me come out to make the
save but the damage is done. Magnus, furious at being interrupted, challenges
Gen Me to a Tag Team match at Lockdown. Gen Me accept.
-
Hulk Hogan comes out and announces the
relationship between TNA and New Japan Pro Wrestling is only going from
strength to strength and as a result he has signed three inter-promotional
matches for Lockdown. The first will see former IWGP Heavyweight Champion
Hiroshi Tanahashi take on Christopher Daniels. The next will see reigning IWGP
Heavyweight Tag Team Champions No Limit challenge the Motor City Machine Guns
for the TNA World Tag Team Championships. And the last pits a former G1 Climax
winner in Hirooki Goto against rising star Desmond Wolfe. Hogan says the
relationship with NJPW grows stronger by the day and this is just the start for
the two companies, expect to see more in the future.
-
A fatal-4-way match takes place to determine the
#1 contender to the Knockouts Championship and Alissa Flash defeats Angelina
Love, Daffney and Sarita when she pins Daffney. Post-match Daffney slaps her
tag team partner and leaves.
-
After his impressive performances in recent
months Hulk Hogan names The Pope as #1 contender and states he’ll get his World
Heavyweight Title match at Lockdown. This infuriates Fortune who will now be a
member short in Lethal Lockdown.
-
On the final Impact before Lockdown Hulk Hogan
comes out with Team Hogan which has been announced periodically over the Impact
episodes and will be represented by Jeff Hardy, Kurt Angle, Mr. Anderson, Samoa
Joe and Rob Van Dam. Hogan demands to know who the fifth member of Team Jarrett
is (in addition to Jarrett, Beer Money and Frankie Kazarian). Jarrett and
Fortune come out and Jarrett rips into Hogan, he also states that “This isn’t
Team Jarrett, this is Team TNA!” He asks for a match between one of his guys
and one of Hogan’s to determine who will get the advantage of having the first
entrant into Lethal Lockdown. Hogan agrees, as long as Jarrett agrees to
announce the fifth member of his team after the match. Jarrett nods.
-
Impact
Main Event: Robert Roode d. Rob Van Dam clean to earn Team TNA the opening
position in Lethal Lockdown.
-
After the match a frustrated Hogan demands to
know who the fifth member is and pushes Jarrett. This leads to a brawl between
all the men in the match as Hogan escapes to the outside. Team Hogan has the
upper hand when all of a sudden the lights go out. Sting’s theme music hits and
The Icon makes his way to the ring! He lays waste to everybody with a baseball
bat and stands tall in the centre of the ring before pointing his baseball bat
at Hogan who is still on the outside as if to say ‘You’re next!’
Lockdown
1)
British Invasion d. Generation Me
A great tag team match comes to an end when Max Buck goes
for a superkick on Magnus who ducks and the superkick takes out the referee.
With the official down Doug Williams immediately grabs a chair and takes out
Jeremy Buck with it. He and Magnus then beat Max Buck down in the ring and set
up a chair in the ring. Williams then hits the Chaos Theory through a chair and
the referee recovers to count the three.
2)
Hiroshi Tanahashi d. Christopher Daniels
Tanahashi and Daniels have a good back and forth match that
ends when Tanahashi gets a boot up when Daniels goes for the Best Moonsault
Ever. Tanahashi hits the Slingblade and then follows it up with a High Fly Flow
for the win.
3)
TNA World Tag Team Championships, Tornado Tag
Rules: Motor City Machine Guns © d. No Limit
The tornado tag rules lead to a crazy match which ends when
Sabin hits the Cradleshock on Takahashi for the win. Post-match Hogan announces
that, by virtue of tonight’s win the Machine Guns will challenge No Limit for
the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championships at Wrestling Dontaku in May.
4)
Steel Cage Match for the Knockouts Championship:
Awesome Kong © vs. Alissa Flash (w/ Daffney)
Daffney is ejected for trying to interfere despite Alissa
asking her repeatedly not to. Alissa puts up a great showing including hitting
an Air Raid Crash on Kong but Kong somehow manages to kick out and eventually
manages to hit a top rope Implant Buster for the win.
5)
Desmond Wolfe d. Hirooki Goto
The match comes to an end when Goto goes for Shouten Kai but
Wolfe rolls through and locks in a Kimura Lock before transferring to the
London Dungeon for the tapout victory.
6)
Steel Cage Match for the TNA World Heavyweight
Championship: AJ Styles © vs. “The Pope” D’Angelo Dinero
Pope gives AJ arguably his hardest test to date but comes up
short and AJ wins after two Stylesclash’s. After the match AJ shows respect to
a lifeless Pope. The commentators wonder if AJ is realising all the mistakes he
and Fortune have made.
7)
Lethal Lockdown Match: Team Hogan (Jeff Hardy,
Kurt Angle, Mr. Anderson, Samoa Joe and Rob Van Dam) vs. Team TNA (Jeff
Jarrett, Frankie Kazarian, Beer Money and Sting)
The Lethal Lockdown match begins with Jeff Jarrett and Mr.
Anderson. Due to winning the right to have the first entry, Team TNA hold the
advantage for most of the match. Sting is the last entrant for Team TNA. Jeff
Hardy follows him as the last entrant of Team Hogan. Once the weapons are
lowered the match goes to its usual crazy levels. Beer Money, Anderson and Joe
are fighting on the outside. Angle spears Jarrett through the cage door which
takes both men out and Kazarian and Jeff Hardy are fighting on top of the cage
until Hardy climbs a Ladder on top of the cage and splashes on top of Kazarian
through a table. This leaves Sting and RVD in the ring. RVD goes for the Five
Star Frog Splash but Sting grabs his baseball bat and uses it to hit RVD on the
way down. Sting then locks in the Scorpion Death Lock and earns the submission
win. Team TNA celebrate as Hogan looks bereft atop the ramp as the show ends.
Impact’s between
Lockdown and Sacrifice
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Sarita
and Taylor Wilde win a gauntlet match to earn the right to face Alissa Flash
and Daffney at Sacrifice.
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On the second Impact after Sacrifice Taylor is
discovered backstage having being attacked by a mystery assailant.
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A week later Sarita comes out and calls out
Alissa and Daffney accusing them of taking Taylor out. Alissa is quick to deny
the allegation but Daffney is not so quick. This leads to Alissa looking
confused and Sarita attacking Daffney. The two brawl until Alissa separates
them and drags Daffney to the back saying they need to talk.
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Next week Alissa comes out and calls Daffney out
saying they need to clear the air and talk about “What you’ve done, Daffney”.
Daffney comes out and gets into the ring, clearly upset with Alissa she says “I
can’t believe you don’t trust me” but before she can elaborate Sarita comes
out. She says Taylor definitely won’t be able to make Sacrifice but she’s
brought in a replacement to help her take the Championships back from Alissa
and Daffney. She introduces Hamada as her tag team partner.
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Hulk Hogan comes out and announces Mr. Anderson
as the new #1 contender to the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. AJ Styles
comes out and is fuming, claiming that Anderson has done nothing to earn a
title shot. In fact, he is yet to win a match in the company. He says it is a
joke and another example of blatant Hogan favouritism as he tries to ruin the
company that AJ built “with my blood, with my sweat, with my tears!” AJ is so
angry he goes to attack Hogan which brings Anderson out, leading to a brawl
between the two.
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British Invasion come out and demand a Tag Team
Championship match but are interrupted by Desmond Wolfe and Kurt Angle who
point out they defeated British Invasion last time the two teams faced off.
Hogan sets the main event for tonight’s show as a #1 Contenders Match for the
Tag Team Titles.
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Impact
Main Event: Wolfe/Angle d. British Invasion: A close fought match ends when
Wolfe attempts to lariat Magnus who ducks, and the referee is taken out. With
both Angle and Williams down on the outside Wolfe and Magnus continue fighting
until they both go for a lariat when rebounding off the ropes and take each
other down. This allows a returning Eric Young to attack Magnus. When Wolfe
recovers he picks Magnus up, unaware of what occurred while he was down, and
sets him up for the Tower of London. A recovering referee counts to three as
Angle prevents Williams from getting in the ring to break it up.
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The following week Williams and Magnus come out
and demand a match with Eric Young. He comes out and accepts but before
anything else can occur Hulk Hogan comes out and says at Sacrifice it will be
Generation Me (who he had planned as the opponents for the losers of last
week’s #1 contenders match) vs. British Invasion vs. Eric Young and a partner
of his choice.
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Over the coming weeks Young alludes to his
partner for Sacrifice in cryptic ways but refuses to reveal who it is saying
British Invasion and, indeed, the audience will have to wait for the PPV to
find out who it is.
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Christopher Daniels comes out and calls out
Frankie Kazarian. He says he knows they both had other things on their mind
last month with Daniels having a dream match against Hiroshi Tanahashi and
Kazarian being focused on the Lethal Lockdown match but they still haven’t
settled their time limit draw from Destination X. Daniels wants one more match
at Sacrifice, a no time limit match for the X-Division Championship. Kazarian
smiles, agrees and hugs Daniels. Daniels is somewhat confused but accepts it
and says he’ll see Kazarian at Sacrifice.
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Jeff Jarrett comes out and brags about the “real
TNA” coming out on top at Lethal Lockdown, proving once and for all that they
are better than Hogan’s cronies. This upsets Jeff Hardy who comes out and
challenges Jarrett to a match at Sacrifice. Jarrett accepts and says “I can’t
wait to beat your ass”.
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A
gauntlet match takes place to determine the #1 contender to the Knockouts
Championship. It comes down to fellow Beautiful People members Angelina Love and Madison Rayne. Both
women deliberately get counted out
leading to confusion over where this leaves the #1 contendership. Hogan comes
out and says The Beautiful People are making a mockery of the sport and he’s
not going to reward them with a title match but Kong comes out and says she’ll
happily take on both at Sacrifice. Hogan acquiesces to her demands and makes
the match official.
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Beer Money approach Samoa Joe over the month
making overtures to him and telling him that they should be fighting for the
same side, TNA. Eventually Pope gets sick of this and comes out to confront
Beer Money during one of these attempts to draw Joe over to Fortune’s side. He
comes out to the ring and demands a match at Sacrifice: him and Joe vs. Beer
Money. Beer Money accept and Joe remains emotionless and silent throughout. He
eventually does leave with Pope though.
Sacrifice:
1)
#1 Contenders Match for the TNA World Tag Team
Championships: British Invasion d. Team Canada (Petey Williams and Eric Young)
and Generation Me
A fast paced match ends when Doug Williams hits the Chaos
Theory on Petey Williams followed by an elbow drop from Magnus to get the
pinfall victory.
2)
No Time Limit Match for the X-Division
Championship: Frankie Kazarian © vs. Christopher Daniels
Kazarian and Daniels go back and forth for in excess of 20
minutes before Kazarian reverses an attempted Angel’s Wings into Fade to Black
and retains his title. After the match Daniels hugs Kazarian and raises his
hand.
3)
Jeff Hardy d. Jeff Jarrett
Hardy picks up the win clean after a Twist of Fate.
4)
TNA Knockouts Championship: Awesome Kong © d.
Angelina Love and Madison Rayne
Kong retains following an Implant Buster to Madison Rayne.
5)
Beer Money d. The Pope and Samoa Joe
Beer Money pick up the win when Joe turns on Pope. Beer
Money hit DWI and pick up the win. After the match Joe shakes hands with Beer
Money then leaves.
6)
TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship: Alissa
Flash and Daffney © vs. Hamada and Sarita
Miscommunication and a general level of distrust costs
Alissa and Daffney and leads to Hamada pinning Daffney following a moonsault.
The new Champs celebrate and Alissa leaves the ring, refusing to even look at
Daffney as she does so. Daffney eventually retreats backstage as Hamada and
Sarita continue celebrating before they are attacked by two hooded individuals
who reveal themselves to be Tara and MsChif. The two beat Hamada and Sarita
down before revealing they were the people who took Taylor Wilde out. They say
they’re coming after the Knockouts Tag Team Championships.
7)
TNA World Tag Team Championships: Motor City
Machine Guns © vs. Desmond Wolfe and Kurt Angle
Angle and Wolfe look to have the match in hand when Jarrett
comes out and distracts them. Angle follows Jarrett around the ring and attacks
him but while his head is turned the Guns hit Made in Detroit on Wolfe and
retain their titles.
8)
TNA World Heavyweight Championship: AJ Styles ©
d. Mr. Anderson
AJ retains his Championship by hitting Anderson with a
Stylesclash for the clean victory.
Impact’s between
Sacrifice and Slammiversary
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Jeff Jarrett comes out and explains why he
interfered in the Tag Team Championship match at Sacrifice. He says it should
be quite obvious, the Motor City Machine Guns may not stand alongside himself
and Fortune but they epitomise what Jarrett believes in. They epitomise what
TNA stands for. They epitomise everything that was once great about this
company. Kurt Angle comes out and tells Jarrett to shut up. He gets in
Jarrett’s face and the two brawl around ringside.
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Hulk Hogan makes the first match for
Slammiversary between Jeff Jarrett and Kurt Angle.
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Pope is in the ring and calls out Samoa Joe. He
says he trusted Joe and then Joe turned on him. Joe comes out and says he likes
Pope and he’s been talking to Jarrett and AJ and he wants to bring Pope over to
the right side. Joe says “Jarrett and AJ aren’t sure about you, but I am. Join
me Pope, join the real TNA”. Pope refuses and spits in Joe’s face. This
infuriates Joe who beats the holy hell out of Pope before setting up a table
and hitting a Muscle Buster through it.
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Pope comes out the next week and announces that
while he’s not medically cleared to fight tonight he has spoken to Hulk Hogan
and he has authorised a match between Pope and Joe for Slammiversary. On top of
that it will be a No Holds Barred match.
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Frankie Kazarian comes out and says the match he
had against Christopher Daniels took everything out of him and he was so proud
of that match but that’s history and he wants to know who his next opponent is.
A #1 contenders match takes place
between Jay Lethal and Rob Van Dam. RVD wins and tells Kazarian after the
match that he’s going to “put him in his place”.
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Alissa Flash comes to the ring and calls Daffney
out. She apologises for not believing Daffney and says she hopes she can put
this behind them and get their Tag Team Titles back. Daffney doesn’t say a
word, lets Alissa finish and then simply walks away.
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Alissa informs Hulk Hogan that herself and
Daffney are having problems and she’s not sure if they will be able to take up
the option of their rematch clause. Hogan says not to worry, he’ll find another
team to take on Hamada and Sarita and once Daffney and Alissa work out their
problems they’ll be first in line for a title shot. Hogan has a proposition for
Alissa. He really loved her match with Kong at Lockdown. And since Kong has
pretty much faced every other challenger he would love to see a rematch. Alissa
is thrilled.
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Hogan comes out to the ring but is interrupted
by Tara and MsChif. They demand a tag team title match but before Hogan can
respond he is interrupted again. The Beautiful People come out and mock Tara
and MsChif. They say they are the most beautiful knockouts ever and they
deserve the Championship match. Hogan says he likes where this is going but
before he can make a decision he is interrupted by a returning ODB. She gets in
the ring and says she wants in on the fun and has a tag team partner to boot.
She brings out the debuting Sara Del Rey, who looks not all that pleased and
seems to get more and more annoyed by ODB as the segment goes on. Hogan says he
is sick of being interrupted and therefore he is making a four-way tag team
match for Slammiversary where Hamada and Sarita will defend their Championships
against Tara & MsChif, ODB & Sara Del Rey and The Beautiful People.
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Impact
Main Event: Beer Money d. Christopher Daniels and Mr. Anderson – Beer Money
pick up the win when Daniels turns on Anderson and joins Beer Money in beating
him down. A superkick into a spinebuster followed by a Best Moonsault Ever
allows Storm to pin Anderson. The post-match celebration does not last long as
Generation Me come out to make the save.
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The next week Mr. Anderson and Gen Me challenge
Beer Money and Daniels to a six-man tag match which is accepted willingly by
the three men. Anderson wants to know why Daniels turned on him. Daniels says
it’s nothing personal then stops himself and says actually it is. He says he
and Kazarian tore the house down at Sacrifice and he was so proud. He decided
to watch his old friend AJ in the main event, even though they hadn’t been
seeing eye to eye in wrestling recently they were still best friends outside
the business. He was watching the video package that was hyping the match up
and something AJ said struck a chord. Anderson hasn’t won a single match since
debuting in TNA and yet here he was getting a Championship match, whilst
Daniels pushed AJ to the limit at Final Resolution and yet has never even had a
chance at the World Championship since. It was a realisation, a realisation
that everything AJ had been saying was true. He knew what he had to do. He had
to stand up, and fight for the company he loves – TNA.
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British Invasion spend the entire month running
the Motor City Machine Guns down and talking about how they’re going to take
the belts away from them at Slammiversary.
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A Battle
Royal takes place to crown a new #1 contender for the TNA World Heavyweight
Championship. It is won by Desmond Wolfe. After the match AJ gets in the
ring, tells Desmond he wouldn’t be here if his deal had gone through with WWE,
tells him he is disgusting and slaps him. This infuriates Wolfe who goes after
AJ but AJ rolls out of the ring and walks up the ramp, holding the title aloft.
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Sting returns for the first time since Lockdown
and cuts a promo talking about how you just can’t trust Hulk Hogan. He’s seen
this before, Hulk comes into a company and everybody treats him like a messiah.
They give him and his friends everything they want because they believe Hogan
will bring them more and more success. Sting witnessed this first hand in a
company known back then as WCW. He saw Hogan destroy what he, Ric Flair and
countless others had spent years building. He will not allow him to do the same
thing to TNA. Jeff Hardy interrupts and says one of the main things he was
looking forward to when he signed with TNA was meeting and wrestling Sting. He
said he used to look up to Sting. “You were an Icon man, everything I dreamed I
could be. I thought you were awesome. What happened?” Sting cuts him off and
calls him scum, saying he sees himself in Jeff but not Sting as he is now. The
Sting he’s ashamed of from back in the day. The selfish Sting, that’s what he
sees in Jeff Hardy. Hardy retorts by saying whilst meeting Sting and finding
out the person he really was, was a let-down he still dreams of wrestling such
a legend so he’s out here to find out if they can make Jeff Hardy vs. Sting a
reality at Slammiversary. Sting accepts, and promises to teach Jeff a lesson.
Slammiversary
1)
Knockouts Tag Team Championships: Hamada and
Sarita © vs. MsChif and Tara vs. The Beautiful People vs. ODB and Sara Del Rey
A chaotic Knockouts match comes to an end when Sarita
destroys MsChif on the outside and spears Tara into the barricade. Acting like a
woman possessed she then climbs back in the ring and hits her version of the
Tiger Driver on ODB before Hamada finishes her off with a Moonsault to get the
pinfall victory. Sarita and Hamada celebrate but are attacked by Tara and
MsChif. The four ladies brawl around ringside and then backstage. The Beautiful
People choose just to get out of the danger zone as quickly as possible leaving
just ODB and Sara Del Rey in the ring. Del Rey helps ODB back to her feet but
then kicks her in the gut and hits her with the Royal Butterfly.
2)
X-Division Championship: Frankie Kazarian © vs.
Rob Van Dam
Kazarian seems to have the match in hand and is going for
Fade to Black when Mr. Anderson comes through the crowd and distracts him. This
allows RVD to roll him up and win the Championship! Kazarian is furious and
attacks Anderson but RVD comes to his aid and both men throw Kazarian out of
the ring. Kazarian calls for backup which brings out Beer Money and Christopher
Daniels. The four men get the upper hand until Generation Me come down and even
the odds which leads to…
3)
Beer Money and Christopher Daniels (w/ Frankie
Kazarian) d. Generation Me and Mr. Anderson (w/ Rob Van Dam)
Kazarian and RVD remain at ringside, occasionally becoming
involved in proceedings. Generation Me seem to have the match in hand with
Robert Roode almost out on his feet. At this point though Kazarian hops up on
the apron to distract the referee. He is taken out by a combination of Anderson
and RVD but the distraction allows James Storm to smash a beer bottle over the
head of Max Buck. He then clotheslines Jeremy Buck out of the ring while
Daniels takes out Anderson allowing Roode to pin Max when the referee’s
attention returns to the ring earning Beer Money and Daniels the victory.
Post-match the four members of Fortune celebrate that victory but commiserate
Kazarian on his loss.
4)
Jeff Hardy vs. Sting
Midway through the match Fortune come down to ringside with
the intention of helping Sting but Sting calls them off telling them, “I have
to beat him on my own”. Later on Jeff goes for a Swanton Bomb but Sting gets
his knees up. Hardy, hurt, staggers backwards into Sting who hits a snap
Scorpion Death Drop but at 2.9 Jeff gets his foot on the ropes. Sting picks
Jeff up and goes for it again but this time Jeff fights out and hits a
snapmare. He goes for a dropkick on the seated Sting but Sting catches his feet
and locks in the Scorpion Deathlock causing Jeff to tap out.
5)
TNA Tag Team Championships: Motor City Machine
Guns © vs. British Invasion
Sabin and Magnus are the legal men but all four men are in
the ring fighting. Shelley goes for Sliced Bread #2 on Williams but as he gets
to the top rope Williams throws him to the outside. Sabin is punching Magnus in
the corner but Williams comes to his partner’s aid and hits the Chaos Theory on
Sabin. Magnus hops to the top rope and hits an elbow drop to pick up the win,
and the Championships, for British Invasion.
6)
Knockouts Championship: Awesome Kong © vs.
Alissa Flash
Midway through the match Daffney comes down to ringside
which distracts Alissa and allows Kong to take advantage. Daffney stays at
ringside to cheer Alissa on. Once Flash regains her composure she continues to
fight against Kong despite Kong’s power. Flash refuses to stay down but
eventually Kong hits the Implant Buster but Flash kicks out! Kong picks her up
again but Flash fights out of it this time, she lands on her feet and reverses
an attempted Lariat into a Crucifix Bomb. She then shows off power of her own
as she hits a German Suplex on Kong. She picks her up and goes for the Air Raid
Crash but she can’t get Kong up for it. Kong hits her with a spinning backfist
and goes for the Awesome Bomb but Alissa turns it into a facebuster. She stands
up and hits a sick looking Curb Stomp which gives her the three count and the
Championship. Daffney immediately jumps into the ring and hugs Alissa. Her
smile fades slightly as Alissa raises the Championship and celebrates her
victory. She recovers though and applauds Alissa and walks to the back with
her, raising her arm as they reach the top of the ramp.
7)
No Holds Barred: Samoa Joe vs. The Pope
Both men throw everything at each other in a brutally
violent match. The finish comes when Pope sets up six chairs in their seated
position in the centre of the ring – three on either side, facing each other.
He then lifts Joe to the top rope and goes for a Superplex but Joe slips
through his legs and crotches Pope on the top rope. He pulls Pope down so Pope is
hanging down in a Tree of Woe. Joe retrieves a chair and wedges it under the
bottom rope in front of Pope’s face and then goes for his patented Facewash,
hitting Pope with the chair in the process. Joe props a lifeless Pope up onto
the top rope and hits a Muscle Buster through the chairs in the ring. He then
pins Pope for the victory.
8)
Jeff Jarrett vs. Kurt Angle
After a typically back and forth Jarrett/Angle match, Angle
has Jarrett in the Anklelock but Jarrett rolls through and causes Angle to his
head off an earlier exposed turnbuckle allowing Jarrett to hit The Stroke and
pick up the win.
9)
TNA World Heavyweight Championship Match: AJ
Styles © vs. Desmond Wolfe
Wolfe puts in his best performance to date in this match and
towards the end he has AJ in a headlock, AJ pushes him off and drops to the
canvas, Wolfe bounces of the ropes but holds on as AJ dropkicks mid-air. Wolfe
picks AJ up with a deadlift German for a near fall. He switches into the London
Dungeon but AJ makes it to the ropes. He pops AJ on the top rope and goes for
the Tower of London but AJ fights out and kicks him away before jumping from
the turnbuckle with a springboard forearm. Both men recover to their feet and
exchange blows until AJ hits a discus forearm sending Desmond towards the
ropes, he uses his momentum to rebound off the ropes and goes for his
Jawbreaker Lariat but AJ ducks and hits a Pele Kick. AJ picks Wolfe up and goes
for the Stylesclash. He hits it and the referee counts but Desmond kicks out at
2.9! AJ is shocked. He picks Wolfe up and goes for it again but Desmond kicks
his way free and hits a huge lariat. He covers AJ but AJ kicks out. Both men
slowly get to their feet, just beating the count of ten. AJ goes for another
Pele but this time Desmond gets out of the way, he attempts a lariat but AJ
ducks and Wolfe takes out the referee. Wolfe checks on the referee and this
momentary hesitation allows AJ to hit him with an Enzuigiri but Wolfe once
again uses his momentum and this time connects with the Jawbreaker Lariat.
There is no referee though so Wolfe tries to revive him, when he turns around
he finds a guitar smashed over his head by Jeff Jarrett. Jeff disposes of the
evidence and pulls AJ on top of Wolfe. The referee recovers and counts the
victory for AJ.
Impact’s between
Slammiversary and Victory Road
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AJ comes out to celebrate his victory with
Fortune. He talks about how he is the greatest wrestler on the planet when all
of a sudden he is interrupted by unfamiliar (to any non-New Japan fans) music.
Out waltzes Shinsuke Nakamura. He comes down to the ring, strokes AJ’s World
Heavyweight Championship and simply says “Victory Road”. Nakamura walks off and
AJ just stands there speechless. The following Impact’s have video packages
showcasing Nakamura and his history in Japan. Particularly focusing on his IWGP
Heavyweight Championship wins and his matches against stars recognisable by
North American fans such as The Great Muta, Brock Lesnar and Kurt Angle.
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Impact
Main Event, TNA World Tag Team Championships: British Invasion © d. Motor City
Machine Guns. A referee distraction allows Williams to low blow Sabin and
small package him to retain the Championships. Post-match British Invasion beat
down the Guns until Desmond Wolfe and Kurt Angle make the save. Angle gets on
the microphone and challenges British Invasion to a Championship match citing
his and Wolfe’s previous victories over the Englishmen. The Guns aren’t done
yet though and once they have recovered they themselves demand another match
with the British Invasion. Hogan comes out and makes next week’s main event a
#1 Contenders Match between Wolfe/Angle & The Guns.
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Impact
Main Event, #1 Contenders Match: Desmond Wolfe and Kurt Angle d. Motor City
Machine Guns. Wolfe and Angle pick up the win with a Lariat assisted German
Suplex combination.
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The Guns are clearly devastated after their
match but Hogan comes out and says they shouldn’t be too upset because he has
decided that after their great tag team title run they are the team he wants to
represent TNA in an International Challenge match at Victory Road. He says as
evidenced by last week’s announcement it is clear that TNA’s and New Japan’s relationship is
going from strength to strength. In that vein at Victory Road the Motor City
Machine Guns will face off against… Apollo 55.
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Impact
Main Event: Masato Tanaka and Shinsuke Nakamura d. AJ Styles and Frankie
Kazarian. Nakamura and Tanaka are in firm control when Fortune try to
interfere, the referee clears them from ringside but as he is doing so Daniels
slips in the other side of the ring, he goes to attack Nakamura but is met by
Nakamura’s infamous straight right punch which knocks him out and sends him to
the floor. The momentary distraction allows Kazarian to take advantage but
Nakamura catches him with a straight right too and then hits the Landslide for
the victory.
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Sting comes out and talks about not just beating
Jeff Hardy but humiliating him, making him tap out and showing how full of it
he is. Sting says he hopes Jeff takes his ball and goes home because he doesn’t
belong here. Jeff comes out and runs Sting down, he asks for a rematch but
Sting just laughs. He says he proved at Slammiversary that he is better than
Jeff. He doesn’t have to do it again. Jeff Jarrett slides into the ring behind
Jeff and when Hardy turns in frustration at Sting’s answer, Jarrett smashes him
in the head with a guitar. Sting bends down to Hardy’s lifeless body and
screams at him to leave TNA for good.
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A week later Hardy comes out and calls out Sting
and Jarrett. Hardy says he is sick of these old-timers, incapable of accepting
change and accepting that their time is gone. He challenges Jarrett and Sting
to a tag team match at Victory Road. Before they can answer RVD attacks Jarrett
from behind while Hardy attacks Sting. They take both men down and position
them in the ring. Both Hardy and RVD ascend to the top ready to go for their
respective top rope finishers but Jarrett and Sting recover to roll out of the
ring and retreat.
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ODB comes out and says she offered Sara Del Rey
a chance at the big time and how was she repaid? By being attacked by her own
tag team partner. She challenges Sara to a match at Victory Road. Sara accepts.
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Daffney approaches Alissa backstage and says she
knows things haven’t been great between them recently but she wants a chance at
the Knockouts Championship and she knows Alissa can make it happen. Alissa
looks a little uneasy but says she’ll have a word with Hulk Hogan, Daffney hugs
her.
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Hulk Hogan comes down to the ring for an
announcement regarding the Knockouts Championship. He invites out Alissa Flash.
Flash comes down to the ring but before Hogan can continue, Daffney comes down
to the ring as well. Hogan is momentarily distracted but nevertheless continues
and announces that “at Victory Road it will be Alissa Flash, defending her
Knockouts Championship against Daffney [Daffney smiles] AND Awesome Kong in a
three-way dance [Daffney’s face drops]”. She walks out of the ring without
another word as Alissa shouts after her to come back.
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Tara and MsChif attack Hamada and Sarita
backstage leaving both women unconscious.
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Two weeks later Hamada and Sarita come out to
the ring and demand a match against Tara and MsChif, right here, right now.
Tara and MsChif come out and say they are prepared to fight but not here, and
not now. They name the time, Victory Road, and say they’ll only do it if Hamada
and Sarita put their Championships on the line. Hamada and Sarita agree and we
are later informed that Hogan has ratified the match.
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Hogan announces a five-on-five tag for Victory
Road as he attempts to teach Fortune a lesson. It will be Beer Money, Daniels,
Kaz and Joe vs. Hogan’s handpicked team of Gen Me, Anderson, Pope and a mystery
partner who will not be revealed until the match itself happens.
Victory Road
1)
Beer Money, Christopher Daniels, Frankie
Kazarian and Samoa Joe d. Generation Me, Mr Anderson, Rhino and The Pope
Rhino is the last member of Pope’s team to come out and
starts by hitting a Gore on Daniels and Kazarian. He tries to give Joe the same
treatment but Joe knees him in the face. After that the action breaks down into
a regular tag team match. The end comes when Rhino goes for a Gore on Roode but
Roode moves and Storm superkicks him. They hit Rhino with the DWI and pick up
the pinfall victory while the other team members provide defence against
anybody trying to break the pin up.
2)
Sara Del Rey d. ODB
Del Rey wins a hard hitting match clean after hitting ODB
with the Royal Butterfly. After the match Del Rey brutally destroys ODB ending
with trapping ODB’s ankle in a chair, climbing to the top rope and jumping down
to stamp on the chair, breaking ODB’s ankle.
3)
Jeff Hardy and Rob Van Dam vs. Jeff Jarrett and
Sting
The match comes to an end when RVD is going for a Frog
Splash on Sting. Jarrett crotches him on the top rope so Hardy clotheslines
Jarrett over the top rope. He and RVD then double team Sting allowing RVD to
hit Rolling Thunder and tag Hardy in who hits a Swanton Bomb for the win.
4)
Knockouts Tag Team Championship: Hamada and
Sarita © vs. MsChif and Tara
A back and forth match comes to an end when Sarita hits a
Tiger Driver on Tara. MsChif tries to get in the ring and the referee comes
across to stop her. Sarita tags in Hamada who hits the Moonsault and goes for
the pin. The referee turns around but orders Hamada out of the ring having not
seen the tag. The confusion allows MsChif to drag Tara across the ring and tag
herself in, in plain sight of the referee. She then attacks starts brawling
with Sarita. Hamada tries to get back in but the referee forces her to go to
the outside. The distraction though has allowed MsChif to spray green mist in
Sarita’s face. She knocks Hamada off the apron and then hits a blinded Sarita
with the Desecrator and pins her for the Tag Team Championships.
5)
International Challenge Match: Apollo 55 vs.
Motor City Machine Guns
The two teams, having wrestled over the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight
Championship several times previously, show intimate knowledge of one another
all match. Eventually the match breaks down and the Guns get several near
falls, including one following Sabin hitting Cradleshock on Devitt at the same
time as Shelley hit an Air Raid Crash on Taguchi. Taguchi kicked out though.
The Guns go for an Electric Chair Drop combined with a Super Sliced Bread on
Taguchi but Devitt breaks it up. He takes Shelley out to the outside and hits a
Brainbuster on the floor. He gets back in the ring and combines with Taguchi to
hit the Black Hole Vacation on Sabin for the victory.
6)
Knockouts Championship: Alissa Flash © vs.
Awesome Kong vs. Daffney
Alissa and Daffney team up several times in the match to
combat the size and threat of Kong. Eventually though it turns into every woman
for herself. Later on Flash hits Kong with an Air Raid Crash but before she can
go for the pin Daffney disposes of her to the outside and goes to pin Kong
herself. Kong kicks out at 2. Daffney is clearly devastated and starts
screaming. Kong recovers to her feet and charges at Daffney who manages to roll
through and counter into a single leg Boston Crab. Kong manages to roll over
and push Daffney off with her feet. She recovers to a seated position but
Daffney bounces straight off the ropes and hits a Shining Wizard. She then
locks in a Fujiwara Armbar – one of her tag partner Flash’s signature
manoeuvres – on Kong. Just as it looks like Kong might tap Alissa rolls back
into the ring and locks in a Kondo Clutch on Daffney. The move forces Daffney
to relinquish the hold she had on Kong and eventually causes her to tap out as
Alissa retains her Championship.
7)
TNA World Tag Team Championship: British
Invasion © vs. Desmond Wolfe and Kurt Angle
Wolfe and Angle showcase their enhanced skills as a tag team
as they perform as a well-oiled machine. Nevertheless, Magnus and Williams are
firmly in control of Wolfe until he gets the hot tag. Angle comes in and cleans
house with lariats and punches before hitting multiple German Suplex’s. He
pulls down the straps and stalks Williams. He goes for the Angle Slam but
Williams slips out and runs Angle chest first into the turnbuckle before
hitting him with the Chaos Theory complete with a bridging pin. Wolfe manages
to break it up at the count of two though. Magnus gets back in and he and Wolfe
trade forearms until Wolfe rebounds off the ropes and hits a Jawbreaker Lariat.
In this time Angle and Williams continued fighting until Angle got the upper
hand. With Williams out on his feet Wolfe and Angle hit their double team
finisher, a Lariat assisted German Suplex. Somehow, though, Williams manages to
kick out. Angle and Wolfe are shocked. Angle tags Wolfe officially back into
the match and the referee finally gets Angle to go to the outside. He’s pulled
off the apron by Magnus who beats him down on the outside. Magnus grabs a steel
chair and tries to get in the ring to attack Wolfe with it. The referee stops
him but while his attention is on Magnus it allows Jeff Jarrett to come through
the crowd and slide into the ring to hit Wolfe with a guitar. This allows
Williams to cover Wolfe and when the referee turns around, he counts to three
allowing British Invasion to retain the Tag Team Championships.
8)
TNA World Heavyweight Championship: AJ Styles ©
vs. Shinsuke Nakamura
In a contest that is more than twenty minutes old both men
have thrown everything at each other. AJ picks Nakamura up for the Stylesclash
but Shinsuke kicks his way free, Styles tries to grab Nakamura but gets a
straight right punch for his troubles. With AJ on shaky legs Nakamura senses
his opportunity and goes for a Boma Ye but Styles ducks and then hits a Pele
Kick. Both men are down but eventually AJ recovers to his feet, picks Nakamura
up for the Stylesclash and hits it. Nakamura kicks out though! AJ is shocked
but now has Nakamura exactly where he wants him. Nakamura is still down and in
the very middle of the ring. AJ goes to the outside looking for the Springboard
450 Splash only for Nakamura to get his knees up. This allows Nakamura to
recover and get to his feet. As AJ gets back to his knees Nakamura runs at him
and hits a Boma Ye but AJ kicks out at 2.9. Nakamura looks exasperated but then
has a moment of clarity. He picks AJ up and sets him up for Landslide but AJ
manages to roll through and pick Shinsuke up for the Stylesclash. Knowing that
didn’t get the job done earlier, AJ goes to the top and hits the Spiral Tap to
retain the Championship.
Impact’s been
Victory Road and Hardcore Justice:
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Kurt Angle and Desmond Wolfe come out and demand
that Jeff Jarrett comes down to the ring and explains his actions from last
night. Jarrett is not forthcoming so instead Hogan comes out and makes
tonight’s main event Desmond Wolfe and Kurt Angle versus Jeff Jarrett and the
World Champion, AJ Styles.
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Impact
Main Event: AJ Styles and Jeff Jarrett d. Desmond Wolfe and Kurt Angle
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AJ and Jarrett win after a boatload of
interference. After the match Angle gets on the microphone calling Fortune
cowards and scumbags. AJ says you can call him a lot of things but a coward is
not one of them. Angle challenges him to a World Title match at Hardcore
Justice. AJ accepts. Hogan joins everybody at ringside and says since this is
Hardcore Justice every match will have a stipulation. He says AJ vs. Angle will
be a Submissions Count Anywhere match. AJ is fuming.
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Wolfe comes out the next week and says he is
sick of Jeff Jarrett. He cost him the World Title at Slammiversary and then,
when Wolfe was distracted from his original plan of making Jarrett pay by a Tag
Team Championship match, Jarrett cost him that too. He’s sick of it and he
wants to fight him right now. Jarrett comes out and explains why he did what he
did at Victory Road and Slammiversary. He says Wolfe is supremely talented but
the problem is as soon as something better comes along Wolfe will be gone. If
somebody else offers him more money, he will leave TNA high and dry. Jarrett
says it’s painful enough when anyone does that but when a Champion does that it
makes it worse than ever. Wolfe says that’s not who he is and he could have
proven his loyalty to Jeff if only Jarrett had come to him first. But now it’s
too late and Jarrett will pay for what he has done. Wolfe climbs out of the
ring and heads up the ramp towards Jarrett who runs for his life.
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Over the next couple of weeks Wolfe keeps trying
to get his hands on Jarrett who just keeps running away. Eventually Hogan makes
the match for Hardcore Justice: Wolfe vs. Jarrett in a Steel Cage match where
you can only win by pinfall or submission.
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Kazarian comes out and demands his rematch for
“his X-Division Championship”. RVD comes out and accepts. He talks about how
ECW paved the way for shows like Hardcore Justice and how he was a big part of
ECW’s success. He wants the match at the PPV to be a Ladder Match. Kazarian
agrees and says that is the single biggest mistake of RVD’s career.
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Alissa comes out and calls out Daffney, she says
she hasn’t been answering her calls and hopes Daffney isn’t holding what
happened at Victory Road against her. Alissa says it was all about the Championship
and she isn’t upset about Daffney trying to take advantage of her taking out
Kong. Daffney still doesn’t appear though and as Alissa goes to leave, Kong’s
music hits. Kong says she never got a one-on-one rematch and she wasn’t the one
who tapped in last night’s triple threat so she wants to face Flash one more time
for the Knockouts Title. Flash says she’s down for that but in the spirit of
making their last match a definitive answer to who the better woman is, let’s
make it two out of three falls.
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Alissa finds Daffney backstage and says she
knows things have been weird between them recently but she wants to fix that.
She asks Daffney to be her tag partner again so they can get the rematch they
never had, despite the Championships having changed hands since. Daffney agrees
as long as Alissa promises that she won’t be too focused on her Knockouts
Championship match with Kong to care about their Tag Title match. Alissa says
she has plenty of focus for both because they are both important to her.
Daffney agrees and they go off to find Hulk Hogan.
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Later on it is announced that Hogan has granted
Alissa and Daffney the rematch he had promised them when they got things back
on track, it is also announced as a Street Fight. This leads to Sarita and
Hamada bursting into Hogan’s office and saying they were screwed at Victory Road
and they haven’t received their rematch yet. They want to know why Alissa and
Daffney have jumped to the front of the queue. Hogan says they’ll get their
turn but this month is Alissa and Daffney’s shot. They’ve waited a long time
for their tag title rematch and are, as such, first in line. Sarita isn’t happy
but she and Hamada accept Hulk’s decision before promising they’ll get to Tara
and MsChif at some point, whether they have the tag belts or not.
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Daniels and Joe come out to talk about how
they’ve been bitter opponents for most of their careers but they’ve enjoyed
teaming together recently and now want to go after the Tag Titles. They are
interrupted though by Mr. Anderson and The Pope. Pope demands a match at
Hardcore Justice. Daniels says “Are you guys not sick of losing yet”. More
jibes like this occur until Anderson blows his top and takes out Joe and
Daniels with a chair. He tells Pope to set up a table. Pope is reticent but
finally does so. He helps Anderson place Daniels on a table and Anderson hits
the Kenton Bomb through the table. Anderson picks up the mic and asks a
lifeless Daniels “Who’s the joke now?”
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Beer Money come out and call out Generation Me.
They say they know they’ve made their lives a bit miserable recently but
they’ve actually really enjoyed their battles against Gen Me and think of them
as a great tag team. They challenge them to a first-time two-on-two encounter
at Hardcore Justice. Gen Me accept. It is later announced that this match will
take place under Tornado Tag Rules.
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Hulk Hogan announces that the British Invasion
will defend their Tag Team Titles at Hardcore Justice against the Motor City
Machine Guns. Magnus and Williams come out and complain that the Guns don’t
deserve a title shot. They lost the titles to them, lost the rematch, lost to
Angle and Wolfe and then lost to Apollo 55. Hogan reminds Williams and Magnus
of how the Guns rematch for the Tag Titles went down and how British Invasion
cheated their ways to victory. He says he’s sick of their complaining, the match
is set and as punishment for their whining he’s going to allow the Guns to pick
the stipulation. A promo from the Guns later on reveals that they’ve chosen to
have an Ultimate X match.
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Jeff Hardy comes out and talks about beating
Sting in the tag match at Victory Road. He says he is better than Sting and
he’s going to prove it. He talks about Sting “letting down TNA the same way he
let down WCW”. This brings Sting down to the ring and the two men brawl before
being separated by security. This occurs on several Impact’s until Hogan makes
the match official. Hardy/Sting II: No Holds Barred.
Hardcore Justice:
1)
X-Division Championship Ladder Match: Rob Van
Dam © d. Frankie Kazarian
Towards the end of the match both men are fighting atop the
ladder and RVD gets the upper hand, managing to kick Kazarian off and to the
canvas. Instead of going for the title though he stands on the top and hits a
Five Star Frog Splash onto Kazarian below. He then gets back to his feet,
readjusts the ladder and climbs to the top to pull down the Championship.
2)
Knockouts Championship, Two out of Three Falls
Match: Alissa Flash © d. Awesome Kong
Both women throw everything at each other but we’re over
twelve minutes in when Kong goes for an Awesome Bomb only for Flash to reverse
into a hurricanrana pin and pick up the first fall. Later on Flash finds
herself in trouble on the top rope as Kong goes for a Superplex. Alissa fights
out though and kicks Kong off the top rope. She stands up and goes for a diving
hurricanrana in homage to her tag team partner Daffney but Kong holds on and
hits an Awesome Bomb to pick up a pinfall and level the match at one fall
apiece. The final fall is dramatic with both women clearly exhausted after such
a hard fought match. Kong picks Flash up looking for the Implant Buster but
Alissa kicks her way free. Kong runs at her but she uses her legs to scissor
Kong to the floor. She locks on the Kondo Clutch and gets Kong to tap! Alissa
wins the match by 2 falls to 1 and retains her Championship but what shape will
she be in for her tag match later?
3)
Tables Match: Christopher Daniels and Samoa Joe d.
The Pope and Mr. Anderson
After several near misses, Daniels and Joe set up a table in
the ring. They beat Pope down and place him on the table. Anderson tries to
break this up but is mercilessly beaten down by Joe. Joe then holds Pope in
place and Daniels hits a Best Moonsault Ever on Pope through a table to pick up
the win for Fortune.
4)
Tornado Tag Rules: Beer Money vs. Generation Me
An absolutely crazy match comes to an end when Storm goes
for a Superkick that Max Buck catches allowing Jeremy Buck to hit a Superkick
of his own. Roode runs towards them, beer bottle in hand, but is caught by a
double Superkick. Gen Me then hit More Bang For Your Buck on Storm and pick up
the upset win.
5)
Street Fight for the Knockouts Tag Team
Championship: MsChif and Tara © vs. Alissa Flash and Daffney
Alissa and Daffney work well through the entire match but
Alissa is clearly drained from her match with Kong earlier in the night.
Eventually MsChif takes Alissa out of the equation by tackling her from the
ring apron through a table on the floor. This allows MsChif and Tara to isolate
Daffney in the ring. Eventually MsChif puts her out of her misery by hitting
the Desecrator for the victory. After the match Tara pulls Alissa into the ring
and starts beating her down but Hamada and Sarita run out to make the save.
They brawl with Tara and MsChif through the crowd and out of sight. Daffney
slowly gets back to her feet and helps Alissa to her feet. She picks up
Alissa’s Knockouts Championship and hands it to her before raising her partners
hand. Both women are crying as they embrace in the centre of the ring. When
Alissa pulls away Daffney hits her with her single leg version of the
Codebreaker known as Daff Knee. She rolls out of the ring, gets a steel chair
and proceeds to beat the living daylights out of Alissa with it. When she’s
done she throws the chair down, picks up the Knockouts Championship, looks at
it and then throws it down on top of Alissa before spitting on her and leaving.
6)
TNA World Tag Team Championship, Ultimate X:
British Invasion © d. Motor City Machine Guns
Despite Ultimate X massively favouring the Guns, the British
Invasion more than hold their own and in the closing stages have actually
managed to take Sabin completely out of the match leaving them with a 2-on-1
advantage. Williams and Shelley find themselves both at the centre of the
structure, exchanging punches and occasionally trying to grab the Championships.
Eventually Williams notices that Magnus is just behind them so hits a Cutter on
Shelley taking them both down from the structure and allowing Magnus to
retrieve the Tag Titles.
7)
Steel Cage Match: Desmond Wolfe vs. Jeff Jarrett
A brutal, physical match comes to an end when Jarrett sets
Wolfe up for The Stroke but Wolfe pulls him into a short-arm Lariat (nowadays
known as The Rainmaker). He then picks Jarrett up and sets him up for a Tower
of London before locking in the London Dungeon and making Jarrett tap out.
After the match as Wolfe is celebrating Jarrett gets back to his feet, stands
behind Wolfe and pulls him around aggressively so that Wolfe is facing him.
Desmond is ready to continue the fight but Jarrett offers him his hand saying
(without a mic but audibly) “That was fantastic, congratulations”. Wolfe looks
somewhat perplexed but tentatively shakes Jarrett’s hand. Jarrett then applauds
Wolfe and leaves the ring leaving Wolfe even more confused.
8)
No Holds Barred Match: Jeff Hardy vs. Sting
Jeff wins after a Twist of Fate on top of a pile of steel
chairs in a match that saw both men brutalise each other with weapons from
start to finish.
9)
Submissions Count Anywhere Match for the TNA
World Heavyweight Championship: AJ Styles © vs. Kurt Angle
The match goes all over the arena but ends up back in the
ring with Angle locking the Anklelock in on AJ but AJ reverses it into a Figure
Four Leglock. Angle refuses to tap so AJ transitions into his version of the
Muta Lock. Angle still won’t tap and fights his way out, he goes for an Angle
Slam but AJ slips out and drags Angle down into a Fujiwara Armbar finally
getting Angle to tap out.
Impact’s between
Hardcore Justice and No Surrender
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Sarita and Hamada come down to the ring after a
frustrating month of being unable to get their hands on MsChif and Tara. They
talk about how Tara and MsChif continue to break the rules and say that their
rematch will have no rules to break because it will be No Holds Barred and not
only will they take back their Knockouts Tag Team Titles but they will end Tara
and MsChif’s terrorising of the Knockouts Division for good, and they’ll do it
for Taylor.
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Alissa Flash comes down to the ring and calls
out Daffney. Alissa is practically in tears and begs Daffney to explain what
she did last night. Daffney laughs and says she knew Alissa would be like this.
Alissa thinks Daffney turned her back on her. That’s not true, Alissa turned
her back on Daffney. She says Alissa promised she’d be focused on the Tag Title
match but no, she went to Hogan and got the Knockouts Championship match put on
the card first so that she’d be fresh for that and then if she wasn’t fresh for
their Tag Title rematch who cared, right? Alissa says she has nothing to do
with how the cards get put together. Daffney doesn’t believe her and says
Alissa was completely useless in their tag match, she says she let Daffney down
and not for the first time either. Remember when Alissa didn’t believe Daffney
and blamed her for the attack on Taylor Wilde because Daffney does. She says
Alissa disgusts her and with that she slaps Alissa. She slaps Alissa again
begging Alissa to fight back but Flash refuses and just leaves the ring.
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Backstage Hulk Hogan approaches Alissa to see if
she is alright, she claims she is until Hogan says he has made Alissa vs. Daffney
for No Surrender for the Knockouts Championship. Alissa is hugely distressed
saying she doesn’t want to fight her friend. Hogan says he thinks that
friendship was gone a long time ago and leaves Alissa who starts to sob.
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Over the next few weeks Daffney keeps attacking
Alissa and cutting promos saying how she will take what is most precious from
Flash – her Knockouts Championship. Alissa never fights back. On the final
Impact before No Surrender Daffney comes out after Alissa Flash has defeated
Madison Rayne, she gets on the mic and runs down Alissa once again, this time
though she goes a step too far and talks about Flash’s family leading to Alissa
finally snapping and beating the holy hell out of Daffney. She then challenges
Daffney to a first ever Last Woman Standing match. Later it is announced that
Hogan has approved the stipulation.
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Hulk Hogan announces a six-team gauntlet match
to determine the new #1 contenders to the Tag Team Titles. Impact Main Event: Pope and Mr. Anderson d. Team Canada (Eric Young
& Petey Williams), Generation Me d. The Pope and Mr. Anderson, Generation
Me d. Christopher Daniels and Samoa Joe, Motor City Machine Guns d. Generation
Me, Beer Money d. Motor City Machine Guns.
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Beer Money call out British Invasion and say
they respect their talents but think they’re scumbags. Williams retorts saying
they could say the same for Beer Money. Roode interjects saying everything they
do, while it might not seem like it is the greatest thing in the world to do,
is for a bigger purpose. It’s to save TNA whilst Williams and Magnus are only
interested in themselves. British Invasion pretty much accept this and attack
Beer Money, saying they’ll see them at No Surrender.
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Generation Me call out the Motor City Machine
Guns. They say they enjoyed their mini match last week in the gauntlet but
point out they had already faced two teams by the time they faced the Guns.
They want to challenge themselves against one of the best tag teams in TNA
history when they’re both at 100%. They beat one of the best last month in Beer
Money, now it’s the Guns turn. Sabin and Shelley accept their challenge. Mike
Tenay later announces that Hogan has made the match official, with a #1
contenders stipulation added.
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After failing in last week’s gauntlet match with
his partner Samoa Joe, Daniels decides he wants another shot at the X-Division
Championship. He throws out a challenge to RVD. RVD accepts and says teaching
Fortune members a lesson is his favourite pastime. This leads to a brawl
between the two men before security separate them.
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AJ Styles comes out to the ring but before he
can speak, Desmond Wolfe walks down to the ring. He says he beat Jeff Jarrett
at Hardcore Justice and now he wants a match with AJ at No Surrender. He says
AJ screwed him at Slammiversary and he wants another shot. AJ says all he’s
heard since last night from Jeff is about how “we were wrong about Desmond, he
might be one of us”. He says he doesn’t quite buy it but he’s prepared to give
Wolfe a shot. Wolfe says AJ better not be trying to play mind games because he
doesn’t care so it’s a waste of time. Whatever AJ says, at No Surrender Wolfe
is going to give him the fight of his life.
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Hulk Hogan announces that Kurt Angle, despite
coming up short against AJ will get a chance to redeem himself at No Surrender
when he goes one-on-one with the man who beat Sting at Hardcore Justice, Jeff
Hardy. The winner will face either AJ Styles at Bound For Glory or Desmond
Wolfe and AJ Styles (as he would get his rematch) in a three-way at Bound For
Glory.
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Sara Del Rey accosts Hulk Hogan is his office.
She says she doesn’t appreciate being left off the Hardcore Justice card after
she obliterated ODB at Victory Road in one of the most dominant displays in
Knockouts history. Hogan says part of the reason Del Rey wasn’t on the Hardcore
Justice card was the fact that she brutalised ODB so badly post-match. He says
Del Rey must contain her rage to sanctioned contests and not allow it to spill
over into post-match attacks. He makes her agree to that and then says since
she thinks she is so dominant her next task will be to face the most dominant
female in Knockouts history – Awesome Kong. And it will be a #1 contenders
match – plenty of incentive to prove herself.
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Mr. Anderson is sitting backstage when The Pope
comes into the locker room. Anderson says he doesn’t think he can fight Fortune
any more. He says all he has done since he came here has been lose to Fortune
and he can’t take it any longer. Pope says he’s talking silly, this is a war
and until they are destroyed they will continue to fight. Pope stands up, holds
out his fist and says “For TNA”. Anderson bumps his fist on Pope’s and says
“For TNA”. They find Hogan and ask him for another shot against Daniels and
Joe. Hogan says Daniels is already facing RVD but he can give them Joe and any
member of Fortune – aside from Sting, who will not be medically cleared until
Bound For Glory after his brutal match with Jeff Hardy at Hardcore Justice –
that Pope and Anderson want to face. Pope suggests Joe and Jarrett since he blames
Jarrett for everything that has happened over the past nine months. Hogan says
he’ll make it happen.
No Surrender
1)
#1 Contenders Match: Sara Del Rey d. Awesome
Kong
In what turns into a powerhouse battle Del Rey showcases her
strength several times by hitting huge moves on Kong. Eventually though Kong
has the upper hand and goes for the Awesome Bomb but Del Rey fights out and
hits a modified version of the Royal Butterfly (just a standard Butterfly
Suplex without the bit where she holds them in position on her thighs) for the
pin and the win.
2)
Jeff Jarrett and Samoa Joe d. The Pope and Mr.
Anderson
Fortune pick up the win when Joe hits the Muscle Buster on
Anderson. Post-match Anderson is almost in tears and has to be basically
dragged up the ramp by Pope.
3)
Knockouts Tag Team Championship, No
Disqualification: MsChif and Tara © vs. Hamada and Sarita
Both teams take full advantage of the lack of rules beating
the holy hell out of each other. Eventually it comes down to MsChif and Sarita.
Hamada has hit a Moonsault from the top rope to the outside on Tara through a
table and both of them are out of commission. Sarita and MsChif fight back and
forth but Sarita gets the upper hand and sets up a steel chair the way you
would if you were going to sit on it. She grabs MsChif and looks to hit the
Tiger Driver on the chair but MsChif fights out and sprays green mist in Sarita’s
eyes before hitting the Desecrator on the chair leading to the pinfall victory.
4)
#1 Contenders for the Tag Titles Match: Generation
Me vs. Motor City Machine Guns
Both teams get in plenty of offence in a back and forth
match with lots of tag team work and slightly lax tag team rules. Eventually
though Gen Me take Sabin out of the equation with three successive superkicks
followed by a double superkick. With Shelley isolated they beat him down before
hitting More Bang For Your Buck to become the #1 Contenders for the Tag Team Championships.
5)
X-Division Championship: Rob Van Dam © vs.
Christopher Daniels
The end of a thrilling X-Division match comes when RVD hits
a high thrust kick on Daniels before leaping to the top rope. He goes for the
Five Star Frog Splash but Daniels, playing possum, gets the knees up. When a
doubled over RVD recovers to a fully vertical position and turns around Daniels
kicks him in the gut and hits Angels Wings. He follows it up with the Best
Moonsault Ever to win the X-Division Championship for the first time in almost
four years.
6)
TNA World Tag Team Championships: British
Invasion © vs. Beer Money
There is cheating galore from both teams in this match and
the finish comes in a similar vein. After the referee is knocked down Storm
tries to spit beer in the eyes of Williams but he ducks and it hits Roode.
Roode then swings the beer bottle he had in his hand but accidentally takes out
Storm with it. Williams then hits the Chaos Theory on Roode into the smashed
glass. The referee recovers and counts the three allowing British Invasion to
retain the Tag Team Championship. Post-match Gen Me run out and lay British Invasion
out with Superkicks.
7)
Knockouts Championship, Last Woman Standing:
Alissa Flash © vs. Daffney
In a match that is somehow even more brutal than the
Knockouts Tag Championship match Flash and Daffney put each other through hell
in this encounter. Chairs, Kendo Sticks, Tables, Ladders are just a few of the
weapons utilised by the women but the finish finally comes when Alissa catches
Daffney when she goes for Daff Knee. Alissa turns it into a sit out Powerbomb
and the referee starts his count but Alissa isn’t done. She goes to the outside
and retrieves a Barbed Wire board from under the ring. Bringing it into the
ring she picks up Daffney, who spits in Alissa’s face. Alissa kicks Daffney in
the gut and hits the Kudo Driver onto the Barbed Wire Board. The referee counts
to ten and after a bloody war Alissa retains her Championship.
8)
#1 Contenders Match: Jeff Hardy vs. Kurt Angle
This contest comes to an end when Jeff goes for a Twist of
Fate but it is reversed by Angle into an Angle Slam. Unfortunately for Angle,
Jeff’s momentum and sub-conscious ring awareness allows him to roll out of the
ring to the floor. Angle gets and rolls Jeff back into the ring. He goes
straight for the Anklelock but Jeff is fighting hard, he makes it towards the
turnbuckle and rolls through causing Angle to go head first into the
turnbuckle. Jeff takes advantage and hits the Twist of Fate. He is clearly
still knocked a little loopy from the earlier Angle Slam as he struggles to the
top. He hits the Swanton Bomb though and the referee counts to three but Jeff
is out cold. And both men’s shoulders were down. The impact when Hardy hit the
Swanton Bomb and the fact that he was already still damaged from the earlier
Angle Slam meant he lay motionless as the referee counted both their shoulders
down for the three. The match is ruled a draw. When both men eventually recover
they want five more minutes but Hogan comes out and says the result is final
and he will spend tonight deciding what to do with regards to the #1
contendership and announce that decision tomorrow night on Impact.
9)
TNA World Heavyweight Championship: AJ Styles ©
vs. Desmond Wolfe
Fortune accompany AJ down to the ring but as he gets into
the ring Jarrett leads Fortune away from ringside and nods at Wolfe as he
leaves. The match starts with chain wrestling and continues with lots of
storytelling based on their match from Slammiversary. As we head into the
finishing stretch AJ is in command. He throws Wolfe into the corner and hits
his forearm smash, a dazed Wolfe almost falls out of the corner and AJ kicks
him in the stomach before going for a Stylesclash but Wolfe counters with a
back body drop but he needs to use the ropes to hold himself up. AJ charges but
Desmond ducks and AJ spills to the outside. Wolfe is still so exhausted from
the beating he has taken that he collapses again and the referee starts
counting AJ out. AJ makes it back into the ring at the count of 9, Tenay
remarks how strange it is that Styles wouldn’t take the count out defeat since
he would retain his Championship. Back in the ring AJ is first back to his feet
but he and Wolfe trade strikes. Eventually Styles goes for a lariat but Desmond
catches his arm and locks in the London Dungeon. Styles crawls towards the ropes
but as he’s just a fingertip away Wolfe drags him back to the centre of the ring,
the momentary release of pressure allows AJ to tie Desmond up into a small
package but Wolfe kicks out at 2. Wolfe goes for a lariat but AJ ducks and hits
the Pele Kick. He picks Desmond up and hits the Stylesclash but Wolfe kicks out
at 2. AJ recuperates quickly and goes to the top rope. Exhaustion plays a part
though and when he gets to the top Wolfe manages to fall towards the ropes and
shake them, knocking AJ off the top and crotching him atop the turnbuckle.
Wolfe recovers and goes for the Tower of London but AJ pushes him off, drops
from the turnbuckle and when Wolfe turns around he eats a discus forearm. With Wolfe
down AJ climbs to the apron and hits his Springboard 450 Splash, 1, 2…2.9 and
Wolfe kicks out! AJ can’t believe it. He queries it with the referee and then
just sits flabbergasted. Eventually he goes over and picks Wolfe up, looking
for another Stylesclash but Desmond fights out. AJ hits another discus forearm
but Wolfe rebounds off the ropes and hits a desperation Jawbreaker Lariat. He
falls on top of AJ, 1, 2…2.9! Now it’s AJ’s turn to kick out. Both men are down
but when they eventually make it back to their feet Desmond slaps AJ in the
face. Both men exchange slaps until AJ lands a brutal right hand that shakes
Desmond’s foundations. AJ picks him up and hits the Stylesclash BUT WOLFE KICKS
OUT AT 1! He gets back to his feet and slaps a dumbfounded AJ once again but AJ
kicks him in the gut and hits another Stylesclash before climbing the ropes and
hitting the Spiral Tap for the three count to win the match. Post-match all of
Fortune come out and surround the fallen warriors. Eventually AJ recovers and
hugs them all. As Desmond starts to recover in the middle of the circle all the
Fortune members and Jarrett applaud him. He gets back to his feet, clearly
dazed and AJ steps in from the circle – offering Desmond a handshake. Wolfe
slaps AJ’s hand away but then hugs him and raises AJ’s hand. Tenay and Taz
wonder if Wolfe has betrayed TNA and joined Fortune or if this is just two
warriors showing respect after a hard fought battle as the pay-per-view goes
off the air.
Impact’s between No
Surrender and Bound For Glory
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Hulk Hogan comes out to address the controversy
surrounding the #1 contendership for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. He
says a result of the finish to the Jeff Hardy/Kurt Angle match last night he
has decided that on October 10th at Bound For Glory it will be AJ
Styles defending his TNA Heavyweight Championship of the World against the
Olympic Gold Medallist Kurt Angle AND the Charismatic Enigma Jeff Hardy!
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A four on four match is announced for Bound For
Glory with Sting, Samoa Joe, Jeff Jarrett and any partner of their choosing
taking on Mr. Anderson, RVD, Matt Morgan and The Pope.
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Later in the night Jeff Jarrett reveals the man
he’s chosen to join himself, Sting and Samoa Joe at Bound For Glory is Desmond
Wolfe. Wolfe comes out and shakes hands with Jarrett. This brings out Kurt
Angle who questions his friend and asks what on earth possessed him to join
“this prick”. He reminds Wolfe of everything Jarrett has cost him, how much he
has cost them. Wolfe says Angle needs to see the bigger picture. He says
everything Jarrett has been saying is true and he wants to fight for the best
TNA. He says he knows Angle isn’t one of Hogan’s people, just here to make
money out of other people’s hard work, with no care about the actual heart of
TNA or TNA itself. He wants Angle to become a part of their movement. Angle
refuses, says he’s disappointed in Wolfe and walks away.
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Backstage Pope gathers together the members of
his team for Bound For Glory and they are all very downtrodden, seemingly
expecting another defeat and being completely devoid of fight but Pope cuts a
very preacher-esque promo about how they have to be the force of change and
whilst they’ve lost seemingly every battle so far, they WILL win the war. This
fires the other three up and all four men seem in a positive frame of mind
heading into Bound For Glory. Even Anderson, who musters up a smile as Pope
leaves the room.
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Hogan cuts a promo backstage talking about the
worldwide expansion of TNA, he talks about their strong relationship with New
Japan Pro Wrestling and mentions that this is going to extend to other
companies too including CMLL who already have a strong working relationsip with New Japan.
In this vein Hogan announces a dream three-way match to determine the best
X-Division wrestler in the world when Christopher Daniels defends his
Championship against Japanese legend Jushin Thunder Liger and Mexican superstar
Mistico. Hogan says TNA is looking to continue its strong relationship with
these and other international entities and we can expect the announcements to
keep coming over the coming weeks and months.
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AJ Styles is in the ring and talking about Hulk
Hogan. He says Hogan is showing exactly what a scumbag he is. For the second
time in less than a year a #1 contenders match has ended inconclusively and
rather than doing the fair thing and having a rematch to decide the #1
contender he decides to stack the deck against AJ and make it a triple threat
match.
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Impact
Main Event, All Star X-Division Match: Team TNA (Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin
and Jay Lethal) vs. Team Rest of the World (Jushin Thunder Liger, Mistico and
Zack Sabre, Jr.)
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The Rest of the World team pick up the victory
when Mistico hits La Mistica on Chris Sabin to earn the submission victory.
This is pretty much just an exhibition match to familiarise the TNA audience
with the likes of Mistico and Zack Sabre, Jr.
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Hogan announces an 8-Man Ultimate X match for
Bound For Glory to determine the #1 contender to the X-Division Championship.
There will be four native TNA wrestlers (announced as Alex Shelley, Amazing
Red, Chris Sabin and Frankie Kazarian). Following his exploits in last week’s
Impact main event Pro Wrestling NOAH star Zack Sabre, Jr. is announced as the
fifth entrant into the match. The other three are all confirmed as “outside
talents” that will only be revealed when they make their entrances at Bound For
Glory.
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MsChif and Tara come down to the ring and talk
about putting to rest the ghosts of Hamada and Sarita and finally being able to
move on. Before they can continue Hamada and Sarita come down to the ring.
MsChif and Tara immediately bail and all of a sudden Hamada and Sarita are
attacked from behind by three people wearing hoodies. The hoods are pulled down
to reveal Saraya and Britani Knight along with their manager Rebecca Knox.
Saraya gets on the mic and talks about taking everything she has always
deserved and not waiting a day longer. She said her daughter becoming as good
as her convinced her that they needed to make an impact sooner rather than
later or Britani would be stuck wrestling in indies as long as she had. No
more. They continue to beat down Sarita and Hamada before leaving the ring.
Mike Tenay later announces that “Hamada and Sarita will take on the so-called
Knight Dynasty at Bound For Glory”.
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After Hamada and Sarita drove them out of the
ring earlier Tara and MsChif cut a promo backstage talking about their
dominance of the Knockouts Tag Team division and announce they will be throwing
out an open challenge at Bound For Glory, inviting any team to take them on and
lose to the two most dangerous women in the world.
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Sara Del Rey cuts a promo talking about how she
is a monster and at her first Bound For Glory she is going to take the
Knockouts Championship from around Alissa Flash’s waist. She says she is an
unstoppable force and at Bound For Glory Alissa will find that out. This brings
Alissa out who talks about everything she’s had to overcome in her time as
Knockouts Champion. From her tag partner turning on her and the absolute war she
endured at No Surrender to her battles with Awesome Kong. She says Del Rey is a
monster, she completely agrees but she’s starting to make a name as a monster
slayer and at Bound For Glory that legend will continue to grow.
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Generation Me talk about their fast growth since
their debut in TNA and how much being in the World Tag Team Title match at
Bound For Glory means to them. They talk about how big their victories against
Motor City and Beer Money were for them. They talk about how much they respect
those teams when they are interrupted by British Invasion. Doug Williams laughs
and calls the Buck’s “punks” saying they haven’t proven anything yet because
British Invasion have beaten all of those teams too and better yet, they did it
when there was gold on the line too. Magnus says Gen Me are good and maybe one
day they’ll even be Tag Team Champions but it will not be at Bound For Glory.
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Beer Money are in the ring and talk about the
fact that they don’t have a match at Bound For Glory. They wax lyrical about
how they are the greatest tag team in TNA history and are owed a spot on the
biggest show of the year. They challenge any team man enough to fight them to
come down to the ring now. All of a sudden out walk “Machine Gun” Karl Anderson
and Giant Bernard, the team known as Bad Intentions who are the IWGP Tag Team
Champions. They get in the ring and challenge Beer Money to a match at Bound
For Glory. Beer Money willingly accept, as long as Bad Intentions put their
Titles on the line. Bad Intentions agree but neither side wants to wait for
Bound For Glory and all four men brawl until Anderson hits the Gun Stun on
Storm. He and Bernard then hit the Giant Gun Stun on Roode before posing with
their Championships.
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A week later Bad Intentions have a warm up match
against two local jobbers. They beat them in less than thirty seconds. Not to
be outdone Beer Money face the same two jobbers themselves a week later and
beat them in rapid time too – though not quite as fast as Bad Intentions did.
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A contract signing ends the final Impact before
Bound For Glory with all three members of the World Heavyweight Championship
match in the ring. They all cut separate promos talking about their desire to
win the World Title. Angle talks about how it has been too long since he held
the title, Jeff says that it’s time for a change and AJ declares the title will
not leave Fortune because he can’t allow any one of Hogan’s cronies to get
their hands on the most important possession in TNA. All three men sign the
contract and then AJ cheap shot’s Jeff leading to a 3-man brawl that is still
going as Impact signs off. Tenay invites us to join them at Bound For Glory for
the biggest show in TNA’s history!
Bound For Glory
1)
Ultimate X, #1 Contenders Match: Alex Shelley
vs. Amazing Red vs. Chris Sabin vs. Dick Togo vs. Frankie Kazarian vs. Koji
Kanemoto vs. TAKA Michinoku vs. Zack Sabre, Jr.
After a fast-paced, high intensity match Koji Kanemoto
becomes the #1 contender by pulling down the contract hanging from the
structure.
2)
Hamada and Sarita vs. The Knight Dynasty (w/
Rebecca Knox)
The Knight Dynasty win a showcase match that basically is
put together to show the talent of Britani, Saraya and even the force Knox can
be at ringside. Hamada and Sarita still come out looking strong though but
Britani wins the match by hitting the Knight Light on Hamada.
3)
Open Challenge, Knockouts Tag Team Championship:
MsChif and Tara © vs. Awesome and Wilde (Awesome Kong and Taylor Wilde)
MsChif and Tara come out and cut a promo before inviting out
their “victims” for the evening. No-one appears and MsChif says “a wise choice”
before suggesting she and Tara can take the night off now. But all of a sudden
a familiar theme plays and Taylor Wilde comes down to the ringside area. She
hasn’t been seen since MsChif and Tara viciously took her out when they first
came onto the scene as a duo. Tara and MsChif laugh and question whether Taylor
had learned anything. When she goes 1-on-2 against the baddest women on the planet
she loses – badly. Taylor then says “Who says I’m going 1-on-2?” and with that
Awesome Kong’s music hits and both Tara and MsChif’s faces drop. The match
comes to an end when Tara and MsChif have control of Kong and are beating her
down but out of nowhere Taylor, who has been down on the outside for a while
after an extensive beating from Tara and MsChif, comes in the ring like a house
of fire. She takes out both Tara and MsChif by herself. In the meantime Kong
has recovered and she hits an Awesome Bomb on Tara whilst Taylor kicks MsChif’s
lifeless body out of the ring. Taylor tags herself in, climbs to the top rope and then onto Kong’s
shoulders before hitting a Frog Splash from Kong’s shoulders onto Tara and
pinning her to win the Knockouts Tag Team Titles for her and Kong.
4)
X-Divison Championship, Three Way Dance:
Christopher Daniels © vs. Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Mistico
A dream X-Division Match comes to an end when Mistico hits
La Mistica on Liger but it is broken up by Daniels hitting the Best Moonsault
Ever onto both men. He then picks Liger up and hits Angel’s Wings for the 1, 2,
3.
5)
Desmond Wolfe, Jeff Jarrett, Samoa Joe and Sting
vs. Matt Morgan, Mr. Anderson, Rob Van Dam and The Pope
As the match is reaching its conclusion Pope has been beaten
down for a long time in the ring but he manages to hit an enziguri on Jarrett.
Both men crawl towards their respective corners and Jarrett tags in Joe but as
Pope goes to tag in Anderson he drops off the apron. Pope is confused but then
RVD and Morgan drop down too. They leave the ringside area and walk up the ramp. As
RVD passes the camera he says, “We’re here”. Pope is completely alone and
eventually Joe beats him down, sets him up and hits the Muscle Buster for the win.
6)
IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: Bad
Intentions © vs. Beer Money
A hard hitting IWGP Tag Team Championship match comes to an
end when Bad Intentions go for Magic Killer on Storm but Roode makes the save.
He hits a spinebuster on Bernard but gets caught with a Gun Stun from Anderson.
Anderson turns round into a Last Call Superkick from Storm who in turn is taken
out by a Big Boot from Bernard. All four men are down. They all recover at the same time
and start exchanging right hands. Anderson clotheslines Roode over the top rope
to the floor whilst Storm has the upper hand on Bernard leaning on the ropes at
the other side of the ring. Storm whips Bernard towards the centre but Bernard
reverses it and then whips Storm back into the ropes from which they came,
Storm rebounds straight into the Bad Intentions’ Giant Gun Stun. That gives
them the pin and the win.
7)
Knockouts Championship: Alissa Flash © vs. Sara
Del Rey
In a match that goes over fifteen minutes in length Flash
and Del Rey throw everything at one another. We hit the finishing stretch with
Del Rey in charge. She keeps going for the Royal Butterfly but Flash keeps
fighting out. Meanwhile Flash has hit Del Rey with a lot of big moves including
the Curb Stomp but hasn’t attempted any of her finishing moves yet. Del Rey
puts the boots to Alissa and brags to the crowd about how she’s the most
dominant woman in the world. When she turns around she is met by a flurry of
forearms from Alissa who then hits the Air Raid Crash for a near fall. She
picks Sara up and goes for the Kudo Driver but Del Rey fights out. Both women
exchange a forearm that knocks both to the mat. Flash is back up first but her
attempted forearm is blocked and she takes a knee to the midsection before Del
Rey finally manages to hit the Royal Butterfly but NO! Alissa kicks out! Del
Rey can’t believe it, nobody kicks out of the Royal Butterfly! She starts to
lose her cool and threatens the referee. This allows Flash time to recover and
when Sara turns round she is caught by Alissa who transitions straight into the
Kondo Clutch. Del Rey looks like she may tap but finally manages to drag
herself to the ropes. Frustrated, Alissa picks Del Rey up and brings her
towards the turnbuckle. She is going for a top rope Air Raid Crash but Del Rey
fights out and hits a top rope Royal Butterfly. With that move the referee
counts three and Sara Del Rey is the new Knockouts Champion.
8)
TNA World Tag Team Championship: British
Invasion © vs. Generation Me
The Tag Team Championship match swings back and forth in a
tightly fought contest until British Invasion really take control with a
concentrated beat down of Max Buck. Eventually though Magnus gets sloppy and
shows off too much allowing Max sometime to recover and when Magnus picks him
up Max pushes him off and hits a superkick. He makes the diving tag to Jeremy
who comes in and takes both members of British Invasion down with repeated
kicks, forearms and leg lariats. Eventually though the numbers game catches up
with him and British Invasion take charge again. Williams sends Magnus to the
top rope to prepare for the Elbow Drop and goes for the Chaos Theory on Jeremy
but Jeremy manages to break the grip in the German Suplex portion of the move
and lands on his feet! With Williams prone Max – who has climbed to the top
rope - hits a frog splash on Williams. Magnus jumps down from the top rope but is
greeted with a double superkick and he falls out of the ring. With Gen Me alone
with Williams they wait for him to recover then catch him with a double
superkick before picking him up and hitting More Bang For Your Buck to pick up
the win and the Tag Team Championships.
9)
TNA World Heavyweight Championship, Three Way
Dance: AJ Styles © vs. Jeff Hardy vs. Kurt Angle
The match goes in typical triple threat fashion but with the
three men working in plenty of three person spots as well keeping the match
fresh. Eventually it comes down to just AJ and Angle with Jeff on the outside.
AJ goes for the Pele Kick but Angle catches it and tries to lock in the
Anklelock, before he can though AJ rolls through towards the turnbuckle. Angle
sees this coming after it happened just a month earlier against Hardy and blocks the turnbuckle impact
with his hands. He turns round and ducks an attempted forearm from AJ before
pulling AJ back by the tights and going for an Angle Slam. AJ rolls through
with an arm drag though and both men have the same idea, hitting each other with a clothesline. With all three men down the action stops but then all of a sudden
Hulk Hogan’s music hits. He comes down to the ring and looks at a downed AJ.
Tenay implores Hogan not to compromise his values just to get the title off AJ,
despite all the stuff he has pulled. Hogan picks up one of his crutches and
looks like he’s going to hit AJ but all of a sudden Fortune and Jarrett rush
the ring, positioning themselves between Hogan and AJ. Hogan begs off into the
corner but from behind Fortune come Morgan, RVD, Anderson and – to the surprise
of everyone – Rhino and The British Invasion. They attack Fortune with chairs as Hogan
stands and watches. They batter Fortune back up the stage and to the back using
the weapons as a means of evening up the fight against the superior numbers
that Fortune have. AJ and Angle are both starting to recover and Hogan goes to
hit AJ with the crutch but Jeff Hardy grabs it out of his hand from behind.
Hardy says “Not this way Hulk…” and with that Hardy smashes the crutch over AJ’s
back. He then does the same to Angle. Hardy then picks up Angle and hits the Twist
of Fate and the stunned referee who has totally lost control of the contest,
slowly counts the pinfall. Jeff demands that he award him the World Title. He
holds it above his head and screams “IMMORTAL – FOREVER” as Hogan hugs him and
the other members (Morgan, Anderson, Rhino, RVD and British Invasion) make their way
to the ring to celebrate with the new Champion.
So there we have it. Easily the longest article in the
history of the Rebooking Series standing at over 20,000 words in length (longer
than my University dissertation) but still, there is no reason why it has taken
me and Jonathon a whole year to write this. But circumstances and life as well
as a lack of motivation at times meant it has indeed taken us that long.
I hope you agree it was worth the wait though. This was the
hardest thing we’ve ever booked because booking a whole company requires a lot
more effort, time and planning than one angle does. And booking it for an
entire ten months as well was deeply draining.
Me and Jonathon are in the process of writing a couple of
more Rebooking Series articles at the minute and although I can promise there
won’t be as long between Part VIII and Part IX as there was between Part VII
and Part VIII I won’t be silly enough to give a timescale as I’ve been
promising this was close to release for about six months now – I feel like
George R. R. Martin in terms of promise breaking. There is also the small
matter of a slightly different, WCW related product we are currently working on
that hopefully will be in public view before long.
Until then though we hope you enjoyed the long overdue Part
VIII of the Rebooking Series. We welcome any comments whether they be positive
or negative and you can follow me (@watadam20) and Jonathon (@JLAspey) on
twitter for updates on future articles and projects as well as plenty of other
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Thanks and we’ll see you next time!