TNA GENESIS

Sunday, January 13th, 2013, from Orlando

What a way to kick off a new year! Sadly, that's just me being sarcastic. This ppv was mostly a joke. In fact, TNA's ppv's have been jokes for so long that this year they're doing something about it. This show, Genesis, April's Lockdown, June's Slammiversary, and October's Bound for Glory will be the only four live ppv's of the year from now on. The others will be pre-taped and air on Friday nights for a cheaper price. In fact, they taped February and April's ppv's on the Saturday before this show. Yes, two ppv's taped in one day (one was a joker's wild tag team show airing April 5th...the other an X-Division show with an RVD/Jerry Lynn main event for Feb.) This means that these taped ppv's won't have title matches or current storylines. The point is that most of the wrestlers had ppv money in their contracts so they couldn't get rid of 12 a year just yet. But this show, Genesis, will be the last live ppv in Orlando. The rest are on the road. God speed.

CHAVO GUERRERO JR. & HERNANDEZ vs. MATT MORGAN & JOEY RYAN: I'll admit up front that I was mostly paying attention to The Golden Globes telecast. This match was mediocre. Joey Ryan is hilarious but they stuck him in a tag team and he's better on his own. *1/2

SAMOA JOE vs. KEN ANDERSON: Mr. Anderson won. Samoa Joe is great but still buried. This was very dull. 1/2*

CHRISTIAN YORK vs. KENNY KING: Ugh. Who are these bores? 1/2*

RVD vs. CHRISTIAN YORK: Yeah...so the winner of the last match got to lose to RVD. Remember when the X Division was awesome? Memories...1/2*

DEVON vs. JOSEPH PARK: I miss Abyss. Strange...but a lot of the wrestling writers/critics online always talk down on violent matches that feature barbed wire and thumbtacks and what-not. I love those type of matches, though, and now that Park is not Abyss but just Joseph Park...it's all gone. And he's a fucking bore. His "storyline" has gone nowhere. And Devon and Aces & Eights are dull...until we get that epic, violent, clusterfuck that will be Bully Ray vs. Devon. -No Stars-

WOMEN'S GAUNTLET MATCH (VELVET SKY): Kind of hate the TNA's girl division. Velvet is back. She looks like a plastic Barbie doll except the white trash version. *

JAMES STORM vs. CHRISTOPHER DANIELS: Eh. Daniels is great. Hilarious. Storm is kind of overweight and boring...though in WWE he'd be great; they'd make him lose weight, he'd be the outlaw. *1/2

STING vs. DOC: God did this ppv blow. Sting is too old. -No Stars-

AUSTIN ARIES vs. BOBBY ROODE vs. JEFF HARDY: Well this was a good match. The only one. The crowd even chanted, "This is awesome!" during it. They did it elimination style; so the heels teamed up on Hardy then turned on each other and Roode was pinned then Hardy won. The finish was great; Hardy did a Twist of Fate on Aries over the top rope and onto the edge of the mat. Good ending to a dismal night. ***