San Antonio, TX
ZEMA ION vs. KENNY KING vs. CHRISTIAN YORK: I missed this somewhere. When did King beat Ion for the title? Where's Jesse Sorenson? These are all pertinent questions. I actually really liked this match. It felt like going to a local, small time wrestling show and seeing a bunch of suicidal teens doing a lot of insane maneuvers and messing up most of them. The moves that weren't messed up and/or sloppy, though, were glorious. This was the best X-Division match I've seen in awhile actually. **1/2 (out of ****)
JOSEPH PARK vs. JOEY RYAN: They really gotta bring back Abyss. I missed most of the next three matches so there will be no review of them.
VELVET SKY vs. GAIL KIM: Seriously...do you care what happened in this one?
ROBBIE E vs. ROBBIE T: Or this? I mean...Robbie E versus his bodyguard? On a ppv! And there's only four of these a year you know. And "Jersey Shore" isn't on TV anymore but Robbie E is still around. TNA really & truly is a comedy of errors. Not that you didn't know that. Why am I even bringing that up? Well the bodyguard won. Nobody cared.
AUSTIN ARIES & BOBBY ROODE vs. CHAVO GUERRERO JR. & HERNANDEZ vs. CHRISTOPHER DANIELS & KAZARIAN: Not as good as it could've should've been but still probably the most entertaining match on the show. Hernandez got a lot of props from the audience, including his head-first dive over the ropes from the ramp into the ring. Guerrero is doing all these crazy, high-flying moves that he never did in WCW or WWE. I guess he realizes the end is near. **1/2
KURT ANGLE vs. WES BRISCO: This was the first of three cage matches. Normally this show is all cage matches. I have no idea why they changed it (probably because it was stupid). But then why not put the tag team match in a cage? Daniels, after all, is only the second man in history to dive off a hell in a cell size cage. This match featured a nobody from Aces & 8's beating Kurt Angle. Yeah. 1/2*
STING & SAMOA JOE & JAMES STORM & ERIC YOUNG & MAGNUS vs. DEVON & DOC & GARETT BISCHOFF & KNOX & KENNETH ANDERSON: This match was called "Lethal Lockdown." Every single "Lethal Lockdown" match ever culminates with a roof of weapons lowering down. I guess the Alamo Dome was too spacious for this far-out concept of a roof being lowered so what they did was just have the last man enter, Sting, waltz out with two trashcans filled with weapons. So yes, this was a letdown. They did have one unique pyramid suplex maneuver that featured six men toppling over in a corner and Young did a top of the cage elbow drop...but, man, I was so pumped for that roof of weapons being lowered. *1/2
JEFF HARDY vs. BULLY RAY: Remember the N.W.O.? Well the reason it worked was mostly because it actually featured prominent stars of WCW like Hogan and Nash and Hall and eventually pretty much everyone at one point or another. TNA's big evil group is Aces & 8's, a motorcycle group that doesn't really have an agenda. At first it was a bunch of masked men...then Devon was unmasked as the leader. Nobody cared. Then more were unmasked and less cared; D'Lo Brown, Garrett Bischoff, unknowns called Doc, Wes Brisco, and others I forget. I guess even TNA realized that this group blows. It's a bunch of losers. So they had Bully Ray turn heel in this match and win the title. Now Aces & 8's is led by The Dudley Boyz. The match and turn were eh...but Ray on the mic post-match were great. He called Hulk Hogan's daughter and his TV wife a "bitch." And the fans threw bottles and trash into the ring. Good, amusing ending to, seriously, an awful show. **
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