~TNA held their "most dangerous event of the year" last night. Why is it so "dangerous"? It's because all the matches take place in a steel cage, that's why. This is actually the first time I have ever seen a Lockdown PPV because...I've always decided to just skip it. Don't ask me why. Anyway, on with the show.
-The show starts with the Xscape Match for the TNA X-Division Title featuring X-Division champion, Jay Lethal, Sonjay Dutt, Johnny Devine, Curry Man, Shark Boy & Consequences Creed.
-Jay Lethal, with a little help from his friend Sonjay Dutt, wins the Xscape match and retains his belt.
-Roxxi Leveaux beats Angelina Love to win the Queen of the Cage match and to become the #1 contender for the TNA Women's Title.
-Samoa Joe says he's not ready to retire from pro wrestling and predicts a TNA World Title victory over Kurt Angle.
-BG James defeats Kip James.
-After the match, BG and Kip bury the hatchet.
-But then Kip changes his mind and lays out BG.
-SUPER Eric & Kaz win the "cuffs in the cage" match by handcuffing everyone else involved in the match to the cage.
-Booker T & Sharmell beat Robert Roode & Peyton Banks.
-Afterwards, Roode doesn't seem too happy with Peyton Banks.
-It was pure madness in the Lethal Lockdown match between Team Cage and Team Tomko
-Team Cage ends up winning the match over Team Tomko.
-Samoa Joe defeats Kurt Angle for the TNA World Title
That arena was PACKED~!
It's about damn time Samoa Joe got the belt. The match started off a little slow but it picked up towards the end and was just awesome. There were points in the match where Joe really brought the whoopin' to Kurt Angle.
Curry Man should have won that Xscape match, not that I'm disappointed with Lethal winning the match and keeping the belt but Curry Man is far more entertaining.
I thought Roxxi Leveaux and Angelina Love had a solid match. I'm interested to see how well Leveaux does against Awesome Kong, plus I think Leveaux finisher is cool.
Kaz was involved in two awesome spots in the "cuffed in the cage" match. He hit a Flux Capacitor on Jimmy Rave and seemingly got tossed from the sky by Lance Hoyt.
SUPER Eric soaring off the cage and into the ring was pretty awesome too.
However, I think Christian Cage showed better form when he went for the same move in the Lethal Lockdown match.
The MVP of the Lethal Lockdown match was Rhino. Well, he really wasn't the MVP but he did pick up the win for Team Cage. I kind of lost faith in him after that horrible Elevation X match last month, but he was on point at Lockdown. I hope he moves on to bigger and better things soon.
Overall, I thought this was TNA's best PPV of the year so far with Angle/Joe hands down as the match of the night. Lethal Lockdown was pretty good and both women's matches were solid. I wonder how long Joe's title reign is going to last.
4/7 WWE Raw Results (Pics from WWE.com) ~This episode of Raw starts with the brand's General Manager, William Regal, already in the ring. He announces that Raw's main event for the next WWE PPV event, Backlash, will be WWE Champion, Randy Orton, defending his belt against JBL. Aww hell no.
-Both opponents come down to the ring and JBL tries to play nice.
-Triple H doesn't like Regal's announcement, he decides to come down to the ring and throws his name in the hat for a title shot. GM Regal tells HHH that if he wants to be in the main event at Bashlash, he'll have to beat JBL & Randy Orton in a 2-on-1 handicap match. So, if HHH wins the match, the WWE title match at Backlash will be Randy Orton vs. JBL vs. HHH.
-Umaga demolishes Val Venis.
-Mickie James (!) & Ashley beat Melina & Jillian.
-Brian Kendrick & Paul London continue to rack up wins. This week, they beat Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch.
-Triple H defeats Randy Orton & JBL and as a result is added to the WWE title match at Backlash.
-However, John Cena doesn't seem to happy with this and he comes down to the ring. Cena says he holds victories over HHH, Orton and JBL, so he also wants a title shot. GM Regal says Cena can be added to the match if he can beat JBL & Triple H in a 2-on-1 handicap match.
-Santino Marella & Carlito pick up a surprising win over the WWE Tag Team Champions, Hardcore Holly & Cody Rhodes in a non-title match. Damn, didn't they also lose last week?
-Cryme Tyme have a Wrestlemania clearance sale
-WWE Women's Champion, Beth Phoenix beats Maria in a non-title match.
-Chris Jericho's Highlight Reel segment takes place next and the guests will be Shawn Michaels and Batista. When the two come face to face, Batista once again whines about Michaels ending Ric Flair's career at Wrestlemania. Jericho plays the instigator. Eventually, Michaels punks out Batista and tells him if he really is mad about it, he needs to do something about it. Batista says he already did.
-GM Regal announces backstage that Batista will have a match with Shawn Michaels at Backlash.
-Randy Orton tells GM Regal that he needs to be treated with more respect. Regal gets mad, for some reason, and tells Orton that he will have a match with him next week. Ok.
-John Cena beats JBL & HHH and is added to the WWE title match at Backlash. So it's gonna be Randy Orton vs. JBL vs. Triple H vs. John Cena.
It's a week later and I still think the "Age of Orton" is a cool name.
Come on! Another multi-man WWE title match?
Umaga just killed Val Venis with his Samoan spike finisher. I've also been a fan of the whole unstable, unstoppable, wild monster gimmick and I think Umaga plays that role extremely well. Hopefully, he gets a bigger role soon.
It was good seeing Mickie James back on Raw. She's one of the better female wrestlers on the WWE roster but she's been kind of lost in the shuffle due to Bunnymania and Maria posing for Playboy.
I'm still bothered by how WWE really expects fans to forget that Brian Kendrick walked out on Paul London a few weeks back. Just who did Paul London piss off, because week after week, he just gets completely handled in the ring, then his partner looks like superman and picks up the win. Also, notice how Raw's ring announcer, Lillian Garcia, accidently announces Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch as the winners of the match.
The Batista/Shawn Michaels match will be interesting because Michaels is a great wrestler, Batista is so-so at best, so I guess their match would end up somewhere in between. Since Michaels made Ric Flair look good in their match, I'm expecting him to make Batista look like pure gold in their match.
~The show starts with CM Punk winning a really solid, back and forth match against WWE Tag Team Champion, The Miz.
-Colin Delaney, fresh off that April Fools joke last week, asks ECW General Manager, Armando Estrada for another chance to earn an ECW contract. Estrada says he'll get a contract if he can beat his friend, Tommy Dreamer, but if Dreamer loses, then Dreamer is fired.
-ECW Champion, Kane, and Chavo Guerrero have a contract signing for the ECW title match at Backlash. Chavo says at Backlash, he's gonna have someone watching his back.
-Out comes this dude in a suit and he starts beating on Kane. Chavo and the dude in the suit lay out Kane.
-Elijah Burke beats Nunzio.
-Kofi Kingston remains undefeated with a win over Domino.
-LAYLA EL makes an appearance and tells Eve Torres that if she sees her again, there are gonna be problems. That's right!
-Tommy Dreamer looks out for number one and keeps his job with a win over Colin Delaney. Delaney remains without an ECW contract.
WWE ran a commercial inviting Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton to have a wrestling match on Raw. Ha ha.
Kofi Kingston really isn't that bad and I find him to be solid in the ring, but he's just winning just to win and there seems to be no purpose. Hopefully he gets something significant to do soon.
Layla El sighting
It's ok Tommy Dreamer. If I were you, I also would have beat my friend senseless instead of losing my job.
The guy in the suit that attacked Kane is a guy named Justin LaRouche, he's supposedly been in the WWE developmental system for a while. This is the first time I've ever heard of the guy.
Wednesday Wrestler Spotlight
~This week's Wednesday Wrestler Spotlight is on this guy: TNA's Petey Williams
I'm gonna be honest. There's only one reason why I look forward to matches with Petey Williams in them and it's because of this:
And that reason is the Canadian Destroyer, the greatest wrestling move EVER~!
I never get tired of seeing it.
You know what? I think I might just fill my entire spotlight on Petey Williams with clips of the Canadian Destroyer.
That's not too bad of an idea, what else can I say about Petey Williams?
I know he's Canadian and he has a finishing move called the Canadian Destroyer.
~Ring of Honor released their latest edition of the videowire fresh off their two shows in Orlando during Wrestlemania weekend.
Here's what happens:
-Erick Stevens and Roderick Strong going back and forth elbowing each other in the face during their brawl on 3/29. You'll have to watch to see who wins.
-Roderick Strong, Davey Richards and Rocky Romero (The No Remorse Corps.) cut off Erick Stevens' mohawk.
-Kevin Steen talks about his Last Man Standing match with the Necro Butcher at the next ROH event on 4/11 in Boston and his upcoming ROH World Title shot against ROH champ, Nigel McGuinness the following night in 4/12. He says he'll be the most unlikely ROH champion ever. I'd have to agree.
-Footage is shown of Austin Aries joining the Age of the Fall and the Briscoes saving Tammy Sytch from an AOTF beatdown.
I'm really interested to see where ROH goes with this Austin Aries/AOTF thing. Aries is already such an established character/wrestler in ROH that he really doesn't need the Age of the Fall to stand out (which is why I was hoping he would side with Tammy Sytch). So there are three possible things that could happen here:
1) Aries' inclusion will help bolster the ranks of the AOTF and they become the strongest group in ROH.
2) A power struggle will begin between Austin Aries and Jimmy Jacobs, the AOTF's leader, will begin.
3) Well...I actually don't have a third senerio. But the point is, I want to see where ROH is taking this.
I don't know why but I laughed watching the No Remorse Corps. cut off Erick Stevens' mohawk.
Kevin Steen will probably win the Last Man Standing match and then have a great showing but will ultimately lose to Nigel McGuinness the next night. I just don't see McGuinness losing the belt anytime soon, especially not to Kevin Steen.
4/3 TNA Impact Results
~TNA's next PPV, Lockdown, is next Sunday...anyway here's what went down:
-The show starts with TNA Management Director, Jim Cornette, yelling at his assistant or security guard or whatever his title is, Matt Morgan. Cornette reveals that he completely went off on Morgan because his "assistant" went behind his back and made the 4-on-4 lethal lockdown match between Team Cage (Christian Cage, Kevin Nash, Rhino & Sting) and Team Tomko (TNA Tag Team Champions, AJ Styles & Tomko and Team 3D), a 5-on-4 match by allowing James Storm, who last seen falling to his "doom" at Destination X, to join Team Tomko.
-Team Tomko comes down to the ring and gloat about having an extra team member. Then "Cowboy" James Storm comes down to the ring and joins his new team.
-Team Cage (rocking rather stupid "Team Cage" t-shirts) come out, say some stuff and call out Matt Morgan to explain himself. However, when Morgan comes out, he starts high-fiving the members of Team Tomko (which doesn't look to good for Team Cage). Christian Cage says he doesn't care about the odds and that he's got an "ace" up his sleeve.
-TNA World Champion, Kurt Angle is doing an interview but then Eric Young interrupts and says "Super" Eric is in the building. Angle says he's the only superhero around.
-Hernandez & Homicide (LAX) and Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin (The Motor City Machineguns) beat Jimmy Rave & Lance Hoyt (The Rock N' Rave Infection) and Rellik & Black Reign in an 8-man tag match.
-After the match, Rellik & Black Reign beat down everybody until...
- "Super" Eric comes out of nowhere and cleans house.
-James Storm reveals that he attacked Sting last week because he doesn't respect him.
-Tomko & AJ Styles beat Christian Cage & Rhino after Rhino attacks the referee during the match, which is a no-no.
-Matt Morgan says he'll be the guest referee in the Sting vs. James Storm match in the show's main event.
-Shark Boy beats Elix Skipper (where the hell has he been?) to qualifies for the Xscape Match for the TNA X-Division Title at Lockdown.
-Curry Man dances.
-Traci Brooks defeats Peyton Banks.
-After the match, most of the Women's roster comes out and everybody is fighting until...
-Sharmell comes out with The Strap and clears the ring.
-They show another Samoa Joe training video. Bad Ass.
-Kurt Angle (rocking a suit and dress shoes) comes down to the ring and announces that next week he wants Samoa Joe to sign a contract that states if he doesn't pin or submit Angle at Lockdown, that he'll quit wrestling forever.
-Scott Steiner comes out and interrupts Kurt Angle (it seems he's getting that a lot tonight) and says he's coming for a TNA World Title shot after Lockdown for the next TNA PPV in May, Sacrifice. Steiner says he'll be getting ready for Samoa Joe because he doesn't think Angle is gonna retain the TNA World Title at Lockdown.
-Matt Morgan is talking about money with Jim Cornette and says at Lockdown, they should have a "Queen of the Cage" match. The way the match would work is all the women on the TNA roster (except Awesome Kong, Gail Kim, ODB, Peyton Banks and Sharmell, who all have other matches to be in) on the outside of a cage and then they have to fight each other to get in. The first two to get in are in the match and then the winner is determined by pinfall or submission, so it's a reverse battle royal. Cornette says Morgan is crazy and Morgan leaves to get ready to ref the Sting/Storm match. After his assistant is gone, Cornette repeats the idea as if it was his thought. Wow.
-Sting and James Storm are in the middle of a match, right, so then in the middle of the match, Storm picks up Sting's baseball bat. Matt Morgan, the special guest referee, takes the bat away...and tosses it to Sting. He then looks away as Sting beats Storm with the bat and picks up the win. INJUSTICE!!!!
-Team Tomko is none too happy about what Morgan did and the group comes down to the ring and gets in the guest referee's face.
-He's not having it and lays them all out.
-Then Morgan reveals that he's wearing one of those goofy "Team Cage" t-shirts, meaning that he will be the fifth member of Team Cage at Lockdown.
I found that segment with Kurt Angle and Eric Young was funny. He's still denying that he and "Super" Eric are the same person.
Rhino taking out that referee was also funny stuff, he should do it every match.
An easy payday for Elix Skipper. Show up for the first time in a few months, move around a little bit, then lay down for three seconds. Sounds like a great career.
"Super" Eric RETURNS~!
Every week, a bigger and bigger fan of LAX and their matches. I really hope they get the tag belts soon. By the way, Hernandez is no longer refered to as the "Mexican Superman", he's now "Super-Mex". I know, "Mexican Superman" sounded WAAAYYY better.
Sharmell, I think it's time to but The Strap away.
No Canadian Destroyer again from Petey Williams. He actually wasn't even in a match this week, instead he was hanging off the hood of a speeding car. Why? Just because he can.
I'm hyped for that Samoa Joe/Kurt Angle match at Lockdown! That promo Samoa Joe gave near the end of his training video...awesome.
I'm also hyped about Matt Morgan's in-ring debut at Lockdown. I thought he looked very impressive tossing everyone around at the end of the show.
