~Last week on Impact, it's announced that Samoa Joe vs. Kurt Angle vs. Scott Steiner for the TNA World Title will headline TNA's next PPV, Sacrifice, the Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament is announced to crown new TNA Tag Team Champions, Matt Morgan jumps Kip James for no reason, Eric Young continues to deny that he is "SUPER" Eric Young and the Motor City Machineguns continue to lose matches in TNA. Here's what happened this week:
-The show starts with Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin (The Motor City Machineguns) and Shark Boy and Curry Man having a match.
-However, Scott Steiner, TNA X-Division Champion, Petey Williams and Racka Khan interrupt and clear the ring.
-Scott Steiner says that he'll beat Samoa Joe and Kurt Angle at Sacrifice and become the new TNA World Champion.
-Kurt Angle comes out but he gets beat down.
-Then TNA World Champion, Samoa Joe, runs down and clears the rings.
-AJ Styles says his usual tag team partner, Tomko, has been suspended by TNA and that he will need a new partner for the Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament.
-Angelina Love & Velvet Sky are challenged to a match by Gail Kim & ODB for later that night. Love & Sky accept.
-AJ Styles asks Booker T to be his tag team partner, but Booker has no idea who he is. [Ha]
-Homicide y Hernandez (the Latin American Xchange) beat Kaz & "regular" Eric Young in a Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament Qualifying match.
-Kip James attacks Matt Morgan as revenge for that beatdown Morgan gave him last week.
-AJ asks Kevin Nash to be his partner, but that doesn't happen.
-Gail Kim & ODB beat Angelina Love & Velvet Sky.
-Both Robert Roode and James Storm decline being AJ's tag partner.
-AJ Styles & "SUPER" Eric Young beat Jimmy Rave & Lance Hoyt in a Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament Qualifying match. What?
-The Terror Dome is announced as the newest TNA speciality match that will debut at Sacrifice.
-Cheerleader Melissa defeats Daisy Haze.
-Samoa Joe & Kurt Angle beat Scott Steiner & Petey Williams.
-Scott Steiner ends up laying everybody out.
-TNA Management Director, Jim Cornette, comes down to the ring and announces that 4 teams have qualified for the Deuces Wild Tag Tourney (Team 3D, Christian Cage/Rhino, LAX, AJ Styles/Super Eric Young) and that there are 4 spots left. He goes on to say that those spots will be filled by 4 teams made up of 8 randomly paired TNA wrestlers. He announces that those wrestlers will be Matt Morgan, Kip James, BG James, James Storm, Booker T, Robert Roode, Sting and TNA Women's Champion, Awesome Kong.
The looks on the faces of the other participants of the Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament when Awesome Kong was announced as an entraint was just priceless. I'm curious to see just where, and how silly, TNA will take this.
I don't know exactly where the new TERROR DOME~! is going to fit into the Sacrifice event, but it sounds cool.
Booker T not knowing who AJ Styles was had to be the highlight of the night.
Speaking of AJ Styles, he and SUPER Eric Young had a pretty solid match with Jimmy Rave and Lance Hoyt, I especially liked the finish.
-This episode of Impact also marked the return of the Canadian Destroyer~! I love that move.
~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.
~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.
