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- Tonight is the TNA all-cage-match Lockdown PPV from near St. Louis, MO. Complete line-up for the show courtesy Dr. Keith:
THIS SUNDAY~! TNA Lockdown - Sunday April 15, 2007 - Family Arena, St. Charles, MO
1. Lethal Lockdown Match: Christian Cage, AJ Styles, Scott Steiner & Abyss & Tomko vs. Kurt Angle, Samoa Joe, Rhino & Sting & Jeff Jarrett
2. NWA World Tag Team Titles - Electrified Cage Match: Latin American Xchange (Homicide y Hernandez) vs. Team 3D (Brother Ray & Devon)
3. Special Guest Referee Mr. Bob Backlund: Austin Star vs. Senshi
4. Jerry Lynn vs. “Fallen Angel” Christopher Daniels
5. Catfight in the Cage: Gail Kim vs. Jacqueline Moore
6. X Division Championship - Xscape match: Chris Sabin vs. Sonjay Dutt vs. Jay Lethal vs. Alex Shelley vs. Shark Boy
7. Petey Williams vs. Robert Roode
8. Blindfold Match: Chris Harris vs. James Storm
9. Christy Hemme other mystery Team vs. VKM (Kip & BG James)
- Bashams are in the building, but their no-compete with WWE has not expired yet and thus they will not be the mystery team for Hemme. June PPV is in Nashville, which you'd think will be the site of the Jeff Jarrett title shot against Christian, so he probably isn't winning tonight. Angle may be the favorite. At press time, the babyfaces have the advantage in the match, which makes utterly no sense, and I expect that to be changed by the time the match rolls around. Tag Title change seems to be a definite as there isn't much time left for Team 3-D to add the NWA Titles to their resume seeing as to how TNA is about to drop the affiliation. Several of the matches, including Senshi vs. Starr and Harris vs. Storm, are classic TNA PPV booking where they take a match that could be good on its own and add some wacky stipulation that they think will sell buys (but won't) and only results in a worse match. Seriously, the first Harris vs. Storm match is a blindfold match INSIDE A STEEL CAGE? Vinny and I will be back late tonight for members with a rundown of this show, Smackdown from Friday night, and Bodog from last night. Lots to talk about and it should be fun!
- We will likely be doing delayed play-by-play of the show on this site, starting around 8:00 PM PST, 11:00 PM EST.
- Dave Meltzer and I will be back on Wrestling Observer Live tonight from 8-10 EST, 5-7 PST on Sports Byline and Sirius Satellite Radio Channel 122. We'll be discussing all the news in pro-wrestling and MMA, taking calls, and probably interviewing a TNA guest in hour two. You can listen live by clicking here.
- We're looking for any reports from the TNA fanfest, the PPV, the ROH shows this weekend, WWE's European tour, etc.
- Quick Bodog results from last night courtesy Forrest Lynn:
1. Josh Curran def. Jarno Nurminen, R3 TKO (strikes)
2. Rodrigo Damm def. Santino Defranco, R2 SUB (RNC)
3. Bill Mahood def. Steve Steinbeiss, DEC
4. Roman Zentsov def. Kristof Midoux, R1 TKO (towel)
5. Amanda Bucker def. Hitomi Akano, DEC
6. Jorge Santiago def. Andrei Semenov, R2 TKO (strikes)
7. Aleksander Emelianenko def. Eric Pele, R1 KO (punch)
8. Nick Thompson def. Eddie Alvarez, R2 TKO (strikes)
9. Fedor Emelianenko def. Matt Lindland, R1 SUB (armbar)
- Review of Condemned
- Arena Mexico completely sold out Friday night for Mistico & Negro Casas beating Perro Aguayo Jr. & Mr. Aguila in a CMLL Tag Titles match. Business caught on fire sometime in the last few weeks.
- Phil Mushnick in the New York Post today plugged Irv Muchnick's Wrestling Babylon book, calling it "a new book that Vince McMahon no doubt wishes was never published".
- Mark Briscoe had been cleared to compete this weekend, which was why he worked last night's ROH show. That's the good news. The bad news is apparently he got dropped on his head a lot.
- If you're an MMA fan, this is the week to sign up! Our members-only 24,000-word Figure Four Weekly cover story this week looks at the death of PRIDE as we know it, including a look at the history of the promotion dating back to the KRS days, the main players involved, the scandal that took them down, more on the sale and the final price, and tons more. Plus, we'll review not only that show, but the UFC PPV Sunday night which featured the latest giant upset, Matt Serra's shocking KO win over Georges St. Pierre. We'll look at how Serra trained for the fight, what stroke of luck may have led him to the win, who his first challenger will be, and tons of backstage notes from the show. Other major stories include a review of Ultimate Fight Night, a review of the first season of Ultimate Fighter, WrestleMania fallout, tons of notes from the Condemned, Matt Cappotelli's health status, where the Booker T angle is heading, the line-up for Sunday's TNA show, inside notes on the Sakuraba/Tamura confrontation, the real WrestleMania attendance, Hogan back wrestling again and who his opponent will be, former WWE star assaulted, Vinny reviews WrestleMania X9, I review ROH Irresistible Forces, and TONS more! Of course, as a member you also get full access to ALL new and archived radio shows dating back to 2005, plus all the new and archived (280-plus issues) Figure Four Weekly newsletters dating back to 2001. To sign up, please click here, or PayPal users can use the Quick Buy link at the top of this page to be online within 60 seconds. Rates start at just $7.99 per month (27 cents a DAY), so it's a steal. Thanks for your support!
- Hogan did appear on Memphis TV yesterday, trying to shift the heat to Lawler for their match not taking place. It's Hogan vs. The Giant Paul Wight on April 27th in Memphis at the FedEx Forum. Well, that's the plan. I'll believe it when I see it. Ticket sales were not exactly brisk yesterday.
- Post-fight interview with Fedor
- Andrei Arlovski interview discussing Crocop
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