By Luke Swagger
Jeremy Borash opened the show by introducing "home town boy" Jim Cornette. Cornette spoke of how he wants to bring TNA back to Kentuckiana again. He then introduced the wrestling/boxing comissioner for Kentucky.
Eric Young/Shark Boy d. No Limits
great opening match with good solid tag psychology.
Brutus Magnus d.Shane Sewell
Taylor Wilde & Roxxie d. Jaqueline & Sojourne Bolt
Booker T. d Rhino
Booker was probably the funniest of the night as he cut some great heel promos about the "fatasses" in Kentucky. He then proceeded to point out the fatasses at ring side. Got a GREAT reaction.
intermission
Tag Team Titles on the line
Jay Lethal d. Robert Roode by dq
*originally this was supposed to be a tag team title match (Beer Money vs. Lethal Consequences), however James Storm come out and stated that he couldnt wrestle tonight, so Jim Cornette came out and said he is not going to screw his home town out of a title match, so each team will pick a representative and the tag belts will still be on the line. In the end Roode hit Lethal with a chain and got the pin, then the KY wrestling/boxing comissioner came out and told the ref to reverse the decision. Really good match, crowd was really into this one.
Abyss d. Matt Morgan
pinned him with black hole slam
Main Event:
Samoa Joe d. Kurt Angle
After the match Kurt got on the mic and thanked everyone for coming out and that it is because of the TNA fans that there is a TNA at all. He spoke of how coming to TNA was the best move he ever made.
Then Jeremy Borash said that TNA wants to give the fans something to take home, so for $20 you and your family can get a picture taken with Kurt in the ring. They also brought out the wrestlers to do a free autograph party around ring side. Very classy and great PR.
notes:
This was one of the more enjoyable house shows I have been to in a long time. TNA puts on great house shows with great production value. Show was seamless from beginning to end. You can tell they have their stuff together. Only issue was with the building. Since this was the first time this building has hosted a wrestling show of this size you could tell they werent ready. They only had one usher seating people and some of the seating was screwed up leaving some w/o seats as the show began. All matches were solid. I would recommend to anyone to attend a TNA house show if they get the chance.
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