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Chris Sabin & Alex Shelley vs. Jay Lethal & Consequences Creed  

They've added a stipulation that the winners go into the Ultimate X match later in the show.  Pope D'Angelo Dinero is out of the Ultimate X match, which will be up next, because of a family emergency. They rushed through a match largely consisting of Sabin & Shelley doing one move after another, some of which were spectacular, most notably a springboard tornado DDT by Sabin on Lethal.  Crowd liked it but they were rushing through moves.  Shelley pinned Creed after a crossbody in a combination double-team move that included Sabin using a neckbreaker on Creed.

Ultimate X for the X title:  Amazing Red vs. Homicide vs. Suicide vs. Daniels vs. Sabin vs. Shelley 

Red won the match, but there was a bump by Daniels and Homicide off the top of the structure that looked beyond scary.  Tons of crazy moves.  They did too many big move early and burned out the crowd.  But still one spectacular move after another.  The big move in question was Suicide doing something like a uranage off the cables on Daniels and he landed almost head first.  At the last shot, Daniels and Suicide were still on the ground.  Now they panned away from the ring.  Daniels is apparently okay since they said he got away from the ring.

Sarita & Taylor Wilde vs. Madison Rayne & Velvet Sky for the Knockouts tag titles  Velvet called Lauren "JB" because she has cheap cologne on and stubble. 

They rushed through a match with Rayne getting pinned after the double-team springboard dropkick by Sarita and German suplex by Wilde.  They worked hard and fast, but crowd still burned out by how much that was done in the first two matches.  Really the biggest pop was Lacey Von Erich kissing Earl Hebner but Earl still kicked her out of ringside, and the live crowd booed a usual face ref pop spot because all the guys wanted to see Lacey.

Kevin Nash vs. Hernandez vs. Eric Young for the Legends title

Crappy match but clever finish.  Nash and Young worked together most of the way.  Then at the finish as Nash went to give Hernandez the power bomb, Young grabbed Hernandez's head and jabbed it into Nash's sore groin (from the zapper on TV) and Young pinned Nash to win the title.

British Invasion told both Beer Money and Scott Steiner & Booker T that Team 3-D is their biggest obstacle because they wrestled this match at the Astrodome before 70,000 people so they all need to work to get rid of them.  Everyone stopped fighting.  Didn't we just have a match with this storyline.  Ya think they might end up with a double-cross?

British Invasion vs. Scott Steiner & Booker T vs. 3-D vs. Beer Money for the IWGP & TNA tag titles in a tables, ladders, chairs and whatever else match.  This is the final time these four will meet.   

It ended with Team 3-D winning the IWGP belts and then the British Invasion winning the TNA tag titles.  Lots of chair shots to the head and putting people through tables.  Booker did a stretcher job early so that's her being written out.  Steiner was booked to look great so it looked like everyone was taking care of him to where he'd get a new deal, although it did make him a babyface in the match.  Rob Terry interfered, pressed Roode off the ladder as he was about to get the TNA belts, and threw him over the top rope through a table.  This allowed Terry to put Williams on his shoulders and climb the ladder to grab the belt to win.  Interesting they used no blood here, I guess saving it for Foley and Abyss.  Overdone at points but good match that the crowed liked.

ODB vs. Awesome Kong vs. Tara for the Knockouts title

Good match.  Finish saw Raisha Saeed and Kong argue because Saeed kept throwing in a chair and Kong kept kicking it out.  She threw it in for Kong to power bomb ODB, but ODB reversed it into a a facebuster on the chair for the pin.  There was a point where Tara left the match and everyone paused and acted like something went wrong as she got into a brawl with Kim Couture, the ex-wife of Randy, who she's been trying to get a match with.  It was never acknowledged and the cameras panned away as quickly as possible.  She came back a few minutes later and never acknoweldged what happened.

Bobby Lashley vs. Samoa Joe 

Good match.  Crowd was into this, more because they were so heavily cheering Joe and booing Lashley.  Lashley's been booked like hell, but a lot of this was also because Joe is from Southern California.  Joe dominated the match which made the crowd happy, but when Joe tried a third uranage, Joe reversed into an Anaconda vise.  Joe never tapped but ref Earl Hebner stopped the match.  They kept showing Kristal Marshall in the crowd, like she was coming in, but called Kristal Lashley with no acknoweldgement she'd ever worked in wrestling.   

Mick Foley vs. Abyss in Monster's Brawl

Crazy, fucked up match.  A series of stunt bumps, starting with Abyss taking a bump off the structure in the entrance through the stage and broke, and then Foley did a elbow drop with a barbed wire bat on him.  The match continued like that.  Crowd loved it.  Abyss gave Dr. Stevie, the ref, shock treatment.  Totally screwed up spot as Daffney gave Foley a taser and he nailed Abyss with it.  Jamie Tucker ran in and was supposed to count two and Abyss was to kick out.  Well, he counted three, and Abyss kicked out, they ignored the count since it wasn't the finish, and continued.  That flattened the crowd, but they did get them back.  Finish saw Abyss choke slam Daffney off the top rope onto a barbed wire board, then give Stevie a black hole slam on Stevie on thumb tacks.  Finally he choke slammed Foley on a barbed wire board, dragged Stevie and grabbed Stevie's hand to count three as he pinned Foley.

Matt Morgan vs. Kurt Angle

Crowd was completely behing Angle here even though it was easily the best performance of Morgan's career.  Both men kicked out of each others' finishes, Morgan broke the ankle lock multiple times.  Morgan came off the top rope with a cross body.  Angle used a frog splash for a near fall late.  Angle went up top and Morgan put him on his shoulders in an electric chair position, but Angle won with a rana.  A classic style match, ending with both men shaking hands.  After Angle shook hands with Morgan, the crowd cheered Morgan heavily.  Every important match on this show so far has delivered big.    

A.J. Styles vs. Sting for the TNA title. 

Styles won clean with the Pele kick and springboard splash.  Crowd seemed to like the match, and it was a good match, but they were definitely flat much of the way, because they couldn't follow the previous match.  Sting walked out of the ring.  Crowd was very pro-Sting and they didn't boo Styles, but they didn't react to him like he was a big star either.  Styles asked Sting to come back in.  Great time for the mic to die.  He told Sting this is his spotlight.  There was a "Sting" chant but not nearly what yu'd want for the moment.   "Please don't go" chant for Sting, but again, not that strong.  Sting got back in the ring and said "Thank you.  Sting said the moment isn't about me, it's about the world champion, but if I'm going to lose, I'm glad to lose to somebody like A.J. Styles.  If I can lose, I'm glad to lose at home."  Crowd chanted "You still got it, fairly loud this time."  "One more year" chant.  "I'm not pulling a Brett Favre on you but I was not prepared to make some kind of announcement, this isn't a kayfabe teaser, I don't know if I'm going to come back.  But yesterday the things people said and the reaction here makes me want to stay forever."  Show over literally at the buzzer.