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Tara vs. Angelina Love for the Knockouts title  

Love regained the title.  After ref Slick Johnson kicked Madison Rayne and Velvet Sky out for interfering, Tara missed a moonsault and Love got the pin.  Tara's foot was on the rope but Johnson missed it.  Pretty hard to do this when they play replays on the screen but they did anyway.  Post-match saw Tara kick Johnson, give Love the widow's peak, and go for the tarantula on Love.  Sky and Rayne pulled Love out so Tara put the tarantula on Johnson instead.  About what you'd expect from this match.

Kurt told everyone not to expect a quality PPV main event match tonight.  Kurt said anyone in the Mafia that loses tonight gets fired.  Well, good that people paid to see this already, because now you know all the finishes ahead of time. 

Daniels vs. Matt Morgan

Morgan won clean with the Hellevator.  They told the story that Daniels' leg was injured from the TV angle.  Match was flat after the first few minutes. 

Abyss vs. Dr. Stevie and Stevie said he's asked for it changed to no DQ 

Abyss beat the hell out of Stevie most of the way with Stevie bleeding heavy.  Daffney came out with the taser but Lauren attacked Daffney.  Lauren shoved down Daffney and ran away.  Daffney, who told Stevie that she loved him, gave Stevie the taser but Abyss used the black hole slam.  Abyss then grabbed the taser, used it and got the pin.  Not much of a match, which menas we're 0-for-3 so far.

Mick Foley gave A.J. and Beer Money a pep talk about keeping the belts tonight.

Team 3-D vs. Brutus Magnus & Doug Williams for the IWGP tag team titles

It's gonna be pretty sad when Team 3-D finds out the Von Brauners were 25 time world tag team champions.  

Crowd was dead until the tables came in late.  Finish of the match was a 3-D on Doug Williams.  A so-so match.  Post-match saw Kiyoshi and Sheik Abdul Bashir attacked 3-D after the match, but they made a comeback and threw Kiyoshi out of the ring and put Bashir through a table with a Bubba bomb off the ropes.

Lauren is in the back with Steve Mazzagatti.  Lauren said that Slick missed Tara being poked in the eyes.  Slick admitted that he made a mistake and he feels terrible, he was out of position, missed the eye poke but the referees decision is final.  Johnson apologized and said he's going to Jim Cornette to ask that Tara gets a rematch as soon as possible.  Hopefully Tara will demand a new referee in the rematch after finding out Slick was in the hot tub the night before with Angelina.   

Jenna Morasca vs. Sharmell is up now.  Match of the year alert. 

Sharmell is wrestling in an evening gown.  Jenna was acting like a stripper and then proceded to have the worst match on PPV since Stevie Richards vs. Travis Tomko.  Jenna pulled Sharmell's hair extensions out and gave them to Kong.  Sharmell went them back.  Kong gave them to her and decked her so Morasca got the pin.  Morasca told Kong to lift her up on her shoulder while Kong looked on bemused.  Morasca started yelling at her in such a contrived looking spot and Kong laid out Morasca and left.  As bad as you thought this match would be, it was seriously worse.  Watching Morasca try to do high spots was like watching first graders play pro wrestler. 

Kevin Nash did a promo saying that if he doesn't win the title, he's retiring.  He also proceded to bury all the babyfaces by saying they've been here seven years and are in the same position they were when they got here. 

A.J. Styles vs. Kevin Nash for the legends title

Nash won clean with a choke slam after Nash kicked out of the Pele kick.  It was the best match so far, but it was also probably the worst Styles match ever on TNA PPV.

If this PPV was a baseball player, you'd say he was in a severe slump.  If it was the NBA team, the coach would be fired just about now.  If it was a UFC show you'd say it was UFC 33.

We just found out the Mazzagatti was, in fact, sleeping with Frank Mir's wife's best friend.  Actually Slick Johnson came out of the locker room with his shirt off and then Madison Rayne came out seconds later.  She was wearing the same outfit she had worn earlier and wasn't the least bit disheveled, so I guess we're not much for quality control here.  Lauren deduced that there were sexual favors being used to steal the title. 

Beer Money vs. Scott Steiner & Booker T for the TNA tag titles

James Storm spit beer in Steiner's eyes but some of the beer got in Earl Hebner's eyes and he was blinded.  They did the DWI on Steiner but no ref to count the pin, and then when he went to count, Booker pulled Hebner out of the ring.  Hebner and Storm were arguing and Booker gave Roode an axe kick and Steiner pinned him.  Crowd was pretty much dead by this point except for a few Pavlovian spots.  Match was basic and decent but the finishing series didn't look good.  

Sting vs. Samoa Joe.  Joe said his advisor is here and ready for war.

Boy was this weird.  Joe looked good here early.  Match was okay, best thing so far.  Sting had Joe in the scorpion deathlock and then Taz came out.  He really got no reaction and did nothing.  Joe powered out and it was like Joe was impervious to Sting's offense once Taz was out.  Joe kept popping up from Sting's moves.  Joe I think was supposed to do the muscle buster but Sting wouldn't go up.  That looked bad.  Joe then just put him in the choke and Sting tapped.  So weird seeing Sting tap.

Mike Tenay announced Bobby Lashley had signed.  They showed him saying his main focus is fighting and showed him challenging Brock Lesnar and he cut a promo on Brock Lesnar.  Who would have thought Affliction was a trend-setter.   

Kurt Angle vs. Mick Foley for the TNA title

Foley got the Socko claw, but Angle powered out, used ground and pound from the guard and the ankle lock.  Foley got to the ropes the first time, but when Angle put it on again, Foley tapped out.  Nobody believed Foley would tap.  Match didn't have a lot of heat, but if you consider the physical shape Angle was in, and Foley for that matter, they did as good a match as you could expect.  

 

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