TNA: The Best of the X Division

Initial Impressions: The DVD packaging is adequate, although the match listing on the back includes two matches [AJ Styles vs. Petey Williams vs. Chris Sabin and AJ Styles vs. Johnny Devine] that do not appear on either DVD. There's nothing in the box except the two DVDs; no "history of the X Division Title" booklet or anything like that. I guess everyone buying this has internet access.

The DVD menus are decent enough, but the music clip that plays during the menus loops very quickly in a rather distracting way. There are a few matches that had slight glitches in the original broadcast -- replays "frozen" for a few seconds and that sort of thing -- that were not fixed up, and of course, some of the matches from Impact break away for commercial breaks and then come back immediately. No Morphoplex here, baby!

The complete match listing is as follows:

20 Man X Gauntlet - Victory Road [November 7 2004]
Petey Williams vs. AJ Styles - Victory Road [November 7 2004]
Chris Sabin vs. Christopher Daniels - TNA Impact [January 14 2005]
Ultimate X: AJ Styles vs. Petey Williams (c) vs. Chris Sabin - Final Resolution [January 16 2005]
Iron Man Match - AJ Styles vs. Christopher Daniels (c) - Against All Odds [February 13 2005]
Ultimate X: "The Phenomenal" A.J. Styles (c) vs. "The Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels vs. Ron "The Truth" Killings vs. "Primetime" Elix Skipper - Destination X [March 13 2005]
Xscape Match - Chris Sabin vs. Matt Bentley vs. Sonjay Dutt vs. Shocker - Lockdown [April 24, 2005]
AJ Styles vs. Sean Waltman - No Surrender [July 17, 2005]
Chris Sabin vs. Samoa Joe - No Surrender [July 17, 2005]
6-Way Impact Match: AJ Styles vs. Alexy Shelley vs. Kid Kash vs. Amazing Red vs. Frankie Kazarian vs. Chris Sabin - TNA Impact [October 1, 2004]
Triple X vs Sonjay Dutt & Amazing Red - TNA Impact [December 3, 2004]

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Disc One opens with an intro from Jeremy Borash who briefly talks about the X Division. There are a couple other clips of Borash throughout the DVD, none of which are offensive nor particularly informative.

20 Man X Gauntlet - Victory Road [November 7 2004]

This is a Royale Rumble style match, starting with two in the ring and another entering every minute. Elimination is over the top until we're down to the last two, then it turns into a regular match.

The early highlight is "LA Park" -- you know him better as La Parka -- bringing a chair into the referee-less Gauntlet. After whacking everyone, he takes forever trying to take off his jacket as everyone tries to work around him without looking completely foolish.

Nothing much happens until Matt Bently and Kazarian [who were partners at the time] both get in the ring and quickly eliminate three guys.

Almost nobody gets a pop on their crowd entrance. Typical battle royal stuff... the story of the match is Kazarian, who enters at number one and stays to the end, only to be beaten by Hector Garza.

As an introduction to all the X Division talent, this is kind of an OK match -- but more than a year after it happened, it's not that noteworthy, and half the roster has changed their names, dyed their hair, or been deported anyway.

Winner: Hector Garza

Petey Williams vs. AJ Styles - Victory Road [November 7 2004]

Forearms to start, and then they work some mat wrestling and quick pin reversals. Crowd pops ... and then the camera zooms in on a couple unimpressed-looking people. Petey ends up outside, and they tease a Styles flip to the outside but Petey gets out of the way. A few moves later and Petey is beat down enough for Styles to try again, and he lands a flip from ring to outside.

Back and forth inside, nothing of note until Styles goes for the flip-into-inverse-DDT, and lands way short, actually kicking Petey in the head on the way down. Petey sells the kick, and Styles just stands there looking confused for a few seconds until finally going for a pin. Moments later, Styles is in the tree of woe, and manages to grab Petey and do some sort of crazy release german suplex. Williams on the apron, and Styles nails a Pele kick.

They reverse each other's finishers while Scott D'amore grabs the title belt at ringside and wanders around. Petey fights out of the Styles Clash, then Styles gets him in a rollup, and at the 2 count the ref stops counting to deal with D'amore up on the apron. With the ref distracted, Petey grabs a hockey stick, but the ref catches it in time and grabs it from him. As the ref puts the stick outside the ring, Petey grabs the X Division title belt and levels AJ with it ... but only gets a two count!

Styles sets Petey up for a superplex, and again D'amore interferes, grabbing Styles' ankle. The ref ushers D'amore away, but Williams throws Styles down onto the mat face first, and then hops off the top rope into a Canadian Destroyer for the three count. Post match, D'amore mocks Styles in the ring and Styles gives him an enziguri.

I wanted to like this match, but it would have been better without the typical Team Canada overbooking, and the storytelling was pretty flimsy.

Winner: Petey Williams

Chris Sabin vs. Christopher Daniels - TNA Impact [January 14 2005]

Tenay directs us to the "Fox Box" at the top of the screen that indicates the 15 minute time limit ... however, they cut the Fox Box from this DVD, since they're no longer on Fox. Not sure why they didn't scrub the sound.

We start with dueling wristlocks, until Sabin throws Daniels out, and then Sabin comes up wayyy short on a flip over the rope and lands hard. Daniels tried to dive forward to catch him, but just couldn't make it.

Back from a fake commercial, Daniels has control, and works some crazy leg-choke over the second rope. He continues to work over Sabin's neck, and after getting only two after a powerbomb gets frustrated and just pummels Sabin. There's a resthold, so maybe we're going a full fifteen minutes here. Sabin fights out, but Daniels drops him with a quick Death Valley Driver and follows up with a strange stretch in the ropes, then a suplex. They trade forearms, Sabin hits a bunch of rapid-fire forearms, and then Daniels counters with a bunch of rapid-fire headbutts until Sabin lands a desperation enziguri.

Clotheslines from Sabin, then a sit-out powerbomb for two. Sabin hits the ropes and Daniels grabs him with a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker and then a running STO. Missed Best Moonsault Ever, Daniels lands on his feet, and Sabin hits a tilt-a-whirl DDT for two. Sabin picks him up for the Cradle shock, but it's countered, Last Rites is countered, Angel's Wings is countered and Sabin gets a nifty rollup for three. Nice quick finishing sequence there.

Enjoyable match. Unfortunate that all of Daniel's working over Sabin's neck didn't amount to anything, but Sabin did sell it even after the victory.

Winner: Chris Sabin

Jeremy Borash introduces Ultimate X.

Ultimate X: AJ Styles vs. Petey Williams (c) vs. Chris Sabin - Final Resolution [January 16 2005]

Going into this match, Williams is the longest reigning X Division champion of all time, at five months and running. Chris Sabin is 3-0 in Ultimate X matches, and AJ Styles has held every TNA title twice.

Let's just count the high-spots:

* Front flip over the ropes to the outside onto both guys by Styles.

* Sabin and Styles on the top rope, Sabin hits Styles with a drop kick knocking him into the steel support beam.

* D'amore and Williams pull Sabin off the wire into an inverted atomic drop. [D'amore gets sent back to the dressing room after this.]

The crowd is miked really loudly for this match, and you can hear some of them FAR too much, including one really annoying pre-pubescent kid who loves AJ Styles.

* Styles has Sabin in an electric chair, and Williams lands a falling hurricurana off the wires on Sabin.

* Petey Williams hangs upside down FOREVER right by the title belt, but doesn't grab it. Styles does his springboard punch thing, Williams lifts himself out of the way, and then falls down.

* Hurricurana from Sabin to Styles off the top rope while Sabin is hanging from the wire.

* Styles hitting his a double inverted DDT after a flip.

* Styles is dropkicked off the wire and does a front-flip bump landing hard on his back. This is a crazy huge bump.

I so badly want to throw this really loud fan off the top of the wire.

* Running powerbomb by Sabin onto Williams right into the turnbuckles.

* Match ending spot when Sabin and Williams fight for the belt up on the wire, each holding an end, and AJ makes a huge dive, knocking the belt out of their grasp and grabbing it.

I didn't like this match much, but it did have some good points. Styles sold an injured arm throughout the match, falling off the wire a few times, and when he eventually won the match, he did it without using that arm or a traditional wire-traversing trick. That worked well. That was the biggest part of psychology in the match, though ... the rest was spot rest spot rest spot.

Winner: AJ Styles

Iron Man Match - AJ Styles vs. Christopher Daniels (c) - Against All Odds [February 13 2005]

Thirty minutes, most pinfalls/submissions wins.

They wrestle back and forth early, with Styles trying for a few quick pinfalls but not getting either of them. Dropkick by Styles sends Daniels to the outside, and then Styles hits a 'rana from the apron. They exchange strikes on the floor as the referee counts, and then they both slide back into the ring at the same time -- obviuosly trying to beat the other guy in and get a count-out fall, but the announcers don't bother to mention this.

Back in the ring, Styles slows down the pace and works the arm and shoulder, also going for a few quick pin attempts. Daniels attempts a comeback but is hampered by the bad arm, and he rolls to the outside, but Styles comes at him with a baseball slide dropkick and knocks him down. Styles hops up onto the rope for a springboard, but loses his balance and hops back down into the ring, then hops back onto the rope and onto Daniels, who had been standing there the entire time. That was business exposing bad, even for a business that's already been exposed enough for us to see Chyna's extra-large clitoris. They should have called an audible on that one -- Daniels should have backed out of range, Styles should have slingshot through the ropes for a more direct move -- something, anything but just trying the same spot again. Amazingly, Don West covers well, saying that Daniels stood there "daring" Styles to go for it.

Daniels is back in the ring, Styles is on the apron and starts a springboard but again aborts, giving Daniels time to send him flying into the ringside barricade.

Fallen Angel works over Style's ribs, including a move where, from a side-suplex position, Daniels just throws him up over his head and Style's lands flat on his front.

Spinaround lariat from Styles starts a bit of a comeback, including the flip-into-inverted-DDT, and the suplex-into-neckbreaker. We're down to 17 minutes remaining, and Don West loses the points he made up earlier by saying "I don't think either guy has been in many matches that they haven't won in under 13 minutes!" ... right, Don.

Styles blocks a superplex and goes for a 450, but Daniels gets the knees up and gets a three count after the Angel's Wings. Daniels trash talks him and goes for another pin while they replay the entire sequence, but only gets a two. Daniels dominates the next few minutes, locking on an abdominal stretch around the 17 minute mark, but only getting another two count after dropping Styles throat-first on the top rope.

Big gut-buster leaves AJ looking real unhappy, but he reverses a side suplex and hits a springboard elbow and then a backbreaker for two. Down to the ten minute point and AJ scores with his big springboard forearm for another two. Daniels ducks a discus clotheslines and then whips out his own version of the sprinboard-into-inverted-DDT. Close two count. Blue Thunder Driver, and another two count. Thanks to eyes in the back of his head, Daniels falls victim to the PELE~! and both guys take a little rest break on the canvas.

Rapid fire series of reversals leads to Styles planting Daniels with his own Angel's Wings, and that's a very close two count but not a three. With six minutes left, AJ rolls over Daniels on a side-suplex attempt and schoolboys him for the three count, evening the match at 1-1.

Daniels immediately knocks him to the floor and Styles sells like he was dead. Daniels wanders over to the announcer's table and picks up the X Division title, giving Styles time for some facial surgery, which he proudly displays after Daniels throws him into the ringpost. Styles is dead weight and Daniels rolls him into the ring, but he only manages a two count, so Daniels hammers on his forehead opening him up some more. We're down to 3 minutes as Daniels continues to work him over with headbutts, knees, and punches to the head. Running STO gets just a two count. Don West ejaculates. Daniels returns to pummelling AJ, but he still gets his arm up after a big headbutt. Angel's Wings attempt, but AJ is so much dead weight that Daniels can't lift him. Styles makes a quick comeback, but with under a minute left Daniels locks on the Koji Clutch. Styles spews blood everywhere and looks to be unconcious when the bell rings!

Daniels starts to celebrate but the referee says that there was no tapout and so the match is a draw.

Daniels grabs the ringside mic and demands sudden death, and Director of Authority Dusty Rhodes says that "Sudden death it is!" and Daniels rushes back into the ring, pummelling AJ again. Another pin attempt and another two count. 'Rana attempt from the top rope, but AJ reverses it and throws Daniels off the ropes, then hits his own 'rana and a Styles Clash for the three count, to become your New X Division Champion!

That was, quite simply, one of the best matches of 2005. Flaws? Forget them. Great story, great execution -- a must see for any wrestling fan.

Winner: AJ Styles

Jeremy Borash pimps the next Ultimate X match ... which is actually on the next DVD. That's a real smooth transition.

Disc 2:

Ultimate X: "The Phenomenal" A.J. Styles (c) vs. "The Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels vs. Ron "The Truth" Killings vs. "Primetime" Elix Skipper - Destination X [March 13 2005]

This match begins as a tag team elimination match, Styles and Skipper vs Daniels and Killings, and will be an elimination match until only two men remain, at which point they can retrieve the title belt. TNA fans will remember that Daniels and Skipper used to be partners, but lost a match at Turning Point that stipulated they could no longer team together, so they're on opposite sides.

Killing and Skipper start things off with some back and forth wrestling, then Styles tags in and demands Daniels enter the ring, but Daniels slides off the apron and tells Killings to stay in the right. Killings and Styles demonstrate what happens when someone [Killings] forgets to duck on a leapfrog spot, and Styles tags him with a hard dropkick. Killings hard-tags Daniels in while Daniels plays to the crowd.

Fine back and forth work between Daniels and Styles, including a spot where Skipper hits Styles from behind. This leads to Daniels tagging Killings back in, but Killings and Styles team up to tag Skipper in and drag him into the ring.

Killings hits his ultra-shitty axe kick from the top rope, but Daniels breaks up the pinfall. Killings throws him out of the ring, and AJ runs into the ring and then jumps out onto Daniels. Skipper takes advantage of this to drop Killings onto his head, and AJ Styles is now outnumbered by the former Triple X tag team partners.

Styles and Skipper fight, while Daniels climbs the ropes and navigates the Ultimate X highwire, falling from the center and hitting both guys with the "Biggest Moonsault Ever." It doesn't hit really well, but what can you expect from a stunt like that? Skipper gets pissed that Daniels hit him, and they argue in the ring. Daniels talks him into a truce and then instantly turns on him as they attempt a double-team move. Skipper regains control for a few minutes while AJ naps on the outside, but when Skipper and AJ attempt to double-team Daniels, Daniels slips out of the way and Skipper goes flying, allowing Daniels and AJ to face off again.

All three set up for some sort of turnbuckle spot, but AJ slips off the ropes. Skipper ends up hanging from the wire, and then hits Styles with a reverse 'rana off the tope rope while AJ was on the turnbuckles. Daniels them comes off the rope and Skipper catches him with a powerbomb.

Daniels and Skipper exchange punches as Styles navigates the wire, and tries to do some sort of flip off of it, but doesn't have the height he wants and ends up tackling both guys by the legs. Could have been cool, but failed. I think it was mostly Daniels and Skipper who should have been closer to the center of the ring, but it's not like the guys have a lot of practice doing high-wire acts during their wrestling matches ...

AJ and Skipper faff about fucking up the moonsault/inverted DDT spot that Skipper ends up reversing into his finisher, which Styles kicks out of, and Daniels catches Skipper in a rollup to eliminate him.

Daniels goes for the belt early, gets pulled down. Knocks Styles down again, goes for the belt again, gets pulled down again. Back and forth, Daniels hits a series of headbutts, and then AJ hits the Pele Kick out of nowhere. God, that move is so fake.

There's an odd technical glitch after the replay here, where the replay ends up paused on the screen as commentary continues. I know this sort of stuff happens on live PPV, but shouldn't it be relatively easy to edit out for a DVD release? Hell, just splice a crowd shot overtop or something ...

Both guys go to the wires. AJ kicks him down, Daniels runs the ropes and jump-tackles him off. They both climb the same turnbuckle, and AJ gets to the wire first. With Daniel's back to the steel support beam, Styles hits a nasty looking kick to his chest. Styles climbs backwards onto the wire, and Daniels hits ... well, they call it a STO, but it's obviously not a STO, so it's more like a diving urange, but it's still bitching cool.

Daniels then starts to climb the wrong turnbuckle. Smooth one, Fallen Angel.

Back to the right turnbuckle, both guys climb up, and Daniels drives Styles face first into the steel support beam and makes a run for the belt. Daniels slips off and then clings to Style's leg, pulling him down. This garners a "This is Awesome!" chant.

They meet in the middle, again, and Daniels loops his arm into the belt and they both fall. So they both go up again, both loop an arm through the belt, both fall, the belt doesn't come -- and there's a bad ref bump.

With the ref down, AJ goes to the top and grabs the belt, but the ref doesn't see it -- Daniels hits him with the Angel's Wings and grabs the belt just in time for the ref to turn around, see him with the belt, and award him the match.

This match had a cool story for the tag team and 3 way portion, but when it came down to just Styles and Daniels it fell apart. They just went to the wires, fell off, went to the wires, fell off, went to the wires ... you get the picture. No logic, no flow, just a bunch of high spots, and none of them were that good. Disappointing.

Winner: "Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels

Xscape Match - Chris Sabin vs. Matt Bentley vs. Sonjay Dutt vs. Shocker - Lockdown [April 24, 2005]

This starts out as a 4 way elimination match [tags required], and when down to two men, you need to escape to win. This is from the Lockdown all-cages PPV.

Not much to say about this one. Trinity interferes with a big moonsault from the top of the cage, and Shocker ends up beating Sabin to the floor. Pretty standard cage match stuff with a few X spots in there. God, it was annoying listening to Tenay saying "ex-scape" over and over and over.

Winner: Shocker

Figure Four Special: Since I didn't have much to say about this match, here's selected excerpts from Bryan's original review of the match from F4W~! 514 -- "Trinity ... drink ... Shocker ... ballsy ... Shocker ... OK. ... father, who is 65 or so, walked into the room and greatly enjoyed ... head and we ... ran wild. They ... so whacky I drank. We were now alerted that ... Dutt ... made less than zero sense ... Dutt ... kill me. Traci ... Trinity ... onto the guys inside and that was good for one HYOOGE ... replay and ... death. Suddenly, ... Sabin ... shock ... Shocker ... smashed ... Shocker ... insane ... insane ... dizzy."

AJ Styles vs. Sean Waltman - No Surrender [July 17, 2005]

Jerry Lynn is your guest referee. He's wearing a ref's shirt and blue jeans. Could be not find a pair of black slacks?

They lock up. Sean whispers "I have some God in my pipe. Wanna hang out after the show?" The lockup breaks, and they staredown.

Sean works a headlock, and then grabs Lynn's shoulder to help avoid being reversed out of it. They work a few quick reversal/rollup spots, then Pac bails to the outside, calling a timeout.

We go back and forth for awhile. Styles runs the ropes like a fairy. I bet he wouldn't like to hear that. Big stiff dropkick leads to a somersault senton over the top rope to the outside. Waltman regains control by slamming AJ into the post crotch-first. Back in the ring, Sean works hi over while the fans chant 1-2-3 Kid. Waltman goes for the Bronco Buster, but AJ hops up early and catches him, locking him up for the Styles Clash, but Waltman hits two very weak "kicks" to the head and knocks Styles back into the corner, and Styles takes the Bronco Buster.

Styles ends up outside the ring, and Sean hits him with a cannonball dive, which busts Style's nose open. Styles manages to toss Waltman crotch-first into the ringside post ... this match is really crotch-tatstic.

Styles does his big flying punch into the ring, then hits the moonsault-into-inverted-DDT but only gets a two count. Styles tries for the really silly "pick him up for a suplex but then let him fall down behind you while still holding onto his head and then drop him into a neckbreaker" spot, but Pac low-bridges him and gets a northern lights suplex for two. Pac goes to the top, but Styles catches him with a dropkick on the way down.

Styles goes for a backslide, but keeps the arms locked, stands up, begins to powerbomb Waltman and then turns that position into a Styles Clash, but he only gets a two count. That was a pretty cool way to get into the Clash, really. Styles to the top and goes for a Spinal Tap, misses that, Pac hits the X-factor facebuster and also only gets a two.

Waltman goes outside and grabs a steel chair, wrapping it around AJ's ankle. He goes to the top, but Lynn won't let him jump off the rope, and then takes the chair from his ankle. Funny spot, as Pac can't actually hold his balance on the top rope and you can see him waving at Lynn to hurry the fuck up and take the chair.

Waltman holds the ropes to prevent a rollup, but Lynn kicks his hands off the ropes and that enables Styles to roll-through and then hit the Styles Clash for the three.

Well, I don't like either guy very much, but the match was OK except for the screwy ending -- it wasn't like Waltman was cheating or getting any sort of unfair advantage by holding the ropes.

Winner: AJ Styles

Chris Sabin vs. Samoa Joe - No Surrender [July 17, 2005]

This is early in Joe's TNA run. They demonstrate Joe's size dominance early, with Sabin being unable to take Joe down and then being unable to lift him into the fireman's carry position. Joe takes control with some big kicks, including his facewash kick combo in the corner. Joe continues to work him over with various strikes and a neck wringer.

Sabin begins a comeback with a big series of dropkicks, starting with a springboard onto Joe in the ring, then one knocking Joe off the apron, and a third off the apron which sends Joe flying into the guardrail. Crowd is instantly behind Sabin, and dueling chants begin. Sabin goes for another Cradle Shock, but Joe slips behind and gets two on a bridging german suplex. They go back and forth for awhile, then Joe locks in his trio of submissions -- STF into the crossface into an armbreaker, but Sabin slowly makes his way to the ropes.

Joe goes for the Muscle Buster, but Sabin fights him off and drops Joe with a running sitout powerbomb off the ropes. On fire, Sabin picks him up for the Cradle Shock, and this time he gets him up, but Joe slips out. Sabin fires back with an enziguri and goes to the top, but Joe gets to the ropes in time and kicks him down, giving him the chance to grab and drop him with the Muscle Buster. Rear naked choke for the win is academic.

This match started slow but was pretty damned good by the end, with a solid babyface story being told throughout with Sabin's multiple comebacks and attempts at the Cradle Shock.

Winner: Samoa Joe

Jerry Lynn Interview

I'm assuming this is exclusive to this DVD. This is a pseudo-shoot interview. One of the real annoying elements is nobody actually /asks/ him the questions -- they're just displayed on the screen. It would have come off better if it was more like an informal chat between Lynn and some other TNA personality -- probably Jeremy Borash. I guess this is interesting if you're a Jerry Lynn fan yet know nothing about him, but as I'm not a Jerry Lynn fan and do know a decent bit about him, this didn't interest me much. He talked about how he broke into wrestling, who he admired, that sort of thing. At one point they talked about Juventud Guerrera injuring him in a TNA match, but for some reason they don't show the highlights of this. Why not? This guy is a black hole -- any charisma near him is sucked into him ... but never comes out.

Bonus Matches:

6-Way Impact Match: AJ Styles vs. Alexy Shelley vs. Kid Kash vs. Amazing Red vs. Frankie Kazarian vs. Chris Sabin - TNA Impact [October 1, 2004]

Holy shit, Amazing Red has grown a soul patch!

The winner of this match gets a title shot against Petey Williams at Victory Road. Five of the six guys in this match have been X Division champions, which goes to show how that belt was passed around like a hot potato early on in TNA's history.

This is a first-pinfall-wins match, two guys in the ring at one time, anyone can tag anyone. The ref seems to be allowing them to do lucha-lite rules though, as guys occasionally hop in and out without tags. Things break down early, then slow right down, until Amazing Red hits the flip piledriver and everyone runs into the ring to break up the pin. Everyone fights everyone and gets in some highspots.

Alex Shelley hits a /fucking sweet/ DDT. Basically he locked AJ's leg with his own before going for the move. Doesn't sound that impressive, but looked sweet as hell. As a reward for that, AJ immediately pins him with the Styles Clash, and he gets the title shot.

This was pretty much a nothing match -- may have been important at the time, but historically, nothing notable in ring or storyline-wise.

Winner: AJ Styles

Triple X vs Sonjay Dutt & Amazing Red - TNA Impact [December 3, 2004]

Triple X reverse Red's flip-piledriver for the pin. This is a big fat spotfest, and completely irrelevant to everything that will ever happen in your life.

Winner: Triple X

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The Verdict: I wanted to like this DVD more than I actually did. Some of these matches -- such as the 20 Man X Gauntlet and the Xscape match -- simply do not belong on a "Best Of" DVD. Some of the inclusions seem like the DVD was more a "History of the X Division" DVD ... but nothing else on the DVD supports that. There's no 15 minute History of the X Title highlight reel, no real profiles on any of the X Division stars [aside from the interview of Jerry Lynn], nothing that gives as overall impression of the history of the X Division beyond a series of mostly-decent matches.

The DVD is certainly worth it to get your hands on a couple of the matches if you don't have them already, and it would still prove as a good introduction to the X Division for someone who's not familiar with TNA -- some of the things that bother me and that I find tired and overplayed in TNA wouldn't bother someone who had seen less of the promotion.

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