1 / 13 / 11
Kicking off the show with a promo from the NEW TNA world heavyweight champion, Mr. Anderson…….Anderson! He talks about his long journey and making it in pro wrestling. Alludes to WWE and how he was next in line at being world champion only to get the rug pulled out from under him. Apparently this is thanks to Triple H who he didn’t name drop but he did a decent enough impersonation of him.
Out comes Matt Morgan who takes credit in Anderson’s title win and for good reason. Funny moment when he says ‘the only reason that belt is around your waist…..’ and Anderson quickly cuts him off with ‘It’s not around my waist’ because he had it draped over his shoulder.
Out comes Eric Bischoff and tells him he has a bullseye on him now and his days are numbered and blah blah blah
Oh and did I mention Karen Jarrett is in the building because they did quite a bit at the very beginning and right before the first commercial as well. Just when the Angle/Jarrett feud could not get any more lame, out comes the real life dirty laundry angle that Russo loves so much.
Ok it’s wrestling time (finally) with the NEW 4-time tag team champions, Beer Money Inc. and they are facing the Motor City Machine guns in this rematch. Tenay alluding to miscommunication with MCMG during the ppv, uh oh are they gearing for a breakup? They just said they are doing four straight weeks of Genesis rematches. So why buy the pay per view? Alex Shelley goes for a dive between the ropes to the floor onto Money and he lands flat on his face just missing Roode, OUCH! Taz and Tenay mention that tonight in the Hardys vs. RVD/Anderson match will be the first time Matt & Jeff have teamed up in 3 years. ….and I dare you to care. Whoa ho, Shelley gets a double foot stomp into Roode and gets the closest near fall I have seen in awhile. Guns get the neck breaker/splash combo and look to have it but interference causes Sabin to bump Shelley off of his partner’s own pin, I don’t like where this is going. Storm hits Shelley with a F5/Tko kind of move and Roode gets the top rope splash and it still isn’t enough to put the Guns away. Guns do a great missle dropkick/complete shot but don’t go for a pin confusion ensues which leads to Shelley super kicking Sabin and Shelley gets hit with the DWI and BMI defend the belts. Please don’t break up the Guns TNA, it’s not like you are going to push either of these guys as singles wrestlers, at least beyond the X division so what’s the point?
Backstage RVD and Anderson are looking for some ‘friends’ to take on Immortal in the form of a steel chair and a large 2×4.
So just to catch both of us up, Samoa Joe is feuding with the Pope over just exactly where the funds of Pope’s congregation are going. I know he found him entering a strip club on surveillance video and this is all I know. Not sure who is the baby face in this one so we will see. So Pope forgives Joe for spying on him and asks Joe if he’d do the same since he found footage of Joe and his wife in their private time. Pope called for the footage to be played on the ‘Dixie-Tron’ (I laughed) and cut to a picture of two pigs getting it on piggy style (I stopped laughing). Then it’s a picture of many piglets suckling a mama pig which is supposed to be Joe’s wife giving birth. Looks like Joe is in the right here because Pope is playing coward and backing down. Pope’s scared face is very funny btw
After the break we learn the RVD and Anderson introduced their friends to Beer Money
Karen Angle has a certain Vickie Guerrero shriek to her voice.
Loved the comments on Anderson running down the horrific looking Jeff Hardy custom belt. Perhaps we can use that audio on the next show.
Really like seeing Tara and Madison Rayne together, you know? As a team
So Angelina Love and Winter (the former Katie Lee Burchill) are know the Knockout Tag Champions even though Love is a slightly unwilling partner (boy that bit never gets old) and it’s putting a strain on Angelina’s relationship with Velvet Skye in the Beautiful People. I do like Winter’s theme song though, it’s like European Metal type stuff.
Taz always calls Angelina ‘Angeleaner’ hee hee
Mickie James obviously decks Tara and chases Madison out of the building but the referee doesn’t consider that outside interference? And Winter basically chokes out Tara for the win, weird match
Very strange watching Ric Flair accompany Abyss to ringside, Abyss beat Douglas Williams for the TV title last week by the way. Looks like Abyss is facing his former tag team partner, Matt Morgan. Funny how one left Immortal around the same time another joined them. Matt Morgan pins Abyss in a non title match. Rob Terry is Morgan’s replacement in Immortal as their enforcer, talk about your downgrades.
Backstage, Crimson (who is Amazing Red‘s screen brother…..clever name) attacks Abyss and tells him ’THEY’re Coming’ hmmmm
Some other stuff happened like the Hardy Boys first tag match for the first time in 5 years or so. I know this because I have been told this for the last 2 hours by Mike Tenay. I really tried but eh match was just kinf of ho hum. As expected the Hardys win via Twist of Hate/Swanton bomb combo.
1/20/11
Kurt Angle walks from the parking lot to the ring without breaking pace, the only reason I’m mentioning this is because I got to see a backstage cameo by Jimmy “Mouth of the South” Hart.
Hey it’s Sarita, you have been missed and she’s taking on Velvet Skye, Madison Rayne and Mickie James. It’s a 4-way match but with tag rules so only 2 in at a time…..oooh kay? The finish is Tara interferes with the loaded glove of doom which sends Mickie from the turnbuckle to the mat. Now all of a sudden after 30 seconds maybe, Mickie has fully recovered enough to roll up Madison for the win. #1. The ‘3-count was actually just a two count and #2 SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE KNOCKED OUT!
So Joe has a ‘Kato’ which looks a lot like Kiyoshi but they called him by another name, I’ll let you know when I find out.
There is NO WAY that Ric Flair actually believes in Rob Terry. This guy is a waste of tissue and he got beat by Morgan in a matter of 5 seconds. So after 80 minutes, Abyss, Terry & Flair get the upper hand on Morgan and beat him down……..I want to lay down and go to sleep now
Crimson attacks A.J. Styles in the back and talks about ‘They’ coming in 2 weeks time.
Oooh Jay Lethal vs. Kazarian, this is a promising plus an X-Division title rematch. Jay takes about 100 years to hit his top rope elbow drop after taking his time and posing yet Kaz still doesn’t move out of the way. Surprisingly, it’s only good for 2. Kaz wins by using the ropes for leverage.
Couldn’t help but laugh when Tommy Dreamer said “I will get the job done” *insert joke here*
Gee I can’t wait to see the Karen & Jeff Jarrett segment…….hey thanks guy that uploaded it on you tube! We come back from commercial and already happened, HA! The highlight appears to be Karen hitting Kurt in the junk. I’m sure that was after a ton of inside internet references as well.
Jeff Hardy beats Tommy Dreamer in a forgettable match
Oh so the clips got switched and HERE’s the Karen/Jeff/Kurt segment, darn guess I have to forward through that, SPIN ON!
Backstage, Pope is trying to borrow a tna dot com guy’s computer for some ‘overseas transactions’. Pope dials the guy on his cell phone which the guy can’t see him do. Heh heh that dude’s ringtone is “Hardcore Country duh nuh nuh nuh!!!!!!” but the guy leaves the room thinking his service ok you see where this is going. *click click click*
Flair’s been around for 40 years and he won’t take Abyss and Styles serious about the ‘THEY are coming’ threat. Flair is just like “We ARE ‘They’” thus making it almost a Laurel and Druggy sketch. All of a sudden Kurt Angle bum rushes the show looking for the Jarretts. Flair with yet some more gold, “I’m your biggest fan…..whaddaya mad at me for…….wooo…….what?…….huh?……I’m Not a part of this thing, I just work here”
Angle challenges Jarrett to an “exhibition” through Flair, oh boy *eye roll*
BEER!!!!……MONEY!!!!……all right but they’re taking on the super team of Rob Van Dam and Mr. Anderson Anderson. The new champ refers to himself as the “Total Nonstop Asshole” which got a chuckle out of me. B.M. Inc. get the duke with some outside help from Ze Hardys.
Backstage “The Guru” Brian Kendrick continues to earn one of the easiest paychecks in pro wrestling this side of Kevin Nash-ville.
I failed to mention that Kendrick got shoved into the lockers by Bully (Bubba) Ray but still. Brother D-Von comes down to the ring and calls out his former tag partner because even though he beat him at the PPV he didn’t get satisfaction. D-von gets beaten down for his troubles.
No surprise that Jarrett sends out Gunner & Murphy to face Kurt. After some back and for the between all four guys, Karen comes out to stop it while Angle has the advantage. The obligatory Immortal run in occurs where they all gang up on Angle. As Abyss makes his way down, he his nailed in the back with a barbed wire 2×4. Don’t get excited, it’s not Mick Foley, it’s Crimson. Hey you know how Crimson and Amazing Red are brothers? Because he wears a red tie and they have the same haircut!
Yes I watched all of this, GOOD NIGHT!