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We kick off the show with Mike Tenay running down the major matches on the card. We kick off the show with the "no-limits" X-Division!
It's the Amazing Red taking on Homicide with Red's X-Title on the line! Don West is in Red's corner and Taz is on commentary with Tenay. I disagree with West leaving the TNA announce booth. Red bounces around the ring during the opening minutes like no other performer I've ever seen. The crowd gets behind Red as they go back and forth for nearly ten minutes. Lots of counters and some near falls. Red counters a hurricanrana from the top rope into code-red for the three count as he retains the title. 7/10
^As far as openers go, this was solid on all levels. You had the ground/power game of Homicide mixed with his unbelievable speed against the nonstop go power of Red. Fantastic start!
Tenay and Taz talk about the "impactful" Desmond Wolf and his success since his debut in TNA. Taz thinks it might be the end of the road tonight when he faces Kurt Angle. They talk about the triple threat World Title Main Event as well with AJ Styles defending the World Title against Samoa Joe and Christopher Daniels.
Sarita, ODB and Taylor Wilde take on the Beautiful People in a six knockout tag team match with the KO Title and the KO Tag Titles on the line. The crowd chants "you can't wrestle" a couple times during the chaos but they seem to be enjoying themselves. ODB gets the pinfall for the win in this one so they all retain their titles. 4/10
^Knockouts chaos here. I wasn't blown away by the quality of the wrestling, but the crowd seemed to love the action overall. I don't know how to grade this, but I was mildly entertained.
The Motor City Machine Guns and Beer Money challenge the British Invasion for the World Tag Team Titles in a three way match. Magnus and Williams were impressive looking champs in this one. Eric Young tries to get involved in the match but Kevin Nash stops him. James Storm goes to hit Eric Young but then Nash smacks Storm with the Global Belt. Bobby Roode has no one to tag and he gets double teamed by the Invasion for the three count. 7/10
^This was when Tag Team Wrestling was still solid in TNA. Just an outstanding WRESTLING match here from all three teams. For someone so destined for greatness, it's a damn shame that Magnus' push is coming now during a time where TNA is in the toilet. Great tag team match here.
Tara takes on Awesome Kong in a grudge match next inside six sides of steel! Tara wins the match in just under eight minutes. Tara nails a flying "cross"-body(she comes down straight, not crossed) from the top of the cage for a three count. (6/10)
^Nice encounter here. The physicality here made up for the fiasco earlier in the six-knockout tag team match. THIS was what the knockouts were all about, and any company would be lucky to have Awesome Kong now.
Rhino and Team 3D take on Matt Morgan, Hernandez and the Pope D'Angelo Dinero. Rhino and Team 3D get the victory when Rhino smacks Hernandez with a chair and nails the gore for the win. (6/10)
^Excellent six man brawl. It reminded me of something we would've seen in ECW. Solid show thus far as things continue to deliver!
Scott Steiner takes on Bobby Lashley in a falls count anywhere match. Lashley and Steiner fight all over the arena. Steiner eventually gets the win when he hits Lashley with a pipe. 4/10
^More of a brawl than a wrestling match, and I'm surprised to see Lashley put Steiner over here. Luckily this wouldn't be the end of their feud, but TNA certainly could've done better with their booking of Mr. Lashley while they had him on their payroll.
Kurt Angle defeats Desmond Wolfe in a twenty minute wrestling clinic that ends with Wolfe tapping out to a grounded triangle choke.
^The way this thing went, you would've thought we were watching a submission match. Wolfe had amazing matches with Bryan Danielson in Ring of Honor, and then he went on to have classic matches(spoiler alert for the next show I cover) with Angle in TNA. Can you imagine what Kurt Angle and Daniel Bryan could've done in the ring together? Amazing match with Wolfe and Angle here; the six german suplexes were just incredible! 10/10
AJ Styles defends the World Title against Christopher Daniels and Samoa Joe in a triple threat main event. Daniels takes down Joe with an STO judo takedown and goes for a best moonsault ever and nails it. AJ nails a springboard 450 on Daniels and then covers Joe for the win to retain the TItle!
^10/10. As a follow up to the classic at Unbreakable 2005, this match was EVEN BETTER. Incredible showing from these three and nothing less than what you would expect from them in terms of delivery. Daniels has always been underrated as a performer and should've held a World Title before now. Styles keeping the gold was the right move here, and honestly he never should've left the World Title scene in TNA(anyone remember the RVD mistake in 2010?).
The gets a score of 54/80, which gets calculated as 67.5% out of 100, so the score SHOULD BE 6.75/10. I can't go with that score, and that's because this show freakin delivered like no other TNA show I've ever watched from start to finish. Call it 8 out of 10 for quality because THIS WAS what TNA Wrestling was all about. It truly was a Turning Point for TNA and not in a good way as this was just two pay per views before the arrival of Hulk Hogan. Fantastic show!
We kick off the show with Mike Tenay running down the major matches on the card. We kick off the show with the "no-limits" X-Division!
It's the Amazing Red taking on Homicide with Red's X-Title on the line! Don West is in Red's corner and Taz is on commentary with Tenay. I disagree with West leaving the TNA announce booth. Red bounces around the ring during the opening minutes like no other performer I've ever seen. The crowd gets behind Red as they go back and forth for nearly ten minutes. Lots of counters and some near falls. Red counters a hurricanrana from the top rope into code-red for the three count as he retains the title. 7/10
^As far as openers go, this was solid on all levels. You had the ground/power game of Homicide mixed with his unbelievable speed against the nonstop go power of Red. Fantastic start!
Tenay and Taz talk about the "impactful" Desmond Wolf and his success since his debut in TNA. Taz thinks it might be the end of the road tonight when he faces Kurt Angle. They talk about the triple threat World Title Main Event as well with AJ Styles defending the World Title against Samoa Joe and Christopher Daniels.
Sarita, ODB and Taylor Wilde take on the Beautiful People in a six knockout tag team match with the KO Title and the KO Tag Titles on the line. The crowd chants "you can't wrestle" a couple times during the chaos but they seem to be enjoying themselves. ODB gets the pinfall for the win in this one so they all retain their titles. 4/10
^Knockouts chaos here. I wasn't blown away by the quality of the wrestling, but the crowd seemed to love the action overall. I don't know how to grade this, but I was mildly entertained.
The Motor City Machine Guns and Beer Money challenge the British Invasion for the World Tag Team Titles in a three way match. Magnus and Williams were impressive looking champs in this one. Eric Young tries to get involved in the match but Kevin Nash stops him. James Storm goes to hit Eric Young but then Nash smacks Storm with the Global Belt. Bobby Roode has no one to tag and he gets double teamed by the Invasion for the three count. 7/10
^This was when Tag Team Wrestling was still solid in TNA. Just an outstanding WRESTLING match here from all three teams. For someone so destined for greatness, it's a damn shame that Magnus' push is coming now during a time where TNA is in the toilet. Great tag team match here.
Tara takes on Awesome Kong in a grudge match next inside six sides of steel! Tara wins the match in just under eight minutes. Tara nails a flying "cross"-body(she comes down straight, not crossed) from the top of the cage for a three count. (6/10)
^Nice encounter here. The physicality here made up for the fiasco earlier in the six-knockout tag team match. THIS was what the knockouts were all about, and any company would be lucky to have Awesome Kong now.
Rhino and Team 3D take on Matt Morgan, Hernandez and the Pope D'Angelo Dinero. Rhino and Team 3D get the victory when Rhino smacks Hernandez with a chair and nails the gore for the win. (6/10)
^Excellent six man brawl. It reminded me of something we would've seen in ECW. Solid show thus far as things continue to deliver!
Scott Steiner takes on Bobby Lashley in a falls count anywhere match. Lashley and Steiner fight all over the arena. Steiner eventually gets the win when he hits Lashley with a pipe. 4/10
^More of a brawl than a wrestling match, and I'm surprised to see Lashley put Steiner over here. Luckily this wouldn't be the end of their feud, but TNA certainly could've done better with their booking of Mr. Lashley while they had him on their payroll.
Kurt Angle defeats Desmond Wolfe in a twenty minute wrestling clinic that ends with Wolfe tapping out to a grounded triangle choke.
^The way this thing went, you would've thought we were watching a submission match. Wolfe had amazing matches with Bryan Danielson in Ring of Honor, and then he went on to have classic matches(spoiler alert for the next show I cover) with Angle in TNA. Can you imagine what Kurt Angle and Daniel Bryan could've done in the ring together? Amazing match with Wolfe and Angle here; the six german suplexes were just incredible! 10/10
AJ Styles defends the World Title against Christopher Daniels and Samoa Joe in a triple threat main event. Daniels takes down Joe with an STO judo takedown and goes for a best moonsault ever and nails it. AJ nails a springboard 450 on Daniels and then covers Joe for the win to retain the TItle!
^10/10. As a follow up to the classic at Unbreakable 2005, this match was EVEN BETTER. Incredible showing from these three and nothing less than what you would expect from them in terms of delivery. Daniels has always been underrated as a performer and should've held a World Title before now. Styles keeping the gold was the right move here, and honestly he never should've left the World Title scene in TNA(anyone remember the RVD mistake in 2010?).
The gets a score of 54/80, which gets calculated as 67.5% out of 100, so the score SHOULD BE 6.75/10. I can't go with that score, and that's because this show freakin delivered like no other TNA show I've ever watched from start to finish. Call it 8 out of 10 for quality because THIS WAS what TNA Wrestling was all about. It truly was a Turning Point for TNA and not in a good way as this was just two pay per views before the arrival of Hulk Hogan. Fantastic show!
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