Victory Road 2008
They open with a ludicrious pretentious video with Kennedy and the space launch blowing up, its very silly but its kind of refreshing change from WWE's videos which have been the same for like forever. Did I mention it was silly? We also open with some very unimpressive fireworks.
Borash is outside the arena with possible the low browest looking red neck crowd imaginable. They chant "TNA" all the way through Borash's speil. Then the increasingly lovely Lauren is in the crowd with BG James, unfortunately, so Lauren is no longer on camera, he talks some waffle running down the card shouting alot, this is very dumb, have I mentioned that all ready. Oh God there's gimmick matches galore.
World X Cup Match Up
Team Japan vs. Team Mexico vs. Team TNA vs. Team International
Curry man misses a few elbows and Yoshimo who floors him with a running Yakuza kick. Curry man challenges him to a race an trips him, ha ha. The Guns comes in with a double dropkick. Tyson Dukes comes in against Sabin, they get a closeline, knee, twilt a whirl backbreaker running knee combo. Sabin slips out of an odd submissions and the Mexicans comes in with senton triple team. Team Mexico then give Dukes a brilliant flap jack into a spinebuster, they get a front flip plancha on Williams and a wheel barrow bomb eliminates Dukes. Tyson Dukes is Eliminated. Team Japan get a drop toe hold, senton, camel clutch and dropkick combo. Puma comes into the ring for Japan with a helo. Bukanaero sticks out on a victory roll attempt. Irverno goes through a big sequence of counters before scoring with the Angel's wings on Puma. Puma is Eliminated. Malano gets a brutal kick combo for two, he avoids a slingshot closeline with a matrix and puts both the guns in a half crab in a nice sequence. While the ref is distracted Milano fakes being low blowed but the ref spots it. Sabin and Milano trade kick and a half botched double team cradle shock eliminates Milano. Milano Collection 18 is Eliminated. Yoshino and Sabin trade pin attempts before Sabin scores with a brutal kick. Shelley scores with a corner closeline. He puts Yoshino in the tree of woe and both Guns get their corner dropkicks for two. Yoshino counters a swinging DDT with a kip up and then locks in a octupus stretch. Shelley comes back with a brutal kick. Yoshino scores with a spinning reverse DDT. Iverno scores with a spinning sit out move on Yoshino for two. Iverno scores with a TKO, They total botch a sequence and a roll up gets two, the corner shit allover that. Iverno is Eliminated. Koslov scores with a powerslam on Curry man and he puts on the cossack dance kick. Williams scores with the Chaos Theory. Williams and Curry man tee off. Team Mexico get double cross bodies. Headstand bronco buster from Ultimo Guerrero. Curry man comes back but is caught going for a franksteiner and a second rope powerbomb eliminates Curry. Curry Man is Eliminated. They put Williams on the bow and arrow and they hit a spiraling senton for the pin. Doug Williams is Eliminated. We get two missed Planchas from the Guns. Koslov tries to start a "Russia" chant, Ultimo chops him down, Koslov catches Ultimo on top and is front suplex off top for two. "This Is Awesome" they are retards. Koslov gets the anaconda vice to Eliminated Guerrero. Ultimo Guerrero is Eliminated. Bokanero gets a body slam and heads up top, Sabin catches him and gets a proper top rope Frankenstiener despite the lame set up. The double low superkick gets the win. Rey Bukanero is Eliminated. The Guns get there low dropkick combo on Yoshino. Shelley fucks up a Tower of doom, scoring with a top rope jaw breaker, they do a dropkick flatliner combo for two. Koslov tries a sling shot move but is met by Sabin's dropkick. Sabin gets a ace crusher and a big lariat for a near fall. Koslov pins Sabin with his feet on the ropes. Chris Sabin is Eliminated. Koslov dives a closeline and then scores with a diving senton to the outside on Alex Shelley. Koslov counters a top rope move with a mid air enzenguri. Shelley does an awful bump to the outside. Yoshino gets a nice rana then a very silly looking choke. Alex Koslov is Eliminated. Yoshino and Shelley unload on each other. Yoshino floors Shelley with a nice counter and Yoshino scores a monster stalling Torpedo dropkick for a near fall. Shelley gets a super kick and the sliced bread for a near fall. Shelley misses a frog splash and Yoshino gets a near fall off a protoplex, lame. Yoshino goes for a ranna but Shelley shoves him down to the matt and scores with a Tiger Suplex for a near fall. Shelley gives Yoshino a top rope superkick and they battle on the top rope, Yoshino scores with a lame take down for a near fall. Shelley gets a top rope inverted atomic drop and the Shell Shock for the win. Yoshino is Eliminated and Alex Shelley is the Winner.
A lame ammatuer hour indie spot fest for the most part with a lot of fuck ups, the final minutes with Shelley and Yoshino were better. The usual crap, no selling, botches galore, I've seen alot better and alot worse. Some good athleticism to warm the crowd up. (**1/2)
X Cup Standings
TNA: 6
Japan: 4
International: 3
Mexico: 4
We go to TNA Cribs with Booker being cocky showing off his achievements and talks about how he's gonna beat Joy, how he's richer than Joe and how he's achieved more than Joe. Is alright at best.
We then go to a video package with Kim and Angelina Love, Love and Sky play there rolls superbly in the best booked division in wrestling.
Angelina Love vs. Gail Kim
Love sneaks attacks Kim and goes to work with some tame head pounds. We go to a forearm battle, Love runs into a back elbow and then into a boot before Kim gets a rounding mat pound. Kim scores with a corner closeline. Kim floats over to the apron but the lovely Velvet Sky trips Kim allowing Love to get two. Love gets a brutal girly head pound series. Love scores with a lariat for two. Kim catches a kick but Love rolls through into an awkward pin, another awkward sequence ends in a spinning kick for two. The Camera rig gets in the way of the hard cam. Kim slides to the apron and gives Love a jaw jacker and follows up with a figure four on the ringpost. Gail then whips Sky into the guard rail. Love crotches Kim, Love scores with the not so super superplex and they're both down. Love crawls over for a near fall. Love misses a pump kick and Kim unloads. Kim gets a dropkick, Love floats over a body slam and gets a roll up for two. Kim scores with a nice spear. Kim blocks the Lights out and scores with a code breaker, Gail Kim gets the hand cuff neckbreaker for the win.
Sloppy in places but a fine ladies match that picked up as it went along. (*3/4)
The Beautiful People try a beat down post match but before they can do the brown paper bag treatment Gail bails.
BG and Crystal are backstage with the fans and some mannequins, its absolutely awful.
Sonjay Dutt vs. Jay Lethal
Dutt gives Val a card and Rose, that makes Jay made and he scores with a suicide dive and he rips the card. Jay gets the running crescent kick and the bombs away axe handle. Dutt comes back with a jaw breaker. Jay gets the floating hip toss dropkick combo for two. They do a nice counter sequence in the corner ending with Dutt getting a leg drop between the ropes and a springboard senton for two and he plays to the crowd. Dutt gets a double stomp to the face. Dutt nails a back breaker and heads up top, Dutt slingshots in and gets the cocky back kick and its Bushwhacking time. Val is a terrible manager. Jay fights out of headlock, Dutt flips out of a back suplex, botches a front flip senton and then scores with a standing moonsault. Jay counters a DDT attempt but runs into an enzenguri. Jay comes back with a snake eyes and a belly to back suplex. Dutt misses a blind charge and Jay unloads with closelines. Lethal runs into a elbow and Dutt goes for a Tornado DDT but is shoved off. Lethal gets a second rope torpedo dropkick. Dutt flips out on Lethal and they end up battling on top, Dutt blocks the Lethal combination and gets a Frankenstiener for two, that was awkward. Lethal comes back with a wheel barrow bomb for two. Lethal whips Dutt into the guard rail and the ring post. Dutt asks for help from Val but Lethal continues to intodruces Dutt into a variety of items. Lethal locks in a mega seated texas clover leaf. Val comes onto the apron and Lethal tells her to get down. Dutt scores with a diving closeline. Dutt reaches out to Val and says "I love you" and Lethal gets the Lethal Combination and Lethal gets ready to go up top and Val tells him to stop and Dutt gets the roll up with his feet on the top rope and Dutt kisses Vals Hand.
Not bad at all, helped advance the story nicely. (**)
Robert Roode and James Storm cut about as a generic heel promo as you could possibly get, Storm is at least a bit funny.
Fans Revenge Match
Beer Money vs. LAX
Homicide and Roode start the match off, Roode gets a side headlock they then trade hammerlocks and Homicide runs him to the outside and the fans whip the shit out of Roode and he crawls to Storm. Storm whips Homicide to the outside but the fans leave him alone and Homicide drinks Storms beer. Storm charges aout and gets whipped. Homicide tries to toss Storm but he skins the cat but Hector pulls Storm out and the fans whip the shit out of him. Hernandez gets a corner closeline and shoulderblock. Storm runs into a back elbow and Homicide gets a rota and as he's pressed to the apron Homicide shouts "oh shit". He pulls Roode to the outside for a whipping. Homicide scores with the three amigos to start an Eddie chant. Storm scores with a spinebuster and then goes to a chinlock. Storm scores with a twisting double arm move. They heel hit a double suplex and shout Beer Money, ugh. Roode knocks Hernandez off the apron. Roode and Storm get a spinebuster closeline combo and a boston crab knee drop combo. Hernandez breaks that up for Roode goes to the front face lock. Homicide blocks a fisherman's suplex and scores with a overhead suplex. Hernandez gets the slingshot shoulder block. He gives Storm a Cracker Jack, gives Roode a big over head suplex. Hernandez gives Roode a train wrech. He catches a cross body and gives Roode a sit out powerbomb for a near fall. Stormg gets a big corner closeline. Beer Money try a double superplex but are swatted and Hernendez gets a huge big splash for two. Homicide gets a tornado DDT on Storm, Roode is sent to the outside. They then give Roode the Doomsday 187 for the win
Well that really wasn't as awful I was expecting, okay ten minutes of wrestling. (*3/4)
We then go back to Booker and he's showing us around his wrestling training facility and his trainees says how inspirational he is and Booker says its his destiny to win the TNA world title.
TNA Knockout Title Match
Awesome Kong vs. Taylor Wilde
Kong unloads immediately, Wilde slide underneath but runs into a butterfly club and a splash for two. Wilde is quite hot. Kong gets a hair drag takedown. Kong floors Wilde with some huge chops, Wilde is selling really well, terrible camera work as Kong chokes Wilde in the ropes. "Let's Go Kong" chant, Kong gets a foot choke and and then scores with a big body slam before going to camel clutch. Wilde tries to fight out but Kong sits down on her and locks it back in. Wilde fights up and pulls Kong's hair but is just flung into the corner. Wilde slips out of the Awesome bomb and Taylor scores with some dropkicks and a big torpedo dropkick but Kong rolls through no sells and scores with a monster closeline. Taylor catches Kong onto and scores with a super arm drag for a near fall. Wilde is the female John Cena when it comes to goofy facial expressions. Kong misses a spinning back fist and gets a roll up for two, and alla Mickie James the wheel barrow is countered into a roll up for the win.
Too short, but pretty solid while it lasted, told the story well, and Wilde plays her well even if she camps it up too much, this woman is blatently John Cena's future wife. She matches his goofy facial expressions face for face.
Kong beats down Wilde post match and when she sets up and Awesome Bomb on the Chair Abyss comes out Sied gets Kong to back down. Riesha then bitch slaps Abyss and he laughs and gives Sied a black hole slam. TNA's obssesion with man on woman violence continues, god it's not ECW bad yet.
It's part three of Booker hometown tour, he's in his personal resteruant chain telling us how great he is. We then see Space Centre Housten, why I don't know and I'm beyond caring, up next more fucking Gimmick's, I hate Russo, not even the silly story telling just the matches that's what pisses me off. At least they have a pretty impressive video package. Don West continues to wear ties that can only be described as a war crime, basically anyone can win. Speaking of stupid he says Kaz should be relaxed because he has a cushion? The winner gets four so anyone can win, the cushion doesn't matter.
World X Cup Final
Ultimate X Match
Volador Jnr. vs. Horoki Doi vs. Kaz vs. Daivari
Kaz charges and is backdropped onto the apron where he scores with a Jaw Jacker and goes onto the wires but is pulled down quickly. Kaz runs into a back elbow, Diavari is shoved face first into the scafold in the corner. Doi accidently floors Volador, Volador scores with a soft ranna on Kaz. Volador runs into a boot but then scores with a ropey ranna off the cables, Kaz closelines Volador out of the ring. Kaz takes ages going up the X and is pulled to the outside by Diavari. Shawn whips Kaz into the guard rail and works over the arm on the rail. All three of the foriegners work over the arm of Kaz. Kaz pulls Shawn into a flying axe handle by Doi. This is lame and the crowd are dead. Kaz tries to swing on the wires but his injured hand gives way. The three heels work on Kaz but Doi says no, he puts Kaz in a tree of woe, he press Volador and Shawn to the outside and gets a running cannonball on Kaz, in brutal spot. Shawn shoves Doie off the scaffold to the outside but Diavari is pulled off the wire by Volador. Shawn dodges the rebound handspring move and they just kind of do nothing and Shawn goes to the outside. In a silly spot, Kaz shoots Doi into the air and hits Volador in the groin as he climbed the wires. Doi for no apparent reason climbs the back wards on the wire and Kaz kicks Doi off for a hard bump. Kaz then kicks Volador of the wire, Diavari stops Kaz getting the X and then Volador pulls down Shawn, lame. Volador and Doi do a counter spot and they end with a cross body collision. Volador dropkicks Doi off the wire sending him rolling to the outside, Volador then follows up with a moonsault press to the outside. Shawn and Kaz both climb the scaffold. They brawl at the very top of the scaffold, Shawn wins the brawl and crawls toward the X, Kaz comes off the top of the Sacfold with a guillotine leg drop onto Shawn taking him off the wire in the "big spot", it was pretty cool. Volador then climbs up and wins the belt.
Pretty good work but just incredible underwhelming, and incredibly forgetable Ultimate X, but then almost all of them are. (*1/4)
Team Mexico are the winners and Tenay interviews them.
Booker is then at his golf range showing off his Booker tees, ha ha, some more people say he's great. It's funnier nearer then end when Booker goes a bit more ghetto at the country club.
Got the fan's get the gimmick, god could we not just vote for say a straight wrestling match.
Fan's Stipulation Match
Full Metal Mayhem
Team 3D & Kurt Angle vs. Rhino, Christian Cage & AJ Styles
Angle ambushes AJ on the way to the ring. Everyone is brawling all around ringside. AJ gets back in the ring and manages to knock Kurt off the apron. AJ then scores with the front flip diving plancha to the outside. AJ scores with a mexican dropkick on D-Von and closelines him over the top rope. Rhino scores with a spine buster on Kurt for two. Cage nails Ray with a pair of trash can shots for two. Ray scores with a monster back body drop on Cage. AJ scores with his slingshot flying forearm on Ray. In a ropey spot AJ gets a springboard back flip over Team 3D but just walks into a double flapjack. Rhino and Cage uses a ladder to take 3D out, Kurt nails everyone with chairs and then gives Cage and overhead release Belly to belly suplex on Christian Cage. Team 3D then sandwich Rhino with a pair of ladders. AJ gets a flying cross body off the top of the ladder but Kurt pulls the referee out. Kurt floors AJ with a european uppercut. Cage comes off the top of the ultimate X scaffold with an absolutely picture perfect flying crossbody on all three men, now that's a spot. Ray comes back and kills him with a ladder. Ray nails AJ with a steel chair but Rhino comes back and gives all three of the heels Gores. Rhino sets up a chair in the middle of the ring and he takes Devon onto the top rope but Ray makes the save and they score with the Dudley Device through the table for two, another nice spot. Devon seems to have a legit foot injury. Cage gives 3D a double closeline. Kurt misses a blind charge, Kurt counters the unprettier but Cage lands on his feet, they counter each others finisher ending in an ankle lock being counter into a roll up for two. Cage gets the diving reverse DDT. Kurt tries to catch him up top but is shoved off. Devon low blows Cage and they give Cage a 3D through a table off the apron. It's three on AJ but he dodges a closeline and Kurt nails Devon and then AJ scores with the running enzenguri on Kurt. Ray scores with a brutal super kick on AJ. Ray shouts "you didn't know I had that one did ya?", bwhahahahaha. We get some awkward moments as Ray sets up a table. Ray puts AJ on the table but AJ pops up and catches Ray on second rope and face busters Ray throught the table. AJ gives Devon a brutal drop toe hold through a table. AJ then does a brutal counter of an Angle Slam into a Styles Clash but it gets two! Devine runs in but misses with the kendo stick and AJ scores with the Pele. AJ points the kendo stick at Trigg on commentary and Angle scores with a Angle Slam for two! Kurt gets a ladder and shoves over the ref who hurts his ankle. Kurt sets up a ladder and a table, AJ puts Kurt on the table, AJ climbs the ladder Trigg climbs up the top rope nails AJ with the Kendo stick and Kurt recovers and scores with an Angle Slam off the ladder through the table for the win.
Well that was a total indie spotfest but the last few minutes with Styles and AJ were excellent and there were some real big impressive spots, however I could list the complaints for ever, selling, lame set ups etc...but it was fun, had it been the only gimmick match on the show it would have really stood out. (***)
Kevin Nash says he's in Joe's corner tonight, Joe believes him but asks him if he's truely in his corner to stay back tonight.
TNA World Heavyweight Title Match
Booker T vs. Samoa Joe
They stare down with ruffly eighteen minutes left on the show. Booker scores with a bitch slap and the crowd love it. Booker lights up Joe in the corner but he respones with a huge round of knife edged chops. Joe gives Booker a head pound to a round of huge boos. Joe scores with a running back elbow in the corner and an enzenguri, hot openning. Book catches Joe with an eye poke. Joe dodges a back elbow and scores with a big running knee. "let's Go Booker, Let's Go" chant. Joe gets a snapmare and the Joe chop to the back. Book manages to shoot Joe to the outside and scores with a cocky kick. Joe tries to fight back but Book cuts him off with an eye poke and a short arm closeline. Sharmell is cheering on from the crowd. Booker throws Joe into the steel steps as Book plays to the crowd, Joe is bleeding above the eye, Sharmell does an awesome sell when she sees the balde job. Booker scores with the Housten side kick for two. Book floors Joe with one punch and Book unloads from a mount. Its slowed to a Booker pace, Joe dodges a side kick and scores with a inverted atomic drop and a Yakuza kick but misses the senton back splash. Booker scores with the scissor kick for two! Book scores with the arm wrench and side kick second time of asking and that gets two too. Both men exchange blows Joe comes back with a flying knee. Joe blade job is pretty nice. Book runs into a boot and Joe scores with a second rope flying knee strike. Sharmell is selling better than Booker. Book gets an eye rake but runs into a snap powerslam for two. Joe blocks the Book end with a gargolye suplex for two. Book fights back with a series of knee strikes, Joe misses a spinning back fist, Book misses a Housten Axe kick, Booker randomly dives into the ref. Joe scores with a running closeline, pretty clumsy. Joe is just resting as the ref is out. Joe tosses Book to the outside and its gone really limp, the match that is. Joe give Book a seat at ringside and scores with the Ole kick at ringside. Joe introduces Book to the ringpost, Sharmell tells Joe to stop, Sharmell bitch slaps Joe, and Joe floors her security. Sharmell keeps screaming. Book is now bleeding and Joe is raking away at the cut. Slick Johnson runs out and calls for help, they for no apparent reason tells Joe to stop, Joe kills Johnson and low blows Thomas and gives him a DDT, What a Sell by the ref! Joe floors all the security including giving one an overhead belly to belly. Book charges but he gets an STJoe. Sharmell pleads with Joe but Joe won't stop and Joe chokes out Booker as Sharmell calls for more help and Sting comes from the back! God this is some overbooked garbage. Joe turns his back on Sting, but just goes back to choking T. Sting says he's gone to far and tells him to knock it off and Joe pretends to walk away but comes back and wails on Book. Sting slides back in and says you made your point but Joe gives him the finger so Sting beats the crap out of him with the baseball bat, Book crawls ontop and Sharmell counts three as Sting looks on. Sharmell then walks off with the belt.
That was the absolute most dumb arse non sensical over booked peice of total garbage of a finish. I mean seriously, I hate Russo's booking so much, this isn't as Dumb as WCW but its catching up rapidly, the match was okay up until the end, good when it was at Joe's pace, standard when it was a Booker's, sloppy and exciting in equal measure but that finish was just dreadful. Well I hope it leads to a good Hard Justice card otherwise that was a total joke. God and American's had to pay to watch that. (*3/4)
Overall Thoughts: Awful PPV I sincerely fell bad for those who paid to watch that. Avoid.
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