Don't worry friends I'm still alive, an I'm actually enjoying it, that last disk was so much fun even if everyones lips are firmly planted on Jarrett's arsehole, but after six hours of Jarrett can I handle enough six, lets find out!
Chapter Sixteen: The Summer Of No Worries
Jeff talks about how much fun everyone had while they were recieving the WCW money for a year or so with no dates to fullfill. Borash talks about chilling at Jeff's house and Jet Skiing, god I bet that was so gay. They said it was a time of clarity to react and consider where he was going.
NWA Heavyweight Title
Monty Brown vs. Jeff Jarrett
Thy lock up and they power each other around the ring. Monty Brown powers Jarrett into te corner and then plays to the crowd. Monty Brown powers out of a head lock by throwing Jarrett across the ring. The crowd chant "let's go Monty". Jeff gets a standing switch but Monty powers out and goes for a powerslam but Jarrett slips out, Jeff can't dodge three big shoulder blocks and Jarrett is shocked. Jeff catches Monty charging with a back elbow and goes to work on Monty. Jarrett gets a ten punch before running straight into military press. Brown misses a blind charge and Brown crashes and burns to the outside.
We come back from an add break and Jarrett is on top joking Brown in the ropes before hitting three rope riders before strutting to the crowd. Jarrett works over Montys injured abdomen by driving shoulders into Monty's gut. Jarrett hangs Monty in the tree of woe and then stretches Monty from the outside. Brown dodges a closeline but Jeff cuts him off with some strikes to the gut before locking on a bear hug....ugh.
Monty fades but powers out and hits a nice double arm suplex and both men are down. Monty wins a slugfest with ease Jeff tries to float over Monty but is caught with a running powerslam for a near fall. Monty comes off the second rope but see Jarrett's boot catches it and spins Jarrett around and head butts him low. Monty then hits a sloppy version of his fallaway pop up Powerbomb for a near fall. Monty dodges a closeline and catches Jarrett's cross body and hits a fallaway slam into the referee. Jarrett kills Monty with the guitar but he no sells and confronts Jarrett. Jeff hits the Stroke but Monty powers out at two with Ease.
Monty no sells all of Jarrett's punches and unloads. Monty knocks Scott Hall off the apron and hits a weak pounce on Jarrett. Monty kills Scott Hall with the pounce but while he's distracted Jeff hits two chairshots and gets the 1-2-3.
Fun TV main event, not exactly screaming out to be put on DVD other than to show that Monty Brown was in TNA. Another screw job finish but not bad. (**1/4)
Chapter Seventeen: What Would I Do With One Million Dollars
Jeff talks about creating his company, he says their isn't one answer why, he says he has the best front room staff. Kurt Angle in an incredibly dispassionate way say Jeff has more Passion than anyone else in the business. Apparently Jarrett is very excited about the future of TNA.
NWA World Heavyweight Title
Kevin Nash vs. Jeff Jarrett
The commentators talk up how weak Nash's knee is, great that really puts over your talent. Jeff tries to evade Nash's to start the match. Nash scores with a knee to the gut and then lays in some patterned Nash clubbing blows, Jeff dodges a closeline and then floats over Nash before running straight into a reverse elbow. Nash then impressively throws Jarrett out of the corner accross the ring. Nash lays in some elbows and knees in the corner before applying the foot choke, great babyface offence Kev.
Jarrett immediately pin points the knee and unloads on Kev. Nash responds with a nice corner closeline and then closelines Jarrett hard over the top rope. Nash then follows Nash to the outside and gives Jarrett snake eyes on the announce table. Jarrett catches Nash slowly entering the ring as the crowd chant "Diesel". Jarrett takes down Nash with a series of big rights, that's some impressive selling from Nash. Jarrett charges but is casually tossed over the top by Nash.
Jeff is spanked by a female crowd as he gets to his feet. Kev and Jarrett brawl all the way to the back stage area. Nash throws Jarrett into the catering table and the food flies everywhere. Nash then pokes Jarrett in the ribs with the table. Jarrett tries to fire back with a chair poke to the gut but Nash no sells it and Nash takes the chair and waffles Jarrett with the chair. Nash pounds the crap out of Jarrett and intimidates the referee a huge crowd has formed around the fight and Nash plays to them. Nash slowly slugs Jarrett all the way back to ringside, when they get back under proper lighting and we see that Jeff is busted wide open.
Nash tries a powerbomb on the concrete but Jarrett stops Nash dead with a low blow. Jarrett is band from using the guitar so he gets a CELLO! ITS BREAKS WHILE JEFF IS HOLDING IT! So Jeff picks it up and tamely hits Nash in the leg beofer working it over against the ring post. No shit in the ring Jarrett is working over Nash's knee by slamming Nash's knee in the cello case. Jarrett works over Nash's knee on the ring ropes and plays to the crowd. The crowd shout "Jarrett sucks" I'm inclined to agree. Jarrett cinches in the figure four leglock in the centre of the ring, Jarrett gets a series of near falls before Nash tries to turn the hold over. Nash can't reach the ropes, Nash gets mega pissed with some good facial expressions as he manages to make the ropes.
Jarrett drags Nash to the centre of the ring and scissors the leg in the centre of the ring. Nash powers out and kicks the crap out of Jarrett's head. Nash misses two closelines but scores with a big boot and then follows up with a big side salto for a nearfall. Nash scores with snake eyes in two different corners. Jeff swings at air but tries one snake eyes too many and Jarrett slips out and chop blocks Nash. Jarrett fetches the cello but Nash low blows Jarrett. Nash has the cello but Jarrett begs off and the referee gets in the way. Nash tries a Jacknife and during the lift the referee gets pumped then in a cool spot Nash powers Jarrett up and hits the Jacknife through the cello but there's no referee.
Billy Gunn runs in for his debut and kills Nash with a steal chair. Jarrett crawls over and gets the pin for the 1-2-2.9999! Good kick out there from Nash the crowd popped pretty big for that. Gunn tries to interfere but a referee cuts him off. Sean Waltman appears on the other side with a spinning heel kick, a Bronco buster and the X-factor! Tenay shouted "Ride 'em baby!" during the Bronco buster man that was gay. Nash crawls accross and we get a 2,9999! Great kick out there by Jarrett.
Billy Gunn tries to clobber Nash with the belt but BG James (Roaddogg) takes the belt away and Nash closelines Gunn over the rope. Jarrett then kills Nash with the title belt but only gets another nearfall! Jarrett then hits the Stroke for another near fall! Jarrett then comes off top, Nash catches him with a choke and signals for the chokeslam but Jarrett shoves the referee out the way low blows Nash and hits the Stroke for the 1-2-3.
That was crazily overbooked but I think on this occasion it came off and was alot of fun, the kick outs at the end was over kill but the DX mini-reunion was a nice touch. Jarrett did his best to create movement for Nash and did it very well. The blade job was impressive from Jarrett, considering Nash limitations this was probably about as good as this match could have been. (***)
Chapter Eighteen: The Boat Ride
Borash talks about how Andrew McManus ran independent shows in Australia, they booked Jarrett as he was the biggest star available. Borash said seeing the mistakes and the successes of McManus inspired Jeff to get into the promoting business. Jeff says there's no life in independent wrestling, Jeff said he was still a young man and he said he had to choose between wrestling and real estate.
Bob Ryder talks about his fishing trip with Jeff and Jerry Jarrett and Ryder talks about the idea of running a weekly PPVs for 9.99. Ryder said this would show that they could run a wrestling show and hopefully convince people to give them a chance on TV. Jerry Jarrett offered Jeff as much money as he'd need. Don and Ron Harris tells us how they helped out, they tell the story about the ring breaking just before they were due to go live on PPV. They show the footage of wrestlers running away from the ring as the opening Pyro went off.
Jeff says it was an "incredible, guided and blessed time".
NWA World Heavyweight Title
Rhino vs. Jeff Jarrett
The crowd are into Rhino big time. Jarrett isn't happy about the crowd's chanting, well to be fair he's not used to hearing a hot crowd. The crowd start a "Jeff's a Jobber" chant, bwahahaha, awesome.
Jarrett gets a knee to the gut and takes Jeff down with the test of strenght, Rhino was about to overturn it but Jeff gets a quick knee to the gut. Jarrett explodes with a shoulder block and a quick closeline. Rhino grabs an arm wrench but Jarrett escapes and slides under Rhino before scoring with a dropkick. Jarrett shows of a new addition to his move set with a hip toss straight into an arm scissor, very nice. The crowd chant "fire Jarrett". Rhino powers Jarrett up from the floor and drops Jarrett onto the top rope and then scores with a nice military press. Rhino then front suplexes Jeff onto the top rope and then big boots Jarrett off the apron into the guard rail. Rhino follows up with a plancha and you can hear that the crowd were suprised to see Rhino pull that off. Solid Opening.
Rhino and Jarrett brawl through the crowd like its 1998, Rhino tries to suplex Jarrett off a balcony but Jeff blocks and shoves Rhino down. Both Rhino and Jeff then take turns whipping each other into the woodern wall in the crowd. Jarrett is thrown into various parts of the stage. Rhino is busted open from one of the blows on the stage. Rhino roll Jarrett back onto the entrance ramp and Rhino pounds the crap out of Jarrett's pussy blade before playing to the crowd. Rhino smashes Jarrett in the arm with the chair, Rhino is handed another chair by a fan and he waffles Jarrett in the back with a pair of chair shots.
Rhino sets up a table but when he plays to the crowd Jarrett recovers and unloads. Jarrett and Rhino climb the scafold Rhino no sells a pair of chair shots but two big shots from Jarrett send Rhino flying off the balcony through the table, nice bump. Rhino magically recovers in seconds and suplexes Jarrett on the ramp. The crowd chant "TNA". Rhino goes backstage leaving just Jarrett crawling on the ramp.
Rhino comes from the back with a new table which he sets up covering the enterance hole. Rhino charges and Gore's Jarrett through the table and into the entrance way, it doesn't break but it looks pretty cool regardless as the table went flying. Both men are down and crawling, Jeremy Borash says both men will be counted out if they don't return to the ring. Team Canada come from the back and through Rhino all the way down the entrance hole. Team Canada then carry Jeff Jarrett to the ring as referee's count reaches Nine, Rhino charges to the ring to a HUGE POP!
Rhino cleans house killing team Canada and he shoulder charges Jarrett in the corner. Rhino then tosses Petey and Young really hard out of the ring. Rhino nails a nice spinebuster for a near fall. Rhino heads to the top rope but Petey crotches Rhino. Jarrett scores with a not so superplex for a near fall. Rhino counters an Irish whip into a nice Samoan drop for a near fall. The crowd come to life, as Rhino accidently GORES the ref, its Hardcore rules why bother with a ref bump?
Rhino counters the Stroke with a side belly to belly suplex as the crowd chant "GORE". Bobby Roode and A1 run in, Rhino pounds the crap out of Roode and scores with a nice GORE on A1. Bobby Roode hits a very good Northern Lariat on Rhino and Jarrett crawls over for a very near fall! Jarrett gets the guitar and kills Rhino with it sending Rhino crashing off the second rope! Jarrett gets the cover for a very near fall!
Jackie Gayda runs out and she bitch slaps Jarrett spinning him into a GORE, Rhino has a really good pin but gets a 2.99999999999999 count!!! Rhino creates a chair table and goes for the second rope piledriver but Scott D'Amore runs out and nails Rhino with the Hockey stick allow Jarrett two score with a second rope Stroke onto two chairs for the 1-2-3.
Well another bloody match with a million tonnes of interference, its not exciting and unexpectated if you do the same bloody crap in every bloody title match. The match was a good nineties style hardcore brawl up until the finish, they created some good drama but it was just overkill. (***)
Chapter Nineteen: The Black and Blue Ink
Jim Cornette and Jeff Jarrett talk about how their not an independent promotion, he says he'd laught at anyone who said they were. They claim they achieve more in seven years than anyone else in wrestling including the WWE. This was premier bull crap.
Eight Man Tag Team War
America's Most Wanted, Abyss & Jeff Jarrett vs. Rhino, Ron Killings & Team 3D
We start the match witha wild eight way brawl, it spills to the outside as Rhino scores with a plancha on Abyss. There's brawling going all the way around the arena, the camera men are missing everything. James Storm suplexes Brother Ray on the ramp. Rhino is on the balcony with Abyss and sets up a GORE but Abyss cuts him off with a crisp bit boot. Storm hits an elbow drop on Ray while Jarrett and Killing brawl on the announce table. Killings unloads on Jarrett before asking the crowd "what's up?". Rhino kills Abyss with a chair on one side, while Jarrett kills Truth will a chair shot on the other side. Jarrett drops Killing throat thirst on a guard rail before hitting Truth in the guts with a chair. Ray unloads on Abyss but Storm cuts him off and everyone has made their way to ringside and the brawl is wild. Devon floors Harris on the ramp and the action is allover the place.
Back in the ring Rhino and Storm are brawling, Rhino kicks the crap out of Storm before playing to the crowd and tagging in Devon. Crowd start a huge "TNA" chant. Devon scores with the flying spinning elbow. Jackie and Gail are going at it a ringside. In the ring Storm tries a ten punch but Ray breaks it up and they go for the Doomsday device but Harris breaks it up. Abyss comes in and gives Ray a huge chokeslam.
Jarrett tags in and gives Devon the rope rider before tagging in Abyss. Abyss pounds down Devon before tagging in Storm. Devon scores with a flying closeline and Ray tags in. Ray unloads with a pair of closelines and a big back body drop. Ray gives Harris a side walk slam and Storm a somoan drop. He whips AMW ontop of each other in the corner and then Rhino gores them. Rhino hits a nice spine buster on Harris for a near fall. Rhino dodges a closeline and the military presses Jeff Jarrett before scoring with the side belly to belly suplex. Rhino sets up the GORE but Gail Kim gets in the ring a begs off. Kim slaps Rhino he goes for a piledriver but Abyss breaks it up with a big boot.
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Abyss chokes Rhino in the ropes and works over Rhino before hitting a cartoony corner closeline. Jarrett tags in and scores with one of his crisp dropkicks. James Storm tags in and unloads on Rhino. Storm runs into a boot but Rhino returns the favour by running straight into a powerslam for a two count. Harris tags in and AMW hit a double back elbow. The crowd start a huge "Broke back Mountain" chant. Harris kills the fun by slapping on a chinlock. There is literally no movement in this hold, Orton and Cena really did recreate the chinlock. Rhino fights up but Harris pulls him back down by the hair. Jarrett comes in and gets a series fo two counts. Storm tags in and drops a low headbutt on Rhino for a two count. Abyss tags in and clubs away at Rhino. The pace has slowed right down now. Abyss comes off the second rope with a nice big splash for a near fall. Jarrett tags in and they go straight to a double closeline spot. Harris tags in and drops an elbow to avoid the hot tag. Gail Kim and Jackie Gayda continue to argue at ringside. AMW try to hit a double team move but Rhino side steps Storm and closelines down Harris.
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HOT TAG! Killings cleans house, he hits a high leg lariat on Abyss, hits Jeff with a flatliner, and a spinning flying forearm on Harris. Killings hears Abyss coming and sidesteps Abyss crushing Storm. Killings hits a suplex stunner combination for a near fall. Team 3D clear the ring and Jeff grabs his guitar but he swings and misses allowing Rhino to score with the GORE!!! Abyss hits the Black Hole Slam before Killings closelines both himself and Abyss over the top rope. Ray hits flip flop and fly on Harris. They go for the Wazzz Up Drop but Kim interferes so Ray flips her over and with Jackie's help they hit a double Wazzz Up Drop. After a bit of comedy Ray tells Devon and Killings to "Get the Tables".
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Abyss however has other ideas and double closelines Team 3D, Abyss went to give Jackie the chokeslam but instead Devon gives him a low blow and they hit the 3D on Abyss. AMW come in and hit a superkick on Ray and a full nelson slam on Devon. They then give Ray the Death Sentance. AMW work over Killings in the corner but Truth turns it around and cuffs Harris in a great comedy spot. Killings hit the Axe Kick on Harris 1-2-Jeff pulls the ref out. Ron hits a plancha on Jarrett and they brawl into the ring. Jarrett back body drops Killings and goes for the Stroke but Killings counters and runs the ropes but Harris clubs him in the back and Jeff Jarrett scores with the Stroke for the 1-2-3.
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Best Match on the DVD so far, it had a three minute slow patch but for the most part it was face paced fun eight man tag action with alot of fun moments and a clean finish. The crowd heat was good throughout which was a nice change. It had that problem that there was no structure or story telling in the match just one guy tags in does a spot tags out, repeat, not very memorable but still good. (***1/2)
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Chapter Twenty: It Was Meant To Be
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Jeff Jarrett talks about how he was introduced to Dixie Carter and how they were meant to be, from living in the same apartment early in their life, to Dixie's mothers name being Jarrett. Dixie then talks about how Jeff is amazing and he's not just like some regular wrestler. AJ is next to say how great Jeff is, AJ says that Jeff even put up with being screwed over by some arsehole not turning up to the first PPV. Okay this is just getting far to lovey and far to sychofantic.
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Lethal Lockdown
America's Most Wanted, Scott Stiener & Jeff Jarrett vs. Sting, Rhino, Truth & AJ Styles
The first two entrants in this match are Chris Harris and AJ Styles. Harris scores with a knee to the gut and unloads on AJ. The crowd chant "Pussy Cat" at Harris. Styles grabs an arm wrench but Harris turns it back into a sideheadlock, before AJ shoots him off. Harris holds onto the ropes to avoid a dropkick, Harris plays to the crowd before charging right into a nice dropkick. Harris drives AJ back first into the steel cage before throwing AJ in a front slam motion into the cage. Harris then hits the back rake, oooh what a mean man. AJ slips out of a powerslam and scores with a drop toe hold and the knee drop. Styles places Harris on the top rope, Kim shouts something and the crowd chant "you got served". AJ kicks Harris off the top rope and has Harris trapped against the cage. Styles hits a pair of Stinger splash squishing Styles into the cage before mercilessly ramming Harris' head into the cage. AJ scores with a running forearm in the corner, he tries it again and Harris catches him and scores with the Catatonic with AJ sells amazingly. He can't get the pin yet so he tries it again but AJ counters into the Styles Clash.
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The Next Entrant is James Storm for Team Jarrett. Harris is busted open, AJ baseball slides the door it swings open fast Storm dodges but Gail Kim gets absolutely killed. Storm then slams the door hard on AJ's head before entering the cage and hitting the Eye of the Storm. AJ is now busted open as AMW work him over. AJ tries to fight off both men but he runs straight into a spinebuster diving closeline combination.
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The Next Entrant is Rhino for Stings Warriors. Rhino charges to the ring and cleans house, he dodges a closeline and atomic drops Storm into the cage before nailing Harris with a spinebuster and playing to the crowd. Rhino tess up the GORE but Harris side steps and sends Rhino crashing into the middle turnbuckle. Harris floors AJ with a short arm closeline. Harris Irish whips Storm into Rhino for a facewash. AMW choke both their opponents on alternate sides of the ring as the clock ticks down. Rhino hits the corner spear as AJ gives Harris an enzenguri.
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The Next Entrant is Jeff Jarrett. AJ and Rhino run up the ramp and they beat the crap out of Jeff during his entrance. AMW catch Rhino and Styles returning to the cage and gain control. Jarrett tosses Styles into the cage which AJ sells absolutely superbly. AMW then introduce Rhino to the cage, Jarrett then uses a unique spot suplexing AJ into the cage. AMW hit a inverted atomic drop closeline combination.
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The Next Entrant is Ron Killings. R-Truth cleans house before scoring with the spiral forearm on Jeff. Truth dances around Storm before scoring with the leg lariat and playing to the crowd. Harris tries a suplex but Killings counters into the suplex stunner and Truth plays to the crowd. AJ climbs to the top of the cage and Storm and Jarrett and everyone goes to meet him and they hit a Six Man TOWER OF DOOM OFF THE CAGE. Everyone is down.
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The Next Entrant is Scott Stiener. Scott scores with an overhead release belly to belly suplex on AJ and then Rhino. Scott then gives Killings a side belly to belly before pausing to do a few push ups. Scott Stiener gives AJ a military press and Killings a Super T-Bone suplex. Scott plays to the crowd as he's single handedly destroyed everyone. Killing does the silliest sell every off being thrown into a cage.
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The Final Entrant is Sting. The top of the cell is now lowered. Sting cleans house with short arm chops on everyone. Sting throws everyone into the cage before flooring Stiener with a big right hand. Sting gives Stiener and inverted atomic drop. Sting stacks all four members of team Jarrett in the corner and hits two four man Stinger splashes before playing to the crowd. The roof is now officially lowered with cartoony pyro.
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Lethal Lockdown begins. Rhino nails Jeff with a kendo stick as AJ kills Harris with a garbage can lid. R-Truth comes off the top rope with a crash can shot on Storm. Harris and AJ work their way to the rop of the cell where there is a ladder and a table. Storm and Styles brawl atop the cage as the crowd chant "please don't die". Kim tries to climb the Cage but AJ holds her in place and Jackie de-pants Gail. Storm kills AJ with a superkick and he does a great sell ontop of the the...erh...cell. Storm sets up a table but when he's finished AJ hits the pele. Both Sting and AJ have guitars. Sting switches for the baseball bat and destroys Jeff's guitar. Sting goes to kill Jeff with the other guitar but Stiener breaks it up with a low blow. AJ climbs a ladder and gets on the scaffolding ontop of the Arena, he swings and then hits a splash off the top of the arena onto the table. That was absolutely brilliant execution from AJ Styles.
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R-Truth gets a two count in the ring, but Jeff hits a Stroke on a chair on Killings, Rhino GORES Jarrett, Stiener gives Rhino a T-Bone and locks him in a the Stiner Recliner. Sting breaks the Stiener Recliner with the Scorpion Death Drop but when he turns Harris kills Sting with a loaded right hand and he locks Sting in the Scorpion Death Lock, Sting struggles teases tapping but counters the hold with a leg trip into a Scorpion Death Lock of his own and Harris is forced to tap.
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Well that was a good match up, very much a cluster fuck, but a pretty impressive collection of spots, AJ did stunning work ontop of the cage but he pulled off the swinging body press was very impressive. AJ was great throughout his bumping and selling was utterly superb throughout the whole match. The match had a very unproffesional feel but it hit all the right spots and was entertaining throughout. (***3/4)
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Chapter Twenty One: That Giant Up In Stanford
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Booker and Angle questioned whether TNA would actually go anywhere. Everyone talks about how no one believed TNA would make it. Jeff talks about journalists and people at the time laughing when he suggest he'd make it. Jeff says there are only two companies in the USA that are in the black. Jeff says that the wrestling business is full of wrestling promoters in the graveyard. Don West starts sucking Jarrett's cock at an alarming rate painting him as the man with the master plan, a genius with incredible drive. Jarrett says to start a company you have to know that your not gonna become rich over night.
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Jeff Jarrett & Scott Stiener vs. Sting & Samoa Joe
Wow remember when Joe was a super hot character? Joe has fallen so so far, he's been booked into oblivion, God the glory days of ROH and that first year in TNA seem along long way away now.
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Sting and Jarrett starts in the ring and Sting shoves Jarrett down hard. Sting shoves Jarrett again so Jeff bitch slaps Sting and unloads but Sting no sells Hulks up and beats the crap out of Jeff before pounding Jarrett's face into the matt again and again and angain. Jeff bails to gather his thoughts with Scotty and Gail Kim.
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Scott Stiener tags in and he locks up with Sting. Scott gets a knee to the gut and unloads with a pair of knife edge chops. Stiener runs into a big boot and Sting immediately hits a Vader Bomb and then drop toe holds Jarrett onto Stiener before coming off top with a double flying closeline. Impressive stuff from Sting.
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Sting teases the crowd and then tags in Joe. The crowd chant "Joe's gonna kill you", Joe pie faces Joe but Scott unloads with a series of knife edge chops but Joe reverse and unloads at lightening pace but Scott responds with release over head belly to belly suplex and Joe looks pissed off as Scott plays to the crowd. Scott unloads with two big chops but Joe reverse and hits four big forearms. Joe runs straight into the closeline and muscle kiss elbow drop for two. Stiener decides he'll freshen up with some press ups. Joe unloads with the million fist flurry and an enzenguri before charging Stiener with two forearms but Scott won't go down. Jarrett knees Joe in the back and Scott scores with an overhead belly to belly suplex.
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Scott tosses Joe and Jarrett unloads before tagging in. Jeff scores with a really good dropkick and a corner closeline as the crowd chant "Joe". Jarrett struts before charging right into the STJOE. Sting tags in and cleans house with closelines, Sting counters a Jarrett dropkick into a powerbomb for a two count. Sting hits a choke drop and Scorpion death drop combo on the heels. Sting closelines Scott and locks him in the Scorpion Death Lock, Sting no sells Jarrett's attempts to break it but the third big kick and a DDT do the job.
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Scott hits a side belly to belly suplex for a two count and tags Jarrett back in. Jeff stomps circles all over Sting. Jarrett locks on a front facelock but Sting begins to power up and tags in Joe but the referee didn't see it and won't let Joe in. Sting dodges two Stiener closelines and they go to the collision spot with Sting falling head first into Stieners nads, ouch.
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HOT TAG! Jeff begs off but Joe unloads with chops and kills Jarrett with a running leg lariat. Joe then hits the snap powerslam for a near fall. Joe gives Stiener a inverted atomic drop, the yakuza kicka and the senton back splash. Joe gives Jeff and Scott a double closeline before stacking Scott and Jeff in the corner. Joe hits a running knee strike on Scott and Sting follows up with the Stinger Splash on Jeff. Sting hits a plancha onto Scott leaving Joe and Jeff. Joe scores with the Island Driver but Kim puts Jeff's foot on the rope at two
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Jeff gets a sneaky mule kick low blow and scores with the Stroke. Jarrett says its over but he only gets a two count. Sting whips Stiener into the guard rail. Jarrett puts Joe ontop and goes for the super stroke but Joe rolls out and hits the running Enzenguri and the Muscle Buster for the 1-2-3.
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Another refreshingly clean finish to a fun little tag team match up. Joe and Sting were really good in this match up. Sting's timings are still way off but this was the most energetic I've seen him in a long time. Scott Stiener to his credit really stepped up to the plate in this one and delivered a much improved performance. Not great but good. (***1/2)
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Chapter Twenty Two: Winning The Race That Matters
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They show the promo after the Bound For Glory match with Sting, where Jarrett talks about the new Sting and Jarrett says Sting was the better man, Jarrett says he's going home rather than looking for a rematch. Jarrett says this is the time that he has to step back. Jeff says he's done more in this business than he'd ever dreamed he'd do. Jeff says he's dropped the ball on some personal and proffesional things, but he's going home.
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Jeff talks about whether it was hard to step away, Jeff says it wasn't a question as a father and a man had to go home. Bob Ryder talks about Jill always being a member of the TNA family. They now tell stories about Jill's wife. Jeff says apparently Vince Russo is in the process of writing a book that he wanted to Jeff to read a few chapters of. Jeff says Vince says that Jeff says he wouldn't give up? Huh? Anway they talk about Jill being a hero. Jeff talks about the pain medicine got more intense. Jeff talks about her losing the use of her arm. Jeff said he lived the fight he didn't really realize.
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Borash now says he was effected by how Jeff was effected by Jill's condition. I wish they'd stop doing in abstract personages. Jeff talks about Taylor Swift playing Jill her album to her and making everyone cry, Jeff said it was like a present from God. Jeff says he'd do anything for Taylor apparently she was amazing. Jeff talks about Jill gaining weight back she'd lost but still nearly died. Jeff's best friend says he'd never seen anyone as dedicated to someone as Jeff was to Jill.
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Jeff talks about Jill wanting to come home, apparently she got better for two weeks but then the lord was ready to take her. Jeff says that Jill went in peace. Jeff said it was a relief for Jill and Jeff rejoiced because she suffered no more. Jeff said that he and Jill were so competitive that Jill one the race to heaven. Jeff starts crying when they played the package at slammiversary. Jeff said this was the moment that signal it was time for Jeff to step back.
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We then go to a clip from Slammiversary of the Jill Jarrett, the show is coming from Jeff's home town. It's pretty much this DVD and the history of TNA packaged into a five minute video package. This is where I start to lose sympathy for Jeff I don't really have a problem with him telling the story on the DVD of his life but when they air it on a wrestling show, it just feels wrong to me, it feels like Jeff exploiting his wife's death to get himself over as a babyface. This video package was quite honest and I'd probably say fair enough but the amount of times he's used his wife's death now in TNA is just too morally questionable for me. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt but at times this feels really over bearing and tasteless. Jeff ends the segment by saying thank you to the TNA fans on behalf of Jill. They show the arena and lots of the girls are crying and the fans start chanting "Thank you Jeff" which is quite a touching moment.
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Overall thoughts: I can't believe I made it through three disks and nine hours, just one to more to go. Anyway, this disk was a bit of a flip around as the documentary portion turns into a Jeff Jarrett ass kissing contest which can be very overbearing at times. The story of his wife's death is both touching and uncomfortable considering the way that Jeff's wife has been used in storylines and surrounding Jeff's comeback to TNA. So I while there is still some interesting stuff on this disk its most boasting and rubbing it in our faces that TNA is great and we've all been proved wrong.
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On the other hand the Wrestling on this disk is greatly improved, most of the matches are very entertaining, and we finally start to get closer to the ellusive four star mark but best of all the last two matches and no suprise the two best on the disk have interference. That said there still hasn't been a must see match on this DVD and we've had three disks now and well over ten matches.
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So its tought to rate good but not great wrestling but an overbearing and sometimes cringeworthy documentary section. I certianly prefered Jeff when he's talking about other companies rather than his own. (6/10)
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