Let's start off by saying that this was a bad pay-per-view. There were two decent matches. But hey, let's have a look at how I did:"- Rob Van Dam vs. Jeff Hardy's handpicked opponent.
One thing I've learnt in the last year is that in TNA the word 'mystery' is usually a synonym for 'shit' or 'disappointing'. I've heard rumours about Matt Hardy, but I don't think his 90 days are up yet. Expect such wonders as Rob Terry or Shannon Moore, maybe even Sean Waltman. This match will suck and RVD will lose."
The mystery opponent was Matt Hardy. Boy did he look bad, though he's clearly spent a lot of tim on his new snazzy haircut, his belly was looking pretty bloared. The match sucked, and the booking was retarded. RVD lost though, so that's something.
1/1
"- Brother Ray vs. Brother Devon.
The Bully Ray gimmick might be one of the worst things that could have happened to the Dudleys. I can see Ray winning."
Was this a falls count anywhere match? Was this a no DQ match? They didn't say so, and for a company that loves its stipulations as much as TNA, the fact that most of this match happened outside of the ring strikes me as a bit odd. The booking was stupid on this one, and I'm pretty sure that Bubba won due to Devon getting DQed because Devon took a chain off of Bubba (I think). It was a bad match and the ending was just confusing. I'm going to assume that Bubba won.
2/2
"- Jeff Jarrett vs. Kurt Angle: MMA Exhibition.
The lead up to this has been pretty shit, though funny at points. This match will be great and Kurt Angle will hopefully kick Jarrett's ass."
I'm honestly not sure who won this. For a start, this may be one of Angle's worst matches ever. 6 minutes of pretending to be MMA fighters, but with rope-breaks. At the start of this match, the stipulation was that it was holds and submissions only "because it was an exhibition". So in the third round (yes, they had 3, two-minute rounds), Jarrett starts beating on Angle. I think this means a DQ? At the end of the match we saw Angle do a blade job on his head... I mean literally saw his do it. The camera focused on Angle unwrapping the blade from the paper. Angle bled heavily, it wasn't nice to watch and struck me as being completely fucking pointless. Again, because of retarded and confusing booking, I can only assume that Angle won, but I'm really not sure.
3/3
"- TNA X Division champion Jay Lethal vs. Kazarian.
I'm looking forward to this match; Lethal and Kaz are pretty inconsistant in the ring, so it could be a great match, or it could be a stinker. I'm sure Kaz will probably win this one."
This match was pretty decent, not mind-blowing, but pretty decent. Kaz won and the booking was pretty simple and straight-forward.
4/4
"- TNA TV champion AJ Styles vs. Douglas Williams.
I'm pretty psyched for this match. If they put on another great match, I'll be a happy guy. AJ will probably win, thought I would like to see Doug retain the title."
FFS, AJ is injured, it was Williams versus Abyss. Again not a bad match, but Abyss can only do so much. I'm pretty gutted because it also means no AJ on the UK tour. I predicted that Dougie would lose, and he did. Shame.
5/5
"- TNA Knockouts champion Madison Rayne vs. Mickie James.
This will be a bad match, Mickie will win."
This was a bad match, I heard a lot of chants of "you can't wrestle" during this one. Madison retained, which was suprising.
5/6
"- TNA Tag Team champions MCMG vs. Beer Money.
I can't wait for this one. I can see Beer Money getting the strap though, probably due to a screw job."
Beer Money got a pretty clean win. This match was good, but not as good as some of the matches from last year.
6/7
"- Ken Anderson vs. Matt Morgan
Main event and it's a bag of shit. Expect a couple of side-slams, that spot where Morgan takes of his elbow pads and does some elbows to a guy on the turnbuckles, a Carbon Footprint, some kind of Bischoff screwjob and an overly complex ending. Anderson will no doubt win."
Buidling up to this, there had been a storyline about concussion, and they did absolutely nothing with it. The match was as expected, Morgan by numbers. Anderson got the win.
7/8
With Anderson almost out of it, Bischoff came out and gave Anderson his title shot against Hardy. The match was shit, but it wasn't what was going on in-ring that was the worst thing about it. There was about half a dozen run-ins including Mick Foley, Matt Morgan, Ric Flair, Matt Hardy, RVD and interference from Bischoff. But Anderson still managed to win. At least the belts off of Hardy now. Hopefully he'll fuck to jail to get a swastika branded into his ass a la Oz.
I really didn't like this pay per view. The booking was over-complicated, most of the matches were mediocre, and the heels won in almost every instance.
