This was not a good PPV, there were some decent enough matches, but with some terrible booking and quite a few stupid endings, this made for frustrating viewing. Anyway, let's see how I did:WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE
Jeff Hardy vs. (c) Sting
"Hardy will get the strap back and the match will be Sting by numbers... pretty sure Hardy will go through the motions. Mediocre match to be expected."
Sting retained in a main event that was about a minute and a glaf long. This was bullshit and I really feel sorry for US fans who had to pay to watch this. A bit of advice for TNA: DON'T GIVE YOUR TOP BELT TO A GUY WHO CAN NO LONGER MOVE. There was beautiful WCW moment when Sting was leaving when a fan shouted "that was bullshit" and Sting shrugged and said: "I agree".
Match rating: *
FIRST BLOOD MATCH
Hernandez vs. Matt Morgan
"Is this feud still going on? Can't wait to see this! Flip a coin: Morgan. Another mediocre match."
Mediocre would have been much better than this bag of shit. The match was rubbish all the wat through until a "fan" ran in and beat up the ref, the "fan" then left a bottle of red food colouring for Hernadez to throw on Morgan... so fucking stupid.
Match rating: *
#1 CONTENDER MATCH
Mr. Anderson vs. Rob Van Dam
"See Hardy vs Sting, but replace the names with RVD and Anderson... RVD to win."
My God, this match was terrible. It didn't go anywhere, they fucked up about a dozen times and they both looked like they were about to laugh. I can't emphasise enough how bad this was... then we get to the ending: a double countout. At this point half of the crowd were chanting: "Restart the match!" whilst the rest of the crowd were shouting "No!" in response - they knew they had seen a bad match.
Matt Hardy vs. AJ Styles
"This match has potential, but I don't hold out much hope for it in all honesty. If Matt's on form they should be able to pull something decent out their ass. AJ to win."
This was a very good match, Matt Hardy worked like he was actually on a PPV. This was easily the best match of the night, even though it wasn't a great match by any means. AJ won with a Spiral Tap... AJ's not done that one for an age.
Match rating: ***1/2
ULTIMATE X MATCH FOR THE X TITLE
Jeremy Buck vs. Max Buck vs. (c) Kazarian vs. Robbie E
"Love Ultimate X, don't see wwhy Robbie E gets another title shot after losing his last two. Would have been better if Lethal, Suicide or Amazing Red we in this... Kaz to win."
This was a pretty decent match, but compared with a lot of other Ultimate X matches, it's not one of the best. Kaz was great in this one and ended up getting the win by walking on the ropes to get the belt... and Kaz retained so that's good. Look out for Robbie E's title shot next week on Impact (wins and losses really don't matter in TNA).
Match rating: **1/2
TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Ink Inc vs. (c) Beer Money
"This might be the match of the night. Beer Money to win"
It wasn't the match of the night, but it was a good mathc. Not up to Beer Money's usual standard, but still pretty decent.
Match rating: ***
CHALLENGE MATCH
Bully Ray vs. Tommy Dreamer
"I'm sure Tommy will do something stupid and get really hurt in this. Bubba to win."
This was like every hardcore match I've ever seen... and for some reason there was sex doll that came into play. The match ended with Dreamer getting the win (though only once Devon got involved and Bubba got 3Ded through a table. Just a quick note: YOU DO NOT GET A ROPE BREAK IN A FALLS COUNT ANYWHERE MATCH.
Match rating: *
KNOCKOUTS TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Sarita & Rosita vs. (c) Angelina Love & Winter
"Angelina Love is getting skinnier and skinnier, she's lile two tits pinned onto a stick... it's not a nice look. Winter on the other hand would definitely get it.
X-ita to win."
I was right on the result, and boy was this a bad bad match, even in terms of bad women's matches, this was fucking horrible. The ending was confusing and stupid. There was a spot where Winter got Rosita rolled up, there was some interference and Rosita got Winter rolled up. The ref was out of position, so for about 10 seconds they were frozen in position waiting for the count. Considering that Winter's legs are almost as long a Rosita, I'm not conviced that a skinny little 4'11" thing could seriously hold Winter down for that long.
Match rating: *
There were far too many terrible matches on this PPV. If I had paided for this PPV I would demand my money back. I'm looking forward to Raw.
4 comments:
I've only skimmed this because I haven't watched the PPV yet, but I was interested in what you'd say about the Sting/Hardy match...apparently, the reason it was so short was because Hardy showed up off his tits on drugs and Sting refused to wrestle him in that condition, it wasn't because Sting had a problem with doing the match...Hardy's been suspended and everything :)
Shit, I usually avoid wrestling 'newz' - it's usually about as reliable as Saun Waltman. This is awesome news if this is true, hopefully they'll do away with that stupid little purple belt as well.
Fair play to Sting for not doing the match.
Ok, I've seen the PPV now, and I agree with everything you said, except I don't think the AJ v Matt match was that great.
I like how we both raged about that fucking rope break.
Shit, that review was badly written... more fuck ups than the RVD/Anderson match. That's what happens when I write during breakfast.
As regards the AJ/Hardy match, it wasn't a great match, but compared to most of the other shit on this PPV it was pretty decent. I think I was probably grading on a curve though!
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