Yeah, her porno with Jewel De'Nyle showed off a much nicer set of tits. As for her leaving TNA...eh, so what? It's not like she added anything to LAX's act. Although she was nice to look at.
As for NS...
Let's see here...the PPV opened with Sting TALKING, announcing that he got a title shot...for some reason. Why, I have no idea, as he was last seen in a match losing in the FIRST ROUND of a tag title tourney, and now suddenly he's the number 1 contender to the heavyweight championship of the world. Announcing this on a show where Joe's opponents had to win qualifiers to get a shot was fine comedy. Then there was the comedy tag, which was perfectly fine for what it was, then a bad knockouts brawl between Kong and ODB, then a bad tag match with Morgan and Chris Abyss against 3D, but things got better with the X division title match, which the crowd at least cared about thanks to Petey.
Beer Money Inc. vs. LAX was good - nothing memorable aside from Storm's foam dome, but nothing horrible either. The knockouts title match was okay, but had nothing memorable aside from Velvet Sky bending over before the match. The ladder of love was easily the best match on the show, with the wrestlers working very hard, and pulling off some pretty innovative and cool-looking stuff throughout the match. Dutt's bump on the ladder sandwiched between the apron and the railing looked fantastic, and also liked Sonjay's somersault senton onto Lethal, who was on a ladder on top of the second rope and between the rungs of the ladder in mid-ring. The flying clothesline spot on ladder between two chairs was good stuff too, and was sold very well by Sonjay, who shined quite a bit in this match. Val bugged me with her usual horrid acting, but she played the heel very well, calmly punching Lethal in the nuts before sashaying over to the other side of the ring to meet Sonjay.
Trigg-AJ was a laugh riot, with the crowd shitting all over the match with loud "We want wrestling!", "Fire Russo!" (which TNA was kind enough to show fans chanting in close-ups), and "THIS IS BULLSHIT" chants. The match itself wasn't as bad as say the Last Rites match that also got such chants, but it was pretty bad. Not exactly TNA's best choice for a semi-main event given that it was Trigg's first match, and the reaction couldn't have been what they wanted out of this. Aside from the close-up of the "Fire Russo!" chant, the funniest part to me was the crowd stopping the chants during the break between rounds 1 and 2, and then IMMEDIATELY resuming them the second the bell rang to begin the second round.
TNA once again not announcing that a main eventer wouldn't be in a match before the show bugged me, but I did find it funny that they didn't bother removing him from any of the graphics - the video packages I can understand, since they take more time to create, but it shouldn't have been too hard to just take him off the graphics as well.
The match itself was a good TV main event, but an underwhelming PPV one. It was a bit too short for one at about 15 minutes in length, and just seemed like a collection of spots (including Angle applying the ankle lock to both Joe and Cage at once - a spot that I'm not too fond of because of how absurd it ends up looking) without much thought being put into them. Joe winning thanks to Jarrett annoyed me - Jeff JUST came back and I'm already sick of his act, and why wouldn't I be?
He's been doing the same shit for a good nine years, and when it began, it was simply opening match fodder - now it's opening match shit being passed off as main event-level material, and judging by the general crowd apathy towards Jeff, it's not going to work this time around. Of course, that won't prevent him from getting a push - I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up being the deciding factor in Joe-Sting either, helping Sting get his annual BFG title win in a SHOCKING SWERVE.
The first half of this show was awful, but the second half, aside from Trigg-AJ, was decent, and even that match is worth watching for the crowd reaction to it. Really though, nothing aside from Sting's show-opening announcement seemed to be of any significance. I suppose Bashir winning the X title is newsworthy, but given how dead that division is, it doesn't mean much.
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