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PRE-SHOW
– Christy Hemme welcomed us to the show. She interviewed fans about the Kurt Angle-Samoa Joe match.
– Backstage, Jeremy Borash interviewed Robert Roode and Miss Brooks. Roode said Miss Brooks will show off her assets tonight in the bikini contest. Traci said she is willing to get buck for Roode’s company.
– Mike Tenay and Don West ran down the Turning Point PPV card.
– They aired an Abyss/Christian Cage/Sting highlight package.
– Backstage, JB interviewed Jim Mitchell and Abyss. Mitchell called Cage a “cry baby.” He told Tomko to tell his deep dark secret about Abyss to the National Enquirer. Mitchell told Sting that Abyss’s belt and soul belongs to him. Abyss turns his back to Mitchell, who yells at Abyss – reminding him what he has done for the Monster Abyss.
Lance Hoyt and Ron “The Truth” Killings vs. Serotonin (Devine, Kazarian, and Bentley) in a handicap match.
Killings and Hoyt win when “The Truth” pinned Kazarian at 4:37.
– Backstage, JB interviewed referee Jerry Lynn and Chris Sabin. Lynn said he is going to call the match fair and square, which causes Sabin to make fun of Lynn’s age.
– Announcers talked about the Samoa Joe-Angle rematch.
– Raven brought his group back out to the ring and caned Karazian with his purple kendo stick.
– West said Angle-Joe II will be the main event tonight.
– In a pre-recorded interview, Angle said Joe deserved a second chance. Samoa Joe also makes comments, including his eighteen month undefeated streak.
– JB interviewed Samoa Joe. He talked about harboring his defeat for three weeks.
– Letitia attempts to interview Angle from his rental, but its VKM pretending to be DX with a sledgehammer, implying DX has arrived. Please!
PPV starts with a video highlight package with Christmas music playing.
– So Cal Val is seen; Pyro goes off as Tenay welcomes us to Turning Point.
PCS: Alex Shelley vs. Sonjay Dutt vs. Austin Starr v. Senshi v. Jay Lethal. .
Kevin Nash comes to ringside and joins the announce booth. This is an elimination match. Match starts with Shelley and Lethal squaring off.
Tenay said this will be a series of matches every week with a scoring system for every phase of the championship series. Tonight’s winner gets five points, down to the first person eliminated will receive a single point. This smells of Vince Russo. Shelley and Starr worked together early in the match double teaming Dutt. Wrestlers tag in and out. Starr and Shelley start having problems during the match. This is a slower paced x-division match, and the fans don’t appear to be into it all that much. DUTT ELIMINATED SHELLEY WITH A CAMEL CLUTCH. (Starr wouldn’t allow Shelley to get to the ropes) .. SENSHI PINNED LETHAL FOR THE NEXT ELIMINATION. So, one point for Shelley, two points for Lethal. Senshi gave Dutt a series of stiff kicks to the chest. STARR ELIMINATED DUTT WITH A 450. So three points for Dutt. Its down to Senshi and Starr. Shelley returned and distracted Starr, which allowed Senshi to pin Starr to WIN THE MATCH at 14:37. Five points for Senshi. After the match, Starr and Shelley argued.
Winner: Starr
* Backstage, JB interviewed Eric Young in a robe. JB tells Young he can win the match as the fans are behind him. JB is hosting this bikini contest.
Bikini contest: Miss Brooks (with Robert Roode) vs. Eric Young.
This is by fans voting in the Impact zone. Young comes out in a pink bath rope. Miss Brooks is wearing a red bikini. West guessed 40D’s for Miss Brooks. Miss Brooks goes first. Young wore a t-shirt with a women’s body on it. Roode wanted Young DQ-ed. Young said he wasn’t done. Young took off the shirt, and shows Sponge Bob Square pants boxers. Referee declares Miss Brooks the winner as he didn’t wear a bikini. Young asks for one more chance, and pulls down his boxers and shows off his “bikini.” Fans voted for Young, so he won but was jumped by Roode.
Winner: Eric Young
* Backstage, Letitia knocked on VKM’s door. It said Dumb to the Extreme on the door. A fat guy, who looked like WWE’s Big Dick Johnson, came in looking for catering. Geesh.
X-division title match: Christopher Daniels vs. Chris Sabin.
Sabin hip tossed the champion onto the entrance ramp, then drops a fist into his opponent’s forehead. As Sabin worked on Daniels, fans chanted “Fallen Angel.” Daniels dropped an elbow from the top rope onto Sabin (he was past the mat) on the arena floor. Ouch! Daniels wins with the BME at 12:27 to retain the X-division title. After the match, Lynn grabbed a mic and said tonight Daniels was the better man and asked him to shake the champ’s hand. Daniels argued with Lynn, leading to Lynn slapping Daniels. Referees came in to break it up, including Earl Hebner. Wonder when he is meeting with Vince? Lynn walked away saying “you will respect me.”
Winner: Christopher Daniels (Still X-division Champion)
Tenay introduced Jim Cornette. , who made his way to the ring. Cornette introduced A.J. Pierzynski (who has an X-division replica belt in hand) and Dale Torborg who were sitting ringside. Cornette then introduces David Eckstein (with his brother) who brings out David’s World Series MVP trophey. Eckstein plugged his book. Torborg grabbed the book and tore pages out of it. Pierzynski started running down Eckstein, which led to the two sides brawling until Lance Hoyt comes down and big boots Torborg.
– They aired AJ Styles/Rhino highlights.
– JB interviewed Rhino backstage. Rhino said AJ is selfish, and he tried to help him. AJ attacked Rhino before he could finish his promo. They knocked over the camera man. We then see Rhino and Styles brawl backstage with fans around them.
AJ Styles vs. Rhino
They finally enter the ring, and the referee rings the bell to officially start the match. Rhino suplexed AJ on the floor, which fans responded with a “TNA, TNA” chant. As the two returned to the ring, fans chanted “this is awesome.” Fans also chanted “lets go Rhino, lets go AJ.” Rhino tossed AJ over to the top rope, with AJ crashing hard on his knee. Referee checked out AJ, which brought out the trainers. AJ tries to stand up, but falls down. As the referee goes over to ring announcer David Penzer, AJ gets back up and rolls up Rhino at 7:30 for the victory.
Winner: AJ Styles
* Backstage, a guy pretending to be Vince McMahon “fires” the blonde interviewer. He was holding a cage with a cock in it. He then walks off doing the McMahon strut. Stupid!
Rhino and Styles continued to brawl near the entrance ramp as security tried to break it up.
– They aired a LAX/AMW video highlight package.
– JB interviewed Konnan and LAX. Konnan cut a promo saying AMW will be turned into America’s least needed.
– Announcers highlighed the rules for the upcoming flag match.
LAX (with Konnan) vs. AMW (with Gail Kim) in a “flag” non-title match.
Kim moonsaults onto Homicide on the arena floor. Of course, they have flags hanging from both sides of the ring. No pins or submissions in this one. Hernandez grabbed the Mexican flag via the ladder, but Storm climbed the opposite side of the ladder. Storm sunset clips Hernandez off the ladder! Harris grabbed the U.S. flag, but is roughed up by Homicide. From the corner, Kim drop kicked Homicide. Kim climbed the ladder with the American flag, but is stopped by Konnan. Petey Williams comes out, and stops Konnan. He goes for the destroyer, but is clotheslined by Hernandez. Homicide climbs the ladder with the Mexican flag, Harris climbs the other side with the U.S. Flag. They hang both flags, but Storms hits his own partner with the beer bottle by accident. Hernandez climbs the ladder and throws down the U.S. flag and places the Mexican flag over the ring for the victory at 10:29. Kim attends to Harris, as Storm seemed to not know his partner has glass in his eyes. On the mic, Konnan told the announcers to stand up as the Mexican national anthem was played. As the anthem played, Homicide had a towel on the back of his head and it appeared he was bleeding from that area of his body.
Winners: LAX
They plugged the 1/14 Final Resolution PPV.
* Backstage, Storm went nuts being interviewed by JB. Storm said Harris quit, and he has until Thursday to apologize to him and all the American people as it was a disgrace for the Mexican national anthem to be played.
– VKM came out as DX rip offs. BG is Triple H (with the sledgehammer and water bottle) and Gunn is HBK. Fans chanted DX sucks. Out comes a group that played up like they were the spirit squad. They brought out the fat oily guy wearing a . PLEASE NO! I thought I could at least avoid Big Dick Johnson on a TNA PPV. These skits are just a waste of time. BG and Gunn pulled of their DX masks, and said they are VKM. A few fans chanted “VKM.” BG cut a promo on Vince. He reminded Vince they had them drive to the CNN Center when they worked for his company. Fans chanted “screw you Vince.” BG issues the million dollar challenge. BG wants WWE to stop doing DX since they are ruining the legacy of DX. They challenge DX to a tag match anywhere, anytime, etc. He calls DX “pussies.”
– They showed an Abyss/Cage/Sting video highlight package.
– Backstage, JB interviews Cage (with Tomko).
NWA Title match: Abyss (with James Mitchell) vs. Christian Cage (with Tomko) vs. Sting.
Before the match, Abyss and Tomko had a stare down. Oh no. As Cage and Abyss fought on the outside, Sting jump off the ropes and landed on both of them. Tomko tossed Sting into the guard rail, without the referee seeing it. This is not an elimination match, first one that scored a pinfall or submission is the NWA champion. They do the tower of doom! Tenay reminds us that Cage has yet to be pinned or has submitted in TNA. Sting splashed Cage and Abyss in the corner, and goes for the scorpion death drop but Cage counters with a rake to the eyes. Sting blocked an unprettier attempt, into a scorpion. Mitchell distracted the referee. Death drop, but Tomko pulled out the referee at two. Tomko worked on Sting in the corner. Abyss clothesline Tomko out of the ring. Abyss tosses Cage out of the ring, leaving himself alone with Sting. Mitchell grabbed the thumb tacks sack. With the referee still down, Abyss thought twice about the tacks, but spread them on the mat anyway. Tomko blocked Abyss’s attempted to chokeslam Cage onto the tacks. Tomko smashes Abyss’s face into the thumbs tacks. Sting tried to talk to Abyss. Cage hits Sting with a chair as he attempts the Scorpion. Black hole slam on Sting, and Abyss wins at 11:53.
Winner: Abyss
* Backstage in the locker room, JB interviews Angle. “Its real, its damn real” said Angle. I guess in place of its true, its damn true. Angle said tonight we’ll find out who the better man is.
Kurt Angle vs. Samoa Joe.
Angle comes out to his “lunatic fringe” rip off music. Rudy Charles is the referee. Not Hebner? Fans chanted “you tapped out” at Joe when he was introduced. Fans started the “lets go Angle, lets go Joe” chant. Single leg take down by Angle as Kurt gained the early advantage. After Angle was tossed over the top rope, the two brawled outside the ring. Angle slammed Joe into the ring steps. Angle gained the upper hand with a belly to belly suplex. Joe suplexed Angle over his head. Fans chanted “Joe, Joe, Joe,” followed by “this is awesome!” Angle hits three straight German suplexes! Ankle lock by Angle, but Joe kicked out. Angle countered a muscle buster into another ankle lock attempt, but again he counters. Olympic Slam by Angle, but Joe kicks out! Rear choke by Joe, but Angle gets out and goes back to the ankle lock. Rear choke again. Ref checks on Angle, but he grabs Joe’s leg and again an ankle lock! Joe reaches for the ropes, and grabbed the bottom rope to force the break. Fans chanted “this is awesome,” and they are right! Angle belly to belly suplexes Joe off the top rope. Angle goes for a pin, but Joe kicked out! Ref bumb. Angle taps to the rear choke, but referee doesn’t see it. Angle low blows Joe with the referee still down. Angle grabs a chair, and brings it into the ring. Angle misses Joe, and the chair hits the ropes back into Angle’s face. Rear choke again, and Joe wins at 19:14.
Winner: Samoa Joe
