By Garrett Kidney
August 20th, 2004
Orlando, FL
Quick Results
1. Jeff Jarrett defeated Pat Kenney
2. Kid Kash and Dallas defeated Mikey Batts and Jerrelle Clark
3. Petey Williams defeated Eddie Villa
4. America's Most Wanted (Chris Harris and James Storm) defeated Abyss and Alex Shelley (w/ Goldylocks)
5. Monty Brown defeated Demetus Anglin
6. AJ Styles, Ron Killings and Jeff Hardy defeated Jason Cross, Kazarian and Michael Shane (w/ Traci)
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Strange opening match as Kenney got in nearly all of the offence before
randomly being hit with the Stroke and losing. A weird way to work the
match. We also saw the return of the guitar after a multiple week absence
(they must have run out of them) as Kenney suffered the Acoustic
Equaliser. TNA have also gotten much better at their show opening pyro,
the first iMPACT! was abysmal and the last few shows have been much
better.
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The big follow up to Batts and Clark's big win over The Naturals last
week was to be fed to Hoyt and Kash. That's some solid booking right
there. Nothing match besides a little clumsiness between Kash and the
other two.
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Week One and Scott D'Amore still isn't at ringside so they've started
strong. Petey squashed the jobber fellow (and I have taken careful
effort to get all the jobbers names right) and beat him with a Canadian
Destroyer. 3LK and Dusty brawled with Team Canada and D'Amore after the
match to hype a six man on the next PPV.
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I was disappointed not to see more from AMW and Abyss and Shelley but
it was more of an enhancement match for AMW going into the third of a
best of three series with Triple X on the PPV. Shelly and Abyss teased
breaking up (Goldylocks has been giving all the attention to Shelley)
but Abyss backed down.
- Monty squashed a jobber (with a silly name no less) and killed him with a Pounce quicker than usual, that is all.
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Decent main event with AJ being the star of the show as usual
(including a sensational flip dive onto both Kaz and Shane). This was
just a showcase of Styles, Killings and Hardy going into a six man with
Brown, Dallas and Kash on the next PPV, with Hardy's title match with
Jarrett on the horizon.
Closing Thoughts
The
number of enhancement matches are making these shows hard to watch.
Structurally they're very good shows, doing a good job of hyping the
PPV's and re-enforcing the top talent. If the show had more action and
personality it'd be flying. It's just watching them back to back can be
quite tedious.
