By Garrett Kidney
November 5th, 2004
Quick Results
1. Johnny B. Badd defeated Tony Stradlin
2. Abyss defeated Seth Delay
3. Daniels and Storm ended in a no contest
4. Spanky defeated Kazarian, Matt Sydal and Amazing Red
5. AJ Styles and Ron Killings defeated Jeff Jarrett and Petey Williams
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I do love seeing everybody and anybody show up in TNA. Johnny B. Badd
is known for his time in WCW and in WWE as Marc Mero. I always thought
he looked really strange, his physique never really matched the rest of
him and he always looked odd. He didn't really show much here.
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They showed footage of Jarrett, Petey and D'Amore jumping Hardy in his
hotel room. They clearly did a terrible job because Hardy showed up and
brawled with Jarrett but Jarrett pushed him off the ladder to the floor
and Hardy got stretchered out. I love how they never trusted Hardy to
open his mouth in the build to the main event due to how bad his promos
were.
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Abyss squashed a guy, Monty came out and before they brawled Abyss
poured out a bag of tacks (I'm pretty sure this is the first time Abyss
debuted his signature weapon). The build to this match started out
really hot but it's petered out over the last few weeks.
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Daniels and Storm started out with a load of intensity and a sense of
urgency but unfortunately it ended within a minute after Skipper ran in.
With the way this match started it seemed like they were going to have a
really good match and it's a shame they didn't. They then took out
Storm's leg in what was a pretty good angle (with the idea of how can
AMW be the last men standing if they can't stand in the first place).
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I was really hoping for more from the four way X-Division match but it
was over as soon as it started. Spanky is of course Brian Kendrick and
Matt Sydal is Evan Bourne. Again a shame they didn't have a chance to do
much. As a result of losing Kaz will enter first in the Gauntlet at
Victory Road.
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Decent main event. The match was supposed to be Styles and Hardy but
Hardy was replaced by Killings because Jarrett took him out earlier.
Some fun action but the finish was silly. Hardy ran out hit a Swanton on
Jarrett and pinned him despite not even being in the match.
Closing Thoughts
Not really a great go home show, and not a great show in general despite it's potnetial on paper.
I went back
and forth on how to handle PPV's and decided just to do quick reviews
attached to iMPACT!'s. From now on they'll be after the go home
iMPACT!'s. I'll rate each match out of ten in the quick results.
Quick Results
1.
Hector Garza won a Gauntlet match which also included Kazarian, Sonjay
Dutt, Puma, L.A. Park, Jerrelle Clark, Miyamoto, Michael Shane, Nosawa,
Mikey Batts, Alex Shelley, Matt Sydal, Sonny Siaki, Jason Cross, Shark
Boy, Psicosis, D-Ray 3000, Amazing Red, Spanky and Chris Sabin (8/10)
2.
Ron Killings, Erik Watts, Johnny B. Badd and Pat Kenney defeated Kid
Kash, Dallas and The Naturals (Andy Douglas and Chase Stevens) (2/10)
3. Mascarita Sagrada defeated Piratita Morgan (N/A - comedy minis match)
4. 3LK (BG James and Konnan) defeated Team Canada (Bobby Roode and Eric Young) to win the NWA World Tag Team Titles (3/10)
5. Trinity (w/ Johnny Swinger and Glenn Gilbertti) defeated Jackie Moore (2/10)
6. Monty Brown defeated Abyss and Raven (6/10)
7. Petey Williams (w/ Scott D'Amore) defeated AJ Styles to retain the X-Division title (7/10)
8.
AMW (Chris Harris and James Storm) defeated Triple X (Christopher
Daniels and Elix Skipper) in a Last Man Standing Match (2/10)
Dusty Rhodes defeated Vince Russo in an online poll to become DOA
9.
Jeff Jarrett defeated Jeff Hardy in a ladder match to retain the NWA
World Heavyweight title after Hall and Nash screwed Hardy (6/10)
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A really flat show for TNA's first PPV effort. Styles/Petey was good
but too short, the Gauntlet was great fun and a match I never get bored
of watching (Siaki looked particularly great throwing smaller guys
around), the Monsters Ball was decent but a little forgettable and while
the effort was there for the main event it just didn't all come
together. The rest of the card was mediocre except the Triple X/AMW
match which was a total mess for guys of that standard. I don't know
what happened but it was a disaster. Not a good start for TNA monthly
PPV's.
