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Joe won't lose to Nash, but with the whole angle with beginning very soon.

We're back at 10.48 with 12 minutes of airtime left and our 'main event' is Rhyno and Christian Cage wrestling in an iMPACT! cage match. Oh, and the cage is topped off with barbed wire. Tenay tells us that there are weapons too but I don't see them. Donald Ronald West informs us that you have to ask for a weapon. Perhaps he's telling the fans. I wonder if this is TNA taking advantage of Christian's current popularity in WWE/ECW by featuring him in their main bout? Amazingly, the first two matches were pure uncut. But the main event? Two minutes in, there's a flash and all of a sudden Christian is covered in blood and the barbed wire is cut. There appears to be a straight jacket in the ring. Rhyno apparently used it earlier, but we didn't see that. Rhyno is now helpless in the corner. Christian has asked, and has received, two steel chairs. Rhyno has somehow freed himself from a straight jacket. Okay. The Detroit native has now got a chair and is about to deliver a concerto.. Christian too smart though and moves out of the way. The current ECW Champion was just put face first through two set-up'd chairs. The sad thing about this main event is that it looks like it could have been the best match of the three shown tonight. And we didn't get to see all of it. Rhyno gored Christian Cage right through the cage. Take THAT WWF 1999 St. Valentines Day Massacre. Foley puts over Rhyno to end the show at 10.56. Final thoughts: Usually a show starts off great and gets worse over time.. See: WCW Thunder, WWF Heat. If that's the case with this show, we're in deep lots of trouble for future shows. Great idea in principal, terrible show in execution. Show Results: America's Most Wanted d. Triple X LAX d. AJ Styles/Christopher Daniels Christian Cage d. Rhyno.

Interesting note: We just had an advert for the actual TNA Epics show that we're watching. Right in the middle of its own advert. And we are back at 10.27, our next match is Bound For Glory's 2006 match between LAX and AJ Styles/Christopher Daniels. Styles and Daniels are YOUR NWA Tag-Team Champions. Konnan is on the outside. We're in a better cage now. Right in the middle of the match, we've just cut to a current TNA music video of its wrestlers. Odd moment too. For the second match in a row, Chris Daniels is bleeding. ABDULLAH THE BUTCHER REFERENCE. AJ hits another sweet move, this time a springboard inverted DDT, followed by the unfortunately named Pele. AJ Styles digs right into Homicides head into the blood while Mike Tenay screams "I LOVE IT". AJ gets some serious hangtime with a cross body splash from the top of the cage onto Hernandez. SUPERMEX~! to the top of the cage. What's the big man going to do? BIG SPLASH.. MISSED. Thought Hernandez was going to bust out the 450 there. There's.. a coat hanger in the ring. He's choking him with the coat hanger Tenay! Gringo killer from Homicide and we've got new NWA Tag-Team Champions! Foley calls that one 'brutal' - I think he's trying to be smart. Foley puts brutality over high flying. From the preview, the next match, and last match of the night, will involve Christian Cage. We head for yet another break at 10.44.

10.13 and we are back! Harris, still handcuffed to the cage.. And the key to the handcuffs has just somehow appeared in the middle of the ring on a piece of string. That was a strange development. And Harris is loose! It's like a hot tag! The interesting thing about this is the first half of the match was a normal tag in kind of match, whereas the last half of this match has turned into a tornado tag match. ... Harris is wearing the crimson mask now. So is Daniels. Prime Time does his walking 'Rana across the cage.. And while it was a thing of beauty, we saw it earlier in the show, and it seems this whole very average match was put on just to showcase this one move. Which we already saw earlier. The 'Tower Of Doom' - a four person suplex one on top of another. This is definately a spot monkey showcase match. A match i've never seen actually, I should really get some of the earlier TNA stuff. The crowd are chanting 'Best Match Ever' - They're delusional. Daniels is now handcuffed.. I wonder where the next key will fall from? AMW win with their version of the powerplex. Foley puts over Skipper. Break again at 10.22.

10.07 and we've hit an advert already. They should have picked a better opening match for the opening show.

Match thoughts: This cage is ridiculous. A camera angle from outside means the view is totally unacceptable. It also reminds me how much better AMW were than the current Beer Money. My opinion only, of course, but I don't rate Roode at all. I much prefer Widcat Chris Harris from a few years ago to partner Storm. Very poor camera work too. Looking back, TNA's production values have moved on a long way.

TNA Epics: Episode 1. We're started off with a clip of Skipper doing the headscissors in a cage. It's the one where he walks across the cage and flies off with a 'Rana. Foley's hosting. Apparently, tonights episode is dedicated to the cage matches. We're starting with Turning Points AMW vs Triple X match. Representing xXx is Skipper and Daniels.

Show starts in just over half an hour. I'll give an ongoing review of it.

I'd join the discussion Matt, but we get the show here on a Saturday night, so i'll have to wait til then.

WWE SmackDown! - Overall League Table

WWE SmackDown! - Monthly League Table

SmackDown! Scorers: Jeff Hardy 15 Edge 13 CM Punk 13 Chris Jericho 9 Melina 8 R-Truth 7 John Morrison 7 Gail Kim 7 Dolph Ziggler 7 Rey Mysterio 6 Michelle McCool 6 Alicia Fox 6 Umaga 4 Shelton Benjamin 4 Charlie Haas 4 Ricky Ortiz 4 Jimmy Wang Yang 4 Mike Knox 4 Teddy Long 2 The Great Khali 2 Shad 2 JTG 2 Eve 2 Layla 2

SmackDown! - 05/15/09 "R-Truth, Justice, And The Canadian Way" - Episode #508 Appearances (2) John Morrison 1 CM Punk 2 Shelton Benjamin 1 Charlie Haas 1 Chris Jericho 2 Edge 2 Teddy Long 1 Jeff Hardy 3 Ricky Ortiz 1 Michelle McCool 2 Alicia Fox 2 Gail Kim 1 Melina 1 Jimmy Wang Yang 1 Dolph Ziggler 1 The Great Khali 1 Shad 1 JTG 1 Eve 1 Layla 1 R-Truth 1 Mike Knox 1 Rey Mysterio 2 Umaga 1 Match (2) John Morrison 1 CM Punk 1 Shelton Benjamin 1 Charlie Haas 1 Jeff Hardy 1 Ricky Ortiz 1 MIchelle McCool 1 Alicia Fox 1 Gail Kim 1 Melina 1 Jimmy Wang Yang 1 Dolph Ziggler 1 R-Truth 1 Mike Knox 1 Edge 1 Chris Jericho 1 Winning a match (3) CM Punk 1 John Morrison 1 Jeff Hardy 1 Gail Kim 1 Melina 1 Dolph Ziggler 1 R-Truth 1 Edge 1 In the Main Event (2) Edge 1 Chris Jericho 1 Jeff Hardy 1 Umaga 1 CM Punk 1 Rey Mysterio 1 Finishing Move Connects (1) Jeff Hardy 1 Melina 1 Chris Jericho 1 Edge 1 Weapon Shot (1) Edge 1 Jeff Hardy 1 CM Punk 2

WWE Superstars - Overall League Table:

WWE Superstars - Monthly League Table

WWE Superstars Scorers: The Big Show 12 Rey Mysterio 8 Hornswaggle 8 Christian 7 Mark Henry 6 Goldust 4 Tony Atlas 4 Shelton Benjamin 4 John Morrison 2

WWE Superstars - 05/14/09 Appearances (2) Rey Mysterio 1 John Morrison 1 Shelton Benjamin 1 Mark Henry 2 Tony Atlas 2 Christian 1 The Big Show 2 Hornswaggle 2 Goldust 1 Match (2) Rey Mysterio 1 Shelton Benjamin 1 Mark Henry 1 Christian 1 The Big Show 1 Hornswaggle 1 Winning a match (3) Rey Mysterio 1 Christian 1 The Big Show 1 In the Main Event (2) The Big Show 1 Hornswaggle 1 Goldust 1 Finishing Move (1) Rey Mysterio 1 The Big Show 1

I was 14 in 1998!

I like you Masked Heel, I really do, but to say people will remember the Dudley Boys long after the Road Warriors/Legion Of Doom is laughable.

The Dudleys, in history, will be held back by two main things, in my opinion. 1. They were most famous for work in ECW, which was in the annuls of history just a small company. 2. They aren't well known for actually being able to wrestle, and neither have ever been in superb condition. Dudley's don't even crack the top 5 for me.

To follow up on earlier reports, the feeling is that when Vince McMahon stated at the WWE shareholders conference on May 1 that WWE was interested in adding another weekly TV show on Wednesday is that he was more posturing if anything reports The Wrestling Observer Newsletter. WWE's production crew has been described as being stretched to the limit at this point with taping TV for Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. The feeling is that while it would be difficult to add another hour of tapings during the week, it wouldn't be impossible. The other thought is that they could simply consider doing a classics show or highlight show. However, nothing has been announced and it should be noted that there haven't been any negotiations to add a new show at this time. http://nodq.com/wwe/244274945.shtml

Nice.

Did you catch my latest bulletin? I called you out in the title. Aren't we all great?

And in the spirit of the conversation, this will be todays picture:

Shit, that reminds me. I haven't done a picture of the day for today! I'm starting to think you don't like me Matt Young.