Placebo Effect

Balls has lost a lot of weight since ecw so it will be cool to see him for 1 time. I saw him at a show three months ago and he was pretty unspectacular. At least it'll just be a one week thing.

Calls interrupts Tenay, and airs an exlcusive tape directly from Jarrett. It's to hype the debut of "The most hated man in America," Johnny Fairplay's debut in TNA next week.

They cut back to the ring, and Sandman is just getting up. He calls for Raven, and since he can't rely on Raven, he's going to call "The King of the 10,000 tacks" Balls Mahoney next week. Ummm... Yay.

The whole thing is a handicapped match. Punk and Julio win with a double superkick, and they double team Sandman afterwards. Watts is concerned only with winning, and asks Goldy to stay in the back.

I believe CM Punk just introduced the Ohtani boot scrape to a PPV audience for the first time.

Very cool video package on Mitchell/Gathering vs. Raven. Hudson approaches who he thinks is Raven in a cloak, but it's Mitchell. Mitchell says that a long time ago, he mentioned that he held the key to Raven's soul, and The Gathering are the first two. Punk cuts a half decent promo, and next is Sandman/Raven (if he shows up) vs. Punk/Julio in a Double Singapore Cane Match. I kind of like how they're making Punk and Julio remain dark, but at the same time, Julio's employing parts of his cocky asshole gimmick into his repotoire.

Kash vs. Vaugn is on now, with Vaugn busting out the tiniest bladejob. Kash fucking plants Vaugn with a top rope bodyslam that looked wicked, followed by the Money Maker. Interestingly enough, Kash drops Vaugn on his thigh and not between his legs. Don't know if that's commonplace now for him after he almost crippled a couple guys before. That's enough for a win. Kash signs the paper with Vaugn's blood, though it's really more like smearing his face into the paper. Tiny the Timekeeper runs into the ring, takes off his shirt (and you thought Madden was scary) and attacks Kash. He punches, clotheslines, and spears Kash. Kash gets the advantage, and goes RIDICUOUSLY easy on Tiny, barely even touching him. Don Harris runs in, The Redshirts run-in, America's Most Wanted run-in. WHOO! RUN-INS ROCK!

I'm assuming a tournament.

Well, not so fast. Daniels is about to shake hands with Low-Ki, and Ki just slowly leaves the ring and backs away.

Douglas works over the neck the entire match, and Skipper taps when Douglas brings him down in a shoulder/neck full nelson-like move. Low-Ki runs down for the save (hey, a pattern), and Shane, Tracy, and the second Shane beat them both down. Daniels runs in, and all three retreat. XXX reunion time.

Jarrett tells Kash to make Chris Vaugn bleed. Douglas vs. Skipper up now.

Gilberti turns on Diamond, giving him a Chart Buster/Last Dance. Young picks up the win, and out comes Swinger for the save.

Yeah, this sucks.

Nothing to note. Jarrett is ploting evil deeds, and he brawled with Watts' masked man.

Simon Diamond vs. David Young Could it be watchable?

Video package time. Juventud Guerrera footage. David Young and Michael Shane appeared in AAA last month. LA PARKA MAKES AN APPEARANCE! In the background albeit, but it's fucking La Parka. Cool stuff.

Pretty damn good match, with Michael Shane (fuck) picking up the win thanks to Douglas. He'll face Sabin next week. Holy shit! The AAA guys who I couldn't even get close to spelling the names of, actually showed up. And they speak English! At least one of them does. Cibernetico, Negro, and a couple other fast spoken guys will be here on February 11th for America's X Cup. 4 best wrestlers from AAA vs. 4 best X-Division from TNA.

Time for Low Ki vs. Shane vs. Daniels

AMW get the win over the Redshirts in the Yappa Pie Strap Match, and the Redshirts quickly attack. Spike Piledriver to Storm is attempted, but Harris clears the ring.

Wow, uhhh, Jarrett sure did fuck up sending that chair back into his face.

This is such a LITTLE thing, but I find it fucking hilarious that they didn't have Sandman do a blue screen, so next to those professional looking posed motion shots, there's just a photo of Sandman.

Yeah, so this'll be the thread I guess. Holy fuck! Was this new opener in place last week? I've missed a week or two of the program. It's a rap montage about TNA, and RANDY SAVAGE does some of the rapping. Actually sounds pretty :cool:

Wow. The MLW report from the weekend noted that Spanky was there, and had something to the extent of "but it was obvious that he had a lot of on his mind." I guess the report was correct.

Black Tiger, if you're waiting to find out why Ryan Shamrock was getting money from Borash and such, just wait. It's really an intriguing storyline, and they build it up so well over time that it goes down in TNA history as one of the best things they've ever done. Trust me.

HAHAHAHAHHAH I guess it's just those of us who live/have been to England who find this hilarious.