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A midget comes to Vinces lockerroom and knocks on the door saying he is a senior TNA official. Vince opens the door and asks where Dusty is. The midget replies that Dusty has bigger fish to fry. Vince laughs and the midget kicks Vince in the leg and beats him down before hitting him with the cookie sheet. Wow, how hilarious. 6-man up next, cage match will go on last.

5 -- DALLAS PAGE vs. RAVEN PAGE ONE: They punched each other. Page knocked the ref down. They brawled up the ramp. PAGE TWO: Back in the ring Raven took control by bashing Page in the head several times with his gladiator helmet. Erik Watts did commentary at ringside. PAGE THREE: Raven gave Page a running knee. Page took an awkward bump on Raven's drop toe hold into the chair in center ring. PAGE FOUR: Page made a comeback at 6:00 with a series of punches. Raven stopped Page's momentum with a mule kick then rolled up Page for a near fall. Raven superkicked Page and scored a near fall at 8:15. Tenay said Raven was starting to show signs of frustration. PAGE FIVE: Page surprised Raven with a Diamond Cutter for a near fall. Two druids walked to ringside. Tenay said it was one of Raven's henchmen. Raven gave Page an Evenflow DDT for a near fall. Raven rolled near a druid. Erik Watts ran into the ring. The druids went after Watts, but Watts clotheslined both of them and then chokeslammed them. PAGE SIX: Watts clotheslined Page. Tenay said he was shocked because he thought Watts was there to help Page. Page came back and gave a Diamond Cutter to Watts (or a Stone Cutter, as West called it mistakenly). Page then gave Raven a Diamond Cutter for the win. Page celebrated in the crowd as a knockoff of his "Smells Like Teen Spirit" intro song from his WCW days. WINNER: Page at 11:55. STAR RATING: **1/4 -- I suspect it followed Page's infamous match-script perfectly move-for-move. -Backstage, Tracii offered cookies to Vince and Triple H in a black and white "GTV" footage. Vince knocked the tray of cookies into Tracii. Vince continued to be upset that he couldn't find the tape. 6 -- PETEY WILLIAMS (w/Chris Sabin) vs. CHRIS SABIN -- X Title match Hot opening few minutes. At 4:00 Sabin dove from the railing onto Williams at ringside, landing on some stray thumbtacks. When the crowd seemed split in its support of the wrestlers, Tenay said that's because the fans respect good action and both wrestlers' hard work. There were battling chants of "Let's Go Sabin" and "Let's Go Petey." Sabin exploded with a spinning enzuigiri and then hit a running powerbomb for a nice near fall at 13:00. Sabin skinned the cat and then flipped onto Williams at ringside. Tenay and West were breathless at this point. Tenay said the were scared to go to any slo-mo replays for fear of missing another hot move. The crowd broke into a "This is awesome!" chant. Williams reversed Sabin into a sharpshooter. Sabin escaped and then quickly went for a superplex. Williams turned it into a sunset flip into a Canadian Destroyer. Sabin hit a piledriver for a convincing near fall at 17:00. Sabin set up Cradle Shock, but D'Amore intervened. As the ref yelled at D'Amore, Williams pulled brass knuckles out of his trunks and KO'd Sabin for the win. Terrible finish. WINNER: Williams at 18:11. STAR RATING: ***1/2 -- Really good match, but the D'Amore finishes are beyond stale at this point and it really took the wind out of the sails of the fans. That match deserved to have a clean fall as with five more minutes of convincing false finishes and a better eventual clean finish would have put this over four stars easily. The crowd really helped the match. -Backstage, a midget knocked on Vince's door. He said he was a senior TNA official. He took Vince down with a cookie sheet and then walked away. Vince shouted for his son-in-law to save him. -A video feature aired on the Kings of Wrestling.

Petey wins after using brass knux. Apparently the match was very good.

Sabin powerbombed Williams on the guard rail. Meltzer calls it "high spot a riffic" but the fans are having fun with it.

Petey vs. Sabin up next. Still have the 6-man and the cage match to come after that.

DDP beat Raven after Erik Watts turned on DDP but DDP gave him a diamond cutter and won anyways. Raven kicked out of a diamond cutter and DDP kicked out of a Raven Effect.

3 -- MONTY BROWN vs. ABYSS -- Thumb Tack Match Brown did a little mic work before the match, then challenged Abyss, already in the ring, to come and get him. Abyss met him on the ramp. When Abyss took early control, West wondered if Abyss should have even been in the match given his rib injury. Abyss gave Brown a sitdown splash on a chair over Brown's hcest for a two count. A minute later, Abyss went for the same move, but Brown tilted the chair on its side and Abyss's crotch took the impact. Brown then gave Abyss a chairshot and powerbombed Abyss onto the chair in mid-ring. A "TNA, TNA" chant broke out. Abyss surprised Brown with a powerslam when Brown was going for a Pounce and scored a near fall. Abyss propped a chair in the corner, but Brown reversed Abyss into it. Brown then gave Abyss his Pounce, knocking Abyss to ringside. Brown set up a table against the ropes in the ring. When Brown dove at Abyss, Abyss moved and Brown landed on the table breaking it. A minute later, Brown poured thumb tacks over the mat. Abyss set up Brown for a Black Hole Slam. Brown blocked it, then took off Abyss's shirt. Brown set up Abyss for an Alphabomb, but Abyss blocked it. Abyss then set up Brown for a powerbomb, but Brown reversed Abyss onto the tacks for the win. Unfortunately (or fortunately) Abyss missed most of the tacks. The announcers pointed that out. Abyss rolled around on them to draw some blood and add some visual punch. WINNER: Brown at 11:18. STAR RATING: **3/4 -- It started off solid and got better. -Backstage, the Hunter and Vince impersonators searched backstage for the tape of the TNA personnel approaching WWE wrestlers at Universal Studios a few weeks back. The Hunter impersonator smashed a tape. Vince then complained that he destroyed a "Best of D-Ray 3000" tape by mistake. They continued on their quest for the tape. -Tenay and West said the real tape would be played later. 4 -- PAT KENNEY & JOHNNY B. BADD vs. GLENN GILBERTI & JOHNNY SWINGER (a/k/a The NYC) Jacqueline was special referee. Basic tag match action you'd expect from these four. Eventually Jackie had enough of Gilberti and slammed him, leading to Gilberti getting pinned. WINNERS: Kenney & Badd at 7:50. STAR RATING: * -The Kings of Wrestling threw Savage into a car and it drove away. West and Tenay acted disgusted. 5 -- DALLAS PAGE vs. RAVEN PAGE ONE: They punched each other. Page knocked the ref down. They brawled up the ramp. PAGE TWO: Back in the ring Raven took control by bashing Page in the head several times with his gladiator helmet. Erik Watts did commentary at ringside. PAGE THREE: Raven gave Page a running knee. Page took an awkward bump on Raven's drop toe hold into the chair in center ring. PAGE FOUR: Page made a comeback at 6:00 with a series of punches. Raven stopped Page's momentum with a mule kick then rolled up Page for a near fall.

Another false Keith rumor just confirmed by Meltzer: Ludvig Borga was never pencilled in to win the WWF title.

In the back, the KOW are shoving Savage into a car and it goes racing off! Hall is still decked out in his elvis getup. West and Tenay speculate on how this will effect the big six man match later tonight. Video package on the history of Raven/DDP. -Savage heel turn, anybody?

Jackie ends up slamming Gilberti, and Mero/Badd hits the TKO for the win.

Kenney/Badd vs. Swinger/Gilberti with Jacqueline as referee is on now.

Another skit with "Vince" and "HHH" with Vince telling Chris Sabin he's fired for breaking the dress code.

Abyss takes a spinebuster into the tacks, so Monty wins. Abyss had some tacks in the back of his head.

-A feature aired on "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka, Sonjay Dutt, Kid Kash, and the X Division. Sonjay Dutt said whenever he flies off the top rope, it's a homage to Superfly. 2 -- KID KASH & MICHAEL SHANE & KAZARIAN vs. SONNY SIAKI & SONJAY DUTT & HECTOR GARZA Kash and Sonjay, the two most exciting wrestlers in this tag match, opened up the match with some great exchanges. Pretty much non-stop action for the opening five minutes. Dutt took a sustained beating for several minutes. Dutt made a comebcak at 8:30 with a series of punches against Shane, but Shane tagged out to Kazarian and he continued to work over Dutt's left arm. Eventually Dutt hot-tagged out. The babyfaces hit a series of spots including a Garza moonsault (with a cool overhead camera shot) and Dutt being tossed by his partners onto heels at ringside. In the end, Garza hit his tornado corkscrew splash for the win. WINNERS: Dutt & Garza & Siaki at 10:55. STAR RATING: **1/2 -- Good action. Not enough time for anyone to stand out all that much, but Garza hit nice spots and Dutt played a good sympathetic babyface with nice athleticism and fire. The rest blended in. -A quick generic Savage promo aired. -Scott Hudson interviewed D'Amore and Petey Williams backstage.

Garza pins Kazarian.

Anyone here actually watching the show?

TNA PPV REPORT DECEMBER 5, 2004 LIVE FROM ORLANDO, FLA. -The show opened with clips of Randy Savage talking about returning to wrestling. A.J. Styles talked about how Savage "paved the path" for wrestlers like him. -A skit aired of Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, and Jeff Jarrett dressed up as Elvis driving in a fake car making "King of Wrestling" references. It was meant to be cheesy and it accomplished its intent. -A fake remake aired of Abyss approaching Vince McMahon and Triple H backstage with balloons. They showed the Vince imitator from behind as he cackled. The Hunter imitator, wielding a sledgehammer, backed down from the much larger Abyss after spouting some of his catch phrases. -Mike Tenay and Don West introduced the show and previewed the line-up. 1 -- B.G. JAMES & RON KILLINGS vs. ERIC YOUNG & BOBBY ROODE (a/k/a Team Canada, w/Scott D'Amore) James did his pre-match mic work and the crowd enthusiastically took part in reciting the well-known lines. Tenay said that Konnan was absent due to a separated shoulder. In reality, Konnan is wrestling in Mexico tonight. Killings sold for the heels during the body of the match. He hit a missile dropkick and hot-tagged James at 6:00. James punched away at both heels. At 7:30 four-way action broke out. Killings gave Roode a dropkick as James held him in the air. Before the cover, D'Amore crawled into the ring. That distracted Killiongs. James then set up the Pump-Handle Slam. Johnny Devine ran out and broke a hockey stick across James's back as the ref tended to D'Amore. Roode then made the pin. WINNERS: Team Canada at 8:28. STAR RATING: * -- With a PPV audience, they have to assume these are veteran, dedicated TNA fans, so they could have come up with a better finish than Team Canada's usual match finish with the D'Amore interference and hockey stick weapon. -Shane Douglas, with his cartoonishly absurd facial expressions, interviewed Dusty Rhodes. It's hard to steal the show during a Dusty interview, but Douglas's facial expressions were so ridiculous, I barely heard a word Dusty said. Dusty talked his usual gibberish hyping the event as big time.

Apparently Team Canada won the tag titles back.

I know they said it was from a jet ski accident or something, but I heard that was just a coverup.

Some of these are pretty well known, but why not throw them in here: RVD and Kane were both booked to win the world title in 2002, but HHH vetoed both decisions and refused to job to them. (I'm 95% sure of this) Vince threw a fit after the In Your House #4 PPV, which had the fans booing after a horrible show. Vince especially went after Diesel, who had just wrestled British Bulldog in a title match with a DQ finish. The fans had also booed the tag team champions (The Smoking Gunns) on that show, as they were wrestling 123 Kid and Razor Ramon, and weren't really over at all. Hulk Hogan wanted Yokozuna to come to WCW so Hogan could get his win back from him, but Yoko decided to stay with the WWF. According to Foley's book, the original plan was for him to turn heel late in 1999 (they tagged together against the NAO at Armageddon 1999) and play up their Royal Rumble "I Quit" match where Rock never checked on him after the match and Rock being an uncaring asshole in general, but that never happened and Foley was put into the feud with HHH to get Trips over. Also from Foley's book, the WWF was going to have Austin vs. Foley at KOTR 98 and Kane vs. Undertaker again, but decided that they should do something different and decided to switch the matchups up. HHH was originally booked to win KOTR 1996, but after the MSG incident he was jobbed out in like 15 seconds to Jake Roberts in his first round match. Hulk Hogan's shiner at WM9 was because Randy Savage punched him. I'm not sure on this one, but wasn't the original Wrestlemania 8 plan to go with Hogan vs. Flair, Savage vs. Roberts, and Sid vs. Taker? Honkeytonk Man refused to job the IC title to Randy Savage. The original Wrestlemania 13 plan was for HBK to face Bret Hart, and Steve Austin to face British Bulldog. Not surprisingly, the Pillman/Goldust feud was going to lead to Marlena turning on Goldust, like so many of Russo's angles later on. Oh, I also read online that Dave Meltzer was on Vince's payroll as a "consultant" in the past. Don't know if that's true or not though.

Main event time!!!!! IT DOESN'T GET ANY BIGGER THAN THIS!

Maybe at this point JR makes a better color commentator?

BIG MAN BELLY TO BELLY!

I'll finish this later.

What's the deal with the pink boots? Nice eye rake to Vis.