With Sting's capture of the TNA World title for three years in a row at the same pay-per-view, you really wonder if TNA is bound for glory or doomed to failure. Maybe that's a harsh way to put it, but like I wrote in my last blog, who better than Samoa Joe to lead wrestling today and into the future than somebody who can work a style like the X-Division and just as well with a guy like Sting. Kevin Nash hits Joe with the baseball bat, and Sting turns around and hits the Scorpion Death Drop?
I wish Vince Russo would've stayed at his post near me at the end of the show so I could've yelled at him.
Overall I enjoyed the show, I guess. From my seats it was hard to see a lot of the action going on. Google Maps sucks so I missed a turn, and got parked and to my seat just in time for JB to tell us we're 15 minutes from going live. I feel a little bad for TNA because they didn't even sell out the Sears Centre Arena - the top half was completely empty.
I won't do a play-by-play because you can find results anywhere. A few notes...
-Vince Russo watched most of the action about 10 feet from where I was sitting, along with some of the other backstage crew. At one point towards the end Glenn Gilbertti - the one and only Disco Inferno - said something to him and they both went to the back. Russo had a big smile on his face for the finish of Jarrett vs. Angle.
-Chicago HATED Samoa Joe. The crowd popped big for Joe's sick dive/kick off the balcony, though.
-Team 3D's double chokeslam to Abyss onto the flaming table was the single most gruesome thing I've ever seen at a wrestling event. Not only was he bleeding from a cheesegrater, but he got annihilated off a stage onto straight-up concrete. And after the crew thought he was safe, the fire returned and Abyss freaked - not sure if any of that made it to television. Afterwards the crew helped him out and our section gave him a nice applause for the spot.
-CANADIAN DESTROYER OUT OF NOWHERE! What an awesome move, that is. I can't wait to get the DVD and just keep watching that spotfest.
-I tried getting backstage again, but no luck. As the people who went back came out and walked past us, this dude goes, "Marks!" I got a chuckle out of it.
-Beer Money Inc. held onto the tag titles. I guess I'm digging these guys as a team now. That was a pretty cool way to keep heat and basically steal a win.
-TNA can't handle showing anything to the live audience on the screens. We got a few replays but that was it. We saw Sting and Joe's fight through the crowd live, and besides the Angle/Jarrett interviews, that was it. I didn't know there were other segments until I read Gerweck.net Monday morning.
Overall a good show. With the seats I had I wouldn't want to go again by myself, but definitely if I were ringside or higher up than my seat. I think the Abyss table spot made up for not seeing too much in-ring action, though.
PICTURES
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