TNA Slammiversary 2006 Talkback

[Sigma]

Sorry this is a day late, I worked all day yesterday and when I got home the internet was down at my house.


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KING OF THE MOUNTAIN MATCH FOR THE NWA WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE
Christian Cage (c) vs. "The Monster" Abyss vs.
Ron "The Truth" Killings vs. Jeff Jarrett vs. Sting


WHO IS TRULY UNSTOPPABLE?
"The Samoan Submission Machine" Samoa Joe vs. "Big Poppa Pump" Scott Steiner

NWA WORLD TAG TEAM TITLE MATCH
America's Most Wanted (c) vs. AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels

HANDICAP MATCH
"The War Machine" Rhino vs. Bobby Roode and Coach Scott D'Amore

BINGO HALL BRAWL
The James Gang vs. Team 3D

Kevin Nash vs. Chris Sabin

X DIVISION RANKINGS MATCH
Sonjay Dutt vs Alex Shelley vs Jay Lethal vs Senshi vs Shark Boy vs Petey Williams

Plus, the new face of TNA Management debuts!

[Tapout]

All in all another solid show from TNA.

3D/James Gang was about what I expected from those guys. Not awful, but nothing special.

Rhino v. Roode/D'Amore was a pretty bad match but had a semi-decent payoff. I expected/hoped for something vicious enough, i.e. Lori Fullington, to put D'Amore off TV for a few weeks but I'll settle for what we got.

Six-way X-Cluster was good, and even Shark Boy was impressive. Really looking forward to Senshi/Joe.

A suprisingly good match from Nash and Sabin. I'd have liked it better had Sabin actually won but the repeated cheating/Shelley interference and the announcers constantly harping on it may have put Sabin over enough until he can actually beat Nash.

Please tell me that wasn't Chyna involved in the tag title match. I never got a clean look at her (?) face, but she seemed big enough. Other than that minor distraction it was a great match with a cool Frog Splash/BME finish.

I missed the end of Steiner/Joe but from what I did see it was another unexpected suprise. I'll try to DL the match later so I can see the finish.

And of course, TNA has to put another show into the toilet with the main event. I'm actually willing to give this one the benefit of the doubt with Cornette taking the belt from Jarrett, but it was still a rediculous finish and shouldn't have happened that way in the first place. I can't say I support fans throwing garbage into the ring, but I can't blame them either.

[Fifi Fanatic]

Except for the ending of the main event, it was a rather solid PPV. If TNA could just get a decent timeslot on Spike TV, they could give ol' Vince some sleepless nights.

I predicted all of the matches correctly except for the X-Division six-way (I had picked Nash to interfere and help Alex Shelley to win that one) and the main event (I really thought Christian would be the first to retain the belt in a KOTM match). Still, I was batting above .500 for this one. :D

[hobbyfan]

All in all another solid show from TNA.

3D/James Gang was about what I expected from those guys. Not awful, but nothing special.

Rhino v. Roode/D'Amore was a pretty bad match but had a semi-decent payoff. I expected/hoped for something vicious enough, i.e. Lori Fullington, to put D'Amore off TV for a few weeks but I'll settle for what we got.

Six-way X-Cluster was good, and even Shark Boy was impressive. Really looking forward to Senshi/Joe.

A suprisingly good match from Nash and Sabin. I'd have liked it better had Sabin actually won but the repeated cheating/Shelley interference and the announcers constantly harping on it may have put Sabin over enough until he can actually beat Nash.[/close]

Nash should've checked his ego at the door like Steiner did. The ref should've given Shelley the heave-ho as soon as the match started.

[quote=dirtbag]Please tell me that wasn't Chyna involved in the tag title match. I never got a clean look at her (?) face, but she seemed big enough. Other than that minor distraction it was a great match with a cool Frog Splash/BME finish.

As I found out from reading Meltzer's report, the young lady is Jaime Courdrey (sp), another of Donuts D'Amore's students. Your fears are unfounded.


And of course, TNA has to put another show into the toilet with the main event. I'm actually willing to give this one the benefit of the doubt with Cornette taking the belt from Jarrett, but it was still a rediculous finish and shouldn't have happened that way in the first place. I can't say I support fans throwing garbage into the ring, but I can't blame them either.

I'm going out on a limb here, I think, when I say they may've pulled out the old evil twin bit and had Dave Hebner work the match in place of Earl. Hasn't been done since the Hogan-Andre TV match in Feb. '88. Jarrett should not be allowed to be champion again. He undercut Raven's title run by screwing him over in Canada, he undercut Rhino, and now he's done the same to Cage.

With Jim Cornette as Director of Authority (I think), I believe now's the time to put an end to the loose interpretations of rules and stop all the rampant screwjobs. They've exposed Zbyszko as being in Jarrett's pocket (what a shock), but now it's time to put the screws to Jingles once and for all!!

[DarkHawk]

I was there live last night and the crowd was super pissed at the main event ending. One of the Harris brothers roughed up a fan he caught throwing stuff into the ring too lol

[Mr.HeathBell]

I didn't see this but the main event of this sounds incredibly, well obviously, messy. But it was a King of the Mountain match involving Sting, Ron Killings and Jeff Jarrett so what else was to be expected?

As for this Nash crap... it wasn't surprising that Nash beat Sabin. Just as Nash always brings up the fact that he booked Rey to beat him, I wouldn't be surprised if he brings up the fact that Sabin came close from now on. This would feud has basically made the X Division a joke and Nash winning just seals the deal. And with Joe probably going for the title soon after a win over Steiner and Styles & Daniels out of the division as tag champs now, maybe that's what TNA wants.

[Tapout]

As for this Nash crap... it wasn't surprising that Nash beat Sabin. Just as Nash always brings up the fact that he booked Rey to beat him, I wouldn't be surprised if he brings up the fact that Sabin came close from now on. This would feud has basically made the X Division a joke and Nash winning just seals the deal. And with Joe probably going for the title soon after a win over Steiner and Styles & Daniels out of the division as tag champs now, maybe that's what TNA wants.It wasn't like that though. Nash/Sabin was almost the same thing that Undertaker/Jeff Hardy was a few years ago. Yeah, Sabin should have won but Nash *gasp* actually sold for him and only won due to rampant cheating and Alex Shelley interference. And as for making the X-Division a joke, hardly. Joe is all but out of the division as soon as they find a way to get the belt off him without breaking the streak (which they did at AAO, just to blow it later :shrug: ) and with Styles and Daniels tagging, Senshi back and new stars like Shelley and Lethal, they could really rebuild the X-Division. But if Kevin Nash keeps going down this path it could all be for naught.