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NWA TNA PPV Recap
Airdate: August 27
By Anthony Mislan
1. 3 Live Krew (Konnan, Ron Killings & B.G. James) went to a no contest with Shane Douglas, Sinn and Slash of the Disciples of the New Church. James Mitchell was supposed to do commentary but his headset didn't work for a while. Konnan got a super reaction from the hot TNA crowd. Tenay and West alluded to Alexis being gone (after she recently signed a WWE Developmental Contract). Mitchell hit the ring, as did C.M. Punk and Julio Dinero and the bout was thrown out. Match had super heat early, and was much better than it sounded going in.
Scott Hudson wasn't there tonight, so Terry Taylor was the backstage interviewer, which led to an angle later in the show.
2. Sonny Siaki beat D-Lo Brown in when Trinity(looking fabulous as ever) gave Brown a tornado DDT and Siaki used the Siakalypse now to finish this match. They continued to beat on Brown behind the building after the match until Jeff Jarrett made the save with a guitar shot. Lots of booing for Jarrett, which got more noticeable as the night went on.
3. Michael Shane retained the X-Division title over Jerry Lynn in a good match. This was a combination of two things. As usual, Tenay and West way overdo it on the Shane being Shawn Michaels' cousin stuff. Don Callis was at ringside continuing his feud with Lynn. Callis left at one point and came back with Kevin Northcutt and Ryan Wilson of Red Shirt Security, who distracted Lynn and Shane hit him with the sweet chin music for the pin.
Raven did an interview talking about the NWA title. He mentioned Tommy Rich as champion and how after he lost it, he feuded with Buzz Sawyer, got taken out of the title situation and had a mediocre career. Raven said he was ECW champ and feuded with Dreamer and Sandman but has his eye back on the ball. Very good promo, but it should have aired last week so get people to buy the show. Styles and Russo came out and Raven pie-faced Styles. Styles wanted to go at him but Russo pulled him away.
4. Abyss pinned Sandman in a relatively short match. Sandman did his usual swanton. Kid Kash did a run-in and yelled at Abyss for tossing him out last week. Kash even gave Abyss a low blow. There was a spot where Abyss was supposed to go over the top through a table, but it didn't break. Back in the ring, Abyss won with the black hole, which is similar to a rock bottom.
Taylor interviewed Kash, who called Taylor a dinosaur and a caveman because he was so old. Finally Kash slapped Taylor. Taylor (who just turned 48) wanted to go after him but Abyss blocked his way. I'm guessing a match is coming in a few weeks.
5. Simon Diamond & Johnny Swinger won the NWA tag titles from Chris Harris & James Storm in 9:08. They brawled around ringside for awhile before the bout ever started. This was their usual good match with all the near falls. In the move of the night, and really one of the moves of the year, Harris was standing on the middle rope. Storm was on Harris' shoulders like doing the old Edge and Christian stacked up suplex, but it would have been a stacked up superplex on Diamond. But before they did it, Swinger got underneath and power bombed Harris, which resulted in Storm also being power bombed and Diamond taking the superplex. Crowd absolutely loved that. Glenn Gilberti came out dressed for a bullrope match with Dusty Rhodes later on. Finish saw Gilberti hit Harris with a chair, and he fell into the problem solver, which is a double-team flapjack and DDT and Diamond pinned Harris. Jeremy Borash announced America's Most Simon Diamond & Johnny Swinger as winners. Ugh...Borash needs to stay off the mic.
6.Glen Gilberti pinned Dusty Rhodes in a bullrope match. This wasn't as bad as you'd think as Dusty was feeling more spry than usual, probably since he was doing the job. Even though Gilberti bled, the match went too long. Christopher Daniels knocked out Dustry Rhodes with brass knuckles for the win. Daniels and Gilberti were working on Rhodes until Chris Harris ran in for the save. Again Jarrett made the save knocking out Daniels with a guitar shot. This is starting to get ridiculous. It might be just because I don't like Jarrett, but come on.
Konnan, Killings & B.G. were doing a promo making fun of the sexual persuasion of Diamond & Swinger. They started going at it when guess what happened. Once again Jeff "like Vince McMahon I need to be on TV to support my HUGE ego" Jarrett comes out with another guitar shot.
Roddy Piper's return is hyped. They said Roddy is pissed and has something to say. This really should be interesting. Hope it doesn't go as far as his last interview in TNA.
7. Styles pinned Raven to keep the NWA World Heavyweight title. Another excellent match from these two. This was probably the best singles match I've seen Raven in and extremely long time. Raven gave Styles four leg sweeps into the barricade before Styles did his quebrada into a reverse DDT. Julio and CM Punk came out and kidnapped Russo. Styles did a springboard huracanrana which led to a kick boxing sequence early with Styles throwing low kicks. All kinds of near falls. Raven used the Styles clash but Sinn pulled the ref out of the ring. Styles used a DDT for a near fall. Styles dropkicked Sinn when Raven moved and soon after, a Ref bump, so naturally Raven picked that time to hit the DDT. No ref for the pin. Slash was in, ready to throw powder, but Raven kicked his hand and he took powder in the eyes. Slash was doing the can't see deal and Slash accidentally gave Styles the whirly bird. Raven hit a DDT but this time Shane Douglas ran in. Douglas ended up giving Raven a low blow and Styles used the Styles clash for the win.
Harris told ref Rudy Charles, who had blown calls all night, to either restart the match or reverse the decision. He did neither. Half the world ran in. Everyone was brawling until guess what happened. Jeff cleaned house again. Erik Watts then showed up. They basically built it for a War Games like match, but with one ring, and guy entering in 90 second intervals with Jeff Jarrett, Chris Harris, James Storm, Raven and D'Lo Brown vs. Simon Diamond, Johnny Swinger, AJ Styles, Shane Douglas and Christopher Daniels with Erik Watts as referee and Dusty as the keeper of the key.
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