I missed a little of last weeks action but I am back with a look back on the TNA iMPACT/PPV the Whole F'N Show and WWE's SummerSlam, and I am going to start with TNA.
The show opened brilliantly with Kurt Angle Vs AJ Styles. They could not have kicked off the show better than with these two wonderful atheletes. Tenay and Taz played up the whole idea that if Angle loses then he retires. Lets face it. People know he is not going to fail against the number 6 contender. At this point, Kurt Angle looks like he is stealing Ric Flair's retirement angle. The match was good. A little slow at first but the match did pick up towards the end with some good counters and a good finish. These two have done better but Angle picked up the obvious win.
Then we go from a good storyline, to a bloody confusing one. Angelina Love Vs Madison Rayne is up next. One or two good spots here. Tara(I mean biker lady) comes out, Velvet follows her, beats the crap out of her and tries to take off her helmet but she has a balaclava on underneath. Meanwhile, apparently Angelina Love has dropped Rayne for a pinfall and a new Knockout Champion is crowned, although she was stripped of the title three weeks ago and now has it back. Wonderful (sarcasm).
Next up is Matt Morgan Vs Mr Anderson Vs The Pope. Now this match disapointed me. I was expecting a really good long match and what I ended up with was, well, a boring short match that Morgan stole after Anderson hit a Mic Check on Dinero. Upsetting.
Jeff Hardy was up next with his 'Open' challenge. Shannon Moore accepts. Yawn. Don't get me wrong, I think Shannon is great as part of a tag team, but there doesn't really seem to be much in the way of a draw in him. The match was slow, and as hard as I tried, I couldn't get into it. Hardy with another obvious victory.
Finally, we get to the semi-main event of the evening which, in my opinion should have been the main event. The Motor City Machine Guns Vs Beer Money in the last of the five series was epic. Amazing. TNA knows wrestling, I will give them that. This match was a best 2-out-of-3 falls match. Superb first fall. High flying double team moves from MCMG, really great tag team wrestling. Beer Money get the first fall after some great reversals lead into the DWI. Second fall comes in quickly from that as Sabin and Shelley team up on Roode to connect with the neckbreaker/splash combo to even the match. After that fall, I saw some truly awesome tag team wrestling. Shelley and Sabin finish the match with a double super kick on Storm and two neckbreaker/splash combo's to bring to a close one of the best series' in the history of tag team wrestling full stop. Just brilliant. These two teams have shown what is right with TNA Wrestling and I can only hope that they can build on the positives here.
The main event of the evening was the Stairway To Janice Match (who the hell made that up?) for the TNA World Title between Abyss and RVD. Now I have believed for some time that Abyss should not be in the TNA World Title picture and this match proved it. He isn't very good on the mic and bar his ability to take bumps on tacks and glass, he doesn't really do very much. The match was slow, and quite boring in places. The match finish came with RVD hitting a coast to coast move on Abyss onto a barbed wire board and finished with the Five Star.
The end of the show was a little poor. Hogan comes out, puts over the ECW boys and RVD and invites them to the ring. They come in and Dreamer puts over everyone including Jesus. The lights go out, and when they come back on, the TNA roster attacks EV2.0 and bloody them in a mature rated 'Nexus' style beatdown. If you can't beat em', copy em' right? Flair comes down the aisle and singles out Dixie Carter and tells her that she brought this on herself. The show ends with the ECW boys all bloodied up and the TNA roster standing tall. About bloody time. All in all, quite a poor show this week unfortunately, and with such a good line up, it just didn't have a PPV feel, apart from of course, the awesome tag match.
Now moving onto a slightly better PPV in WWE's SummerSlam.
Another good opening bout to a PPV in Dolph Ziggler Vs Kofi Kingston. Now I am all for Vicki Guerrero making a living for her family, but in my opinion her on-screen role is just shambolic. Eddie would be turning in his grave. Getting back to the match. Actually very entertaining albeit a little bit slow in places for an opener. The end of the match was ruined a little as Nexus came out of the crowd and attacked both men before Barrett cut a last promo before their match later in the show. I can understand why creative did it, but they could have chosen the Diva's match to annihilate some competition. Not that I am encouraging man on woman violence of course. Shame, but an okay start to the PPV.
Next was the Diva's title blah blah blah, Melina over Fox to win the title. LayCool come out blah blah blah knock out Melina. Enough of that thank you.
Next up is Big Show Vs The Straight Edged Society in a 3-on-1 handicap match. To be honest, this match really didn't interest me and it was a very slow match. Punk and Mercury did their best but it wasn't a classic by any stretch. Show won after Punk deserted his team and Show hit the chokeslam on Mercury and Festus (Gallows whatever his name is).
AWESOME! The Miz then cuts a promo about how Cena begged him to be a part of Team WWE tonight. Another truly excellent piece of mic work here for The Miz, and to my suprise, The Miz accepts Team WWE's offer.
Next up its the WWE title match between my new hero, Shaemus and Randy Orton. Good crowd reactions for both in this match. A bit of a brawler type match here. Very entertaining. I can't help but worry every time Orton bangs his fists on the floor now as that is how he popped his shoulder out a few months back. Pretty crap finish to be honest, very disapointed with the DQ finish. Orton tries to make up for it with an RKO on the announce table but it doesn't really do much for me here. Bad booking.
The semi-main event of this evenings PPV is Kane Vs Rey Rey for the World Title. Excellent video package hyping the match, and Kane comes out with a casket, near enough giving away that a return for the dead man is imminent. Match was good. Very good actually. Kane used his strangth well, worked on Mysterio's back for a while and Rey Rey got in some good offense. The finish of the match was well done, a lot of counters, with Kane coming out on top with the chokeslam. After the match Kane went to drop Mysterio into the casket, and suprise suprise, The Undertaker is in the casket. Goosels Kane, Kane fights back and tombstone's the less than 100% Undertaker (presumably because Taker has been vegitated for a lifetime). Good clean win for Kane here, and advances his storyline with Taker by taking him out on his return. Good solid stuff.
Time for the main event of the evening, with Nexus out first. The WWE team come out one-by-one and finally we hear the familiar AWESOME! theme music and out comes Miz. Cena stops Miz by saying that they couldn't wait until the day of SummerSlam for his answer. They already got Team WWE's seventh member and its...DANIEL FREAKING BRYAN!!! Truly great booking. Brilliant stuff. Just one thing to note. Michael Cole. You are a true jackass. Your commentary is awful, and although it is part of your gimmick, your constant hatred of Daniel Bryan licking the minge of The Miz is so damn irritating that I wish the WWE could fire you and replace you with anyone. Say Matt Striker. Your a complete tool that will never amount to anything other than being the shitty stand in for Jim Ross. Now back to the action. Bryan shuts up Cole two minutes in when he makes Darren Young tap to a beautiful modified crossface. Michael Tarver is eliminated next thanks to John Morrison. Skip Sheffield then eliminates both Morrison and R-Truth with his patented clothesline. Good build up here. Bret Hart is eliminated next via DQ for using a chair on a member of Nexus that I cannot for the life of me remember. I think it was Skip Sheffield. Jericho tags in hits a Codebreaker on Sheffield, Edge tags in and hits a Spear to eliminate Sheffield. Jericho then eliminates Otunga with the Walls Of Jericho. There is then a breakdown in communication between Edge, Jericho and Cena which leads to Edge and Jericho being eliminated. The beat the crap out of Cena and leave him lying. Cena then tags in Bryan and Bryan puts the Crossface on Slater forcing him to tap. The Miz then enters the ring and knocks out Bryan, causing him to be eliminated. This leaves Cena Vs Barrett and Gabriel. Gabriel misses his 450 splash and Cena covers, before Barrett comes in and gets put in the STF by Cena forcing the tap out and WWE's victory.
Good solid PPV this year for the WWE, the right match was the main event here, the 7-on-7 was a very good match to watch and kept me guessing. There were some poor parts but overall a very good effort by WWE creative here.
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