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TNA had their first PPV in almost 5 months last night, Lockdown - where all matches take place inside a steel cage, and it was a thumbs in the middle show at best. The show was decent to good most of the way through until we got to the final minutes of the TNA Title match, and then the main event was just a cluster. It felt exactly like an old WCW PPV where the undercard carried the show, and then the main events sucked. Both were way overbooked. Here's the rundown:
- Team Wrestle-1 (The Great Muta, Seiya Sanada, Yasufumi Kakanoueno) d Team TNA (Chris Sabin, Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian) - Fun opener
- Samuel Shaw d Ken Anderson - More of a story than a match. Ref bump. Anderson escaped the cage but Shaw pulled Christy Hemme into the cage. Anderson came back in. Hemme escaped. Shaw chocked out Anderson and left the cage. Earl Hebner woke up and declared Shaw the winner.
- Ethan Carter III Open Challenge - Kurt Angle had knee surgery recently. Bobby Lashley came out. He powerslammed and speared EC3. EC3 ran away. No match.
- Tigre Uno d Manik - Fun lucha style match.
- Gunner d James Storm - Brawl match of the show. Don't have much interest in either but pretty good match. Storm couldn't answer a 10 count and lost.
- Madison Rayne d Gail Kim to retain the Knocksouts Title - Pretty good for a womens match.
- Magnus d Samoa Joe to retain the TNA Heavyweight Title - Match was good. Both men bled (bladed). Joe had Magnus in the choke when a hand came through the apron and "pulled Joe to hell". Joe eventually came out. He went after Magnus (very slowly) before Abyss (sans mask) came out of the whole and hit Joe with Janice and a Black Hole Slam. Magnus put a choke on Joe's lifeless body to get the win. This finish killed the crowd dead.
- Team MVP (MVP, Davey Richards, Eddie Edwards, Willow the Wisp (Jeff Hardy)) d Team Dixie (Bobby Roode, Austin Airies, Robbie E, Jesse Godderz) in a Lethal Lockdown (Wargames) Match. The match didn't have any flow or chemistry. Hardy was banned from the arena but came in as Willow in an unspectacular performance. When the weapons came down, Dixie announced Bully Ray was her special guest referee and insurance policy. Bully called it down the middle until Roode was about to hit the Roode Bomb on MVP. Bully got in Roode's way. Roode flipped out. Bully hit him with a Rock Bottom. MVP then hit Roode with a Yakuza Kick to get the win. MVP is now the head of wrestling operations in TNA, but Dixie still owns the company... whatever. Dixie flipped out on Bully, and then Bully powerbombed Roode through a table to end the show. The story was Dixie paid off Bully, but MVP found out and paid him more.
Not a ton is currently announced for Raw tonight. What we know is:
- The Undertaker will make an announcement regarding his match with Brock Lesnar. My guess is it is some type of stipulation and not a retirement announcement.
- Brock Lesnar is not scheduled for tonight's show. He will be back next week.
- Hulk Hogan will make an announcement regarding WrestleMania. My guess it is some type of celebrity involvement, or possibly Mr T going into the Hall of Fame.
- John Cena faces Luke Harper
- Will The Shield be on the same page?
- What will Daniel Bryan do after being Pedigreed by HHH to end the show last week? Will HHH accept Bryan's WM challenge?
- Will there be any actual build for the Orton v Batista title match?
- What tension will take place between The Real Americans this week?
- Will Big E be an afterthought again?
- Will we be forced to sit through another long, boring match with some combination of Christian, Sheamus, an Alberto Del Rio?
- Divas and/or Emma/Santino bathroom breaks.
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