We start off with a look at last week when the Lethal Lockdown match for control of the company was made official, as well as James Storm costing his partner Gunner his shot at the TNA World Title. We then go backstage as Gunner is going from room to room looking for James Storm and warning the Mystery Cameraman that Storm doesn’t have a chance tonight.
MVP comes to the ring and gets the crowd fired up, and he says that Gunner will get the title shot he earned once he’s 100% in control of wrestling operations, but the Lockdown main event will be Magnus defending the title against Samoa Joe. Joe comes to the ring as we look back at how Joe became the #1 contender by choking Magnus out, and then MVP introduces Magnus as we look back at his tainted win last week over Gunner. Magnus runs down the crowd and says the town has gone to hell since he left, and Dixie Carter isn’t here because he reminded her that he is the champion and can handle it himself. MVP says that’s good because Magnus Rules won’t be in effect, but Samoa Joe Rules will be, and what that means is that the only way to win is by submission or knockout. MVP asks Magnus if he thinks he can tap Joe out, but before he answers, he says we’ll find out at Lockdown. MVP hands Joe the contract and he quickly signs it, then he hands it to Magnus. Magnus lays the belt across the mat in front of him, takes the contract, and grabs MVP’s mic. Magnus says he sees the rules are getting made as we go along, but he has a whole deck he hasn’t played yet, and he wants Joe to know he’s an unrefined, dangerous animal, and that’s why the fans have unrefined chants like “Joe is gonna kill you.” The crowd has the predictible response as Magnus says dangerous animals are put down, and articulate, refined representatives of the industry like him will make sure Joe will never again represent TNA as the World Champion. Magnus signs the contract and they go nose to nose as Magnus asks Joe if he’s going to do something, and Joe proceeds to beat the crap out of Magnus and hammer him into a pulp in the corner. Referees run out and pull Joe off, and Magnus runs for his life as MVP tells him to save it for the PPV. Joe tears out of the ring and nails Magnus as he tries to escape up the aisle, and goes right back to beating on him. More referees come out and pull Joe off of Magnus as all heck has broken loose!
We look back at this past weekend in West Virginia as the Wolves defeated the Bromans for the TNA World Tag Team Title, then we look backstage after the match as the Bromans realize they need to get a return match at Lockdown. They find Bobby Roode and try to talk him into letting them on his team at Lockdown to get a title shot, but Roode says they lost their title just like Bad Influence lost last week. Roode (who, along with Magnus and Ethan Carter III, was given matchmaking power this week) makes a three way match between the Bromans, Bad Influence, and the Wolves, and if Bad Influence or the Bromans win, they’re on the Lockdown team.
The Wolves vs Bad Influence vs The Bromans
We start the match in progress so we don’t see the Wolves come to the ring without the belts, and the Wolves are absolutely dominant over both opposing teams. They catch Kazarian in the ring and work him over with a fast series of double teams, but Daniels trips Davey from the floor so Kazarian can nail him with a springboard legdrop to the back of the head. Now Bad Influence has Davey in the wrong part of town and work him over with double teams. Davey manages to tag Eddie in before too long, but he only gets a bit of offense in before Bad Influence pops him into the air for a double powerbomb. Davey drags Daniels out to the floor so Eddie can get Kazarian one on one, and Eddie hits Kazarian with the backpack driver. Eddie takes Daniels out with a dive through the floor, then he comes off the top rope with a double stomp to Kazarian’s back. Davey goes up to hit a double stomp of his own, but Robbie E blind tags Davey as he comes off and stomps Kazarian, and Robbie quickly sneaks in and pins Kazarian.
Winners: The Bromans
The Bromans will now be on Bobby Roode’s Lethal Lockdown team.
Ethan Carter III is backstage telling the Mystery Cameraman that he’s picked one of the greatest European wrestlers of all time for his opponent tonight, and he’ll be on hand for Kurt Angle’s Hall of Fame induction tonight.
Bobby Roode is backstage with Austin Aries and they’re still arguing over whether Aries beating him for the title was a fluke, and then Roode tries to offer Aries a spot. He says Aries doesn’t know MVP and can’t trust him, and Aries says he can’t trust him either given their past. He knows he hates Dixie Carter, but he’s not going to work for him. Roode says he’s confident that Aries will make the right decision, and Aries assures Roode that he always makes the right decision.
Ethan Carter III vs Doug Williams
Carter gets a microphone and tells Williams that just like the US is going to beat the UK in the World Cup of SOCCER he’s going to beat him tonight. EC3 doesn’t get off to a good start, catching a fast flurry of offense from the 20 year veteran Williams. Williams evades Carter’s offense and dives off the top rope with a back elbow, but Carter blocks the Chaos Theory and hits his finish for the win.
Winner: Ethan Carter III
Match lasted all of a minute, and Carter starts stomping on Williams’ leg and puts him in his heel hook after the bell. The referee frantically tries to get Carter off of Williams, but he keeps the hold for several seconds before finally releasing it.
James Storm arrives at the arena, we’ll find out what’s on his mind later on tonight!
James Storm comes out to the ring and calls out Gunner, saying he doesn’t run or hide from anything. If Gunner wants to know why he did what he did last week, here he is. Gunner comes out and gets ready to kick Storm’s ass, but Storm tells him to hold on and not do anything crazy. Storm is here to tell Gunner he did screw him over and he planned it ever since Gunner climbed over his back to steal his title shot. He wanted Gunner to know what it felt like to have your dream within the palm of your hand only to lose it, and Gunner clinched it when he handed him the tag title shot like he was giving a dog scraps. Storm says Gunner used Storm to make a name for himself and he never even thanked him. Gunner says in the Marine Corps, standing beside your friend was thank you enough, and Storm can sit there to drink cold beer and do what he does because Gunner and his friends who didn’t come home fought for his right to do that. Storm says nobody gives a damn if Gunner lives or dies, and Gunner says his friends, family, and the fans care, but Storm says nobody, especially himself, owes Gunner a damn thing. Gunner unloads on Storm and they brawl their way out to the floor. Storm goes after Gunner with a chair, but Gunner gets ahold of it and Storm runs into the crowd to get away. Gunner sets the chair up at ringside and takes a seat while Storm gives him the evil stare from the crowd as we go to commercial.
Gunner is backstage and says that if Storm wants to be a coward, then Gunner will be waiting for him at the only way out of this building and he can deal with him then. Sounds like a fire hazard to me.
Magnus is in the ring with his tie and shirt all diiscombobulated, and he says that if Joe wants to cheapshot him and take liberties, then Magnus found a great wrestler in Germany (since he’s the only good one to ever come out of the UK), and Joe can come out and face Bad Bones.
Samoa Joe vs Bad Bones
Joe rushes the ring and pounds the snot out of Bones, takes him down in the corner, and drills him with the Facewash. The crowd is solidly behind Joe as he puts Bones in the corner and flattens him with the Muscle Buster before choking him out with the Kokina Clutch.
Winner: Samoa Joe
That was easy. Joe stares Magnus down as the champ looks really, really mad.
MVP is backstage telling Austin Aries that Roode would say anything to get Aries on his team, and Aries points out that MVP would do the same thing. Aries says he’s not about the money, he’s about being great, so Aries says he wants to see them both up close and wants MVP to make him the referee for their match tonight. MVP asks him how he knows he won’t get screwed, and Aries says he’ll just have to trust him like he wants Aries to do for him. MVP says he’s got a deal, and Aries thanks him and says to be careful with Bobby because he’s no joke in the ring.
Jeremy Borash is in the ring to induct Kurt Angle as the next member of the TNA Hall of Fame, and he puts over his many accomplishments and talks about what a great moment it was to see Kurt Angle come to TNA for the first time. He shows us a video package looking at Angle throughout the years in TNA, and then Borash introduces the Man of the Hour himself: Kurt Angle. Borash presents Angle with his Fall of Fame ring and gives him a huge before Angle soaks in the adulation of the crowd. Angle says the TNA Hall of Fame isn’t about Kurt Angle or the wrestlers, it’s about the fans. He was supposed to accept this back in October, but he wasn’t satisfied with where he was personally or professionally. The crowd won’t stay quiet long enough for him to finish the speech, but Angle says he had things to get through for himself before he was ready to stand here accepting his induction. From getting himself clean to the matches he’s had with Bobby Roode and others, he’s ready and he wants to thank the people who got him here today: God, his wife, his kids, the boys in the back, and all the fans. It’s a great night to be Kurt Angle, and he thanks the fans again.
Ethan Carter III comes out to the top of the ramp and says that this is very touching and so was the video, but he’s got a touching tribute video of his own, and we see a video of Carter taking out Angle’s leg as little balloons pop up next to Carter’s head comic book style with all kinds of remarks and his Twitter handle. The fans in the video chant “this is wrestling” as he puts the heel hook on Angle, then we go back to the arena while EC3 is invited into the ring by Angle to share some big news he says he has. Carter announces that Angle has suffered a torn MCL and ACL and will need surgery due to the beating laid on him by Ethan Carter III, and it’s uncertain as to whether he’ll ever be ableto perform again. Carter says he’s sorry and he was just trying to send a message, but out of respect to his family and everyone else, it’s time for Angle to announce that he’s retiring. The fans start a NO chant as Angle asks why he would get in the ring when he knows Angle is gonna tear his throat out, and Carter says Angle can go into Olympic gimping, and that he’s nimble enough to avoid Angle if he needs to, which he won’t. Angle asks who his source is, and EC3 says the internet, which is right at least 50% of the time. Angle says the actual source is right 100% of the time, and he has no tear in his ACL or MCL, and he asks Carter if he really wants to be in the ring right now with Kurt Angle. Carter says he really doesn’t, and they give each other the death stare for several seconds before Angle says he knows EC3 is new here and is trying to make a name for himself, but he asks why EC3 would try to make it with Kurt Angle before cold cocking EC3 and knocking him out to the floor. Angle tells EC3 that MVP gave him a Hall of Fame gift: a cage match at Lockdown against Ethan Carter III!
The Beautiful People vs Lei’D Tapa & The Alpha Female
Tapa and Velvet briefly go at it before the Alpha Female comes in and completely overpowers Velvet. Sabin gets on teh ring apron and Velvet slingshots him in and goes for In Your Face, but the Female nails her from behind. Tapa and Madison tag in and go at it, but Sabin distracts the referee as Gail Kim comes in and nails Madison to set Tapa up to hit her finish for the win.
Winners: Lei’D Tapa & The Alpha Female
Velvet goes after Sabin after the match and gets caught by the Female, but ODB runs out and takes Tapa out as Velvet grabs the Female. Sabin pulls the Female out to the floor and they make faces at Velvet as the babyface girls celebrate in the ring.
Tigre Uno is coming and will be here at Lockdown!
The Mystery Cameraman catches up with Samuel Shaw and asks if last week was a mistake, but Shaw says Christy was in trouble and he helped her. Nobody understands, but he’ll make us understand right now.
Samuel Shaw comes out to the ring and tells us how Ralph Waldo Emerson said that to be great is to be misunderstood. He thinks Christy Hemme has misunderstood him, and he’d like her to come in the ring and he promises he’ll respect her space. Christy reluctantly comes in and Samuel tells her that he enjoyed their time together, and he thinks that deep down, she enjoyed it as well. He’ll respect her space, but there are certain men who aren’t respecting her, and he sees how they look at her and lust after her, and he’s just here to protect her. These men want one thing from her, but he wants everything. Ken Anderson comes out looking serious, and Shaw says that Anderson is one of those guys that wants one thing, and that she’s lucky he was there for her. Anderson tells Shaw to shut up, calls him a creepy bastard (getting the crowd to chant along), and says that his little relationship with Christy isn’t real. What is real, and what’s going to be real…he pulls his sleeves up and asks if everyone is ready for a little ass whipping. Shaw says he was respectful of Christy and never did one nasty thing to Christy, but even if he did, he knows she would be receptive because women like her are always available. Christy slaps Shaw, and he does the pause before turning back to her thing, and he makes a move on her to draw Anderson into the ring, then pushes her into him and knocks them both down. Shaw catches Anderson in the head and arm choke and puts him out in the middle of the ring as the crowd chants “creepy bastard” at him.
Speaking of creepy bastards, Willow is having an acid trip in a cabin somewhere, and he’s coming to TNA.
James Storm is backstage, and he’s on his way to fight Gunner! We’ll see what happens after this commercial break!
We’re back, and they’re fighting! Storm beats Gunner down and goes “Come on, Marine!” and Gunner obliges, firing back at Storm as they make their way down the alley between two trucks. Al Snow and Pat Kenney come out and separate them, and Storm locks himself behind a mesh door and Gunner says that as God as his witness, he’ll destroy him at Lockdown. Storm tells Gunner that his God will cut him down and walks off.
We look back at the recent history of Abyss and Eric Young, then the Mystery Cameraman is backstage asking Eric if he’s heard from Abyss. Eric says he hasn’t, he’s tried calling him and hasn’t gotten through, but he hopes the guy he was in the ring with a few weeks ago doesn’t come back.
Christy introduces Austin Aries (clad in a referee shirt and his tights) as the special referee, and then…IT’S MAIN EVENT TIME!
Bobby Roode vs MVP
They do some basic feeling out stuff to start, then move on to chain wrestling and the usual one-upsmanship, and the crowd seems pretty torn here. MVP gets an advantage with a series of shoulderblocks and drills Roode with a running Yakuza kick in the corner. Roode catches MVP with a neckbreaker for 2, then he grounds MVP with a chinlock. Roode with a spear for 2, and he follows up with a snap suplex but misses a kneedrop, and that allows MVP to open up with a series of jabs and an overhead release suplex. MVP drops Roode with a kneesmash and hits Ballin’, then hits a Perfectplex for 2. Roode escapes the Playmaker and hits a spinebuster for 2, then argues with Aries over the count. MVP nails him and htis the Playmaker, but Roode kicks out because it’s a crappy finisher and they trade shots strong style in the middle of the ring. Roode hits a leaping enziguiri, but MVP dropkicks his knee out and sets up for another Playmaker. He comes in and Aries drills MVP with a roaring elbow, and Roode hits the FU for the win.
Winner: Bobby Roode
Looks like Aries made his decision!
Source: PWInsider.com
