We start off with a look at last week when MVP was revealed as the secret investor, then we go right into the action backstage as Abyss and Eric Young are beating the tar out of each other. Young actually gets Abyss down and stomps on his face before dragging him out through the entranceway to the top of the ramp. The bell rings, and we’re already into our first match!
Monster’s Ball: Abyss vs Eric Young
Young gets a pipe and hammers Abyss over the back with it multiple times, but Abyss easily pops him up and backdrops him on the floor. Abyss pulls a table out from under the ring and tries to chokeslam Young through it, but Young fights his way out of his grasp, so Abyss gets a thick, hefty trash can full of weapons and dumps it all into the ring. Young baseball slides him under the bottom rope, then takes him out with a dive. Young tries to take Abyss’ mask off, but Abyss fights him off and smashes his face into the ring apron. They go back into the ring and Young escapes another chokeslam attempt, but Abyss takes his head off with a big clothesline and then grabs a chair from ringside. The chair goes on Young’s chest and he goes for the Earthquake splash, but Young turns the chair sideways and Abyss’ ding-ding comes crashing down on it. Now Young is on the comeback trail, firing back on Abyss and coming off the top rope with a missile dropkick for 2. Hey, is Abyss still the TV Champion? Young wedges a chair between the top and middle rope, but Abyss sends him crashing into it and then finally hits that chokeslam. Abyss makes a cover and only gets 2, so Abyss pulls a bag out from under the ring and it’s filled with…thumbtacks. Yeesh. Abyss puts Young on the top rope and tries to superplex him, but Young sunset flips over Abyss and powerbombs him onto the thumbtacks. Young makes a cover, but Abyss kicks out as we see the blood flowing out of his arm and tacks sticking into his skin. Young tries going to the top again, but Abyss drills him with a big right hand and Young goes crashing through the table at ringside. Abyss dumps Young back inside and covers, but Young gets his foot on the bottom rope at 2. Abyss goes under the ring and brings out Janice, and he prepares to part Young’s hair with her when Young quickly rips the mask (and hair) off, and sure enough, it’s Joseph Park underneath. He quickly hits Young with the Black Hole Slam, and the three count is academic at that point.
Winner: Abyss
Abyss turns back into Joseph Park and he has no idea what’s going on until he turns around and sees the Abyss mask next to a piece of a mirror that must have been broken at some point that I missed. He picks them up and looks in the mirror and realizes that he is, indeed, Abyss, and he looks completely shocked to discover this. I wonder if we’ll get one of those five part history packages explaining how Joseph Park fell apart after his law firm closed and became Abyss, then reverted after disappearing a couple of years ago and spent all this time thinking he was Abyss’ brother instead of Abyss himself.
Bobby Roode comes into Dixie Carter’s office with a contract for him to challenge Magnus for the title at Lockdown, and he says he deserves it after doing all of Dixie’s dirty work. Dixie says she can’t do it because things have changed around here, and she knows she promised him a title shot, but she’s not in control like she has been. Roode doesn’t care and tells her to sign the contract, but she says he’s not worthy because he didn’t win his last match. She says Samoa Joe is the #1 contender, so she’ll book him to face Joe tonight and he can get the title shot if he beats Joe. Roode says Joe has been eating guys for lunch lately, and Dixie doesn’t care about Joe’s diet because he might mysteriously wind up getting ahold of a pipe at some point.
MVP speaks after this commercial break!
MVP comes out to the ring and tells us he’s spent the last couple of years living life on his own terms, but even though that got him in trouble earlier in life, it taught him that there are always repercussions for everything. Some people around here have not learned that and he’s seen people screwing the fans, and he’s decided to do something about that. He knew he couldn’t change anything as a talent, but he’s invested his money wisely, and now he was able to come in and invest in TNA and cause changes to prove to people that you can’t mess with the fans. TNA has everything it takes to become a great wrestling company, but mismanagement and bad decision making has held it back all this time. That is not going to happen anymore, and his agenda here is a simple one, but Spud comes out to interrupt before he can say exactly what that agenda is. He is out here to ask, in the interest of fairness, if he would introduce himself to Dixie Carter? She’s all about making stars (MVP goes “yeah, herself”) and the Queen would be more than happy to talk fairness with him and welcome him into her dressing room with outstretched arms. MVP wants to know that at the end of his outstretched arms are fists he has not forgotten how to use, so Spud had better watch his step. He also tells Spud to inform Dixie that, with the blessing of the Board, she has scheduled Magnus to face Kurt Angle in a non-title match.
Bully Ray is backstage singing Gangsta’s Paradise, and because Anderson took everything from his life, he’s going to stick Anderson in the coffin next week and take him out of his, and make him pay for his sins.
Chris Sabin is backstage with a camera crew saying that Velvet Sky is a special girl worth fighting for, and since the weird purple lounge room he’s in is very important to them, he asked her to join him there tonight.
Curry Man comes out to wrestle in our next match, but Bully Ray comes down to ringside with his coffin and tells Curry Man that he’s in the wrong place at the wrong time. He sets up shop in the corner, and Curry Man gets all fired up, charges Bubba, and eats his boot. Bubba takes his sweatshirt and sunglasses off, picks Curry Man up for a piledriver, holds him there to let the blood rush to his head, turns to the camera and yells for Anderson, then drops Curry Man with the piledriver. He dumps Curry Man out to the floor, opens the coffin, and dumps Bubba inside. Bubba looks into the camera and tells Anderson that he’s going to end his career, then he slams the lid shut on Curry Man.
Magnus is backstage complaining to Dixie Carter about having to face Kurt Angle, but she says it’s non-title and she knows he’s got this. Ethan Carter III comes in to talk to Aunt Dee, but she doesn’t have any time for him because of what’s going on around here. They go back and forth doing stupid family bickering and I don’t care.
Austin Aries comes out and says the title doesn’t make the man, the man makes the title, and he not only makes the title, he’s the man who made Option C. He’s held every title in TNA including the World Title, but he’s going to use Option C to become the TNA World Champion once again. The Bromans come out to the ring and Aries allows himself to be distracted by them as Zema Ion comes out of the crowd and knocks Aries out with the Feast Or Fired briefcase. He tells the referee to come out because he’s cashing his title shot in right now.
X Division Title Match: Austin Aries vs Zema Ion
Ion quickly goes for a series of covers on Aries, but can’t put Aries away, so he dumps him out to the floor and takes him out with a baseball slide. Aries fires off a couple of shots at Ion, but Ion shoves him into the guardrail and then rolls him into the ring and comes through the ropes with the swinging DDT for 2. Ion goes up and tries for a twisting corkscrew off the top, but Aries gets the knees up, hits the kneebreaker/suplex combo, drills Ion with the IED, and plants him with the brainbuster for the win.
Winner: Austin Aries
Short but solid match.
Dixie Carter is backstage telling Spud that MVP is going to be there in a few minutes and not to be nervous because they’ve got this.
We look back at last week’s installment of Creepy Samuel Shaw and Christy Hemme, then we go backstage as Christy says they have to talk about last week. Samuel says he just likes to collect pretty things, but Christy said the mannequin was too much and that they should just keep this professional. Shaw says okay, then gives her the psycho killer stare as she walks off.
Bobby Roode is backstage complaining to Magnus about Dixie not giving him his title shot, and Magnus says it’s his job to do what she says, but Roode says that’s a bunch of crap because he’s saved Magnus’ ass plenty of times. Magnus says that he wasn’t there for some of his biggest wins, and Roode says he also wasn’t there when Joe made him tap out, and Magnus says he’ll tap out any day of the week if the title isn’t on the line. Roode reminds Magnus that he’s wrestling Joe for the chance to challenge him at Lockdown, then he wishes Magnus luck tonight against Kurt Angle and leaves.
MVP arrives in Dixie Carter’s dressing room, and she says he made quite an entrance and kept his identity secret even from her, but that’s in the past and she’s all about the future. She asks him to share a little something about himself, and he asks what she had in mind, and she said that in the interest of time, they should start with her. She took TNA from a fledgling concept to a global entertainment juggernaut. MVP asks her how she did it, and she says her talent loves working for her and they make it easy. She says everyone from the folks who do that curtain jerking thing on up to Kurt Angle loves her, but MVP asks if guys like AJ Styles, Jeff Hardy, and Sting would share her perspective. Dixie calls them disgruntled employees, but wants to talk about them. She says MVP will get a great rub from working with her, and that she can speak his carny language too, and MVP says they can take the conversation out to the ring in front of her adoring fans. If we’re going to discuss the future of TNA, they ought to include the people who buy the tickets. Dixie says that won’t work if he’s going to do his own business, but he did it in the interest of fairness. MVP leaves, and Spud says he seemed like a mighty nice bloke.
Kurt Angle comes out to the ring, and he’ll face Magnus…NEXT!
TNA World Champion Brutus Magnus vs Kurt Angle
We’re back and the match is underway. They do some basic feeling out stuff to start, but Angle quickly pops Magnus over with a release suplex and starts pounding on the World Champion. Angle gets a waistlock and hits the rolling German suplex trio, but Magnus grabs Angle around the waist and just powers him up into the air and slams him down. Magnus goes to the top rope and gets suplexed off by Angle, and Angle locks in the anklelock. Angle is about to put the champion away just like that when Ethan Carter III runs in and clips Angle’s knee to cause a DQ.
Winner: Kurt Angle by DQ
Angle and Carter fight out to the floor and Angle gets the advantage, but Carter sticks his thumbs in Angle’s eyes and begins hammering Angle’s knee repeatedly with a chair. Carter brings Angle into the ring and gets him in a heel hook, and Angle is screaming in pain and trying to fight his way out as the referee tries in vain to get Carter to break the hold. Carter finally lets go and stands over the fallen Angle as the referee calls for medical attention. Carter sets up a chair at ringside and watches as Angle is loaded onto a stretcher. Way to treat your World Champion like a jobber for the sake of setting up an angle.
Samoa Joe is backstage and is really pissed off that Dixie Carter keeps sending her goons to take out the best in the business, and now she’s sending them after him. He’ll stand alone if he has to, but he swears that they will all pay.
Eric Young is backstage and says the only thing Abyss understands is crazy, and he had to pull his mask off and show him who he really was, and now he doesn’t know what’s going to happen.
We look back at the recent history between Chris Sabin and Velvet Sky, then we go back to the lounge where Sabin reveals that this is where he and Velvet had their first kiss. Something very special is going to happen tonight (he brandishes a ring box) and he wants everyone to see it. Velvet comes in and wants to know what’s going on, and Sabin asks her to sit down as we go to commercial.
We’re back as Sabin is telling Velvet how every relationship has ups and downs, but his heart broke when she said ti was over. But at the same time, he felt like he was awake and a veil was being lifted off his brain. He knows what he needs to do and they’ve talked about this before, and he takes out the ring and asks Velvet if she will, and she’s all worked up, but she opens the box…and sees it’s empty. He says that’s right because he wants her out of his life. All he hears about is Velvet Sky, and even when he was the World Champion, all he ever heard about was Velvet Sky, and now he’s going to prove that he is the star in this relationship and he challenges her to wrestle him next week, and if she doesn’t show, she’ll prove that she’s a coward and he’s a superstar. He’ll prove that he’s a superstar and she’s nothing, and NOW they’re through.
We look back at earlier tonight when MVP and Dixie Carter went face to face. We’ll see their summit later tonight, but now let’s see how Samoa Joe became the #1 contender by tapping Magnus out last week, and then…IT’S MAIN EVENT TIME!
#1 Contender Match: Samoa Joe vs Bobby Roode
They start off with some basic feeling out stuff, but then Joe starts just unloading on Roode with hard hitting offense. Joe goes for the facewash, but Roode pops up and drills him with a back elbow. Joe gets dropkicked out to the floor, but Roode brings him right back in and hits a hanging neckbreaker for 2. Roode follows that up with a Blockbuster for 2, then gets Joe in a chinlock. Joe escapes and avoids a kneedrop, but Roode plants him with a spinebuster. Joe is not fazed and gets right back to his feet, pops Roode over with a snap powerslam, and goes for the choke. Rode blocks, but charges Joe and gets caught in the STJoe. Joe hits the Muscle Buster and puts Roode away with the Kokina Clutch.
Winner: Samoa Joe
Joe will now go to Lockdown to challenge his former partner Magnus for the TNA World Title.
MVP and Dixie Carter are backstage, and they’re…WALKING! The summit is up next!
Dixie Carter and her music come out to the ring and introduce not just a VIP, but the MVP! MVP says it’s an honor to be in Glasgow and Dixie’s regal presence, but Dixie says they have a lot to talk about tonight. She gives MVP credit for coming out in front of these people to share their vision for the future of TNA, and she’d like to start by talking about the World Champion, Magnus. She can tell the fans all agree that he’s accomplished all they hoped he would in a very short period of time, and he sets a path that everyone should try to follow and sets a high bar for his fans and peers. She says that if everyone continues to follow her lead, everyone’s going to be really successful because, in her 11 years, she’s dealt with all kinds of investors and partners. Some have been good, others haven’t, but she hopes the two of them will make everyone never forget them. Dixie wants to talk about changes, so MVP asks to speak about those changes and says that talking to Dixie and learning about her and all she accomplished, they agree on a lot of things…actually, only one thing: they agree to disagree. Dixie doesn’t know a headlock from a padlock, and her mismanagement has singlehandedly brought this company to its knees. She’s created a playing field that only her and her minions can play on, and if she thinks he just came here to be a butler at a Paula Deen party, she’s mistaken because her reign of terror is over. He plans to be very hands on, the changes will take effect very soon, and the party is over. Dixie Carter doesn’t look happy, and she points her finger into the smiling face of MVP, then Spud does the same before the two of them head to the backas Mike Tenay proclaims that the party is over.
Source: PWInsider.com
