We start off with a look back at last week when MVP’s new group debuted and Eric Young cost Bobby Roode the TNA World Title, then we go to Roode’s backstage reaction after last week’s loss. He says he doesn’t care what he has to do, he’s going to get another shot at the TNA World Title, and he’s going to make Eric Young pay.
We go to the ring as MVP and company come out to the ring and MVP says he knew it would be an uphill battle the minute he got to TNA, but he brought in his family, the guys we drove around crappy indies in Florida for a buck and a hot dog: Samoa Joe and Low Ki. They’re the Beat Down Clan, or the BDC, and now MVP introduces a guy who’s not a member of the Clan (I can’t wait to have to type that every week), but still has a problem with Bobby Roode, Eric Young. Young comes out in a Bobby Roode t-shirt and a new haircut and shakes MVP’s hand. MVP says this is the first thing they see eye to eye on, and he gives Young the floor. The crowd chants that he sold out, and Young tells them their opinion doesn’t matter. The truth is a funny thing, because he and MVP couldn’t be in the ring together a month ago without trying to kill each other, but MVP helped his brother take his World Title. He doesn’t like that, but he respects it because he had a brother once that he would do anything for: Bobby Roode. When he was World Champion, Roode was one of the first people he gave a title shot to and he beat Roode. When Roode got the title, though, where was Eric’s title shot? Eric was in more main events in 2014 than anyone, and if anyone deserved it, it was Eric. But maybe Roode was afraid Eric would beat him again because nobody knows better that Eric is a world class wrestler, world class man, and world class friend, but where was Roode’s visit when Young was in the hospital defending him? He got a text message from Roode, and that text message told him the truth, and now he took the title from Roode and he’s going to take everything else, too.
MVP says he planted the seed in Young and it’s blossomed into a mighty sequoia, and now he will introduce out TNA World Champion: Bobby Lashley! Well, Lashley’s music plays but the big guy doesn’t come out, so MVP announces him a second time and Kurt Angle’s music plays instead. Angle comes out to the ramp and says that MVP and his friends call themselves a family, but he sees a bunch of thugs, and he wants Young to know that Bobby Roode is going to kick his ass tonight. Angle says he stepped down and can no longer make matches, but he can make each and every one of them tap out. Samoa Joe hops out of the ring and gets right in Angle’s face, pointing out (correctly) that he made Angle tap out. Angle knocks Joe out with the microphone, and Atlas Security gets between Angle and the BDC before this can get any further out of hand. Joe is in the ring and has his sweatshirt off, and Angle says that if Joe wants a piece of him, they should do it RIGHT NOW!
Samoa Joe vs Kurt Angle
We start the match in progress, and Joe has Angle down on the mat and is working over his knee. Joe gets a kneebar, but Angle makes the ropes. Angle goes for a quick boot to the gut, but Joe catches his foot and hits a dragon screw legwhip. Joe gets Angle in a modified figure four and, while we wait to see what Angle does, we go backstage as some dude looks for Bobby Lashley, who is not in his dressing room. As we ponder that one, Joe lets Angle up and continues unloading on Angle, but Angle ducks under a shot from Joe and hits some rolling German suplexes. Joe escapes the Angle Slam and drills Angle with a leaping enziguiri, then goes for the Kokina clutch. Angle slips out the back and gets Joe in an ankle lock, but Joe rolls through and sends Angle into the corner. Joe misses a charge and Angle hits the Angle Slam for 2. Angle charges Joe and gets caught with the STJoe, and then Joe sets Angle up for the Muscle Buster, but Angle slips out again and gets Joe back in the ankle lock. Joe tries to kick Angle off, but Angle holds onto the ankle and has Joe right in the middle of the ring. Joe grabs the referees shirt and uses him for leverage to roll Angle again, sending him crashing into the referee. With the referee down, Joe kicks Angle in the ding ding and catches Angle in the Kokina Clutch, forcing Angle to tap out.
Winner: Samoa Joe
That was a bit of a surprising finish, and the BDC wastes no time coming in and putting the boots to Angle until Bobby Roode comes out with a chair and chases them off. He and Eric Young stare one another down as we go to commercial.
We’re back and Bobby Roode is sitting in his chair in the ring and says he’s really trying to hold back his anger from last week, but things have gone too far. He agrees with the fans chanting that he got screwed, and he heard Eric Young explain why he threw away a 15 year friendship and cost him the TNA world Title, but every single word out of Young’s mouth was nothing more than a bunch of (bleep). Roode has been in this company for a long time and this ring is his home, and he lives for professional wrestling, but they’re in New York City and tonight is about payback, and he’s going to make Young pay for what he’s done.
We go to Josh and Taz as they put over how intense that main event is going to be, and then they take us to clips of Mike Tenay interviewing Brutus Magnus that will air on Impact Unlocked tomorrow morning. From there, we look back at what happened last week with Ethan Carter III, Tyrus, Spud, and Jeremy Borash. After that, we go backstage where Spud finds Jeremy Borash and apologizes for what happened, and Borash says EC3 is an insane jackass and one day, he’ll get what’s coming to him.
The Revolution comes out and takes a seat in the balcony for the next match…
Matt & Jeff Hardy vs The Wolves
Eddie Edwards and Matt Hardy start us off with some feeling out, and Eddie gets caught in the wrong part of town pretty quickly. He doesn’t take long to turn that around and trap Jeff in the Wolves’ corner, but Jeff headscissors Davey into the corner and proceeds to double team Davey after blind tagging Matt. Hardys with a double goozle for 2 on Davey, but Eddie helps out to stop any more double teaming and catch the Hardys in stereo Trees of Woe and hit repeated corner charges before covering Matt for 2. Eddie dishes out some STIFF chops to Matt, then the Wolves with more rapid fire double teams before Davey hammers Matt with machine gun kicks in the corner. Matt finally dodges a charge and tags in Jeff, who cleans house on the Wolves and takes them both out with Whisper In The Wind. Matt dumps both Wolves out to the floor and Jeff takes them both out with a dive, then they take Eddie back inside and plant him with a double gourdbuster for 2. Jeff goes for a Swanton, but Eddie gets the knees up and the Wolves hit Chasing The Dragon! Hey, why not? Anyway, Matt saves Jeff at 2, then he prevents another double team and blind tags himself in again. He hits Davey with the Side Effect and goes for the Twist of Fate, but Eddie lays him out and sets Davey up to hit a top rope double stomp. Davey covers Matt, but Jeff breaks it at 2 by hitting Davey with a Swanton. Jeff back suplexes Davey to the floor, then they hit Eddie with Poetry In Motion, and they KILL Eddie with a nasty double team version of the Twist of Fate for the win.
Winners: Matt & Jeff Hardy
The Hardys are now the #1 contenders to the TNA World Tag Team Title, and they stare down with Storm and the Revolution.
Feast or Fired is back next week, and he and Magnus are both in there and they’re each going to take a briefcase. He’s warning everyone to stay the hell away from them!
Kenny King is backstage asking MVP if he’s talked to Bobby Lashley, and MVP says he’s the World Champion so they control the title again. Young comes up to them and says he took Roode’s title, and tonight he’s going to take everything else. He walks off and MVP looks after him and says he ain’t right.
Ethan Carter III and Tyrus go backstage and take over the production control center, and patches himself through to Jeremy Borash. He says he can see everything here, and he saw when Borash said that he’ll get his one day, but if Borash thinks he’s tough, he’ll challenge him to a match next week, and he’ll give him 30 minutes to make a decision. If he doesn’t, who knows what’ll happen.
No DQ Match: Bobby Roode vs Eric Young
They meet in the aisle during entrances and start slugging it out as the bell rings. Roode sends Young careening into the guardrail and then starts hammering him with right hands. Young tries to stagger away, but Roode is on him, sending him crashing back into the guardrail as we go to commercial.
We’re back and, instead of concentrating on the match, we immediately cut backstage where a cameraman finds Bobby Lashley and asks him for comments. Lashley walks into his dressing room without providing any, so we go back to that boring match thing as Roode and Young brawl through the crowd and down to ringside. Young is in control, pummeling Roode with right hands, then dumps him into the ring and throws a few chair in as well. Young wedges a chair in the corner, but walks right into a spinebuster from Roode, who places another steel chair right in the middle of the ring and gets Young up for the Roode Bomb. Young gouges Roode’s eyes to escape, then rams Roode into the chair he placed in the corner. Young gets Roode up and piledrives him onto the chair in the middle of the ring, and covers for 3.
Winner: Eric Young
Well, Young drew the line in the sand by saying he’s better than Roode, but he just went out there and proved it. MVP and the BDC come down to ringside and MVP says he’s sorry that Roode’s going to take a little trip to the hospital, but tonight is a celebration because we have a new World Champion. He tells Roode that someone may visit him in the hospital, because he sure as hell didn’t visit EY.
Austin Aries is backstage and says Low Ki gets his rematch tonight, but nobody here seems able to fight their own battles, but if the BDC backs him into a corner, he’ll get real dangerous.
The Knockouts are backstage, and they’re…WALKING!
We’re back and, instead of concentrating on the match, we immediately cut backstage where a cameraman finds Bobby Lashley and asks him for comments. Lashley walks into his dressing room without providing any, so we go back to that boring match thing as Roode and Young brawl through the crowd and down to ringside. Young is in control, pummeling Roode with right hands, then dumps him into the ring and throws a few chair in as well. Young wedges a chair in the corner, but walks right into a spinebuster from Roode, who places another steel chair right in the middle of the ring and gets Young up for the Roode Bomb. Young gouges Roode’s eyes to escape, then rams Roode into the chair he placed in the corner. Young gets Roode up and piledrives him onto the chair in the middle of the ring, and covers for 3.
Winner: Eric Young
Well, Young drew the line in the sand by saying he’s better than Roode, but he just went out there and proved it. MVP and the BDC come down to ringside and MVP says he’s sorry that Roode’s going to take a little trip to the hospital, but tonight is a celebration because we have a new World Champion. He tells Roode that someone may visit him in the hospital, because he sure as hell didn’t visit EY.
Austin Aries is backstage and says Low Ki gets his rematch tonight, but nobody here seems able to fight their own battles, but if the BDC backs him into a corner, he’ll get real dangerous.
Brooke is backstage and says only a classless Jersey douchebag would talk about her the way Robbie E did, and she could talk about this all night, but she’s going to let her actions do her talking for her.
Brooke Tessmacher & Knockouts Champion Taryn Terrell vs Angelina Love & Velvet Sky
Brooke and Angelina start us off, and Brooke mops up the mat with her, then does the same to Velvet when she tags in. Taryn and Brooke double dropkick the Beautiful People out to the floor and then Taryn takes them and the Bromans out with a dive to the floor. Brooke tags in, smacks Robbie when he hops up on the apron, and the distraction allows Velvet to catch Brooke with a schoolgirl rollup for 3.
Winners: The Beautiful People
The Beautiful People and Bromans take a selfie after the match, but the lights go out and when they come back up, Awesome Kong is in the ring! The Bromans are cowering in fear on the floor as Kong flattens both BPs, then plants Angelina with the Implant Buster. DJ Z gets the cajones to get in the ring and in Kong’s face, and she chokeslams him into next week. Havok comes down to the ring and Kong smiles in anticipation as she comes, but security gets between them and prevents them from going at it.
Ethan Carter III busts in on Borash backstage and asks if they’re going to have a match next week. Borash says he’s an announcer, not a wrestler, and EC3 says he’s not, he’s a man who has given his blood, sweat, and tears to this company for 13 years. Nobody came to help him last week because nobody respects him, and he tears Borash’s hat off and asks why would they. Borash finally says he’ll fight EC3 next week, and EC3 says challenge accepted.
We go backstage where James Storm introduces us to his latest disciple, Khoya. Khoya was lost until he found the Revolution, and now Storm is going to unleash him on TNA.
It’s main event time!
X Division Title Match: Austin Aries vs Low Ki
Low Ki opens up quickly with the strikes, and Aries is in a bad way really early on. Aries fires back, backdropping Ki to the floor, and Low Ki hits hard on the apron and is in pain. Ki comes back in and dishes out more chops and kicks, but Aries turns Low Ki inside out with a running clothesline. Aries hits the pendulum elbow for 2, and he goes right into the Last Chancery. Low Ki quickly scurries to the ropes, but Aries keeps up the pressure with a big elbowdrop to the back before trying for the brainbuster. Ki blocks, but Aries dumps Ki to the floor and goes for the heat seeking missile. Ki moves and Aries stops in his tracks, then tries to suplex Ki into the ring when he climbs back up to the apron. Ki reverses momentum and drops Aries on the top rope, then kicks him out to the floor. The BDC backs off, and Ki goes out after Aries and rolls him back inside and continues unleashing hard strikes. Aries fires up and starts KILLING Low Ki with chops of his own, then knocks him on his butt with a roaring elbow. Aries hits the IED and goes for the brainbuster, but Low Ki with a kneestrike to the head, so Aries suplexes him instead and goes right back into the Last Chancery. The BDC all jump up on the apron to distract the referee as Low Ki taps out, but Aries releases the hold to go after the BDC and takes them all out with the heat seeking missile. Aries goes to the top rope, but King trips Aries up and allows Ki to hit the Ki Krusher and regain the title.
Winner and NEW X Division Champion: Low Ki
Good match, but again, give me twenty minutes of these guys!
Bobby Lashley is backstage, and he’s…WALKING! We’ll see what he has on his mind after this commercial break!
We’re back from commercial, and MVP says we all now know what the Beat Down Clan is all about. They’re in the driver’s seat, and the World Title has come home, so without further ado, he gives us our World Champion: Bobby Lashley! Lashley’s music hits, and the champs comes out to the ring…mysteriously high fiving the fans on his way down the aisle. MVP says Lashley looks like a champion, not like Roode, and he made Lashley look like this, he made Lashley the champion, and he tells the fans to respect him. The TNA World Title belongs to the Beat Down Clan…wait a minute, Lashley speaks! He says the title doesn’t belong to anyone in the Beat Down Clan, he’s the champ and the title belongs to him. MVP says he has that title because they put it on him, and this is what it’s about because they’re family. Lashley says that’s what they’re about, not him, he’s not about this and he’s not having anything to do with it. MVP grabs Lashley’s arm and says that’s not how it works because he’s a founding member of the BDC, but Lashley says to get his hands off of him. MVP says he wouldn’t take that from anyone else, but he has a soft spot because Lashley took him under his wing in that other company, and he’ll accept that we’re walking different paths, so if that’s the way it’s going to be, he doesn’t want to leave under hostile terms. He hugs Lashley, kisses him on the cheek…and then the Beat Down Clan beats Lashley down. The whole gang swarms Lashley, dragging him down to the mat and just destroying him. MVP grabs the belt and says if this is his title and this is what he wants, then he’s got it. He smashes Lashley in the head with the belt, and continue with this extended beat down as each member of the group takes a turn before MVP lays him completely out with the Shining Wizard. MVP gets the belt and holds it up high as the rest of the BDC stands at his side and blood leaks out of the head of Bobby Lashley. MVP says the title doesn’t belong to Lashley, it belongs to the Beat Down Clan, and he walks off with the title over his shoulder.
Source: PWInsider
