Fire Interrupts TNA Pay Per View

Fire interrupts TNA pay-per-view
BY SCOTT FISHMAN
Miami Herald Writer
ORLANDO - A small fire interrupted the opening match of the TNA pay-per-view Hard Justice on Sunday, Aug. 13 from Universal Studios.
While Eric Young and Johnny Devine battled in the ring, a flame appeared on the padding of a pillar above the ring of Soundstage 21. The sparks from the pyro to open the show was the probable cause of the minor blaze.
Devine and Young wrestled while remnants from the fire extinguisher snowed the ring. A heavy smoke began to fill the iMPACT Zone.
Devine and Young finished the match with Young winning and saving his job.
For precautionary measures, TNA officials, security and firefighters evacuated the building in an orderly manner. Firefighters evaluated the situation while TNA officials asked fans to wait outside the studio.
After a 15-minute delay, fans were allowed to return, and the show continued. The incident did not deter the mood of the live crowd, but some fans were annoyed because they lost their good seats. Seating is first come, first serve.
Several wrestlers and Jeremy Borash posed for photos with fans and spoke to them during the investigation. No one was injured.
• Christian blamed Jeff Jarrett because Jarrett did not want to lose the title. Someone blamed Eric Young because Young didn't want to lose his job, and a fan blamed Vince McMahon because McMahon didn't want to lose to TNA.

VIA: The Miami Herald

I found this article really funny for its mixture of kayfabe and actual events, but then I saw the money quote.

a fan blamed Vince McMahon because McMahon didn't want to lose to TNA.

Yes, because Vince is just sick and tired of all of that losing he has done to TNA up to this point. Not only that, but Vince McMahon has nothing better to do on a Sunday than commit acts of arson and potentially put hundreds of lives in danger.

The comment had to be meant as a joke, although with some people you just never know.

TNA is playing this thing for all it is worth and I can hardly blame them for that, touting this as something that proves that anything can happen on Live PPV. Yet this seems to me to be one of these things that could only happen in TNA because its TNA. I think the chances of something like this ever occurring in the WWE are pretty remote, probably smaller than the chances of TNA being the only wrestling promotion still in business at the end of the year. I'm not saying that someone was a putts and that's how the fire started, its just that the WWE would never have this kind of luck even with the hundreds of decades worth of bad Carma that Vince McMahon has built up for himself even in the past 10 months.

Although, what if the WWE decided to engage in a game of can you top this? What if Vince decides that the fire simply must be outdone, and so at summerslam the arena is flooded half way through the Flair and Foley I-quit match? I mean this is on the surface not something McMahon should even think about for more than 2 seconds, but then again that 7-year old study that was re released last week sent him off on a path of rage so who really knows with Vince anymore?

Oh and for TNA, an accidental fire is more over than anyone on your card. I'm not sure yet but I think that's probably not a good thing.

That's the nice thing about residing in the corner of an old country, disasters don't really do that much damage cause there's not much to damage. Although this fire wasn't actually a disaster cause it like totally made the show.