12/10/06 TNA Turning Point - Live Coverage
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Also there will be some VKM silliness and something involving David Eckstein of the St. Louis Cardinals who is at the show.
Click here for our roundtable preview of the show.
We start with Christy Hemme who asks 2 fans who they want to win the match between Joe and Angle. She gets 1 who says Joe and another who says Angle. From this she deducts that the entire crowd is split.
Backstage Jeremy Borash is with Robert Roode and Ms. Brooks. Roode says words, Brooks says words and one of them is naked. I'm alright with this by the way.
Mike Tenay and Don West are now out running down the card for the show.
A promo package airs recapping the highlights of the 3-way feud between Sting, Christian Cage and Abyss.
Borash backstage with Abyss and James Mitchell. Mitchell says its been an interesting 3 weeks, I wonder what show he's been watching? Mitchell references the attempted drawning of Christian back in April. Mitchell says he owns this monster and both his belt and soul belong to Mitchell. Abyss seems to be decenting a little and Mitchell tries to put him back in his place. Mitchell's promo is awesome and he's telling Abyss to get his game face on.
Preshow match: Ron Killings and Lance Hoyt Vs. Serotonin
This is a 3 on 2 handicap match. Serotonin sounds like some sort of antacid or some such deal. Tenay explains that this is a natural chemical in your mind that affects your mood. My mood has been affected to bordom.
Lance Hoyt seems like the name of someone you'd meet in AV club. Ron Killings asks what.
Tenay hard sells the show, but for most people you have to order the show to see this. Tenay then says, there is something for everyone at Turning Point and I swear to god the first thing he brings up is the Bikini contest. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't heard it with my own ears. Perhaps Tenay just threw up in his mouth a little bit.
I just had fun asking Scott who was wrestling Hoyt and Killings. Apparently its "Sereninininininin".
Killings hits the axe kick and gets the pin.
Scott: Someone's getting caneded.
Borash is backstage with Chris Sabin and Jerry Lynn who is referee. Lynn says he'll call it down the middle even though he's interviewing with Sabin. Sabin comes in and calls him Jerrald. He makes age jokes right now. Lynn says he was wrestling x-division matches while Sabin was still in diapers. Sabin must've still been in diapers in 2002.
West talks about how tonight's match between Joe and Angle will be the 1 rematch and 1 rematch only.
Seretonin comes back out and Raven canes Kazarian for taking the pin. Kazarian took it willingly. If I hear "Thee rematch" one more time...I won't be surprised.
The awesome video package from iMPACT this past Thursday airs hyping up the Joe and Angle match. I could have more fun by asking Scott the name of the Iranian Angle wrestled in the Olympics but I'll save it for later.
Borash now with Samoa Joe. Joe said he had the same nightmare for 3 weeks. He clearly was watching iMPACT. Samoa Joe apparently had a dream last night though. Him and Martin Luther King should really swap stories see if their dreams have any meaning. Although really, Joe's was way more violent than MLK's.
The nameless and faceless woman, ok so she does have a face but I don't care, is out as a car that is supposedly Angle's arrives at the building.
Don West is doing what he does best, the hard sell. He's really good at being Don West and I'm completely alright with this.
The preshow ending music video begins to play to rap the show up and lead in to the PPV. Its now time for the real coverage to start.
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling Presents Turning Point 2006.
date: 12/10/2006
Location: Orlando, Florida
"TNA, We are Wrestling" you wouldn't know it by watching iMPACT lately that's for damn sure.
The opening video airs, but Darth Vader making pronouncements about Dreams and Dreamers and Destinies are missing. Pyro goes off to start the show.
Your announcers are Mike Tenay and Don West as usual.
Match 1: Paparazzi Championship Series Elimination match
Alex Shelley Vs. Austin Starr Vs. Sonjay Dutt Vs. Senshi Vs. Jay Lethal
This is apparently only the first part of the PCS.
Nash is at the broadcast booth only 3 seconds before dropping in a wacky pop-culture reference. Today's winner is Johnny Quest. Senshi is first out followed by Lethal and Shelley is third. Nash still hasn't found his SEC championship ring. Sonjay is #4 and Austin Starr comes out last. I don't know why you needed to know the order of entry.
Tenay asks Nash if the PCS has anything to do with the Bowl Championship Series. Nash: "No, this isn't screwed up." Apparently, there are more competitions to take place in the following weeks on iMPACT. Given that this is TNA there is naturally a point system involved.
Nash makes a comment about breaking in Lynn in 1961 in Mexico City. The point system for tonight, 5 points for the win, and down to the first person who is eliminated getting only 1 point. Don't worry, I'll keep track.
This match is a good 5 minutes old, and nobody has been eliminated. Nash has made jokes about Sonjay Dutt being on the gas, having Scott Hall arrested and how Senshi should shake the ropes and wear tastles.
Alex Shelley is eliminated via camel clutch from Senshi. No confirmation as to whether his back was broken. Alex Shelley gets 1 point in the PCS.
Jay Lethal is next out via Senshi's ass kicking. Jay Lethal has 2 points in the PCS.
The name of 1 Jim Helwig is mentioned after Dutt does indeed shake the ropes.
Austin Starr hits a Brainbuster and 450 to eliminate Sonjay Dutt. Dutt has 3 points in the PCS.
Nash: Watching Starr do that 450 is like watching myself.
Shelley is back out and he's distracting Starr. Senshi gets the pin after a missed 450. Senshi gets 5 points in the PCS, Starr earns 4.
Winner: Senshi
Borash is with Young. Borash says Young needs to be a man and win this bikini contest.
A recap of this stupid ass feud now airs.
Borash is the host. Ms. Brooks is out first. Eric Young is out next. He's still scared of his own pyro.
Ms. Brooks won the cointoss and is going first. You knew there was a cointoss because this is TNA. I would'v actually guessed they would've done the pick a number between 1 and 10 deal.
Don West is estimating breast size and gives Traci 40D's.
Mike Tenay is making masterbation references just in case you were unaware that Vince Russo was back.
Young is next and he hesitates to disrobe. Tenay and West are in their shining glory right now.
Ms. Brooks nearly wins the Bikini contest by Disqualification, and that would've been so awesome. We've got some Spongebob attire.
Eric Young wins the fans voting and so he is the Bikini contest winner. Robert Roode is not happy with the decision. This segment was pretty much not good but it was better than I thought. This would've been so awesome if it had ended in a disqualification.
Roode is now bitching out Ms. Brooks. He calls the crowd a bunch of filthy morons. Ms. Brooks promises to make it up to him. Roode says her task is to get Eric Young to sign a contract with Robert Roode Inc. The fans let him know that he sucks. Roode says if she can't do it, she may be the one who gets fired.
The idiot is outside the locker room of "Dumb to the Xtreme". Minus 10,000,000 points for this stupidity.
Match 3: Christopher Daniels Vs. Chris Sabin, Jerry Lynn Special Referee.
The match starts with the ringing of the bell and the fans immediately go to the dueling chants.
Its been about 8 minutes and I've had nothing to write. This may be because Duane showed up and we were talking about Churros...mmm, churros.
Daniels wins clean with the BME.
Winner: Christopher Daniels
Lynn wants Sabin to shake Daniels hand. Then next thing you know Lynn slaps Daniels.
Jim Cornette is headed to the ring to introduce David eckstein. The White Sox from last year come out first including Dale Torborg and AJ Pierzinzinzinzuzski.
Eckstein talks about his book or something. "We want Wrestling" is the chant from the crowd. I think they went to the wrong show. In order to make a long story short, Torborg turns heel and slaps Eckstein's brother. This brings out Lance Hoyt because David Eckstein is such a fan. An attempt to get on Sportscenter.
Match 4: AJ Styles Vs. Rhino
Styles attacks Rhino in the middle of his interview. He's taken some of Sabin's new attitude juice. Apparently, there are technical problems in the back. Although now we're back and the fight has gone outside. This is just turned in to a streetfight.
After a good 7 minute plus brawl the fight actually moves to the ring and we have a bell starting the match officially.
AJ Styles seems to have a knee injury of some sort. This after a pretty wild brawl. The injury would appear to be legit...nope, AJ suckered everyone. Ran in, and rolled up Rhino for the pin.
Tenay: Everyone bought it.
Winner: AJ Styles
Its the incredible heeling AJ Styles.
Another stupid dumb to the Xtreme skit airs. Vince McDaddy shows up again I guess. Latisha gets fired...I can only hope.
AJ Styles and Rhino are fighting in the back again.
Promo package for the LAX Vs. AMW flag match.
Konnan and Homicide and Hernandez cut a promo and say nothing of substance. Kind of a metaphor for this event so far.
This flag/ladder/whatever match is up now.
Match 5: LAX Vs. America's Most Wanted
I want to apologize for the lack of content to this report. Fact is that I'm pretty tired after a bad night of sleep. I'm just having a hard time consentrating on this. I'll write what I can but Wade will have a more thorough recap of the show when he gets home to post it.
Chris Harris gets some glass in his eye after a shot from a beer bottle from Storm. Hernandez who was the only 1 left standing hung the flag for the win. Storm hit Homicide with the bottle and glass flew in Harris' eye.
Winners: LAX
Storm and Gail Kim argue about this situation. Konnan claims this is the first time that the American side has lost a flag match. This is incorrect as Bret Hart and Davyboy Smith defeated Vader and the Patriot at Bad Blood 1997 in a flag match.
The Mexican Anthem plays and nobody interrupts. That may be a first.
Backstage James Storm calls Chris Harris a quitter and says he's got until Thursday to apologize for giving up.
Its the VKM skit. Tenay advertises this as the next Dumb to the Xtreme skit. They basically say, yeah we know this is going to be stupid. If that's true then why air it? This is so fucking dumb. Some stupidity goes down and Wade will have the recap.
Oh no, he's about to pull an Eric Bischoff from Slamboree. No, no, no. VKM issues what BG calls the million dollar challenge. A million dollars is nothing to Vince McMahon. Yup, he just challenged them to a fight. No spots, no finish. It woke the crowd up but is still so stupid. I guess the team that wins the fight wins the $1 million. B.G. calls DX Pussies and then calls Vince a piece of Sh*T".
Video package for the title match airs.
Sting is the only 1 that didn't get a promo. Christian teased revealing the secret about Abyss.
Match 6: Abyss w/James Mitchell Vs. Sting Vs. Christian Cage w/Tomko
All throughout this match I have been engaging in NFL related tasks.
The fans are chanting "Chris Chris Chris" as Abyss is threatening to chokeslam Sting into the thumbtacks. Sting has words with Abyss trying to talk him out of it this allows Christian to take advantage. Sting is spending more time talking than trying to win. I guess the title is not important to Sting.
Abyss hits a black hole slam on Sting and retains the title.
Winner: Abyss
It is now 9:13 PM. This show will definitely last longer than Dismember a Member from last week.
Borash backstage with Kurt Angle. He vows that this is the last match between them.
Then they show the awesome video package again and I'm still alright with this.
Match 8: Kurt Angle Vs. Samoa Joe
Short version, Joe tapped Angle out and it was an awesome match. The highlight was a series of reverses from Ankle Lock to Kokina Clutch to Ankle Lock to Clutch.
Winner: Samoa Joe
See this match.
I'm tired, I'm spent more later.
Look for Wade's play-by-play at around 11:30 PM ET 10:30 PM Central.
Tonight's Card:
- Preshow match: Ron Killings/Lance Hoyt Vs. Serotonin
- Bikini Contest: Eric Young Vs. Ms. Brooks
- Paparazzi Championship Series Elimination Match: Alex Shelley Vs. Austin Starr Vs. Jay Lethal Vs. Senshi Vs. Sonjay Dutt
- Flag Match: LAX w/Konnan Vs. AMW W/Gail Kim
- AJ Styles Vs. Rhino
- X-division Title: Chris Sabin Vs. Christopher Daniels w/Jerry Lynn as special ref.
- NWA World Title: Sting Vs. Christian Cage w/Tomko Vs. Abyss W/James Mitchell
- Kurt Angle Vs. Samoa Joe
Also there will be some VKM silliness and something involving David Eckstein of the St. Louis Cardinals who is at the show.
Click here for our roundtable preview of the show.
We start with Christy Hemme who asks 2 fans who they want to win the match between Joe and Angle. She gets 1 who says Joe and another who says Angle. From this she deducts that the entire crowd is split.
Backstage Jeremy Borash is with Robert Roode and Ms. Brooks. Roode says words, Brooks says words and one of them is naked. I'm alright with this by the way.
Mike Tenay and Don West are now out running down the card for the show.
A promo package airs recapping the highlights of the 3-way feud between Sting, Christian Cage and Abyss.
Borash backstage with Abyss and James Mitchell. Mitchell says its been an interesting 3 weeks, I wonder what show he's been watching? Mitchell references the attempted drawning of Christian back in April. Mitchell says he owns this monster and both his belt and soul belong to Mitchell. Abyss seems to be decenting a little and Mitchell tries to put him back in his place. Mitchell's promo is awesome and he's telling Abyss to get his game face on.
Preshow match: Ron Killings and Lance Hoyt Vs. Serotonin
This is a 3 on 2 handicap match. Serotonin sounds like some sort of antacid or some such deal. Tenay explains that this is a natural chemical in your mind that affects your mood. My mood has been affected to bordom.
Lance Hoyt seems like the name of someone you'd meet in AV club. Ron Killings asks what.
Tenay hard sells the show, but for most people you have to order the show to see this. Tenay then says, there is something for everyone at Turning Point and I swear to god the first thing he brings up is the Bikini contest. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't heard it with my own ears. Perhaps Tenay just threw up in his mouth a little bit.
I just had fun asking Scott who was wrestling Hoyt and Killings. Apparently its "Sereninininininin".
Killings hits the axe kick and gets the pin.
Scott: Someone's getting caneded.
Borash is backstage with Chris Sabin and Jerry Lynn who is referee. Lynn says he'll call it down the middle even though he's interviewing with Sabin. Sabin comes in and calls him Jerrald. He makes age jokes right now. Lynn says he was wrestling x-division matches while Sabin was still in diapers. Sabin must've still been in diapers in 2002.
West talks about how tonight's match between Joe and Angle will be the 1 rematch and 1 rematch only.
Seretonin comes back out and Raven canes Kazarian for taking the pin. Kazarian took it willingly. If I hear "Thee rematch" one more time...I won't be surprised.
The awesome video package from iMPACT this past Thursday airs hyping up the Joe and Angle match. I could have more fun by asking Scott the name of the Iranian Angle wrestled in the Olympics but I'll save it for later.
Borash now with Samoa Joe. Joe said he had the same nightmare for 3 weeks. He clearly was watching iMPACT. Samoa Joe apparently had a dream last night though. Him and Martin Luther King should really swap stories see if their dreams have any meaning. Although really, Joe's was way more violent than MLK's.
The nameless and faceless woman, ok so she does have a face but I don't care, is out as a car that is supposedly Angle's arrives at the building.
Don West is doing what he does best, the hard sell. He's really good at being Don West and I'm completely alright with this.
The preshow ending music video begins to play to rap the show up and lead in to the PPV. Its now time for the real coverage to start.
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling Presents Turning Point 2006.
date: 12/10/2006
Location: Orlando, Florida
"TNA, We are Wrestling" you wouldn't know it by watching iMPACT lately that's for damn sure.
The opening video airs, but Darth Vader making pronouncements about Dreams and Dreamers and Destinies are missing. Pyro goes off to start the show.
Your announcers are Mike Tenay and Don West as usual.
Match 1: Paparazzi Championship Series Elimination match
Alex Shelley Vs. Austin Starr Vs. Sonjay Dutt Vs. Senshi Vs. Jay Lethal
This is apparently only the first part of the PCS.
Nash is at the broadcast booth only 3 seconds before dropping in a wacky pop-culture reference. Today's winner is Johnny Quest. Senshi is first out followed by Lethal and Shelley is third. Nash still hasn't found his SEC championship ring. Sonjay is #4 and Austin Starr comes out last. I don't know why you needed to know the order of entry.
Tenay asks Nash if the PCS has anything to do with the Bowl Championship Series. Nash: "No, this isn't screwed up." Apparently, there are more competitions to take place in the following weeks on iMPACT. Given that this is TNA there is naturally a point system involved.
Nash makes a comment about breaking in Lynn in 1961 in Mexico City. The point system for tonight, 5 points for the win, and down to the first person who is eliminated getting only 1 point. Don't worry, I'll keep track.
This match is a good 5 minutes old, and nobody has been eliminated. Nash has made jokes about Sonjay Dutt being on the gas, having Scott Hall arrested and how Senshi should shake the ropes and wear tastles.
Alex Shelley is eliminated via camel clutch from Senshi. No confirmation as to whether his back was broken. Alex Shelley gets 1 point in the PCS.
Jay Lethal is next out via Senshi's ass kicking. Jay Lethal has 2 points in the PCS.
The name of 1 Jim Helwig is mentioned after Dutt does indeed shake the ropes.
Austin Starr hits a Brainbuster and 450 to eliminate Sonjay Dutt. Dutt has 3 points in the PCS.
Nash: Watching Starr do that 450 is like watching myself.
Shelley is back out and he's distracting Starr. Senshi gets the pin after a missed 450. Senshi gets 5 points in the PCS, Starr earns 4.
Winner: Senshi
- PCS Standings after stage 1
- Senshi: 5 points
- Austin Starr: 4 points
- Sonjay Dutt: 3 points
- Jay Lethal: 2 points
- Alex Shelley: 1 point
Borash is with Young. Borash says Young needs to be a man and win this bikini contest.
A recap of this stupid ass feud now airs.
Borash is the host. Ms. Brooks is out first. Eric Young is out next. He's still scared of his own pyro.
Ms. Brooks won the cointoss and is going first. You knew there was a cointoss because this is TNA. I would'v actually guessed they would've done the pick a number between 1 and 10 deal.
Don West is estimating breast size and gives Traci 40D's.
Mike Tenay is making masterbation references just in case you were unaware that Vince Russo was back.
Young is next and he hesitates to disrobe. Tenay and West are in their shining glory right now.
Ms. Brooks nearly wins the Bikini contest by Disqualification, and that would've been so awesome. We've got some Spongebob attire.
Eric Young wins the fans voting and so he is the Bikini contest winner. Robert Roode is not happy with the decision. This segment was pretty much not good but it was better than I thought. This would've been so awesome if it had ended in a disqualification.
Roode is now bitching out Ms. Brooks. He calls the crowd a bunch of filthy morons. Ms. Brooks promises to make it up to him. Roode says her task is to get Eric Young to sign a contract with Robert Roode Inc. The fans let him know that he sucks. Roode says if she can't do it, she may be the one who gets fired.
The idiot is outside the locker room of "Dumb to the Xtreme". Minus 10,000,000 points for this stupidity.
Match 3: Christopher Daniels Vs. Chris Sabin, Jerry Lynn Special Referee.
The match starts with the ringing of the bell and the fans immediately go to the dueling chants.
Its been about 8 minutes and I've had nothing to write. This may be because Duane showed up and we were talking about Churros...mmm, churros.
Daniels wins clean with the BME.
Winner: Christopher Daniels
Lynn wants Sabin to shake Daniels hand. Then next thing you know Lynn slaps Daniels.
Jim Cornette is headed to the ring to introduce David eckstein. The White Sox from last year come out first including Dale Torborg and AJ Pierzinzinzinzuzski.
Eckstein talks about his book or something. "We want Wrestling" is the chant from the crowd. I think they went to the wrong show. In order to make a long story short, Torborg turns heel and slaps Eckstein's brother. This brings out Lance Hoyt because David Eckstein is such a fan. An attempt to get on Sportscenter.
Match 4: AJ Styles Vs. Rhino
Styles attacks Rhino in the middle of his interview. He's taken some of Sabin's new attitude juice. Apparently, there are technical problems in the back. Although now we're back and the fight has gone outside. This is just turned in to a streetfight.
After a good 7 minute plus brawl the fight actually moves to the ring and we have a bell starting the match officially.
AJ Styles seems to have a knee injury of some sort. This after a pretty wild brawl. The injury would appear to be legit...nope, AJ suckered everyone. Ran in, and rolled up Rhino for the pin.
Tenay: Everyone bought it.
Winner: AJ Styles
Its the incredible heeling AJ Styles.
Another stupid dumb to the Xtreme skit airs. Vince McDaddy shows up again I guess. Latisha gets fired...I can only hope.
AJ Styles and Rhino are fighting in the back again.
Promo package for the LAX Vs. AMW flag match.
Konnan and Homicide and Hernandez cut a promo and say nothing of substance. Kind of a metaphor for this event so far.
This flag/ladder/whatever match is up now.
Match 5: LAX Vs. America's Most Wanted
I want to apologize for the lack of content to this report. Fact is that I'm pretty tired after a bad night of sleep. I'm just having a hard time consentrating on this. I'll write what I can but Wade will have a more thorough recap of the show when he gets home to post it.
Chris Harris gets some glass in his eye after a shot from a beer bottle from Storm. Hernandez who was the only 1 left standing hung the flag for the win. Storm hit Homicide with the bottle and glass flew in Harris' eye.
Winners: LAX
Storm and Gail Kim argue about this situation. Konnan claims this is the first time that the American side has lost a flag match. This is incorrect as Bret Hart and Davyboy Smith defeated Vader and the Patriot at Bad Blood 1997 in a flag match.
The Mexican Anthem plays and nobody interrupts. That may be a first.
Backstage James Storm calls Chris Harris a quitter and says he's got until Thursday to apologize for giving up.
Its the VKM skit. Tenay advertises this as the next Dumb to the Xtreme skit. They basically say, yeah we know this is going to be stupid. If that's true then why air it? This is so fucking dumb. Some stupidity goes down and Wade will have the recap.
Oh no, he's about to pull an Eric Bischoff from Slamboree. No, no, no. VKM issues what BG calls the million dollar challenge. A million dollars is nothing to Vince McMahon. Yup, he just challenged them to a fight. No spots, no finish. It woke the crowd up but is still so stupid. I guess the team that wins the fight wins the $1 million. B.G. calls DX Pussies and then calls Vince a piece of Sh*T".
Video package for the title match airs.
Sting is the only 1 that didn't get a promo. Christian teased revealing the secret about Abyss.
Match 6: Abyss w/James Mitchell Vs. Sting Vs. Christian Cage w/Tomko
All throughout this match I have been engaging in NFL related tasks.
The fans are chanting "Chris Chris Chris" as Abyss is threatening to chokeslam Sting into the thumbtacks. Sting has words with Abyss trying to talk him out of it this allows Christian to take advantage. Sting is spending more time talking than trying to win. I guess the title is not important to Sting.
Abyss hits a black hole slam on Sting and retains the title.
Winner: Abyss
It is now 9:13 PM. This show will definitely last longer than Dismember a Member from last week.
Borash backstage with Kurt Angle. He vows that this is the last match between them.
Then they show the awesome video package again and I'm still alright with this.
Match 8: Kurt Angle Vs. Samoa Joe
Short version, Joe tapped Angle out and it was an awesome match. The highlight was a series of reverses from Ankle Lock to Kokina Clutch to Ankle Lock to Clutch.
Winner: Samoa Joe
See this match.
I'm tired, I'm spent more later.
Look for Wade's play-by-play at around 11:30 PM ET 10:30 PM Central.
Labels: Pay Per View Coverage, TNA, Turning Point, Turning Point 2006
posted by Casey Trowbridge at 12/10/2006 05:49:00 PM
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