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This event holds some significance for me as it was the first wrestling show that received the live coverage treatment that you've come to know and love or know and loathe from me.

So that's why it gets the mention.

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Fan Cam Footage: The iMPACT Zone reacts to Kurt Angle announcement

I've heard the audio from this and it was pretty loud.

At least they had something to cheer for after what was an incredibly horrible Pay Per View with a few acceptions.

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Pro Wrestling Newsbits

Tidbits that I picked up on some of the audio shows I have listened to today and some of the stories I have read.

• Wade Keller reported in his PW Torch VIP audio update that Sting was one of the people that knew about Kurt Angle coming to TNA. According to Keller, Sting was introduced to Angle when they filmed Angle in Nashville.
  
  
  • Also according to Keller, Samoa Joe will headline a Pay Per View against Angle by February at the latest.
    
    
  • According to ICP on today's Howard Stern Show, they are headed to Orlando to do something for TNA.
    
    
  • PWInsider.com reports that Scott Steiner and TNA are working out money issues and that is why he hasn't been on the shows lately.
    
    
  • Dave Meltzer reported today that Kurt Angle's deal with TNA is not exclusive and that there is still talk of him doing MMA in 2007.
    OCC: I think he would be insane to try and do both. But, I already think he's insane.
    
    
  • Also according to PWInsider.com Team 3D will be returning to TV tonight as well and will possibly return to feud with Abyss and Runt.
    
    
  • Keller again on his audo hotline reported that Chris Sabin, Sonjay Dutt and Jay Lethal came up with both the Laxative and blow-up doll concepts. He reported that No Surrender was not booked by Vince Russo at all but by the outgoing regime. He also said that Senshi was not happy about the blow-up doll thing.
    OCC: Senshi is a smart smart man if he was unhappy because as the crowd said: "This is Stupid"
    
    
  • PWInsider.com also reported that Eric Bischoff was backstage at Raw. Apparently, WWE broke the story on their mobile alert system. Also there is a tease that something big will happen in the first 10 minutes of Raw tonight.
    
    Those are some brief newsbits, we'll have more as the day continues.

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Interesting note on Ultimate X.

Mike Johnson of PWInsider.com reported in the elite hotline recap of No Surrender that:

Before the creative change this week, LAX was scheduled to go over in Ultimate X.

I don't know what that means as far as the direction for LAX, but given we're now talking about Vince Russo it might be more appropriate to say misdirection.

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OCC Aftermath: TNA No Surrender 2006

First let me say that all major websites report that the time is 9 PM for iMPACT starting 11/16 not as I believe I wrote in the live blog, 8 PM. I could've swore that's what I heard but I'll check the DVD later, but for me it actually is 8 PM as I am in the Central timezone.

Now lets look at this PPV now that it is as Ric says "In the books":



*Eric Young Vs. A-1. Well the crowd was at least in to Eric Young which made the match something I could tollerate taking place.

*Jay Lethal Vs. Petey Williams. If you read my live blog which you really should've otherwise why are you reading this? Anyway, if you read it you already know how I feel about this match.
This looked like it had Russo's finger prints all over it even if he had nothing to do with it. As I mentioned in my benchwarmers review I do not like fart jokes as a form of commedy. Williams and Lethal are capable of having a good match if you let them have a good match.
Now let me be clear here, I agree with Ric that you can have the best wrestling matches in the world but that ain't enough on its own. However, I would take a good match with no story behind it on a PPV over a match that was bad because it was bogged down by a stupid story any day of the week. I felt this could've been so much more but was buried under the crushing weight of a silly angle. Sound like any booker you know?

*Raven Vs. Abyss Vs. Runt. I hate these matches now. Between TNA doing 1 at the last PPV, a thumbtack match on iMPACT then a hangman's horror match a couple of weeks after that I'm sick of it. Add in that ECW does these matches too and its more than I want to see. If I had it my way, I wouldn't see another one of these in TNA for at least 6 months to a year. So expect one thursday.

*Triple Chance battle royal.
Lets see here:

1. A bunch of teams nobody cares about.
   
2. Telegraphing the ending by the fact that only 2 teams have a story ark.
   
3. Over-complicate the rules for no good reason at all.
   
4. Have everything be predictable in every way, not only did I guess the final outcome but I practically could've predicted the chain of command as far as tag eliminations went.

Add all those up and you get a pretty boring match that the fans weren't into seeing.
Later this week I am going to explain why it is that the Naturals symbolize every single thing wrong with TNA's story department in 1 small package. But not now because I still have typing fatigue.

At this point I was hating this show.

*Chris Sabin Vs. Senshi. If you read the live blog, you have my thoughts on this. It was a fun match until the duo of Lethis and Sonj-head came out. At least the fans let them know what they think of this stuff. First good match of the night in my view.

*Rhino Vs. Christian. I thought overall this was a fine match but if I'm spending $30 I want more than fine matches. Christian winning was the right thing to do as it keeps him strong for an eventual Sting showdown.

*Ultimate X, again to stroke his ego I'll say Ric called this one and the rest of us got it wrong. I really liked this match especially compared to some previous Ultimate X matches. The crowd was into the match, the feud was the best built up in TNA probably since the days of AMW vs. XXX and I hope they continue to do something with LAX.

*Samoa Joe Vs. Jeff Jarrett, regular OCC readers already know how stupid I think this was to set up. Anyone that read our preview also knows how I felt. I still feel the same way as I did before but at least TNA didn't make it worse.
I know one thing I thought they might do was have a ref bump and have Jarrett score a visual 3-count over Samoa Joe. That would have sent me in to a rant unseen by me since the first Raiders game of the season.

Now for the major announcements: I knew something was up when Cornette made the first one. By the way I liked Cornette's delivery on this. It shows me that even though Cornette probably wants to kill Russo, that he's still a professional and doing his job. With Jim Cornette's past you did have to wonder how that would go.

The time change. Well, I don't know how much this will mean at all. It kind of means more given the other half of the announcement than it would've on its own.

Kurt Angle coming to TNA wrestling. We will be talking about the magnitude of this one for awhile. Ric hinted at a lot of the discussion points at least the things that should be discussed. Is this really good for Angle? Is Angle healthy? May we have to watch a Kurt Angle tribute show sometime in the future. I'll post the press release in a second but there was a quote that jumped out at me as being frightening from the get-go.

Now, I'll play fantasy booker to show what I am thinking I'd do for the debut of Angle.

I'd have Kurt Angle come out and cut his promo. I'm here to kick ass, take ames and add to my legasy. I want to add the NWA title to my resume. Stuff like that.

At the mention of the NWA championship I would have Samoa Joe's music hit and have him start out towards the ring. Get people thinking they're going to see a Joe Vs. Angle contribution right off of the bat. Then I'd have Jeff Jarrett and possibly AMW attack Joe from behind and beat him down so we never find out at least on that night what Joe was coming out for even though we all know. Now, Angle sees this happening and is distracted by the fight in the isle when Abyss comes in from the otherside and lays Angle out with a blackhole slam. Then in future weeks have James Mitchell cut promos about how Abyss has been here he has been waiting and Angle isn't going to be taking his spot.

Let me know what you think of the early part of my fantasy booking idea. Do you like it, do you hate it, is it at least better than what Russo will do? What would you do differently?

As for the other questions as difficult as it may be, we are going to have to wait and see. I understand if some people are reserved about this and a little nervous, I understand because I am one of you. What will this mean for TNA in the grand cheme? I have no idea, Angle does have a fanbase and if Spike actually blitzes the hell out of a promotion of this then they might get some people to take notice that are WWE fans that wonder what will become of Angle.

Kurt Angle is not Christian. He is not Rhino. Yes, he was fired from WWE but I'm sure WWE would rather not have done it. Kurt Angle is not a mid-carder that was underutilized or at least believed to be by fans. This is Kurt Angle legitimate wrestling superstar. This isn't Sting, superstar of 10 years ago, Kurt Angle is a superstar today. This is the kind of guy that if he were NWA champion his first night in it wouldn't be nearly as bad as when they handed it to Christian (phenominally stupid absolutely but not as bad from a credibility standpoint). So this is a big deal, its a big deal because of those other concerns of Angle's but even without those concerns its a big deal.

We'll have to see where this one goes but it is interesting to note that TNA went from being a company nobody was talking about to 1 that has generated a lot of discussion for both good and bad this past week.

No Surrender the show started horribly in my view and got better peaking with Ultimate X and dropping only slightly for the main event and announcement. I can't recommend a replay because even though I thought Ultimate X was a great match, you need more than that in this day and age.

UFC was obviously the better show this weekend.

Now, I'm tired of typing. 2 days of live blogging a DVD and 2 PPVs is quite exhausting. Tomorrow might be a light posting day.

I hope you enjoyed the coverage of UFC and TNA from this weekend.

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Match-by-Match Coverage: TNA No Surrender 2006

We are live from my living room and Orlando Florida. The OCC will provide live coverage of the show tonight, so refresh your browser for the updates.

We begin with the preshow.

Borash and Hemme run down the card. They toss it to Tenay who reads that statement off of TNA's website from earlier this week. Funny enough however, we didn't hear half of it due to an audio glitch.

Rhino Vs. Christian Cage video package. They were friends and stuff, but now they're not.

We're back with West and Tenay hyping up the card and they throw it to the back again.

Hemme and Borash are outside, they interview the guy that won the "I hate Jeff Jarrett" video contest.

No Surrender promo, triple Main Event. There's a triple something alright.

Wade and Scott would like the world to know that the woman they showed with Borash and Hemme was pretty hot.

Preshow match
Bobby Roode comes out to the ring, he's called the Hottest Free Agent in wrestling. If he says so.

Don West claims that they don't know anything about the announcement. I'm thinking its not just the announcement.

The fans are chanting lets go jobber. Roode's opponent got no introduction and still has not been named on commentary. If they can't bother to tell me who it is then I can't bother to care. Apparently, its Von Doring. Now that I know who it is, you'd be amazed how much more interested I am not in this match.

I've got to call Dominos, sure the match isn't over yet but:

Winner: Bobby Roode

Hey, I was right. He won with a move called the Payoff but as I was not in the room I didn't see it.

Recap of the Jackasses and Senshi feud.

Wade wants to spank Christy.

Here's Eric Young. Fans chant don't fire Eric as he is gathering troops for the movement.

The Tag Team Battle Royal is now featured. 2 teams are being profiled, Americas Most Wanted and the Naturals. If this surprises you, you obviously didn't read our preview

Wade just heard the rules for the battle royal. His head now has exploded. Funeral services will not be held because nobody cares.

10 minutes away from the PPV. It better be more exciting than the Preshow but then that's not going to be that hard actually.

Raven, Runt and Abyss highlight package. I'm glad to see this because I saw this feud develop and it still makes no sense to me at all. Its like Russo was already in charge.

Borash is back stage with Abyss and James Mitchell, as the pizza is on the way.

Scott's already yawning.

Ok, I take a lot of shots at TNA and deservidly so. However, James Mitchell rules the world and if you disagree, congratulations on being wrong.

Ultimate X package airs after Mitchell threatens bad intentions for Raven.

Borash says this is the 11th Ultimate X match and they've all been off the chart. He must not have seen all 11 because the shitty 5 minute match wasn't good and nor was the one for Bound for Glory where the X kept falling off. Oh, and the most recent 1 was alright but didn't live up to the hype of Joe on the cables.

Tenay and West hype the announcement. Good, the announcement wasn't hyped enough, it really needed more.

Jarrett Vs. Joe video package airs.

Its on to the show:

This is bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla.

If you think I'm transcribing the text used in this video package, then you need to read more of my stuff. You know there was a shot at the Iraq war and President Bush in the video package right after Konnan referenced the great American Lie there was footage of Bush declaring major combat opporations in Iraq were over.

The package is cool but not as cool as the fact that the pizza is here.

We are in the iMPACT Zone. We have pyro but not a lot. Ok, now they've let it go so I guess they've decided to play with fire again afterall. Oh, you knew it was coming.

First match according to Wade: Eric Vs. A-Young. I believe that is wrong.

Match 1: Eric Young Vs. a-1

A match happening at the same time as this is myself Vs. Pepperoni and Pineapple pizza. I expect that I will be victorious.

TNA has too damn much generic music, but for a-1 its ok because you don't get more generic than that.

Fans chant lets go stake sauce or a-1 stake sauce. They do the dueling punches thing and it screams and yells out minor league.

Fans chant "Fire a-1" how fickle are these people? I don't think these people should be chanting anything to do with fire after last month.

Well, a-1 just scored a 2 off of a powerslam. I hate some of these chants, but at least they are chanting something. The live crowd is definitely in to Eric Young and I give all the credit for that to Young himself. He does his gimmick so well.

Now the crowd chants Super-Eric but A-1 is having none of it.

Mike Tenay calls this a great way to kick off No Surrender. Well, I'll say this much they could've done worse. Why 3 Live Krew and Team Canada could still be around wrestling for the five billionth time, and that'd be a lot worse.

Eric Young scores a very near fall with a top-rope elbow drop. A-1 tries to cheat but the referee is momentarily paying attention.

Winner: Eric Young

More hype for the announcement. It will change the face of wrestling. So will TNA have to change their opening thing? Now you know where my priority lies.

Tenay and West do the annoying thing that they do every month, and before you ask which 1, its where they run down the card of the PPV that I'm already watching. Its too late for me to go, gee I change my mind I'm not ordering it.

Borash is backstage with Jim Cornette. Cornette promises a major announcement, thank god they're hyping this. Cornette is behind the announcement, so when it underwhelms the fans will blame him. A sign of Russo's handywork?

Match 2: Jay Lethal Vs. Petey Williams

Both have generic music. But again it fits because the X-division is generic.

Backstage with Lethal/Dutt/Sabin and Jerry Lynn is pissed because they're playing games.

Sabin says: Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry. He went from Jackass to Jerry Springer in 1 promo.

Dueling chants a minute in. This company can't take these shows on the road quick enough for me.

This match has a slow-pace to start which is actually fine with me. I don't need it to be high-spot tastic from the opening bell.

It would appear that Petey Williams pulled a Dookie Davinport. Russo must be back we've got shit jokes on the first show. Who had match 2 in the pool?

I can see Russo's mentality. We'll have jokes about number 2 in match number 2...ahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Yes, there was a laxative involved.

West and Tenay are pulling the time honored Heenan trick of complaining about the smell. Seriously, I already hate the Russo return. This may not even be his fault but if its not he didn't look at this and say no, that's stupid change it. If he didn't write it he approves.

Williams goes for the Destroyer but can't hit it.

Jay Lethal wins on a roll up.

See Ric my logic is not only cute, but logical.

I hated this if you couldn't tell.

Borash is backstage with Rhino who buries the medical profession. Dr.'s advised him not to wrestle this match, I advise you not to ever watch the last match. Rhino didn't listen to his Dr. I suggest you not follow in his footsteps and instead listen to me on this one.

Same video package they aired on the preshow for the 3-way match airs again. Note to TNA, I saw it once not but a half an hour ago, I don't need to see the same one again. Why not prepare more than 1 package if you want to show multiple ones?

Match 3: Raven Vs. Abyss Vs. Brother Runt

Tenay promises craziness. I promise jokes, lets see how it goes.

Abyss out first. Runt is out second. Raven is out last.

Scott says Brother Runt needs a Taxi Cab. Due to his ring gear's resemblance to Robert Deniro in Taxi Driver.

We start with Garbage can lids.

West says that we can't forget any of these guys. Wanna bet?

Kendo sticks and garbage cans are involved now.

Abyss tosses Runt up the entrance ramp off a press slam. Fortunately, Raven was there to break his fall. Break his fall, moe his grass, make him humble 'til he raspect Abyss.

West says we've seen everything but the Kitchen sink in this match. Well aside that we haven't seen the TNA staple of staple guns and thumbtacks the point is that Rusoo logic suggests that we will in fact see the kitchen sink.

Runt put the ring bell on Abyss' groine and then hits it with a Kendo Stick. It drew ooows and Ahhhhs from the crowd and the room.

Raven found a helmet, he may be the smartest man in the match. This is not meant as a compliment or that Raven is in line for induction in to Mensa.

Tenay: We're not going to have a count out we don't want to see something like that happen. But a DQ in a falls count anywhere match is just fucking fine!

Tenay claims that Abyss is trying to tear the building apart. I can confirm its not nearly as entertaining as New Japan Vs. House.

You can now add ladders to the equation as Abyss set one up with Raven on a table. Abyss climbs the ladder and the crowd is chanting holy shit.

Fuckheads, he hasn't done anything but climb. You people are banned from ever speaking again. Oh, and nothing came of it.

Runt fucked up a spot major league. He went for a double stomp on Abyss on a table but he miscalculated and barely caught him. Of course it didn't stop the morons from chanting holy shit again. If I killed all of these people would I be convicted or could I justify it.

Just what the world needs 2 tables stacked up now.Raven took time to hang brother Runt.

Me, who was hung?

Scott: bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Wade: So far I have 2 words to describe this match. "You fucked up"

Abyss with a blackhole slam pins Raven.

Abyss wins, but it will elevate him in exactly no ways.

Tenay: Raven did everything but win this match. No fuck.

Borash backstage with Jarrett: Borash compliments the outfit Jarrett is wearing. Jarrett says someone has to sell merchandise around here, nobody else does.

Sting is mentioned as the wrestler who will make the announcement. This means I don't think it will be him. Jarrett is more concerned with the who than the what.

Match 4: Triple Chance battle royal:

The rules:

• 8 teams all wrestlers in the ring at once.
  • When you are eliminated, you wait at ringside.

  • When your partner is eliminated, you head to the back.

  • When the battle royal comes down to 2 wrestlers, their partners rejoin the match and make it standard tag.

  • Do not collect $200 for passing go, and no using the get out of jail free card.

  • If you are Razor Ramon HG then you rule.

The teams by order of their introductions:

1. Americas Most Wanted with Gail "My favorite naked chef" Kim

2. The Naturals w/Shane Douglas

3. The Paparazzi Alex Shelley and Johnny Devine

4. Shark Boy and Norman Smiley

5. Kazarian and Maverick Matt

6. Lance Hoyt and Ron the Truth Killings (Tenay likes this team, he's just being kind)

7. Diamonds in the Rough with Simon Diamond

8. The James Gang

   Nothing drives up the workrate like a battle royal. AMW is reluctant to get in to the middle of the action.

   West is giving his battle royal strategy. Stay in the middle of the ring and do whatever you can to avoid being tossed over the top rope. Sounds like a winner to me.

   Wade is providing me Gail Kim play-by-play. I don't care what she does at ringside unless she starts doing it naked, and when Scott reads this, I did say "doing it naked".

   1. Norman Smiley is first eliminated.

   2. Elix Skipper is the second man out.

   3. Lance Hoyt eliminated by Kazarian and Bentley

   4. Johnny Devine out via the Truth

   5. Shark Boy is out (Norman and Sharky are the first team gone, what do you mean you're shocked?)

   6. Chase Stevens was tossed into the crowd by James Storm.

   7. Matt Bentley was eliminated.

   8. David Young is out (Diamonds are the second team gone)

   9. Ron Killings eliminated by Alex Shelley (Hoyt/Killings are out)

   10. B.G. James was also eliminated by Shelley.

   11. Kazarian eliminated (Bentley and Kazarian are gone)

   12. Shelley eliminated next (Paparazzi gone)

       Its down to Kip James, AMW and Andy Douglas.

   13. James Storm next eliminated.

       There's a fight on the ramp apparently

   14. Chris Harris was eliminated by the ref missed it.

   15. Kip James was eliminated by Harris (James Gang out)

       Americas Most Wanted and the Naturals in the tag match, yeah I know, nobody predicted that one

   Extended heat segment on Andy Douglas by AMW as they keep Stevens out of the ring. If you can't see the ending coming then you should just stop watching wrestling now.

James Gang come to the aid of the Naturals preventing a death sentence.

Winners: The Naturals with a roll-up by Stevens.

That's pretty anticlimactic and it had no crowd heat. Of course the Orlando crowd has only seen this match 6 million times.

The Naturals celebrate the win with Shane Douglas.

Now we have the same Sabin/Senshi package from earlier. The X-division title is up next.

Match 5: Senshi Vs. Chris Sabin

I'm with Euan I hope Senshi wins by kicking Sabin in the face.

West: Senshi can kick you from anywhere in the world it seems like. Wandering Senshi's fu-tube extravaganza? Na, its been done.

Senshi blocks a suplex with a knee to the head, I approve. Senshi gets a 2 count off of a knife edge chop. Dueling chops now and like 2 people are saying "Whooow" there is 0 heat for this show in my opinion.

This is probably match of the night so far, but that's not saying a whole lot. More dueling chops and kicks.

Sabin was going for a suicide dive but Senshi counters with a kick to the head. He probably saw Euan's preview.

Senshi draws a holy shit chant with a doublestomp to the back. It was in all fairness a light chant.

Now we have dueling Senshi and Sabin chants. The crowd is waking up for the first time since probably the three way. I don't blame them though as that battle royal would've put me to sleep if not for the fact I'm live blogging.

Tilt-a-whirl backbreaker and a springboard dropkick get to for Senshi.

Sabin hits the hesitation dropkick after fighting off a superplex and scores a nearfall.

Here come Sonjay and Lethal because a good match needs a run-in. The distraction works to give Sabin the advantage.

Crowd chants "This is stupid!" I take back everything bad I said earlier. That was stupid and I hope TNA was listening. I bet they weren't.

Senshi scores the pin using the ropes, he should've kicked him in the face again first.

Nice long match with some stupidity at the end but easily the best of the show.

Borash interviews Christian. Sting is mentioned again, this leads me to believe it is someone else. A nice strong promo from Christian. He claimed that Sting would try and take credit for No Surrender being a great show. If I were Sting I would not. He did actually talk about his match with Rhino in there as well.

Rhino and Christian video package airs.

Match 6: Rhino Vs. Christian Cage

Tenay and West put over the against Dr.'s orders thing in regards to Rhino wrestling. This would be as a result of the beating Christian gave him on iMPACT recently. A light CLB chant for Christian early.

Rhino goes for an early Gore, Gore, Gore from Rhino but Christian avoids. Christian went for the Unprettier even earlier but he to had no success.

Rhino backdrops Christian out to the floor. Crowd firmly behind Rhino at this point.

Don West's voice is coming over my TV louder than usual. This is not what I would consider a good thing.

They have been fighting all over the iMPACTzone and Christian uses an implant DDT on the ramp.

Tenay calls the ramp unforgiving, perhaps it needs therapy. Perhaps it and the magic hateball can go together?

My dog is active, the crowd is doing the dueling chants again. I have given them a grace period because of the "this is stupid" chant in the last match but it won't last forever. Apparently, there is more interest in what I am writing than what is happening in the ring, at least in this room.

Christian scores a nearfall with a missile dropkick. Christian connects with a frogsplash to score another near fall a few seconds later.

Rhino would make a comeback and score a nearfall of his own with a belly-to-belly suplex. Cage goes for the unprettier but Rhino has none of it and connects on a spinebuster.

He's setting up for the gore, but Christian hit him in the head.

Christian hit the Unprettier but Rhino kicked out before the 3-count. Christian beefs with Andrew Thomas about the count.

Ref bump!

Christian has the 2 chairs looking for the Con-chair-to but Rhino got out.

West: I can't bare to see this but I can't turn away. You my friend, are screwed.

Rhino with a gore but there is no ref. Ref took the chair, Unprettier on the chair, and the pin is accademic.

Winner: Christian Cage with an unprettier on a chair.

It was a decent match but I don't pay $30 to see decent. Probably not as good as Senshi/Sabin but better than everything else on the show.

Borash is in the back as a car pulls up. Eric Young thinks it is Sting but it is LAX. Konnan said that Daniels/AJ better hope for a fire like at the next TNA PPV. Konnan predicting the future.

Back to the announcers. Ultimate X is up next. I had thought this was going to close the show.

Match 7: LAX w/Konnan Vs. AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels - NWA World Tag Team Titles - Ultimate X

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Styles and Daniels, well mostly Daniels cuts a promo on Konnan and LAX. Daniels says Konnan could be any minority and he'd still be an asshole.

Ok, this is the match I was looking forward to the most by far. This can make or break the PPV for me.

Here come LAX with the Spanish intro, 2 thumbs up for that.

Tenay says that the offices have been flooded with emails after the beating from LAX on iMPACT. I say they need better spam blockers.

We get UFC style intro which I am all fine with though the LAX one still should've been in spanish.

I'll probably do less writing in this match than any other as I want to watch it.

A ladder comes into play I thought that was illegal in this match? But hey if TNA can't be bothered to care, neither can I.

Hernandez attempted to scale the cables but AJ brought him down.

Aj Styles hits the Styles Clash on Homicide through a table but is nailed by Konnan with the slapjack.

The crowd chants please don't die as Daniels jumps across the cables to grab the belts.

Winners: AJ Styles and Chris Daniels (Ric was right, and that's a scary world to live in)

This was the best match of the show to this point but I don't think it was blow-away get the replay awesome.

Match : Fans revenge - Samoa Joe Vs. Jeff Jarrett

Funny bit with Young and Jarret regarding finding Sting.

Jarrett: Did you check the rafters?

Young: Do you think he'd be up there? I laughed, so so me.

The fact Jarrett is more worried about Sting than Joe doesn't make Joe look weak in the slightest. No, not at all.

You know for as much as this crowd really doesn't like Jarrett and for as much as they like Joe I expected the crowd to be louder.

Jarrett is strapping Joe. Joe is probably thinking, thanks a lot Cornette!

Now the crowd is getting into it a little more. A light "fuck you Jarrett" chant as Joe is in trouble.

Jarrett springs off the rope but to avoid the contact Joe just walks away. I love it when he does that.

I'll give Jarrett credit these fans are strapping him hard. Jarrett went for the guitar but Joe had none of it. Jarrett strokes Joe on the guitar for a nearfall.

Joe hits the musclebuster. 1...2...3!

winner: Samoa Joe via Musclebuster.

Major Announcement time:

Jim Cornette is out with a mic.

TNA goes primetime on Thursday Nov. 16 at 8:00 PM.

But there is more:

Its Kurt Angle! and he's coming to TNA!

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More on TNA's announcement

The TNA announcement is set to be delivered by someone not on the card as it stands. That would be, Austin Starr.

No not really but wouldn't that be Russo-riffically lame?

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TNA No Surrender Preview

Here is the We CARE Preview

I have some comments:


*I'm glad thinks that my logic is cute. At least something about me is.

*Euan's prediction for Sabin/Senshi had both myself and Old Country Give & Taker laughing out loud.

*While I appreciate Ric informing me that he also likes to cook naked, it is not nearly as appealing as the thought of Gail Kim cooking naked but I am finding it harder than I thought to explain why.

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Early Morning Newsbits - No Surrender, No Mercy, Pride, UFC

I've got some early morning wrestling newsbits and another TNA rant, I know you love those.


In an early morning UFC tidbit, Canvas Chronicle reports the following:

The show (taking place on November 18), believed to be headlined by Tim Sylvia defending the Heavyweight title against Jeff Monson, and originally scheduled
to feature the dual-promotion battle between Chuck Liddell and Wanderlei Silva, will be titled 'Bad Intentions.'

OCC: Sounds kind of generic but then that could just be because I think the Main Event sounds bland.

In some Pride news, Wrestling Observer.com says the following:

Two new matches announced for the 10/21 show at the Thomas & Mack Center are:

Josh Barnett vs. Pawel Nastula
Mark Hunt vs. Butterbean

OCC: Every time I see the name Mark Hunt, I just think to myself, I bet he's thankful his first name isn't Mike.

In some WWE news, PWInsider has the following No Mercy information:

The following matches were announced for No Mercy at last night's Smackdown taping in Montreal:

• Finlay vs. Batista
  
  • Lashley vs. King Booker
    
  • Rey Mysterio vs. Chavo Guerrero in a Steel Cage match
    
  • Undertaker vs. Mr. Kennedy

OCC: I wish Euan luck recapping this one. Actually to be fair the cage match should be decent and Finlay/Batista intrigues me.

Now for the big one also from PWInsider.com this one is about this Sunday's TNA No Surrender PPV:

"In the course of history, there are defining moments that change the fabric of a company forever. These are moments that are spoken about for years, not
days, and serve as benchmarks in the annals of a company’s growth. And on occasion, those moments transcend the individual company and re-write the history
of an industry. This Sunday at the NO SURRENDER PPV, an announcement will be made that will do just that. You will not want to miss the NO SURRENDER PPV."

OCC: That little bombshell was written by Dixie Carter - President of TNA Wrestling. This proves to me that everything the Darth Vader sound-a-like says in those hype videos is written by her. Seriously it sounds just like that. I don't remember the last announcement out of wrestling that was as blown out of proportion as this one but it also likely came from TNA. I mean I have no idea what the announcement is but holy hell that's quite the hype job. If they hyped iMPACT that well they might get a 1.0 again. If they hyped the PPV itself that well, they might get 40,000 buys. I'll have some guesses for the announcement but I'll save those for our PPV roundtable, I'm sure you'll like them.

That's the early morning news that I came across.

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