TNA Destination X 2010 Results and Review

TNA Destination X 2010 Results

Kaz defeated Amazing Red, Christopher Daniels, and Brian Kendrick in a ladder match
Tara defeated Daffney in the TNA Knockout’s Title Match
Big Rob defeated Magnus in the global title match
The Motor city Machine Guns defeated Generation ME in an Ultimate X Match
Scott Hall & Six Pac defeated Erik Young & Kevin Nash
Doug Williams defeated Shannon Moore in the X-Division Title Match
Matt Morgan & Hernandez defeated Beer Money
Kurt Angle defeated Anderson
Aj Styles vs Abyss No Contest

TNA Destination X 2010 Review

Alright, I’m late on all TNA news because of the ppv and well, I had a lot of WWE stuff to work on. Even though I’m late on the NXT review too, man, I’m behind all around.

Kaz defeated Amazing Red, Christopher Daniels, and Brian Kendrick in a ladder match

First and foremost, Christopher Daniel’s ring attire looked gay.

The match was fast paced, as expected, and there were just highlight reels of offense from all men. Even Kendrick seemed to be working harder than usual. Amazing Red had some of the best counters, as he is one of the best cruiserweights I’ve ever seen. His timing is amazing, and even though he didn’t win, he put on a show. Kendrick was the weakest of all of them, and I still don’t like Kaz, even though he took a lot of bumps with the ladder. Daniels is a shell of his former gimmick, that’s for sure.

The guys were working sloppy with the ladders, and it should be noted that the ladders are NOT metal. They are hard plastic/wood with metal rungs! They’ve been re-painted and are most likely the Werner brand.

Amazing Red nearly killed himself and Daniels with a Hurricanrana off the top rope to the outside off a ladder! Kaz took some insane bumps with the ladder, the rest were somewhat timid; reminds me of when Los Guerreros fought The World’s Greatest Tag Team in a ladder match, and only the Guerrero’s would bump with the ladders.

Kazarian managed to get the win, but I didn’t think the ending matched the mid points of the match. Kaz sucks…I don’t like him. Red looked legit hurt.

Ric Flair came out and cut a promo in a wheel chair, and he was going nuts.

Hogan and Abyss talked, it was boring.

Bischoff showed off his hair cut, talked to Hogan, was boring too.

Tara defeated Daffney in the TNA Knockout’s Title Match

Daffney was hitting Tara with everything in this match, and I admit, I was cheering for her to win. I like how pale she is, I’m weird, I guess. Tara hit a nice singing side suplex and couldn’t put away the goth chick. Daffney hit a nice finisher, but Tara wasn’t going to lose easily. Tara hit the Widow’s Peak and won this match cleanly.

Big Rob defeated Magnus in the global title match

Big Rob is on the juice, he’s massive, and it’s not looking natural to me. Magnus put on a minor offense against Big Rob, but this was obvious going to be a Big Rob win. Big Rob hit a nice slam on Magnus and that was that.

The Motor city Machine Guns defeated Generation ME in an Ultimate X Match

These two teams do not need to be in a gimmick match up like this. Generation ME put on a clinic, and really showed off why they deserve to be in TNA. The Machine Guns looked to be taking it easy at some points and just over confident, where as ME was taking this thing as their only chance at proving themselves. One team just seemed more urgent about this match up. Sure, The Machine Guns are no crap team, but if I had to take my pick it’d be Generation Me, most likely because I knew them back in Los Angeles’s indie wrestling scene.

The match was a spotfest, and the best team I guess didn’t win, with the Machine Guns winning this match.

Scott Hall & Six Pac defeated Erik Young & Kevin Nash

This match wasn’t all that good, but it was done well. Pac threw down some amazing athleticism and it’s important to realize that the guy can really go if given a chance. Meanwhile, Hall lowered the Boom on Young several times, and it looked like he was working stiff. Hall didn’t look THAT out of shape, but he is a shell of his former self for sure. At least he’s not MATT HARDY Fat.

Nash turned his back on Erik Young, hit a huge powerbomb, than Hall hit the Outsider’s Edge and won this match. Young got trounced, and the old guys are now together again. Man, Hall needs to work out more.

Post match, Pac spray painted a body outline of Young in the middle of the ring. The crowd was yelling “Same Old Shit”, and they were most likely right.

Doug Williams defeated Shannon Moore in the X-Division Title Match

Shannon Moore is not my favorite light weight, and I’ve never been a big fan. However, he did manage to bring in some offense on a much better Doug Williams. Williams did some good stuff, and managed to save his title in this match against the relative new comer Moore. Williams used a foreign object then painted Moore’s face with some make up.

Matt Morgan & Hernandez defeated Beer Money

Beer Money was looking great as usual in this match up. Hernandez was isolated for the majority of this match up, and it was looking like a Matt Morgan heel turn was going to come down, but it didn’t manifest itself until later in the match. He started berating Hernandez with words, while Hernandez tried to take the majority of Beer Money’s offense.

Hernandez got tagged in and went flying, and Morgan threw Hernandez back into the ring, only to get sprayed in the face with beer! I thought this match was over at this point, but Hernandez was able to hit his finisher and get the three count for his team.

Post match Matt Morgan hit the Carbon Footprint on Hernandez. He then took both title belts.

Kurt Angle defeated Anderson

This match was a long drawn out battle between these two long feuding wrestlers. Anderson looked like he had problems getting Angle down, but eventually got rhythm and was hitting Angle with a lot of offense. Angle didn’t just lie down, he managed to battle through a lot of it, and eventually was looking to score the win, but couldn’t put away Anderson. A ref bump sent this match into an odd point, and Anderson was looking to capitalize but Kurt was able to hit a nice release German Suplex Anderson down. Anderson was then scraped across the face with the Warrior metal, busting Anderson open.

The match ended when the ref woke up and Angle caused Anderson to tap out. Angle’s win ends the feud doesn’t it? I don’t know. This match was sub-par, but it managed to get Anderson what he had coming.

Post match Anderson cut a promo, but it was worthless to me, because he lost and was a bloody mess. Why Kurt didn’t just walk away was weird to me. Kurt should’ve just not cared, cause he already beat Anderson.

Aj Styles vs Abyss No Contest

These two put on an ok match up. I’ve seen better out of both of these guys. Aj was his standard self, not really resembling Nature Boy at all, which was odd to me. Abyss hulked up eventually and this match took better shape, but it took a long time to get there. Ric Flair was on the ramp in a wheel chair and wasn’t too involved until towards the latter stages. Abyss hit the Blackhole Slam and he couldn’t get the win.

Flair got hit in the face with some sort of spray from Flair, and then threw the belt into the ring for Styles to use. Styles hit the Abyss with the belt and Hogan came out with a new ref.

Hogan then wheeled Flair out while the match started up again.

Towards the end of the match I realized two things.

1) AJ Styles Sucks. He doesn’t have that “IT” factor to be champion.
2) Abyss sucks, he’s just a mankind clone with a terrible gimmick right now.

While some of the fans cared, I just found this immensely boring. Maybe the Pope can make Aj Interesting.

Abyss threw AJ Styles through the ring and this match was stopped. It looked incredibly weak and stupid. This gimmick sucks and really shouldn’t be featured as the final moment of a ppv.

Post match Flair and Hogan started fighting Flair. Flair got sprayed in the face with his own spray, Chelsea got involved, Desmond Wolfe came down only to get sprayed in the face with something and then fell in the big hole in the ring.

What a terrible second half of the ppv. Screw this crap.

TNA’s DESTINATION X Sucked!

TNA Destination X 2009 Results and Review Sting Retains

What’s this? A ppv review from your pal sir j? Yeah, once again I’ve managed to scrape up a few dimes together to watch this piece of crap we call tna ppv. I am barely scraping by, so I had to save a few bucks to get this, so I hope that you, the reader, can appreciate my tone and my review here, as I’m doing it for the love of the game, not for money. I wish I had more of both, that’s for sure.

The show opened up in black and white with clips from the public domain of recession. It also showed some previous things that went down on TNA Impact the last few weeks. Overall not a great intro, and I could do without hearing Hoobastank every five seconds. Seriously, why did Hoobastank get picked? They suck, this intro sucks, and boy am not looking forward to more tna ppv’s…unless they change their booking completely.

Taylor Wilde, Roxxi, and The Governor defeated The Beautiful People & Madison Rayne

The Governor started this match, even though no one cares about Sarah Palin any longer. Oh well, here we go, the start of this match up, nothing too insane here, just your average start. The Governor is out there barefoot, and it’s interesting to see, I don’t think there are a lot of wrestlers out there without their boots. The match then moved forward from that point with the good guys (I should say gals) in full control. I also must note that Don West is out there with Mike Tenay, though he still sucks if you ask me; and I know you didn’t. The match was fast paced, a lot of distracting the ref here and there, which is interesting for sure. The match went into a melee, and things got crazy outside, leaving Taylor Wilde inside to get the pinfall after a bridge suplex. This match was ok at best, it seemed rushed at the end, and before things could settle, we went to the backstage area. TNA did a terrible job with the knockout match up, it was lame; oh well.

*note The Brutus Magnus graphic was premature, so if you were quick, you caught it.

**note again, out came a Navy Officer to be the guest ring announcer.

Brutus Magnus defeated Eric Young

Eric Young will face off against Brutus, and why not? The kid is on a minor roll, with that big win on Thursday against some fat dude that the Main Event Mafia found. Brutus Magnus didn’t catch Eric Young off of a moonsault from the corner, and the crowd made the two wrestlers eat it, and it showed that Magnus is not quite ready for the ppv world. He’s not that good, face it, I’m not sure why they are trying to make this star, as I don’t really like him, and while there are some moments of glory, he’s just not there yet, at least in my opinion. Magnus was not half bad with that top rope finisher, which was insane, if you saw it. It was a fireman’s carry to jump off the top rope, almost like death valley driver in a way. Good overall ending, but a terrible match up if you ask me. Once again it seemed rushed.

Sheik Abdul Bashir came out and just randomly yelled about how TNA is racist for not hiring him to wrestle. Jim Cornette came out to yell at Bashir to tell him that no one likes him, and that’s why he’s not on the ppv. He then had that Naval Officer come into the ring (Cornette called him up). The naval dude starts to sing “God Bless America”. Bashir has no choice but to leave, seemingly disgusted. This is a dumb angle, and I’m not sure why the TNA writers keep trying to push this, they don’t need it.

Matt Morgan defeated Abyss in a 10,000 Tacks Match

This match started out fast, with both men throwing haymakers, and pushing forth a great amount of effort. Of course, this thing had to slow down, because it wasn’t going to be a progressive match with the amount of brutality that these two started out with. Matt Morgan and Abyss fought to the ramp entrance, with Morgan hitting the Carbon Footprint right into the tacks. It was a wicked fall, and that was the end of the match up.

ODB had some stupid getting a date contest, it was dumb. Some dude named Deter or something, it was stupid, this is the dumbest thing I’ve seen on tna in a long time.

Awesome Kong defeated Sojourner Bolt in a TNA Knockouts Title Match

This match had a good opening, with Bolt sending every offensive move she had early on, but it was Kong who pushed her weight around and began to dominate with heavy moves that gave her a lot of breathing room and like a bigger wrestler, she just methodically worked over Bolt, causing a lot of strain. Things took a slight turn when Kong missed a huge splash off the top rope, causing Bolt to get a second chance in this match up. She went for quick pins, and tight rolls ups, but couldn’t score the three count. Bolt got caught trying a Hurricanrana which proved to be the end of her match up with Awesome Kong dropping her on the back of her neck and winning the match; another successful defense.

Samoa Joe vs. Scott Steiner ended in a no contest

Samoa Joe came in and just started a fist fight with Scott Steiner. Nothing else, just a straight fist fight, as he ran in and started off fighting, busting open Scott Steiner immediately. This match was the same match we saw with Edge and Matt Hardy when Hardy came back from being fired. Steiner got busted open, Joe beat up the ref, the match was thrown out, I guess Scott Steiner kind of wins via dq, right? I don’t know.

Aj Styles defeated Booker T in a Legends Championship Match

This match started off a little slower than the previous matches, and rightfully so. Booker To isolated Aj’s Arm for a good part of this match up, creating a little space between him and the high flyer. Aj did mnage to get a few high spots in, but Booker was definitely putting the rest holds on this thing and offering a more technically sound match up. The two guys looked evenly matched at the midway of this match, but Booker seemed to be one step ahead of Aj Styles, seriously pushing the limits of the former heavyweight champion. Aj Styles was wobbly at this point, creating doubt in many people’s minds as to whether or not he can really beat the big man. Booker and Aj had perfect timing with some high spot reversals, at one point Booker caught Aj coming off the top rope, and it was just perfect timing. The Styles Clash got the better of Booker T and things finally got good for Aj Styles as he is the new Legends Champion!

Backstage, apparently Samoa Joe murdered Scott Steiner? He had that stupid looking knife of his full of blood. Nice huh? Great job TNA writers, allude to the fact that Joe stabbed Steiner, great writing, great stupid writing! I hate Tna sometimes.

Team 3-D defeated Beer Money via count out in a TNA Tag Team Championship match

Team 3-D was the odds on favorite here, as there was no way that TNA would fire one of their veteran tag teams, leaving them without 2 solid workers. It’s not like the WWE would want another run of Team 3-d, considering that both guys are not as slim and beefed up as they were in WWE. Beer Money were not doing well early on in this match, Devon had things going quite well in the onset of this match up. Team 3-D had a lo of good moments in this match up, and Beer Money were definitely getting out wrestled on more than one occasion in this match up. The comedy spots were a bit too much, which was really weird. The match was thrown out, when Beer Money brought a chair in and Team 3-D wins, via disqualification…

Then the match got restarted and Beer Money walked away with a ten count. This match sucked, well the ending sucked. Don West helped a little, and even after Jim Cornette tried to chase down Beer Money, Team 3-D came to Don West and told him to watch his back! Team 3-D got screwed, and this was boring at the end.

Suicide defeated Consequences Creed, Jay Lethal, and The Motor City Machine Guns in a destination x match for the x division championship

This match opened up like it should have, straight forward, fast paced action. The Motor City Machine Guns had the advantage going into this match up, especially since their always in the ring together as a team. It seemed like they were set to win this, considering this match started at 7 pm pst. Obviously there were some high spots, the spots ranged from going outside of the ring to simple top rope action. Suicide was not doing all that well, at least not early on, it seemed that anything he wanted to do was thwarted by someone in the ring. The match up quickly spilled to the outside and Suicide managed a rolling thunder move onto four of his competitors, making for a good overall replay high spot. By the time it was time to do the super electric chair/powerbomb spot, I got tired of this match. Seriously, these matches are just spot fests and there’s very little psychology to them. I know we’re dealing with a match that was supposed to magnify the x-division, but this is getting ridiculous. I guess I’m starting to dislike spot fests, it just seems so obvious to me, a little too obvious. After all the whining I did about this match, it did have a cool ending. Suicide jumped off the top of a pillar onto the middle of the destination x set up, and knocked all competitors off, to win the x-division championship!

Sting defeated Kurt Angle in a World Heavyweight Championship Match

Finally, the main event, and this one started with neither man truly getting the edge. Kurt Angle and Sting started with heavy blows, meanwhile Sting kept knocking Kurt Angle out of the ring at every chance he could. The fight then spilled out to the floor and we finally had a good match going. After a short fight on the floor, we got the rest holds, with Angle trying to hold down Sting in order to wear him out. I really liked the midway point of this match when both men went for the double cross body block. That was definitely something you’d see in the mid 90’s era main event. I can’t appreciate the constant rest holds by Angle. I know that it worked for a lot of technical wrestlers, but those were in combination with their finishing moves. It seems like Angle just wants to slow things down so he can get the Angle Slam. Which he got onto Sting for a two count! Sting missed a Stinger splash, which got him an Angle Slam for his trouble. Kurt’s Moonsault is dead on accurate still, but he couldn’t put Sting away with that either. The Rolling German Suplex’s have to be hurting Angle’s neck, and they were promptly turned into a Scorpion Death Drop, prompting another two count. Double J, for all the feuding he has done, actually didn’t get involved too much, until he got hit with a HUGE lariat from Angle on accident. This prompted Mick Foley to jump in the ring, meanwhile Sting had the Scorpion Death Lock on a tapping Angle. Angle managed to get back into it, meanwhile Jeff Jarrett was still out, but then when Foley failed to count to three Angle kicked him in the nuts! This was rad, Angle finally snapped and he had Jarrett and Foley both knocked out cold! Foley got in the mix and accidentally hit Sting with a Steel Chair! Things were starting to look like Summerslam 1997 all over again! As Angle couldn’t put away Sting, he kept getting angry at Jarrett and started to slap him around a little. That prompted Sting to get the upper hand with a little help from Double J and it was all over! That’s right, Sting once again defeats Kurt Angle and is still the TNA World Heavyweight Champion.

This ppv sucked. This final match wasn’t all that great, and I can’t believe that the TNA ppv crew cost me another forty bucks or so. I hate these guys sometimes. Sting, come on man, Angle? Come on dude…seriously? TNA needs to change things up dramatically.

Tna Destination X 2009 Results

Taylor Wilde, Roxxi, and The Governor defeated The Beautiful People & Madison Rayne
Brutus Magnus defeated Eric Young
Awesome Kong defeated Sojourner Bolt in a TNA Knockouts Title Match
Samoa Joe vs. Scott Steiner ended in a no contest
Aj Styles defeated Booker T in a Legends Championship Match
Team 3-D defeated Beer Money via count out in a TNA Tag Team Championship match
Suicide defeated Consequences Creed, Jay Lethal, and The Motor City Machine Guns in a destination x match for the x division championship
Sting defeated Kurt Angle in a World Heavyweight Championship Match

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