TNA No Surrender 2006
TNA No Surrender 2006 (9/24/2006)- Orlando, FL
PRE-SHOW SHENANIGANS:
To hype up the â€"fan’s revenge†match (which was Jarrett vs. Joe in a Lumberjack match in which the lumberjacks would be fans equipped with leather straps) they had some fan who had won a â€"Why I Hate Jeff Jarrett†video contest come in and test his strength with one of those carnival machine. When asked what he wanted to do, he said he wanted to spank Jarrett on the ass. Not kick his ass, but â€"spank him on the backside†with this leather strap. Then they guy went to the carnival strength-testing machine and took a swing of the sledgehammer… and Christy Hemme let her disapproval of this man’s strength be known.
WHAT THE F*CK WAS SHE THINKING?!
This guy is a big enough fan that he submits a video for this contest, the video is good enough that he wins, so TNA gives him PPV tickets and flies him down to Orlando (I assume they flew him down. To offer him tickets but not fly him down would be pretty douchy) and lets him do something on the pre-show for all the world to see… and this hot former Playboy Playmate all but calls him a wimp in front of the whole world. Christy Hemme= WORLD’S WORST BABYFACE!
The fans chant for this guy to get another shot, but instead they go to this chick who is dressed in a black belly-shirt that says â€"dirty girl†on it and they give her a belt and let her spank the world’s crappiest Jeff Jarrett effigy on the ass with a whip, ostensibly so JB can measure the speed of her swing with a radar gun. So rather than rewarding the devoted fan, they pick some girl dressed like a skank (and, of course, Christy puts the skank’s swing over).
BOBBY ROODE vs. VON DORING- Not a squash, but I’ll just call it a good segment because of how much fun the crowd was having cheering for the jobber (and not by name. They were chanting â€"LET’S GO JOBBER!â€)
JAMES MITCHELL PROMO- awesome, as usual. If this DVD was just three hours of James Mitchell promos, I’d be perfectly fine with that (maybe TNA should put a DVD like that out. I’m sure it would boost the sales for the Best of Abyss DVD).
Don West and Mike Tenay spent a lot of time hyping up an announcement that â€"would rewrite the history of the professional wrestling industry†and other such grandiose epithets. This announcement had better be worth it.
MAIN SHOW:
ERIC YOUNG vs. A-1- 4/10
EY is billed as â€"now residing at an undisclosed location†and has dyed his hair black. During this match, Tenay had the gall to make fun of referees in another sport for blowing calls.
This was EY at his comedic babyface best. Not a goofball saying and doing random things, but a man who is legitimately concerned that he is going to be fired, and as a result is going to humorous lengths to try to prevent getting fired.
After the match, the announcers ran down the card, and to hype up the Fans’ Revenge match, they showed a clip of a different guy who actually managed to ring the bell at the top of the test of strength machine, then they showed the same clip of the skanky girl from earlier whipping the Jeff Jarrett effigy in the ass FOUR TIMES IN A ROW! She took just one swing, and they felt the need to show it to us FOUR STRAIGHT TIMES.
BORASH INTERVIEWS JIM CORNETTE- even more hype for tonight’s big announcement, but at least they gave us some new info, which is that the announcement would be made by a wrestler who isn’t even on tonight’s card.
X-DIVISION BABYFACES BACKSTAGE- Sonjay, Lethal, and Sabin would rather engage in backstage jackass-ery and play video games than wrestle. Jerry Lynn finds them and yells at them for this, especially Lethal (who is still playing video games despite the fact that his music is playing right now) and Sabin (who is not training for his big title match tonight).
PETEY WILLIAMS vs. JAY LETHAL- no rating. Great comedy match!
They did some stuff, then Petey started having some problems because apparently the babyfaces put laxatives in his water earlier. I was prepared to hate this, but rather than just have Petey go get counted out like Big Show did during his match with Orlando Jordan on Smackdown during his feud with Eddie when Eddie had his cousin plant laxatives in burritos he ordered because he knew Big Show would try to steal them (I don’t know why I remember this so clearly, but I do), they worked this into a comedy match, with Petey unable to climb the turnbuckle to do the O Canada Nut Squash out of fear of crapping his pants, and Lethal working over Petey’s stomach and his butt… and Petey Williams, God bless him… KEPT ON WRESTLING (although this might have been him drawing on the support of the crowd, who were chanting â€"HOLD IT IN!â€). This was utterly hilarious.
JB INTERVIEWS RHINO- Great… until it went on too long and became horribly comical. â€"when I reach down your throat and rip out your heart… Oh yeah! You don’t have a heart, you heartless bastard!†I was DYING with laughter.
NO DISQUALIFICATION MATCH: Raven vs. Brother Runt vs. Abyss (w/James Mitchell)- 6.5/10
Runt charged at Raven on the sage, so Raven countered by giving him a drop toehold which sent Runt down the entrance tunnel. AWESOME!
Runt disappeared for a while, while Raven and Abyss fought on the stage. Eventually Raven got Abyss set up on a table and climbed a ladder to dive off of… but Runt appeared above the entrance set and leaped off to hit a double stomp… but he just grazed the edge of the table, tipping it over and landing painfully on his ass.
The finish felt very anti-climactic after some of the crazy sh*t they did.
JB INTERVIEWS JEFF JARRETT- Jarrett says that TNA Management are assholes for trying to get fans to pay $29.95 to buy this PPV to hear their big announcement when you can just go on any website after the show is over and find out for free. In other words â€"all of you people who bought this PPV are stupid.†Jarrett is convinced that the person making the big announcement will be Sting, so he sends EY to search for Sting and take him out to ensure that he doesn’t interfere in Jarrett’s match tonight.
TRIPLE CHANCE BATTLE ROYALE FOR A SHOT AT THE NWA WORLD TAG TEAM TITLES: The Naturals vs. America’s Most Wanted (w/Gail Kim) vs. The Paparazzi (Alex Shelley & Johnny Devine) vs. The James Gang vs. Shark Boy & Norman Smiley vs. Bentley & Kazarian vs. Ron â€"The Truth†Killings & Lance Hoyt vs. The Diamonds in the Rough (w/Simon Diamond)- 5.75/10
The gimmick here is that if you are eliminated, you stay at ringside until your partner is eliminated. Then the last two guys in the ring get their partners back and we have a normal tag team match after that. I only count two chances. Why is this a â€"Triple Chance†Battle Royale?
Almost all of the hype revolved around AMW and The Naturals. I wonder how much of a chance the other six teams have.
Chase Stevens got sent flying into the crowd, wiping out about four fans. They also used this match to set up an angle between the Paparazzi and Bentley & Kazarian. Good to see that the undercard guys have a purpose here other than to just be fodder.
The James Gang get screwed out of the finals by AMW, who are dirty heels, so we wound up with AMW vs. The Naturals (the two teams that all of the hype for this match was build around. Funny thing, that). It was really a handicap, though, as Chase Stevens was still wiped out in the crowd. He eventually got back towards the ring, but AMW kept taking him out. The James Gang get revenge on AMW by causing interference, allowing Andy Douglas to get the roll-up win.
TNA X-DIVISION TITLE MATCH: Senshi(c) vs. Chris Sabin- 6.5/10
They were going strong for a while, but then Lethal distracted the ref while Sonjay brought out an inflatable sex doll dressed like Sabin and tried to fool Senshi with it. Sabin tried to start using the doll in his offense, and thankfully the crowd crapped all over it with â€"THIS IS STUPID!†chants. Unsurprisingly, the finish came soon thereafter.
CHRISTIAN PROMO- Great!
CHRISTIAN CAGE vs. RHINO- 6.5/10
A good heel win for Christian to set up a No DQ’s match at Bound For Glory
BACKSTAGE SHENANIGANS LEADING INTO A KONNAN PROMO- good
AJ & DANIELS PROMO- fluctuated wildly between great and lame.
ULTIMATE X MATCH FOR THE NWA WORLD TAG TEAM TITLES: LAX(c) (w/Konnan) vs. AJ Styles & Christopher Daniels- 8.5/10
Some awesome stuff here. Great use of the cables and the tag team stips, culminating in the best finish to any Ultimate X match ever.
EY & DOUBLE J BACKSTAGE- EY lists off all of the places he has searched (including about six different terms for restroom), even the sewers and in the trunks of all of the cars… and he reports that he has not found Sting, and therefore Sting must not be here. Jarrett, of course, scolds EY, because of all of the places he checked for Sting, he didn’t check the rafters! Hilarious!
FAN’S REVENGE MATCH: Jeff Jarrett vs. Samoa Joe- 5/10
Normally having stips that are completely biased against the heels is a bad idea, but this is one of the rare times where it worked. The hype package did a great job of instilling the feeling that this is justice for almost two years of Jeff Jarrett’s cheating ways.
Apparently there are no disqualifications in this match because Jarrett managed to steal a strap from a fan and used it on Joe, in full view of the referee. Jarrett wrestled wearing about four layers worth of shirts to soften the blows, so Joe ripping the shirts off got a good pop.
Although the concept of the match worked, there were two problems with it:
1) It just wasn’t good enough to be a main event.
2) Doing this now seems to kill a lot of Jarrett’s heat for his match with Sting at Bound For Glory.
THE AFTERMATH- Joe steals the NWA World Title belt. Somehow, neither this nor and the fact that he just beat the champ led to him getting a title shot.
Then Cornette comes out and announces that Impact is moving to prime-time, then we got The Big Announcement…
KURT ANGLE IS COMING TO TNA!
It’s rare for an announcement on a wrestling show to live up to its hype, especially one that was hyped up the way that TNA hyped this one up, but this one actually did it.
Overall, a good show from TNA. A solid and fun undercard, one awesome match, and blockbuster announcement at the end. If they had swapped the tag title match and the main event it would have been better, but that is a bit of a nitpick.
STUPID ANNOUNCER QUOTES:
1. Mike Tenay â€"I like the leeway here that referee Andrew Thomas is giving all three. Certainly it’s a No disqualification match. We’re not going to have a countout here.â€
Yes. Mike Tenay just commended the referee for giving the wrestlers leeway IN A NO DISQUALIFICATION MATCH!
I am also giving this statement the award for "Most Ironic Comment of the Year†as Tenay, who always loves to commend the referees in TNA for never calling DQ’s or countouts ever, no matter what is going on because he always says that â€"the match is too important to end that way,†has finally commended a referee for actually enforcing the rules… in a match where there are no rules, and thus is still commending the referee for not calling for a DQ or a countout.
PRE-SHOW SHENANIGANS:
To hype up the â€"fan’s revenge†match (which was Jarrett vs. Joe in a Lumberjack match in which the lumberjacks would be fans equipped with leather straps) they had some fan who had won a â€"Why I Hate Jeff Jarrett†video contest come in and test his strength with one of those carnival machine. When asked what he wanted to do, he said he wanted to spank Jarrett on the ass. Not kick his ass, but â€"spank him on the backside†with this leather strap. Then they guy went to the carnival strength-testing machine and took a swing of the sledgehammer… and Christy Hemme let her disapproval of this man’s strength be known.
WHAT THE F*CK WAS SHE THINKING?!
This guy is a big enough fan that he submits a video for this contest, the video is good enough that he wins, so TNA gives him PPV tickets and flies him down to Orlando (I assume they flew him down. To offer him tickets but not fly him down would be pretty douchy) and lets him do something on the pre-show for all the world to see… and this hot former Playboy Playmate all but calls him a wimp in front of the whole world. Christy Hemme= WORLD’S WORST BABYFACE!
The fans chant for this guy to get another shot, but instead they go to this chick who is dressed in a black belly-shirt that says â€"dirty girl†on it and they give her a belt and let her spank the world’s crappiest Jeff Jarrett effigy on the ass with a whip, ostensibly so JB can measure the speed of her swing with a radar gun. So rather than rewarding the devoted fan, they pick some girl dressed like a skank (and, of course, Christy puts the skank’s swing over).
BOBBY ROODE vs. VON DORING- Not a squash, but I’ll just call it a good segment because of how much fun the crowd was having cheering for the jobber (and not by name. They were chanting â€"LET’S GO JOBBER!â€)
JAMES MITCHELL PROMO- awesome, as usual. If this DVD was just three hours of James Mitchell promos, I’d be perfectly fine with that (maybe TNA should put a DVD like that out. I’m sure it would boost the sales for the Best of Abyss DVD).
Don West and Mike Tenay spent a lot of time hyping up an announcement that â€"would rewrite the history of the professional wrestling industry†and other such grandiose epithets. This announcement had better be worth it.
MAIN SHOW:
ERIC YOUNG vs. A-1- 4/10
EY is billed as â€"now residing at an undisclosed location†and has dyed his hair black. During this match, Tenay had the gall to make fun of referees in another sport for blowing calls.
This was EY at his comedic babyface best. Not a goofball saying and doing random things, but a man who is legitimately concerned that he is going to be fired, and as a result is going to humorous lengths to try to prevent getting fired.
After the match, the announcers ran down the card, and to hype up the Fans’ Revenge match, they showed a clip of a different guy who actually managed to ring the bell at the top of the test of strength machine, then they showed the same clip of the skanky girl from earlier whipping the Jeff Jarrett effigy in the ass FOUR TIMES IN A ROW! She took just one swing, and they felt the need to show it to us FOUR STRAIGHT TIMES.
BORASH INTERVIEWS JIM CORNETTE- even more hype for tonight’s big announcement, but at least they gave us some new info, which is that the announcement would be made by a wrestler who isn’t even on tonight’s card.
X-DIVISION BABYFACES BACKSTAGE- Sonjay, Lethal, and Sabin would rather engage in backstage jackass-ery and play video games than wrestle. Jerry Lynn finds them and yells at them for this, especially Lethal (who is still playing video games despite the fact that his music is playing right now) and Sabin (who is not training for his big title match tonight).
PETEY WILLIAMS vs. JAY LETHAL- no rating. Great comedy match!
They did some stuff, then Petey started having some problems because apparently the babyfaces put laxatives in his water earlier. I was prepared to hate this, but rather than just have Petey go get counted out like Big Show did during his match with Orlando Jordan on Smackdown during his feud with Eddie when Eddie had his cousin plant laxatives in burritos he ordered because he knew Big Show would try to steal them (I don’t know why I remember this so clearly, but I do), they worked this into a comedy match, with Petey unable to climb the turnbuckle to do the O Canada Nut Squash out of fear of crapping his pants, and Lethal working over Petey’s stomach and his butt… and Petey Williams, God bless him… KEPT ON WRESTLING (although this might have been him drawing on the support of the crowd, who were chanting â€"HOLD IT IN!â€). This was utterly hilarious.
JB INTERVIEWS RHINO- Great… until it went on too long and became horribly comical. â€"when I reach down your throat and rip out your heart… Oh yeah! You don’t have a heart, you heartless bastard!†I was DYING with laughter.
NO DISQUALIFICATION MATCH: Raven vs. Brother Runt vs. Abyss (w/James Mitchell)- 6.5/10
Runt charged at Raven on the sage, so Raven countered by giving him a drop toehold which sent Runt down the entrance tunnel. AWESOME!
Runt disappeared for a while, while Raven and Abyss fought on the stage. Eventually Raven got Abyss set up on a table and climbed a ladder to dive off of… but Runt appeared above the entrance set and leaped off to hit a double stomp… but he just grazed the edge of the table, tipping it over and landing painfully on his ass.
The finish felt very anti-climactic after some of the crazy sh*t they did.
JB INTERVIEWS JEFF JARRETT- Jarrett says that TNA Management are assholes for trying to get fans to pay $29.95 to buy this PPV to hear their big announcement when you can just go on any website after the show is over and find out for free. In other words â€"all of you people who bought this PPV are stupid.†Jarrett is convinced that the person making the big announcement will be Sting, so he sends EY to search for Sting and take him out to ensure that he doesn’t interfere in Jarrett’s match tonight.
TRIPLE CHANCE BATTLE ROYALE FOR A SHOT AT THE NWA WORLD TAG TEAM TITLES: The Naturals vs. America’s Most Wanted (w/Gail Kim) vs. The Paparazzi (Alex Shelley & Johnny Devine) vs. The James Gang vs. Shark Boy & Norman Smiley vs. Bentley & Kazarian vs. Ron â€"The Truth†Killings & Lance Hoyt vs. The Diamonds in the Rough (w/Simon Diamond)- 5.75/10
The gimmick here is that if you are eliminated, you stay at ringside until your partner is eliminated. Then the last two guys in the ring get their partners back and we have a normal tag team match after that. I only count two chances. Why is this a â€"Triple Chance†Battle Royale?
Almost all of the hype revolved around AMW and The Naturals. I wonder how much of a chance the other six teams have.
Chase Stevens got sent flying into the crowd, wiping out about four fans. They also used this match to set up an angle between the Paparazzi and Bentley & Kazarian. Good to see that the undercard guys have a purpose here other than to just be fodder.
The James Gang get screwed out of the finals by AMW, who are dirty heels, so we wound up with AMW vs. The Naturals (the two teams that all of the hype for this match was build around. Funny thing, that). It was really a handicap, though, as Chase Stevens was still wiped out in the crowd. He eventually got back towards the ring, but AMW kept taking him out. The James Gang get revenge on AMW by causing interference, allowing Andy Douglas to get the roll-up win.
TNA X-DIVISION TITLE MATCH: Senshi(c) vs. Chris Sabin- 6.5/10
They were going strong for a while, but then Lethal distracted the ref while Sonjay brought out an inflatable sex doll dressed like Sabin and tried to fool Senshi with it. Sabin tried to start using the doll in his offense, and thankfully the crowd crapped all over it with â€"THIS IS STUPID!†chants. Unsurprisingly, the finish came soon thereafter.
CHRISTIAN PROMO- Great!
CHRISTIAN CAGE vs. RHINO- 6.5/10
A good heel win for Christian to set up a No DQ’s match at Bound For Glory
BACKSTAGE SHENANIGANS LEADING INTO A KONNAN PROMO- good
AJ & DANIELS PROMO- fluctuated wildly between great and lame.
ULTIMATE X MATCH FOR THE NWA WORLD TAG TEAM TITLES: LAX(c) (w/Konnan) vs. AJ Styles & Christopher Daniels- 8.5/10
Some awesome stuff here. Great use of the cables and the tag team stips, culminating in the best finish to any Ultimate X match ever.
EY & DOUBLE J BACKSTAGE- EY lists off all of the places he has searched (including about six different terms for restroom), even the sewers and in the trunks of all of the cars… and he reports that he has not found Sting, and therefore Sting must not be here. Jarrett, of course, scolds EY, because of all of the places he checked for Sting, he didn’t check the rafters! Hilarious!
FAN’S REVENGE MATCH: Jeff Jarrett vs. Samoa Joe- 5/10
Normally having stips that are completely biased against the heels is a bad idea, but this is one of the rare times where it worked. The hype package did a great job of instilling the feeling that this is justice for almost two years of Jeff Jarrett’s cheating ways.
Apparently there are no disqualifications in this match because Jarrett managed to steal a strap from a fan and used it on Joe, in full view of the referee. Jarrett wrestled wearing about four layers worth of shirts to soften the blows, so Joe ripping the shirts off got a good pop.
Although the concept of the match worked, there were two problems with it:
1) It just wasn’t good enough to be a main event.
2) Doing this now seems to kill a lot of Jarrett’s heat for his match with Sting at Bound For Glory.
THE AFTERMATH- Joe steals the NWA World Title belt. Somehow, neither this nor and the fact that he just beat the champ led to him getting a title shot.
Then Cornette comes out and announces that Impact is moving to prime-time, then we got The Big Announcement…
KURT ANGLE IS COMING TO TNA!
It’s rare for an announcement on a wrestling show to live up to its hype, especially one that was hyped up the way that TNA hyped this one up, but this one actually did it.
Overall, a good show from TNA. A solid and fun undercard, one awesome match, and blockbuster announcement at the end. If they had swapped the tag title match and the main event it would have been better, but that is a bit of a nitpick.
STUPID ANNOUNCER QUOTES:
1. Mike Tenay â€"I like the leeway here that referee Andrew Thomas is giving all three. Certainly it’s a No disqualification match. We’re not going to have a countout here.â€
Yes. Mike Tenay just commended the referee for giving the wrestlers leeway IN A NO DISQUALIFICATION MATCH!
I am also giving this statement the award for "Most Ironic Comment of the Year†as Tenay, who always loves to commend the referees in TNA for never calling DQ’s or countouts ever, no matter what is going on because he always says that â€"the match is too important to end that way,†has finally commended a referee for actually enforcing the rules… in a match where there are no rules, and thus is still commending the referee for not calling for a DQ or a countout.