POSTED: September 14, 2008 - 2:36 am
CATEGORIES: Wrestling
Saturday night at the TNA house show in London, Ontario in front of approximately 500 fans at the Labatt Centre, there was a scary moment where James Storm was knocked out cold during his tag match with Robert Roode against The Motor City Machine Guns. Storm was rushed to the hospital and it was diagnosed as a concussion, no word on whether this will affect the Pay Per View Sunday night in Oshawa.
Here are the results from the show:
**Eric Young over Petey Williams and Johnny Devine in a non title match
**Consequences Creed over Sonjay Dutt
**Taylor Wilde over Angelina Love to keep the Knockout's Title
**Kurt Angle came out to put over the crowd as "the best fans in the world" and looking at the sparse crowd noted that TNA "doesn't have the most fans but they do have the most passionate fans" and promised that when they return it will be for a TV taping on Spike TV.
**A.J Styles over Sheik Abdul Bashir
**Beer Money Inc. over MCMG
**Rhino over Abyss
**Samoa Joe over Christian Cage to keep the TNA Title
I went to the show Saturday night in London. I thought the whole event was a let down. I have heard that TNA puts on really good House shows but this was worse then watching Impact. Throuhgout the entire evening I had a really hard time of tryng to figure out who was the babyface and who were the heals. This flip flopped in most matches and made it tough to watch. It seemed to me that everyone was working really light and it made for un-realistic wrestling, most of the talent was just going through their ring routines and keeping it safe, too safe for my liking. Kurt Angles whole speech was as phoney as he is. Remember the night when Hogan came out on Raw in Montreal and receieved an ovation that was so over whelming and so load that he could not talk and just sat in the ring shaking his head in disbelief at the amazing ovation? Well Kurt came out to about 200 people giving him a "decent" ovation and he pulled the same actions that Hogan did in Montreal. Kurt acted like he was getting this tremendous applause and he stood in the ring shaking is head and laughing like the London crowd was rocking his socks off. he then shat on the audience by telling us that "this is why London, Canada has the best fans in the entire world!" What????? He then told us that next time they come back it will be for a SPIKE TV taping. In front of this many people Kurt? I don't think so, stay in Orlando unitl you can actually fill this place. This Arean that tna was at last night is called the John Labatt Centre, not Arena liked Christian called it. This building sells out every Friday night for JR hockey. I think its something like 10, 000 in attendance. It impossible to get tickets. TNA had most of the building drapped off, I think John was being nice with the 500 total in attendance. TNA is not ready for the big time, this event was sub-par. 5 out of 10 i would give the show. The only bonus was that I had a really great seat and it only cost 21.75. Not 51.75 for my Smackdown ticket that I just of much enjoyment out of and not as good of a seat. I would reccomend that you go to a TNA event and make your own opinion. By the way, I bought the TNA video game and after 30 min I took it out and and went back to my RAW vs.Smackdown 2008. The game blows! Horrible, don't waste your money!
thanks for the report jake. did you notice the the James Storm injury. what exactly happened? how good was christian v angle?
I wasn't at last night's house show because I'm going to the PPV tonight but the house show last year that they did in Oshawa was outstanding so I'm really surprised to hear such negative comments about last night's show.
Oh and as for the video game, while it's far from the greatest wrestling game ever made, I'm actually enjoying it more then SvR08, which I personally hated. That said, I still think SvR07 is the best wrestling game on the Xbox 360 right now but the TNA game shows promise and I think it could be consistently better then the WWE games in a few years after they've had a couple of iterations.
Oh and as for the video game, while it's far from the greatest wrestling game ever made, I'm actually enjoying it more then SvR08, which I personally hated. That said, I still think SvR07 is the best wrestling game on the Xbox 360 right now but the TNA game shows promise and I think it could be consistently better then the WWE games in a few years after they've had a couple of iterations.
I was at the event, I did notice James Storm roll to the outside after a bump. However no one noticed Jackie??? I was 2nd row and they did a spot where Roode knocked Jackie off the apron by accident and the hit was so hard, I believe at least 2 teeth came out of her mouth. she didn't sell the hit, she just dropped down and put her head on the apron. Afterwards the ref had her hat and went and picked up what looked to be teeth, and placed them in her hat. It looked bad. any word on Jackie?
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Ouch! Poor Jackie! Shades of infamous tag match, with Lita in the WWE.
I refuse to believe the show was as bad as Jake says it was, he seems to have an agenda.
There's no way Samoa Joe vs Christian Cage wasn't good and so what that's it's babyface vs babyface, just enjoy the match, some people just love to complain.
Why the fuck would they have Rhino beat Abyss? Rhino sucks and Abyss is actually being built up.
Rhino is one of the most talented and under appreciated men in this business. Abyss is a sideshow attraction for kids and geeks. Rhino is a former ECW and NWA champion and now you hardly know he is a liive in TNA. They need another singles title in TNA. To have so many wrestlers not getting there props is not right. Rhino is the most pretty or graceful but he can put on a show. Better than some guys who are getting built up. Like Frank Trigg or Eric Young. Is he blowing someone in the front office. He makes Santino Marrelli look talented.
RE Danny Boy... what talent does Rhino have? There's a reason why they don't use him, it's because he's boring and un-interesting. The fact that he could ram his head through a shopping card does not make him talented. You say that Abyss is for kids and geeks? Well Rhino is just for geeks who think they sound so smart by saying he has talent.

