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- TNA “crossed the line” months ago and this month’s PPV was a prime example of wrestling reaching a peak and coming back down. TNA have put on so many good events in the past, that as good as this month’s was, it just didn’t reach TNA’s usual standards.

The whole card seemed to have been forgotten, and all the effort was put in to the main event, which I still can’t decide if I liked or not. It was an experiment that will probably be continued at least in to th next PPV.

- The opener was fine, but nothing compared to past X-Division matches. No spots that haven’t been done before (they’ve reached a peak) and the gimmicky rules ruined the match. Were they supposed to tag in? And if so didn’t they all punch Johnny Devine? Isn’t that  usually a tag?

- The second bout was the Queen Of The Cage - it started clumsy because again it was an over gimmicked match and once Roxxi and Angelina got in there I knew Roxxi would walk out the winner. If not she would have just been buried, because she was the underdog (in a storyline sense) going in. Still their actual work was still better than anything WWE’s women’s division have been doing lately.

- BG James and Kip James’ Rough Cut segments on Impact were golden, but as expected the match itself was just a case of “going through the motions.”

- Yet again another stupid match. Something to do with cuffs. The work was pretty good but waiting for Super Eric was obvious, tedious and not what I wanted to see. LAX were the real stand outs in this match as they always are, and as boring as Kaz is character wise, you have to love the Flux-Capaciter.

- TNA love the hot blond interviewers!

- ODB & Gail Kim defeated TNA Women’s Champion Awesome Kong & Raisha Saeed in a solid women’s match, which I throughly enjoyed - although nothing stood out that said “hey we are on PPV.”

- The whole Booker T and Robert Roode feud has bored me to living hell each week and to me their matches never get in to second gear. Solid but nothing special in my opinion.

- By time Lethal Lockdown came around I was ready for some hardcore garbage wrestling to relieve the boredom and I got it along with some solid action as well. The ladder table spot has been done before but I had visions of the top giving out (it nearly did by the looks of things) so it was awesome all the same.

- Now comes the main event, which I just can’t decide whether I liked or not. To me it was a little too MMA, but near the end I got my money’s worth (the live crowd loved it though). That being said both were very intense and there was good back and forth action. It just seems chain wrestling was replaced with ground & pound and submissions. It’ll take a few more of these matches along with consistent build-up for me to really get behind the new approach. It still had a special feel to it thanks to the hype though. Whether people liked tis or not it was a pivotal match in wrestling history, in terms of going back to the basic elements of a shoot fight.

- Overall a poor PPV by TNA’s standards. Everybody was hindered by some stipulation or another and I’d much rather have seen plain cage matches. Joe finally won the belt!

- QUICK RESULTS:
Black Machismo Retains
Roxxi Laveaux won the “Queen of the Cage”
BG James defeated Kip James
Super Eric & Kaz won the “Cuffed in the Cage” Match
ODB & Gail Kim beat Kong’s team
Booker T & Sharmell defeated Robert Roode & Payton Banks
Team Cage defeated Team Tomko in the Lethal Lockdown Match
Samoa Joe is the new Champ!