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Raw is being taped today before tonight's airing. Please do not include spoilers in this thread.
Last night was TNA's second biggest show of the year, Lockdown, a show that all matches are contested inside of a steel cage. The show took place in Nashville to pay homage to TNA's birth place 10 years ago. Unfortunately for TNA, the show was in Nashville. People always complain about the Impact Zone crowd in Orlando being bad, but you would have mistaken them for the Raw after WrestleMania crowd in Miami compared to the crowd TNA got last night. The "fans" in Nashville essentially killed last night's show. Granted, it wasn't the best show in the world, but these fans were absolutely silent for the majority of the night. Part of the problem may have been having the show in a 9,000 seat arena that was no where close to being full, but TNA got around this last October in Philadelphia for Bound For Glory which had a very hot crowd on TV. Anyway, aside for popping during the Angle/Hardy match and at the end of the Roode/Storm match, the crowd was virtually silent the entire show, taking what should have been a thumbs in the middle or even slight thumbs up show to more of a thumbs down show, though the two main matches did help to save the card. Here are the quick results (I did not see the show):
- Team Garrett (Garrett Bischoff, AJ Styles, RVD, Mr Anderson, Austin Aries) d Team Eric (Eric Bischoff, Gunner, Bully Ray, Kazarian, Christopher Daniels) in a Lethal Lockdown (War Games) Match. Since Team Eric left, Eric Bischoff is forced to leave TNA (the plan is to keep him off TV permanently and will only be working behind the scenes) AND he is no longer able to use the Bischoff name (whatever the hell that means).
- Samoa Joe & Magnus d The Motor City Machine Guns to retain the TNA Tag Team Titles
- Devon d Robbie E to retain the TV Title
- Gail Kim d Velvet Sky to retain the Knockouts Title
- Flair and Hogan had a segment (neither man got much of a reaction). Flair cut a heel promo. Hogan punched him in the face.
- Crimson d Matt Morgan in the worst match of the night. Morgan would be doing TNA a favor by leaving for WWE.
- Jeff Hardy d Kurt Angle. Kurt was noticeably slower with his torn hamstring but still worked great. Hardy won with a Swanton off the top of the cage. Probably the best match of the night.
- ODB & Eric Young d Rosita and Sarita to retain the Knockout Tag Titles
- Bobby Roode d James Young to retain the TNA World Title. Young had the match won but Roode flipped him off so he came back into the cage to do more damage. Ref bumps inside the steel cage. Storm kicked out of a beer bottle shot to the head. Storm hit the superkick, but it knocked Roode out of the cage door to get the win. So at your 2nd biggest PPV of the year, you have the heel get a weasel victory. TNA....
Tonight Raw is emanating from the O2 Arena in London, England. This will be a traditional "SUPERSHOW" as the entire crew has been in Europe since mid last week. I'm not going to give a ton of speculation since spoilers are already available for the show, but here are the key things they will hit tonight:
- The Extreme Rules PPV is 13 days away.
- The Brock Lesnar vs John Cena match has been made a No DQ, No Countout match. Just as the match announcement was a throwaway comment on Raw last week, the addition of the stipulation is always a throwaway deal as it was announced on WWE.com.
- They have promoted Brock Lesnar as being on tonight's show. I do not know if Lesnar will be there live or if they taped a segment for him during last week's show to air tonight. If Lesnar will be there live tonight, that means by the time Extreme Rules gets here, they will have used five of his approximate 26 contract appearances. How they will spread 21 appearances out over the next 11 months is anyone's guess. My best guess... they use up all 26 appearances by November, and Brock holds them hostage for more money (a lot more money) to use him for WrestleMania.
- Last week's show did a VERY disappointing rating, so we'll see if any noticeable changes are made this week. Probably not, but you never know.
- CM Punk takes on Mark Henry in a No DQ/No Countout match tonight for the WWE Title. Punk will retain, though I can't see him just winning cleanly. You also have to imagine that Jericho gets involved either during or after the match. Jericho has dumped alcohol on Punk the past two weeks, so I hope it isn't some type of Liquor on a Pole match at Extreme Rules.
- Santino and Brodus Clay appear to be a tag team now. So that US Title is never getting defended.
- Dolph Ziggler will continue to be under utilized and mishandled.
- I don't expect the London fans to be any more accepting of Lord Tensai than the US fans. They really need to do something with his character or ring style quickly because what he's doing right now is never going to get over.
- John Laurinaitis will keep Teddy Long as his slave. That's the storyline, right?
