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Credit to Ed Boston
Tonight’s show is LIVE from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. It’s great to have a live show to watch.
The show opens with a collection of clips from the main event at Slammiversary, finishing up with Eric Young pinning Austin Aries after a massive piledriver.
When we go live, MVP, Bobby Lashley and Kenny King make their way to the ring. MVP says that what happened 4 days ago was a travesty and that he had been reprimanded by the TNA Board of Directors. He says that he isn’t going to let a bunch of suits in Dallas or Nashville tell him how to do business.
MVP then calls out Eric Young, who says that the only travesty Sunday was that he didn’t get a chance to punch MVP in the face.
EY says he’s not very patient and wants to come down and punch someone in the mouth.
Eric Young vs Kenny King
After a couple of minutes of action between the two, down to the ring comes Samoa Joe, Austin Aries and The Wolves to make sure that EY gets a fair fight.
Some high impact moves from King and then EY showing some power moves led to Young reversing a King back drop into a small package for the 1 – 2 – 3.
Winner of the match is TNA Heavyweight Champion Eric Young
It appears after the opening match, that Young and his friends aren’t going to let MVP and his group run wild without repercussions.
However, MVP and his thugs are bullying the time keeper. Back to the ring comes EY and his backups. They all brawl for a bit and then are separated by referees and security. After another brief skirmish, they babyfaces move toward the back and MVP goes berserk in the ring.
He tells Eric Young that he’s gonna have a 2nd title match tonight. Later tonight it will be the Destroyer Bobby Lashley vs EY. The stipulation is that all other wrestlers will be escorted from the building by security. The only ones allowed to remain will be EY, Lashley, King and MVP – along with the referee and time keeper.
Next, MVP announces that The Wolves will have to defend their titles vs Aries and Samoa Joe. To make sure that they actually fight, he is adding a mystery 3rd team to the mix.
MVP continues to rant and calls Earl Hebner to the ring and FIRES him.
In the back, Dixie Carter and EC3 are talking and Dixie says she’s not worried about what just happened with MVP and that he is just proving to the board of directors what she has been telling them about the Director of Wrestling Operations.
Next up The Wolves vs Samoa Joe and Austin Aries vs The Mystery Team of Willow and Abyss
It’s Aries vs Willow to start, followed up with Abyss and Samoa Joe in the ring. Remember, The Wolves can lose their belts without being pinned.
In an awesome move just before the break, Aries and Joe turn things on The Wolves and use The Wolves own move of diving through the ropes and then all 4 brawl on the floor.
As the camera cuts away, we see Tommy Dreamer enter the building looking to confront Dixie Carter.
Back from the break, after briefly looking like they were going to go down to defeat, The Wolves then take control against Aries and cut the ring in half and show their tag team skills. Aries is in the ring for several minutes until he finally tags in Abyss.
Quickly, we have Abyss and Samoa Joe in the ring. Joe gets a near-fall on the monster. At this point we have bodies all over the place. Willow makes an amazing flying backwards leap into all 4 of his opponents.
Back in the ring, The Wolves make an impressive double team move on Willow and they get the pin.
Winners of the match: The Wolves
In the back, it’s MVP and company cooking up a plan against Kurt Angle.
Mike Tenay and Tazz discuss the confrontation that is going to take place between Tommy Dreamer and Dixie Carter. Specifics of the issue are given and as we go to break Tazz says, “LIVE MIC, LIVE SHOW” the confrontation is next.
A quick glance into the comment section and it seems like we have a few WWE marks IN DA HOUSE.
We have a quick recap of hour 1 and then see security escorting Samoa Joe and Austin Aries out of the building per MVP’s previous order. Then MVP tells The Wolves that they are not going to be escorted out YET. He then says that they will be defending their belts a 2nd time tonight, just like Eric Young has to.
After The Wolves walk away, MVP tells security to make sure they are removed from the building immediately after their match.
Dixie Carter and Rockstar Spud enter the ring. She talks trash about Bully Ray, MVP and the fans. She then turns her attention to Tommy Dreamer and says that he has been saying vile things about her. She tells us that she invited Dreamer here to meet with her face to face and not hide behind his keyboard.
Tenay then tells us for the 2nd time tonight that Dreamer had permission to use TNA talent for one of his independent promotion when Dixie pulled the talent at the last second.
Dixie tells Dreamer that he needs to apologize while the crowd is chanting Tommy Dreamer.
Dreamer thanks Dixie for inviting him there and then the crowd starts chanting E-C-W.
Dreamer then relives history of how Dixie start off doing right by the fans and wants to what happened to her. What the fans want TNA to succeed, Dixie has turned TNA into her own personal reality show.
Dreamer gets a plug in for his promotion House of Hardcore. He then tells Dixie how he knows there is still hope for her. He saw her in her sky box and cheered like a fan when Kevin Von Erich used a claw hold at Slammiversary.
Dixie and Tommy embrace and Dixie knees Dreamer with a low blow. EC3 then comes out and disposes of Dreamer from the ring.
The speech that Dreamer just gave Dixie is exactly what every true fan of wrestling would say to someone with as much power as Dixie has. One of the best I’ve ever heard.
We cut to the back and see King and Lashley confront Kurt Angle as he arrives. Angle says he wants to talk to MVP.
Noticing in the comments during the break that most people loved Dreamers passionate promo, one even calling it a pipe bomb.
MVP basically blows off Angle and tells him he’ll have to wait for their meeting. Tazz says that MVP just treated the 13 time world champion and Olympic Gold Medalist like a jabroni.
Next up is The Wolves vs Magnus and Bram
Bram uses his superior power against an obviously tired Edwards. When Magnus and Richards tag in Richards take charge. After a great missile drop kick from Richards on Magnus, Bram throws a chair into Magnus who then throws the chair at Richards for a disqualification.
As Bram and Magnus prepare to do some serious damage, out comes Willow and Abyss to make the save.
Winners of the match by disqualification: The Wolves
In the back we see MVP and Brian Hebner. MVP says are you crying? There’s no crying in professional wrestling. MVP then tells Hebner that if he wants to keep getting his paycheck that he will count 1-2-3 on Eric Young in the main event.
Before the break it’s Taryn Terrell looking fine after a year away.
When we return Willow and Abyss attack Bram and Magnus in the back.
Gail Kim is in the ring and she welcomes Taryn back and she talks about how Taryn earned her respect in their epic match at Slammiversary last year.
Taryn says that her and Gail actually tied at one match apiece. She thinks the fans would like to see the two of them have a match to see who the best Knockout really is.
Out comes The Beautiful People and Angelina takes issue with this whole situation and reminds Gail that Angelina won their match at Slammiversary. She then introduces herself to Taryn by kicking her in the mid section. Then Angelina and Velvet double team Gail until Taryn takes over on both of The Beautiful People.
Gail recovers and she and Taryn throw both Angelina and Velvet from the ring to a loud ovation.
Kurt Angle gets his meeting with MVP who has Lashley and King along with security with him. Angle tells MVP he doesn’t like what he’s been seeing going on. MVP shows his authority and tells Angle to leave his building.
King steps up and gets in Angle’s face Angle tells King to back up and when King shoves him Angle nails him with a hard right hand. Angle then looks at Lashley and says what are you going to do.
Jeremy Borash is in the back and says that in his 12 years there he has never seen anything like the back room. There is no one there. No wrestlers, no production people, no one. MVP interrupts and says there’s one person and has security remove JB.
Out first is Lashley with MVP and King and then it’s the champ making his way to the ring.
The Destroyer Bobby Lashley vs Eric Young.EY starts off strong and nails Lashley with a flying cross body from the ropes to the floor. The champ is holding his own as we go to our final break of the night.
Not only is the pressure on Young to defend his title but referee Brian Hebner’s job is on the line as MVP threatened his job is he doesn’t count 1-2-3 on EY.
Tenay tells us that during the break, Lashley showed his amazing physicality and had started working on the back of the champion.
Lashley shows that power off with a powerful vertical suplex on the champ.
Out of nowhere EY hits a piledriver on the challenger but as Hebner is counting, King pulls Hebner out of the ring. EY then spikes Lashley with a DDT but Lashley kicks out at the last second.
Lashley nails EY with a spear and Hebner reluctantly counts 1-2-3 and we have a new World Heavyweight Champion.
Winner of the match and the new TNA World Heavyweight Champion: The Destroyer Bobby Lashley.
As MVP and his thugs try to break EY’s arm with a steel chair and no one in the back to be able to help EY – the suspended Bobby Roode climbs over the crowd barrier and saves the former champion from further harm.
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To recap this night of live TNA action:
Winner of the opening match is TNA Heavyweight Champion Eric Young over Kenny King.
MVP fires Senior Referee Earl Hebner.
The Wolves vs Samoa Joe and Austin Aries vs The Mystery Team of Willow and Abyss with The Wolves keeping their titles.
Dixie Carter and Tommy Dreamer meet face to face in the ring. Dreamer delivers an awesome and passionate promo. He and Dixie hug and then she knees him below the belt.
In their 2nd title defense of the night The Wolves win over Bram and Magnus by DQ. Willow and Abyss make the save as Bram and Magnus attempted to do some serious damage to the champs.
Taryn Terrell is welcomed back by Gail Kim and The Beautiful People take exception to what’s going on in the ring. After a brief skirmish, Taryn and Gail throw The Beautiful People out of the ring.
Kurt Angle met with MVP and tells him he doesn’t like what’s been going on while he has been away. MVP orders Angle out of the building and when King butts in, Angle punches him in the face.
Bobby Lashley defeats Eric Young to become the new TNA World Heavyweight Champion after MVP has everyone (wrestlers, production, and staff) removed from the building.
When Lashley, King and MVP attempt to injure EY after the match, the suspended Bobby Roode comes through the crowd and makes the save.
Outstanding live show tonight. This is Ed Boston and it’s been my pleasure doing this live coverage for Wrestling Inc.com. I especially enjoyed the Tommy Dreamer promo.
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