TNA Discussion Thread

Backstage, Eddie Edwards is getting ready for his match tonight with Davey and both their wives at his side.

Braxton and Mike Bennett are talking back stage. Bennett tells Sutter these are exciting times. Braxton says he doesn’t know how Bennett deals with Maria on a daily basis. The Miracle says that Maria has a kind heart and wants what’s best for Laurel. He says he knows he’ll do the right thing. Braxton has a realization and says “I will do the right thing” and walks off

The Broken Hardys make their way to the ring.In the ring there is a golden pedestal that looks to have a cloth on top, perhaps covering something.

Matt says he’s recently had many premonitions about their expedition of gold. Today, he finally understood the totality of the premonitions. He pulls back the cloth to reveal Vanguard One. He says the Deities have upgraded VG1 to become the most powerful drone of all of space and time... because now he can teleport things! It’s about time!

VG1 will teleport them all over the world to different promotions to win different tag gold. And they will win until the Deities declare them the greatest tag team of all of space and time.

Jeff asks for a bit more clarification of his premonitions for the creatures. He says they’ll touch VG1 and go to promotion and promotion, territories or something like the Honorable Ring, or even the MeekMahan show, and there will be gold that they will win.

He has another premonition... it’s time! They both touch VG1.... and they vanish!

They then arrive in a tropical area but they don’t know where. They ask a man where they are and he says in Tijuana!

Backstage, Braxton finds Laurel Van Ness backstage. LVN talks about using her father’s credit card to go shopping and then go back to her place. Braxton drops his water bottle and goes to pick it up and LVN thinks he’s proposing and says yes

The Helms Dynasty is in the ring. Shane introduces Trevor Lee, the new X Division champion. Lee says he knew it was only a matter of time until he broke DJ Z down and took what he knew is his. Now that he’s champion, it proves he’s the crown jewel of the X Division and Helms Dynasty.

Helms gets back on the mic and tells Andrew Everett that he’s the weak link of the Dynasty. He tells him he’s squandered a ton of opportunity that Helms got him. He won’t let the Dynasty be weak and if he has to trim fat, he will.

Everett takes the mic. He tells the leader he’s wrong. How many times did he have to jump on a grenade for this Dynasty? He understands how good Trevor Lee is. They’ve won gold everywhere they’ve gone and they’ve done it without Shane. So what if the problem isn’t Everett but an old man living off his former glories?

It looks like Helms is about to get ready to a fight, but Lee attacks Everett from behind. It’s a 2 on 1 attack, ending with the Leaping Mushroom Stomp from the champ!

(fell asleep last night, so had to watch this online)

Video package of the disintegration of The Wolves from last week

Crazzy Steve & Rosemary vs Moose & Brandi Rhodes: Moose with a one-arm Powerbomb on Steve to the floor on top of Abyss, Moose finishes Steve with the Game Breaker

Backstage, Eddie Edwards walks by a camera man and says “I’m not here to talk. I’m here to beat Davey Richards ass.”

Backstage, Moose and Brandi are talking about their match. Brandi thanks Moose. He tells her if anyone messes with her, give him a call

Eddie Edwards walks with a purpose to the ring and grabs a mic. He says he’s here to beat Davey Richards’ ass. He said last week was a low point in his life because his friend turned his back on me and had his wife attacked. And that’s just too much.

However he doesn’t get Davey. He gets Angelina Love. She tells Eddie that he gets Davey when she says so. She asks him where was he when Davey broke his leg. Where was he when she was nine months pregnant and she was helping him hobble around? He was going to try to win the world title.

She then introduces the American Wolf Davey Richards. Davey claims he made Eddie, that he chose him to be his partner. Richards says to turn around and walk away or he’ll expose him.

But Eddie runs to the ramp and the two men start brawling until security pulls them apart. Eddie gets free, grabs the mic, and challenges him to an Anything Goes Street Fight tonight

Braxton Sutter and Mike Bennett at a club/party. Bennett says he invited all of his best friends, to which Sutter says he doesn’t know anybody. The Miracle introduces all of his super loser party friends. It’s like the worst of a frat party.

Matt and Jeff Hardy are in Tijuana, having found the wrestling venue. He asks to find the promoter to secure the tag team championships. They find a man who is in a luchador mask and they speak Spanish to him. He informs them he speaks English and points them towards the promoter.

We see the ladies for the bachelorette party. Allie has set up balloons and pink table clothes, which Maria hates. Allie doesn’t know what she’s setting up this party for. Maria breaks it to her that it’s a bachelorette party for Laurel Van Ness, who’s marrying Sutter. Allie is suddenly sad

Kingston vs Jessie Godderz: Kingston with an STO for a near fall, Godderz evades The Backfist to the Future, Jessie goes for the Adonis Crab but Kingston fights out, Enzugiri then Godderz hits a Springboard Forearm for the win

The lights go out and the other 2 DCC members are in the ring, but Godderz had made his way to the ring apron before the lights came back on

Braxton is still at the worst party ever. One of Bennett’s druggie friends tries to hang out with him, prompting Sutter to try to leave. Bennett says that Maria told him to throw a party so he’s throwing a party. Plus otherwise, he’d have to go home. One of Miracles drunk jumps on the druggie guy

Back with the Lady Squad, Maria is hating the decorations. Allie has a pinata, but that doesn’t change her mood. Neither does the fun party horns

Tyrus immediately introduces “not my friend’ Eli Drake.

Drake’s arm is in a sling.

Drake takes the mic and says that while the fans don’t deserve to hear him speak but he needs to give Tyrus the truth. Tyrus didn’t ask him about the 2 on 3 last week. He picked EC3 instead of picking something like a title.

Drake tells him that when he pays Tyrus, Tyrus does what he says. He’s the man who wrestles main events, Tyrus is the man who watch them. He tells the big man he’s on his set and he owns him.

Tyrus grabs Drake and tells him that no one owns him. He’ll see him in the ring next week

Back in Mexcio, someone tells the promoter that the Hardys are here. The promoter says he doesn’t have the money to pay him but is informed they don’t want money. Just a title match.

The promoter is Konnan! He grants them the match, but confirms he doesn’t have to pay them. He then instructs his assistant to get out there and make some bootleg stuff to sell

At the bachelorette party, Maria asks Allie if she got something for Laurel. Allie did not but Maria gave her a gift instead, lingerie\, which Braxton will love. She tells Allie she’s the ring bearer for next week, and the tosses some cake in her face before leaving with the rest of the ladies.

Back in Tijuana, the Hardys are getting ready for their match. Matt tells Vanguard One to map out their exit for when they when the titles.

(The ref is blurred out as he works for Lucha Underground and they threatened legal action. Can't really agree with that, I understand the situation with Hernandez from a few years back and were justified in that, but legal action over a ref? That's a bit petty imo)

The Broken Hardyz vs Super Crazy & Psicosis: Vanguard One meeting with a bunch of women in the locker room, the match is clips ending with the Hardyz pinning Psicosis after the Twist of Fate/Swanton Bomb combo

They quickly run backstage to leave while elsewhere, Konnan tries to run to stop them because they’re going to take the belts. However, they teleport out before Konnan can find them. They find themselves back in the Dome of Deletion in Cameron.

There, Matt has a premonition that he will revert to his Egyptian roots to become the King in Gold.

Next week, they try to win Mid Atlantic’s tag titles

Sienna vs Brooke: Sienna with a Samoan Drop for a 2 count, in the corner, Brooke hits The Butterface Maker, but Maria up on the apron to get Sienna's attention, 2 Fallaway Slams then goes for the AK-47, but Brooke counters into a rollup for the win

At the bachelor party, Sutter is looking to leave. He tells Mike he’ll tell everyone he had a good time and won’t mention the dude that died earlier. One guy wants to put on a porn but Bennett says he has a better idea. He then introduces Roxy, who was a less than impressive stripper that had Bennett instead reconsider the porno.

Backstage, Eli Drake talks into the camera to Tyrus. He threatens to do the same thing to Tyrus as he did to EC3 weeks ago

Lashley calls himself the baddest man on the planet. The champ says there’s no one that can hang with him in wrestling or MMA.

Music plays and Josh Barnett comes to the ring. The crowd doesn’t sound like they know who he is. (Besides doing color commentary for the New Japan AXS show, he's competed in for various MMA companties, NJPW, & the Inoki Genome Federation including a submission win over Lashley) Barnett tells him that he’s not living up to the expectations though. He says he’s disappointed in Lashley. He says he needs to get into that ring to make sure Bobby is being who he should.

Lashley puts over Barnett, but he tells there aren’t rules in pro-graps like there is in MMA. He advises him to take his ass to the back and have a seat... Barnett tries to lock in an armbar which Lashley escapes from.

Lashley is now pissed and he wants to fight. Barnett convinces him to put the belt up in said fight

Poor Braxton is still stuck at his bachelor party while everyone else is passed out. He finally tries to sneak out. He sees Bennett is passed out so puts his arm around the unappealing stripper and takes a picture before he leaves and makes sure to text it to Maria (After next week this will all be over, finally)

Eddie Edwards vs Davey Richards: Angelina comes out first and tells Eddie he must have a death wish and then introduces the American Wolf, who slides in to the ring from behind and clubs Eddie from behind, Edwards grabs a chair, but Angelina grabs one as well, Eddie drops his & corners Love, but Davey with the chair Edwards dropped lays into Edwards, Lexxus runs in & jumps on Richards back, but Angelina drops her with one shot, Love handcuffs Lexxus to the ropes and gets a chair from Davey, but Eddie protects his wife as Richards unloads on Edwards, Angelina puts a chair on top of Eddie's head then Davey with a sort of modified Con-chair-to, Angelina kicks the ref in the nuts then counts the pinfall herself when Davey wins Eddie (Don't think that technically counts as a finish, but we'll see)

Angelina then makes out with Davey on top of the fallen Edwards as the show ends

Tyrus vs Eli Drake: Drake cut a promo on the way to the ring and said he views Tyrus as the biggest dummy of them all. Drake went to ringside during the opening minute of the match and told Tyrus that they are both businessmen. He said Tyrus knows the right thing to do. He tried to do the finger poke of doom a couple times.

Tyrus gave it back to him and told Drake to lay down. Drake said that if Tyrus wants to get paid again then he has to lay down. Tyrus growled at him. Drake said they would do it the hard way, Eli decks the ref causing a dq

Drake laughed about punching Hebner. Tyrus grabbed him by the throat. Drake told Tyrus that he got him a raise and offered him a handshake. Tyrus took the mic and said he would never shake his hand. “But I’ll give you a hug.” Drake leapt into the arms of Tyrus. (It really feels that Gaburick knew he was done at the last set of tapings and completely decided to half-ass it & is also proof he was the wrong guy for the gig from the beginning) Pope said this won’t happen once the new management takes over and puts their fingerprints on the product. Mathews asked how Pope knows this. Pope said the Anthem owl talks to him

Footage aired of Laurel Van Ness preparing for her wedding with Maria and Sienna. Maria questioned where Allie was. Sienna said she had not seen her. Van Ness asked why she cared. Maria laughed about Allie being the ring bearer. Sienna said she would call and Allie would be there in two minutes flat

Braxton Sutter is backstage trying to work up the will to call someone. Douchey Mike Bennett rolls in. The Miracle says marriage is work. You have to admit when you’re wrong (though she never does). Sutter tells Bennett this is about Allie. Mike says that Maria said she’ll take care of that

Jessie Godderz vs Bram: Godderz gets the Adonis Crab, but Kingston distracts the ref, Jessie Catapults Bram into Kingston then pins Bram with a Sunset Flip for the win

The Hardys teleport to their next stop. They find the Mid-Atlantic Outlaws, who are the #1 contenders for this promotions tag titles. Matt suggests a #1 contenders match, but it looks like the rest of the locker room convince these Outlaws to let the Hardys have their shot as “their ticket out of here.”

Bad Bones vs Josh Barnett: Barnett with Strike combos then a Jackknife Powerbomb, he follows it up with a Northern Lights Suplex then floats over into The Kimura to tap out Bones