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Falls Count Anywhere

02-14-06

Sit, Ubu, Sit.

I did manage to muster enough time and energy to watch what will probably become one of the most important TNA PPVs of the year. Against All Odds has shown that TNA is willing to make itself a competitor by taking the belt off the guy they think is the proven draw and putting it on a guy who has a name but many think isn’t Main Event.

I came in with the America’s Most Wanted vs. Chris Sabin and Sonjay Dutt. Dutt and Sabin are two of my favorites, but I’m not nearly as much of a fan of AMW as I was at this point last year. Not sure why, though it might just be the Jarrett rub.

Still, this was an OK match with some really smart work. AMW worked on Sabin’s ankle, which had been hurt the week before. Sabin gave Harris a nice Tornado DDT onto a chair for a near fall. Dutt went for the Hindu Press, one of my favorite moves, but Harris moved. Storm came in and gave Dutt the SuperKick, leading to the Death Sentence for the win for America’s Most Wanted. Not a bad match, but it seems like Dutt got a little banged up on the finish.

I’ve always liked Rhino. I’ve had my ups-and-downs for Abyss since the beginning, but he’s been really good of late. This was a solid Falls Count Anywhere match that I thought was a highlight of the show. They went all over the place, which is what these matches should do, and they used all sorts of weapons, including the World X trophy. Abyss bled. Rhino bled a little too.

If Brian Pulido drew Cactus Jack...

There was a great spot where Rhino had set up a table against the corner and went to Gore Abyss into it, but Abyss caught him and chokeslammed him through another table! Rhino got a Gore on Abyss on the stands, which sent him off through the tables, giving Rhino the win. The crowd loved this and so did I.

If I say any combination of Samoa Joe, Christopher Daniels and AJ Styles, you can be sure that it’ll be a good match. If I say all three, you can be sure that it’ll be a top-flight, no-prisoners amazing match, and this one was. While I did question them doing the second three-way with these three so soon after the last one (I’d have waited at least a year before striking again) this one was hot and exciting and if it had been on any other show it would have outshone anything they did. This was stiff as hell.

Joe gave a tough palm strike to Daniels when he tried to do a Tope Suicida through the ropes. They all worked submissions moves, including Joe getting the Kokina Clutch on Daniels that Styles broke up. Great finishing sequence with the guys going for their finishers but getting no pins. This led to Styles going for the Spinal Tap, but Daniels stopping him, then Joe kicked the hell out of AJ and used the Muscle Buster to pin Daniels. Wow!

Team 3D, who have been having good matches but who haven’t really made much of their time in TNA, took on Team Canada in a match ‘the fans’ chose. It was a decent match with a story that made sense and was simple. Most of the match Team Canada just wouldn’t let Devon tag out to Bubba. That allowed them to do the damage.

Of course, Devon got the tag eventually and cleaned house, leading to Roode breaking the flag pole across his back. Roode clotheslined Young by accident and that allowed Team 3D to get the 3D and take the win. OK match, and afterwards they had America’s Most Wanted come out and join in on the beatdown. Ron Killings came to make the save and legdrop Harris through a table.

The Main Event. Christian vs. Jeff Jarrett. I was excited for it because it was going to be the moment that Jarrett lost the title. There are a lot of reasons why giving the title to Christian makes sense, even though a lot of people were against it because they don’t see Christian as a money player yet. He came up big here.

Meltzer has been saying that even though he gets too much TV time and isn’t what the crowd wants, he thinks that Jarrett has been really good in his role the last few weeks. I dunno, I still don’t like him at all. He just doesn’t have that aura that a champion should have and which Samoa Joe has all over him.

Valentine's Day will jump on you from above...

They had Earl Hebner reffing the match, which with Heb’s history of screwing Canadians might have been used as a sign that they’d be doing the change here. Christian started off with offense, but missed a top rope elbow. They had Gail Kim get involved, but in the end Christian PowerBombed her! Really good stuff with guitar shots and all sorts of craziness. Christian pinned Jarrett with the Unprettier to get the NWA World Title.

The pop was fantastic.

This shows that the TNA crowd is really working on getting legit in the eyes of the fans. True, Christian jumping and getting the title isn’t in the same league as when Hogan did it in 1994, but still, it’s an important step. They’ll go on to their new Thursday at 8pm SpikeTV timeslot in April with a champ that a more casual audience has seen before. There’s talk about TNA making deals with New Japan and a couple of the hotter free agents, but no one’s sure what’s going on with it right now. All I know is they made a step in the right direction.

Since there’s no RAW this week due to the Dog Show, and since I missed TNA and SmackDown! due to being at WonderCon, this concludes Falls Count Anywhere for this week!

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Chris Garcia

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