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Submitted by Christina Schmalz on Thursday, March 11, 2004 at 4:17 PM EST
Here are the results for TNA’s PPV on March 10, 2004. If you’d like to Round One- Singles Matches Match #1 Mr. Aguila vs. Teddy Hart Winner: Hart at 8:55 Match #2 Juventud Guerrera vs. Petey Williams Winner: Juvi at 9:05 Match #3 Johnny Devine vs. Abysmo Negro Winner: Devine at 6:03 Match #4 Hector Garza vs. Jack Evans Winner: Garza at 6:40 Score: Canada 2- AAA-2 Round Two- Tag Team Matches Match #5 Juventud Guerrera & Abysmo Negro vs. Jack Evans & Teddy Hart Winner: Juventud via submission at 7:20 Match #6 Mr. Aguila & Hector Garza vs. Johnny Devine & Petey Williams Winner: Devine pins Aguila at 9:18 Score: Canada 4- AAA-4 Round Three- Eight Man Elimination Matchcolor=yellow> Match #7 Team AAA vs. Team Canada Winner: Team AAA at 15:50 Final Score: Canada 7- AAA-6 Dark Carnivale Match Match #8 ICP w/ 2 Tuff Tony vs. Glen Gilberti, Kid Kash & David Young Winner: Kash pins Tony at 11:57 Come tell me all your deep, dark secrets… oops, I mean, come and discuss this week’s X-Cup competition with the rest of us TNA fans here on lop. 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Just because you’re friends are doing it doesn’t mean you should too. We then go to highlights of last week featuring Raven given Kazarian the Raven Effect and then cutting a promo. Next is the opening video package followed by the official rules for the X-Cup competition. Match #1 Mr. Aguila vs. Teddy Hart w/ Scott D’Amore They pace around for a few to get a bit of psychology going in the match then lock-up. Repeat a few times and then Hart breaks out by an armdrag to Aguila who returns the favor to Hart. Shoulder to back lockup and Aguila elbows out and hits Hart with a spinning dropkick for a two count. Aguila tosses Hart into the corner and chokes him on the rope. Hart counters with a DDT on Aguila. Aguila comes back with a split leg moonsault on Hart that results in another near fall. Aguila goes up on the rope but D’Amore interferes by hooking his leg. Hart takes advantage by going for a springboard dropkick on Aguila that sends him out of the ring. Hart drops on the mat and begins to hold his knee. He sells it for a few and then goes up on the rope. He realizes that Aguila has regained his senses so Hart goes down and throws a few punches. Back on the rope again and a double springboard moonsault to the outside by Hart. They both return to the ring and Aguila begins to work on Hart’s left knee. A few more kicks to the knee followed by some hard chops. Aguila goes up to the ropes for a slingshot cross bodyblock. Both are fighting and Hart manages a snap hurricarana off the apron to Aguila. Up on the rail for a moonsault but Hart misses. In the ring again and a two count by Aguila. He goes up to the top rope and hits Hart with a cross body block for another near fall. Aguila goes up again but here comes D’Amore to interfere again and Aguila loses his balance and crotches himself on the rope. Hart takes advantage of the interference and goes up to the rope himself. Tornado DDT lays out Aguila but not enough for the full three count. Time to pull out the finisher! Hart gives us a nice showing with a Heart Attack #2 (shooting star press into a flying elbow) and that’s enough to keep Aguila down for a win.Winner: Hart at 8:55 Well what can I say about this except this match got me more excited about wrestling than the Wrestlemania hype of the past year. Teddy, with all his problems, is stellar in the ring even with an “injury.” This match was taped the day of the fight between Hart and Punk and this is the injury that kept Teddy from wrestling on that evening PPV. To me, and this is just my opinion, it seems that Mr. Aguila and later on Juvi were a bit stiff with Teddy at times. We go to the back with Pena who is with Abysmo Negro and Juvi. Lots of yelling in Spanish takes place. It apparently translates into “ We beat Americans. Now we beat Canadians. The cup will go back home to Mexico. The Canadians are from Kindergarten. They need help.” I have a feeling something was lost in translation for that last line there. Match #2 Juventud Guerrera vs. Petey Williams The match starts off with just a lot of back and forth on the mat for the first minute. Juvi decides to wake up Williams with a few chops and a tilt-a-whirl. Before he could complete the move with the headscissors, William’s escapes. Juvi has him tangled up in the ropes and goes for a 5255 (619). Williams is quick to react and moves out off the way only to get caught by a cross body block. More chops are exchanged. Juvi lands a plancha taking it outside the ring. He attempts a hurricarana on Williams but stops midway through to nail William’s head with a drop toehold into the metal steps. Back in the ring and blows are exchanged before an Irish Whip by Juvi into the corner. Juvi goes for a splash but changes it into a spinning kick instead. A few more kicks to the chest of Williams and a lateral press gets Juvi a two count. Williams is in the corner and lays on a few heavy-handed chops to Juvi. Juvi is off the top ropes with a hurricarana for a two count. . Williams returns the favor with the same resulting in another near fall. Bridging northern lights going into a roll through by Juvi (very nicely done.) They are both fighting on the apron and Juvi does a tilt-a-whirl headscissors off there onto the floor. Back in the ring Juvi locks Williams into the sharpshooter. Williams is trying his best to get to the rope to break the hold and Juvi lets him out instead. Small package by Juvi for a two count. Juvi hits a DDT and he is down. Juvi walks it off before going for the two count. Next Juvi puts Williams into a figure four but it is on his neck instead of his legs. Face first body block, pancake, and then some chops. Williams has caught his second wind and he is on fire. He goes after Juvi with a tilt-a-whirl Russian leg sweep and succeeds. Very nice indeed! They lock up and then a reversal leading into a spinebuster by Juvi for a two count that begins an extremely quick series of near falls. Juvi ends it all with a Juvi driver, which ties it up in the hunt for the X-Cup. Winner: Juvi at 9:05 What can I say but I loved it. I’m a huge mark for the high spots so what can you expect. Hey, mat work is good too but I always cheer loudest for a high spot, which this match had a lot off. The series of near falls would have been a bit overdone except the speed that these guys accomplished it with was just outstanding. The tilt-a-whirl headscissors off the apron and onto the floor by Juvi was very well executed. I’ve already more than got my money’s worth with this PPV for it’s not quite 30 minutes into the show. What I loved was Juvi using the sharpshooter on someone from Team Canada. Talk about mind games. color=limegreen> We go to the back with Hudson. He is in the locker room with Team Canada and Teddy is selling his heart out. Hart is screaming at the doctor and D’Amore. He wants to continue at any cost. He tells the doctor to tape it, wrap it, brace it… whatever it takes to keep him in. Scott tells Devine that he is up next instead of Hart. Match #3 Johnny Devine vs. Abysmo Negro Abysmo throws his cape at Devine and then yells to the crowd to start up a chant. They walk around a bit more to get the crowd fired up before locking up. Reversal leads to an armdrag for a quick one count. Devine comes at Abysmo for a monkey flip leg scissors. An armdrag leads to an armbar that is quickly broken. Now it’s time for a few high spots. Devine comes at Abysmo with a sharp kick to the mid-section and connects with a few right hands. Devine’s feeling lucky and rolls the dice on Abysmo. Abysmo answers back with a cross body block but Devine gets a two count. He whips Abysmo off the ropes and out of the ring and Abysmo goes for a suicide dive. Now they are up on the apron fighting it arm. Armdrag by Abysmo for two and then some hard open hand slaps to Devine. Abysmo goes to the ropes for another two count and Devine comes back with a springboard hurricarana to end it. Winner: Devine at 6:03 This was probably my least favorite match for the competition and even it was entertaining. As young as Team Canada is they can do some spectacular ring work. Gilberti is in the locker room with Young. Young is lying on the couch as Gilberti asks him questions about the clowns. One of the funniest had to be when he asked him what his thoughts on Doink the Clown were. Obviously Young didn’t care for him either. Kash comes in and wants to know what the heck is going on. He is talking about how outnumbered (?) they are in tonight’s match-up. He then puts an end to the psychoanalysis and tells them to quit clowning around. Poor Mr. Young… Match #4 Hector Garza vs. Jack Evans Evans comes to the ring by doing backflips down the ramp. Once in the ring he showboats some more by putting the spin-a-rooni to shame. If you think RVD is flexible then you have to see this kid. Garza comes to the ring with his usual cockiness and they start a shoving match. They walk it off a bit and lock up. Garza pushes Evans into the ropes and then they pace some more. Garza is getting a bit frustrated at this point. Another locker up shoulder to back style and they reverse each other a few times. Garza elbows out and gets Evans into a shoulderlock. Evans counters with a snapmare. Tenay takes this opportunity to give us some background information on Evans. He was trained by Brian Alvarez and then went to work with the Hart’s at the Dungeon. He also gives us the rundown on Teddy’s impressive family tree. It seems that Hart and Evan’s are going to be related soon too. Evans is engaged to Hart’s sister. This is why Tenay is so respected as an announcer. No one knows the facts like the Professor. Garza spears Evans and they hit a few high spots. Jack struts around a little bit after an impressive exchange with Garza. Garza gets Evans into the corner and repeatedly hits him. He follows this up with a clothesline from hell and a lateral press resulting in a near pinfall. A few kicks to Evans’ back. Evans responds by whipping Garza into the corner and hitting him with a headscissors snap right out of the ring. Outside of the ring they brawl for a bit and then Evans whips Garza into the railing. Evans goes to the apron and flips off. Back in the ring Garza hits him with a dropkick then scoops him up for a slam. Garza goes to the ropes for a corkscrew moonsault but Evans gets out of the way. Evans gos for a 360 shooting star press but Garza moves. A two count follows. Garza powerbombs Evans with authority and then a moonsault gets Garza the pin. Winner: Garza at 6:40 Hudson is in the back with Harris and Storm. Harris tells us how he has passed all of Russo’s tests and he is more than ready for his title match next week. He’s been ready since 94 when he first put on his boots. On the 17th he is going to take that title because he was born ready. Next we are shown a video package with Tenay and Russo. They are discussing next week’s main event between Harris and Jarrett. Russo defends his position that he thinks it is best to postpone the match. He’s done his best though and it is out of his hands. They show clips of the past two weeks highlighting Harris’s gauntlet for the gold. Russo tells us that he wishes he had more time to teach him the Jeff he’s not privy too. Don’t get Russo wrong though; he’s 100% behind Harris. He tells us that he is more behind him that anyone else. No matter what happens next week, Russo promises us that the best man will be the one to leave the ring victorious. Next up are the Tag Team matches for the X-Cup. Right now Canada and Mexico are tied. Two points are awarded for a win in this round. Match #5 Juventud Guerrera & Abysmo Negro vs. Jack Evans & Teddy Hart Hart and Juvi are first up and man is Juvi stiff with him. Headlock on Hart but Juvi counters with some chops and a shoulder block. A hurricarana on Hart and he is showing some wear and tear due to his injury. They go at it a bit more and then it’s time for a quick tag to their respective partners. Abysmo and Evans are up next. Evans does a handspring (man, he makes it look so easy) right over Abysmo without any problems. Abysmo tries to grab him for an armdrag but doesn’t catch him fast enough. Evans throws him into the ropes and follows it with a slingshot. Abysmo counters with a dropkick. Juvi gets the tag and they double-team Evans. Hart runs in to break it but gets it in the face with a dropkick by Abysmo. Hart comes back with a springboard DDT onto Juvi. Negro is working on Evans in the meantime with a backbreaker followed by the torture rack. Evans escaped and rolls up Abysmo for a near pinfall. Hart is officially tagged in and hits a fall-away slam on Team AAA. Hart is on the top rope and does a Hart attack #2 (twisting diving splash) for his own two count. Hart nails Abysmo with a DDT and Evans prepares to fly. A 630 press by Evans on Abysmo! Juvi gets a harsh missile dropkick on Hart. Abysmo recovers and nails a plancha on Evans who is out on the floor. Juvi is dominating Hart in the ring. He gets him into the Juvi-lock on his injured knee and Hart taps out almost instantly. Winner: Team AAA from Juventud via submission at 7:20 Words can not begin to explain that 630 by Evans. I say it with my own eyes and still can’t believe it. I can’t wait to see what the future holds for this young man. This match was just over the top with the high spots. Very entertaining and I didn’t even care who won because it was so well done. ICP is with Hudson and they are hyping up their Dark Carnivale match later this evening. According to them we are mere moments away from complete catastrophe. The Juggalos are lined up outside all the way to Memphis. ICP leaves to go back to the limo for some “Herbal Exercises.” What ever could they mean by that cryptic message??? Match #6 Mr. Aguila & Hector Garza vs. Johnny Devine & Petey Williams Aguila & Garza wasted no time going after Devine. First thing they hit him with was a nice stereo dropkick then it was time for a double team hurricarana. They try for a pin but Williams’ quick response broke it in time. Garza and Williams are in for a one on one now. Garza starts it off with some devastating chops. He whips Williams into the ropes; deep armdrag followed by a dropkick to the floor. Williams comes back with a slingshot hurricarana onto Garza who is outside the ring. Back in the ring Williams gets Aguila with a headscissors and knocks him into the turnbuckle. Time for a quick two count. Williams punches Aguila a few times and whips him into the ropes. Sunset flip and quick roll up by Devine. Devine follows up with a clothesline. Sandwich dropkick by Canada on Aguila. Devine gets another quick two on Garza and he goes for a roll-up on Devine. At this point I’m not even sure who’s legal because the tags are so quick. Devine nails Garza with a dropkick to the face for another two. Williams tags in and devastates Garza with the Mongolian cross chop. Garza is down but Devine scoops him up for a snap suplex for another near pinfall. Aguila runs in for a save and is greeted by a sleeper. Garza kicks Devine in an attempt to break the hold but to no avail. Devine goes for the tag and Williams gets a two. A few more quick tags back and forth and they begin to double team Aguila. Devine is on the ropes. Williams sets up Aguila for what appears to be a vertical suplex but Devine jumps down and lands right between Aguila’s legs and he falls to the floor writhing in pain. Another two count. A much-needed tag is made to Garza. Garza takes down Devine with an outstanding German suplex. He gets back up only to meet a superkick in the chest that knocks him out for a two count. A full revolution DDT by Devine on Garza (nice comeback!) Devine goes for the Devine Intervention which is frog-splash type of moonsault preceded by a tilt-a-whirl. Garza doesn’t stand a chance and is down for three. Winner: Devine pins Aguila at 9:18 What else can I say at this point? I’m running out of ways to say how superb this evening has been so far. That’s bad… or is that good? I don’t know anymore because my head is spinning from all these incredible moves I’ve witnessed this evening. Thank god for Tenay being such a great commentator. Most of these moves happen so fast you’re lucky to catch them. Tenay is, hands down, the man! For those of you who care about the points, it is once again tied up between them for a score of 4-4. Honestly though, as far as I am concerned, there will be no losers this evening. Team Canada is in the back celebrating their victories so far. Hudson has D’Amore on the mic and he tells us that they plan to drink a lot of Molson out of the cup when they take it home. He explains that it is teamwork that makes them so successful. They end with a phrase in French to which Hudson replies that he doesn’t speak Canadian. If any of you readers know the translation, send me an email. I am assuming it wasn’t all that night and I would love to know for sure. The moment you have all been waiting for folks is finally here. No, not the Dark Carnivale match! The 8 Man Tag Team Elimination match. Each pinfall is worth one point. It’s anyone’s win at this point. What a close one so far tonight. Match #7 Team AAA vs. Team Canada Pretty much as soon as both teams are in the ring they are ready to brawl. The poor ref, Mike Posey, attempts to keep them apart and they now just yell at each other. Tenay points out that this is the third match in a row for these men. (Not really but Tenay is keeping kayfabe alive here). The crowd begins to chant for Mr. Aguila. Evans and Aguila exchange a few words. D’Amore joins us at the announcers’ table. Devine and Aguila start off the match and it’s right into a sleeperhold by Devine. Aguila breaks out and reverses it into a deep armdrag. Devine breaks loose and quickly goes into his team’s corner. He recovers and comes at Aguila with a drop toe hold, quick float over and gets Aguila right back into a sleeper hold. Blink and you would have missed this. Aguila fights out and again takes it into an armdrag. Two clotheslines on Devine and Devine knocks him down. Tags are made yet the Aguila chants continue. Abysmo and Williams are now in the ring. Abysmo wastes no time with a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker followed by a dropkick on Williams. Quick tag by Abysmo to Garza. A few slaps are exchanges and a nice dropkick to the head of Williams. Garza follows it up with a hard clothesline. Tags are made again and now it’s time to get the captains in the ring. Hart starts to pummel Juvi but Juvi responds with some extremely stiff chops. Dropkick by Juvi and Hart gets out of the ring as fast as he can. Juvi is outside the ring now and they both fight for a few seconds. Juvi is dazed so Hart goes up to the ropes. He is balancing on the top considering who knows what kind of crazy move and decides against it. Juvi in the meantime recovers and drags him down off the rope. Hart hits the ground hard. Juvi nails Hart with a harsh hurricarana outside the ting. Hart pulls himself back in the ring but his knee is giving out on him. He is looking like the pain is unbearable. After he sells for a little he comes back with a tornado DDT but it didn’t connect. He goes for the tag to Evans. Evans is ready to go. Juvi and Abysmo double-team him again with something that can only be described as a distant cousin of a double powerbomb. If Tenay doesn’t know what to call it, well, that says enough right there. Devine comes after Abysmo to even the score and lands a guillotine legdrop on him. To add insult to injury, Devine does the thumb poke and a few punches. Devine and Evans double-team Garza. Before they can do much damage, Juvi comes in with a dropkick to Evans’s knee. Juvi then attempts a Juvi driver and nails Evans. Evans gets pinned and is out. Devine takes on Abysmo and weakens him for Hart. A Hart Attack #2 finishes Abysmo off and he is now out. We now have Juvi and Hart in the ring again. Juvi kills Hart with TKO and goes to follows it with a superplex but Devine interferes with a powerbomb. He illegally uses the ropes to pin Juvi but the ref didn’t see it. Juvi protests but the ref announces that he is out of the match. The ref then realizes that Devine cheated and DQ’s him but for some reason does not re-admit Juvi to the match. Hart goes for a shooting star press on Aguila and connects as Williams holds him down over his knee. Aguila is out so now it is all up to Garza. Garza comes in on fire because he knows it’s all on the line right now. He nails Hart with a spinning moonsault for the pin. Now it is mano y mano between Garza and Williams. Williams goes up to the top rope and dives but Garza catches him with a cross body block and just throws him out of the ring. Garza goes to the top for his moonsault and the fat lady began to sing. Winner: Team AAA at 15:50 Okay, lots to debate here at the final round. I can’t seem to find an official score for the competition but it was tied going into the final round. That basically means that the last man standing’s team wins but everywhere I look I see a different score. Who knows how that works? Regardless, controversy abounds here. I’m a little unsatisfied with the ending because a competition of this caliber should come to a clean finish. However, I am also happy because this means there will be more between these two teams in the near future and that isn’t a bad sounding idea at all. D’Amore is causing a ruckus at the announcers’ table. He is going to file a petition immediately due to biased official-ing (his word not mine!) West goes into his hard sell and Tenay hypes up next week’s match between Harris and Jarrett. Hudson is in the back and he has Jarrett on the mic. Jarrett tells us that Storm doesn’t even think his partner is ready. If he did, according to Jarrett, he wouldn’t have interfered in every single match to keep his partner from losing. As if Jarrett should talk… He starts naming names on the long list of NWA belt holders and asks if Harris is ready to be on this list. Next is a video package showing Diamond being saved last week from Gilberti and company by ICP. The rest is a promo for the what is coming up next… The Dark Carnivale Match! Match #8 ICP w/ 2 Tuff Tony vs. Glen Gilberti, Kid Kash & David Young Honestly, this match should have started off the evening and should have never been anywhere near the main event. Sorry to disappoint but I’m not even going to do a rundown of this match. Basically it was strobe lights and ICP music every two minutes or so and that is what made it a “dark carnivale match.” Without the hoopla it was just an ordinary hardcore match with no DQ’s. This was the first bad match that ICP put on. Too many botched spots the whole way through. Two things that are worth mentioning is Kash having to avert his 450 dropkick in order to not hurt Shaggy because he wasn’t in the right spot. Kash could have injured himself trying not to injure the clown, which just shows his level of professionalism. The match ended with The Alpha Male Monte Brown running in to help Gilberti at the end of the match. Winner: Kash pins Tony at 11:57 We end the evening with another video package hyping Jarrett’s defense of the belt against Chris Harris. Thanks for reading and until next week, this is Christina Schmalz with The Full Monty. Find out what real women think about wrestling! Read The XY Files on the LOP Forums every Saturday. www.lordsofpain.net
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