TNA House Show Results from Danville, Illinois 6/21/08
Submitted by Calvin Martin on Sunday, June 22, 2008 at 1:26 PM EST





Report sent in by John Dubois

* The TNA Cross the Line tour came to the Palmer Civic Center in Danville on
June 21st. Kurt Angle and Booker T were advertised but did not appear.
This was the second wrestling appearance at the Civic Center this year
following a Raw show in March, but only the third show since 1991 (WCW). The
crowd was at best 500 (3,500 cap) and had to be disappointing on many levels
especially since the Raw show was a sell out.

(1) Truth or consequences Creed over Johnny Devine: Not a bad opener, and TC
Creed does a passable James Brown impression. Very few people knew who he
was but a good USA chant still broke out.

(2) Roxy over Velvet Sky with post match appearance by ODB: Decent match
with Roxy being way over. Velvet is really an amazing looking young lady and
not a bad wrestler for her size. Roxy got the pin in about 10 min then
Velvet attacked her from behind. ODB stormed the ring and took out Velvet to
a nice pop.

(3) Super Eric Young over Kip James: Young donned the mask and took the win
over James again in about 10 minutes. Decent back and forth match and James
is in very solid shape. He put out a great effort which he should be
applauded for. Biggest pops of the match were for Youngs mask change and a
series of DX chops from James.

(4) Shark Boy mic segment: Shark boy comes out to a decent pop, asks for a
few shell yeah's, and then kicks the bass of the matchmaker. Somewhere SCSA
must be laughing his bass off.

(5) Curryman and Traci Brooks over Jacquline and James Storm: Storm did
some really funny pre-match mic work on the difference between the
teethbrush and the toothbrush. I saw Jackie wrestle Trish Stratus in 2001
and she's still got it. Mostly comic relief but not bad. Ms. Brooks isn't
the cutest woman in wrestling but she is really put together and seemed to
be having a genuine good time.

Intermission

(6) Robert Roode over Kaz with interference from James Storm: Solid but
kinda short match that turned on interference from Storm. Really was kinda
like watching Rick Rude wrestle Stevie Richards in away but still a decent
match. Both of these guys would seem to have bright futures.

(7) Samoa Joe and AJ Styles over Scott Stiener and Petey Williams: This was
billed as the first teaming of Joe and Styles though I would swear it
wasn't. Anyhow Styles really was trying hard which is more than can be said
for the other three. This one looked mailed in and ended with a double pin.
A real waste of the talents of Williams. Given the crowd size I don't blame
them but for a main event it was disappointing.

* Card ran exactly 2 hours with the intermission with perhaps an hour total
of actual action. Would have liked to see more but wasn't disappointed for a
20.00 ticket. Joe and Styles posed for pics in the ring for about 30 min
after the match (at 20.00 a pop) but that was still nice. Several wrestlers
came out to do autograph's and I got Velvets (woo hoo). I would go to
another TNA show but given the crowd I doubt they will come back to this
area. Its worth noting the show was very, very poorly promoted.

Biggest Pops

(1) Styles
(2) Joe
(3) Shark Boy

Most Heat:

(1) Storm
(2) Roode
(3) Devine










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