TNA House Show Results from, Monroe, Louisiana 7/19/08
    Submitted by PainLord on Sunday, July 20, 2008 at 2:19 PM EST





    Report sent in by Trae Wisecarver

    I just got home from the TNA house show in Monroe. It was a really good
    show and the crowd was insanely hot all night and EVERYONE was over. My
    memory isn't perfect, but I'll include all the details I can remember.



    Some guy came out to welcome us to the show and told us it was Jeremy
    Borash's birthday, then JB came out to do the ring announcing.



    1. "Black Machismo" Jay Lethal beat "The Guru" Sonjay Dutt in 7 minutes with
    a diving elbow drop. Sonjay didn't want to get in the ring at first, so
    Lethal hit him with a tope suicida to the outside. They brawled around
    ringside, then eventually made it in the ring. Sonjay got a near fall off
    of a standing moonsault, but Lethal hit the Lethal Combination followed by
    the diving elbow to win it.



    2. "Cowboy" James Storm (w/ Jackie Moore) beat Eric Young in 10 minutes with
    a superkick.

    Storm cut a good heel promo before the match to make sure everyone hated
    him. Storm challenged a little girl at ringside to fight him, then Young
    held Storm for the kid to hit him. Jackie interfered throughout the match
    until Young gave them a double Death Valley Driver that Storm kicked out of,
    then Young kicked out of the Eye of the Storm. Storm spit beer in Young's
    face while the referee was trying to get Jackie out of the ring, then
    blasted him with a superkick for the pin. Afterwards, Storm tried to whip
    Young with a belt, but Young managed to disappear under the ring. Storm
    took the stick again and said that no one in the arena could beat him,
    prompting an appearance by Super Eric, who whipped Storm with the belt and
    chased him off.



    3. ODB & Roxxi beat The Beautiful People in 6 minutes when ODB pinned
    Angelina Love with a running powerslam.

    Not bad for a short-ish women's match. Roxxi played face-in-peril for a
    while, then made the hot tag to ODB, who eventually pinned Love to win the
    match after Roxxi dove onto Velvet Sky at ringside. After the match,
    Angelina Love said that since we were so disrespectful of the Beautiful
    People, they were never coming to Monroe again, which was met with cheers.



    4. TNA X Division Champion "Maple Leaf Muscle" Petey Williams beat Kaz in
    7:52 with the Canadian Destroyer.

    I think Petey was getting more cheers than Kaz. They had a good match. Petey
    kept teasing the Canadian Destroyer, but Kaz kept countering it. Kaz went
    for the Flux Capacitor, but Petey blocked it and tried to hit the Destroyer
    from the second rope, but Kaz countered and hit a sick belly-to-back
    piledriver (think Genki Horiguchi's Beach Break) into a near fall. Lil'
    Petey Pump eventually did hit the Canadian Destroyer for the pin to retain
    the title.



    5. TNA World Tag Team Champions LAX beat The Motor City Machine Guns in 8
    minutes when Hernandez pinned Chris Sabin.

    This was a wild match with suicide dives all over the place from
    everyone. Hernandez
    pinned Sabin to win the match after he held Sabin on his shoulders and
    Homicide came off the top rope with the Gringo Cutter (a tandem move
    Wikipedia tells me they call the 5150). The teams shook hands after the
    match. LAX seemed to be significantly more over.



    After intermission, they brought out the Mayor of Monroe and teased that
    they may bring a PPV to Monroe in the future. I'm not sure how the arena
    would look for TV, but WCW did Nitro there sometime in the mid-90's, which
    was before my time as a fan.



    6. "The Instant Classic" Christian Cage beat Tomko in 12 minutes with the
    Unprettier.

    Christian was way over and got the crowd into chanting "Tomko sucks." I
    didn't get to see a whole lot here because the people in front of me were
    standing up forcing me to stand up to be able to see and making the people
    behind me whine that THEY couldn't see. At one point Christian hit a
    tornado DDT, then missed a frog splash. Tomko hit a Hercules Cutter
    (torture rack into a neckbreaker) for a near fall, but Christian won in the
    end with the Unprettier. After the match, Christian got the crowd to sing
    "Happy Birthday" to Borash.



    7. AJ Styles beat Kurt Angle in 14 minutes with the Styles Clash.

    This was easily the best match I've ever seen live (not surprisingly since
    I've only been to a few lame WWE house shows and one no-name indy show, but
    it really was a very good match). They did some nice mat wrestling in the
    opening minutes, then had a lot of great near fall spots including an Angle
    belly-to-belly suplex, a diving clothesline from AJ, and an arm drag off the
    top rope from Angle. AJ escaped the ankle lock at hit the Pele kick, then
    eventually won with the Styles Clash. After the match, Angle cut a babyface
    promo thanking us for coming.



    As if we hadn't already gotten our money's worth, Borash then announced that
    since they couldn't let everyone backstage, they were bringing backstage to
    us, so we had an impromptu autograph signing. You could also get in the
    ring and get an autographed picture with Kurt Angle for $20. Lethal, ODB,
    Roxxi, LAX, the Motor City Machine Guns, Young, Storm, Borash, and Kaz all
    walked around ringside signing autographs. I got Young, Hernandez, Borash,
    and ODB myself.



    After such a great time tonight, I'll support TNA forever no matter how bad
    their TV is.




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