TNA Live Event Results
October 31st, 2009 - Loveland, Colorado
Report by John Hedgepeth, F4Wonline.com
A few people were in costumes, including a guy dressed as Randy Savage and a guy at ringside in a suit and Vince McMahon mask.
Jeremy Borash was introduced and he hyped the crowd. He also invited
everyone to the Hooters down the road for an aftershow party. He was
getting the crowd to "be as loud as you can" to win backstage passes.
Borash then introduced "the most controversial referee of all time,
Earl Hebner" who was escorted to the ring by four Hooters girls. The
girls then sat at the the announce table with Borash.
1. Eric Young vs. Suicide: Young ran down the crowd and the town and
mentioned it was a non title match as he won't defend the Global belt
on US soil. It was a decent match. Suicide won with a toprope dropkick.
2. Hamada vs. Awesome Kong: Basically a squash. Hamada got in a
little offense but Kong killed her dead with the sitdown powerbomb for
the win. After the match Kong kept beating on Hamada and then went
after the referees before heading to the back.
3. Hernandez vs. Kip James: The guys sitting behind me who were
hyped up like crazy for the show basically had no idea who anyone was.
When Kip came out they asked me, "Who's that clown?" When I told them
it was Billy Gunn they went crazy. "BILLY GUNN! HE WAS IN DX! BILLY
RULES!"
The match itself was ok, Kip can work a crowd. Hernandez won with a
flapjack like border toss. He had Kip up and Kip basically flipped over
and took the face front bump and got pinned. Afterwards Kip was arguing
with the Ref and then did the DX crotch chop and popped the crowd.
Next Borash hand picked various groups of folks to get backstage
passes that were handed out by the Hooters girls. The guys behind me I
mentioned before got one for being the loudest row.
4. Monster's Ball No Rules Match, Rhino vs. Abyss: Rhino got on the
mic, insulted the crowd, insulted Abyss, Complained about TNA
management and had the place hating him, as he got a face reaction at
first. They had a fun little brawl, Abyss was throwing weapons in the
ring and tried to grab a Hooters Girl to use as a weapon and Borash
stopped him. Typical garbage brawl that ended with Rhino going for the
Gore and Abyss catching him by the throat for a chokeslam onto a
garbage can for the pinfall.
Next was intermission, and all the people who got backstage passes went backstage.
5. Homicide and Kiyoshi vs. Beer Money Inc. : Eric Young was in the
World Elite corner and some local DJ who wasn't announced was in Beer
Money's corner. Beer Money hyped the crowd with the dueling "BEER!"
"MONEY" chant, and then added in "GREAT BIG HOOTERS!" Storm also
pointed at the guy dressed as Vince and said, "Hey get Vince McMahon
out of here, this is a TNA show!" The two teams had a really great
match. The crowd was eating it up and they stole the show up to that
point. Beer Money pinned Kiyoshi with their finisher.
Borash then hyped the signing of Hulk Hogan, and no one really
cared. He then told us to stick around after the main Event for a big
surprise.
6. TNA Heavyweight Championship
AJ Styles vs. Samoa Joe: The
crowd was split as far as cheers went. They had a great match. Nothing
out of the ordinary, as they each hit all their signature moves but it
was all really smooth and a ton of fun, the crowd was going nuts and
for only 200 people making a lot of noise. The finish came as Joe got
AJ up for the Muscle Buster, AJ reverses it into the Styles Clash, Joe
escapes and then gets nailed with the Pele' kick and AJ gets the pin.
This was a great match.
Afterwards, Borash says that they want more people to win backstage
passes by getting loud. AJ cuts him saying, "It sounds to me like
there's a BILLION TNA fans out there, so how can we fit them all
backstage? I'm the Champ and that means I've got some stroke around
here, so let's bring the backstage out here for a TNA Autograph party!"
Borash says ok, everyone come down to ringside and that for only 20
dollars, your group can get a picture with AJ in the ring. Earl Hebner,
Abyss, Hernandez, and James Storm also came out to ringside and signed
autographs.
All in all it was a fun show.