HeadLocker — Jay Shannon
My Lockdown Predictions
Our resident philosopher, Jay Shannon, looks at this Sunday’s PPV from TNA.
Well, I totally blew it with predicting Wrestlemania. Other than Shawn v Taker, I missed every single match (including the Colons v Miz/Morrison dark match). I’m going to try and redeem myself with this one. TNA is offering it’s annual all-steel cage PPV. It’s being held in the Home of Hardcore, Philly. Let’s take a look at the carnage.
HeadLocker — Jay Shannon
The Impact Insight for 04/16/2009
Our resident philosopher, Jay Shannon, debuts his new weekly column. Jay takes a look at the lead-in to Lockdown episode of TNA Impact.
TNA was three days out from Lockdown. The final piece of the puzzle flew in on Angel’s Wings to complete Team Jarrett. Mick Foley had a major interview with his own alter-ego, Cactus Jack. In addition, a few old Philly faces showed up to make things extreme.
The show opened with a look at Team Jarrett v Team Angle. The final Lethal Lockdown Advantage Match would happen between Kevin Nash and Jarrett’s mystery partner.
HeadLocker — Jay Shannon
The ECW (4/14) Extreme Examination
Our resident philosopher, Jay Shannon, takes a look at the post-Draft edition of ECW. A new face arrived on the scene and another person was elimination from the Chase.
John Morrison came out for his Slow-Mo Intro. The “Bromance” between Miz and Morrison is over as Miz was Drafted to Raw..Morrison’s interference during Miz’s match against Kofi Kingston caused a DQ win for Kofi. Miz attacked his former partner, after the match. Evan Bourne made his arrival to the ring as Striker made fun of Josh Matthews’ nosebleed from Monday night.
John Morrison d Evan Bourne
The Finish
Morrison took advantage of the majority of the bout. Morrison uncorked more moves that I’ve ever seen him use before. Evan finally got to his feet and ran Morrison into the corner. Evan hit a Lariat that would make Stan Hansen flinch. Evan caught Morrison with a Hurancanrana, a Dropkick and a Jumping Back Kick. Evan ran Morrison tot he corner and hit a Palm Strike to stun Morrison. Evan sat Morrison on the top rope and hit a Hurancanrana off the ropes. Morison hit the Hot Shot on Evan and a Jackknife cover. Evan hit the OMG moment of the night when he followed Morrison to the ropes and Crossbody’d both of them over the ropes and to the arena floor. Both men were serious laid out. Evan rolled Morrison back into the ring and then nailed the Evan Sent to slam Morrison to the canvas. Morrison managed to kick out at two. Evan hit several hard kicks. Morrison tried for the Moonlight Drive but Evan broke free and hit the Jumping Knee Strike. Evan went up for the Shooting Star Press. Morrison hit a Jumping Enziguri. Morrison then hit a Moonlight Drive off the ropes!
Grade: A+ (Best ECW match in a long time)
Jay’s Thoughts: I just had a Ron Simmons flashback moment….Damn! That match was absolutely perfect. Both men used new and inventive moves. They employed perfect counters. I couldn’t have asked for a better match. Ok, I would have rather seen Evan win, but Morrison needed to set himself as a serious contender to the ECW title. He most certainly did that in this wrestling clinic. Evan’s performance was even above his regular fantastic outings. My highest admiration and kudos go out to perhaps the two best men in the company.
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ANNOUNCING DRAGON GATE USA
PHILADELPHIA- Japan’s Dragon Gate promotion has announced its expansion into United States with Dragon Gate USA at last night’s Korakuen Hall event in Tokyo. It has named Satoshi Oji as the President and Gabe Sapolsky as the Vice President of Dragon Gate USA. DGUSA will make its online home at www.DGUSA.tv as the site was launched late last night.
