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We start with a video recap of the feud between Fourtune and EV2.0, starting with the development of the former group. Dixie Carter ignores the pleas of Eric Bischoff and heads to the ring to address the fans. She calls Ric Flair out, and, after Flair tries seducing Mrs. Carter, she turns around and slaps a 90 day suspension on Flair for inciting Fourtune's attacks on EV2.0, as well as Hulk Hogan, Jeff Jarrett, Sting, & Kevin Nash last week, though that wasn't directly addressed right away. Fourtune is out, and we can see that Beer Money, as well as Flair, weren't interested in wearing neckties tonight. Dixie's husband, Serge goes to the ring to try to help his wife, and is promptly set upon by Fourtune. Hogan is out with Jeff Hardy, Kurt Angle, Pope D'Angelo Dinero, & Mr. Anderson to make the save, and as Angle leads Dixie & Serge to safety, Hogan overrules Dixie and reinstates Flair. Tonight's main event is a 8-man tag. Fourtune vs. Angle, Anderson, Hardy, & Dinero.
Backstage, Angle talks about this being about saving TNA, and his world title aspirations are being put aside for the moment.
1. Orlando Jordan vs. Samoa Joe.
Jordan comes out with a Joe action figure hanging around his neck. He starts groping So Cal Val, who is creeped out. Aside from that, it's a squash, as Jordan gets little offense in. Joe gets the upper hand with a backsplash and an enziguri in the corner, then shakes off Jordan's feeble attempt at a comeback and finishes Jordan with the Muscle Buster. Winner: Samoa Joe.
Jeff Jarrett comes out and tries to recruit Joe to be in his corner for his match with Kevin Nash. Joe turns him down.
2. Jeff Jarrett vs. Kevin Nash.
Ten years ago, these two were in the NWO together. 5 years ago, they were the Kings of Wrestling with Scott Hall. Now, they're on opposite sides. Nash just won't give up his spotlight as Jarrett has. Way too short. Nash tries using a chair, but ref Brian Hebner takes that out of play. Nash tears the two-layered turnbuckle pad out. Snake eyes is countered, and Nash is sent chest first into the 'buckle. Jarrett goes back first, and so does Hebner, who ends up missing the critical part of the match. After Nash fails with snake eyes a 2nd time, and has a head-first meeting with the 'buckle, Jarrett hits the Stroke, but Hebner is still out. Sting, wearing red paint this week, hits him with the bat twice, and Nash manages a feeble cover for the pin. Winner: Kevin Nash.
Post-match, Sting begins choking out Jarrett with the bat, demanding Hogan. Eric Bischoff comes out to hold Sting's attention long enough for Hogan to come through the crowd and blast the corrupted icon with a chair to send him away.
Summit meeting backstage between Hogan & Tommy Dreamer. EV2.0 will stay away from the ring for the 8-man main event and will see about eliminating Abyss, as Hogan doesn't want the man monster around anymore.
3. Beer Money (James Storm & Robert Roode) vs. The FBI (Guido Maritato & Tony Luke).
Squash #2. Roode & Storm rushed the ring and dominated the FBI from the start, ending with the DWI on Luke. Winners: Beer Money.
Post-match, the assault continued, with Guido getting a beer bottle upside the head and a DWI of his own, plus Luke eating a Last Call superkick. In cases like this, they need to have the ref reverse the decision to send a message right back to the heels. EV2.0 and Fourtune couldn't have backup in this match, under penalty of immediate termination, but this could've been done better.
Dreamer gets the rest of EV2.0 together, and Stevie Richards volunteers to take down Abyss.......
The founding members of the Beautiful People, Velvet Sky & Angelina Love, are back together. Bygones are bygones, and friendship lost is found. Enter Madison Rayne and her masked bodyguard. Rayne claims the BP theme is hers, and insists on a frivilous lawsuit to claim intellectual property rights to the team name and theme. Naturally, a catfight breaks out after Rayne, the brat in the group, calls Velvet a bitch, and gets speared down for her trouble.
The Motor City Machine Guns are playing Rock Band: Green Day before their match with Generation Me. Oh, wow, what fun.......
"Earlier today", Desmond Wolfe, accompanied by Chelsea and Magnus, is out in the rain, heading for a shopping mall. Chelsea has a no-limit credit card to do some shopping while the guys are cruising....
4. Non-title: Motor City Machine Guns vs. Generation Me.
Match of the night so far. Air traffic control is on alert. The Bucks, Max & Jeremy, take the fight to the champs early, countering the Guns' high-octane offense with their own, including a move I've never seen before, a monkey flip into an assisted Asai moonsault. However, a 450 splash is blocked, and the Guns take control. Sabin gets the pin on Jeremy after a neckbreaker-body splash combo. Winners: Motor City Machine Guns.
After the match, in a show of respect, the Guns raise the arms of Generation Me. We learn that Wolfe & Magnus, collectively known as London Brawling, will be next for the Guns in 10 days at No Surrender.
Ric Flair is ranting, probably into a mirror, when he is accosted by Sting, who says he & Nash have a receipt to collect on Fourtune down the road.......
Stevie Richards and Abyss are brawling----if you can call it that, considering it's Richards---backstage. Well, Richards was never the sharpest tool in the shed to begin with, but at least they haven't forgotten their issues from earlier this year.....
After the commercial, Rhino hits the ring, and calls out Abyss to pick up the fight for Richards. Abyss obliges, and the brawl goes all the way to the Spanish announce desk. The table is spared, but Rhino gets the last word with a gore, even though the War Machine may have suffered a knee injury as a result...
5. Fourtune (AJ Styles, Kazarian, Douglas Williams, & Matt Morgan w/Ric Flair) vs. "The Fatal Four" (Kurt Angle, Jeff Hardy, Pope D'Angelo Dinero, & Mr. Anderson).
Hulk Hogan dubbed the face team the "Fatal Four", since they are the final four in the title tournament, and will be in the semi-finals at No Surrender. This figures to be a war.
And it is a war of attrition, but it doesn't really get enough time to develop. At the end, almost everyone gets their spots in, including Hardy hitting the Whisper in the Wind on Morgan. Kazarian with a Wave of the Future on Hardy. Angle hit the Olympic Slam on Kazarian, but Dinero tagged himself in and scored the pin. Winners: "The Fatal Four".
Post-match, as Dinero & Angle go nose-to-nose over the finish, Fourtune regroups and attacks anew. With the match over, EV2.0, led by Dreamer & Sabu, make the save, but there's friction within the "Fatal Four", as next week, Angle & Hardy will face Anderson & Dinero!!
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