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**Taroostyles** · 07-13-2008, 10:02 PM

TNA Victory Road

12 Man Elim Tag-****1/4-****1/2(Absolutely phenomenal, Yashino owned in this match)

Angle/3D vs Styles/Rhino/Cage-Full Metal Mayhem-****1/4 (Tons of great and original spots, Bubba Ray with a picture perfect super kick owned house)

**Ownage™** · 07-13-2008, 10:05 PM

I have the 12 man tag and Full Metal Mayhem at ****1/4 on first viewing. I'll see if they hold up after a re-watch.

**Taroostyles** · 07-13-2008, 10:09 PM

Too bad the main event had the weirdest ending to match I've ever seen, it was on it's way up there as well.

**- Styles -** · 07-13-2008, 10:15 PM

Victory Road

12 man tag - ****1/2
This match just absolutely floored me. Yes it's a spotfest and has little to no psychology but I'm wasn't expecting it to. It delivered exactly what I'd hoped for. An that was an incredibly fun, entertaining, fast paced spotfilled match from beginning to end. Liked it about as much as the Dragon Gate 6-man from Supercard of Honor III.

Full metal Mayhem - ****1/4
Bloody and brutal brawl. It seemed like everyone was put through a table. Aj was on fire throughout and Cage did an amazing spot of the top of the UX structure. Great ending as well.

I know some will rate these MUCH lower and that's fine but for me I couldn't have asked for more from both of these matches.

**Taroostyles** · 07-13-2008, 10:19 PM

I thought they did a good job in FMM of using some really original spots and it felt different to me than most other TLC/FMM type matches.

The opener, well the opener was just phenomenal plain and simple.

**Andy3000** · 07-13-2008, 10:28 PM

I have to see both of these. There's actually a shit load of TNA stuff I'd like to watch from this year, but it's hard for me to get motivated enough to do so.

**Spartanlax** · 07-13-2008, 10:32 PM

Those two matches sounded great from the Gerweck and recap, and now from your thoughts/ratings I gotta d/l them ASAP. Booker/Joe has me interested as well...aside from the BS-ending, it sounds like Joe ended up SNAPPING, and it sounds like a moment that has to be seen.

**Andy3000** · 07-13-2008, 10:41 PM

What's the ending to the main event? The stupid/weird/BS one?

**Taroostyles** · 07-13-2008, 10:49 PM

Booker/Joe was really good until the ending, it just a really weird sequence of events and it almost made Joe, Sting, and Booker all out to be heels. It was interesting tho.

UX was pretty good, but not as great as I expected. Probably like ***1/4, maybe ***1/2 but it had one of the best bumps in TNA history IMO.

Andy, ok here it is. Ref went down and Joe was pummeling Booker, I mean they were making Joe look very strong. Then Sharmell was pleading with Joe to stop and she slapped him, then Joe killed the bodyguard she had with her.(Probably a PWA guy)

Then Joe went full madman killing refs, Booker, security, and pretty much anybody else. Then Sting came out to try and plead with Joe, which it seemed had worked until Joe went back for more on Booker. Then Sting came back to yell at Joe and Joe flipped him off. Sting smashed Joe with the bat and the Book covered him and Sharmell made the 3 count.

Afterwards they played up that pinfall not counting and that Book wasn't the champ, It was just very weird, that's about the best way to describe it.

**- Styles -** · 07-13-2008, 10:49 PM

Very confusing and strange finish...

http://www.gerweck.net/news/1216002507.shtml