Bells rings, and Hardy rolls to the floor…and starts walking around high fiving fans at ringside. Um…okay. Well, can’t blame him, I wouldn’t want to fight Joe either. Hey, Eric Bischoff is on the phone! He mentions Hogan’s surgery as Joe starts kicking the crap out of Hardy, rubbing his throat across the ropes, and tossing him to the floor. Joe rams Hardy to the apron as Bischoff says he and Hulk came to TNA to help and they’ll support whatever decisions Dixie makes. Hardy starts to fight back and rams Joe to the stairs, then tosses him back in the ring. Eric says TNA’s an exciting place to be and they’re just here to help them grow as Hardy does the ten punch count in the corner, then snapmares Joe and he HITS THE CHINLOCK! Bischoff wraps up his phone call, and now we can return to the match at hand as Joe gives Hardy a jawbreaker. Joe with the snapmare/chop/kick/kneedrop combo as a Joe chant starts. Hardy fires back and Joe reverses a whip into the corner, Hardy leapfrogs, but Joe catches him with a savate kick to the jaw, then starts ramming elbows to the top of the skull of Hardy. Joe with a running knee and enziguiri in the corner and covers for 2. Hardy fires back again and comes off the ropes but Joe with a snap powerslam for 2. Hardy with a series of running forearms and an inverted enziguiri, and the springboard dropkick in the corner for 2. Hardy with a sleeper drop for 2 and tries a move off the second rope, but Joe catches him with an inverted atomic drop, running boot, and senton for 2. Joe with a powerbomb for 2, and converts Hardy’s kickout into an STF, and then converts that into a Crippler Crossface and makes Hardy’s eyes bug out from cranking so hard on the move. Hardy makes the ropes and Joe starts mocking him and goes for a slam, Hardy escapes out the back and goes for a Twist Of Fate, Joe escapes that and goes for the Kokina Clutch, and Hardy escapes that and hits the Whisper In The Wind. What a sequence. We get the announcement that 30 seconds remain, then they start going toe to toe with 15 seconds left and they go crashing to the mat as time expires.

Time Limit Draw

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