Tag Team Title Tournament First Round: Kevin Nash & Eric Young vs Ink, Inc

Winners: Ink Inc

We go to Taz and Mike, who again recap the events of Slammiversary, and then discuss how the Championship Committee couldn’t agree on the placement of the top three contenders in the Top Ten Rankings, so tonight we’re going to have a three way match between Mr Anderson, Jeff Hardy, and Abyss to decide the #1 Contender.

Ric Flair’s music hits, and we go to the entranceway where Flair is joined by his entire team. He’s about to make an announcement that will change the course of history in professional wrestling, and that announcement…is next!

We’re back, and Chelsea is backstage pleading with Abyss, saying that she doesn’t want to be with Desmond, she wants to be with him. Abyss says she knows the deal: it was 30 days and then she goes back to Desmond, and she’s not going to want to be around him tonight.

We head back to the ring with Flair and company, who says that he is going to reform the Four Horsemen, only they’re going to call the new group Fortune, and Fortune will change the destiny of TNA forever. He says the Horsemen were the best stable of all time because they were the best at whatever they did, whether it was wrestling or making love to the ladies. He compares each member of his group to a member of the Horsemen, including calling Desmond the Lex Luger of the group, then gets on AJ’s case about losing to Jay Lethal. This brings Lethal out in his Ric Flair gimmick, and he says that the Horsemen were the greatest group of men to ever grace God’s green earth, and it looks like the Horsemen were here, took a dump in the ring, and left. Lethal says he’s run the road with the Horsemen, and the guys in the ring are no Horsemen. Flair gets so mad at Lethal’s impression of him that he takes his coat off and throws his shoe at Lethal. Lethal responds by taking his own coat off and elbowdropping it. Flair and Lethal do their Ric Flair impersonations back and forth, right down to WOOOOing back and forth at each other. Flair seriously looks like he’s going to have a heart attack. Finally Desmond tells Lethal to shut up, because he’s not out here being a cheap imitation of the greatest wrestler to ever live, he’s making a reputation for himself, and he challenges Lethal to a match tonight, and Lethal responds by telling Desmond that Chelsea called him the 60 minute man. Flair tells Desmond that if he wins tonight, he’s the first member of Fortune, but if he loses, he’s history.

We go backstage to Lacey Von Erich getting a massage in preparation of her match with Angelina Love later tonight.

Backstage, Mr Anderson is arriving at the building and some unseen person off camera asks him if we’re going to see the real Mr Anderson tonight, and he says that depends on who we think the real Mr Anderson is.

Let’s go back to the ring for our next match…

Hernandez vs Samoa Joe

Winner: Samoa Joe

Backstage, Desmond Wolfe says that he’s going to do what AJ couldn’t and beat Jay Lethal tonight. AJ says he needs to get his life together because he treated Chelsea bad and she doesn’t want to be with him anymore, and he better beat Lethal because Flair said if he doesn’t, he’s out.

Backstage, Jeff Hardy says he doesn’t know whether he can trust Mr Anderson or not. Anderson pops his head in to say hello and Hardy calls him an asshole.

We go back to the ring with Douglas Williams, who is still the X-Division Champion, who says that Slammiversary was a time for celebration, but a time for mourning as well, as the X-Division as we knew it is dead because he killed it with one spectacular flying maneuver. From now on, the X-Division will become famous for the ground and pound style Williams is known for. He’s going to give everyone a lesson in that style right here tonight, and that leads us right into out next match…

X-Division Champion Douglas Williams vs Max Buck

Winner: Douglas Williams

Angelina Love, who says she’s been sitting out with an injury for the last six weeks, and since injuries can end it at any time, she’s not going to waste any more time. Tonight it’s Lacey Von Erich, next week it’s Velvet Sky, and then at Victory Road, she’s going to take the Knockouts Title back from Madison Rayne.

Angelina Love vs Lacey Von Erich

Winner: Lacey Von Erich by DQ

Backstage, Lethal is with Hulk Hogan saying how happy he is to be surrounded by so many famous names in TNA, and Hogan tells him that they weren’t attracted to Lethal for the impressions, they liked his energy and raw talent, and they gave him a shot and he’s come through. Lethal says he never dreamed of being in the same dressing room with guys like Hogan and Flair, but Hogan says that now that he’s up there, he’s got a target on his back so he’d better keep it up.

Christy is backstage with Jeff Hardy, who says that it’s a three way dance tonight with the winner becoming the #1 contender, and Christy asks if he can trust Anderson, but Anderson comes strolling in to interrupt and make mention of the people trying to stir the pot. He asks how many times he got in fights with his brother as kids and then worked it all in the end, and Hardy said he did. Tonight they’re going to have to do what they have to do as men, but no hard feelings. They do the fist pound and Hardy says it’s all good.

Tag Team Title Tournament First Round: Team 3D vs Beer Money

Winners: Beer Money

Backstage, Desmond Wolfe tells Chelsea he’s a ticking time bomb, but tonight she’s got a chance to redeem herself.

Desmond Wolfe vs Jay Lethal

Winner: Jay Lethal

First though, the new Top Ten Rankings are released, and they went by too quickly for me to transcribe them, but the top three will, of course, be decided in tonight’s main event.

Jeff Jarrett is in the ring and he calls out Sting, who comes out to the ring. Jeff asks “Steve” to take his sunglasses off because he wants him to hear what Jarrett says tonight, and also look in his eyes and see that he can hear and feel what he’s saying. Jarrett’s not going to ask him why again, he called him out to remind him of one thing: that it was Jarrett who called Sting when he first started TNA. He wanted Sting’s leadership and professionalism and his iconic status, and he didn’t want Sting to work for him, he wanted Sting to work with him. For the last 8 years, they’ve given as much as they could for TNA, and even though they haven’t always been on the same side of the fence, they’ve always treated each other with dignity, respect and honor, but that all ended at Sacrifice. Sting was hellbent on ending Jarrett’s career and destroying his livelihood, but he wants to tell Steve Borden that he made one mistake: he left Jeff Jarrett standing. He asks Sting if he thinks this is funny, but next week it won’t be a laughing matter when their rematch goes down. Jarrett knows what this is all about and Sting does too, and Sting is 100% wrong about both of them, because both of them (Hogan and Bischoff) have given their all for TNA since they got here, and next week Jarrett’s not just going to be fighting for himself and his family, but he’ll be fighting for Eric Bischoff and Hulk Hogan, and most importantly he’s going to be fighting for the TNA fans. And with that, Jarrett walks off as Sting suddenly looks less confident than he did before.

Mr Anderson vs Jeff Hardy vs Abyss

Triple Count Out

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