Full NWA TNA PPV Results - 1/8/03 LIVE From: Nashville, TN Commentators: Mike Tenay & Don West Report by: Dave Meltzer of WrestlingObserver.com
Show started with Mike Tenay, who clearly surpassed Jeff Jarrett as lead babyface tonight, cutting a promo about Vince Russo's ruination of WCW, talking about how he would sit next to Bobby Heenan while Russo would talk about being able to make anyone a wrestler. Former local wrestlers Eddie Marlin, Sara Lee (the ticket lady) and Corsica Joe were at ringside while Ron Killings, Chris Harris, James Storm and Low Ki were in the ring. Russo came out with his crew and claimed to be the savior of wrestling, claiming wrestling has never been less popular and that he predicts it will be out of business in six months. By the way, there is a rash of stupidity going on in this industry particularly since Saturday. He was insulting the old guys when Sara hit the ring. They had a pull-apart. The good guys were getting their clocks cleaned when the Road Warriors (first unadvertised surprise) and Jarrett made the save.
1. David Young & Tony Mamaluke defeated E.Z. Money & Kid Kash in 7:42 when Young pinned Money after two different but equally bad looking versions of spinebusters. After all the heat the opening interview segment, the people could have cared less about this match. Kash did his cool huracanranas. Mamaluke's offense looked bad. Overall a bad spot fest. Low Ki, Christopher Daniels and Elix Skipper hit the ring and cleaned house on all four guys. Skipper did a sick guillotine legdrop on Kash. Skipper did an interview. Can you imagine Skipper doing an interview while Daniels stood in the background. Something wrong with that picture. Basic interview about how TNA was too cheap to fly them in. Jarrett then challenged all three to a series of singles matches as the main event.
2. Sonny Siaki defeated Jason Cross to retain the X Division Title. Another bad match with no heat. Cross did some good acrobatics including a corkscrew reverse plancha and a flip dive. The best looking offensive move of the match was Kim "Miss Desire" Neilsen's clothesline on Cross. Ref bump. Cross did his crossfire (shooting star legdrop) but no ref t count. Neilsen crotched Cross on the post and Siaki rolled him up. After the match, Bob Armstrong said 2003 wasn't going to start off like that and ordered the match restarted. Russo came out and said it wouldn't. Bob said it would Don Harris then threw Cross over the top rope like he was a piece of garbage, so Russo was right. Russo ordered B.G. James to beat up Pops Armstrong, but before we could see what was going to happen, Lynn and Killings made the save for Bob.
3. Jerry Lynn & Ron "The Truth" Killings defeated Don Harris & James via DQ in 6:29. Lynn & Killings worked for four guys, and they needed to. James' mouth and head were both cut, particularly bleeding bad in the mouth from a Van Daminator by Lynn. Killings did a 450 kneedrop on James when they did a cheap outside interference DQ finish featuring the debut of Mike Sanders.
They did a sit down interview with Percy Pringle. He talked about his start as a wrestling fan going to matches with Michael Hayes, John Tatum and Robert Gibson to his WWF days with Undertaker. They hinted at him becoming a manager.
4. Chris Harris & James Storm defeated Slash & Brian Lee to become the NEW NWA World Tag Team Champions. Easily the match of the night. Actually the only good match of the night. Brawled outside at first but it slowed in the ring. Lee looked bad but the other three were strong. All kinds of near falls including Lee kicking out from a spear by Harris after an accidental powder shot, Storm surviving a belt shot, Storm surviving behind stabbed in the head by Mitchell, Lee hitting Storm with a studded belt wrapped around his fist for a near fall, Lee with a tombstone on Storm for a near fall. Harris reversed a tombstone on Lee, actually lost him and powered him back up to do the move, for another near fall. Storm pinned Slash after the death sentence (Harris' legdrop off the top rope while Storm held Slash up) to win the belts. They billed this as their last meeting and there will be no rematch.
5. Curt Hennig defeated David Flair in 2:40 in an axe handle on a pole match. Hennig did his Brock Lesnar promo before the match, only made worse by his performance once the bell rang. HORRIBLE match. Flair looked out of shape. Hennig didn't even climb the pole, and instead told Chris Vaughn to climb it for him. Vaughn gave Hennig the pole, and Hennig, being the babyface, then pie-faced Vaughn out of the ring. Since Hennig had the axe handle, he was declared the winner. Flair attacked him after the match with a bag that contains a mystery foreign object.
Kim attacked Goldylocks. Athena attacked Kim.
6. Jeff Jarrett defeated Christopher Daniels in 4:45 after the stroke. Don West said that "I don't know if I've ever seen anyone wear the NWA belt more proudly." Well spoken from a man who has watched wrestling for all of seven months. Not nearly as good as you'd think.
7. Jeff Jarrett defeated Elix Skipper in 5:56 with a schoolboy after Daniels accidentally clotheslined Skipper off the top. James did commentary with Tenay and West and they were alternating whose mic would go out, so it made for a very weird conversation.
8. Jeff Jarrett defeated Low Ki via DQ in 6:51 when he used the stroke and Daniels and Skipper interfered. Low Ki had the crossface on forever but Jarrett wouldn't tap. Only an average match. They were beating on Jarrett until the Road Warriors made the save. Styles came in and, swear to God, laid out both Animal and Hawk as well as Jarrett. He gave Jarrett the Styles clash and spiral tap. They teased having Low Ki, Daniels and Skipper all put Jarrett through a table when, with seconds left in the show, Dusty Rhodes made the save. All these nostalgia acts that only mean money on the first appearance. This is so amazing.
MATCHES ANNOUNCED FOR NEXT WEEK (January 15th, 2003):
Sonny Siaki (c) vs. Amazing Red - X Division Title
*rumored* Jeff Jarrett (c) vs. AJ Styles - NWA World Heavyweight Title
Plus, Mike Tenay interviews Vince Russo in the Main Event slot