TNA Slammiversary Spoilers

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TNA Slammiversary celebrates nine years since the company's birth. Tonight the founder of the company challenges Kurt Angle once and for all for his Olympic Gold Medal - plus number one contendership for the World Title is on the line. Other matches include Samoa Joe vs. Crimson, AJ Styles vs. Bully Ray and for the World Heavyweight Title, The Icon Sting defends against number one contender Mr Anderson.


Slammiversary opens with a video package focussing on the core matches tonight. We see what's happened so far in the Anderson/Sting story. We see how Ken Anderson has been mocking The Icon and disrespecting what Sting stands for. We see footage of Karen Angle getting injured before Jeff Jarrett's battle with Kurt Angle tonight. We're reminded of the bizarre transformation in Angelina Love, we see how far AJ Styles and Bully Ray have come in their rivalry and soon we come Live into the Impact Zone in Orlando, Florida.
Mike Tenay and Taz bring us in on commentary as we get set for our first bout of the night.


British Invasion vs. James Storm & Alex Shelley (c)
TNA World Tag Team Championships
Robert Roode joins commentary and first tells us that his rehab's going well and he'll be back in action in just a couple of weeks. Alex Shelley's MotorCity Machine Guns' partner is currently injured and so Shelley's taken Roode's place in this Tag Title defence for Beer Money here tonight. James Storm and Alex Shelley begin the match well, showing how they can tag off one anothers backs and work together to double team dropkick the British Invasion to the canvas. Storm and Shelley tag well against Magnus and then Williams and the two of them seem to be very much on the same page in this contest. Remember, this past week on Impact Wrestling Shelley and Storm accidently collided and this led to a loss. In the match at hand they look great, but eventually Douglas Williams gets the better of Shelley and he tags in Magnus as the British Invasion then have a spell on top, halfing the ring thus taking Shelley from his corner. Williams and Magnus show what they are capable of and they ground Alex Shelley, picking up many Two-counts and dominating Shelley throughout quite some several minutes of the match. Williams attempts the Rolling Chaos, but Shelley counters and James Storm pound the turnbuckle to get the fans to support Shelley over or the tag. Storm comes in like a house on fire and takes on both Magnus and Williams. Storm gets a DDT on Williams and gets Two on the cover. Magnus tries to get involved, but Storm does well to force Williams right on top of his own partner on the outside. Storm then splits the ropes to set up Alex Shelley and and the Gun goes suicide dive through the ropes, right onto the British Invasion at ringside. Back in the ring Shelley and Storm work well to further dominate the British Invasion. Storm taunts "BEER!" and at commentary Roode follows up with "MONEY!" and th contest goes on with Alex Shelley perfoming a Warrior's Way right through the chest of Douglas Williams. The contest goes on, but chemistry issues surface between Storm and Shelley because Storm accidently spits beer into his partner's face. Alex Shelley then accidently follows with a kick to James Storm. This is bad for 'Gun Money' because the British Invasion get the upper hand and almost beat them. In the end though Storm and Shelley work together well and Shelley sets Storm up for the Last Call Super-kick and that's all she wrote.
Winners and Still TNA World Tag Team Champions: Beer Money (Storm and Shelley).

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We're shown two seperate video's of Jeff Jarrett and Kurt Angle entering the venue earlier tonight.

Backstage Impact Wrestling interviewer Jeremey Borash talks to the Big Bad Booty Daddy Scott Steiner and Scotty tells Borash that tonight he's going to beat the DNA out of TNA and squash the giant Matt Morgan.

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Scott Steiner vs. Matt Morgan
It's well documented that Steiner and Morgan have come to hate each other and this match-up goes as many would expect. The two exchange holds first off and Morgan soon grounds Steiner before setting up for dominating Steiner around ringside. Morgan targets Steiner's lower back, ramming it into the ring apron before getting him back in the ring and setting up for his slam dunk type move into the corner. Steiner low-blows Matt Morgan without the referee seeing and he turns tha match on it's head. Steiner performs a nice belly to belly to get only Two on the cover as the match goes on. Steiner is often using his experience to gain any upper hand he can and he grounds Matt Morgan with a Steiner-line clothesline before covering and then letting go to perform his push-ups. This is classic Scott Steiner, dominating the match and making sure his opponent knows who he's in the ring with. Steiner corners Morgan to lay into him with knifeedge chops. Morgan finally gets some momentum, big booting Scotty down and now the fans feed Morgan some energy. Morgan then splashes Steiner in the corner before nailling him with a side-wlak slam and getting Two on the cover. Morgan performs a sit-down slam and gets Two again. Morgan gets frustrated at not being able to put Steiner away and this leads to a loss of focus and Steiner gets himself back in the match. The contest goes back and forth with both men almost winning the match with near falls, but Steiner gets teh Steiner Recliner on Morgan. The Blueprint Matt Morgan struggles, but eventually he impressively stands up out of the move and Steiner counters with a victory roll! One, Two - oh and that was close. The two exchange again and Morgan finally hits the Carbon Footprint and this one's over.
Winner: Matt Morgan.

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Backstage Jeremey Borash talks to Jeff Jarrett and The King Of The Mountain says that he's taken everything from Kurt Angle and tonight it's the final straw. He says that on Impact this week he'll be the one that's standing on a podium much like Angle was in 1996. Jeff will be on the podium and Kurt Angle will be awarding him with the Olympic Gold Medal. Jarrett states that this win tonight is dedicated to his wife Karen Jarrett.
We're shown a video package that tells the recent history of the X-Division Title. Abyss, Eric Bischoff and Hulk Hogan have dubbed the Belt as the X-Treme Title, proclaiming that the X-Division is dead. Superstars such as Kazarian and Brian Kendrick beg to differ and tonight a Triple Threat match for the X-Division Title is on the line.

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Kazarian vs. Brian Kendrick vs. Abyss (c)
X-Division Championship
It's dubbed the X-Treme Title, but X-Division is it's name and Kaz and Kendrick want to take it back for their no-limits colleagues here tonight. Kazarian starts off well against Abyss, but The Monster decks him in the ring. Brian Kendrick then steps to Abyss, taunting him first and then he follows up with a series of quick dropkicks. Abyss is resilient though and he press slams Kendrick right onto Kaz on the outside. The comms discuss what this Belt means to the wrestler's of the X-Division and they tell that given that this Title is a foundation of Impact Wrestling, there is no understanding as to why guys like Eric Bischoff would want rid of the concept. The match goes on in and out of the ring and eventually Kaz and Kendrick do well to double team Abyss one after the other in the middle of the ring, but Abyss counters Kendrick with a Black Hole Slam anyway and Kazarian is left to get big booted down by The Monster. Abyss is back in the driver's seat, choking Kazarian in the corner before open palm chopping him right on the chest. Brian Kendrick tries to get back in the match, but Abyss befalls him to ringside with a huge headbutt. Abyss focusses on Kaz, wearring him down even though The Monster himself is bleeding from his chin. Abyss is overpowering Kazarian, twisting his head upon his shoulders in the middle of the ring. Kaz tries to valiantly fight back, but Abyss corners him and sets him up to take him down hard with a huge Shock Treatment backbreaker. Abyss then goes for a Vader-bomb like splash, but Kaz moves and this leads Brian Kendrick to come in and mount some offence on Abyss. Kendrick is full of energy as he missile dropkicks Abyss from off the top rope. He kicks and punches with all his might before coming off the top rope to DDT Abyss down. Kendrick goes hard at it, but soon Abyss swats him down as if he were a fly. Kazarian gets back into the contest and the pattern is there with Abyss just taking his two oppoenents in turns here. Kendrick and Kazarian eventually become a lot for Abyss to handle, double teaming him and even double-pinning him on occaison. Eventually Kaz and Kendrick befall Abyss out of the ring and they then battle one another with Kaz almost nailling the Flux Capacitor out the corner, but Kendrick counters and here's some great X-Division action. Abyss is smart though and as Kendrick gets some momentum, The Monster snatches him out of the ring and he takes advantage of Kendricks prior Shinning Wizard and Abyss retains the X-Division Gold.
Winner and Still X-Division Champion: Abyss.


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We're shown a video package focussing on the rivalry between Crimson and Samoa Joe. Crimson is on a winning streak, but Samoa Joe wants to stop the run and make sure Crimson doesn't overtake Joe's winning streak from many years prior.


Samoa Joe vs. Crimson
Crimson sprints down to the ring upon his entrance and he goes straight at Samoa Joe. The comms discuss how this is already like a continuation of the two wrestler's bar fight that occured this past week. Crimson gets on top early, countering Joe's suicide dive before getting him back in the ring and drilling knees into Joe's head before getting a Two on the cover. Crimson targets Joe's head, trying to imobilize him, but Joe comes back to target the knee and Crimson is now down trying to get himself back in the match. The Impact Zone is split with who they cheer as wee see Samoa Joe go on to take it to Crimson's knee, even performing an inovative spine-buster like move on the knee rather than the lower back. Crimson often has to reach for the ropes as Joe gains cofidence by Crimson's scrambling. Joe applies the spinning toe-hold twice over, but Crimson clutches Joe's head in a headscissor hold. Joe gets the ropes and the contest continues, intriguing, will Crimson be able to keep his winning streak in tact here? Not according to Joe who performs an amazing over the head German suplex followed by a huge clothesline and then Samoa Joe gets Two on the cover. Joe dominates again, targetting the knee again with a single-leg crab, but Crimson gets to the ropes. Samoa Joe is on point, he's a seasoned wrestler and he won't take any rudey poo from anybody. The match goes on as both wrestler's get tired but Crimson comes at Joe with an explosive spear! What a move and both men are down. Back and forth the match goes and Joe almost clutches Crimson up for a Muscle Buster, but Crimson counters with the Red Sky and that's it, Joe's down for the count, Crimson remains undefeated.
Winner: Crimson.


After the match Samoa Joe lends Crimson his hand to shake as a mark of respect, but he has some words to say to him. Crimson may have won tonight, but Joe will undoubtedly want more.

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Backstage JB talks to Angelina Love and Winter. Angelina Love has a shot at her sixth Champioship up next. She and Winter look focussed.

Angelina Love w/ Winter vs. Mickie James (c)

Two of the most athletically gifted women in the business go at it with Angelina using Mickie's own hair against her, tossing the Champ across the ring. This is a different Angelina Love than what we are used to. She's vicious and whatever spell or whatever time period she thinks she's in, thanks to Winter, Angelina is a strong favorite to beat Mickie here because James truly doesn't know what she's up against. Winter is to be watched at ringside as Mickie performs a nice headscissors out of the corner. This is what Mickie has to do, she has to stick to her game and win by her style. Tough to do though as Angelina distracts the referee and Winter drags Mickie to land splat at ringside. Angelina dominates Mickie back in the ring, but Mickie is gritty in her fightback. Every time Mickie gets the upper hand though, Angelina resourcefully throws Mickie to ringside for a Winter storm. This time though Love follows out on her own and looks to slam Mickie into the stairs, but James reverses and Angelina takes a lot of punishment with the impact. Winter sees to her girl as Mickie gets back into the ring. The contest continues back in the squared circle and Mickie James gains control of the match, Thesz Pressing Love from off the top rope. Winter gets involved as much as he can, but the ref doesn't do much and another major distraction from Winter leads to a Botox Injection nailling the Knockouts Champion. Angelina's in control and goes for the cover, but Mickie has the bottom rope. Winter tries to push her arm off, but finally the referee sees Winter's antics and these antics continue to the end with Winter even holding Angelina's arm on a cover one time. Mickie is resiliant though and in the end she successfully retains her Title.

Winner and Still Knockouts Champion: Mickie James.

Winter and Angelina Love are both furious after the match and they choke James with a waist belt to leave her choking in the middle of the ring. Mickie's still the Champ, but it's Winter and Angelina who walk away on their own accord.

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Backstage Bully Ray tells Jeremey Borash that he will be the Last Man Stand tonight because he's going to beat AJ Styles within an inch of his life.

A video package shows how Bully Ray has come about since being a Dudley Boy and since he joined Immortal, Bully Ray's targetted AJ Styles as a sacrificial lamb to his bullying antics. Bully Ray has put Styles through a lot of pain, but maybe Styles will surprise him tonight. Last Man Standing coming up next!

Bully Ray vs. AJ Styles

Last Man Standing match

There's a lot of trash talking as the opening bell rings and the contest catches fire as AJ starts off well, but Bully Ray corner's Styles and the two exchange back and forth. AJ unleashes new moves in his repetoire, nailling Ray with headbutts. Bully Ray decks Styles and puts all his weight on him with a huge elbow. Ray continues on top, back body dropping Styles all the way across the ring before train-rushing him with all his weight in the corner. The referee often counts every time that a wrestler is down and soon the match spills to ringside with Bully Ray in total control. Bully Ray grabs himself the steel steps and he uses them to his advantage, slamming Styles off the sides of the steel. Ray tips the steps onto Styles and stands on them with all his weight on AJ. The fans boo Ray as he takes it to AJ all the way around ringside. AJ claws himself back into the ring, but Bully Ray slams open palm slaps into the centre of Styles chest. AJ valiantly asks for another one and Ray obliges with a huge slap again. AJ asks for more, tieing himself to the top rope and asking for another and Ray does it, smashing Styles chest with another open slap. Styles then asks for a punch right on the jaw and Bully Ray hits him and AJ folds up like a legless boxer, going down swinging. Styles gets up and innvites Ray in for another, but he goes back at Bully Ray with punches and slaps of his own before nailling Ray with a standing side-volley before going to the apron and springboarding back in the ring with a huge flying forearm to Bully Ray's face. Ray gets up at the count of Six and goes top rope, but AJ hits him with the Pele. This leads to AJ going top rope with Ray, but as Styles tries a Frankensteiner, Bully Ray counters with a huge sit-down powerbomb! The match soon spills to ringside where Bully Ray brings out a thick metal chain, but he misses on whipping AJ and Styles takes the chain to wrap it round his fist and smash it into Ray's face. Bully Ray is busted violently open and Styles goes at him to get him back in the ring and perform a springboard 450 splash from off the apron. Ray gets up at Nine and Styles then launches him out of the ring right onto the steel steps at ringside. Styles follows up impressively taking it to Ray, proving that he is a crazy Redneck. The contest goes back and forth from here, Styles failling with a Styles Clash as Ray takes over and takes Styles all the way up the stage. He attempts his powerbomb from from off the stage, but Styles counters with two Pele's before Bully Ray tumbles from off the stage and AJ runs to srpint off the stage and clobber Ray down, but he still gets up at Nine. Styles finds himself a table and a steel chair and he whacks at Bully Ray to set him up on the wood. Styles climbs to the stage, no way can he do this? He's going to do worse, Styles climbs the scaffolding of the stage and goes way up high to land a huge diving elbow from way up high, all the way through Bully Ray! Styles tries getting up and he holds Ray's leg at the same time, but Ray boots him through the side of the stage! AJ goes head first through the stage panel and Bully Ray manages to get to his feet before Ten wheras Styles is out. Bully Ray's won this.

Winner: Bully Ray.

Both men get medical attention as they're both hurt. Bully Ray made it to his feet for the win, but he fell straight after. What a match, perfect for Slammiversary. Huge respect to these two awesome athletes.

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Backstage Mr Anderson tells JB that actions speak louder than words and tonight, Anderson is going to show us how to beat Sting. Anderson is mean to Borash and the fans boo in the background.

We're shown a video package that highlights how Mr Anderson has been an a**hole to the Stinger over the past month. Sting has the in-ring experience here, but as Anderson says, "Nice Guys Finish Last." Will The Icon be able to withstand the a**holes challenge tonight?

Upon Anderson's entrance he tells that tonight there will be a new World Champion and he'll hail from Green Bay, Wisconsin. As Anderson continues we see the Stinger creep up behind him and yell "Anderson!" right at his challenger and The Icon dominates Anderson all the way to the ring where the bell finally rings.

Mr Anderson vs. Sting (c)

TNA Heavyweight Championship of the World

Sting's got somewhat of a new look here as the comms reflect on his backstage attack on Anderson this pact week on Impact Wrestling. Sting's in a mainly red singlet with black scorpions. His face-paint is very messy and we can see that he's sporting a mustache/goattee like paint design. The referee lets the match go as Sting dominates Ken Anderson into the audience and Sting's bringing the level of violence he brought to Thursday night, he's brought it to Slammiversary. Sting ask the fans to move out of the way as he beats and batters Anderson all the way to the top of the Impact Zone. Sting finally drags Anderson back down to the bottom, throwing him into the wall before eventually getting him back out to ringside. Sting "Wooooo!"'s out to the fans and they're very much behing The Icon. Anderson uses this opportunity to get back into the match and he target's Sting's arm, wrapping it around the steel post before getting him in the middle of the ring, applying an arm-bar and wearring the Champion down. Anderson goes constantly at the arm and as much as Sting tries to fight back, Anderson gains confidence, mocking The Icon and even tries performing the Stinger Splash, but misses. Sting's weak as he can't capitalize and Anderson decks Sting in the middle of the ring for Two on the cover. Anderson trash-talks throughout, putting a key lock on Sting. The crowd "Whoooo!" to get Sting back into the match and it works. Discuss punch followed by chops lead to a series of clotheslines by Sting and he then back body drops Anderson across the ring. Stiger Splash connects and Sting then takes out the leg, attempting the Scorpion Deathlock, but wait Eric Bischoff comes down the ramp and causes a distraction. This leads to Anderson coming back into the match and performing a standing Green Bay Plunge on th Champion. One, Two - wow, that was close. The match goes back and forth with both men coming closer and closer to a Three-count. Anderson sets for a Mic-check but Sting counters, but Anderson goes for it again and nails it. That has to be it, the Champ is out of it; One, Two - ohhh and Sting kicks out! Sting kicks out! Eric Bischoff can't believe it. Sting gets back into the match, nailling a Stinger Splash before a devastating Scorpion Deathdrop! The referee counts, but Bischoff interrupts the count, banging the canvas himself. Sting thinks he's got Three, but the referee tells him that he didn't. Sting continues the match, picks up Anderson - but what the hell, a low-blow - right in front of the referee?! What on earth?! Anderson hits the Mic-check and gets Three!

Winner and New TNA World Heavyweight Champion: Mr Anderson.



After the match Sting exits devastated as Kenny celebrates. Eric Bischoff has a big smile on his face and not only is there a Bischoff interuption on the finish, but there's also a blatant low-blow, that the ref did nothing about. Sting got screwed tonight.

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Via satellite Karen Jarrett joins the comms to state that Kurt Angle should be behind bars because it wasn't a fall that she suffered, it was a push! Karen says that when Jeff Jarrett wins tonight, she's going to take her ex-husband's Olympic Gold Medal, wear it around her neck and do to "big daddy" what she does best.

A video package chronicals the storied rivalry between Kurt Angle, his ex Karen and her new husband Jeff Jarrett. So far the Jarrett's have taken everything from Kurt, but Angle's pride and joy is wrestling. He made is name in 1996 by winning the Olympic Gold Medal with a broken freakin neck, that very same medal is on the line tonight.

Jeff Jarrett vs. Kurt Angle

Number one contendership/Kurt's Olympic Gold Medal on the line

Jarrett backtracks in the early stage as Taz describes wrestling Angle as toying with a stick of dynamite. You have to be careful, you can't make any mistakes because if you do, that dynamite will go boom in your face and Angle shows exactly what Taz means, exploding on Jarrett and dominating the match early. Angle clubs the back of Double J and we watch on as Jarrett gets back into the match, back body dropping Kurt over the top rope and Angle crashes into the steel raillings at ringside. Angle's left shoulder connected hard with the steel and Jarrett capitalizes, sending Angle shoulder-first right into the steel steps. Angle was on top in the opening stages of this match, but Jarrett totally dominates his nemesis back in the ring. The fans boo as Mike Tenay talks about what this means to Jarrett, dedicating what he's said will be a victory to his wife Karen Jarrett. The contest goes on and both men go for a cross-body and crash hard as the referee makes the Ten-count. Angle and Jarrett get up at Five and Jeff then grounds Angle in the middle of the ring with a textbook sleeper hold. Angle elbows out of it quickly and sends Jarrett from corner to corner before popping off an excellent German suplex. Both men are down again, they get up at Seven and exchange punches back and forth before Angle batters Jarrett down with two back elbows before grounding him hard with an excellent belly to belly. The contest goes back and forth with near falls and two attempted Ankle locks, but Jarrett always sees it coming and he gets Two on the count after a nice DDT on Angle. Jarrett attempts the Stroke but gets Angle Slammed for his efforts. Kurt hooks the far leg, One, Two - high stakes match and Jarrett kicks out. Angle attempts a moonsault, but it's way too soon and he misses and Jarrett rolls out of the way. Stroke coming, nailled by Jeff Jarrett - but Angle kicks out! Jarrett sets up for a tombstone-type piledriver, but after a topsey turvey back and forth, Angle drops Jarrett into the Ankle Lock! Jarrett struggles and rolls out of it, sending Kurt into the referee. The ref is down and Jarrett exits the ring to grab a guitar from underneath. He takes it into the ring and smashes it over the skull of Kurt Angle. Senior referee Earl Hebner comes down to the ring and he counts; One, Two - Kurt kicks out! Jarrett pleas and argues with the ref, but after shoving Hebner, Earl shoves him right into a trifecta of German suplexes. The match goes on, Angle placing Jarrett on the top turnbuckle soon he sprints up to throw him right over himself, crashing to the middle of the ring. Jarrett kicks out as the match goes on and Kurt pulls down the straps for the Ankle Lock. He get get it hooked and instead he rushes at Jarrett in the corner to miss and slam hard into the ring-post. Jarrett follows up with a Stroke from off the middle rope, but Angle kicks out! Jarrett then puts an Ankle Lock on Kurt and he grapevines it in the middle of the ring. There's so much on the line here as the crowd chant "USA! USA!" and it does the trick as Angle rolls through to grapevine Jarrett's leg into an Ankle Lock and after some struggle Jarrett taps with both hands.

Winner and new Number One contender to the TNA World Title: Kurt Angle.

After so much back and forth, the final battle between Jeff Jarrett and Kurt Angle lived up to the billing and replays show how Jarrett did all he could to take Kurt's Gold Medal. Angle was never going to let it go, kicking out after a guitar shot and then a middle-rope Stroke and finally he overcame his own move to become number one contender to the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. What a memorable night Slammiversary has been.

I can't get upset on Friday's

You are both morphing into LB! Although im not sure i could ever describe LB as being negative about anything, the boy would find positives out of 9/11.

It definitely got bin Laden over as a monster heel.

Just to clarify, Johnny Cash never sang about Dino Bravo.

Oh. And there i was hoping The Undertaker's entrance music next year would be Dino Bravo by Johnny Cash.

Watched this earlier, really good PPV, think the best i've ever seen from TNA. Loved the Last Man Standing match between AJ and Bully Ray!
As for the title match, I guess Anderson has turned full heel now?, and it still isn't clear to me whether Samao Joe has turned heel again or not?
Glad Morgan beat Steiner, hopefully he can move onto something better now, good that Crimson has kept his unbeaten run going, shame that Abyss is still X Division champion, i hate him so much!