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Welcome to this week's TNA Xplosion report.
Destination X 2011: Ultimate X to crown number one contender for the X-Division Championship: Shannon Moore vs. Robbie E (with Cookie) vs. Alex Shelley vs. The Amazing Red
All four began brawling in the ring. Moore took out everyone with different moves. He whipped E into the ropes, but it was reversed. He came back with a spin kick. He went to climb up but was cut off by Red.
Shelley tried to climb up but was nailed with a spin kick while on the top rope. Robbie climbed across the cables but was pulled down by Red and nailed with a huge spinning kick. Red climbed to the top but was caught and slammed off by Shelley.
Shelley drilled E with a kick, sending him off the apron, then worked over Red in the corner with chops and kicks before snapping Red with a Dragon Screw Legwhip. Shelley caught Moore trying to climb to the top rope but was nailed. Shelley tried to use him as a base to climb up, but E nailed him. Shelley caught E with an STO into the buckles. He nailed a sliding dropkick into the corner on E and Moore.
E went for a sliding kick, but Moore pulled the apron back and caught E in it. He worked over Robbie. Shelley got involved, but Moore overpowered him and dove off the apron. As all this was going on, Red tried to maneuver the wires, but Moore caught him and tossed Red into Shelley. Moore nailed a leg lariat on Shelley in the corner.
Moore looked up at the X, but Red came off his back with a shooting star onto Shelley. E clotheslined both Red and Moore as they faced off. With everyone else down, E tried to maneuver the ropes. Red caught him in the middle, pulled him down, and nailed him with a quartet of spin kicks.
E caught him and whipped Red into the ropes. Red leapt and nailed a spinning corkscrew plancha onto Moore and Shelley. Fans chanted "Go Red Go," which was the chant Don West used to lead.
E tried to ascend but was taken out by Moore. Moore climbed up and actually went over the ropes to the top of the Ultimate X structure. Red began to follow him. Shelley tried to as well, but Cookie grabbed his leg...in front of the referee...who did nothing.
Red began climbing across the cables as Moore tried to drop down from the metal structure. Shelley began to fire away at Red with kicks. Red fell to the ring below. Moore dropped down but was fought off by Shelley with kicks. Moore crashed and burned.
Shelley pulled down the X and captured the win.
Your winner, Alex Shelley!
Decent match, but not the off-the-wall, insane stunt show that has been the calling card of the Ultimate X match. I thought the ending was creative, but I never felt there was a big dramatic build to the match. Some nice bumps and dives, but not memorable in comparison to the history of the match.
X-Division Champion Cedric Alexander & Mr. Elegance & Frankie Kazarian vs. Fabian Aichner & Leon Slater & KC Navarro
Slater and Kazarian started the match, but Slater immediately took a shot at Cedric Alexander, knocking him off the apron with a kick to the face. Fabian Aichner soon tagged in, only for Kazarian to rake his eyes before bringing in Mr. Elegance. Aichner quickly overpowered Elegance, battering him from corner to corner and lighting up his chest with a series of hard chops. KC Navarro entered next and connected with a crossbody, but Elegance tagged Alexander into the match. Alexander answered with a stiff chop that sent Navarro to the ropes, though Navarro rebounded with a dropkick. Kazarian returned to the ring, only to eat a kick from Navarro, who also avoided an incoming attack from Alexander.
The match erupted into chaos as all six men brawled around ringside. A series of suicide dives wiped out most of the competitors, leaving Aichner, Navarro, and Slater standing tall. Back inside the ring, Alexander regained control by folding Navarro up with a gutwrench suplex before tagging in Elegance, who targeted Navarro's hands with repeated stomps. Navarro mounted a brief comeback, but Mr. Elegance's concierge tried to grab his ankle from ringside. Navarro stomped on the concierge's hand, infuriating Elegance, who dragged him into the opposing corner for a prolonged triple-team attack. Kazarian followed up with a springboard leg drop after pulling Navarro back to the center of the ring. He reached for a tag, but Elegance was busy posing, allowing Alexander to tag himself in instead.
Navarro finally escaped and tagged in Slater, who exploded into the match with a flurry of kicks and punches. He dropped Alexander with a spinning heel kick just before the show headed to commercial. After the break, Kazarian cut Slater off by sweeping out his legs and driving him onto the ring apron. Slater was rolled back inside, where Alexander continued wearing him down with another series of suplexes. During the match, it was announced they would provide an update on Mike Santana's condition following the attack earlier in the night.
Alexander, Kazarian, and Elegance isolated Slater in their corner and repeatedly cut off his attempts to escape. Slater finally avoided an attack with a crossbody onto Kazarian before crawling across the ring to tag in Aichner. Aichner entered with authority, running through both Kazarian and Alexander while countering Kazarian's Blockbuster attempt. He tried to set Kazarian up for a Doomsday Device with Navarro, but Elegance broke it up. Kazarian and Elegance then teamed up on Navarro, with Kazarian planting him with a backstabber for a near fall. The closing stretch turned into an all-out sprint as all six men traded finishers and near falls in rapid succession. Slater eventually connected with a spectacular Swanton 450 Splash on Mr. Elegance, but as he bounced off the impact, Kazarian capitalized by rolling him up for the pinfall.
Your winners, Frankie Kazarian & Cedric Alexander & Mr. Elegance!
The Don West Top Trending Topic of the week is Mike Santana vs. Nic Nemeth at Slammiversary.
Gia Miller interviewed Ricky Sosa. He played football/soccer before entering professional wrestling. After soccer, he transitioned to basketball, but wasn't good at it His father wanted him to pursue tennis and he did that for a year, but it wasn't for him. He was drawn back to football and they talked about the World Cup. Sosa is excited about Belgium. He was asked what he brought from his other sports into professional wrestling. He said that perhaps the celebratory part of showmanship.
TNA Knockouts Champion Heather by Elegance vs. Brittnie Brooks.
Brooks was backed off by the referee while Heather adjusted her makeup. Brook finally grabbed her, nailed a back suplex and a bulldog out of the corner for a two count. Heather caught her in the ropes and snapped her arm, then smacked her into the apron on the flooor. M by Elegance attacked her on the floor before dumping Brooks back into the ring. Heather attacked Brooks arm and drilled her to the mat with a head scissors, before stomping away at Brooks. She locked on a crossarm breaker but Brooks turned it into a pinfall combination. Brooks missed a kick and was nailed with a series of strikes and an Ace Crusher. Heather went back to the arm, working over Brooks. Brooks made it back to her feet, then blocked and reversed a suplex. Brooks nailed a series of forearms and a running uppercut in the corner. Brooks nailed a running knee to the face in the corner, then nailed an Olympic Slam for a two count. She went for an inverted DDT but was caught with a knee to the face, a snapmare and an enziguiri. Heather went to the top but was met by Brooks. Brooks was caught with a springboard Spanish Fly for the pin.
Your winner, Heather by Elegance!
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