This was one packed week in the World of Professional Wrestling. The Road to WrestleMania has finally kicked into high gear with a lot of good entertaining matches and segments. With the train wreak that was Victory Road last Sunday, TNA is worse shape than they have ever been. The main event, Sting vs. Jeff Hardy, could be considered TNA’s equivalent to the Fingerpoke of Doom (if you do not know about this infamous event, look it up and see for yourself). Even in all the horrible booking and unnecessary “controversial” finishes, the Ultimate X and Beer Money vs. Ink Inc. matches are worth your time. Along with those two matches, Sheamus vs. Daniel Bryan from WWE Raw and Sheamus vs. Kofi Kingston and Alberto Del Rio vs. Christian in a Steel Cage Match both from WWE Smackdown are all worthy nominees this week’s award. There can be only one winner and for the first time TNA has won the Silverdome Match of the Week with the Ultimate X match from last Sunday’s Victory Road PPV.
Kazarian, Robbie E, Max Buck and Jeremy Buck competed in the twenty-fourth Ultimate X match in TNA Wrestling history and they all tore down the house in the Impact Zone. It seems that the Ultimate X is the only match that TNA has regularly booked well in these dark ages. Like other gimmick matches, an Ultimate X match can be rather spotty, but most that I have personally watched have had some underlining story to justify the competitors motivations in the match. In this match, the underlining stories were Robbie E wanting to regain the X Division title he lost a few months ago and the ever growing animosity between Max and Jeremy Buck (Generation Me). This match had a lot of good hard hitting moments to go with the nice high-flying spots. Two crazy moments came from Kazarian. The first one saw him fling Robbie E over the ropes and have Robbie E land head first on the steel steps. The second had Kazarian push Max Buck head first into the steel structure that held up the Ultimate X. From there on we got see some great action as these four wrestlers put their bodies on the line in order to grab the X Division Title. Eventually Max and Jeremy Buck would come to blows as the two brothers fought over who should pull down the belt. Taking advantage of Gen Me’s argument, Robbie E would take the brothers both out with a ladder. With Gen Me out of the way, it came down to a race between Kazarian, who was balancing on the Ultimate X cables, and Robbie E, who was climbing a ladder. Kazarian and Robbie E would both reach the title at the same time. So a tug-of-war would ensue between the two of them over who would gain sole possession of the X Division Title. Kazarian would win the tug-of-war and win this exciting Ultimate X match. Even though Victory Road was such a horrible PPV, this match still deserves your time. It is sad to see TNA suffer from sloppy booking when they have talent like the four guys in this match that can go out every night and put on one great show.
As predicted last week, the segments with Snooki were terrible. On the mic, she sounded like an annoying little mouse and she looked like a rat with an over-done tan. It is baffling to try a wrap your brain around North America’s love with Jersey Shore. It is sad that we will be seeing more of Snooki as she will be in a match at WrestleMania. On a lighter note, The Rock continued his war-of-words with John Cena as he had a hilarious confrontation with Kid Cena. The Rock would also turn his attention to the Miz for calling The Rock out last week on Raw. At the end of the show, the Miz would come out dressed as The Rock and attack John Cena to continue this wrestling triangle. In other news, Michael Cole debuted the Cole Mine, a hilarious contraption that houses Cole when he is commentating. Also for all you ROH fans out there, news coming out of Manhattan Mayhem IV is that Eddie Edwards has just won the ROH World Championship from Roderick Strong. Until next Saturday, wrestling fans have a wonderful week and do not to forget to watch some wrestling. Cheers.
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