BRM Reviews TNA Lockdown 2012

[Big Red Machine]

TNA Lockdown 2012 (4/15/2012)- Nashville, TN

TEAM GARRETT SEGMENT- good

LETHAL LOCKDOWN MATCH IN WHICH THE LOSING TEAM’S BISCHOFF MUST LEAVE TNA: Garrett Bischoff, Rob Van, Dam, Austin Aries, AJ Styles, & Mr. Anderson vs. Eric Bischoff, Gunner, Bully Ray, Kazarain, & Christopher Daniels- 7.5/10
Great opener, which told its story extremely well. I really enjoyed Bischoff’s hiding, Good stuff. My only problem with this match was the “Eric beating on Garrett” portion of the match went on a bit too long for Garrett to get up as quickly as he did.

STEEL CAGE MATCH FOR THE TNA WORLD TAG TEAM TITLES: Samoa Joe & Magnus(c) vs. The Motor City Machine Guns- 6.25/10
Disappointingly short.

STEEL CAGE MATCH FOR THE TNA TV TITLE: Devon(c) vs. Robbie E. (w/Rob Terry)- 3.75/10
It had no build on TV and the match only went four minutes. Why was this on PPV? The only semi-decent thing about this was the aftermath, which is the sort of thing that you do on TV to lead up to a PPV match! If you cut this out of the PPV, between Robbie’s promo, the entrances, the match, and the aftermath, you have saved yourself ten minutes that could have gone to something else (like, perhaps the “disappointingly short” Tag Team Title match).

MATT MORGAN PROMO- good

STEEL CAGE MATCH FOR THE TNA KNOCKOUTS’ TITLE: Gail Kim(c) (w/Madison Rayne) vs. Velvet Sky- 4.25/10
Taz and Tenay completely no-sold all of Gail’s heel tactics in this match, which really pissed me off. They are just horrible announcers.

HOGAN & FLAIR SEGMENT- a horrendous waste of time (ELEVEN MINUTES!) that resulted in Flair looking dumb and building towards Hogan vs. Flair… IN 2012! If you absolutely had to do a segment like this, it should have been done on Impact this week, not on the PPV.

STEEL CAGE MATCH: Matt Morgan vs. Crimson- 4.75/10
The were definitely holding back here. I loved the finish, though. Morgan gets the moral victory but Crimson gets the win, thus keeping his streak intact.

STEEL CAGE MATCH: Kurt Angle vs. Jeff Hardy- 7.75/10
It really felt liked they just skipped the middle of the match and went from the preliminary stuff straight to the finishers. Still, a great match.

STEEL CAGE MATCH FOR THE TNA KNOCKOUTS TAG TEAM TITLES: Eric Young & ODB(c) vs. Sarita & Rosita- 3.25/10
ODB beats Sarita & Rosita pretty much single-handedly, making them look bad.

BOBBY ROODE PROMO- decent

STEEL CAGE MATCH FOR THE TNA WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE: Bobby Roode(c) vs. James Storm- 8.5/10
An awesome match that told a great story. I don’t think it is possible to watch this match and not be 100% behind James Storm. If I were booking it, I probably would have had Storm go over clean, but I can’t deny that the finish worked as I was just filled with this horrible feeling of disappointment and sadness. The type of feeling that, although you know that life isn’t fair, still makes you want to cry about how unfair it can be.

Overall, a very up and down PPV for TNA. The main matches all delivered, but nothing else did, and I can certainly see others liking the finish to the main event a lot less than I did.

STUPID ANNOUNCER QUOTES:
1. Taz misuses the term “sacrificial lamb.”

2. Tenay- “no weak links on Team Eric”- Ummm… what about Eric himself? He is not a trained wrestler! That seems to make him a major weak link.

3. Tenay miscalls a freakin’ SUPER ANGLE SLAM as a suplex.

[badnewzxl]

I was pretty disappointed with this ppv; mainly for the reason you enjoyed it, lol. I thought most of the matches went WAAAY too slow and there was too much "entertaining" (i.e. all the "acting") and not enough WRESTLING (i.e. action).

the tag title match went super slow, esp considering MCMG were involved. Crimson & Morgan seemed to be saving their energy for something that never came and Lethal Lockdown seemed to be a waste of perfectly good talent (ALL they did was play the one man advantage game the whole time; NOTHING cool at all, which is def disappointing when you have Kaz, Daniels, AJ, Aries, Bully, Anderson, and RVD involved). Devon v. Robbie E shouldn't have happened, esp if all they were gonna do was a 5min match.

Jeff & Angle delivered, and Storm v. Roode was good (too much "entertaining" in there tho. Roode's already over as the selfish guy; they're kicking a dead horse having him do it every single ppv. I'd have liked it better if he put the badmouth to Storm's wife and Montgomery Gentry more before the match, rather than yelling at Storm in the ring), but I would have given Gail v. Velvet a higher rating. It was the first match of the night that looked to me like the wrestlers were actually going at it full speed and not holding back at all. Velvet's sunset bomb was a great spot too. If it didn't have the cheap ending, this match would have been GREAT for a women's title match this day and age on a ppv

[Big Red Machine]

I was pretty disappointed with this ppv; mainly for the reason you enjoyed it, lol. I thought most of the matches went WAAAY too slow and there was too much "entertaining" (i.e. all the "acting") and not enough WRESTLING (i.e. action).

the tag title match went super slow, esp considering MCMG were involved. Crimson & Morgan seemed to be saving their energy for something that never came and Lethal Lockdown seemed to be a waste of perfectly good talent (ALL they did was play the one man advantage game the whole time; NOTHING cool at all, which is def disappointing when you have Kaz, Daniels, AJ, Aries, Bully, Anderson, and RVD involved). Devon v. Robbie E shouldn't have happened, esp if all they were gonna do was a 5min match.

Jeff & Angle delivered, and Storm v. Roode was good (too much "entertaining" in there tho. Roode's already over as the selfish guy; they're kicking a dead horse having him do it every single ppv. I'd have liked it better if he put the badmouth to Storm's wife and Montgomery Gentry more before the match, rather than yelling at Storm in the ring), but I would have given Gail v. Velvet a higher rating. It was the first match of the night that looked to me like the wrestlers were actually going at it full speed and not holding back at all. Velvet's sunset bomb was a great spot too. If it didn't have the cheap ending, this match would have been GREAT for a women's title match this day and age on a ppv

I thought that Lethal Lockdown did a good job of keeping Aries vs. Bully Ray hot, too.

As for Roode and beating a dead horse, this just felt different to me. It was a lot more... personal... but not personal in the usual way. This was personal in a professional way, if that makes any sense. Roode was standing in the middle of the ring in James Storm's home town, dragging Storm around by the hair and shouting "you'll never be anything!"

I understand what you didn't like though. It did feel like this show was just building to something else a lot more than it felt like we were getting resolutions, which isn't good for your second biggest PPV of the year.

[badnewzxl]

I was pretty disappointed with this ppv; mainly for the reason you enjoyed it, lol. I thought most of the matches went WAAAY too slow and there was too much "entertaining" (i.e. all the "acting") and not enough WRESTLING (i.e. action).

the tag title match went super slow, esp considering MCMG were involved. Crimson & Morgan seemed to be saving their energy for something that never came and Lethal Lockdown seemed to be a waste of perfectly good talent (ALL they did was play the one man advantage game the whole time; NOTHING cool at all, which is def disappointing when you have Kaz, Daniels, AJ, Aries, Bully, Anderson, and RVD involved). Devon v. Robbie E shouldn't have happened, esp if all they were gonna do was a 5min match.

Jeff & Angle delivered, and Storm v. Roode was good (too much "entertaining" in there tho. Roode's already over as the selfish guy; they're kicking a dead horse having him do it every single ppv. I'd have liked it better if he put the badmouth to Storm's wife and Montgomery Gentry more before the match, rather than yelling at Storm in the ring), but I would have given Gail v. Velvet a higher rating. It was the first match of the night that looked to me like the wrestlers were actually going at it full speed and not holding back at all. Velvet's sunset bomb was a great spot too. If it didn't have the cheap ending, this match would have been GREAT for a women's title match this day and age on a ppv

I thought that Lethal Lockdown did a good job of keeping Aries vs. Bully Ray hot, too.

As for Roode and beating a dead horse, this just felt different to me. It was a lot more... personal... but not personal in the usual way. This was personal in a professional way, if that makes any sense. Roode was standing in the middle of the ring in James Storm's home town, dragging Storm around by the hair and shouting "you'll never be anything!"

I understand what you didn't like though. It did feel like this show was just building to something else a lot more than it felt like we were getting resolutions, which isn't good for your second biggest PPV of the year.

yeah; unless some major things are gonna go down at Slammiversary, they're putting all their stock into BFG; which def discourages me from wanting to buy any of their other PPVs

[Big Red Machine]

I was pretty disappointed with this ppv; mainly for the reason you enjoyed it, lol. I thought most of the matches went WAAAY too slow and there was too much "entertaining" (i.e. all the "acting") and not enough WRESTLING (i.e. action).

the tag title match went super slow, esp considering MCMG were involved. Crimson & Morgan seemed to be saving their energy for something that never came and Lethal Lockdown seemed to be a waste of perfectly good talent (ALL they did was play the one man advantage game the whole time; NOTHING cool at all, which is def disappointing when you have Kaz, Daniels, AJ, Aries, Bully, Anderson, and RVD involved). Devon v. Robbie E shouldn't have happened, esp if all they were gonna do was a 5min match.

Jeff & Angle delivered, and Storm v. Roode was good (too much "entertaining" in there tho. Roode's already over as the selfish guy; they're kicking a dead horse having him do it every single ppv. I'd have liked it better if he put the badmouth to Storm's wife and Montgomery Gentry more before the match, rather than yelling at Storm in the ring), but I would have given Gail v. Velvet a higher rating. It was the first match of the night that looked to me like the wrestlers were actually going at it full speed and not holding back at all. Velvet's sunset bomb was a great spot too. If it didn't have the cheap ending, this match would have been GREAT for a women's title match this day and age on a ppv

I thought that Lethal Lockdown did a good job of keeping Aries vs. Bully Ray hot, too.

As for Roode and beating a dead horse, this just felt different to me. It was a lot more... personal... but not personal in the usual way. This was personal in a professional way, if that makes any sense. Roode was standing in the middle of the ring in James Storm's home town, dragging Storm around by the hair and shouting "you'll never be anything!"

I understand what you didn't like though. It did feel like this show was just building to something else a lot more than it felt like we were getting resolutions, which isn't good for your second biggest PPV of the year.

yeah; unless some major things are gonna go down at Slammiversary, they're putting all their stock into BFG; which def discourages me from wanting to buy any of their other PPVs

Hopefully it is building to Slammiversary. though, as I think that TNA has really downplayed that show for the past few years (like, since 2008). But, this being TNA, part of me is scared that they will have Storm win on Impact this week.

[badnewzxl]

I'm hoping they AT LEAST bring back the King of the Mountain match. Hell, they've got like eight or nine main event caliber guys; they can easily put five (or even six) of the following guys in that match:

Morgan
Crimson (bc he's undefeated; sooner or later they need to give him some sort of shot at the title. This way, he can be in
there without having a one on one match)
AJ
Anderson
RVD
Roode
Storm
Joe (if they end his tag team before then; tho I hope they don't)
Bully
Hardy
Angle
Sting (he'll be "healed" by then)
Jarrett (if they bring him back in)

[Big Red Machine]

I'm hoping they AT LEAST bring back the King of the Mountain match. Hell, they've got like eight or nine main event caliber guys; they can easily put five (or even six) of the following guys in that match:

Before they turned Aries babyface, I was dead certain that they were building to a King of the Mountain match with Storm, Roode, Bully Ray, Jeff Hardy, & Kurt Angle.

[cero2k]

i still believe that they're building to a king of the mountain. i wouldn't be surprised if JJ returned for it being that he's done with AAA and i'm sure he can take some time away from ring ka king now that it's in motion