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TNA Maximum Impact UK Tour, NOTTINGHAM - REVIEW 26/1/12

Posted: Jan 29th, '12, 10:24
by Big Bad Booty Daddy
Heres a brief review of the TNA Maximum Impact UK Tour from Nottingham last Thursday, which was attended by me and Mr Perfect.

4pm - Me and Mr Perfect attended the fan interaction. Tickets were priced at £25 and you also had to have a ticket for the show aswell which was priced at £35. Lucky for me and Mr Perfect we managed to get two tickets for £17 each. The things that annoyed me about this was it was meant to start at 4pm, we were kept waiting for ages and FINALLY met the wrestlers towards 5.30pm X( . Was not amused!!! We were kept waiting for a while because apparently Sting was going to be at the signings, this never happend!!! Another thing tht annoyed me was that you could take pictures of the wrestlers but NOT with the wrestlers. Im sorry but i spent over £50 on this they should have let people have photos!!

Wrestlers who attended the meeting where -

GUNNER
BULLY RAY
ROBERT ROODE
MADISON RAYNE
GAIL KIM
SAMOA JOE
KURT ANGLE
CRIMSON
MARK HASKINS
DOUG WILLIAMS
TARA
MICKEY JAMES
AJ STYLES
JAMES STORM

Other talent there were -

CHRISTY HEMME
BRIAN AND EARL HEBNER

Wasnt too bad, got a programme signed!!

BULLY RAY - Stayed in character through it all and started arguing with fans!! Was really funny!!
AJ STYLES - Is so arrogant and up himself it is unreal.
BOBBY ROODE - Had a brief chat with him bout ice hockey which was pretty cool.
SAMOA JOE, JAMES STORM, MICKEY JAMES, CHRISTY HEMME AND TARA - Were the nicest out of the bunch!!!

TNA'S SHOW =

CHRISTY HEMME opened the show and was ring announcing, so much better then Borash!!!

GUNNER VS DOUG WILLIAMS -

Nice opening to the night, great match, GUNNER played the perfect heel. Had the whole place boo'ing him. Not a bad match, WILLIAMS got the win, which clearly was for the fans as i havent seen WILLIAMS on TNA IMPACT in months yet GUNNERS been on every week. WILLIAMS got the win. WILLIAMS came out to TNA'S CROSS THE LINE THEME, i think the dude doing the music was having a bad night as WILLIAMS seemed to have different music leaving the arena. 6/10

CRIMSON VS SAMOA JOE -

Crimson was next on, and first to be introduced to the crowd. Again the music guy slipped up by playing Joe's music, when CHRISTY HEMME was introducing EARL HEBNER as ref. The "YOU SCREWED BRET" chants rang around the arena, to which Hebner took his ref shirt off to reveil a "YOUR DAMN RIGHT I DID" aswell as putting some sunglasses on and started mocking Bret Hart, VERY comical. JOE was then introduced to the crowd. He was so over with the crowd it was unreal, chants of "JOE'S GONNA KILL YOU" and "JOE JOE JOE" rang round the arena. Joe even started dancing to a "OLE, OLE, OLE, OLE" chant from the fans. Everytime CRIMSON started beating JOE he kept getting boo'ed. Match finished as a double count out and they both continued to fight each other up to the curtain. Disappointing end to what was a very good match, then again would have been more annoyed to see JOE job to CRIMSON again. 8/10

X DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH - AUSTIN ARIES VS ALEX SHELLEY VS MARK HASKINS -

SHELLEY got a good ovation as he entered the ring, MARK HASKINS was introduced as being from NOTTINGHAM even tho he's from OXFORD. TBH he got no ovation at all, infact alot of people around us where asking who he was lol :D but the biggest chant came for AUSTIN ARIES. Even ARIES criticising the fans didnt seem to get the crowd to boo him. Some great high flying action from these 3. Haskins impressed me, reminds me of an EARLY EDGE!! ARIES got the win. 7/10

KNOCKOUTS CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH - GAIL KIM VS MICKEY JAMES VS TARA VS MADISON RAYNE

TARA didnt get much of a reaction from the crowd, MICKEY JAMES'S was louder. MADISON RAYNE got boo'ed appart from me and MR PERFECT who cheered her. She looked tasty as **** =p~ she also tweeted MR PERFECT before the match!!! PRETTY COOL!!! GAIL KIM got booed aswell. This match wasnt too bad, it was might aswell have been JAMES & TARA vs RAYNE & KIM tho, as appart from a brief moment when TARA and MICKEY fought each other you would have thought it was a tag match. KIM got the after hitting TARA with the belt. 4/10

AJ STYLES VS BULLY RAY

BULLY RAY immediately got the crowd booing him, deffo best performance of the night, chants of "WE WANT DEVON" echo'ed around the arena!!! AJ got a good ovation. The match was pretty steady, wasnt one of AJ's or BULLY RAYS best. But AJ got the win. BULLY RAYS antics were more entertaining then the match. Chants of "PUSSY RAY" echo'ed round the arena. 5/10

TNA WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH - JAMES STORM VS ROBERT ROODE

STORM got a good reception, ROODE'S was split half seemed to be cheering, half booing. Pretty good match, but me and Mr Perfect felt let down as we assumed ANGLE, HOGAN AND STING were going to wrestle after being advertised. STORM and ROODE'S Heavyweight match lasted about 5 minutes before ROODE low blowed STORM and got D/Q. CHRISTY HEMME declaired ROODE as the winner. Which had fans booing.

STING'S music started playing. STING came out and said that TNA hadnt come all the way over to The UK to rip the fans off. So he would team with Storm against Roode and anyone he could find to team with. ANGLE'S music played and he got a good clap from the crowd. He agreed to team with ROODE. Then BULLY RAY came out again and said that STING never did him any favours, so he would team with ANGLE and ROODE against STING and STORM. STING announced that he had another partner to make it 3 vs 3. Eye of the tiger played and out came HOGAN to a standing ovation!!!

STING, STORM, HOGAN VS ANGLE, ROODE AND BULLY RAY

Pretty good match, BULLY RAY, STORM AND ROODE, did the most work altho HOGAN AND STING wrestled alot more then i was expecting!!! Infact ANGLE did the least in the whole match. HOGAN big boot'ed ROODE and STORM hit the leg drop for the 1,2,3. Pretty good match 8/10

Thanks fr reading!! This is a brief review!!!

Feel free to comment/ask questions and ill get bk to you!!!