TNA Turning Point 2005

PRE-SHOW MATCH:
Buck Quatermain, Joe Dolen, & Joe Doering vs. Lance Hoyt & The Naturals - 4/10

BARBED WIRE MASSACRE:
Sabu vs. Abyss (w/James Mitchell) - 7.25/10

JEFF JARRETT & AMW ARRIVE AT THE ARENA - How despicable of a heel is James Storm? He causally litters!

4 LIVE KRU PROMO - Too much talk about violating people

RODERICK STRONG & ALEX SHELLEY vs. AUSTIN ARIES & MATT BENTLEY (w/Traci) - 5.5/10

MONTY BROWN PROMO - Both goofy and great at the same time. Monty Brown is just plain awesome. Jeff Jarrett was good here, too.

RAVEN vs. CHRIS K - 5.25/10

The ref had no problem with them using a chair, but they never announced any sort of stip.

TEAM CANADA BACKSTAGE - Good

THE 4 LIVE KRU vs. TEAM CANADA (w/Scott D’Amore)- no rating. Great segment.

SIMON DIAMOND PROMO - eh.

BASEBRAWL MATCH:
The Diamonds in the Rough vs. Sonjay Dutt, Chris Sabin, & Dale Torborg (w/AJ Pierzynski) - 4.25/10

CHRISTIAN PROMO - decent

CHRISTIAN CAGE vs. �"THE ALPHA MALE” MONTY BROWN - 6.25/10

BROTHER RAY PROMO - great

TABLES MATCH FOR THE NWA WORLD TAG TEAM TITLES:
America’s Most Wanted vs. Team 3-D - 6.5/10

X-DIVISION TITLE MATCH:
AJ Styles(c) vs. Samoa Joe - 9/10

Hard-hitting awesomeness!

AFTEREMATH - BRILLIANT!

RHINO PROMO - okay

NWA WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE MATCH:
Jeff Jarrett(c) vs. Rhino - 3/10

This was a great hardcore brawl… the problem is that this was just a normal match! If you want to do a hardcore match, announce it as a hardcore match! The way this was done was just ridiculous. The ref decided to let everything until, after Rhino Gored Jarrett through a table down into the entrance tunnel, when there really didn’t seem like there was much of a chance that either man could possibly make it, the ref decides that both wrestlers have until ten to get back in the ring. Both do (Jarrett with help from other heels, though).

Then they wrestled in the ring, and the ref didn’t mind the blatant interference of the heels for a bit, until he randomly decided that it was too much. Then they did a ref bump, and for the rest of the match, the ref was selling for the various weapon shots and interferences, but managed to pop up whenever there was a pinfall being made… and then started selling again after the kickout so that the next interference could happen.

Then the lights went out, and when they came back on, a bunch of scorpions showed up on the PandaTron, as well as Sting’s gear and bat on a chair. This was well done, but it would have been much better without Tenay saying crap like. �"IT’S A SCORPION! The Scorpion has been the symbol associated with only one man!” His reaction just wasn’t natural at all.

Final Thoughts
Overall, a pretty good show from TNA, brought down by a very disappointing main event.