The arena is set up with all kinds of weapons that you’d have seen in the old ECW days, garbage cans, stop signs, etc.
Ric Flair is backstage hitting on a random woman when Matt Morgan warns him, noting what happened to Brett Favre. Morgan asked if it’s true that Eric Bischoff is forcing Mr. Anderson to wrestle with a concussion this week. Flair said wrestling is a tough business and Anderson is going to have to wrestle. Morgan said with all the studies regarding concussions, this isn’t right. Morgan said that back in Flair’s day, we didn’t know what we know now. Flair said in his day, men were men and that Bischoff knows what he’s doing.
Robbie E b Jay Lethal in a non-title street fight when Cookie sprayed spray on tanning spray in Lethals’ eyes and E used the RKO
Tara and Mickie James have a brawl in catering. They take the brawl outside until the other women are all out there. Angelina Love, Velvet Sky, Madison Rayne and Sarita wind up in the building. Tara and James end up in frotn of the people. Ric Flair was one of the people trying to break it up and Tara hit Flair. Then as the brawl contniued, Mickie James hit Flair and he does his first first flop. Flair started screaming at them but they continued to brawl. This set up James & Love & Sky vs. Sarita & Tara & Rayne.
Eric Bischoff and Flair are backstage and Bischoff is laughing about what happened to Flair. Flair asked Bischoff where he was and Bischoff said he was dealing with administrative work. Flair asked where Hogan is. Bischoff said Hogan is working on a major acquisition. Bischoff started yelling at Gunner and Murphy because they almost let Kurt Angle get to them last week. David Sahadi came in and asked Bischoff if he’s really going to have Anderson wrestle with a concussion. Bischoff said all the key people are in agreement that Anderson is going to wrsetle. Sahadi said how Dixie Carter has pledged to protect the health of the wrestlers and that this is a bad idea. Bischoff makes fun of how Carter isn’t in charge.
The Pope does a promo with a casket at ringside. He vowed that he would take the Monster Abyss and put him in the casket. Abyss then came out in the crowd and said Bischoff and Hogan told him to rid the place of The Pope. He’s vowed to also take out the fans and grabbed two fans and left with them as Pope tried to go after him.
EV 2 without RVD come out. Dreamer said how RVD didn’t return any phone calls, texts or e-mails all week. Funny how that always happens in wrestling angles. Dreamer said he wants to nip this before it goes any farther. He said RVD was the one who told him to come to TNA. Dreamer said the thing with Sabu last week was an accident. RVD came out and said he didn’t know who he could trust. Dreamer said he could trust them, and Jeff Hardy was the problem and Eric Bischoff is setting everyone up. While this was going on, Raven started laughing. RVD asked what was so funny and Raven said that Bischoff is just like him, an evil mastermind. RVD and Raven started arguing when Fortune came out. Flair started talking about how EV 2 is falling apart while Fortune is all on the same page. Apparently at the PPV is EV 2 vs. Fortune and the winning team can pick one member of the losing team to lose his job. They also said it’s RVD & RAven vs. Styles & Kazarian o thsi show.
Machine Guns kept the tag titles in a three-way over Ink Inc. and Generation Me. The Guns used the skull and bones to pin Jesse Neal.
Team 3-D came out and said how TNA has the best tag team division in the world. Bubba again announced they were retiring and thanked all the fans. He again challenged the Machine Guns for the title. They all agreed to the match at Turning Point.
Matt Morgan came to Bischoff and told him it’s not smart to have a wrestler working with a concussion. Bischoff said he thinks it’s a great idea. Morgan said people with concussions should be out three months. Bischoff said it’s safe for Anderson to wrestle and announced Anderson vs. Jeff Jarrett in a chain match.
Sarita & Tara & Madison Rayne b Angelina Love & Velvet Sky & Mickei James when Sarita pinned Sky
Morgan wanted to talk with Anderson.
Douglas Williams & A.J. Styles b RVD & Raven. Flair laid out Raven with a belt shot. Raven bled. RVD didn’t see it, but Raven wasn’t there to tag him. Styles and Williams double-teamed RVD and Wiolliams pinned him. RVD was mad at Raven at the end since he didn’t see the belt shot, but did see the blood.
Jarrett vs. Anderson never took place. Morgan came out and said he wouldn’t let Anderson wrsetle. Morgan said he knows Jarrett wrestled with concussions but that they didn’t know then hwat they now know and it’s up to the new generation to look out for the current stars. Jarrett acted like Morgan was kidding.
Jarrett b Morgan in the chain match with a low blow and the stroke. Morgan came back after the match, but then Fortune turned on Morgan and put a beating on him.
