Lockdown Sucked

Ugh. That was just brutal. Some things in TNA never change. One of their supposed marquee pay-per-views, Lockdown, felt incredibly rushed. Everything that was promised greatly underdelivered. In the end, Mick Foley was right. I'm talking a lot about Lockdown, but not for the reasons he'd have hoped.

The show started off fairly well, in all honesty. The Xscape match was solid as the curtain jerker, and the O of the night might have been Suicide's leap off of the top of the cage. How sad that the spot of the night came 20 minutes into the show. And please always stop referring to any jump he makes as a "Suicide leap", it's not clever. Big ups to Daniels for that spot, as well as pulling double duty.

ODB won Queen Of The Cage. The Knockouts Division has lost its luster lately, because this match seemed like a throwaway. Ditto with the Knockouts Championship match. Braids tied to the cage? Spare me. I'd much rather see Awesome Kong as the big heel champion as opposed to Angelina Love. However, I would be remissed if I didn't give a HUGE O for Dante Ross' babygirl, Awesome Kong, going for a Swanton Bomb during the match. Only memorable moment of the match.

The length and the pace of the IWGP Jr. tag title match bothered me, but what bothers me more is that Hernandez is still stuck in the tag team division. He's one of the most over wrestlers on the roster, why in God's name not cash in on that by pushing him as a main event singles star?

Stevie Richards is in TNA. Meh. That was a weak payoff for the Morgan/Abyss feud. I get that TNA is trying to condition fans to not look at Abyss as a glorified stuntman, but in the process, they've really made him look terrible. He used to be a heartless monster, now he's letting himself get bitchslapped repeatedly by the founder of Right To Censor.

Team 3D vs. Beer Money was far and away the best match of the night, which shows how pointless it is to have an all-cage pay-per-view, because very little of this match involved the cage. One hell of an entertaining match between two stellar tag teams. I O'd for the Bubba Bomb off of the top rope, as well as the several stiff cage door spots. This match should have been the main event, hands down.

The two co-main events blew chunks. They were terrible. Lethal Lockdown offered only two O's in the form of a Frankensteiner and Styles crashing through the cage, teased a heel turn that never happened, and was overall too short and easily forgettable. And Bobby Lashley debuted at the end of the match. Some people were quick to shit on Lashley debuting, and while I was one of them originally, I've since changed my stance. I'm going to give the guy a chance. Unlike Cena, I do believe that Lashley knows how to sell, so hopefully TNA won't try to build him as the no-selling machine that WWE did.

Mick Foley vs. Sting, the main event, was the worst match of the night. It was slow, it was sloppy, the storytelling was terrible, there were no highlights to the match AT ALL. I realize that Mick Foley actually has made a difference in the ratings since he has arrived, and that his segments are generally the highest rated segments on "iMPACT!", but there was no need to give him the title. I'd have rather seen Sting retain the championship than have Foley win it. Especially since they'll probably hotshot the title to someone else in a month at Sacrifice.

Unless this is a way to move to title to Kurt Angle without splitting Sting apart from the Main Event Mafia, this was a pointless and ridiculous move. Honestly, it still is anyway. *sigh* At least there wasn't a "Cuffed In The Cage" match this year.

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