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-[TNA Hard Justice 2009-08-16]-

First on the card at Hard Justice was the Steel Asylum match that included pretty much the entire X-Division competing for number one contendership to the X-Division title. The Pope D’Angleo Dinero also made his debut in TNA, the Motor City Machine Guns, Jay Lethal, Consequences Creed, Suicide, Amazing Red, and Daniels who eventually won the match. I can’t say enough about the action involved in the Asylum except, the first match was worth the cost of the entire PPV.

Abyss beat Jethro Holiday, no surprise there.

What was surprising was that Hernandez took on all of the British Invasion by himself and won the match between him and Rob Terry in under three minutes getting his feast or fired case back.

Beer Money vs Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams was the typically great TNA tag team match won by the British Invasion after a distraction from Eric Young.

ODB and Cody Deaner faced The Beautiful People for the Knockout Championship. As ridiculous as Deaner is, he and ODB make a great pair and the two won the match after Madison Rayne screwed up and sprayed Velvet Sky with hairspray to the eyes instead of Deaner. Cody Deaner wins the match and the Knockout Championship title? This reminds me alot of the “Miss Wrestlemania” contest. Madison Rayne has evidentally been ex-communicated from the Beautiful People.

In the next Hard Justice event, Samoa Joe fought X-Division Champion Homicide in a match that was brutal. Homicide made a good showing, but Joe was, ultimately, too strong for Homicide once the “clutch” was applied. Samoa Joe becomes the new X-Division Champ, but Homicide has shown his potential as a true contender for Joe.

The Team 3D vs Scott Steiner and Booker T no disqualification match was out and out violent. Steiner made an exciting leap from one of the entrance alcoves among the crowd onto Bubba Ray and Booker T “Book Ended” Bubba Ray through a table. The match was wrought with pin attempts and ended as both Brother Devon pinned Booker T and Scott Steiner pinned Bubba Ray. The referees reviewed the video footage and declared Scott Steiner and Booker T the winners.

The next TNA Hard Justice match featured Kevin Nash vs Mick Foley for the Legends Championship belt. This match is setup around the classic story of “heart” vs “money”. Foley took one hell of a beating from Kevin Nash. At one point, Foley’s blood was splattered across a camera lens and still, Nash beat on him mercilessly. Foley turned the match around at one point and went Catus Jack all over Nash, but was ultimately defeated due to a distraction by Traci Brooks. The match ended with Kevin Nash pinning Mick Foley after striking him in the head with a barbed wire baseball bat. Foley was saved by Abyss who showed up with a barbed wire baseball bat of his own to chase Nash from the ring, but both wrestlers left the ring a bloody mess.

The final match of the evening was Sting vs Matt Morgan vs Kurt Angle in a Triple Threat match for the TNA World Championship title. Early in the match-up, Sting took on both Morgan and Angle single-handedly, but that did not last since Morgan and Angle were working on the same page to try and keep the belt from Sting. After a small tussle between Angle and Sting, Morgan took control and dominated the match for the most part. Eventually, Matt and Kurt’s partnership erupted outside the ring where Matt laid Kurt out with a “Carbon Footprint” to the concrete floor. The referee became caught up with Angle’s condition outside the ring until Morgan laid Sting out with another “Carbon Footprint”. As the referee counted, Angle pulled him out of the ring and whacked Matt Morgan with a chair allowing Kurt Angle the win. Looks like this was another great night to be Main Event Mafia.

Thus ended the TNA Hard Justice 2009 PPV, if you have not seen it, watch it. The first match alone was worth it.