Ground Zero: Entry 005
TNA Impact 029 - Lockdown [PPV]
- The Killings/Jarrett feud would continue centered around the NWA World Heavyweight Title at Against All Odds. Killings would claim a singles victory over Syxx-Pac on the show following Final Resolution. Killings would also feature in an interesting six-man tag match that would tie in with the follow up rivalry between Harris and Yang in which Killings, Yang & BG James would claim a victory over America's Most Wanted and Tony Mamaluke, a week after Yang had taken AMW to a time limit draw in a 2-on-1 handicap match. Jimmy Yang would successfully defend the X-Division Championship in a match a week before the pay per view by beating Chris Harris before it being revealed that Yang would have to defend his title up against the odds in 10-Man Battle Royal. Meanwhile, Jeff Jarrett had somehow avoided having to break into a sweat and been rested the whole month with it being abundantly clear that Jeff's father Jerry was doing everything in his power to to help his son become the NWA World Heavyweight Champion.
- Deep Blue Sea would be booked in a four way match and would have to defend the NWA World Tag Team Championships against Styles & Lynn, Jarrett's Army and New Church in what would without a shadow of a doubt be the toughest challenge for the team of BG James and Shark Boy
- The tag team scene on TNA has really started to hot up in recent months and string of interesting contests would happen in the early matches on the Against All Odds: M.M.M. would claim victory over Divine Storm and America's Most Wanted would beat The Hotshots. The four way match for the NWA World Tag Team Championships would be one of the best tag team matches in the short history of TNA and more impressively Deep Blue Sea would overcome the odds that had been put in front of them to retain the titles.
- Curt Hennig and Monty Brown would have an outstanding singles match on the mid-card with Hennig claiming the victory. Whilst Jimmy Yang would impress everyone and truly cement himself as a great X-Division champion by outlasting Mamaluke, Slash, Siaki, Syxx, Chris Michaels, Ace Steel, Jimmy Rave and Amazing Red before juking it out with Kid Kash only to throw Kash over the ropes and claim victory in his fourth title defence with Yang very much starting to establish himself as borderline main-event. Jeff Jarrett would have one of the best performances of his career to date in the World Title match, but Ronn Killings would prove why he is at the top of the game as he would see off Jarrett to once again retain the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
- The National Wrestling Alliance goes on record that it has agreed a minimum five year deal with TNA, making Total Nonstop Action Wrestling the main promotion in their overall coalition which currently included NWA UK Hammerlock, NWA Florida, NWA Georgia, NEO Japan, Pro Wrestling Zero1 to name just a few of the promotions that had sign up to work as part of the NWA wresting group.
- Jeff Jarrett would take to the ring on the episode of Impact immediately after Against All Odds and make it clear that his desire to become World Champion would never end, but he needed to take some time to reflect on his situation and work out why he had fallen short so many times now in his pursuit for the biggest prize in NWA/TNA. A week later Jarrett's Army would congregate in the ring with Miss Hemme taking the microphone and stating that currently one member of the group had been holding them back for far too long , before Shamrock and Hall would suddenly turn on Jeff and beat the crap out of him before throwing him the ring ropes seemingly bring an end to the group only for Hemme to reveal herself as the new leader of what was now to be called 'Hemme's Army' with Hall and Shamrock as her loyal soldiers. Jeff and Killings would meet one final time for the world title, but Killings would retain once more with the pair after the match shaking hands before Jeff would lift Ronn's arm in the air (with Jeff now having turned face).
- Lethal Lockdown Storyline: AJ Styles and Jerry Lynn would start talking about the Lockdown PPV in two months time - that two teams of five would meet within six sides of steel with a roof that would lower once everyone was in the ring. AJ and Jerry would put together a team of babyfaces that they had decided to call 'Team TNA'. It was being forecasted that members of Jarrett's Army would be part of the other team involved in the match, although with Destination-X yet to happen this particular storyline was on the back burner. Following a singles victory over Monty Brown, Amazing Red would be offered a chance to join Team TNA which he would gladly accept before making a point that he had a great person in mind to also join the team. With Jimmy Rave being this fourth person, taking the number count of Team TNA to four members total.
- Following up the match at Against All Odds, Kid Kash would be given a second chance at the X-Division Championship but once again Jimmy Yang would go from strength to strength by retaining once again, before it was booked that he would defend the title at Destination-X in the second Ultimate-X in the history of the company against Amazing Red, David Young and Curt Hennig. Meanwhile, Syxx-Pac would win a triple threat match against Lynn and Styles to earn him a shot at the Ronn Killing's World Title at the PPV.
- In the build up match Miss Hemme would be involved in just a bizarre segment in which she would have a singing contest with Quiet Storm with Hemme being booed the moment she started singing to the crowd. Jimmy Rave would claim a victory over Tony Mamaluke, Jeff Jarrett defeating Sonny Siaki and James Storm would make his singles debut with an impressive victory of Jerry Lynn. Styles would also be involved in singles action, by claiming a victory over Monty Brown. In tag-team action Kid Kash and Brian Lee would pair up to claim a win over The Hotshots, whilst MMM (Estrada & Vaughn) would claim a victory over Perfet Day (Francine & Chris Michaels).
- Destination-X would see the championship landscape completely transform with the first change happening in the Ultimate-X match as Jimmy Yang would finally drop the title with David Young and Curt Hennig involved in a stellar performance, but it would be Amazing Red who would climb to the middle of the Ultimate-X to pull down the title and claim the title for himself becoming the sixth X-Division Champion. In the NWA World Tag Team Championship match, Deep Blue Sea would lose to Hall and Shamrock with the pair becoming champions for the second time. The third change would come about as Syxx-Pac would shock everyone by being the man to finally overcome Ronn Killings to claim the victory and become a two time NWA World Heavyweight Champion.
- It would be also announced that Curt Hennig would wrestle for Ring Of Honor for three months in a talent exchange that would see Samoa Joe join TNA on this short-term basis with rumors of Joe being involved in a major storyline.
Amazing Red won the X-Division Championship cementing himself as member of the Upper-Midcarders.
- Lethal Lockdown Storyline: Miss Hemme would make it clear that her Army would be facing Team TNA at Lockdown and would introduce the tag-team of Darren Young and Monty Brown as the two newest member of Hemme's Army. To make the situation even more interest following a victory over his former faction mate Ken Shamrock, Jeff Jarrett would officially become the fifth and final member of Team TNA before laying down a real challenge by offering Miss Hemme a stipulation. Whichever team were to lose at Lockdown, would force to disband as well as all tag-teams under the umbrella. Jerry Lynn would have a chance of winning the world title, but Syxx-Pac would successfully defend the title against the man that had originally won the title from him. Samoe Joe had picked up singles victories over Jimmy Yang, Shark Boy and Amazing Red before being announced as the last and final entry into Lethal Lockdown as the newest member of Hemme's Army. With Hemme standing at the wings but not actually throwing the punches, AJ Styles would stand up to the mark to become the appointed leader of Team TNA going into the pay per view. With a week to go before Lockdown Hall and Shamrock would give Deep Blue Sea their rematch for the NWA World Tag Team Championships , with BG James and Shark Boy reclaiming the titles on the first time of asking leaving Shamrock and Hall suffering a major loss at the worst possible time.
- Deep Blue Sea would be booked to face M.M.M. (Siaki and Estrada) for the titles at Lockdown.
- Shark Boy would host a show called the 'Shark Tank' in which Syxx-Pac and Jimmy Yang would be his guests, but Syxx would say something that would upset Yang as the pair would end up fighting in the middle of the ring with Shark Boy doing his best to broker the peace. The following week Yang would speak out about Syxx insulting him only to find himself being ambushed by Syxx-Pac who would tell Yang that if he wanted to speak his name in public he would teach him a lesson at Lockdown with Jerry Jarrett later that night making it official that the pair would battle for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in six sides of steel.
- Brian Lee who had been the last survivor of the exodus of The New Church (with Malice and Slash recently having left the company) and then losing his new tag-team partner Kid Kash to long-term injury would claim singles victory over Ace Steele, with Ronn Killings also picking up an impressive singles victory over James Storm. Brian Lawler would make his return after injury and would debut a new gimmick of a Fearless Superhero and would complete this return with a victory over Tony Mamaluke (who had started to become a bit of jobber in the company) that would really put Lawler over with the fans.
- Deep Blue Sea would retain the NWA World Tag Team Championships beating Siaki and Estrada, whilst Syxx-Pac would also start his second reign as the NWA World Heavyweight Champion with winning title defence over Jimmy Yang, with Yang impressing on his first match as part of the main-event picture. The Lethal Lockdown match would be the main-event that everyone had been looking forward too with Samoa Joe and AJ Styles really shining through as the top two performers on the night, but the match would finish with Jeff Jarrett hitting Scott Hall with the Stroke to wrap up the contest and give the victory to Team TNA - with Hemme's Army being forced to disband immediately.
- It would be revealed that Scott Hall and Ken Shamrock had made their final TNA appearances and that the pair had signed contract with the WWE. Whilst TNA had managed to sign Bubba Ray & D-Von Dudley and Chris Benoit as well as Jeff Hardy (with Jeff signing a much shorter contract the other three.
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