TNA house show reports in Dublin 10-3

TNA house show reports in Dublin 10-3


By Joshua Hughes

Hey Dave,

Just got back from TNA in Dublin not long ago, was a really fun show.
They drew really badly, entire second tier was curtained off and there
were a lot of empty seats in the lower deck:

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Borash teased that they might do a PPV here and both he and Foley said
we were "honestly" the loudest fans they've had on the whole tour. The
fans who came were actually very into it and there was a good
atmosphere throughout.

1. Hernandez beat Sheik Abdul Bashir with the Border Toss in a fun,
short opener. Scattered "USA!" chants and some fans telling Bashir to
"go home". Never ceases to be weird.

2. Velvet Skye beat Awesome Kong and Taylor Wild in another short match.

3. Samoa Joe choked out Jay Lethal to retain the X Division title in
the best match on the show. They went about fifteen minutes and did a
ton of stuff, Joe was way over as a babyface even though he tried to
turn himself a few times. Great nearfalls at the end, this really got
the crowd going.

4. Beer Money beat the British Invasion. Crowd was awesome for this.
British Invasion did a whole anti-Irish spiel pre-match, looking to
hold a referendum among the fans in the building (following on from
yesterday's passing of the Lisbon Treaty) by asking for a show of
hands as to who wanted Ireland to rejoin the United Kingdom. Ton of
boos for that before they launched into "God Save The Queen".
Interrupted by Beer Money's theme, which immediately had people going
nuts for them. Really fun match with the best heat of the night.

5. Suicide beat Rhino with a Sunset Flip after reversing a Gore
attempt. Suicide also kicked out of the Gore. Crowd wasn't that into
this, the whole Suicide deal was kind of uncomfortable to watch. The
building was full of kids and he kept doing that hand motion where he
pretends to blow his brains out.

6. Team 3D & Abyss beat Angle & Booker & Steiner with Foley as the
special enforcer. Foley was a complete babyface here for some reason,
despite I believe turning on Abyss on TV not long ago. Match was
pretty fun. Angle did virtually nothing, which was weird, Booker and
Steiner did pretty much all the work. Steiner nearly killed Devon on a
top rope belly to belly. They worked the crowd really well and it was
decent despite everyone being pretty clearly broken down. They did a
long, fun post match deal with Foley giving away a piece of the table
to a lucky kid.

They had posters everywhere outside the building and in the media this
week advertising the show with Jarrett and Styles being major parts of
it. People were very disappointed that AJ wasn't there especially, it
seemed.

Really liked the show anyway, will certainly go again if they come back.


By Patrick McHugh