First of all, I apologise for this recap being a bit late. I have other stuff to attend to, you know? So we good? Cool.
Backstage Garett Bischoff asked the other members of his team to allow him to be the first entrant into the Lethal Lockdown match due to his determination to prove himself to them all, so they accepted his decision.
Gunner and Garett started off the Lethal Lockdown with half decent exchanges. Gunner did well considering he had to work with the inexperienced Garett. Bully Ray then entered the fray, where he and Gunner just knocked about their opponent and genrally wasted time until Austin Aries joined them (to a solid reaction from the fans). Fortunately Aries upped the pace and quality of the bout briefly before Bully took the offence to him. Kazarian was next in, sporting a now shaved head. The time then just dragged a bit as Eric Bischoff's team slowly kept Garett and Aries down with strikes.
AJ Styles then entered the cage and managed to get the crowd excited once again with some of his signature maneuvers. Unfortunately this was short lived as Eric's team nonsensically managed to get the upper hand once again, even though the teams were now even. Garett's team should've used AJ's momentum here and started to gain the upper hand before the next participant Christopher Daniels entered and once again helped out his fellow heels in taking control. Mr. Anderson then entered and clumsily clobbered the other team.
Strangely Eric Bischoff then gave his team the edge once again as he came in, even though Ric Flair had been named the fifth member of the unit on Impact. Bischoff held back his son as Bully Ray applied some nasty looking chops. Rob Van Dam was the final entrant as he performed his usual routine of moves that he has done for pretty much every match since joining TNA. The roof of the cage then lowered and Garett's team began taking out Eric's with various weapons attached to it. Shortly after things started to become even again as the wrestlers started performing their signature moves on each other for the strongest part of the match.
As Garett then had Daniels down for a pin his father halted it and whipped him with a kendo stick multiple times. Of course he then made a heroic comeback and smashed his Dad in the head with a prop guitar for the one-two-three and a well received win by the fans in attendance. Not by me so much unfortunately, if it were my choice I wouldn't have either Bischoff in TNA. Overall it wasn't the greatest Lockdown match by a fair distance, but it had it's moments towards the end as the pace picked up and the moves went beyond simple strikes.
Samoa Joe and Magnus (c) defeated Motorcity Machine Guns to retain the TNA Tag Team titles in one of the best tag bouts I've seen in a while. Both teams looked solid here and presented a thoroughly enjoyable match from start to finish, with plenty of nice double team moves. My only gripe was with the quiet fans during it, although I guess they were maybe confused as to who they were meant to be cheering for.
Devon (c) defeated Robbie E to defend his TNA Television Championship in a mostly average contest. Both guys looked decent enough, it just wasn't a match that blew me away. Afterwards Robbie T entered the cage and beat down Devon.
Gail Kim (c) defeated Velvet Sky to retain the TNA Knockouts title in a solid enough encounter. As ever Kim clearly put in her all and wanted to give everyone a worthy title match, and fortunately Sky looked like she also had the same mindset and put in a performance above her usual standard. Kim gained the win with a roll up pin that the referee should've counted faster on, it wasn't believable that Velvet wouldn't have kicked out quicker.
A suited up Ric Flair entered the cage and expressed his anger at Hulk Hogan not leaving him alone and helping end Eric Bischoff's career. Hogan then joined 'The Nature Boy', who claimed he didn't like the way he was running Impact Wrestling. After some more exchanged words Hogan had enough and punched Flair. I'm not quite sure what this segment was meant to achieve, if anything. Hopefully we won't have to witness these two in the ring together again.
Crimson defeated Matt Morgan in a fair match. Morgan had the majority of the attack going but got his leg caught up on the ropes, allowing Crimson to escape from the cage for the win. Judging by the finish I'm guessing this drab feud will continue.
Jeff Hardy defeated Kurt Angle in a thrilling match that lived up to the billing. As expected this was a special bout, but what else would it be with these two involved, and inside a steel structure? I'll admit I wasn't too sure how serious Angle's injury was going into this, so I was predicting him having to take it a little easier then usual, but he certainly didn't let up and both men gave a great performance.
For a mental and exciting finish Hardy performed a Swanton Bomb from the top of the cage onto Angle for the pinfall victory.
ODB and Eric Young (c) defeated Rosita and Sarita to retain the TNA Knockouts Tag Team titles. The match was a largely drab and forgettable affair, with EY remaining on the ropes while his newly wed bride took care of the Mexican America members.
Bobby Roode (c) defeated James Storm to retain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship in a heated and worthy main event. Both men have proven to me since disbanding Beer Money that they are just as effective in the singles division and are two proud performers who went out to put on a World title match that people would remember, and they succeeded.
Now as much as I enjoyed the bout, the result was once again the completely wrong one just like back at Bound For Glory, the fans were screwed. After a brilliant build up for the hometown hero and in form Storm to finally be the man to end Roode's title run, they have him Last Call Superkick the champ out of the cage and give him another screwy win. This was the perfect opportunity for the run to end, everything was set just right, I just cannot fathom why the writers decided to have Roode the victor here.
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