It is still one of the most awe inspiring stunts in TNA history to this day. Hall of Fame official Earl Hebner was so on top of things that he forgot the rules. Lethal Lockdown rules state that you can win by pinfall or submission but only after everybody was entered. This felt a notch above the previous Lethal Lockdown matches. The intensity was raised a level as there felt like real stakes.
For example when Jeff Jarrett entered Rhino met him at the entrance in attempt to negate the numbers game. They understood the rules and attempted to overcome the man advantage from the jump. Not to mention a bunch of people bled which helped drive home this as more bitter grudge than annual rote tradition. Sometimes these matches can feel like killing time until everybody enters but not here. Sting clearing house was energetic and included a Stinger Spash to four men at once.
There was a crazy Tower of Doom spot and Tower of Doom spots always rule. Plus Steiner threw like fifteen suplexes. The match beyond if you will was strong as well as weapons were introduced and you had what became the yearly AJ Styles cage top spot. The story of this match was simple: everybody hated Christian and Kurt Angle.
Apparently not a single person liked Angle enough to join him in main eventing Lockdown. Or maybe Kurt felt nobody met his standards. Who truly knows? He would have to resort to bringing back Jeff Jarrett, who had stepped off television six months prior after losing to Sting at Bound For Glory, to round out his war partners.
This event was held in St. Louis so Harley Race was brought in as the keeper of the cage. He decked James Mitchell with a frankly dreadful looking punch. This was the show where TNA held the now infamous Electrified Steel Cage match between LAX and Team 3D where the cage was less electric than the lights malfunctioned every time somebody touched it and they started convulsing unconvincingly. Kurt Angle pandered to the crowd coming out in a St. Louis Cardinals shirt. Then Scott Steiner broke out a freaking Frankensteiner.
The crowd went nuts for that and came to life in general. AJ fled the cage I do love how people immediately escaped the cage through the roof the first two years they introduced the roof, thus negating the meaning of the roof though I will take wacky AJ Styles cage stunts over logic to be honest but Kurt Angle followed him. Kurt then punched AJ so hard he went flying off the cage onto a pile of people below. The match was built around whether or not Team Angle could really trust Jeff Jarrett.
Jarrett teased hitting Sting with a guitar for a brief moment before hitting Abyss instead and allowing Sting take the win to prove his selflessness. Everything after the Frankensteiner in this match was great.
That betrayal was the impetus for this match as part of a singles push for Tomko that disappeared shortly after. Tomko, crafty fellow that he is, pretended to be the one to face Christian first but AJ Styles attacked Christian from behind instead with a Flying Forearm Smash. Kevin Nash got a huge reaction when he came out as Boston loves themselves some Big Sexy.
Christian hit a giant crossbody off the cage after taking a pretty nasty looking spill to the floor as the crowd are really elevating the energy of this one. It was cool. He had a perfectly quiet year where he just…….
Christian, Styles and Storm all made their way to the top of the cage. There just so happened to be a table and a ladder up there. How convenient. Styles and Christian battled atop the ladder before Storm pushed them both off the ladder through a table, all while on top of a fifteen foot tall steel cage.
That is a silly thing to do. Anywho, as I said it was the crowd heat that really made this work. Compared to the timid crowd the year before this building was rocking for absolutely everything and that helped raise this match tenfold. Rhino pinned Storm with a Gore, that seemed like it came out of nowhere as a finish. Kevin Nash came in with his elbow taped up from a recent staph infection he suffered.
Pretty long recovery period. The framing of this match was the Main Event Mafia vs. Frontline feud that consumed much of TNA toward the end of and start of You would think that they simply had these two teams wrestle in War Games because makes sense. You would think wrong. This is TNA pal! Samoa Joe won that match and declined the captains role, deferring it to Jeff Jarrett instead. But Joe was still on the team anyway. That whole set was incredibly dumb. AJ Styles wacky stunt alert: AJ once again climbed to the top of the cage and then dived through the top of the cage which seemed not to give way for just a moment but thankfully did onto the Main Event Mafia, who then proceeded to not catch him at all as he went spat on the mat below.
At one stage they cut to six separate camera angles of the match at once all of which were contained in tiny little boxes that were impossible to see, which you can sort of see the idea of in theory but in practice should have been immediately dismissed out of hand. Bobby Lashley emerged from the entranceway afterwards and pointed dramatically at the ring.
Kurt Angle seemed very pleased by this development. A bunch of people opposed them, a riot or two broke out that was the framing for this match.
Basically it was most of the tag team division at the time lumped into Lethal Lockdown. A small touch but a nice one — Doug Williams was out first for his team, Magnus was out second. Storm was out first for his followed by Roode. The only other thing this match is really notable for aside from a nifty Beer Money suplex on top of the cage is a string of just uncomfortable unprotected chair shots by Brother Ray, the worst of which was just a disgusting blow to the head of Rob Terry at ringside.
That establishes the core structure, the babyfaces constantly fighting back creates the drama. Thereby screwing with the structure of the match and necessitating them having somebody taking out Jeff Hardy backstage to fix a problem they openly created themselves. A great deal of this match was the heels fighting off Team Hogan fair and square before being overwhelmed by the numbers game. That is poor messaging. Abyss inhabited by the essence of Hulk Hogan from wearing the hall of fame ring came into this match with a worked hairline hip fracture after Desmond Wolfe ran him over with a car.
Not much happened here to be honest, I always thought Lethal Lockdown worked better in a six sided ring. There was more room, more nooks and crannies for people to disappear into to clear the ring. AJ had two Lethal Lockdowns in a row so who better than Jeff Hardy to take on the mantle of doing something dumb on top of the cage.
He did a splash off the top of a ladder through a table that looked terrifying because he sort of slipped. Sting took a thumbtack bump too which was a novelty at least. Anyway, none of this really mattered. What truly mattered was that the weeks leading to this match were built around whether Hulk Hogan could trust Eric Bischoff or whether Bischoff was secretly siding with Flair. Flair interfered, Hogan made the save.
Bischoff came out and they teased some dissension before Hogan took out Flair so he and Hogan could close the show as best of pals. The crowd seemed to like this but Bischoff came out and prevented Hogan from decking Flair with a bat only to hand Hogan brass knucks instead so it was dumb contrived drama.
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Jerry Lynn awaits his opponent. Aries lost the match and stood right back up afterwards to flip off Callis. The concept of the Lockdown PPV featured every match taking place inside of a steel cage for most of its run. TNA tried to add variety to the shows by coming up with unique twists to make each match feel different. The horrible effects would see the wrestlers having to sell being shocked as the lights flickered when hitting the cage with their bodies.
TNA tried too hard to swerve the audience with some of their finishes to important matches. However, the main event King of the Mountain match completely ruined the show with its ending.
The moment was meant to replicate The Montreal Screwjob but was a huge failure of an idea. Kurt Angle was the story of No Surrender , having three different title matches when holding all the gold in TNA. Unfortunately, Angle was part of a brutal opening match that was done more so to forward the rivalry between him and Sting. Hulk Hogan declared Garett the future of wrestling and he entered a feud against his father, culminating at Lockdown.
Destination X looked like one of the best all-time TNA cards on paper.
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