Part 5-A Royal Genesis
January 15th, 2006
TNA Genesis 2006
A new year begins at the same home for TNA Impact as this ppv manages to see the live attendance jump up to a modest 1,055 in attendance.
Pre-show: Team Canada (A-1, Eric Young, and Petey WIlliams) defeat (Kenny King, Jay Lethal, and Lance Hoyt.) Same match as OTL. Nothing to change here.
X division showcase: Sonjay Dutt defeats Matt Bentley (w/Traci) with the Himalayan press. Moonsault into a warrior’s way.
Main card.
The Naturals defeat Karl Anderson and Joey Ryan. Joey and Karl have been working the indies for the last 2 years, so having them take on the Naturals is just a way to showcase them while keeping the Naturals strong. Joey spends too much trying to get people to rub oil on him only for a Natural Selection to end him.
Abyss defeats R-Truth. Just a match to keep the Monster strong. BLACK HOLE SLAM in 5:06
LAX (Homicide and Konnan) defeats The James Gang (Kip and B.G.). On the next episode of Impact, Homicide made his debut by cracking B.G and Kip upside the head with a beer bottles leading to this match.
Monty Brown and Rhyno goes to a no contest.
Hiroshi Tanahashi defeats A.J Styles. Everyone seems to forget that Impact’s relationship with NJPW started well before 2009, so Tanahashi’s here on loan to cover as Team 3d have been sent over to work the Tokyo Dome Show. Tanahashi wins when AJ goes for a spiral tap only for Tana to get his knees up and then finishing it up with a high fly flow.
X Division Championship: Samoa Joe defeats Christopher Daniels when A.J Styles throws in the towel. Same match as otl as A.J joe does the knee strikes to Daniels head for a good minute.
NWA World Heavyweight Championship: Christian Cage defeats Jeff Jarrett. AMW comes in as Jarrett’s wingman, while Christian comes alone. Rhino’s down for the count and Sting’s nowhere to be found. The match goes on for a long 25 minutes the last five just being counters to each other’s finishers. Christian goes for a frog splash, Jarett gets his knees up. Jarrett goes for the Stroke, but Christian manages to bend his knees and roll with Jarett forward into a victory roll but only gets 2. AMW distracts the ref while Gail Kim gets the guitar only to be stopped by a spear from Lexie Fyfe. And then the lights go off. Once they come back on Sting is there to baseball bat both of them, Leaving Christian and Jarett alone. Jarett goes for a kick to the midsection to set up the figure four, but Christian manages to kick him into the turnbuckle. Once Jarett bounces back, Christian turns him around into the Unprettier. 1-2-3. YOUR WINNER AND NEW NWA WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION: CHRISTIAN CAGE!!!!!
January 29, 2006
Royal Rumble 2006
After a long schedule of house shows all over Florida, The Royal Rumble comes to you from the American Airlines Arena in Miami with a healthy 16,000 people in attendance.
Heat: Crusierweight Open for #1 contendership. The Winner of the match goes onto take on Kid Kash later that night. The Future Frankie Kazarian enters the match at #1 while the Nunzio is at #2. This is essentially a gauntlet match. Kaz puts Nunzio down with the Wave of the future at 5:21. #3 Funaki who throws some sharp kicks but ultimately it taken out at 11:46 with a slingshot 2nd rope leg drop. #4 Jamie Noble keeps Kaz busy but he’s taken out at 13:24 with another Wave of the Future. Noble throws a tantrum and skulks up the ring, having taken the loss badly. #5 THE OMEGA Gregory Helms. Helms ended up winning a beat the clock challenge that took place during the last 2 weeks on Velocity to become the last man in the gauntlet. And with him as fresh as a daisy, Helms mops the floor with Kaz which leads to the shining wizard for the win at 20:00.
The Lords of Pain (Regal/Finlay/Burchill) d. The Mexicools ( Juventeud/Psychosis/Super Crazy) Just a simple match to pop the crowd and keep all 6 of them busy. The finish comes when Regal and Finlay lift Psychosis on their shoulders so that Paul can finish him with a doomsday device in 9:23.
Chris Masters (c.) defeats Rob Van Dam for the Intercontinental Championship. After Hunter’s maiming of Ric Flair at Survivor Series, the IC strap was vacated the next night on Raw. This just lead to a 6 pack challenge at New Year’s Revolution between Masters, RVD, Shelton Benjamin, Carlito, Kerwin White, and the newest belligerent of Eric Bischoff: Umaga. Masters won by choking Rob out last with the master lock and the rematch is just to keep him rolling. Rob takes it to him as he normally does, but ultimately Chris takes Rob down by rolling out of the way of the five star frog splash, puts him in the master lock, and then lays flat down on his back to put Rob away this time in 10:30.
“The OMEGA” Gregory Helms d. Kid Kash (c.) for the Crusierweight Championship at 16:23. If Booker and Benoit were not on the card, this would be the workrate match of the night. Constant counters, minimal high flying, and most noteworthy, a simple finish. Kash goes for the Money maker, but Gregory is able to float over midlift to turn him into a victory roll which gets kicked out, only for Gregory to hit The OMEGA shining wizard for the win.
Chris Benoit defeats Booker T in match 5 of the best of 7 series for the vacant United States Championship with 5 rolling German suplexes at 20:34. Match 4 went to Booker after Sharmell sprayed Benoit in the eyes with pepper spray.
Trish Stratus(w/Mickie James) (c.) defeats Ashley Massaro (w/The Hooligans) for the Women’s championship. Ashley won this opportunity last month by winning a Bra and Panties gauntlet at NYR, and this one is basically Trish leading Ashley by the nose to a 2 star match. But there’s another wrinkle here as Ashley wants to learn a bit from the veteran Trish which does not make Mickie a happy camper. Chick Kick to end this in 7:44. Mickie glares and mouths “she is mine.”
John Cena defeats Edge (w/Lita) (c.) by disqualification in 25:26. Edge retains the WWE championship. With the MITB cash in 3 weeks prior at NYR, Edge is going power mad and arrogant as everyone would expect him to be. Constant demand s for the roster and crew to acknowledge him as their champion, berating of the former champs and how no one wanted to watch them anyway, and finally a live sex celebration with LIta which gets cut short by good ol Cena. The two of them go all out to put each other down, so much that Edge manages to pull off an Edgecution at the 15 minute mark and it doesn’t put Cena away. Cena on the other hand does his five moves of doom but also can’t put Edge down for the count. In the final minute, LIta strikes first by missing Cena with the WWE title and when Cena goes to get her out she kicks Edge in the jimmies right in front of the ref, leading to a disqualification. Edge retains.
Randy Orton (c.) defeats Rey Mysterio for the World Heavyweight Championship in 24:59. Pretty much it is the same build as their OTL match but now Randy has the belt. Randy does try to destroy the smaller Rey who manages to counter every one of Randy’s signature moves with one of his own or just shaking himself off his shoulders. The finish comes when Rey goes for the 619 and hits it but Randy is just aware enough to catch Rey into an RKO as Rey jumps off the top rope. Randy Retains.
And that is the undercard: Next time the Royal Rumble Match itself.
THE ROYAL RUMBLE MATCH
#1: Carlito. I’m here to be cool.
#2: Shelton Benjamin enters at #2 to just give the crowd some action.
#3: Matt Hardy. Matt enters next and begins to help Shelton try to get Carlito out.
#4: Mr. Kennedy. Kennedy’s next and throws some drop kicks.
#5: Charlie Haas. Haas comes in next, sees Shelton, and they team up to send Carlito out. Eliminantion #1: Carlito.
#6: Hardcore Holly. Holly comes out next and takes on both of the WGTT.
#7: Orlando Jordan. Jordan comes in and is immediately thrown out by Kennedy. Elimination #2: Orlando Jordan.
#8: Jim Duggan. Duggan comes in and begins a USA chant but is immediately thrown out by Mr. Kennedy. Elimination #3: Jim Duggan.
#9: Idol Stevens (aka Damien Sandow). Stevens and James made their main roster debut on the smackdown after Armageddon along with our next contestant. Stevens looks around and flexes for the crowd, showing that he’s the brawn of the group.
#10: KC James (aka Tye Dillinger). James comes out next with their valet, Michelle Mccool showing the beauty and the brains of the Teacher’s Pet. They get the jump on Holly and throw him out. Elimination #4: Hardcore Holly.
#11: Joey Mercury. Joey comes and begins throwing shots at Matt Hardy, eventually leading to Matt getting dropkicked over the top rope. #5: Matt Hardy
#12: Brian Kendrick. Kendrick comes out next and immediately beelines for Joey. Meanwhile, the WGTT and the Teacher’s Pet and brawling towards the left side of the ring.
#13: Johnny Nitro. Nitro joins in to help his partner while Melina screams for the crowd. No leg split though folks.
#14: Paul London. Paul comes in next and they being brawling just like the WGTT/TP’S.
#15: Big Show. And here comes the big show to hoof everyone out. Eliminations #6-11: Shelton Benjamin, Charlie Haas, KC James, Idol Stevens, Joey Mercury, Brian Kendrick. In the 90 seconds that these eliminations take place, the next entrant comes forth.
#16: Shawn Michaels. Once he gets into the ring, Shawn looks at the Big Show, shrugs his shoulders and begins rope a doping Big Show and potatoing him.
#17: Kane. Kane puts a stop to this with a big boot. Shawn’s rolls out to the floor underneath the bottom rope, so no elimination. Afterwards, Kane and Show hoof the other tag tams out. Eliminations #12 and #13: Paul London, Johnny Nitro.
#18: Simon Dean. Yeah, he gets the bushwhackers treatment. Comes in on the segway, gets in the ring, and is immediately double chokeslammed and thrown out. Elimination #14: Simon Dean.
#19: Trevor Murdoch. Big Trevor comes out to put down a challenge against Kane but doesn’t enter the ring, instead he begins stomping on Shawn Michaels outside the ring. This goes on until the next entrance.
#20: Lance Cade. With his partner on his side, now Trevor enters the ring throwing Michaels in the process and then they begin fighting both Big Show and Kane.
#21: Triple H. The Game appears and locks eyes with Shawn. He lifts him up and hugs him for a couple seconds and then tries to get him out.
#22: Rob Van Dam. Rob helps Cade and Murdoch by Van Terminating Kane over the top rope. Elimination #15: Kane.
#23: Kerwin White. Unfortunately, Kerwin’s there to get the Tazz elimination. Elimination #16: Kerwin White.
#24: Kurt Angle. Kurt comes out rather grumpy and somewhat “clumsy.”
#25: Goldust. Goldust is there to help everyone get The Big Show out of the match. Elimination #17: Big Show.
#26: JBL. JBL comes, guns for Kurt and immediately hoofs him out of the ring. Afterwards, He takes takes out both Cade and Murdoch. Elimination #18-20: Kurt Angle, Lance Cade, and Trevor Murdoch.
#27: Bobby Lashley. Bobby moves toward Goldust and gives him the spear dominator combo. Elimination #21: Goldust.
#28: John Cena. Cena begins teeing off on JBL by throwing a towel at him, in a reference to their I quit match in 2005. They begin throwing punches and keeping each other busy while Mr. Kennedy does try to make a move on Cena, this fails and he is thrown out instead. Elimination #22: Mr. Kennedy
#29: The Undertaker. Taker begins heads to the ring and everyone stops what their doing. Lashley shows some bravery to attack Taker but gets a jab for his efforts. RVD goes next and also gets dropped, Then Shawn, then Cena, then JBL, but Trips waits until everyone else is down before he cracks Taker in the gut with a sledgehammer. This still isn’t enough to put Taker over the ropes but it does wind him from going back on the offensive for about 2 minutes.
#30: Mark Henry. The final man in the Royal Rumble advances with a big splash to RVD and then to Lashley, leading to their own eliminations. Elimination #23 and #24: Bobby Lashley and RVD.
With all the small fry gone, the main eventers pair off: Cena and JBL, Trips and Shawn, Taker and Henry. Cena takes JBL out with a FU over the top rope, only to be immediately thrown out by Trips. Shawn manages to superkick Mark Henry, which leads to a chokeslam from Taker and his elimination. Henry’s down for a couple minutes after it all and the attendants can not get him to his feet. Taker takes a couple smacks around from Trips and Shawn but ultimately, Mark gets back up into the ring splashes all 3 remaining competitors and throws Taker out. Elimination #25: John Bradshaw Layfield. Elimination #26: John Cena. Elimination #27: Mark Henry. Elimination #28 The Undertaker.
Now there are only two men left, Trips and Shawn begin with the tired punchfest for about a minute, but they regain their footing and the match resembles much of their bout at the 2004 Royal Rumble. Finally, after the Pedigree, Trips gets sadistic and grabs the sledgehammer again. He prepares to hit Shawn straight in the back but Shawn rolls out of the way. This continues for two more rolls before Shawn manages to get up and bait Trips into one of the corners. When Trips swings and hits the ringpost with the hammer, the shock causes him to drop the hammer and a sweet chin music out of the ring.
Your Royal Rumble 2006 winner: “The Heartbreak Kid” Shawn Michaels.
“Clumsy”: Drunk.