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Team Canada's Bobby Rude & Petey Williams vs. Chris Sabin & The Amazing Red vs. Primetime & Christopher Daniel - Tornado Three-Way
This was Daniels' return to the ring from his separated shoulder. The shoulder was taped up. The rules were that three men would be in the ring at the same time. Red, Williams, and Daniels started first going back and forth. Daniels flinged Red into Williams. Red hit a sunset flip on Daniels. Primetime, Rude, and Sabin tagged in and they went into a series of back and forth three-way variations. Sabin hit a hurrananrana on Primetime. Primetime hit an inverted suplex on Sabin, draping him across the ropes. He hit a glancing legdrop on Sabin. Daniels and Primetime doubled on Bobby Rude, who kicked up. Red hit spinkicks on Daniels and Rude. Red went for his sunset flip powerbomb on Rude, but Daniels grabbed him and hit a DDT. Sabin was knocked to the floor. Team Canada began working over Daniels' shoulder. Petey Williams worked over the shoulder. Daniels locked on a sleeper to cut him off. Everytime Sabin tried to get back into the ring, he was cut off by Bobby Rude. Sabin hit a sunset flip over the ropes into the ring on Daniels, who hit a German suplex on Rude as he was pulled over. Primetime tagged in and hit superkicks on everyone. Williams took him down and scored a two count. Primetime put Williams on the ropes. Everyone joined in, leading to a huge pyramid with Williams and Primetime being suplexed off. Daniels and Rude went back and forth in the ring. Williams hit a flying bodypress off the top on Primetime. He hit a side Russian legsweep for a two count. Skipper held Williams up in a suplex for Daniels to come off the ropes with a clothesline. Daniels slipped but saved the move, turning it into a spear off the ropes. Sabin and Williams went back and forth, ending with Sabin hitting a spinning fisherman's suplex. He went to the top but Scott D'Amore shoved him off. Williams hit the Canadian Destroyer on Sabin. Primetime clotheslined Williams over the top to the floor. Daniels hit the Best Moonsault Ever on Rude and scored the pin. Scott D'Amore began screaming outside the ring, irate. There was a small "Welcome back" chant for Daniels. Team Canada laid out everyone else and celebrated, waving their flag. Your winners, Christopher Daniels and Primetime. Way too much going on to keep up with and the best match on the show thus far.
Backstage, Scott Hudson interviewed NWA Tag Team champions The Naturals. The Naturals noted that they went from being the team about to be fired to being "The Team." They dragged Vince Russo in front of the cameras and asked him to celebrate. Russo said that he's trying to do things on the straight and narrow and the Naturals are running around stealing things from the locker room. Public Enemy would be proud! Russo said that they will have a non-title ladder match next week with AMW's ring outfits above the ring. Russo said that if AMW wins, they will get a NWA title match the following week. The Naturals said that if they win, AMW ends up on the Gutcheck list. Russo said, "If you win." America's Most Wanted attacked The Naturals and dragged them into the crowd. James Storm hit Chase Stevens with a chair in the crowd. Chris Harris began beating Andy Douglas with a chair in the bleachers. AMW continued to beat down The Naturals. Security tried to separate everyone.
A pre-taped promo aired with Jeff Jarrett declaring that he will be the past, present and future of TNA.
Mike Tenay and Don West did the hard sell on the AJ Styles website, Jeff Hardy's decision in seven days, Impact! and next week's PPV. AJ Styles came out in street clothes with a ring mic. He said that he was going to nip everything in the bud. He said that Michael Shane and Kazarian have a problem with him being in the X-Division championship. He ran down his championship wrestling and said he won those belts because he can. He said that he was inviting Shane and Kazarian to wrestle him and if either could beat him, they can have a X-Division championship match. Michael Shane and Traci Brooks came out on the stage. Shane said that if AJ is so phenomenal, he can wrestle each of them. He suggested that Styles wrestles one of them at the start of a show and then the other at the end of the night. Styles said that it sounds like a plan, but added the stipulation that if he defeated them both, they were out of "his" X-Division. Kazarian tried to attack Styles from behind but Styles caught him. Shane caught Styles from behind but Styles fought back and clotheslined Shane over the ropes. He hit the discus clothesline on Kazarian. Shane pulled Kazarian out of the ring but Styles dove over the top to the floor on them. Security pulled everyone apart. Fun segment.
Backstage, Scott Hudson interviewed Ken Shamrock. Shamrock said he wasn't part of any team and when he got into the ring, he was doing it all for himself.
They aired a video feature on the Gauntlet For the Gold
Gauntlet for the Gold: NWA champion Jeff Jarrett vs. Ken Shamrock vs. Ron Killings vs. Chad Collyer vs. Konnan vs. BG Jammes vs. Onyx vs. Hotstuff Hernandez
Eliminations are done via over the top rope until it gets down to the last two men, at which point it becomes pinfall or submission. The first man out was Elite Guards' Hotstuff Hernandez. Number two was Ron Killings. Mike Tenay noted that the Guard contacted Jeff Jarrett about coming to TNA as a way to get their foot into TNA. Onyx was #3 and they worked over Killings. Killings came back with a DDT on both. #4 was NWA champion Jeff Jarrett so it was three on one for Killings. Konnan was #5. Konnan cleaned house ands set up Onyx and Hernandez for flying legdrops by Killings. Konnan almost had Jarrett over, but #6 was Chad Collyer, who made the save. #7 was BG Jammes so Shamrock was last. Konnan was tossed over the top but it was missed by the cameras. Shamrock was the final competitor and hit the ring, cleaning house on the Elite Guard with suplexes. Shamrock acted like he snapped and hit Jammes hit a belly to belly suplex. He hit a kick on Killings. The Guard and Jarrett forced Shamrock over the ropes to eliminate him. He loudly screamed, "F***" as I am sure TNA management fainted and wondered who was going to explain their "family friendly" product to Shamrock. Shamrock began kicking the ring steps and slammed a chair on the announcers' table. Don West ran away in fear but returned to commentary. Shamrock went nuts and locked the ankle lock on Chris Vaughn of TNA security on the stage. Shamrock left. Collyer, Onyx, Jammes, and Hernandez were eliminated, so the last two are Killings and Jarrett. Jarrett locked in the figure four as Onyx and Hotstuff Hernandez came back to the ring. Killings had Jarrett pinned but was pulled out of the ring by Hernandez. Onyx tossed Jarrett the NWA championship belt. He hit Killings but BG Jammes broke up the pin. Collyer handed Jarrett a guitar. Shamrock hit the ring and grabbed the guitar. He acted as if he was going to hit Jarrett, but instead hit Killings. Jarrett scored the pin as Mike Tenay screamed in shock. Your winner and still NWA champion Jeff Jarrett!
Next week on NWA:TNA's PPV:
-NWA Tag Team champions The Naturals vs. America's Most Wanted - Nontitle Double Ladder Match
-AJ Styles vs. Kazarian
-Team Canada vs. Christopher Daniels & Primetime & Amazing Red & Chris Sabin
-AJ Styles vs. Michael Shane
-Sabu and Raven will both be appearing
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