TNA Wrestling's 'No Surrender 2007' Preview and Predictions

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The streak is over. I have not failed to order a TNA PPV since Victory Road 2004. That’s 33 shows in a row I’ve paid money to see in some form or fashion and it all ends with this event. I’ll say there is a slim chance I’ll end up seeing the PPV live and I’ll explain that at the end but as of now I’ve got no intention to do so. So after 33 shows in a row, the booking has beaten the fun I used to have with this promotion out of me. So welcome to the No Surrender 2007 Preview and Predictions. I will once again do battle with my 1979 U.S. quarter.
In a way the quarter has a great advantage over me when it comes to picking TNA. The reason is random chance, the quarter doesn’t follow the booking or understand the storylines or what should come next it just does what it does. I can’t confirm that my quarter sits in on booking meetings but it does think like them.
I’m also giving my quarter another advantage because I just feel like being generous. I’m going to lay out how this show should be booked in my mind and that’s something that would make complete sense. In other words, I’m dooming myself to failure and bet on my quarter to win. Anyway, we’ve got a lot of matches nobody gives a fuck about so lets get to it.

10 Team Gauntlet for Tag Title Shot at Bound For Glory: Triple X, Team 3D, Styles and Tomko, Raven and Havoc, Sonjay Dutt and Petey Williams, Eric Young
and Shark Boy, The VKM, Motor City Machineguns, The Latin American Xchange, Lance Hoyt and Jimmy Rave.
Standard TNA gauntlet rules apply which is 2 teams start out, every minute a new team enters and when it is down to the final 2 teams, it becomes tag rules.
We can eliminate these teams through the favorite process of elimination steps. First teams that have no chance to win for the obvious reasons are: Raven and Havoc, Eric Young and Shark Boy, Lance Hoyt and Jimmy Rave, Petey Williams and Sonjay Dutt. We’ve already sliced 4 teams off just because they’re tossed together just for this match or in the case of Havoc and Raven would be the worst opponents in a tag title match for any team, ever.
Next team to be sliced off is Team 3-D. I know that Mark Danger picked Team 3-D but he’s going to be wrong. Team 3-D is set for a rematch with the Steiners at Bound for Glory and that isn’t going to be for the tag team titles. Now we’re down to 5 teams left. The Motor City Machineguns won’t win because that would be awesome and people might like to see it. Triple X won’t win because it would be the same deal as the MCMG. That leaves us with Styles/Tomko, LAX and VKM as your finalists.
I’m not thrilling on Styles and Tomko, bet you can’t get which half of this team just doesn’t do it for me. So, that leaves the VKM who TNA has a hard on for dispite the fact the team hasn’t meant anything in nearly 10 years and only really drew any kind of money when they were the bit players in the much larger DX group with the more popular Waltman and HHH. It also leaves LAX who rule the world even though TNA doesn’t wish them to do so.
Logic would tell you VKM will win because TNA loves them so much and that’s why they get 78 second victories over the MCMG who have the misfortune of being talented and an act people like and would like want to pay to see in something meaningful. So logic says VKM will win, but that’s TNA logic, not mine. I think the match I would be setting up at BFG could be kind of fun and that the promo between the 2 teams could work real well. They could argue about which team is the better group of thugs. Plus, I’d love Pacman Jones (spoiler for my tag title pick) to take the Gringo Killa. I’d buy TNA PPV’s for life if that ever happened.
Winners: LAX
I did the coin flip between the last 2 teams LAX and VKM just because I didn’t want to flip to eliminate each team.
Coin Picks: Latin American Xchange

No Disqualification: Black Rain Vs. Chris Harris
I just wanted to write this quick note to tell you all that I have nothing to say about this. I like Harris, Dust-Dust is useless to me, and that is all.
Winner: Chris Harris
Coin Picks: Black Rain

"The War Machine" Rhino Vs. "Cowboy James Storm
I love the James Storm character and if I could still stand to watch iMPACT he would definitely be a highlight for me. This has actually been a fun little feud at least the parts of it that I remember. I know it is really stupid for me to do this considering his PPV record, but I’m going to pick Rhino to finally pick up a win in this one.
Winner: Rhino
Coin Picks: James Storm

Kazarian Vs. Robert Roode w/Ms. Brooks
I don’t know why this match is happening. I don’t know why I should care. I don’t know why I’m supposed to see this on the card and want to pay $30 to see it. I don’t know why I started 3 sentences in a row with that and I don’t know why I don’t just move on.
Winner: Robert Roode
Coin Picks: Kazarian

"The Samoan Submission Machine" Samoa Joe Vs. "The Instant Classic" Christian Cage
If their Destination X main event is any indication this match should be pretty good. I’ve not been watching TNA lately, so I don’t know if they’ve even brought up the fact Christian cheated Joe out of the belt at that show. I’m going to guess not since that was 6 months ago and in the world of TNA that means rouhly 63,000,000,000,000,000,000 years have passed. God bless the guy suing Mike Vick for that amount of money bringing it to my mind and allowing for use on this wrestling preview.
I actually would like to see this match but because of TNA’s black plague of suck the past few months, I shant be at least not paying for it. I remember it was back in June when they were featuring longer matches on iMPACT and seemed to have some decent feuds going I thought the company was starting to find itself. That seems like zillions of quintillions of years ago now. Oh right, the match. Well, it is kind of ashame what they’re doing with both of these guys. It is more of ashame what they’re doing with Samoa Joe. Therefor I hope he wins.
Winner: Samoa Joe
Coin Picks: Christian Cage

TNA X-Division Championship: Kurt Angle Vs. "Black Machismo" Jay Lethal
I realize this goes out the window if the tag title match ends up taking place before this. So I’m thinking that Angle loses the belt here. I’m hoping that TNA has realized the 1-man, all the gold thing is really stupid and it is time to end that experiment once and for all. So, I see Team Pacman coming out and helping to cost Angle the match to put more heat on the tag title match for later. If the tag title match happens first, Team Pacman could interfere in this to gain revenge for a loss but then that screws up my next pick.
Jay Lethal is kind of an afterthought in this match which is really ashame because I still love the Black Machismo gimmick as though it were my own idea. They never should’ve taken the title off of him in the first place.
Winner: Black Machismo Jay Lethal
Coin Picks: Black Machismo Jay Lethal


TNA World Tag Team Championships: Kurt Angle and Sting Vs. Ron "The Truth" Killings and Adam "Pacman" Jones
I believe that the plan is for Angle to wrestle Sting for the world title at Bound for Glorry. That might be a cool match if they hadn’t given it away on iMPACT back in May and had it go 2 minutes before a countout, yay TNA! They did it to pop a rating and it didn’t even accomplish that, Yay TNA! Speaking of things that were done to pop a rating but didn’t, Hi Pacman!! TNA could use this match to set up the BFG main event by having one of the 2 cost the other the match. I think the story works better if Angle costs Sting the match, losing his second belt of the night without it really being his fault. However, if TNA has given up on the Pacman deal they may not put the tag belts on him. My guess is that they hope Pacman with a tag title gets another mention on Sportscenter cause those always add a million viewers to the next iMPACT. The most, and by most, I mean only interesting thing in this match is whether TNA does a bait and switch and has someone other than Pacman wrestle or how they work around his NFL contract. Still not interesting enough to make me want to see it though.
Winner: Pacman and Ron Killings
Coin Picks: Kurt Angle and Sting

TNA World Heavyweight Championship: Kurt Angle Vs. Abyss
It figures that the Pay Per View I decide not to order from TnA is likely going to end up being the one where the thing I actually want to see happens. I believe that Jim Mitchell’s Doomsday clock comes up on Sunday and that spells bad news for Abyss. Plus, if Angle is going to face Sting for the title next month, that kind of means that Angle has to retain the title or Abyss gets another 5 second reign. Given how I’ve laid out the prior 2 matches for Angle I don’t see him losing this one, I think a story where he’s already lost 2 belts, what will he do next is pretty interesting. I guess I just doomed it from happening.
Winner: Kurt Angle
Coin Picks: Kurt Angle

So, I’ll not have coverage of this show. However, if Wade gets bored and decides to order this show, I probably will go watch it at his house on the “nothing to do principle”. Now you may think, there’s no way Wade would get so bored as to order this show. May I remind you that back in June, Wade was so bored he ordered Vengeance which was $10 more than this show and which he paid for all by himself because he found no willing co-viewers. So the possibility of him getting that bored again does exist.
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