TNA Impact Wrestling: Lockdown Spoilers for 2/23/16

[DreamBroken]

TNA Impact Wrestling: Lockdown - Airing February 23, 2016 from London, England at the Wembley.

 

*Ethan Carter III & Rockstar Spud come to the ring for a promo, hyping EC3's rematch with Matt Hardy tonight in the steel cage. Matt interrupts and they argue back and forth.

 

*Beer Money def. Bram & Eric Young in a Steel Cage match.

 

*Trevor Lee def. Tigre Uno in a Steel Cage match to retain the X Division Title

 

*The Dollhouse def. Gail Kim & The Beautiful People in the Lethal Lockdown Steel Cage match.

 

*Kurt Angle and Lashley promo hyping their upcoming match which is to be Angle's last.

 

*Odarg the Great def. Eli Drake in a Steel Cage match.

 

*Matt Hardy (w/ Tyrus) def. Ethan Carter III (w/ Rockstar Spud) in a Steel Cage match to retain the TNA World Title after Spud turned on EC3.

 

 

History made as heels win Lethal Lockdown for the first time ever!

[Hollywood Cibernetico]

Imagine is TNA gave Alissa Flash, Awesome Kong, Hamada, Gail Kim, Sarita, and Taylor Wilde a 20 minute LL match? It probably would have been beyond amazing. As this is the first (and last?) KOs LL, I will definitely check it out, but with people like Velvet, Bell, and Rebel in it, I am not expecting much.

[pgi86]

I thought this was cool. The Wembley crowd singing along to EC3's theme song:

 

https://twitter.com/DirteeJesus/status/693530895685410816/video/1

 

Anyway, Spud vs. EC3, with the roles reversed this time, should be a lot of fun. Spud is tremendous as a heel and by the sound of it looks like EC3 as a babyface has been working out quite well so far. Should make for some fun TV.

[RIPPA]

Turning Spud in London is an interesting decision

And for once you can have a logical reason for it too

[MGFanJay]

This show sucked. EC3 vs. Matt was 99% angle, and not much of that was good. Lethal Lockdown with the knockouts was largely negated by having an ad break during the Jade-Gail portion, giving us all of the worst workers in full. At least Maria's booty-showcasing getup made its TNA debut. And they chose to censor Eli's ass instead of hers - which was a wise move.

 

http://jayreviewsthings.blogspot.com/2016/02/tna-impact-wrestling-2-23-16.html

 

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Knockouts Revolution

 

 

 

 

http://www.imagebam.com/gallery/djcomtj5h218n51sg572xbp92ln3wdla

[Nice Guy Eddie]

Maria has the best backside in the biz. Mike Bennett is a lucky, lucky man waking up next to her everyday.

[Tim Evans]

Josh Matthews call of the Spud turn might have been his worst yet. So wooden and without any emotion at all. The crowd didn't even boo, they were just silent. The end to Drake/Grado was so bad that Pope was laughing on commentary.

[BrianS81177]

I haven't watched Impact in a while (since Hardy won the belt) so I'm a little out of the loop. Who is the Jimmy Jacobs looking british dude that Abyss' shitty new stable was beating up?

[DreamBroken]

Liked the first two matches. Lethal Lockdown was disappointing considering most years were either 5 on 5 or 4 on 4 then tonight we can't even get 3 on 3 but a handicap match. Eli Drake continues to be an entertaining heel and on the mic. Main event was nothing special but had a solid build, dug the long backstage walks leading in to the entrances.

 

 

I haven't watched Impact in a while (since Hardy won the belt) so I'm a little out of the loop. Who is the Jimmy Jacobs looking british dude that Abyss' shitty new stable was beating up?

 

UK regular Jimmy Havoc, he just showed up on Impact last week. Haven't cared for his bits thus far but still enjoy Decay as an overall act.

[MGFanJay]

Between Rosemary and Jimmy though, they really do need to NAME THESE ACTS ON DAY ONE. I shouldn't have to go to fucking Twitter to find out names of TNA talent while the show is on the air.

[Godfrey]

Good ep.

[Web Conn]

Been a while since I have fired up the old Pluto Machine and wrote a review of whats on Impact's Pluto Channel. This is the final Lockdown as of 2022, Lockdown was to come back in 2020 and well Covid happened. I wasn't watching TNA at this point in time in 2016 as I was in college and did't get Pop TV in the dorms. I'm watching this for the first time.

Beer Money vs Bram and Eric Young was a good match, great way to open the show. Storm, Roode and Young were mainstays in TNA for a long time. Shit Storm and Young are back in Impact now. Bobby Roode could go back tomorrow and be welcomed with open arms. If Billy Corgan was still involved with the company Bram would be a main event player in the company right now. What I'm trying to say is this was a match between a bunch of guys that you could put anywhere on the card and they will deliver and they were seemingly getting Bram ready for a run by having in the ring with 3 guys as talented as Roode, Storm and Young are to have him under the learning tree, but Corgan left TNA/Impact for reasons and brought the NWA and now Bram is prominently featured in Corgans NWA.

EC3 made it clear that he was a babyface now by thanking Rockstar Spud for saving his ass the week prior. EC3 is facing Matt Hardy in the Main Event for the TNA World Heavyweight Title, and from what i've been able to gather from this promo, as I didn't follow TNA regularly at the time and this is all new to me, is that the Hardy Feud has humbled him and now he is truly ready for the challenge. He gets Kurt Angle's blessing backstage later in the show so he's making amends with all past advisories throughout the night.

I had internet connection problems during Shane Helms' promo with JB and i caught the tail end of Jimmy Havoc's promo. Jimmy Havoc was in TNA? That's new to me or maybe I did know that I can't remember.

Trevor Lee vs Tigre Uno. This wasn't a bad match. I remember back in 14 I saw Tigre on an episode of IMPACT! on Spike in a multi man X Division bout so he was in TNA longer than I thought. Is trevor Lee still in NXT? This wasn't a bad match nothing really stands out but nothing pissed me off either it was just kinda there.

At the top of the 2nd Hour we get the Lethal Lockdown match. The final Lethal Lockdown match was also the first Knockouts Lethal Lockdown so we have them to blame. I tease actually this wasn't a bad match even with Rebel involved (I tease again) but I don't know how I feel about it being a handicap match. Madison Rayne was taking out by The Dollhouse backstage before the match. They had Gail Kim go up to Maria and pretty much told her to step up and take Madison's place and well lets just say that Maria teases stepping up but then she locks the cage and starts the "match beyond, if you weel" so they set up the feud between Gail Kim and Maria with this but IDK it felt kinda idk anglely but Velvet and Kim did hit Rebel with Kendo Sticks so they got some revenge on The Dollhouse before the numbers advantage took over and The Dollhouse win. This wasn't the best Lethal Lockdown that may be EV2 vs Fortune and actually this may have been the worse just from being 3 on 2 and being hindered by TV restraints.

We get a Decay video, TNA really got a lot out of of having the licensing rights to a Marylin Manson song. 

We get a flashback in saturated colors of Lashley vs Kurt Angle for the TNA World Title. IDK when this took place but from the highlights it looked pretty good.

Kurt Angle now comes out to the ring. Kurt is on his farewell tour he brought this up the fans boo that then he says he's happy it's in the UK and the crowd pops he brings up beating Bobby Lashley for the World Title the year before in the UK which brings out Lashley. Lashley seems to think Kurt has become soft, he want's Kurt to light a fire inside so they can have one last epic but he doesn't think Kurt is there yet. Kurt seems fired up he want's Lashley right here right now this gets the crowd excited but Lashley leaves. Pretty good build towards Kurt's final TNA match.

Grado is doing a Midnight Rider gimmick he's under the Hood and Odarg the Great and he's wrestling Eli Drake who is dead set on revealing to the world that Odarg and Grado are the same person. Drake cuts a promo before the match expressing just that. I love angles like this, It's so clearly Grado and the nonsense is just too much from Drake to entertain but he's such a dick that you enjoy him being annoyed and are in on the joke of Odarg and Grado being different people as it antagonizes Drake and that's just too much fun not to do. This was a fun match they did't try to reinvent the wheel or anything. Not Hector Garza came out to Ordargs aid, Odarg climbs the cage Drake follows grabs the mask and Odarg drops to the ground maskless and is revealed to be Grado.

Abyss see's Jimmy Havoc backstage and tells him to stay away from Rosemary which leaves havoc in a pool of his own blood.

There's a backstage segment where Drake gets Grado kicked out of the building, Billy Corgan is there and Ron and Don Harris escort Grado out of the building. Ron and Don Harris were still employed by TNA in 2016 and were flown to the UK. That's wild. of all the people I thought I'd see appear on this episode I was not expecting Ron and Don Harris to show up.

Miracle Mike Bennett promo I wasn't really paying attention as I was writing about The Harris Brothers making a cameo on IMPACT! in 2016. But Mike Bennett is here in TNA and he's a miracle or something.

Main Event time! EC3 gets along entrance from backstage to the ring so does Hardy. Match has a big fight feel. Hardy is wearing his Broken Make jacket but he's not Broken yet. Tyrus or Brodus Clay is his heavy. I do think this should have gotten boxing style intros with both men in the ring that is the TNA way for a world title match but TNA has always followed it's own rules very loosely. The match was good, EC3 looked like a million bucks. He kept up with Matt, he even the odds with the big man Tyrus by locking him to the turnbuckle and hitting him with a chair. The crowd was behind EC3 but i mean EC3 was built up all night lime this was going to be his night. EC3 kicked out of a Twist of fate with a chair on his neck. he lowblows Hardy this is his match to lose, Reby who I thought was Maria from a far, comes out with a hammer and Rockstar Spud runs out and stops Reby but Spud turns on EC3 by slamming the door on his head and Matt Hardy retains the Championship. Well in Keeping in TNA tradition they build a guy up to win the World Title and then do not deliver on the build. I liked this until the heel turn Spud hits EC3 in the head with a chair as we go off the air. A heel World Champion has a. stable of goons to do his bidding, sound familiar?