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Here's a rundown of last night's TNA Victory Road pay-per-view...

The Motor City Machine Guns and Curry Man (Team TNA) defeated Doug Williams and Alex Kozlov and Tyson Dux (Team International) and Milano Collection A.T. and Masato Yoshino and Puma (Team Japan) and Ultimo Guerrero and Rey Bucanero and Averno (Team Mexico) in a World X Cup elimination match. Yoshino forced Kozlov to tap at 20:30, leaving Yoshino and Shelley as the last two entrants. After a series of nearfalls, Shelly pinned Yoshino.

Gail Kim pinned Angelina Love (w/Velvet Sky). Sky got involved early by breaking up Kim's attempted figure-four around the ringpost. Love's top came undone, but she had a sports bra underneath. Kim scored the clean pin. Sky attacked Kim after the match. The Beautiful People tried to put a brown paper bag over Kim's head, but she rolled out of the ring.

Sonjay Dutt beat Jay Lethal (w/SoCal Val). As Lethal and Dutt battled back inside the ring, Valclimbed onto the ring apron. Lethal ordered her to get back down to ringside. She obeyed. Moments later, Sonjay crawled over and told Val that he loves her. She climbed back onto the ring apron and Lethal walked over to talk to her. Sonjay took advantage of the distraction by rolling up Lethal and using the ropes for leverage while scoring the pin.

LAX (w/Hector Guerrero, Salinas) defeated Robert Roode and James Storm in a fans' revenge match to retain the TNA Tag Titles. At 8:45, Hernandez performed a top rope splash on Roode, but Storm broke up the pin attempt. Still impressive for a man his size. Less than a minute later, Hernandez hoisted Roode onto his shoulders and Hernandez performed a Gringo Cutter off the top rope for the win.

Taylor Wilde pinned Awesome Kong (w/Raisha Saeed) to retain the TNA Knockouts Title. Taylor caught Kong on the ropes and then armdragged her onto the mat. Cool spot and a big bump from Kong. Taylor went for the cover, but Kong kicked out and Taylor overacted as she tried to sell Kong kicking out of the move. A short time later, Kong went for a chokeslam, but Taylor rolled her up and scored the pin.

Volador Jr. defeated Kaz and Daivari and Naruki Doi in an Ultimate X match in the World X Cup Finals. Some insane spots in this one. The craziest came at the end when Daivari was climbing the ropes toward the center of the X. Kaz jumped from the top of the scaffolding and performed a leg drop on Daivari. Amazing spot. With the other wrestlers down, Volador Jr. climbed to the enter and retrieved the X to win the match for his team.

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Kevin Nash was recently interviewed by UK's The Sun. Here's his response to a question about Samoa Joe:

Do you think Samoa Joe is ready to carry the ball?
Yeah. But the thing is, being in that position myself, it takes a while for the fans to build that love affair with you as champion.

They’re in love with you as the underdog, but once you take that next step and become the champion all of a sudden the perspective is different. A lot of times you’ll get an initial pop but then there’ll be a bit of a lull.

But it just takes fans time to adjust. And as a company, if you make that decision you have to stick with it.

Kevin Nash is a fan of Samoa Joe.

The following TNA iMPACT results will air this Thursday, May 29:

- Team 3D and Booker T come out. They talk about being considered the "bad guys" in TNA, but wonder if AJ Styles really is the bad guy for what he did with Karen Angle. Booker complains about not being given what he is promised since arriving in TNA.

LAX comes out and Hector Guerrero announces that Jim Cornette has signed LAX vs. Team 3D at Slammiversary for the TNA Tag Team Titles. Christian Cage and Rhino come out. Cage says Booker can't live off his past anymore and that they will qualify for the King of the Mountain tonight. TNA World Champion Samoa Joe appears in the crowd and informs Booker that he isn't hard to find and that he will remain champion after Slammiversary. AJ Styles then appears and attacks Team 3D with a steel chair.

- Sonjay Dutt and Jay Lethal defeated The Rock N Rave Infection. After the match, Lethal asks Dutt to be his best man and he accepts.

- Angelina Love w/Velvet Sky defeated Roxxi Laveaux. After the match, Love and Sky put a brown bag over Roxxi's head. ODB and Gail Kim (on crutches) come out to make the save.

- Cornette comes to the ring and announces the following matches for Slammiversary: Samoa Joe vs. Robert Roode vs. Booker T and two more challengers, AJ Styles vs. Kurt Angle, Team 3D vs. LAX for the TNA Tag Team Titles and Petey Williams vs. Kaz for the TNA X Division Title. Kevin Nash asks to be involved in King of the Mountain as a special enforcer and Cornette agrees.

- Awesome Kong defeated Leva Bates in an open challenge for $25,000.

- Rhino defeated James Storm to qualify for the King of the Mountain Match.

- Kevin Nash is now working as Cornette's backstage enforcer.

- Christian Cage defeated Tomko to qualify for the King of the Mountain Match.

- Karen Angle comes out to the Impact Zone. AJ Styles' music plays but he doesn't come out. In the back, Kurt Angle is beating up AJ. Kurt enters the Impact Zone and tells Karen to leave. She slaps him and Kurt grabs her. AJ Styles runs out and he brawls with Kurt. Team 3D, Booker T and Tomko run out and attack AJ. Christian Cage runs out to make the save, but he gets taken out. Team 3D, Booker, Tomko and Angle all celebrate.

TNA officials are hopeful that former WWE star Bobby Lashley signs with the company because they see him as another big name with star power.

Kurt Angle and Booker T have been in touch with Lashley a lot recently, trying to recruit him to their side. Most sources believe that it's only a matter of time before Lashley joins TNA.

Do you think Lashley would be a good fit in TNA?

Here are the results from last night's TNA Wrestling pay-per-view, Sacrifice...

Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament - Quarterfinal Match #1: Sting & James Storm vs. Team 3D
Devon with a series of elbow drops over Sting and then a big stomp over the chest. Devon with a snapmare into a headlock. They show a shot of Storm sitting on the ring apron and drinking some beer while Devon has a headlock still applied on Sting. Sting fights back with some elbows on Devon, but Devon rakes the eyes and gets a scoop slam. Devon off the top rope with a flying headbutt, cover, but only a two count. Devon with another headbutt attempt, but Sting rolls out of the way. Sting with some right hands on Devon and a Stinger Splash in the corner. Sting launches Ray into Devon, but misses a Stinger Splash. Ray with a scoop slam, Devon goes up to the top rope and connects with the headbutt to the groin. Devon leaves the ring and pulls a table out. 3D sets up the table, but Sting takes them both out with a double-clothesline. Storm talks trash behind 3D as they look at Sting. 3D then shrugs their shoulders and walk away. Sting then grabs Storm, throws him off the top rope and right through the table! Devon covers Storm and gets the pinfall.
Winners, advancing in the Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament: Team 3D

- Backstage, Lauren is with Frank Trigg. Trigg talks about Kurt Angle suffering an injury competing overseas. Trigg talked about working with Angle and doing some drills and how Angle just didn't feel right. He said Angle just can't do it tonight because his neck is so bad. Lauren asks his take on Samoa Joe vs. Scott Steiner. Trigg said Joe looked so quick at Lockdown, while Steiner has a really respected background in wrestling. His pick tonight is Samoa Joe and doesn't think Steiner can keep up with him.

Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament - Quarterfinal Match #2: Robert Roode & Booker T vs. Christian Cage & Rhino
Roode with some rights on Cage. Cage fights back with some boots in the corner. Cage is up on the top and takes out Roode with a big tornado DDT! Booker tags himself in when Roode crawls to the corner. Booker with some big chest chops and right hands on Cage in the corner. Booker with a big high back body drop on Cage. Booker with a kick to the gut, attempts an Axe Kick, Cage moves and drops Booker in an inverted DDT. Rhino gets the tag and he levels Booker. Rhino with a charge in the corner on Booker. Booker comes back with a spinning back kick on Rhino. Roode tags himself in when Booker comes off the ropes. Roode yells at Booker that he will take care of this. Rhino clotheslines Booker out of the ring. Roode with a knee to the head on Rhino, kick to the gut, attempts the Payoff, but Rhino levels him with a Gore! Rhino hooks the leg and gets the pinfall.
Winners, advancing in the Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament: Christian Cage & Rhino

After the match, Booker T returns to the ring and shakes the hands of Christian Cage and Rhino. Booker raises their hands and claps for them as the fans in Orlando cheer. Booker T then leaves the ring, grabs a steel chair, returns to the ring and takes out both Cage and Rhino with a steel chair!

Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament - Quarterfinal Match #3: Kip James & Matt Morgan vs. LAX w/ Hector Guerrero
Morgan gets the tag and he goes after Hernandez. Hernandez hits two shoulder blocks on Morgan and Morgan won't go down. He finally takes down Morgan with a flying shoulder block, but Kip takes him out. Morgan goes for a big boot, but takes out Kip instead. Hernandez with a big boot of his own on Kip, covers and gets the pinfall.
Winners, advancing in the Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament: LAX

Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament - Quarterfinal Match #4: AJ Styles & Super Eric vs. BG James & TNA Women's Champion Awesome Kong
BG applies a headlock, but AJ Styles fights out of it. BG sets up Styles for a series of rights, but Styles hits the Pele Kick out of no where! Super Eric gets the tag and takes out BG with a few clotheslines. Super Eric with a big right, goes up to the top rope and barely connects with a modified swanton bomb. Kong comes in and Super Eric gives her a scoop slam over BG! Super Eric then does a suicide dive through the ropes to take out Kong. Styles attempts a springboard Corkscrew from the top rope, but Styles catches the ropes and hits his face pretty hard botching the finish. BG picks up Styles, but Styles gets in a small package and gets the pinfall.
Winners, advancing in the Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament: AJ Styles & Super Eric

TerrorDome Match - #1 Contendership for the TNA X Division Title: Curry Man vs. Sonjay Dutt vs. Consequences Creed vs. Shark Boy vs. Jimmy Rave vs. Kaz vs. Alex Shelley vs. Chris Sabin vs. Johnny Devine vs. "Black Machismo" Jay Lethal
The top of the TerrorDome is raised over the cage sides and the bell rings. Everyone begins climbing up the structure on the sides to try and climb out. Curry Man takes out Jimmy Rave with a jawbreaker and big right hand. Referee Rudy Charles is all the way at the top of the cage near the opening. Lots of action and brawling going on in the ring. Kaz with a modified piledriver on Devine. Shark Boy then takes out Kaz and kicks him in the corner. Shelley and Sabin double-team Shark Boy. Sonjay Dutt then takes out Shelley. Shelley fires back dropping Dutt on his face. Lethal goes for the Lethal Combination on Shelley, but Sabin breaks it up and The Machineguns double-team Lethal. Consequences Creed is up top hanging by his legs.

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Forgive us, fans of TNA Wrestling beauties, we do spend far more time talking about WWE Divas than TNA Knockouts. We'll try to remedy that imbalance with the following news and notes:

- According to her MySpace page, Angelina Love is dating Jared Weeks of the rock band Saving Abel.

- Gail Kim is featured on the cover of the next issue of Pro Wrestling Illustrated, which is their special "Report Cards of the Stars" issue. Kim is featured alongside WWE stars Undertaker and Randy Orton.

- Christy Hemme's rock band HEMME is taking a short break. Hemme released the following message on her MySpace page regarding the status of the group:

Don't worry the band is not breaking up but just like any marriage or team effort you need a break to reflect on certain issues and even personal issues among the people at play. We just need a short time to get some stuff back on track and our minds back together to rule as HEMME with one solid mind.

The BB Kings show this Saturday will be canceled and we hope to get things back together before the Michigan show which most likely will happen. So this is not goodbye, just see you in a few. We love your support and couldn't give it up for anything in the world. Thank you very much and we hope you all understand, we are 1, us and you.

Here's a photo array of these three beauties. Click on any of the shots below for enlarged pictures of Angelina Love, Gail Kim and Christy Hemme:

Here are the results for TNA iMPACT, set to air tomorrow night...

- The Motor City Machineguns vs. Shark Boy & Curry Man ended in a No Contest when Scott Steiner and Petey Williams attacked all four men. Steiner then cut a promo on Kurt Angle and Angle came out. They started to brawl with Steiner putting Angle in the Steiner Recliner. Samoa Joe ran out and made the save.

- Backstage, Jeremy Borash was with AJ Styles. Styles has to find a new partner since Tomko is away in Japan.

- Mike Tenay did an in-ring interview with Velvet Sky and Angelina Love. They made fun of Gail Kim and ODB. Kim and OB ran out and they all brawled.

- LAX defeated Kaz & Eric Young. After the match, Homicide asked Hector Guerrero to be in their corner at Sacrifice and Hector accepts.

- Gail Kim & ODB defeated Velvet Sky & Angelina Love.

- AJ Styles & Super Eric defeated The Rock N' Rave Infection.

- TNA World Champion Samoa Joe & Kurt Angle defeated Scott Steiner & TNA X Division Champion Petey Williams. After the match, Angle attacked Joe and then Steiner attacked Angle. Steiner then took out Joe and posed with the TNA Title.

Paul Heyman was far from pleased with the way TNA Wrestling has marketed Samoa Joe since he won the TNA Title earlier this month.

"The live crowd, for the most part, loved the (Joe vs. Kurt Angle pay-per-view) match," Heyman wrote in his UK Sun blog. "Customer satisfaction with the TNA product probably reached an all time high with this match. And yet, NOTHING CHANGED!

"Why? Because TNA had no marketing campaign behind their new champion. 'Crossing the Line' was done by ECW in 1994. David Sahadi is a genius whose videos deserve massive praise, but the theme is the same as what he did for WWE a half decade ago. What public relations firm was hired to make Samoa Joe 'the IT guy' in today's pop culture? What marketing firm was retained to get the TNA name out there?"

Do you agree with Heyman's assessment?

Here's what went down on TNA Wrestling's feature show last night...

Booker T walked to the ring and said he wanted to speak with Sting about last week. Booker said he was wrong to disrespect Sting last week. They shook hands. James Storm, Robert Roode, and Jacqueline walked onto the stage. Storm said Sting and Booker should get married. Roode said everyone, including the fans, want to see Sting and Booker fight.

Jim Cornette walked out and took a shot at how the heels were dressed. Cornette announced the "Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament." He said there would be a tag team tournament on Impact. The winner of the matches advance to the pay-per-view and will face four teams that consist of randomly drawn singles wrestlers. Cornette announced Sting and Booker vs. Roode and Storm for later in the show..

Backstage, Jeremy Broash interviewed A.J. Styles about the tag title tournament. A distraught Karen Angle showed up and said she doesn't belong in TNA because of what Kurt did to her at the pay-per-view. A.J. took her hand and led her away to console her.

Team 3D defeated Black Reign and Rellik in a tournament match in 8:30.

Christian and Rhino defeated The Motor City Machine Guns in 11:15 in a tournament match.

Sting and Booker T beat Robert Roode and James Storm in 11:00.

Samoa Joe defeated Kurt Angle to retain the TNA Title in 23:00.

After the match, Steiner stood over Samoa Joe and said, "Don't ever disrespect me." He was pissed because Kurt forgot his name earlier in the show. Steiner got in Joe's face. Joe slapped Steiner. Cornette came out (because we haven't had enough of him tonight) and booked Joe vs. Angle vs. Steiner in a three-way for the TNA Title at the Sacrifice pay-per-view.

TNA's Slammiversay pay-per-view will take place on June 8. Just where will it be located? A recent press release from the company will answer that question:

TNA Wrestling is proud to announce that its worldwide Pay-Per-View spectacular “Slammiversary 2008” will be held live in the Memphis area at the DeSoto County Civic Center in Southaven, Mississippi at 7 p.m., Sunday, June 8, airing exclusively on Pay-Per-View.

TNA President Dixie Carter made the “Slammiversary” announcement on the “Off The Ropes” ESPN radio show (KQPN 730 AM) in Memphis. The city of Memphis is the top-rated television market in the United States for “TNA iMPACT” on Spike TV (Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT).

“Memphis and the Mid-South know wrestling as well as anyone in the world, and we’re excited to show some of the best fans in the world that TNA has become the new king of professional wrestling action, both in the ring and with our unique fan experience,” Carter said.

“Slammiversary” will celebrate TNA’s sixth anniversary, a feat industry insiders thought impossible when the company debuted in Nashville in 2002. TNA, once labeled as a promotion that wouldn’t last more than a few months, will come to the Memphis to celebrate a worldwide promotion spanning over 110 countries in six years.