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DVD Review: Best of TNA 2009! Jarrett/Angle II, Joe/Styles/Daniels II, Angle vs.Wolfe!

Posted: Jul 15th 2010 By: CMBurnham

Hey everybody whats up? You probably don't remember me, but I used to write up some reviews for PWBTS before, but had to stop due to going to school and getting my degree. I kind of fell out of watching wrestling regualarly for a while due to time constraints, but with such a
terrible economy I find myself with a degree and no job. Huzzah. Anyway, I thought I'd start to slowly catch up on what I've been missing and occasionally whip up a couple of reviews. I just happened to pick this DVD more or less on a whim and hope you enjoy the review. If anybody wants free content for their website feel free to put this review up on your site, all I ask is that you give credit and provide my e-mail, and perhaps a link back to PWBTS. Also, if you could
e-mail (phantomlordlarz@aol.com) and let me know that'd be super just so I can save the link for my own personal archives. Feedback via e-mail is apprecited as well. Alright, with that out of the way lets get to the wrestling...

1.Sarita Vs Alissa Flash

This would be the debut of Sarita and the Alissa Flash character. Match starts off with Flash spitting in Sarita's face and attacking. She goes for a clothesline, but Sarita ducks it and grabs Alissa's arm and uses it as the base for a fancy springboard armdrag, and then follows up by
dropkicking Alissa to the outside. Sarita continues the assault with a tope sucidia, but gets posted as she goes to pick Alissa up. Alissa works her over on the floor before throwing her back into the ring and putting the boots to her and slamming her for a two count. Sarita tries to fight Alissa off and get back on the offense, but Alissa shoves her into the corner and works her over with some really neat short boot strikes. Flash goes for the irish whip, but Sarita counters by springing off with a massively high cross body for 2. Alissa cuts off the rally with a quick
clothesline however.

They're doing a really good job here of getting over the strength vs speed aspect of this match as Sarita's quick comebacks keep getting cut off just by Flash overpowering her at certain points. To further continue this theme, Alissa starts tossing Sarita around, and goes for a
clothesline, but Sarita blocks the blow and starts opening up with some strikes and rolls her over into a cross arm breaker. She doesn't have enough strength to hold her down though and Alissa just shrugs her off and gives her a curb stomp for two. Tenay doesn't seem to know what to call it, and Don West actually calls it by saying "in my neighborhood that's what we call a curb stomp." Hmm, well somehow I don't see Don West of all people living in some American History X type area, but you know, whatever. Maybe he sells all of that TNA merch by threating to curb stomp those who refuse to buy the product? I know I'd be buying $30 worth of stuff
in order to not have to bite the curb. Anyhow Flash picks her up, but Sarita, who apparently must live in the same neighborhood as Don West, that being one of frequent curb stomps and no doubt much ultraviolence, manages to show that she's still got some life in her after the curb stomp and the ladies struggle over position. Flash, being the stronger of the two wins this battle, and just dumps Sarita on the back of her head for two. Sarita though still won't die, and
looks to mount a rally and tries to roll up Flash, but gets hot shotted for her efforts. Flash decides to finish her off with the Kudo Driver, but this time Sarita does get the roll up and gets the three.

Really good match with a non-stop pace that got both the ladies over. Women's matches featuring women who can actually wrestle is vastly superior to one's where they can't. This also goes to show that you can even have the best of both worlds with good looking girls who can actually wrestle vs good looking women who really can't.

Winner: Sarita
Rating: ***1/4

2.Tables Match: Kurt Angle Vs A. J. Styles

We get a lock up to start and Styles gets a hold of an arm, but Angle makes it to the ropes to force a break. =Second verse, same as the first, as we go back to the lock up, but Angle gets a side headlock takeover to establish parity in the wrestling department. Styles fights up to his
feet and shrugs Angle off into the ropes and hits a gorgeous dropkick, and Angle bails to the outside for a breather. Angle comes back in and gets a double leg and sets Styles up
on the top rope and tries to shove him over, but Styles hooks him with his legs and Angle ends up on the outside. Styles follows him out with a flying forearm off the ring apron. Styles sets up a table, but Angle hustles back into the ring to avoid any potential table breaking, and we've
gotta take a break.

We come back to Angle working over Styles. Styles actually manages to get Angle off of him, but makes the mistake of charging right into a belly-to-belly suplex. Angle gets a table and slides it in, and introduces Styles head into the wood. Kurt goes to further wear A. J. down, by
riding him with a chinlock, but some short elbows break that up. Styles again can't maintain the rally though, as he eats a knee into the breadbasket. Angle tries to seize the advantage by putting AJ through the table, but A.J.'s smart enough to knock the table over so Kurt can't end the match. This leads to both guys throwing bombs to try and get an advantage, and Styles gets it by ducking an Angle shot and crotching him on the up turned table. Nice spot there as it
gave the table tipping an added purpose.

Styles is all fired up now and goes to town on Angle complete with big knee drop and springboard forearm shot. He goes to use the Styles Clash to put Angle through the table,
but Kurt reverses and goes for an overhead slam, but A. J. rolls out of it...right into an ankle lock. Styles boots him off pretty quick and hits the Pele kick. Styles lays Kurt out on the table and goes up top, but takes too long and Angle pops up. Styles though, likely having seen ever Angle match from 2002 onward is ready for this and drops him. Styles tries to come off top, but Angle moves and Styles hits the table, which stuns him enough for Angle to hit the Angle Slam through the table for the win. Not sure this warranted an inclusion on a "Best of" disc, but it was fine.

Winner: Kurt Angle
Rating: ***

3.Empty Arena Match: Kurt Angle Vs Sting

As someone who grew up on Memphis wrestling I got to see the build up for famous Funk/Lawler match like a zillion times. I'd say that would be where the idea for this match
came from, but given this group's love for Attitude era WWE it's probably more like Rock/Mankind than Funk/Lawler. Or given the writing team, they might've caught a re-run of the
old Star Trek episode "Arena" where Kirk fights an alien on an empty planet. I'd sooo rather being watching that than this, but oh well.

-We go to check in with JB whose either outside the Impact Zone, or at a Ted Nugent concert. Given the make up of that crowd, I'd say it could conceivably be either one. JB's all "look the fans are HERE and so you know the area is really empty" and the fans are all like "whoo Sting, yay!" or "hip hip horrary for Angle!", and some are even like "gffuhfwufhfh" or something as they just all start screaming and mumbling like rednecks. If there was ever a moment when
you wanted Don West and some of the boys from his 'hood to show up and start handing out curb stomps, this would probably be it.

-OK now we're in the area. Even though they built this up as this really huge grudge match with guys who can't wait to kill each other in unarmed combat they still take the time to go through the elaborate entrances complete with pyro, lights and entrance music for both. Um, the arena is empty, hence it being an EMPTY ARENA MATCH, why bother with the pagentry?

So yeah, this match is basically them brawling all over the arena. It's sort of like every Balls Mahoney match from the old ECW PPV's but without the enthusiasm or blood or interest or really ANYTHING to captivate one's attention. This goes on and on for what feels like at least a year before Sting threatens to brain Angle with a chair. Someone on the writing team must have aspirations to write for All My Children or perhaps Days of Our Lives, as we just stop the match there and Angle begs Sting to think of his family and not to hit him and Sting's all "take it like a man!," and we switch to goofy camera angles to catch the emotion pouring out from both guys in this raging climax. Oh brother.

Then to make it worse, Kevin Nash wanders out with Scott Steiner and stops Sting from throwing this overly dramatic chair shot and starts sharing his feelings about how the family is coming apart, (this is during the whole Main Event Mafia run), and how both guys need to bury the hatchet, meanwhile Steiner looks like he's on the verge of tears. Whoa Scott, you think you have it bad? I have to actually try and continue on with normal life after witnessing this utter debacle, if anyone's going to get to shed manly tears, it'll be me! If you're wondering what
happens to the match, uh well it just sorta stops there. Yes, they booked a non-finish to an Empty Arena Match. Oh TNA, you and your terrible, terrible booking. This needed more Funk/Lawler and less Days of Our Lives, hell what am I thinking? I could've even managed with more Kirk Vs The Gorn and less TNA style writing.

Winner: Certainly not me after I sat through all of that.
Rating: Like you even need to ask? DUD.

4.No DQ: Jeff Jarrett Vs Kurt Angle
This is the rematch from their awesome 2008 match. We start out with a big slugfest, which JJ wins. Jarrett whips Angle hard into the turnbuckles twice. He goes for an irish whip, but Angle reverses into a sleeper, but JJ just low blows him since it's no DQ. JJ follows up with an
electric chair drop and dropkicks Angle to the outside. Jarrett won't let up though, and follows Angle out and just rams him into all of the guardrails. He tosses Angle back in, but takes a little long to climb back in, which allows Angle to use that as an opportunity to knock Jarrett off of
the apron and into the guardrail. Angle takes a moment to recover, but then goes right after JJ, tossing him back into the ring and firing off a snap suplex for two. Angle just puts the boots to Jarrett and keeps working him over for a couple near falls, before deciding to wear JJ down with the chinlock. Jarrett does the usual fight to one's feet spot, and looks to make a rally, but he makes the mistake of walking to an Angle belly-to-belly for two. Angle goes right back to the chinlock, and we do a repeat of the previous spot, only this time Angle goes for the Angle Slam,
but Jarrett lets the momentum carry him and he uses it to arm drag out of it.

Angle charges at Jarrett, but JJ backdrops him to the floor. Jarrett actually goes for a dive over the top rope, but it isn't the 1980s anymore and Jarrett just can't get the height needed to clear the ropes legit, and actually takes a nasty fall to the head. OUCH! They fight on however, and Angle reverses a JJ whip and sends him into the announce table. Angle grabs the ring bell, and uses it to ring Jarrett's bell. Oh yes, I went there. JJ's busted open now, and Angle is on that cut like a shark smelling blood. Two cliches in a row! I'm on fire! My train of cliches, much like Angle's momentum is abruptly cut off by a desperation DDT on the ramp by Jeff Jarrett. Angle's bleeding now, and it's USWA flashback time as Jarrett's all fired up and sends a bloody Angle all over the set. Angle however, having won a gold medal during the dying days of the USWA, is able to counter this flurry with an Angle Slam off the stage and through the pyro table. This as you can imagine takes it out of both men and they have to slowly crawl back to the ring.

Both guys inch their way up and give each other angry faces on the way. Now this is more like it. No goofy gimmicks, no soap opera level drama, just two guys who hate each other and want to win. Both guy's are hurting now and they just throw caution to the wind and throw big bombs at each other. Jarrett wins the exchange and hits a Pedigree. He covers, but since this isn't the WWE, and Angle isn't young talent on the rise, the move is only good for a two count. JJ looks to carpe diem with the Stroke, but Angle rolls the attempt through into an ankle lock. JJ is in
massive pain, but he manages to roll through to break it. Angle, not one to be easily deterred grabs a chair and looks to use it, but a Jarrett dropkick ruins that idea. Jarrett hits the Stroke, but Angle isn't human, so it only gets 2. Jarrett looks to hit a superplex, but Angle fights him off
and hits a missle dropkick. Angle Slam gets two. Angle's all like "enough of this" and pulls down the straps. Oh it's on!

Angle goes for the ankle lock, but Jarrett kicks him off. Angle goes for a blind charge, but misses and hits his shoulder on the post. Jarrett grabs his trusty guitar, but a punt to the gonads effectively kills that idea. Angle grabs the chair and this time gets the chair shot, but he only gets a two count off of it. Jarrett goes for an enziguri, but Angle ducks it and goes right back to the ankle lock. JJ looks to tap, but he man's up and rolls through into a quick
two count. Angle goes for the Angle Slam again, but Jarrett sees it coming and turns it into a DDT. He goes for the guitar, but it's already broken, so he opts for the chair and gets the head shot, but his ankle gives out. Jeff crawls over and drapes himself over Angle, but Angle cradles him for the pin.

Fantastic match. The complete opposite of the previous match as this really felt like a grudge match. I liked the first match just a tiny bit better, but this was some great stuff.

Winner: Kurt Angle
Rating: ****

5.Ultimate X Match/X Division Title: Red (C) Vs Daniels Vs Homicide Vs Suicide Vs Alex Shelly Vs Chris Sabin

Going to be hard to do PBP for this one, but I'll give it a shot. We get the standard brawl to start, until the ring starts to clear out leaving Red and Daniels. Red ranas Daniels to the outside. Homicide comes in to attack Red, but Red whips him into the ropes, which causes Homicide
to cannonball onto Daniels who's still on the outside. This kicks off the big dive sequence, which ends with Red giving Daniels a rana from the top rope onto the floor to take out everyone. Red and the Machine Guns make it back into the ring and that goes badly for Red as the Guns hit the giant swing/dropkick combo on him. Daniels makes it back in and actually takes out both of the Guns. While that's going on Homicide makes a run at climbing the X, but Suicide springboards up to the X and pulls him down leading to them taking the big fall. Suicide bails after that one and the Guns do a double team stomp on both Homicide and Daniels. Red and the Guns now go back and forth, which ends with the Guns getting a modified Doomsday Device on Red. Suicide has a go of it with the Guns and does OK, but Homicide hits him
with a pumphandle slam and then neckbreakers Red.

Homicide goes to climb the X, but Daniels pulls him down right into a Death Valley Driver, which is pretty awesome. Red catches Daniels in the gut though and then spikes him on his head with the knee high rana. Red heads up the X, but that leaves him wide open for a Suicide
springboard dropkick. Daniels takes out Suicide with a Protoplex and makes the climb. Chris Sabin also heads up and they meet in the middle. Both guys start throwing kicks and
end up having to drop down. They trade some stuff, but Sabin gets a springboard DDT. Suicide then catches him with an inverted pumphandle, but can't pull it off on Shelley who face plants him. Shelley though gets caught by a Homicide lariat. Homicide goes for the Gringo Cutter on Daniels, but Daniels hits an STO instead.

Red takes Daniels out and that leads to the usual Tower of Doom spot where everyone gets taken out in spectatcular fashion. Red manages to make a go of it and gets the better of Homicide and hits him with a Skytwister Press and then a standing moonsault. Cut to Sabin making the climb and taking a Flux Capacitor from Suicide for his troubles. If that wasn't bad enough Daniels follows up and hits him with the BME. Suicide, Daniels and Red all climb up
to the top of the scaffolding. Suicide and Daniels go at it and it ends with a crazy spot as Daniels hits Suicide with an STO off the top of the X. That's just nuts. The Guns start climbing and look the grab the belt in the chaos, but Red drops down through the scaffolding and grabs the belt to retain. Too much stuff going on to really do good PBP, but well worth checking out.

Winner: Red
Rating: ***1/4

6.TNA World Title: A. J. Styles (C) Vs Sting

This whole match came about with Sting "passing the torch" to A.J., but A.J. feeling he needed to beat Sting to legitamize his reign. So Sting is basically the gatekeeper of TNA. At least I guess that's what they were going for, but it would've would made more sense for Sting to challenge the World Champ with the idea of making sure he's worthy of having the belt, not the other way around.

We start off with Styles getting a hiptoss on Sting. Of course to establish that both guys are evenly matched, Sting naturally gets a hiptoss on Styles. Sting then grabs a headlock and they go through all sorts of stuff leading to a stalemate. Just to really hammer it home they go through yet another sequence that ends with a stand off. Now that we've established that indeed, both guys are at an equal level, it's time for the match to begin.

Styles fires off a quick snapmare and then follows up by kicking Sting straight between the shoulder blades. A slam and a big kneedrop gets two. A. J. works Sting over a bit, but Sting ends up reversing an irish whip and sends Styles hard into the buckles. Sting clotheslines A.J. over the top, but holds the ropes open for him and lets him get back in. Sting goes for an ankle pick, but Styles hits the enziguri and follows up with a suplex for two. AJ whips Sting into
the ropes and goes for a backdrop, but puts his head down too early and Sting catches him with a boot and then hits a couple of face plants. Sting gets the big backdrop on AJ, but Styles ends up recovering and hitting Sting with a dropkick causing him to bail. Styles looks to splash Sting
from off the ring apron, but Sting moves and Styles eats steel guardrail. Sting goes for the Stinger Splash on the outside, but this time its Styles who moves and Sting hits the guardrail. Since Styles has so much respect for Sting though, he lets him recover and make his way back to the ring.

Back in the ring, they trade punches, which Styles gets the better of. Styles goes for a big corner splash, but Sting ducks. Stinger Splash attempt #2 goes nowhere however as Styles cuts him off at the pass. Styles charges, but his face quickly meets Sting's boot. Sting goes up top, Styles stops that and goes for a Tombstone, but Sting reverses and hits a Tombstone of his own for two. AJ's still hurt though and he rolls to the outside to take a breather. Sting tries
to keep the pressure on, but Styles shoulderblocks him in the midsection and hits a springs back into the ring with a flying forearm for two. Backbreaker gets two. They start fighting over getting an inverted DDT, this gives Sting the opportunity to hit the Scorpion Death Drop.

Stinger Splash attempt #3 meets with success, and Sting hits a second Scorpion Death Drop for good measure, but it still only gets two. Sting's still got some tricks up his sleeve though and goes for the Scorpion Death Lock, but A.J. powers out of it. A. J. starts firing away, but Sting is
impervious to pain, and he hits a big clothesline that folds A. J. in half. With all of his finishers used up, Sting goes for a superplex, but Styles gets a headbutt and neither guy is in any shape to launch themselves off the top rope. Sting looks to go for something else, but walks right into the Pele and Styles hits a springboard splash for a rather lame finish. Match was fine though.

Winner: A.J. Styles
Rating: ***

7.Desmond Wolfe Vs Kurt Angle

We lock up to start and Angle quickly grabs a hammerlock, but Wolfe's no slouch in the mat wrestling =department and reverses on Angle and takes him down with a back trip. Angle shrugs Wolfe off into the ropes, but Wolfe takes him down with a shoulderblock. Wolfe hits the ropes again, but gets armdragged. Angle goes for a top wrist lock, but that's a British wrestling staple so Wolfe has no trouble reversing it into a hammerlock, another staple of British wrestling. Wolfe transitions that into a wrist lock and uses it to force Angle down and then drops into an arm scissors. Kurt manages to get to his feet and reverses the hold, but reverses THAT and kicks the top ring rope into Angle's face to momentarily stun him. Good god, this is
awesome!

Wolfe works the arm over, he whips Angle into the buckles, but charges right into a boot. Angle gets a suplex for two, followed up by a backbreaker for two. Angle puts him in the corner and rams Wolfe with shoulderblocks to the mid-section. Angle misses a charge and Wolfe grabs a
hammerlock and heel trips him so he lands on his bad arm. Wolfe grabs a wrist lock and uses it to suplex Angle over onto the bad arm. Wolfe whips Angle into the ropes, but puts his head down too soon and Kurt goes for a sunset flip, but Desmond just calmly grabs the bad arm and slams it down. It's great how they're working this as Kurt being in the unfamiliar position of being outwrestled for once, since he normally uses his wrestling to dominate. Wolfe's British
style is totally alien to him as well as he's never faced a top level British wrestler before.

Speaking of the freaky British style, Wolfe grabs an arm scissors and then uses a wrist lock on Angle's free arm and then leans back stretching Angle all out. Angle doesn't have a counter for the shoot wrestling, but Wolfe gets too cocky and poses allowing Angle to take him over. Kurt goes right for the ankle, but Wolfe kicks him off. Desmond gets Angle in the corner and hits a running European uppercut. He goes for #2, but Angle meets him half way and hits the
belly-to-belly. Angle takes him to clothesline city for two. Wolfe actually tries to throw a big lariat to get back on the offense, but Angle ducks and it's time for the Rolling Germans. Angle's all pumped up after hitting one of his biggest weapons and the straps are comin' down baby! He goes for the Angle Slam, but Wolfe armdrags him over and this time gets the lariat for two.

Wolfe goes for a draping Ace Crusher, but Angle counters into the Angle Slam for two. Both guys get to their feet and Wolfe quickly cranks on Kurt's bad arm to take over again. Wolfe goes for a keylock, but Angle snaps him over and grabs the ankle lock. Wolfe's got Kurt scouted though, and rolls that into a figure four armlock. Kurt's not going to have that though and rolls him back into the ankle lock. Wolfe considers tapping, but manages to reach the ropes. Angle Slam attempt gets turned into a DDT, and Wolfe follows up with the draping Ace Crusher for two. He goes for the big lariat, but Angle cuts him off at the pass with one of his own. Angle looks to follow up with the moonsault, but Wolfe avoids it. Wolfe snaps on the keylock, but this time Angle makes it to the ropes. Wolfe looks for a superplex, but Angle blocks it, knocks him off and hits a frog splash for two. Angle goes to kill Wolfe dead with a Tombstone, but
Wolfe reverses it. Angle's all "ah hell no" and scrambles for an ankle lock. Wolfe tries to kick him off, but Kurt's got the death grip on and Wolfe ain't shakin' him off. Wolfe looks to turn over, but Angle's wily veteran instincts take over and he uses Wolfe's counter against him and transitions to a triangle choke for the win.

Great finish to an awesome, awesome match. Here's your reason for getting the DVD as barring Undertaker-HBK this blew away just about everything WWE related from 2009. One of 2009's top matches for sure.

Winner: Kurt Angle
Rating ****3/4

8.TNA World Title: A.J. Styles (C) Vs Daniels Vs Samoa Joe

This would be the rematch from their 2005 match, which is probably the best match in TNA history, and a personal favorite of mine actually. Daniels suckerpunches Styles to start. He goes right after Joe, but that doesn't go too well. Styles recovers and cleans house on both guys. He whips Joe into the corner and hits a flying forearm. He tries for a second whip, but Joe reverses and hits an elbow and an enziguri. Joe's pretty content to beat on A. J., he makes the mistake though of going for a senton and eats a Daniels leg lariat for his trouble. Joe bails, Daniels looks to follow up with a dive, but A. J. rolls him up from behind for two. A. J. starts dropkicking anything that moves before settling down into a side headlock takeover on Daniels.
Daniels fights to his feet so Styles springs off of Joe to take him out and take Daniels back over at the same time. Daniels fights him off a second time and sends A. J. into the ropes, allowing Joe to trip him, which causes A. J. to stumble into an STO from Daniels.

Joe comes in and opens up on Daniels and punts A. J. in the ribs for good measure. Running knee strike on Daniels gets 2. He goes for the leg kicks on Daniels and then rolls him into a knee bar. This is a three way though, so Joe just leaves himself open for a knee drop from A. J. Daniels gets to his feet, but quickly goes back down as A. J. sweeps the leg. Daniels now, has to bail to try and work out his injured leg. A. J. suplexes Joe then gets a bridging Indian deathlock. Daniels breaks it up. Daniels is all over A. J. now. He dropkicks Joe for good measure, and follows up by slamming A. J. on top of him. Daniels actually manages to put a boston crab on A. J. while at the same time locking on a camel clutch on Joe. Ref's not sure who to check for the submission, he decides to check Styles, which allows Joe to bite Daniels
fingers to break the hold. Joe and A. J. are still in a weakened state from the hold however, and Daniels hits a flying forearm on A. J.. He tries to hit one on Joe, but Joe turns it into a uranage.

Joe bootscrapes A. J. and then gives both guys face washers. Joe dropkicks Styles out of the ring, and in doing so lands on Daniels so it was basically a dropkick/senton combo. Joe goes for a big dive on A. J., A. J. however, head kicks him on the way. A. J. returns to the ring to slug it out with Daniels, and hits a suplex. Styles tries for a dive on Samoa Joe, but Joe leg sweeps him. Joe in turn is too focused on Styles allowing Daniels to hit a tope suicida. Daniels goes
for a springboard moonsault, but A. J. catches him and Joe locks on a choke hold. While those two are tied up A. J. hits a crazy dive to take both guys out. The level of choreography here is amazing really. What's even better is that everything makes sense in it's own way. These are some truly talented people here.

Styles rolls Joe back in the ring and hits a tilt-a- whirl hurancanrana. Joe stumbles into the corner. Daniels comes back in but gets slammed down. A. J. then uses the fallen Daniels as a stepping stone to hit Joe with Air Styles and then immediately follows up with a springboard rana on Daniels for two. A. J. makes a go of it with both guys, being that it's a three way though, it doesn't last and he gets overwhelmed by Daniels. Daniels monkey flips Styles into Joe who catches him and powerbombs him onto Daniels to take both guys out. Joe stacks up A. J. with another powerbomb and uses it to transition to a couple different submissions before
settling on a crossface. Styles makes it to the ropes so Joe breaks and then punts Daniels. A. J. charges Joe, but Joe powerslams him for two.

Daniels comes back in and goes after Joe, Joe's just too big and too strong though. Joe goes for the clothesline, Daniels ducks hooks on a Dragon Sleeper. Styles comes over, gets hooked by Daniels who uranages him on top of Joe while dropping Joe down with the inverted DDT. These combo moves are so awesome. It only gets two however. Daniels hits a big knee on A. J. and then DVD's him for two. Daniels goes for a suplex, but A. J. counters into the neckbreaker. A. J. looks to strike with Joe, but apparently Joe must've seen all of those Best of Bas Rutten DVD's as he starts opening up with palm strikes and head kicks. Daniels looks to get the same, but an enziguri changes that outlook.

Daniels goes after A. J. and takes the Pele. The champ is on fire now as he cleans house on everybody. Styles gets a few near falls on Joe before hitting the springboard inverted DDT for another two count. He tries it on Daniels, Daniels however, reverses it into the Last Rites. Daniels goes for the cover, but Joe makes the save. Joe and Daniels struggle over position and Daniels actually manages to get a german suplex on Joe. He gets too cute though, and charges
right into a Muscle Buster. Joe covers, but A. J. saves. A. J. wants to throw, Joe however, isn't interested and drops down and gives A.J. the good old Oklahoma Roll for two. All three guys just start trying to go for everything they have to end it. Joe's the biggest threat, so Daniels and A. J. take him out with a high-low. Daniels and A. J. start going at it, but Joe recovers, knocks A. J. out and looks to Muscle Buster Daniels. Daniels slides over into an STO and hits the BME. He looks to finish, but A. J. hits him with a springboard 450 and covers Joe for the win. I figured they couldn't top '05, and they couldn't, but they could, and did, bring the awesome.

Winner: A. J. Styles
Rating ****3/4

Overall: This is a really good DVD actually. TNA for some reason always seems really stingy with their footage and I would question why you'd only put eight matches on your best
of set, as it just seems really odd. I can understand not wanting to give away too many PPV matches, but at least throw some other TV matches on here since you can't get them on other DVD's anyway. Still 7 good matches out of 8 is well worth the purchase. If you missed it up above I don't care if someone takes this review for their own site but please give credit to me and provide a link to PWBTS as it'll help everybody out.

Tags: Alissa Flash, TNA, A. J. Styles, Sting, Terry Funk, Jerry Lawler, Mankind, ECW, Jeff Jarrett, WWE