1.    Ladder match: Brian Kendrick vs. Amazing Red vs. Daniels vs. Kazarian

The winner of this match would be the number one contender to the X Division Championship. This was a great spot fest match and a really fun way to kick off the PPV. All four guys got to shine and the match was given a good amount of time. Red and Kaz team up on the heels in the early going, sending them to the outside before Red hits a great corkscrew plancha over the top rope to the outside. Daniels, Kendrick, and Red each unsuccessfully go for the contract before Daniels gets a ladder dropkicked into his face. Red and Kendrick fall off a ladder into the corner while going for the contract. Daniels hits an STO to Kendrick before the action moves to the ringside area. A ladder is propped up from the ring to the guard rail. Kendrick gets front suplexed on the ladder before Kaz is also planted on it. Daniels stands on the ladder before Red comes off the top rope with a hurricanrana sending Daniels to the floor. Kaz and Red scale the ladder in the ring but Kendrick pushes it over. Kaz goes face first into the ladder before he hits a leg drop that sends Daniels into the ladder. Kaz again eats the ladder before Daniels props it up and slams Red on it. Kaz gets back dropped on another ladder before Kendrick unsuccessfully goes for the contract and gets tossed into a ladder in the corner. Daniels climbs the ladder but Kaz pulls him off and powerbombs him into the ladder in the corner. Kendrick takes Kaz off the other ladder with a face buster. Kaz nails a cutter on Red but eats Sliced Bread from Kendrick (no pun intended). Daniels hits a Death Valley Driver to Kendrick before 2 ladders are set up side by side in the ring. Daniels gives Red a uranage off the ladders before trapping Red and Kendrick in the rungs at the bottom. Kaz gets on the ladder and  back body drops Daniels off of it. He then knocks Kendrick off the ladder before grabbing the contract. Great opener. Match Time: 13:44     Match Rating: 8/10

2.    TNA Women’s Knockout Championship: Tara(c) vs. Daffney

Albeit short, this was a pretty decent Knockouts match.  Tara slams Daffney in the early going before hitting a standing shooting star press. Daffney sends Tara into the bottom turnbuckle before stomping away at her and hitting a body slam. Tara puts on the Tarantula submission in the corner before Daffney comes back with some snapmares. Daffney puts on a cool submission where Tara was hung up almost upside down in a figure four like position with Daffney’s legs around her head. Tara fights out with some strikes before hitting a spinebuster for a near fall. Daffney hits a kick and a Northern Lights suplex but only gets a 2 count. Tara hits a sidewalk slam before Daffney sends Tara to the outside into the guardrail. Back in the ring, Daffney tries to use the title belt but Tara ducks and hits the Widow’s Peak for the win. After the match Daffney stole Tara’s spider. Decent but short Knockouts match. Match Time: 6:45     Match Rating: 5/10

3.    Global Championship: Rob Terry(c) vs. Brutus Magnus

Kudos to whoever booked this thing. This was just a quick, fun, harmless squash. Terry sends Magnus to the outside with a clothesline before Magnus comes back in the ring with some strikes. Magnus tries for a cross body but Terry powers him down before hitting a spin kick and a chokelift spinebuster for the win. This was fun, short, and sweet so therefore it will not get a rating. Match Time: 1:26     Match Rating: N/A

4.    Ultimate X match: Generation Me vs. The Motor City Machineguns

The winner of this match would be the number one contender to the Tag Team Championship. This was just a flat out awesome match and the match of the night, just a hair ahead of the ladder match. The match begins with a flurry of double team offense before Generation Me hit a couple dropkicks and go for the X. The Guns prevent this and go to work on Jeremy. A crazy spot occurred when Max was on Sabin’s shoulders on the outside, and Shelley did a twisting cross body to Mac sending all 3 guys to the floor. The Guns go to work on Jeremy in the ring but end up eating a double dropkick from Max. Generation Me then hit a great double team move with Max hitting a dropkick and Jeremy hitting a spinning plancha. Sabin tries to pull Max off the cables and fails but Shelley gets the job done. Max hits Shelley with a spear before Jeremy connects with a moonsault. Jeremy goes for the X with Max in the ring for protection, but he gets kicked by Sabin, who then runs and jumps off of Max to spear Jeremy off the cables (yes you read that right!). All four guys end up down in the ring before attacking each other with a flurry of kicks. Max powerbombs Shelley into Jeremy’s knees in the corner. Generation Me go for More Bang for Your Buck but the Guns counter and Shelley ends up suplexing Jeremy into Max in the corner. Max eats a double sliced bread before Sabin and Jeremy fight atop the X. Sabin knocks Jeremy off, grabs the X, and the Guns win it. What a match! Match Time: 12:07     Match Rating: 8.5/10

5.    Scott Hall and Syxx-Pac vs. Kevin Nash and Eric Young

The stipulation was that if Hall and Pac won, they earned their TNA contracts but would have to leave the company if they lost. This was easily the worst match of the night, as expected from these guys. Young and Pac lock up before Pac hits a thumb to the eye and a shoulder block. Young rebounds with a Thesz press before pounding away at Pac. Pac lands a kick before tagging in Hall, who works over Young’s arm and hits a fall away slam. Pac gets the tag and sends Young to the outside before hitting an impressive plancha. Hall tags in and goes to work on Young before Young makes a comeback with a sleeper. The ref is distracted and doesn’t see that Young tagged in Nash. Pac and Hall double team Young and spray paint in his face before Nash gets the tag, shoves the ref, and then turns on Young by hitting him with a Jackknife powerbomb (who didn’t see that one coming). Young eats the pin after an X Factor from Pac and a Razor’s Edge from Hall. The swerve was very dragged out and much of the match was slow and boring. Match Time: 8:04     Match Rating: 3/10

6.    TNA X Division Championship: Doug Williams(c) vs. Shannon Moore

This was a pretty good X Division title match but it was pretty short. Williams pounds at Moore before taking him down with a side headlock. Moore fights back into it with some arm drags, an atomic drop, and a nice leg drop. Moore hits a big hurricanrana but can’t keep Williams down. Williams blocks a second hurricanrana and starts choking Moore. Moore fights out of a chancery but eats a gutwrench suplex. Moore counters the Chaos Theory but Williams hits a running knee in the corner before pounding away at Moore in the corner. Moore responds with a bulldog, leg lariat, and a dropkick before hitting a twisting moonsault, sending Williams to the outside. Moore hits a moonsault to Williams on the outside before the action returns to the ring. The ref is distracted as Williams and Moore struggle over a brick pulled out by Williams in the corner. Williams hits Moore in the face with it and gets the pin to retain his title. After the match Williams cut a great promo against the X Division high flyers, snatched a woman’s purse from ringside, and colored a bleeding Moore’s face with lipstick. Good but brief X Division match. Match Time: 6:23     Match Rating: 6/10

7.    TNA World Tag Team Championship: Matt Morgan and Hernandez(c) vs. Beer Money Inc.

This was a pretty bland, nothing tag match though it did have its moments. Hernandez and Roode lock up to start things off before Roode starts to pound away in the corner. Roode escapes a powerbomb attempt but Hernandez hits a big shoulder block. Morgan tags in and subtly taunts Hernandez (They teased tension between the two throughout the match). Morgan hits a side slam and tags in Hernandez, who takes a knee to the gut before hitting the stalling vertical suplex on Storm. Morgan tags in and slams Storm into the turnbuckle before hitting a cross body on both members of Beer Money. Hernandez gets the tag and sends Roode to the outside, but Morgan cuts Hernandez off before he can go for the dive. Beer Money take advantage of the jawing between the two and start pounding at Hernandez in the corner.  Hernandez gets crotched on the top rope and takes a double superplex. Hernandez fights out of a chinlock but falls victim to an inverted tornado DDT from Storm. Hernandez gets a slingshot shoulder block before Morgan gets the tag and cleans house. Hernandez gets another tag and connects with the dive to Roode on the outside. Roode and Hernandez argue near the ropes and Storm does the beer spit. Hernandez ducks and it hits Morgan. Hernandez then hits a Dominator for the win (they called it the Border Toss but it really wasn’t). After the match Morgan hit Hernandez with the Carbon Footprint before leaving with both belts. This was a dumb swerve to end a mediocre match. Match Time: 11:28     Match Rating: 4.5/10

8.    Mr. Anderson vs. Kurt Angle

Surprisingly, this ended up being the longest match of the night. I actually enjoyed their match at Against All Odds more, and the match was half as long as this. The match started with a couple lockups and Angle putting on a side headlock each time. Angle fights off headlock attempts from Anderson before Anderson kicks him in the gut and applies a headlock. Angle hits a suplex to fight out before sending Anderson across the ring and hitting a back body drop. Angle hits ten punches in the corner followed up by a snap suplex. Anderson comes back with a single arm DDT and starts to work over the arm. Anderson hits a shoulder block before applying a key lock. Angle fights out of an arm bar and hits a big lariat before connecting with other clotheslines with the good arm. Anderson counters the Angle Slam and hits a standing Green Bay Plunge. Angle counters the Mic Check, hits a trio of Germans, and then connects with the Angle Slam for a near fall. Anderson escapes the Ankle Lock, then hits a low blow and the Mic Check, but Angle kicks out. The two fight atop a turnbuckle but Angle sends Anderson to the mat and hits a frog splash for a near fall. Anderson counters the Angle Slam before Angle accidentally takes out the ref. Anderson hits an Angle Slam but the ref is out. Anderson gets a chair from the audience but tosses it aside and goes to use the dog tag medal thing. Anderson wraps it around his fist but Angle ducks a punch and hits a German. Angle cuts open Anderson with the medal and pounds away at him. He then applies to Ankle Lock and Anderson eventually taps out. Anderson cuts a bizarre promo post match that just seemed awkward. Decent match, but it took a while to get going and was too long. Match Time: 17:50     Match Rating: 6/10

9.    TNA World Heavyweight Championship: AJ Styles(c) vs. Abyss

Ah, the main event, featuring the mini Ric Flair and Abyss-a-Mania. This was a good match ruined by a horrendous ending. Abyss is all over AJ before JB can even finish with the introductions. He pounds on him in the corner before the fight spills onto the entrance ramp. AJ counters a chokeslam back in the ring and hits an enzuigiri. He hangs up Abyss in the ropes but Abyss catches Styles with a belly to belly suplex. Styles hits a few dropkicks before wedging a chair in between the turnbuckles in the corner. AJ chokes Abyss against the ropes but can’t get him up for a power slam. Abyss tries for a gorilla press but AJ fights out and hits a dropkick. Styles wraps up Abyss’s leg in the corner and goes to work on it. Styles tries for the springboard forearm but Abyss catches him and tries for a chokeslam. Styles counters, but Abyss splashes him in the corner and hits a sidewalk slam. He tries for Shock Treatment but AJ fights out and hits a Pele. Styles hits the springboard forearm and tries for the Styles Clash but Abyss catapults him into the chair in the corner. Abyss hits Shock Treatment for a near fall before the two fight on the top turnbuckle. Styles knocks Abyss to the mat and hits the Spiral Tap for a near fall. Abyss hits the Black Hole Slam for a near fall, and Ric Flair is rolled to the ring (he is in a wheelchair) by Chelsea (Desmond Wolfe’s manager). Flair sprays something in the ref’s eyes before slipping the title to AJ. AJ hits Abyss with the belt before Hulk Hogan and Earl Hebner come out. Hogan wheels Flair to the back and sends Chelsea away. Styles hits a springboard 450 splash but Abyss kicks out and starts to hulk up. He hits some right hands and big boot before chokeslamming Styles through the middle of the ring. Hebner calls for the bell and I guess it’s a no contest. Flair returns to the ring but Hogan sprays him in the face with the mace. Desmond Wolfe comes down to the ring and also gets maced, trips over Flair, and falls into the hole made by Abyss’s chokeslam. The faces celebrate in the ring despite the match being a no contest. Yes, you just read all of that 100% correctly. It’s a shame this all had to happen as this match was going along so well. Match Time: 15:06     Match Rating: 5.5/10

Overall PPV Rating: 7.5/10

My name is Jared Silberkleit. I am from Orange, CT and am a huge fan of pro wrestling. I mostly follow WWE and TNA but I also watch the smaller promotions such as ROH and DGUSA. I have been a lifelong WWE fan and have become a TNA fan over the past few years. Aside from wrestling, I also really love baseball and football and follow many other sports such as hockey and MMA. I have written for www.sportsgrumblings.com for over a year now.

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When Barry Bonds grabbed the microphone last Saturday night during the Giants’ celebration of their former outfielders, his statement of “I haven’t retired, thank you,” should have been listened to intently as an offer for his services. The dog days of August are upon us and the races are getting tighter. With the July 31 non-waiver trading deadline behind us, it will be extremely difficult to obtain a potent bat to pad the line-up.

That is if you’re not looking at Barry Bonds as a short-term project. Down in Tampa Bay, the Rays are enjoying their finest season and current hold a three game lead over Boston in the AL East. But they have recently went through some injuries, including outfielder Carl Crawford and closer Troy Percival, two losses that may hurt them down the stretch. The Yankees are in third place and trail both the Red Sox (6.5 games) and Twins (3.5 games) in the wild card race.

It may be now or never for the Bronx Bombers, who today dumped Richie Sexson and sent down outfielder Melky Cabrera. They need to make up a lot of ground fast and their offense has been a problem all summer long. Losing Jorge Posada and Hideki Matsui for long stretches definitely made a negative impact, and a veteran bat that can reach that short right field porch at Yankee Stadium would give them a solid boost, perhaps enough to make a legitimate playoff run in the last season of the original – well, almost original – Yankee Stadium.

The Yankees contemplated signing Bonds at the end of July, and his name came up in organizational meetings. Who’s to say that adding the home run king back then would not have given the team enough juice (no pun intended) to cut into and perhaps take over the wild card lead? They chose to go with Sexson, who has been abysmal for years and produced nothing (one home run, six RBI) in his short stay in New York after being picked up off the Seattle scrap heap on July 18.

The Rays were interested in Bonds during spring training, and not even the Amazing Kreskin could have predicted that the young club would have been this successful in 2008. They passed, and now that they have proven themselves to be a serious player, they should give Bonds a second thought.

Crawford underwent surgery on his right middle finger and is probably done for the season. Rocco Baldelli, who was the then-Devil Rays’ lone bright spot at one time, returned after battling a slew of injuries and has been playing right field. Eric Hinske and Cliff Floyd have been playing left field and designated hitter, respectively, but there is definitely room for improvement. Hinske, the former Blue Jay, is batting .253 with 17 home runs and 50 RBI, while Floyd – who is another player that always seems to be injured – has been more of a locker room presence than in the batter’s box with a paltry .261/8/22. Both may be lefthanded hitters like Bonds, but neither come close to the power the former Giant brings to the table.

If some team gathers up enough balls to sign Bonds, they need to act fast. For a player to be eligible for the post-season roster, he must be on the team by August 31.

The rumors were running rampart back in 1990s. Did the guys making Hot Stuff put steroids in it to make it work? One of the stories was that the creator, Tom Ciola, included methyltestosterone (an inexpensive oral form of test) along with the smilax and yohimbe. We should be so lucky!

This, of course, was just a rumor, and possibly one started by the people putting this supplement out there, National Health. Hey, that’s good business. Start up a rumor, stir the pot, and reap the rewards.

However you look at it, that banana flavored powder did seem to give you a jump in the gym, and it had loads of good stuff in there, protein and all. It did very well and, for a while, was all the rage. Then it slowly began to disappear off the shelves and the mags stopped running ads for it.

Here’s where another rumor started. I can’t tell you if it holds any water or not (no pun intended). The talk was that the FDA banned one of the substances that was in Hot Stuff and that’s why it was removed for a while. Then when it came back, the gym rats were saying that it wasn’t the same as it was without that ingredient, and was another ‘also-ran’ supp.

According to the company’s website, www.hotstuffworld.com, they denied that it ever had juice in it, was never banned by the FDA, and that the company “got involved in several other ventures” and they stopped actively promoting Hot Stuff. I suppose that Up Your Gas took all their time!

I’m not trying to be a wise-ass or anything, but in business, when you hit a home run, you don’t change your bat unless you break it.

Who knows if there was a ‘secret’ ingredient in the old Hot Stuff that made it work or not. I hope there was, and wish that it can somehow be masked in the current version. Yeah, I couldn’t help myself. Looking around the Vitamin Shoppe, that logo caught my eye and I’m back on the bandwagon. Same banana taste, which I always liked, anyway. The ingredients are all great things, and as far as supplements go, this is one of your better bets. But gear? Can’t say that.

Deep down, subconsciously, I’m sure that I’m using it with that faint hope that it will “work” again. All power to the “Stuff!”