TNA house show report
November 14, 2009
Scranton, Pa. at the Icebox Complex
Report by Jack Hale, Torch reader

(1) Alissa Flash beat Sara Del Rey.

(2) Suicide beat Chris Sabin.

(3) Hamada beat Daffney. Both women had their cheer sections. Hamada won after giving Daffney ten headbutts followed by a superkick.

(4) "The Pope" D'Angelo Dinero beat TNA Global Champion Eric Young in a non-title match. Young rand down the region on the mic and said we weren't good enough to see a title match. It might have been because of Young, but Dinero got a ton of cheers throughout the match. Dinero won with the D'Angelo Dinero Express.

(5) X Division Champion Amazing Red beat Homicide. Red was way over. These two wrestled a good, fast match. Red won when he reversed the Gringo Killer into a version of the Code Red.

[Intermission]

(6) TNA Knockout tag team champions Taylor Wilde & Sarita beat The Beautiful People (Velvet Sky & Madison Rayne). Naturally, both teams were liked by the guys in the crowd. The finish came when Madison fell into the ref's arms and they made out. While this happened, Velvet was tossed from the ring, allowing Wilde and Sarita to double-team Madison for the win.

(7) TNA World Hvt. champion A.J. Styles beat Samoa Joe and Daniels in a three-way main event to preview the TNA PPV main event tomorrow night. Very good match that was on par with a previous match I saw between these three at the New Alhambra Arena in 2006. A lot of the spots I've seen before, but much better when sitting front row. Cool spot from Daniels when he put Styles in a Boston Crab while putting Joe in a Camel Clutch at the same time. All three got cheers, with Styles and Joe getting the most. This match had the loudest "TNA" chant. The finish came when Styles reversed Joe's Musclebuster into the Pele and Styles then reversed Daniels's Angels Wings into a rollup to win.

Post-match: There was no friendship between Styles and Daniels, as they jawed at each other with Daniels faking a sneak attack while Styles's back was turned. Styles then got on the mic wanting to take everyone backstage, Borash wouldn't let him. So "backstage" came to the ring, with Sabin, Daniels, Wilde, and Sarita going around ringside signing autographs while Styles took pictures in the ring for $20. Even though the picture people were trying to get everyone taken care of quickly, Styles was very friendly with everyone.

The Icebox is a former ice rink/kids hockey rink, so it's not very big. I would say that 95 percent of the seats were filled and about 50-60 percent of the small amount of bleachers were filled for a crowd of roughly 400. Pat Kenney/Simon Diamond must have been the show's agent, as he came to ringside after the entrances, then went backstage after every match ended.

The fans were really into everything. I was worried because two years ago, an independent show came into town with two TNA matches (Christian-Angle and Styles-Joe) and two WWE HOF'ers (Lawler-Slaughter). Te non-WWE TNA guys (Styles and Joe) got the worst reception from the kid-filled audience. This time, there was a crowd of TNA fans plus some kids whose excitement added to every match.

This show was more enjoyable than the Roethlesberger Raw that came through last month. It definitely was a better house show than the one WWE brought through last February. TNA reaching to the audience during the show left a better post-show feeling than the WWE's.

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