This Day In Wrestling History - December 5

Date: December 5, 2004 (9 years ago)

Feature: TNA's second-ever Sunday Night PPV, Turning Point, featured Randy Savage making a very brief match appearance in the semi-main event and Elix Skipper famously "walking the cage" in the PPV main event...

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TNA TURNING POINT PPV RESULTS
DECEMBER 5, 2004
ORLANDO, FLA.
REPORT BY WADE KELLER, PWTORCH EDITOR

A clip aired of Randy Savage talking about how he was returning to wrestling to stop Kevin Nash and Scott Hall from eliminating the future of wrestling... A skit aired with Hall, Nash, and Jeff Jarrett riding in a car dressed as Elvis making "King of Wrestling" references. It was meant to be cheesy, so it accomplished it's goal... Abyss, wielding balloons, approached a fake Vince McMahon and Triple H backstage. The Vince imitator cackled. The undersized Hunter impersonator, wielding a sledgehammer, backed down from Abyss after spouting catchphrases. This was a parody of the real TNA-WWE tape they promised to show later... Mike Tenay and Don West then introduced the show...

(1) Eric Young & Bobby Roode (a/k/a Team Canada, w/Scott D'Amore) beat B.G. James & Ron Killings at 8:28 to capture the NWA Tag Team Titles. Johnny Devine ran out and broke a hockey stick across James's back as the ref was distracted by D'Amore. Same old stale finish we see in every Team Canada match. Basic formula tag. (*)

Shane Douglas, with his cartoonishly absurd facial expressions, interviewed Dusty Rhodes who hyped the PPV... A feature aired on "Superfly" Snuka with Sonjay Dutt paying homage to him...

(2) Sonjay Dutt & Hector Garza & Sonny Siaki beat Kid Kash & Michael Shane & Kazarian (w/Traci) at 10:55. Good six-man tag. Not enough time for anyone to stand out too much, but Dutt and Kash were the standout performers early on. Dutt did most of the selling. Garza hit a nice top rope corkscrew tornado splash at the end. (**1/2)

A quick generic Savage soundbite aired... Scott Hudson interviewed D'Amore and Petey Williams...

(3) Monty Brown beat Abyss in a thumb tack match at 11:18. It started off solid and got better as it went. They started on the ramp brawling and worked their way into the ring with chairshots, table spots, and power moves. In the end, Brown took off Abyss's shirt. Abyss came back and nearly gave Brown a powerbomb on the tacks, but Brown reversed it. Abyss barely landed on the tacks, but then he rolled around on them to draw some blood. (**3/4)

Another Hunter/Vince skit aired, with Hunter destroying a tape, then Vince complaining that it wasn't the TNA/WWE tape, but a "Best of D-Ray 3000" tape instead. They continued looking for the tape... Tenay and West said the real tape would play later...

(4) Pat Kenney & Johnny B. Badd beat Glenn Gilberti & Johnny Swinger (a/k/a The NYC) at 7:50. Jackie was special ref and she eventually slammed Gilberti leading to him getting pinned. (*)

The Kings of Wrestling threw Savage into a car and drove away.

(5) Dallas Page pinned Raven at 11:55. In the end, Erik Watts fought off Raven's druids at ringside, but then turned on Page with a clothesline. Raven then took advantage and set up a DDT, but Page reversed it into a Diamond Cutter for the win. Page looked solid in the match. He celebrated in the crowd afterward. (**1/4)

Traci offered cookies to the fake Vince and Hunter backstage. Vince knocked the tray of cookies down.

(6) Petey Williams (w/Scott D'Amore) pinned Chris Sabin to retain the X Title at 18:11. Really good match, second best of the night. The crowd was totally into the X action, chanting for both guys. When Sabin set up his Cradle Shock finisher, D'Amore interfered. Williams then KO'd Sabin with brass knux for the win. Terrible finish knocked a half-star off the score. (***1/2)

A midget knocked the fake Vince down. Vince shouted for his son-in-law to help him.

(7) Randy Savage & A.J. Styles & Jeff Hardy beat Kevin Nash & Scott Hall & Jeff Jarrett when Savage pinned Jarrett at 18:00. Savage didn't come out until the final seconds of the match, punching and leverage pinning Jarrett. Otherwise, passable action. Nothing embarrassing or damaging, with Hall and Nash goofing off in an entertaining manner. (3/4*)

( NEWSWIRE FOLLOW-UP: Just two days after pinning NWA World Champion Jeff Jarrett at the TNA Turning Point PPV, Randy Savage walked out on the promotion. Savage showed up at Universal Studios in Orlando, but ended up having a three-and-a-half hour meeting with Jerry Jarrett, then walked out without appearing on camera as scheduled. His future with the company is unknown but at this point it appears he is at an impasse over either money or plans on how he wants to be used. He was scheduled to face Jeff Jarrett in the main event of TNA's January PPV. Although he pinned Jarrett in the six-man tag match at Turning Point, it was such a fluke pin that it won't mean much if he doesn't return. )

Dusty introduced the TNA/WWE tape. The WWE personnel were blurred out in the video...

(8) America's Most Wanted (James Storm & Chris Harris) beat Christopher Daniels & Prime Time in a cage match at 21:02. Daniels and Prime Time must break up. A great bloody spectacle cage match. About 15 minutes into the main event cage match, Prime Time climbed to the top of the cage. He struggled to gain his balance for several seconds, then stood on the top frame, and then walked about ten feet across the top ledge of the cage - a rounded beam - and executed a head scissors on Chris Harris flipping him to the mat. Prime Time landed on his knees and was not hurt. Announcer Mike Tenay said, "Words cannot describe it!" The crowd popped big for the move, one of the riskiest and most spectacular moves ever attempted and executed in a pro wrestling match. (****1/4)

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