TNA Lockdown Previews & Predictions by VeRKK / TIW Podcast

TNA World Cham­pi­onship: Sting© vs. Rob Van Dam vs. Mr. Anderson

The one thing I will give credit to TNA, is that they know to give hints and tease poten­tial heel turns very well, even if it is some­times predictableobvious.

In this case, both Ander­son and RVD could turn heel eas­ily, even if it looks like TNA con­sider Ander­son a tweener and not a proper face­heel and he “declined” Immortal’s offer. But it could be a work, easily.

As for RVD, any­thing can hap­pen, I wouldn’t mind see­ing RVD as a proper Heel, espe­cially after his really dull face run.

Win­ner:

Sting. Unless RVD turns heel, picks up the title to push for a longer feud with Sting as a proper heel.

Lethal Lock­down: Immor­tal (Ric Flair, Abyss, Bully Ray & Matt Hardy) vs. For­tune (Kaz, Christo­pher Daniels, James Storm & Robert Roode)

The most inter­est­ing match on the card no doubt about it. As much as I dis­like Abyss, Hardy and even Ray (as a heel), I think this match really define with almost irony how the TNA tal­ents are the impor­tant thing in this com­pany unlike all the really bad tal­ents TNA brought with money over the past few years.

On that note, it looks to me that Daniels could turn on For­tune, the way Flair and Hogan were doing their seg­ments with him, it looks like there is some­thing per­haps to think about. Obvi­ously, we could see Styles return­ing and sav­inghelp­ing For­tune with the clos­ing moments, espe­cially if Daniels will actu­ally turn on Fortune.

Win­ners:

Regard­ing the actual result, I’m not sure really. It looks like TNA is really push­ing Immor­tal to go over every­thing with the story, but “fail to deliver” with the “results” so I’m keep­ing that in mind when I pick For­tune pick­ing up the win with Daniels turn­ing on Fortune.

Kurt Angle vs. Jeff Jar­rett:This whole feud was ok at best, with a lot of really bad writ­ten and pro­duced moments. Thank­fully, it will be over soon. Wrestling wise, this could be a really good match nonethe­less, I think see­ing Jar­ret hope­fully will under­sell his “char­ac­ter” to give the match a more evened pace.

Win­ner:

Kurt Angle. Angle’s agree­ment to go with this entire angle to give Jar­ret the entire momen­tum for his heel char­ac­ter was the right. And with that in mind, the big and impor­tant PPV, Angle will win after “job­bing” to Jar­ret a few PPV’s in a row.

TNA Knock­outs Title, Title vs. Hair: Madi­son Rayne© vs. Mickie James

To me, TNA will not do another Hair angle since they had it before, it was just to give some­thing to really jus­tify giv­ing James the title after all that time. I seri­ously doubt that James agreed to go with this angle, but hey, it is TNA. Any­thing bad can happen.

Win­ner:

Mickie James.

Her­nan­dez vs. Matt Mor­gan:Speak­ing of feuds that are still going that were bad since day one. Matt Mor­gan Vs Her­nan­dez is another feud that just needs to stop. Period.

The size sim­i­lar­i­ties is the only rea­son this feud even started since Abyss and Terry that are heels at the moment, and there isn’t really another big man in TNA (besides Crim­son) that could be in that class. Sadly, it leaves us with another hor­ri­ble match on paper (all their matches were really bad, with a lot of botches). Hope­fully, it will end fast.

Win­ner:

Well, since Her­nan­dez got the win at the last PPV with a really ridicules moment, Mor­gan will prob­a­bly will get this win to even the count.

“The Pope” D’Angelo Dinero vs. Samoa Joe

I can­not believe TNA is still doing this feud, it was really bad and dull since day one. I can­not even think of the who will pick up the win since basi­cally there was almost noth­ing built prop­erly there.

Win­ner:

Samoa Joe. Pope pick­ing the win with a clas­sic Heel move seems really redun­dant to me at this point.

X Divi­sion Xscape Match:

Amaz­ing Red vs. Brian Kendrick vs. Chris Sabin vs. Jay Lethal vs. Jeremy Buck vs. Max Buck vs. Rob­bie E vs. Suicide

With almost no “story” build to this match, I can only hope it will be a proper wrestling match unlike some of the matches that are in this PPV. The only real ban­ter is between Max and Jeremy which was pretty obvi­ous that it would hap­pen. But it is a good thing to split them into the X-Division divi­sion since both of them can have sep­a­rate feuds.

Win­ner:

My guess is that the win­ner will be Max Buck. His small feud with Jeremy looks like a decent way as men­tioned, to split them into the divi­sion, and with that, put Max in a feud with Kazar­ian, and prob­a­bly against Jeremy even­tu­ally if Max will pick up the title someday.

Ink, Inc. vs. Crim­son & Scott Steiner vs. Orlando Jor­dan & Eric Young vs. Bru­tus Mag­nus & Doug Williams.

The fact that this match is a 4 tag team bout instead of any one on one tag team out of the bunch, is reliv­ing to be hon­est. Besides Mag­nus and Williams, all of the other tag teams are just tacked on for a while in the case of Ink Inc and Jor­dan and Young while the hor­ri­ble team­ing of Crim­son and Steiner is just a bad deci­sion to even con­tinue that after the whole for­tune Vs. immor­tal thing happened.

Really hard to pre­dict this result mainly because Ink Inc already got some title shots, Jor­dan and Young are kind of faces in a weird way, and Williams and Mag­nus does not even get any “neg­a­tive” reac­tion from the crowd even if they are heels. Same goes for Ink Inc.

Win­ners:

Williams and Mag­nus. Just because I think TNA would like to give Beer Money a really obvi­ous Heel Vs Face feud unlike Moore and Neal and their ban­ter with the heel turn.

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