On Wednesday, April 23rd, 2003, NWA-TNA presented NWA-TNA PPV 42. Raven reminds us that his championship match with NWA-TNA World Heavyweight Champion Jeff Jarrett is next week. Raven also has a surprise for Jarrett later on in the show.
Backstage, Glen Gilbertti and Mike Sanders are arguing over who has the “it factor” and who doesn’t. The rest of the S.E.X. group, Sonny Siaki, Desire, David Young, Christopher Daniels, Elix Skipper, Ron, and Don Harris, go into the TNA Asylum. Gilbertti is mad at them for being late.
He is so mad that he slaps Sonny Siaki in the face. Gilbertti also noted that people had been calling Sanders “Below Average.” D’Lo Brown and AJ Styles attacked Glen Gilbertti and Mike Sanders. They brawl to the ring for their scheduled tag team match.
NWA-TNA PPV 42
Glen Gilbertti & Mike Sanders vs. D’Lo Brown & AJ Styles
Styles working on Gilbertti in the corner. All four men are in the ring as Gilbertti and Sanders are sent into each other and met with clotheslines. Brown bodyslams Gilbertti, and then bodyslams Styles on top of Gilbertti goes for a pinfall, and gets a two count. Styles drops Gilbertti with a superkick and tags in Brown.
Brown hits a top rope clothesline and slams Gilbertti down to the canvas. Brown, with a leg drop, goes for a pinfall and gets a two count. Gilbertti is double-teamed in the corner. Gilbertti runs into a standing spin kick by Styles. Gilbertti dropkicks Styles‘ knee and tags in Sanders, who blocks a kick and flips Styles over to the canvas.
Sanders and Gilbertti decide to focus on Styles‘ knee. Gilbertti hit a side Russian leg sweep, and an elbow drop goes for a pinfall and gets a two-count. Sanders tries to get a submission on Styles with a leg lock, but that doesn’t work. Gilbertti misses a middle-rope forearm drop.
Brown and Sanders get the hot tag with Brown cleaning house. Styles hits a German suplex on Gilbertti. Sanders plants Brown with a reverse neckbreaker, goes for a pinfall gets a two count. Brown plants Sanders with a swinging side slam and heads to the top rope. Brown hits a frog splash off the top rope, goes for a pinfall, and gets a two count before, Gilbertti breaks up the pin attempt.
Brown counters the Last Dance with a sit-out spine buster, but Sanders makes the save. Christopher Daniels and Elix Skipper come out and attack Styles and Brown to cause the disqualification. Amazing Red and Jerry Lynn run out to make the save and brawl with the former tag team champions.
Amazing Red hits a top rope spinning heel kick on Daniels as he was on Lynn’s shoulders. Sonny Siaki and David Young run out to lay out Jerry Lynn and Amazing Red. S.E.X. stands tall over Jerry Lynn & Amazing Red.
Winners: By Disqualification D’Lo Brown & AJ Styles.
Goldylocks had a chat with NWA-TNA World Champion Jeff Jarrett, who said he doesn’t understand Raven’s messages. Jarrett is going to be on the hunt, and Raven is going to be hunted. Erik Watts entered the scene and asked whatever happened to Peace, Love, and Understanding. Watts tells Jarrett he is going to put Raven in a straight jacket and talk to him.
Backstage, Goldylocks finds that Chris Harris has been laid out and was attacked by someone.
NWA-TNA PPV 42
“The Fallen Angel” Christopher Daniels & Elix Skipper, Triple X vs. “Cowboy” James Storm & “Wildcat” Chris Harris
Triple X doesn’t think James Storm is crazy enough to fight them by himself. Storm runs out and proves he is crazy enough as he goes after both men. Storm backdrops Skipper over the top rope onto Daniels on the floor. Storm takes them out with a somersault dive over the top to the floor.
Storm clotheslines Daniels out of the corner and follows up with a backdrop. Skipper tags in, but Storm takes him over with a few arm drags. Daniels accidentally elbow-drops Skipper, and Storm continues to get the offense in against the former champs. Skipper hits a belly-to-belly suplex after Daniels kicks Storm from the apron.
Storm is double-teamed in the corner but tries to fight back and hits a cross body on Skipper, goes for a pinfall, and gets a two count. Skipper regained control with an overhead belly-to-belly suplex. Daniels goes for a pinfall and gets a two-count after a heel kick on Storm. Skipper and Daniels hit a slam/top rope forearm drop.
Chris Harris makes his way out to the ring holding his head. Storm and Daniels collide with clotheslines, and Harris is knocked off the apron by Skipper. Storm is hit with a neckbreaker/double axe handle off the top rope. Storm nails Skipper with a superkick and is able to tag in Harris for the hot tag.
The referee didn’t see it, and Storm is beaten up some more. Storm hits a bulldog/fame-asser combo on Triple X. Harris finally gets a hot tag and cleans house. Harris, with a full Nelson slam on Skipper, goes for a pinfall and gets a two count Daniels plants Harris with an STO.
Skipper hits a twisting splash from the apron, goes for a pinfall gets a two count. Storm plants Daniels with the Eight Second Ride out of the corner, goes for a pinfall, and gets a two count Skipper dropkicks Storm off the top rope to the floor. Harris hammers away on Skipper after a splash.
Daniels hits the BME on Harris, goes for a pinfall, and gets a two-count Harris with an inside cradle. On Daniels goes for a pinfall gets a two count. Harris spears Skipper in midair on a springboard, goes for a pinfall, and gets a two count. Daniels low blows Harris from behind Skipper with an inside cradle referee Rudy Charles counts, the 1-2-3!
Winners: “The Fallen Angel” Christopher Daniels & Elix Skipper, Triple X.
After the match, “Cowboy” James Storm helped “Wildcat” Chris Harris to his feet in the ring and then walks to the back.
Goldylocks interviewed Alexis Laree, who said she would cut Jarrett’s balls off and shove them down Goldylock’s throat. Laree decides to go to the ticket booth and threaten Sarah Lee, who sells tickets. Jarrett comes in and hits Laree with a trash can. Jarrett bodyslam Laree into the back of his pickup truck.
Father James Mitchell explains to us the rules of the Ultimate Sin match. There will be barbed wire and a lot of weapons involved. It should be a bloodbath.
The Ultimate Sin Match
The Disciples of The New Church, Brian Lee, Slash, Mike Awesome with Father James Mitchell vs. Team Extreme, Perry Saturn, New Jack, The Sandman
Barbed wire is wrapped around the ring ropes since it would probably take way too long to replace the ropes with barbed wire. It takes about ten seconds for there to be bloodshed as Slash is busted open by New Jack tried to staple a dollar to Slash’s face, but Slash low blows New Jack and stapled the dollar to New Jack’s forehead!
Brian Lee is barking like he is Rick Steiner. Saturn kicks Awesome back first into barbed wire and then drops Awesome gut first across the wire. Tenay says it is “non-WCW barbed wire.” Awesome powerbomb, Saturn, onto a trash can. The Sandman leaps off the top rope and nails Awesome over the head with a kendo stick.
Saturn hits a side Russian leg sweep with a kendo stick on Lee. A couple of tables have been set up on the floor. Awesome powerbombs The Sandman off the apron through a table on the floor! Saturn leaps off the top and elbow-drops Lee through a table on the other side of the ring!
New Jack comes off the top rope with a steel chair to hit Slash, goes for a pinfall gets a two count. New Jack sets up a ladder to get the baseball bat that’s hanging from the ceiling. Slash tips the ladder over, and New Jack falls over the top rope through a table on the floor! Slash goes to get the bat, but the lights go out.
Justin Credible appears on the ladder to stop Slash. Saturn, powerbombs Slash, and Credible gets the baseball bat after a little bit of a struggle. Credible hits all The Disciples of The New Church, Lee, Slash, Awesome with a kendo stick Perry Saturn, goes for a pinfall on Slash referee Andrew Thomas counts, the 1-2-3!
Winners: Perry Saturn, New Jack, The Sandman
Mike Tenay interviewed NWA-TNA X-Division Champion Kid Kash. Kid Kash. says that Trinity doesn’t have a contract with the promotion and is only there because he saw something in her.
Kid Kash says she has a personal services contract with him which means she does whatever he wants her to do. Trinity comes out and defends herself. Kid Kash slapped Trinity across the face. Trinity doesn’t take that; she slapped Kid Kash across the face.
Kid Kash vs. Trinity
Trinity starts off with a head, scissors, and an arm drag. Kid Kash is backdropped to the apron, where he is kicked off by Trinity. Trinity hits a moonsault off the top to the floor! Kid Kash sends Trinity into the guardrail and tosses a chair into her face. That was an incredibly violent unprotected chair shot that came out of nowhere.
Kid Kash heads to the top rope and clotheslines. Trinity in the ring goes for a pinfall and gets a two-count. Kid Kash plants her with a swinging neckbreaker and drops her across his knee, goes for a pinfall, and gets a two count. Kash is pulling her up, by the way.
Trinity comes back with a somersault dive in the ring but is stopped by a clothesline, goes for a pinfall gets a two count. Trinity connects with a hurricanrana. The referee was knocked out, and that brings out S.E.X. Ron and Don Harris give Kid Kash an H-Bomb. Sanders puts Trinity over Kid Kash, referee Mike Posey counts, the 1-2-3!
Winner: Trinity.
Backstage, Jim Mitchell is yelling at Slash for losing The Ultimate Sin Match.
Slash comes out and drops Shark Boy with a reverse DDT. Slash is holding Jeremy Borash hostage with a machete and calls out Justin Credible. Credible comes from behind with a Kendo stick and hits Slash.
Slash vs. Justin Credible
Slash knocks Credible off the apron onto the guardrail. Slash takes Credible out with a somersault dive on the floor! Slash clotheslines Credible on the floor. Credible power slams Slash on the floor to fight back. Credible dropkicks Slash back first into the guardrail. Slash blocks a second attempt and catapults Credible face-first into the ring post.
Slash uses a steel chair on Credible. Credible low blows Slash and goes for the That’s Incredible, but Slash counters and hits a spinning slam. Credible superkicks Slash in midair as he jumped off the top rope. Credible hits Slash with a kendo stick. Slash throws powder into Credible’s face and uses the kendo stick on Credible.
They fight to the backstage area, and they go outside. Slash fights off Team Extreme. Sandman just hit Slash with a flaming Kendo stick! There is a massive brawl as Sandman runs around with the flaming kendo stick.
Referee Andrew Thomas calls for the bell.
Match Result: No Contest or a Double Disqualification?
Erik Watts came down to the ring and called out Raven but instead got Julio Dinero and Alexis Laree. Watts hit a chokeslam on Dinero but was stopped by Laree, who hit a low blow on Watts.
Jeff Jarrett, who had been feuding with Watts for several months, came out and saved Watts by hitting the stroke on Dinero and putting him on a table. Jarrett proceeded to powerbomb Laree onto Dinero through the table.
NWA X-Division #1 Contenders Match
Jerry Lynn vs. Amazing Red
Konnan joins Mike Tenay and Don West on commentary. Lynn bodyslams Amazing Red counters with an arm drag. Lynn hits a backbreaker on Amazing Red, goes for a pinfall gets a two-count. Lynn, with a back suplex on Amazing Red, goes for a pinfall and gets a two-count. Lynn has a half Boston Crab on Amazing Red.
Amazing Red reaches the bottom rope break. Amazing Red dropkicks Lynn across the middle rope but misses the 718. Tenay notes that Amazing Red took the move from Rey Mysterio. Amazing Red dropkicks Lynn to the floor and comes off the apron to hit a hurricanrana sending Lynn into the guardrail.
Amazing Red hits another hurricanrana on the floor, rolls Lynn back into the ring, goes for a pinfall gets a two count. Amazing Red kicks Lynn in the corner and hits a spinning kick, goes for a pinfall gets a two count. Amazing Red clotheslines. Lynn goes for a pinfall and gets a two-count.
Lynn misses a leg drop across the middle rope and crashes to the floor. Lynn drops Amazing Red chest first across the guardrail. Amazing Red with the Code Red! Goes for a pinfall and gets a two-count. Lynn counters a hurricanrana attempt with a sit-down powerbomb, goes for a pinfall, and gets a two-count.
Amazing Red almost surprises Lynn with an inside cradle. Lynn slams Red down to the mat but can’t get a win. Amazing Red drops Lynn with a spinning kick and heads to the top rope, but Lynn stops him. Amazing Red leaps off and knocks the referee out. Lynn knocks Amazing Red off the apron to the floor.
Ron Killings comes out and hits a front slam on Lynn. Killings tells Konnan they need to talk, and they leave together. Amazing Red hits the Infrared and goes for a pinfall referee Rudy Charles counts 1-2-3!
Winner: #1 Contenders for NWA X-Division Championship Amazing Red.
Backstage, Erik Watts finds the hiding place that Raven was at. Raven jumps Watts and plants him with a DDT on a steel chair.
Backstage, Jarrett appeared and attacked Raven, which would eventually lead them to the ring. Jarrett hits Raven with a steel chair and put him in a straight jacket. The lights would go out, and Team Extreme, Perry Saturn, New Jack, The Sandman, and Justin Credible appear in the ring.
They attack Jarrett and put him in a straight jacket. They wrapped barbed wire around Jarrett, and Raven hits a powerbomb NWA-TNA PPV #42 goes off the air.
