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TNA Destination X 2008 Results |
| Destination X has come and gone. LAX is the new #1 contenders for the TNA World Tag Team Championship. Awesome Kong retains her championship after an awesome match. Team 3D suffers a humiliating defeat. Jay Lethal pulls through with a successful title defense. Eric Young overcomes his fears and captures the win. Robert Roode gets the surprise victory. Rhino and Samoa Joe both gain a measure of revenge in their respective matches. |
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#1 Contenders Triple Threat Tag Team Match
LAX vs Lance Hoyt & Jimmy Rave vs Motor City Machine Guns
As expected, this was an extremely entertaining match, and a great way to start off the pay per view.
The finishing sequence was well put together. The wrestlers took turns taking out one another. Hernandez finished things off with a Border Toss on Jimmy Rave.
Winner: LAX | 7/10 |
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TNA X Division Championship Match
Jay Lethal vs Petey Williams
Great match here. The entire match was spent on selling the Canadian Destroyer as being a devastating finisher.
Sonjay Dutt, So Cal Val, Scott Steiner, and Rhaka Khan all got involved. It wasn't really needed, but it did make the finish a bit more surprising.
Winner: Jay Lethal | 8/10 |
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Kaz & Eric Young vs Rellik & Black Reign
Seems like TNA was targeting the younger audience with this match because as an adult, it wasn't all that entertaining. There was some good spots in the match, but it wasn't enough to hide the corniness at the end.
Eric Young actually left the match and came back dressed as a super hero to win the match for his team.
Winner: Eric Young & Kaz |
4/10 |
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TNA Women's Championship
Awesome Kong vs ODB vs Gail Kim
Simply amazing. If there's one thing that TNA is doing right, it's the women's division.
The match was fast paced and filled with plenty of action. Awesome Kong put on an extraordinary performance here. She even pulled off an impressive frog splash.
Winner: Awesome Kong | 9/10 |
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Fish Market Street Fight
Curry Man & Shark Boy vs Team 3D
Brother Ray and Brother Devon both made weight, so they get to wrestle the match and keep their jobs.
Some good spots made this an overall entertaining match. Match ends when Johnny Devine's interference backfires. The powder he threw ended up hitting Brother Devon in the face instead.
Team 3D once again puts over some X division wrestlers. Kudos to those guys for helping create stars in the division.
Winner: Curry Man & Shark Boy | 7/10 |
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Strap Match
Robert Roode vs Booker T
Pretty good match between these two. The chemistry between them has developed rather nicely.
Interference from Traci Brooks backfires, and Booker T ends up losing the match.
After security came to remove Booker T from the ring, Payton Banks nails Traci Brooks with more than the allotted 10 lashes. Robert Roode gets in his shots as well.
Sharmell made her return and pounced on Robert Roode. She also hits security and Jim Cornette for good measures as well.
Winner: Robert Roode | 7/10 |
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Elevation X Match
Rhino vs James Storm
Smart move to start the match in the ring instead of doing the entire thing on top fo the structure. There's only so much these guys can do up there.
Once they're up on top, James Storm attempts to hide under the structure, but Rhino figures it out. Some stomps to the gut and James Storm is sent crashing to the ring through the tables. Pretty wicked fall, too.
Winner: Rhino | 6/10 |
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Six Man Tag Team Match
Kurt Angle, AJ Styles & Tomko vs Kevin Nash, Samoa Joe & Christian Cage
The added stipulation of allowing the babyfaces to have a few extra minutes with a one man advantage wasn't really all that necessary.
Nice tag team work at the beginning to get things going. Kurt Angle makes his entrance, and we get some more solid wrestling.
The ending saw Samoa Joe getting the win for his team by forcing Tomko to submit to the rear naked choke.
Winner: Samoa Joe, Christian Cage & Kevin Nash | 6/10 |
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| Final Analysis |
As usual, TNA provides a good pay per view thanks to the excellent ring work by several of the wrestlers.
Some of the matches were still a bit overbooked, though.
The main event sent fans home happy as the babyfaces got the win. However, it didn't really feel like it advanced the storyline. |
7/10 |
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