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Worth Your Money: TNA Lockdown 2009 Featuring Sting vs. Mick Foley, Team 3D vs. Beer Money, Lethal Lockdown, And More
By James Bullock
Dec 19, 2009 - 1:11 PM

Let our odyssey through TNA pay-per-view land continue. The concept of a Steel Cage match is one of those concepts in wrestling that has been overused, and the original use of it to end blood feuds is pretty much passé. So, TNA decided to use a match that isn’t as rare and unique as it once was, but still has an aura of unpredictability, and build a whole pay-per-view around it. And the thing is, since its inception, Lockdown has been on of the best PPVs of the year in TNA. One of those reasons is the Wargames influenced Lethal Lockdown match. This year, two teams respectively led by Jeff Jarrett and Kurt Angle will clash in the weapon filled, roofed cage. Also, Sting will defend the TNA World title against Mick Foley in blast from the past match. Well, that’s not the actual name of the match, but a rematch from 15 years ago is a good reason why I’d call it that. As I said, every year, TNA Lockdown delivers, but will it continue here? Simple set up for…will TNA Lockdown be Worth Your Money ? 

Lockdown 2009
Philadelphia, PA
4/19/09

  We open up with some footage of the day’s happenings, including the arrival of AJ Styles & Christopher Daniels and the Main Event Mafia.

  Also earlier today, Team 3D reflected on their careers, which all originated in Philadelphia. Brother Ray promised to fight throughout Philly in their Street Fight against Beer Money. Brother Devon simply proclaimed that by the end of the night, they will be called the greatest tag team in wrestling history, “Testify!”

  Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins fame did a spoken, TNA-ized version of the group’s famous “Bullet With Butterfly Wings” song to start the promo video focusing on the main event World title match between Sting and Mick Foley, as well as Lethal Lockdown.

  X Division title: Suicide (c) vs. Kiyoshi vs. Jay Lethal vs. Consequences Creed vs. Sheik Abdul Bashir
Pins and submissions count until it comes down to the final two participants. Then it’s all about escaping. Lethal is wearing his WM 7 inspired Macho Man attire tonight. Doesn’t he know that Savage lost while wearing that outfit? Suicide entered through the cover of darkness before dropkicking Sheik across the ring. Kiyoshi stopped Suicide’s momentum by jaw-breaking him with his foot. Lethal caught Kiyoshi with a dropkick out of a cartwheel. Leg drop on Lethal from Suicide, with his pin being stopped by Lethal’s partner, Creed. Suicide tried to get some speed going, but ended up by chopped down by Kiyoshi. Suicide stopped whatever Kiyoshi and Sheik had in mind, leveling Sheik before going fist to fist with Kiyoshi again. Lethal Consequences teamed up, double dropkicking the brawling men across from them. Big combination from Lethal Consequences that ended with Creed bulldogging Sheik out of Lethal’s gorilla press slam. Suicide and Kiyoshi also got a piece of Lethal Consequences’ team after a dropkick to the face and big flying elbow respectively. The big elbow from Lethal allowed Jay to pin and eliminate The Great Muta protégé.
Handspring clothesline by Creed on Sheik after the Irish whip reversal. Lethal came over to help his partner double flapjack Sheik. Jay hoisted Suicide up for a suplex. Creed slammed the stuck Suicide with a cross body, allowing Jay to suplex him as well. Suicide recovered, twisting Jay onto his shoulders before swinging Lethal’s boots into Creed’s face. Sheik propelled off the ropes, clotheslining Suicide. Sheik waited for Creed to get up to execute WMDDT to pin Creed.
Sheik and Jay were going at it until Jay used the Lethal Combination. Suicide ran over, using a series of clotheslines on Jay to set up for a Finlay roll. Jay countered it, leading to a couple of near falls by Lethal. Jay hit the ropes, running into a clothesline that spun Jay 270 degrees. But Jay still kicked out of Suicide’s follow up pin. Jay tried to use the cage to his advantage by running up the ropes. Suicide avoided the caperana from Lethal, using Suicide Solution. Before Suicide could get the elimination, Sheik got up, whipping Suicide head first into the steel before eliminating Jay with another pin fall.
Suicide reversed a whip into the cage. Sheik used the momentum to dropkick the cage door open, almost touching the floor before being pulled back in. Suicide got sent across the ring, only to make a run for the top turnbuckle. Sheik was able to stop Suicide’s ascent, belly to back superplexing the champ. Suicide stopped another WMDDT, driving Bashir’s face against the middle turnbuckle. Suicide was almost over the cage’s top when Sheik ran over. Both men were straddled on the top of the cage, trading blows. Sheik dropped off a couple of times, but held on. A head-butt did send Bashir back to the canvas. Before Suicide could climb out, Kiyoshi ran to ringside. Suicide looked to see Bashir heading for the door. Suicide either could jump in and stop Sheik, or dive off the cage, onto Kiyoshi and the growing number of security personal. Suicide chose the later, and retained the gold.

    In the back, Lauren stood with Christopher Daniels and AJ Styles. Styles talked about how him and Daniels are a unit. Daniels thanks Jeff Jarrett for another shot because, “I’m a man reborn.” As Daniels leads AJ out, Lauren asks about their partners-Samoa Joe and Jeff Jarrett-ability to work together.

    Queen of the Cage: ODB w/Cody Deaner vs. Daffney vs. Madison Rayne vs. Sojourner Bolt
Bolt and ODB squared off as Daffney and Rayne did the same on the other side. Sojo stopped Daffney’s pin off a northern lights suplex, teaming with Rayne and Sojo. The team didn’t work well at first, but they were able to level ODB. Bolt held ODB so Rayne could pop her in the mouth a couple of times. This set up a slingshot into the cage on ODB. For some reason, Daffney teamed up with Bolt and Rayne until they jumped her. Daffney fought back, using a cross body block on Rayne, and a hair assisted neck breaker on Bolt. Daffney missed the elbow drop on Rayne as ODB got some liquid courage to fire her up. Big clotheslines from ODB on Madison and Sojo. After whipping Bolt and Rayne into the corner, she used the avalanche splash plus two. Fall away slam from ODB on Bolt got the fans somewhat behind her. Bolt stopped the pin on Rayne after ODB’s sidewalk slam. Daffney ran over, hitting swinging fisherman suplex on Bolt, with her pin being broken up by Madison. Daffney and Madison collided in the middle of the ring after a hair mare. Once again, ODB used the flask to get fired up. Actually, she used it to blind Bolt. Power slam from ODB on Bolt makes ODB the 2009 Queen of the Cage.

    Mike Tenay stops Don West’s analysis to inform us that Jeff Jarrett has arrived.

    IWGP Jr. Tag Team title: Motor City Machine Guns (c) vs. No Limit vs. LAX
No Limit-Nito and Yujiro-is one of New Japan’s premiere Junior Heavyweight tag teams. We’ve got three pairs going at it at the same time. Nito is the first to fly on Alex Shelley. But Alex quickly recovered, stopping Nito before he could spring off the ropes again by hanging him in the tree of woe for a couple of dropkicks. Homicide turned an Irish whip into a spinning back elbow on Yujiro. Yujiro showed his power, hoisting Homicide off his back for a slam. Homicide stopped it from happening, choking him on the ropes. Chris Sabin rushed Hernandez for a hurricarana, but the big man blocked it. Sabin slipped off Hernandez’s shoulders, kicking him in the face, then the back before locking in an octopus stretch. Sabin stopped the cracker jack, hitting the ropes. This only helped Hernandez to shoulder block the incoming champion against the cage. Shelley paid Hernandez back by poking him in the eyes. Hernandez blocked the suplex attempt from Alex, so the Guns attempted to do it together. Instead, Hernandez suplexed them both. No Limit dropkicked Shelley into a dropkick. Sabin was dropped for a leg drop and a somersault senton. The fans booed until LAX just ran through No Limit. Homicide and Shelley were scaling the cage as the fans got behind the champions. Sabin ran over, crotching Homicide on the top rope so Shelley could dropkick Homicide against the steel. Double flying forearms from the Guns left Hernandez wide open for stereo kicks to his chest and back.
With Hernandez on his knees, the Guns put Homicide on the big man’s shoulders as if they were in a pool playing chicken. Sabin dropkicked Homicide’s back, sending him and Hernandez face first into the mat by a guiding Shelley. Homicide stumbled to his feet, right into Sabin’s tornado DDT. Yujiro stopped the sure pin. The Guns stayed on top of Hernandez, even getting some help from the New Japan stars. When Hernandez moved, Hernandez and No Limit crushed Shelley. Overhead release belly-to-belly suplex on Alex by Hernandez. Hernandez picked up Yujiro, slinging him across the top rope so Homicide could double stomp him. Somehow, Yujiro kicked out before the three count. Hernandez caught Sabin in midair, cracker jacking Sabin into the steel cage. Sabin landed on his head upon impact in a sickening sight. Hernandez followed up with a Border Toss into the cage on Shelley. Nito was able to slam Homicide, going after Hernandez. In a shocking show of strength, No Limit double slammed Hernandez for a near fall due to Homicide. Yujiro missed the diving head-butt on Sabin. Sabin avoided Yang time from Nito, making his way off the mat. The Guns stood on the top rope, using the tidal wave leg drop/superfly splash combo on Yujiro. Hernandez stopped the sure pin, tossing both Guns across the ring. Nito ran over, leveling Hernandez before being dropkicked by Homicide. Yujiro jumped to his feet, clotheslining Homicide. Hernandez ran over to save Homicide by hoisting Yujiro onto his shoulders. Doomsday 187 by LAX on Yujiro. Before Homicide could get off his knees, the champs super kicked him in the face. Hernandez also got a taste of the Guns’ boots. Grabbing Nito, the Guns used Made In Detroit (sliced bread/sit-down power bomb combo) to successfully defend the IWGP Jr. Tag Team championship.

    Abyss stood with his “girlfriend” Lauren as she warned him about the possibilities of Matt Morgan hurting Abyss tonight, especially with Abyss promising to not any weapons due to Dr. Stevie’s orders. Abyss didn’t care because all of his lifelong frustrations will come out on Matt tonight. 

  Doomsday Chamber of Blood match: Abyss vs. Matt Morgan
The only way to win this match is by bloodying your opponent, then making him submit, or pinning him. Matt Morgan grabbed a chair and a black bag from underneath the ring before entering the cage. Abyss ducked the chair shot, punching it into Morgan’s face. Abyss did his Vader impression in the corner by using a few haymakers. Unlike Vader, his didn’t drop Morgan. But the avalanche splash did. Abyss used his gigantic butt to slam Morgan’s head against the turnbuckles. Morgan turned the tides, big booting Abyss’ face into the steel. Abyss didn’t show any pain, going after the chair even though he promised not to use any weapons. That moment of hesitation allowed Matt to big boot the chair against Abyss’ masked face. Matt tossed the chair out of the ring before seeing Abyss bleeding from his forehead. Morgan used those rapid-fire back elbows into the corner, causing Abyss to spew more blood. Matt was in complete control, pounding Abyss’ cut forehead. Matt opened his mysterious black bag, releasing broken glass. You thought it was thumbtacks, didn’t you? Abyss stopped Matt from slamming his face into the shards. When his action failed, Matt decided to attempt to stab Abyss’ forehead with the glass. Abyss also stopped that, shoulder tackling Morgan. Abyss had the adrenaline flowing, allowing him to whip Matt face first into the cage four times. Chokeslam, but the referee informed Abyss he couldn’t pin Morgan yet because Morgan wasn’t bleeding. Morgan jumped off the top rope, only for Abyss to duck. The referee got knocked out by Morgan’s cross body block. Abyss grabbed a piece of glass, breaking it across Morgan’s face! And the fans wanted to see it again. Of course, Matt is bleeding after that. The bloody behemoths were going fist to fist in the middle of the ring until Abyss hit the Black Hole Slam. But we have no ref. Referee Slick Johnson ran in, making the count. Matt got a shoulder up right before the three count. Abyss decided to leave the cage to retrieve his chair. Before Abyss could reenter, Dr. Stevie ran out, yanking the chair from Abyss. And for some reason, Tenay and West were shocked Dr. Stevie is Stevie Richards. I guess the name didn’t give it away. Or the voice for that matter. Abyss turned from his doctor to be met with the Carbon Footprint. But Matt couldn’t get the pin off his patented move. Abyss fought back as the fans chanted, “ECW!”  Dr. Stevie refused to give the chair to Abyss. When Abyss didn’t get what he wanted, Abyss pulled out another black bag from underneath the ring. Richards demanded Abyss not to complete his action. Abyss refused, revealing the thumbtacks that were in his bag. Stevie ran in, confronting Abyss before going slap crazy. This distracted Abyss long enough for Morgan to low blow Abyss. Tree chokeslam by Matt sends Abyss’ back into the thumbtacks. SLAP THE PORPOISE…oh, wait, wrong company. Still, it’s over.

    In the back, Jeremy Borash interviewed Jeff Jarrett about his possibility of not being a team player, especially with so many disagreements with all of his teammates. Double J told his partners to worry about themselves instead of Jarrett, because tonight, Jeff is doing the right thing. Before Jeff could leave, Samoa Joe, knife and all, confronted Jeff. “No tricks, Jeff,” Joe mumbled, sending Jeff out of the room.

  Knockouts title: Awesome Kong (c) w/Raisha Saeed vs. Taylor Wilde vs. Angelina Love w/Velvet Sky
Love is wearing short tights tonight. Yes, it’s a good thing. And Kong is wearing a pissed off look. Yes, it’s not a good thing. Love tried to make a quick escape when Kong came after her. Wilde waited to get her hands on Love, helping Kong knock Angelina around. Kong tricked Taylor, picking her up and slamming her on the mat instead of on Love as planned. Love blocked the Awesome Bomb, attempting a sunset flip. Kong blocked it, trying to banzai drop her. Love moved, leaving Kong wide open for Wilde and Love’s dropkicks. Love stopped Wilde’s pin attempt, leading to a near fall exchange between the two. Big clothesline from Love after the failed backslide. Wilde bounced off the ropes, getting slammed against the steel. Kong grabbed Angelina, choke tossing her across the ring. Big swing by Kong on Love left Angelina on the mat so Kong could attempt to pull her hair out. Then Wilde got a piece of the pain. Kong decided to attempt a somersault splash from the top rope. Love moved in time to avoid the incredibly impressive move. Love dragged Kong over to the cage after bicycle kicking Wilde. Sky and Love tied Kong’s braided hair to the cage door. The gloating Love turned to find Wilde flying from the top rope, taking her down with a cross body block for a two count. Saeed was going crazy on the floor as Wilde tried to put Love to sleep. Wilde gave up, going after Kong. Kong kicked Wilde in the chest, knocking the wind out of Wilde long enough for Love to get the pin and become the new Knockouts champion.

    In the middle of a bunch of raucous children and a couple of weird looking, middle-aged guys stood Team 3D and Lauren, drinking some beers. Brother Devon credited Philadelphia making Team 3D some-bodies when they were just a couple of nobodies. Brother Ray told Beer Money they going to die tonight in, “Killadelphia!”

    TNA Tag Team title & IWGP Tag Team title Street Fight: Beer Money (TNA champs) vs. Team 3D (IWGP champs)
Team 3D came through the crowd before Ray moved the steel ring steps. The brawl was on as Beer Money missed the double team on Devon. Team 3D tossed their fellow champions to the floor some thirty seconds after the first bell. Devon took it to Robert Roode as Ray did the same with James Storm in the Philly faithful. They fought all the way to the top of the steps above floor level before coming back down. Roode got crotched on a railing by Ray. The action finally made it back to ringside. Storm spit some beer in Devon’s face, blinding him long enough to whip Devon into the steel guardrails. On the other side, Roode whipped the cage door against Ray’s face. Beer Money set up the ring steps before grabbing a table, putting it in front of the steps. Beer Money suplexed Devon from the steps top, through the table! Ray was now bleeding profusely. Beer Money hit the ropes at the same time, only to get double clotheslined by Ray. Storm stopped Ray’s ascent up the cage. Storm slipped on the ropes, crotching himself after taking a punch.
Roode took his partner’s spot, leading to a slugfest on the top rope. Ray grabbed Roode, executing a super Bubba Bomb. Roode somehow kicked out of Ray’s follow up pin. Storm grabbed Ray, drilling him before setting up for their finish. Devon ran in, stopping it from happening before using 3B on Roode for a near fall. Ray got underneath Storm, allowing Devon to use the Doomsday Device. And it only got a two count. Wasssup by Team 3D on Robert to a huge cheer. Everyone in Philly screamed for Devon to get the tables. Devon obliged, setting it up near the ropes. Beer Money stopped from going through the table, sending Devon into the cage face first. Beer Money couldn’t get the pin off the assisted neck breaker by Roode. Beer Money wanted to dive on Ray, but he moved out of the way. Ray didn’t avoid Roode’s spine buster, though. Storm grabbed the cage door so Roode could whip Devon into it. Instead, Storm swung the door against the incoming Roode when Devon reversed the throw. 3D through the table on Roode makes Team 3D double champions.   Jeremy Borash was in the Main Event Mafia’s locker room to talk with Kurt Angle. Angle denied Steiner’s conversation with Jeff Jarrett bringing any friction to the group. Angle put over everyone in the Mafia, telling the world that all the fans’ and young wrestlers’ doubts about their age will prove to be their downfall.

    Lethal Lockdown: Team Angle (Kurt Angle, Kevin Nash, Booker T., Scott Steiner) vs. Team Jarrett (Jeff Jarrett, Samoa Joe, Daniels, AJ Styles)
This one is contested under the old Wargames match rules, starting off with a person from each team, leading to a five minute exchange until another participant from the coin toss winning team enters. When all members of the team are in, the cage roof comes down, holding a slew of weapons until we have a pin fall or a submission.
Starting off for his team is Kurt Angle himself. Daniels entered as the first man from Team Jarrett. Daniels actually outwrestled Angle in the opening minutes, head locking Angle with authority. Angle powered out of the hold, whipping Danielson into the steel. Daniels ducked the clothesline, using a leg lariat to level Angle. In a modification of the curb stomp, Daniels almost cracked Angle’s sternum. Iconoclasm from Danielson at the four-minute mark. Kurt fired back, suplexing Daniels. Angle hit the ropes, actually running into a downward spiral that Daniels used to put Angle in the Koji clutch. Angle held on long enough for Booker to walk out and help him. I don’t know why Booker didn’t run seeing his leader in trouble, but that’s another question for another day. Booker did fire up Daniels’ chest with chops as Angle recovered on the mat. Daniels ducked the spin kick, leg lariating Booker. Booker reversed an Irish whip, sending Daniels into Angle’s European uppercut. Booker and Angle were in complete control as the fans counted down to Team Jarrett’s next entrant. And that man was AJ Styles. Styles ran to the ring, peppering both Mafia members. Booker got caught in the high/low combo from the Phenomenal Angels. Styles suplexed Booker as Daniels did the same to Kurt. A clothesline from Daniels dropped Kurt. The next man out was Scott Steiner. Steiner’s rampage started immediately. Belly to belly superplex by Steiner on Daniels. Steiner followed up with a frakensteiner on Styles. Bravo, sir. The Poppa Pump clothesline/elbow drop combo on Styles led to a series of elbow drops and pushups from all the Mafia boys. Samoa Joe’s music hit to bring out our next entrant.
Well, Joe didn’t immediately come out. Joe was found talking to someone behind a door instead of coming to help his partners. When Joe finally made it out, he exploder suplexed Steiner, slammed Booker in the cage, and clotheslined Angle. Angle stumbled into another exploder suplex by Joe. Joe hit the ropes, senton splashing Steiner to leave Scott on the mat for AJ’s punches. Joe watched as Kevin Nash jogged to the cage. Before Nash could make it in, Joe kicked the cage door against Nash’s face. Joe wasn’t done, beating Nash until Kevin slammed Joe’s face into the steel ring post. Chokeslam by Nash on Styles. Joe slid in after Nash sidewalk slammed Daniels. Styles recovered, Pele kicking Steiner. Joe held down Nash for Daniels' Best Moonsault Ever. Daniels ran into Booker’s Bookend while Kurt dropped Joe on his head with a high angle belly to back suplex. Jeff Jarrett made his way to the ring to give us our final entry. Jarrett was a house of fire, working over all the Mafia boys until the weapon filled roof lowered above the cage. Team Jarrett immediately grabbed some weapons before Team Angle could. The onslaught of Team Jarrett’s deadly hands dropped all of Team Angle. Well, all except Kurt Angle who climbed on top of the roof.
AJ was in hot pursuit, leading to a brawl atop the cage. Angle wanted to suplex AJ to the floor. Styles stopped it from happening. Angle stopped AJ from pitching him from their elevated area by kicking AJ in the balls. Angle slipped into the ring, Angle Slamming Jeff Jarrett. As Team Angle celebrated in the ring, AJ jumped through the cage roof, cross body blocking everyone! And Daniels couldn’t get a pin off the move as the Philly fans proclaimed, “That was awesome!” Daniels stood tall after using a STO on Angle. Scott pulled Daniels around, overhead belly-to-belly suplexing him. Before Scott could follow up, Joe used an inverted atomic drop on him, followed by the Muscle Buster. Booker stopped Joe from pinning Steiner after a calf kick. Spinarooni, spinarooni, oh my, spinarooni! Booker saw AJ rising, so Booker went for the Scissors Kick. AJ sidestepped it. Booker looked up to find Jeff coming at him with a chair. Booker ducked the swing, sending the chair into AJ’s face. Angle couldn’t get the pin off Jarrett’s “mistimed” attack. Joe confronted Jeff, leaving Joe wide open for an Angle Slam. Daniels stopped Angle’s pin attempt, using Angel’s Wings right after for a near fall. Scott drilled Daniels’ face into a chair. Jeff yanked down a guitar, feigning to hit AJ before cracking Booker on the head. AJ rolled Booker over, getting the victory for Team Jarrett.
All of a sudden, the lights went out as some unfamiliar music ran through the arena. The music was for Bobby Lashley! Bobby Lashley is in TNA, and Kurt Angle couldn’t be happier. Jeff Jarrett…eh, not so much.

    Lauren was with Sting to talk about the main event. Sting expects the unexpected, especially when it comes to Mick Foley, even though he’s just as crazy as ever. Sting wanted Mick to know that he won’t be rolling over for Foley, especially when the chance of Mick winning the belt could change the course of TNA in a very negative way.

    On the other side of the building stood Jeremy Borash with Mick Foley to ask Mick how it felt to headline Lockdown for the gold. Actually, it’s not Mick here tonight standing with a barbed wire baseball bat. Tonight, it’s Cactus Jack ready to slaughter Sting before winning the World title. And he’s going to do it by climbing out, making the order that the door be chained shut after they enter.

    TNA World title: Sting (c) vs. Mick “Cactus Jack” Foley
Foley entered with his favorite wired bat. After the boxing style in-ring introductions, referee Earl Hebner took the bat away from Jack. The first punch was thrown by Mick…on himself until he started bleeding from his freshly cut forehead after last week’s attack. Mick made a climb, only to be knocked from the top rope. Sting stayed on top Mick, sending Foley’s face against the steel. Foley fired back, knocking Sting around the ring until he got knocked off his feet. Once again, Sting stopped Mick’s ascent, belly to back superplexing Mick to the mat. Jack was able to kick out of Sting’s follow up pin, leading to Mick fighting his way across the ring until Sting was sitting in the corner. Foley looked back when he made it to the top rope, only to get chop blocked and hung by his left leg between the cage and the ropes. Sting watched as Foley rolled, clutching his left ankle. Sting honed in on the weakened appendage, using all of his weight to injure Jack further. Even with one leg, Foley continued to make his escape. Foley reversed the Irish whip, sending Sting’s painted face against the steel.
Foley tried to get the blood circulating through his leg again before neck breaking Sting for a two count. Even on one leg, Foley continued to scale his caged prison unsuccessfully. Double arm DDT by Foley got him a two count. Foley decided to go one step further by putting Sting in the Scorpion Deathlock. But Foley’s knees didn’t allow him to keep his balance. Foley ordered the door to be open, even though he’s the one who wanted the door chained shut. Foley hobbled across the ring, dropkicking a cameraman through the cage’s camera hole. This was done so he could climb through the hole, which actually was big enough for Mick to fit through. Sting grabbed Foley’s legs before he could slip out, putting Mick in the Scorpion Deathlock. Mick clawed to the hole, demanding the barbed wire bat. The cameraman he knocked down did as he was ordered. Sting turned around, meeting the bat. Sting ducked Foley’s wild swings, punching Foley off his feet before scaling the cage. Foley swung his bat into Sting’s left leg. Mick stumbled to his feet, only to get drop toe hold into wired bat. Mick held his hand and face after hitting the wire. Sting picked up the bat, clobbering Mick in the chest, stomach, and back. Sting tried to rake Mick’s face with the wired bat, but got kicked in his testicles instead. Mick ran across the ring, batting Sting’s face, twice. Blood started to pour from the top of Sting’s head as Mr. Socko came out to play. With Sting sitting against the turnbuckles, Mick rushed the champ, driving barbed wire into Sting’s face with his knee. Mick made his climb, getting over the cage. Sting tried to chase Mick, but Foley dropped before Sting could. Mick Foley is the new TNA World champion. 

    Is It Worth Your Money: Well, I said at the top of this review that TNA Lockdown usually delivers, and this one did the same, but not in the way you’d hope. I think the main event was a perfect example of that. Sting and Foley put on a solid, and commendable effort in their match, but it just felt like what it was: two men past their primes, doing stuff they shouldn’t be doing because no one else gets the opportunity to. I will not say it was a horrible main event. I’ve actually seen worse involving men ten years younger than these two in bigger events (Wrestlemania 25, anyone). But that doesn’t take away the fact that this was an underwhelming way to end a show. And that’s not the only negative for this one. Both women’s matches were short and underwhelming contests that didn’t feel like anything special. The Knockouts title match seemed to be getting in the groove when it ended. And man what a poor ending it was. It’s sad when the one division with the consistent highlights a year ago can barely total up to ten minutes between two matches. The tag team street fight was typical and redundant as a TNA street fight as you can get. It’s sad because, like the Knockouts title match, it was just moving pass that redundant pattern when it ended. I feel sorry for Abyss and Matt Morgan. It just seems like a great match is just waiting to happen between them, but they just stuck with the Abyss pay-per-view match manual, and it became just another typical Abyss match with an un-shocking twist.
That’s not to say the whole show was negative…but that not to say that those positives were memorable. The X Division title match was fun, but just the usual opening spot fest that you won’t remember by the end of the night outside of the big dive at the end. But it could be added to an opening package down the road. The IWGP Jr. Tag match was my match of the night. The story of singling out Hernandez unsuccessfully until he wore himself out and The Guns took advantage of it was done beautifully. Last but not least was Lethal Lockdown. Lethal Lockdown definitely had the big match feel, but didn’t feel any more special than those from years past. I think that pretty much sums up this whole show: nothing horribly bad, but nothing you’d want to see again after you saw it the first time. I would love to give this a middle of the road recommendation, but outside of one match, I don’t think it’d be worth your time. TNA Lockdown 2009 Is Not Worth Your Money.