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of Champions
Date: November 1, 2013
Location: Impact Zone, Orlando, Florida
Commentators: Mike Tenay, Tazz
The opening video is exactly what you would expect: shots of the entrants who are apparently putting it all on the line (nothing is on the line) in a night of hardcore wrestling (nothing is hardcore) action that will be taken to the extreme (nothing is extreme).
Here are the brackets.
Mr. Anderson/James Storm
Bully Ray
Sting
Bobby Roode
Austin Aries
Kurt Angle
Samoa Joe
Jeff Hardy
Tournament of Champions Wild Card Match: Mr. Anderson vs. James Storm
Mr. pounds in right hands before hooking a top wristlock as Tazz wants to see an actual professional wrestling resume. Tenay references the Global Wrestling Federation of all things in another of those unfunny moments between the announcers. Storm fights up but gets taken down in the corner, giving Anderson a rollup for two. The Mic Check is countered into a Last Call to send Storm into the actual tournament.
Jeff Hardy likes the idea of finding out who the best of the best is and is ready to fight Samoa Joe in the first round.
Tournament of Champions Quarter-Finals: Samoa Joe vs. Jeff Hardy
Package on Austin Aries climbing the ladder in TNA and becoming champion at Destination X 2012. They just show highlights instead of the end of the match here again thank goodness.
Angle says the greatest man that ever lived better be ready for the greatest wrestler that ever lived.
Tournament of Champions Quarter-Finals: Kurt Angle vs. Austin Aries
Tournament of Champions Quarter-Finals: Bully Ray vs. James Storm
Rating: D. Can we PLEASE get a match to last fifteen minutes? These quick finishes and rest hold marathons are really getting tedious with no one looking especially good whatsoever. Storm got destroyed for most of the match but at least he was making a comeback at the end. Still though, this show needs something good and it needs it fast.
Video on Bobby Roode from the buildup to Bound For Glory 2011. We also get a look at Storm winning the title (not mentioned in his video earlier) from Angle before Roode turned on him to win the belt.
Tournament of Champions Quarter-Finals: Sting vs. Bobby Roode
Feeling out process to start until Sting wins a shoving match and no sells some chops. Instead Roode elbows him down and stomps away before going into the chinlock. Bobby brags a bit too much though, allowing Sting to wrap up his legs to try a Scorpion from the mat. That gets him nowhere so Roode takes him into the corner and mocks the yelling Stinger Splash.
Sting gets out of the way and hits the real splash to set up the horrible Deathlock. Bobby makes a rope as Tazz keeps making jokes about people being old. Back up and Roode grabs a DDT on the arm and slaps on the Crossface, only to have Sting make a VERY long crawl to the ropes for the break. Sting escapes a slam and hits the Death Drop for two, only to have Roode counter the Scorpion into the Crossface for the submission.
Updated brackets:
James Storm
Bobby Roode
Austin Aries
Samoa Joe
Tournament of Champions Semi-Finals: Austin Aries vs. Samoa Joe
Back in and Joe kicks him in the face before snapping off right hands. Another kick to the head sends Aries to the floor but he gets in a kick to the leg as they come back inside. A top rope forearm to the head puts Joe down and they head back inside for more leg work including a leg drag for two.
Tournament of Champions Semi-Finals: James Storm vs. Bobby Roode
Tournament of Champions Finals: Samoa Joe vs. Bobby Roode
Results
James Storm b. Mr. Anderson – Last Call
Samoa Joe b. Jeff Hardy – Rollup
Austin Aries b. Kurt Angle – Rollup
James Storm b. Bully Ray via DQ when D-Von interfered
Bobby Roode b. Sting – Crossface
Samoa Joe b. Austin Aries – Koquina Clutch
Bobby Roode b. James Storm – Crossface
Bobby Roode b. Samoa Joe – Pin while in the Koquina Clutch
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