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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TNA: SLAMMIVERSARY 2008 (DVD MOVIE)
EAN: 0853877001669
Format: Color
Label: TNA
Manufacturer: TNA
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: TNA
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-08-19
Running Time: 210
Studio: TNA
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
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On Sunday June 8, 2008, Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling presented Slammiversary live and exclusively on Pay-Per-View! On this TNA Home Video DVD release, you ll witness the three-hour spectacular in its entirety, featuring your favorite TNA superstars such as Sting,Kurt Angle, Christian Cage, Booker T, AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, Team 3D the TNA Knockouts, the stars of the X Division and many more! In addition, the DVD will feature exclusive footage, hidden easter egg video, a bonus match and much more.
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Summary: TNA: Slammiversary 2008
Comment: this is one of the slammiversary's ppv i saw if you like tna then you should get it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Above average at best
Comment: What a difference a year makes. I was at last years slammiversary ringside and it was a great event. Fast foward a year and senshi, ron killings, chris harris just to name a few are gone. The x-division is not being pushed as strong as it used to, and that helter skelter booking has really pushed the product down. The first match with Kaz and Petey williams is great. Tag match with LAX and Team 3D was average at best. The wedding was lame to say the least, everybody could see the swerve coming a mile away. Kurt Angle vs AJ Styles was the best match of the show. If the booking was better and more cohesive this would have been a much better event.
1. TNA X Division Title Match: Petey Williams vs. Kaz
2. Angelina Love, Velvet Sky, & Moose vs. Gail Kim, Roxxi & ODB
3. TNA Tag Title Match: LAX vs. Team 3D
4. Awesome Kong Open Challenge
5. Jay Lethal-So Cal Val Wedding
6. Kurt Angle vs. AJ Styles
7. TNA World Title King of the Mountain Match: Samoa Joe vs. Robert Roode vs. Booker T vs. Christian Cage vs. Rhino (Special Guest Referee: Kevin Nash)
Customer Rating:
Summary: Above average ppv that could have been alot better
Comment: TNA's Slammiversary 08 was pretty light on matches(only 6 this time) but for the time given they were pretty good. The main event lived up to the hype but it definitly wasn't the show stealer despite the fact it was a gimmick match with some of the best stars. Also, throughout the ppv each of the King of the Mountain competitors were interviewed. I think this added to the quality of the match and it actually felt like anyone could win this thing.
X-Division Title Match
"Maple Leaf Muscle" Petey Williams vs. Kaz
This was the opening bout? This match was very close to pure awesome. Not the usual spotfest you normally get from the X-division but some great mat wrestling. Very nice match with a good ending and after match chaos. I will also add this. Petey Williams new gimmick has grown on me and I think it's doing him justice. I mean just how long could he have gotten by with only his signature move and poor mic skills? 4.25/5
TNA Knoockouts Tag Team Match
Gail Kim, ODB, & Roxxi vs. Angelina Love, Velvet Sky, & Moose
TNA usually delivers with their womens division. And this match proves that much. I thought this would end quickly but it turned into a pretty good match. I'm glad to see the women are being used for something other than eyecandy. These girls can actually wrestle and I'm sure WWE misses Kim. 3.5/5
TNA World Tag Team Championship Match
LAX(Latin American Exchange) vs. Team 3D
This match just seemed water downed and I couldn't really get into it. These teams are capable of so much more. Average wrestling with nothing special to point out. 3/5
Awesome Kong Open Challenge Match
Kong offers $25,000 to any female in the audience to step into the ring and beat her. Before they enter they have to sign a form stating they know the risk. I really don't want to spoil this segment. I'll just say it was very fun to watch. Others may not enjoy it at all. 3/5
The Wedding of Black Machismo & So Cal Val
This segment I did not like. Not because it's very close to Randy Savages from Summerslam 91. I'm not going to spoil this with details but the predictable heel turn lost all of its value. The creative teams must have been drunk. This is the lowest point of the ppv to me. It shouldn't have been added. 2/5
Grudge Match
Kurt Angle vs. AJ Styles
Match of the night for me. These two delivered a very good mat wrestling match. And I will point out that it stayed one on one. The ending worked out putting over the story. I'm also very glad to see AJ in solo competition again. I liked the idea at first using him to help establish Tomko, something WWE never bothered to do. But this is AJ at his absolute best. 4.5/5
King of the Mountain Match for the TNA Heavyweight Title
Samoa Joe vs. Rhino vs. Robert Roode vs. Chrisitian Cage vs. Booker T w/Kevin Nash as special enforcer
A good main event but compared to the previous KOTMM's. This one is the least by far. They wrestled a pretty good match. But Christian didn't bring his A game concerning the ladder. Anyone who has ever seen his ladder matches, knows what he's capable of bringing. I also felt there wasn't enough high spots. The little bit they performed wasn't too impressive. I will admit that I enjoyed seeing Roode in the main event. He's a very good wrestler and I always felt he was the best from Team Canada. I also thought it was a nice move pointing out the champion has never left with his title. It adds alot more suspense if you're a fan of the champion. 4/5
A pretty solid ppv that I would give a 3.5. The extras contain a few interviews with the post match interviews worth a watch.
Customer Rating:
Summary: TNA Celebrates Another Year With A Great Show
Comment: X Division Champion Petey Williams vs. Kaz - For the first time in two months, the X division gets a regular match instead of some type of caged cluster. They didn't do anything heavily fast paced or "spotty" like the typical X division match but concidering how each person is not at 100% going into this (Kaz's arm & Petey's eye), this was a good solid encounter between the two that wasn't the sterotypical "X division spotfest" but the moment to look out for was Kaz being busted open & the aftermath when The Monster Abyss returned & got his hands on everyone in the ring...including Rhaka Khan.
Gail Kim, O.D.B., Roxxi vs. Angelina Love, Velvet Sky, Moose - Just like how the X division match was the first time in two months where they didn't just just cram everyone in the division into one match, the same goes for the knockouts here & you get the same result. A solid match that was fun to watch with some nice storytelling & selling by The Beautiful People & Moose (again, please find better names for these girls) by working on Kim's injured knee throughout the match.
TNA Tag Team Champions L.A.X. vs. Team 3D - Instead of this match being a brawling style that you have seen time & time again from their matches in the past, this was more of a traditional tag team match that went back & forth between both teams with old school storytelling like Team 3D double teaming & cutting off the ring building towards Homicide to get the hot tag. Another solid encounter.
Womens Champion Awesome Kong's Open Challenge - This is a gimmick similar to how Kurt Angle used to do his gold medal challenge back in WWE where a "random fan" is picked, gets a match against Kong, and if the fan wins...she gets $25,000. Two girls were picked from the audience & Kong basically squashed them both & afterwards, did the same to Eric Young's special guest...Elvis. Unless your a heavy fan of Kong being a female version of "WCW's Vader" & killing people in the ring, skip this.
The Jay Lethal/So Cal Val Wedding - Holy SummerSlam '91 Batman! Seriously, this entire storyline has been done very similar to the Randy/Liz storyline from the proposal, "Oh Yeah!" acceptance by Val, and even Lethal dressing in the same type of outfit Savage did at the SummerSlam wedding. However, anyone who watched TNA over the past couple of months (including those who edit the video packages together) knew what was coming when the best man Sonjay Dutt stopped the wedding & turned heel on Lethal before getting his own beating by the groomsmen. The heel turn was great but for him to get laid out by the legends right afterwards killed it & turned this turned into a wrestlecrap segment. At least you got to see old school legends & names from the past like Kamala, Jake "The Snake" Roberts (complete with snake), Koko B. Ware, and George "The Animal" Steele who of course munched on his favorite snack...the turnbuckle.
A.J. Styles vs. Kurt Angle - This is without a doubt one of the best matches of this year as these two put on one hell of a wrestling match & their best PPV inring performance in months. They worked a great mat based match which is where Kurt is at his best & what Styles is very underrated at as well. Match of the night here & with everything that happened towards the end with Karen & Tomko afterwards, you will see a rematch & the feud will continue which nobody will mind one bit after seeing this match. Match of the night, no questions asked.
King Of The Mountain Match: TNA Champion Samoa Joe vs. Christian Cage vs. Rhino vs. Robert Roode vs. Booker T w/Kevin Nash as the special enforcer - Before I get started, I have to note how good each video package & interview was with each competitor throughout the entire night that are worth checking out as it heavily put over the main event & put over each person as not only wanting to win the match & become champion but also having something to prove as well.
Now for those who never seen a the King Of The Mountain match before, it's a ladder match in reverse with alot of stipulations. To win the match, you have to use the ladder hang the belt instead of using the ladder to pull it down like a normal ladder match. However before you can hang the belt, you have to qualify to do it by scoring a pinfall/submission over one of the other competitors...and the person who loses that fall goes into a penality box for 2 mins. Yeah, sounds real gimmicky but when you watch it come together...it's a real easy match to follow. Overall, this was more like a 5 way dance as oppossed to the previous KOTM matches that came off like a ladder match as there wasn't as many spots as the previous ones & there wasn't much of a story told here as everyone, with the exception of Booker T, qualified towards the end of the match before the finish happened with Samoa Joe becoming the first champion to retain his championship in the KOTM match. This match was a solid performance but didn't feel like a main event & should have switched places with the Angle/Styles match.
In the end, this was TNA's best PPV in a very long time as they fixed some of the problems that were making their PPV's suffer in by using the mentality of QUAILTY OVER QUANITY which they forgot when booking Lockdown & Sacrifice. Eventhough there was only 5 matches on here (6 if you want to count that Awesome Kong segment), they didn't overload the card by using the entire roster in bad pointless gimmick matches that just waste time & take time away from the other more important matches on the card which makes entire the PPV suffer as a whole. In the end, this PPV is a straight 4 star event (no being nice & rounding the rating up) as there wasn't a bad match on here & each one was given enough time. The Awesome Kong challenge & Wedding segments were the only real bad notes of this PPV so this is one event I do recommend for a viewing.
Customer Rating:
Summary: another awasome tna ppv
Comment: I kind of disagree with the other reviews slammiversary 2008 was a great night of wrestling besides the so cal val jay lethal wedding that was the only the small grip I had which I knew the out come before the ppv but I know why they did this on the ppv instead of impact is because there moving away from the wwe norm and I like it also the angle styles match couldn't have gone any better great wrestling here little petey kaz match just shows you why wwe can never do what the x division does really good showing by both men now on to impact with the kaz feud something wwe does but hey wwe does ppv feuds to drag on to raw or smackdown and have not succeeded maybe tna will in fact I know they will joe wins kotm sweet way to end the ppv as long as joe's champ wwe's ratings will go down even more buy this
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