How Would You Book Lockdown?

[king1836]

This is how I would book Lockdown :

World Champion Magnus vs. James Storm

Lethal Lockdown - Jeff Hardy, Abyss, Samoa Joe, and Gunner vs. Bobby Roode, Bad Influence, and EC3

Tag Team Champions The BroMans vs. The American Wolves

Knockouts Champion Madison Rayne vs. Lei D Tapa

Samuel Shaw vs. Eric Young

[metylerca]

Pretty much how you booked it. Except they'll want to put Spud in the lethal lockdown.

[Mayonnaise]

Flip Storm and Hardy, add Angle and Spud to the Lethal Lockdown and that would be my best guess.

[king1836]

Jan 20, 2014 19:39:11 GMT -5 metylerca said:

Pretty much how you booked it. Except they'll want to put Spud in the lethal lockdown.

Okay, Spud will be the 5th member of his team. The 5th one on the other team is HERNANDEZ!

[Mr. Butter Fingers]

I really feel that we're getting Magnus/Gunner for the World Title.

[lildude8218]

the show opens with Mike Tenay in the ring welcoming the fans to the show. the lights immediately go out and when they go back on Archibald Peck is standing in the ring. everyone immediately realizes this isn't ECW in the 1990s and the show fails.

[Mayonnaise]

Jan 20, 2014 19:49:40 GMT -5 Mr. Butter Fingers said:

I really feel that we're getting Magnus/Gunner for the World Title.

I think that is more likely on a Spike TV "special" than a PPV, at least as long as they still have Hardy and Angle who can challenge.

[TK The Friendly Robot]

TNA World Heavyweight Championship
Samoa Joe vs. Magnus (c)

Lethal Lockdown
Sting, Hardy, Angle, Abyss and Eric Young vs. Bad Influence, EC3, Rockstar Spud and Bobby Roode

TNA Knockouts Championship
Lei'D Tapa vs. Madison Rayne (c)

X Division Championship X-Scape Match
Aries vs. Sabin vs. Manik vs. Ultimate Tiger vs. Kenny King vs. Samuel Shaw

Last Chance Match
Gunner vs. James Storm

TNA Tag Team Championships
The Bro Mans (c) vs. The American Wolves

[AdamAFL was sooooo wrong]

If I can book it totally my way (sticking purely to people currently on the roster though):

World Heavyweight Championship:

Magnus (c) vs. Samoa Joe

Lethal Lockdown:

Team Mystery Investor (AJ Styles*, Jeff Jarrett*, Jeff Hardy, Kurt Angle and Sting) vs. Team Dixie (Bully Ray, ECIII, Jessie Godderz, Robbie E and Rockstar Spud)

#1 Contender's Match:

Austin Aries vs. Bobby Roode

Loser Leaves Town Match:

Gunner vs. James Storm

World Tag Team Championships:

Bad Influence (c) vs. The American Wolves

Monster's Ball:

Abyss (now heel) vs. Mr. Anderson

X-Division Championship Xscape Match:

Chris Sabin (c) vs. Eric Young vs. Kenny King vs. Manik vs. Samuel Shaw vs. Zema Ion

Knockouts Championship:

Brooke Tessmacher (c) vs. Gail Kim

* - assuming their departures are a work, I'm pretty sure they're not but you never know and it would fit pretty damn well with the narrative.

[SOR]

Here is the card I expect:

Jeff Hardy Vs Sting


Kurt Angle, Magnus and Christopher Daniels Vs Austin Aries, Bobby Roode and James Storm


The Bromans Vs Eric Young and Joseph Parks


Gunner and Manik Vs EC3 and Frankie Kazarian


Chris Sabin Vs Kenny King for the X-Division Title


Zema Ion, Wes Brisco (Making his return) and Bully Ray Vs Dewey Barnes, Mr Anderson and Samoa Joe


Hernandez and Rockstar Spud Vs Norv Fernum and Jay Bradley (Making his return)


Chavo Guerrero (Making his return) and Sam Shaw Vs Rob Terry and Knux

[TK The Friendly Robot]

Jan 21, 2014 1:02:19 GMT -5 SOR said:

Here is the card I expect:

Jeff Hardy Vs Sting


Kurt Angle, Magnus and Christopher Daniels Vs Austin Aries, Bobby Roode and James Storm


The Bromans Vs Eric Young and Joseph Parks


Gunner and Manik Vs EC3 and Frankie Kazarian


Chris Sabin Vs Kenny King for the X-Division Title


Zema Ion, Wes Brisco (Making his return) and Bully Ray Vs Dewey Barnes, Mr Anderson and Samoa Joe


Hernandez and Rockstar Spud Vs Norv Fernum and Jay Bradley (Making his return)


Chavo Guerrero (Making his return) and Sam Shaw Vs Rob Terry and Knux

Ermm...I can almost guarantee you that none of this will happen. Sorry?

[Emmet Russell]

Jan 20, 2014 21:23:41 GMT -5 AdamAFL was sooooo wrong said:

Loser Leaves Town Match:

Gunner vs. James Storm

The perfect way to end James Storms career; beaten by f***ing Gunner.

[king1836]

Jan 20, 2014 20:05:24 GMT -5 TK The Friendly Robot said:

TNA World Heavyweight Championship
Samoa Joe vs. Magnus (c)

Lethal Lockdown
Sting, Hardy, Angle, Abyss and Eric Young vs. Bad Influence, EC3, Rockstar Spud and Bobby Roode

TNA Knockouts Championship
Lei'D Tapa vs. Madison Rayne (c)

X Division Championship X-Scape Match
Aries vs. Sabin vs. Manik vs. Ultimate Tiger vs. Kenny King vs. Samuel Shaw

Last Chance Match
Gunner vs. James Storm

TNA Tag Team Championships
The Bro Mans (c) vs. The American Wolves

Looks great to me!

[AdamAFL was sooooo wrong]

Jan 21, 2014 6:29:04 GMT -5 Emmet Russell said:

Jan 20, 2014 21:23:41 GMT -5 AdamAFL was sooooo wrong said:

Loser Leaves Town Match:

Gunner vs. James Storm

The perfect way to end James Storms career; beaten by f***ing Gunner.

Screw that. I'm booking this, and there's no way I'm letting Gunner win that match .

[king1836]

Jan 21, 2014 8:19:57 GMT -5 AdamAFL was sooooo wrong said:

Jan 21, 2014 6:29:04 GMT -5 Emmet Russell said:

The perfect way to end James Storms career; beaten by f***ing Gunner.

Screw that. I'm booking this, and there's no way I'm letting Gunner win that match .

Why do you hate Gunner? He served our country during the war.

[AdamAFL was sooooo wrong]

Jan 21, 2014 8:32:32 GMT -5 king1836 said:

Jan 21, 2014 8:19:57 GMT -5 AdamAFL was sooooo wrong said:

Screw that. I'm booking this, and there's no way I'm letting Gunner win that match .

Why do you hate Gunner? He served our country during the war.

A) It's not my country
B) I don't care
and C) He sucks

[TK The Friendly Robot]

Jan 21, 2014 8:19:57 GMT -5 AdamAFL was sooooo wrong said:

Jan 21, 2014 6:29:04 GMT -5 Emmet Russell said:

The perfect way to end James Storms career; beaten by f***ing Gunner.

Screw that. I'm booking this, and there's no way I'm letting Gunner win that match .

Jan 21, 2014 8:32:32 GMT -5 king1836 said:

Jan 21, 2014 8:19:57 GMT -5 AdamAFL was sooooo wrong said:

Screw that. I'm booking this, and there's no way I'm letting Gunner win that match .

Why do you hate Gunner? He served our country during the war.

I personally am a Gunner fan, however I think for a lot of people it's all about Gunner's place on the totem pole and him being pushed above his station.

If I was booking Adam's proposed Loser Leaves Town match I would put Storm over too, having Roode and Bad Influence helping him get the win, reuniting Beer Money and turning Storm heel all in one fell swoop. Not to mention getting some good heat on Gunner to build to his comeback, at a lower rank on the aforementioned totem pole, however higher than his pervious lower mid-card position. Hopefully this will make his detractors a little more happy as he's not being shoehorned into the main event and is not taking a position at the top where a more deserved guy could be.

I'd then bring Gunner back as a part of the Mystery Investor angle, along side another 'fired' tag team partner (I'm thinking Angle goes soon after Lockdown), at Slammiversary to face Beer Money for their spots back. At that point you give Gunner the rub and hopefully send the fans home happy with the American Heroes going over.

This shake up would create fresh tag matches with Bad Influence, Beer Money, The American Wolves, The BroMans, Norv and Dewey and EY and Park heading up the tag division, giving Storm a breath of fresh air as a heel and not to mention creating fresh pairings in the singles ranks as well.

[AdamAFL was sooooo wrong]

Jan 21, 2014 8:42:38 GMT -5 TK The Friendly Robot said:

Jan 21, 2014 8:19:57 GMT -5 AdamAFL was sooooo wrong said:

Screw that. I'm booking this, and there's no way I'm letting Gunner win that match .

Jan 21, 2014 8:32:32 GMT -5 king1836 said:

Why do you hate Gunner? He served our country during the war.

I personally am a Gunner fan, however I think for a lot of people it's all about Gunner's place on the totem pole and him being pushed above his station.

If I was booking Adam's proposed Loser Leaves Town match I would put Storm over too, having Roode and Bad Influence helping him get the win, reuniting Beer Money and turning Storm heel all in one fell swoop. Not to mention getting some good heat on Gunner to build to his comeback, at a lower rank on the aforementioned totem pole, however higher than his pervious lower mid-card position. Hopefully this will make his detractors a little more happy as he's not being shoehorned into the main event and is not taking a position at the top where a more deserved guy could be.

I'd then bring Gunner back as a part of the Mystery Investor angle, along side another 'fired' tag team partner (I'm thinking Angle goes soon after Lockdown), at Slammiversary to face Beer Money for their spots back. At that point you give Gunner the rub and hopefully send the fans home happy with the American Heroes going over.

This shake up would create fresh tag matches with Bad Influence, Beer Money, The American Wolves, The BroMans, Norv and Dewey and EY and Park heading up the tag division, giving Storm a breath of fresh air as a heel and not to mention creating fresh pairings in the singles ranks as well.

I wouldn't bring Gunner back at all but I must admit, I love the idea of EGO helping Storm to win the match resulting in him turning heel in the process. I'd never want them to show Roode and Storm as the pals they used to be but if they just showed them that Storm was at such a low ebb in his life that he figured joining EGO was the best course of action for his career then it could be a really interesting angle. And 6 months to a year down the line you could set Storm up for the face turn when he finally realises how much he's sold out leading to a feel-good title win over Roode.

EDIT: Of course then you'd have to deal with idiots saying "LOLTNA COPYING WWE AGAIN THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED WITH BRYAN AND THE WYATTS, TNASUCKZZZZZ" despite the fact that this type of angle has been done many times over the years.

[HMARK Center]

This one's tough: I kind of figure on a few new faces appearing, and I'm also having some trouble thinking up who might turn face or heel by April. For now, I'll just spitball some ideas I like:

-Certain guys who haven't been around lately, plus most new signings, end up being part of the Mystery Investor (henceforth referred to as "Mr. E", for all you Hey Dude fans out there) angle.

Samoa Joe vs. Bobby Roode
-I've wanted these two to feud for awhile, and it could be a match with World Title shot implications. Feud doesn't have to end at Lockdown, could go to Slammaversary at least. Joe is furious at Roode for being the main factor in AJ Styles being driven out of TNA. Joe takes up AJ's mantle as the lead wrestler looking to bring down the Dixie machine, while Roode, who's still very aware of Dixie's promise to "take care of him" for taking out AJ, looks to keep what's coming to him and sides with the boss.

Jeff Hardy vs. EC3
-Hardy returns with Mr. E, and sees Carter as standing for everything that drove him away in the first place, so he calls for a brawl in the cage.

Zema Ion and Chris Sabin vs. Austin Aries and Kenny King
-I just like the idea of this. I want to see two of these guys pair off and go into a feud that DOESN'T involve the X title (I think King and Sabin could pull it off nicely), but put them all together, play up that each one of them wants the belt and thus their partnerships will be kind of strained (e.g. King is helping Aries, but also sees him as a target in the near future, or same with Ion/Sabin). I'll assume that Ion has already cashed in his title shot.

ODB vs. Lei'D Tapa
-The blowoff to their feud, optional to make it a tag match with Madison and Gail also involved.

Manik vs. Spud vs. </insert special guest past X-Division wrestler here...bring back Jay Lethal? No? ...Fine, jerks>
-#1 Contender's match for the X-title, serves as the opener to hype the crowd, and could involve Manik and the old school X-Division wrestler teaming up to annihilate Spud, much to the crowd's delight.

I still feel like I need at least one more singles match, a World Title match, and obviously Lethal Lockdown, but I can't quite place all the pieces I want in there: Magnus, James Storm, Ken Anderson, Bully Ray, the Bro-Mans, Bad Influence, American Wolves, Kurt Angle, Eric Young, Abyss/Park, and at least one new guy who comes in with Mr. E (let's say MVP or whomever).

My first instinct is to have Mr. E's newest signing spearhead his Lethal Lockdown team as captain, and have Dixie basically go and plead with Bully Ray to lead her team by promising him something in return, ala what she did with Bobby Roode in the AJ/Magnus match. I want Storm in there because I think his character is taking a new direction soon, but I can't put my finger on where it should go yet. For the moment I'll say the American Wolves go on Mr. E's team in Lethal Lockdown, while either the Bro-Mans, Bad Influence, or both fight for Team Dixieland.

As for the World Title, for the moment I'll lean toward Magnus vs. Angle. I know it'd be better to see somebody fresher challenging for the World Title, but this would be the ideal place to use Angle, in my opinion: marquee PPV show, Angle is a prominent name, and Magnus' reign would be in just the right place for somebody of that threat level; he'd have been champ for around four months, so it's not too early, not too late. Magnus goes over, and we eventually build to him having to deal with either an increasingly impatient Bobby Roode, a violently angry Samoa Joe...or both...as the year goes on.

...I also want to work in Samuel Shaw, but I can't figure out how.

[toodarkmark]

One match.

AJ Styles v. Dixie Carter. SHOOT. $$$.