Blindfold Match in a Cage

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For those who forgotten or have never heard of this, this actually happened at Lockdown 2007.

Chris Harris and James Storm were at one time America's Most Wanted, and perhaps one of the top tag teams of the 2000s and compared to The Midnight Express and even used their finisher to pay homage to them, calling it The Death Sentence.

In Late 2006 Storm would turn on Harris and smash a beer bottle into his face with the shards going into his eye putting him on the shelf ending the team and associating himself with Jacqueline Moore.

A few months later Chris Harris would return sporting an eyepatch from his injury hellbent on getting revenge on his former best friend. Lockdown The Annual All Cage Match PPV show was coming up and the two wanted to face each other in six sides of steel. So what does TNA do?

They make it a blindfold match...that's right a blindfold match inside a Cage at Missouri for a Pay Per View event.

Needless to say it sucked and the crowd there turned on them with chants of "Boring!" and "Fire Russo!" echoing. It was called one of the worst matches of 2007 and one of the worst of all time, which also had The Electrified Cage Match on the show as well. Dixie Carter in her infinite wisdom had the gall to call the people who criticized it idiots.

So what was TNA thinking?

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Still better than the idea of an arm wrestling match in a cage.

[El Cokehead del Knife Fight]

And the sad thing is that later that year they had a fantastic texas deathmatch that would have been a starmaking performance for both of them if they hadn't had it after the blindfold match.

[Can you afford to pay me, Gah]

Yeah it was horrible in person.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

The blindfold match should have been on Impact, where the screwy finish with Storm taking off the blindfold leading to something bigger. They gave these two a blood feud with tons of history and a big breakup, but then gave them the silly gimmick match for the big show.

A straight on cage match between the two would have been amazing. The fact that the hoods kept coming off was laughable.

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Nov 26, 2014 17:12:39 GMT -5 El Cokehead del Knife Fight said:

And the sad thing is that later that year they had a fantastic texas deathmatch that would have been a starmaking performance for both of them if they hadn't had it after the blindfold match.

The exact month afterwards

[Mayonnaise]

Nov 26, 2014 20:16:40 GMT -5 Oh Cry Me a Screwball said:

A straight on cage match between the two would have been amazing. The fact that the hoods kept coming off was laughable.

I seem to remember hearing that Chris Harris himself made those hoods because no one thought to either get them ahead of time or just assumed they could go somewhere the day of the show and get something that would work off the shelf.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

According to Storm, Russo apologized later admitting that the idea sucked

[Mozenrath]

On paper, it is one of the few times a gimmick match was, kayfabe, justified in TNA, but the problem is that these matches are rarely good, and the cage was a non-factor. This would have been better suited to an Impact.

[tropicalstormstl]

Was also there. I was so god damn disappointed because I knew the two of them could have put on a classic.

[fuzzywarble, squat cobbler]

*KNOCK KNOCK*

*WHO'S THERE?*

*A REALLY f***ING TERRIBLE AND BORING ABORTION OF A MATCH*