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TNA XPlosion

Brutus Magnus d. Shannon Moore to advance in the XPlosion Championship Challenge Tournament. Douglas Williams yanked Moore off the apron at a key moment, allowing Magnus to capitalize with the Mag Daddy Driver for the victory. Magnus will face the winner of next week's match between Tommy "Crimson" Mercer and Brother Devon in the semifinals, meaning our fourth quarterfinal will be Williams vs. Shawn Hernandez.

WWE Superstars

Trent Baretta vs. Heath Slater: Heath seems to be going for the "One-Man SOUTHERN Rock Band" motif now...hmm. Trent hits a huge somersault plancha in the early stages of the match...but he goes for one aerial move too many and gets punted in the gut. Slater focuses his attack on the midsection after that...Trent tries to mount a comeback but Heath stops that with a Stungun. Trent comes back with the big corner elbow and the springboard dropkick...for two. Jumping enzuigiri and Gobstopper Knee...get 2 1/2. Dudebuster DDT is blocked and Heath catches him with a huge spinebuster...for two. Slater charges into the corner and eats a boot from Baretta...for two. Trent goes topside but Heath cuts him off...back suplex off the top is attempted by Trent elbows him away. Whisper In The Wind...hits nothing but mat! Heath capitalizes with the Sweetness v3.0(snap inverted DDT) to notch the three-count.

Tag Team Champions The New Nexus vs. Santino Marella & Chris Masters, non-title: Geez Santino, pick a partner and stick with him. Scott Stanford, like S. William Regal, is a trooper and does bring up the fact that Santino's been playing musical chairs with his recent tag partners(first Vladimir Kozlov, then Zack Ryder, now The Masterpiece). Stanford says The New Nexus members are implementing a secret body oil that would allow them to potentially escape the Masterlock...oooookay, Scott. David Otunga avoids a Cobra-fueled disaster via timely assistance from Michael McGillicutty, allowing The A-Lister to throw Marella to the floor. Santino takes a beating from the champs...but he escapes a suplex attempt from McGillicutty with a Stunner(!). Hot tag to Masters and the house is on fire...Skyhigh on McGillicutty but Otunga breaks up the pin. Santino actually puts on a snake-styled sleeve and hits Otunga from behind with a variation of the Cobra, sending him to the floor. McGillicutty hammers Santino out of the ring and nearly gets caught in the Masterlock but Masters can't get the fingers locked and McGillicutty runs him into the turnbuckles to escape. He quickly follows up with the McGillicutter and the champs get the win. Stanford guesses the oil did work...go figure.

Alex Riley vs. Jack Swagger: These two crossed paths in a six-man tag on Raw recently where Riley got the pinfall on the former World Champion, so now they meet one-on-one. Given their respective personaes, this seems like a fight you'd see at a frathouse some Saturday night after one too many kegstands. (Okay, I'll shut up. YAY WRESTLING~!) Josh touches on the fact that Swagger was a defensive lineman in college while Riley was the quarterback for his college team, so it's defense vs. offense, or something. It's an even matchup for a few minutes but Swagger bashes Riley off the apron to take over and then sends him into the ringside barricade. Swagger keeps the edge and begins targeting the leg to set up for the anklelock...but Riley hits an STO out of nowhere. Riley spears Swagger and goes on offense, hitting his own version of a spinebuster. Riley delivers an overblown elbowdrop that Stanford dubs the "A-Bomb" and shockingly it only gets a two-count. Swagger rams Riley into the turnbuckles chest-first and clotheslines him from behind, then hits the running Vaderbomb and hooks the anklelock. Riley is able to escape the move and pull Swagger into his own rough meeting with the turnbuckles. With Swagger slumped on the ropes, Riley delivers a running dropkick from the floor, then follows up with the elevated DDT for the 1-2-3.

TNA Impact

-Bound For Glory Series: Rob Van Dam d. Phil Gunner with the five-star frog splash.
-Bound For Glory Series: Tommy "Crimson" Mercer d. Bully Ray with the Red Sky.
-Winter Lea(w/ Angelina Love) d. Women's Tag Team Champion Tara Varon(w/ Miss Brooke Tessmacher) with the swinging uranagi backbreaker; the referee ejected Love and Tessmacher from ringside before the match.
-Brian Kendrick d. Abyss in an Ultimate X Match to retain the X-Division Title; Abyss attempted to chokeslam Kendrick, but Kendrick grabbed the belt down from the Ultimate X structure in mid-move to win.
-Kurt Angle d. Ken Anderson in a cage match; the members of Fortune were at ringside to prevent any involvement by Immortal. Immortal did make an appearance late in the match to brawl with Fortune and Mexican American also joined in the fight. Bully Ray faked passing in a chair to Anderson and that gave Kurt the opening to finish with the Olympic Slam.

Added to Hardcore Justice: Kendrick vs. Alex Shelley vs. Austin Aries for the X-Division Title, plus a Fortune vs. Immortal six-man tag with participants to be named later(by process of elimination, the face side would be A.J. Styles/Christopher Daniels/Frankie Kazarian and I'm pretty sure the heel side includes Gunner)...