From the Bowery: Jeff Jarret: King of the Mountain (Disc IV)

Posted by Robert Leighty Jr. on 04.27.2009

This set wraps up with more ref bumps and run-ins, but they were nice enough to provide some rare CWA matches.

From the Bowery: Jeff Jarrett: King of the Mountain

-Jeff says you have to crawl before you walk, and walk before you can run. That has been his business model with TNA.

King of the Mountain Match for the NWA Title: Christian Cage © vs. Jeff Jarrett vs. Ron Killings vs. Sting vs. Abyss (w/ James Mitchell)
-Slammiversary 2006

-Jarrett and Killings have a go in the ring while everyone else brawls on the floor. Abyss and Sting continue their brawl on the floor and Jarrett gets double teamed by Killing and Christian. After disposing of Jarrett, Christian starts dancing to impress Killings. Funny stuff. Killings isn’t very impressed and boots Cage. Jarrett picks the bones of Cage and they have a go. Jarrett gets dumped to the floor, so Cage comes off the top rope with a kind of crossbody. Killings does a flipping senton out of the ring and crashes on Abyss, Cage, and Jarrett. Not be outdone Sting dives off the penalty cage onto Cage and Abyss. Back in the ring Jarrett eats a Stinger splash. While he stumbles around Killings hits him with a missile dropkick to get the pin. Sting takes Jarrett to the penalty box for two minutes and Killings is now eligible to hang the title. He immediately goes for it, but Cage kills him with the ladder. Cage escapes a press slam from Abyss and gets a roll-up to make him eligible. Abyss gets sent to the penalty cage and Jarrett tells him they need to work together as his two minutes ends. Jarrett abuses Cage on the floor with the ladder while Sting and Truth do battle in the ring. Jarrett puts the squeeze on Cage with the ladder as the crowd could really care less at this point. Not really sure why the crowd is so dead. They must be waiting for the crazy ass spots to start. Jarrett and Abyss work together to stack some tables. Jarrett kills Truth with a stroke from the apron to the guard rail and that’s enough to get a pin for him. Cage, Killings, and Jarrett are the three eligible men to hang the title, but Killings has two minutes to spend in the box. There’s no threat of anyone hanging the title though as Cage and Jarrett start brawling through the crowd. Sting and Abyss brawl on the opposite side of the Impact Zone. Abyss gets blasted with multiple chair shots, and Cage tries to toss Jarrett off the last row of the bleachers. They battle back to the ring as Killings finishes his time in the box. While everyone else brawls in the crowd Killings makes his move to hang the title. Abyss is the first one to realize what is happening and he is able to tip the ladder sending Truth to the mat. Tenay tries to sell the slow climb due to Killings feeling the effects of the stroke to the rail. I guess I’ll buy that. Killings repeats a spot AJ Styles did the previous year as he lies on the ladder and gets dumped over the tope to the floor. Jarrett sets squeezed between the two sides of the ladder. Literally no action is going on right now as everyone sells the beatings. In a match that is supposed to be a spot-fest with five men, having no action for any period of time is pretty horrible. Killings gets pushed off the ladder to the floor, and then Abyss throws the ladder at the ref. Jarrett tries to talk to Abyss, but he is having none of that. One black hole slam later, Abyss is eligible to hang the title. Abyss tries to hang the title, but Sting pushes him off and he crashes through the stack of tables on the floor. That woke the crowd up for a few seconds at least. Sting hits Cage with a Stinger splash and then locks him in the scorpion. Jarrett gets out of the box early, and tries to sneak up the ladder, but Sting cuts that off. Jarrett ties to use the guitar, but Cage stops that. Sting hands the title to Cage and tells him to hang it as he locks Jarrett in the scorpion. Larry Zbyszko punches Cage in the balls to keep him from hanging the title. Sting drops Jarrett with the death drop, and then uses the ref’s hand to count the pin himself. I guess that counts as Sting tries to hang the title. Cage and Sting debate who should hang the title and that gives Earl Hebnar a chance to knock over the ladder. The crowd knows what is happening now and they are pissed. The water bottles start flying as Jarrett hangs the title at 22:19. Cornette takes the title off Jarrett after the match, but it was ruled that he was still the champ on Impact a few days later.

Winner and New NWA Champion: Jeff Jarrett via hanging the title @ 22:19
-Not nearly as good as the early King of the Mountain match on this DVD set. The ending was too damn screwy, and the fans were rightfully pissed. This was just not very good in my opinion, and lacked the non-stop action (pardon the pun) that most matches like this have. **1/2

-He talks about the various milestones: getting Toby Keith, getting on Fox Sports, the action figures, and home video. He calls the Spike TV deal huge, and mentions the Impact video game deal. He is able to get Sting back in the fold because Sting hated the way things ended with Vince buying WCW. Talk shifts to Kurt Angle and Jarrett thinks they helped Kurt’s soul as much as his wrestling career. He also helps bring in Nash and Foley. Mick mentions he always thought TNA had the better in ring product, and that these guys are fighting for one another instead of their own careers. Jeff now talks about the young guys, mainly AJ Styles.

Fans Revenge: Jeff Jarrett vs. Samoa Joe
-No Surrender 2006

-This is not for Jarrett’s NWA Title. Instead this was a lumberjack match with fans at ringside. The kicker is that each fan (18 in total) has a leather strap. As far as I know these were legit fans that TNA selected from audition tapes. Jarrett comes to the ring wearing layers of shirts and some padding. Nice! Before the match Jarrett sends Eric Young on a mission to find Sting. Funny stuff as Young doesn’t check the rafters because he doesn’t think Sting would be the type of person to hang around up there. Jarrett is quite worried about the fans at ringside, as he should be. Joe dominates early with a running knee in the corner. Joe tosses him over the ropes, but Jarrett lands on the apron and scurries back in the ring before any damage is done. They tease another toss to the floor, but again Jarrett gets back in the ring before the fans can cause him any harm. Joe starts ripping off some the shirts, and after a STO, Jarrett finally hits the floor. He takes several shots with the straps, and flies back in the ring. Joe gets dumped, but the fans won’t touch him and Jarrett is pissed. Jeff steals a strap from a fan, and fires up the back of Joe. He starts choking Joe with the strap, and drops him with a strap assisted clothesline. He wraps the strap around his first and pounds away. Jarrett hits a crossbody off the top rope for a two count. In a nice spot Jarrett tries to spring of the middle ropes with a crossbody, but Joe just casually steps out of the way. Now Joe regains the advantage and hits a backsplash. Joe removes the final shirt, and Jeff is uncovered. He gets dumped to the floor and takes a hellacious beating from the fans. A fan tosses a strap to Joe and he does some bad things to the torso of Jarrett. A charge backfires for Joe though as he runs flush into a dropkick. Joe recover quickly though and snaps off a powerslam for a near fall. The advantage goes right back to Jarrett as he uses his shirt to choke. They fight over a strap, and it ends with Jarrett being tied to the top rope. Joe holds Jarrett and the fans storm to ring to take free shots at Jeff’s exposed back. Sweet! Jarrett has had enough and grabs his guitar. A wild swing misses and Joe locks in the coquina clutch, but Jeff gets a foot on the bottom rope. The ref gets bumped (naturally), and Jarrett gives Joe the stroke on the guitar for a two count. Jarrett fucks up by starting a slap fight with Joe, and that’s goes about as well as you would expect. They fight on the middle rope, and Joe blocks the stroke with a kick. That leaves Jarrett in the perfect position for the muscle buster, and that finishes things at 11:04. Joe steals the NWA title after the match, and that becomes important in the Joe/Angle feud that was coming. Speaking of which, Cornette comes out to make his special announcement: Impact goes prime time. The fans are pretty pumped, but things only get better because that was Cornette’s announcement and not the announcement. Of course that would be Kurt Angle and the crowd goes bat shit crazy.

Winner: Samoa Joe via pin @ 11:04
-A pretty pedestrian match, but I’ll give credit to Jarrett for taking some sick shots from the fans and Joe. Obviously the stipulation outweighed the match, and nothing really came from Joe pinning the World Champ as he was thrown in the Monster’s Ball match at Bound for Glory. **1/4

-Jarrett has been thinking about how long he will do this since the final run in WCW. He says he has been taking it year by year, and once Jill passed he thought he was done. The passion came back, and he gave it a go with Kurt.

NWA Title vs. Sting’s Career: Jeff Jarrett © vs. Sting
-TNA Bound for Glory II (Detroit, MI)

-Kurt Angle is the special enforcer for this match, and his entrance is still bad ass. Sting shows up with a mix of all of his various personas over the years, and also breaks out a robe from his early WCW days. Both men circle to start before we get the traditional lock-up. Neither man can get an advantage so they circle again. A second go round at the lock-up and Jarrett gets the advantage. He flusters Sting early with some basic mat wrestling, and sends him flying with a hip toss. The early story is that Jarrett is outwrestling Sting, and the announcers play it up as ring rust. You would think that wouldn’t be an excuse since 2 months off is nothing for a man that sat for 18 months in the rafters before wrestling Hulk Hogan. With each move he hits, Jarrett gets more and more full of himself. He lands his patented dropkick, and celebrates with a strut while Sting regroups on the floor. This is starting out pretty weird as the crowd is dead due to Jarrett controlling the start. They finally wake up when Sting kills Jeff with a powerbomb. A clothesline sends Jarrett to the floor. He gets in the face of Angle and they exchange shoves. Sting gets tired of waiting in the ring and the battle hits the floor. Jarrett gets tossed into the guard rail on two different occasions. Angle tosses the ref in the ring because anything outside the ring is his domain. Jarrett tries to use a chair, but Angle rips it from his hands. They brawl on the ramp, and Jarrett gets suplexed. The crowd howls with Sting, and he grabs the chair. Angle shows he will be impartial as he grabs the chair. In the melee that follows Sting accidentally punches the chair into Kurt’s face. Things settle back in the ring with Jarrett locking in a sleeper. For a big money match the crowd has been pretty subdued thanks to the lack of offense from Sting. Both men go for a flying crossbody block, and the results leave both of them down for the double KO spot. The ref nearly counts 10, but Angle comes in to give him an angle slam. Kurt takes over as the ref and tells both men to get it on. The pace quickens now as Sting controls with a reverse atomic drop and clothesline. Jarrett eats a Stinger splash, and the scorpion death drop gets a two count. Jarrett gets the stroke out of nowhere, but it only nets a two count. Jarrett attempts a tombstone, but Sting reverse to one of his one, and he plants Jarrett. Sadly, it only gets a two count. A low blow stops Sting from coming off the top rope. Jarrett heads up to apply the second rope stroke, but Sting fights him off. He tries for a splash, but Jarrett is able to get up the knees. Jarrett locks in the figure four which is kind of silly because absolutely no damage has been done to the knee of Sting. Sting has been in this hold a thousand times though and turns it over rather easily. Jarrett gets smarter and applies the ankle lock right in front of Kurt Angle. Nice! Sting must have watched a lot of Angle matches in the WWE because he knows the way to power out of that hold as well. Sting grabs the bat, but Angle pulls it away. Jarrett grabs the guitar and kills Sting, but he no sells and locks in the scorpion to get the tap-out at 15:04.

Winner and New NWA Champion: Sting via tap-out @ 15:04
-I seriously remember that match being a lot better, but it was all kinds of boring. Sting only got flashes of offense, and the crowd could care less about Jarrett. The formula was okay and the ending was what most people remember. It did start the tradition of Sting winning the big one at their biggest show of the year. **1/2

-Jeff thinks the future of TNA is very bright. Well, what else would he say? Not saying he doesn’t believe it, but what kind of message would it be if he said business looks bad right now. He still maintains the business is not cyclical, and only promoters get lazy. He loves the innovation of TNA and thinks they will keep going in that direction. The real key is for TNA to hit the emotions of the fans. Taylor says they listen to their fans, and Jarrett says they will never forget their foundation.

-Impact: April 12, 2007: We get the end to the Joe/Styles match. A brawl erupts and Jarrett makes his return to Impact. He blasts Styles with the guitar, and joins Team Angle for LockDown in their match against Team Cage.

-Jarrett won’t let out what remaining goals he has. He says he will write them down and in 10 years they can check to see if he accomplished them. Dixie feels TNA is the best company in the world and will be the biggest in the years to come.

Lethal LockDown: Team Cage (Christian Cage, AJ Styles, Abyss, Tyson Tomko, and Scott Steiner) vs. Team Angle (Kurt Angle, Sting, Rhino, Samoa Joe, and Jeff Jarrett)
-LockDown 2007 (St Louis, MO)

-This was the show where TNA used the cage that looked like a tennis racket. Thank God they went back to using a good old-fashioned chain link fence. I’m sure this cage was more climber friendly, but the old school WWF, blue cage looked more menacing than this shitty thing TNA was using here. They added the stipulation that whoever got the pin was granted a NWA Title shot. Angle shows his is a true captain as he starts for his team. Cage decides to let AJ start for their team. Shit, I’d start AJ too. Angle sucks up by wearing a St Louis Cardinals jersey. John Cena from 2004 called and he wants you to quit stealing his shtick, Kurt. Angle controls with a headlock and mows AJ down with a clothesline. He stomps a mud hoe in the corner, and hits a backbreaker. It has already been decided that the heels will have the next man in the match. AJ hits a superman punch, but a second try gets caught. Angle drops him with a slam, but a blind charge hits the post. Shockingly no blood though. For a blood feud in a cage these two are using way too many amateur and basic wrestling holds. Where’s my violence? And I think the crowd is wondering the same thing. Kurt gets the Olympic slam as the clock hits zero, and Abyss is your next entrant into the match. Now the violence should pick up a notch or two. Angle is fucked early as he receives the shock treatment from Abyss. Harley Race (the special enforcer) keeps Mitchell in check on the floor. AJ and Abyss take turns abusing Kurt as the two minutes draws to a close. AJ holds Angle in the corner for a running splash from Abyss. Rhino is the next man in, and he immediately goes after Abyss. AJ doesn’t escape the abuse though. Rhino drops Abyss with a flying clothesline. Angle was able to regroup and he rejoins the battle. Almost nine minutes into the match and we have yet to see anyone bleed. That disappoints me greatly. Just mindless brawling as the period ends and Tomko storms the ring. AJ finally gets split open and we have blood. It’s about time. West mentions that the fresh man always has the advantage. No shit! Rhino starts bleeding as we near the end of another period. Seriously this is just mind numbing brawling to a dead crowd. They are popping for the entrances and not much else at this point. Joe joins the battle next and that wakes up the crowd. He actually shows some much needed fire and runs through each member of Team Cage. AJ gets killed with STO, and to be a prick, Joe gives him the muscle buster. Angle locks his hands around Tomko and delivers 5 German suplexes. Steiner is the next man to give Team Cage the 4-3 advantage. Steiner throws suplexes to each member of Team Angle, and has the balls to give Rhino the top rope frankensteiner. Awesome! Tenay and West are speechless at that one as it was the first time Steiner broke out the move in TNA. The period ends and Sting evens things up 4 on each side. He sticks Abyss with the death drop, and then rattles of multiple Stinger splashes. Steiner gets his little freaks abused with the top rope. AJ gets killed in the Tower of Doom spot, and the crowd is finally alive. Cage makes his entrant as the final member of his team. I like the fact that the heel captain (and NWA Champ) comes out last for his team, while babyface captain Angle came out first for his time. Good storytelling there. Unlike everyone else Cage gets no offense when he enters and instead becomes Sting’s bitch. The heels do have the numbers advantage, but you would never know it. Jarrett is the final man to enter, and the story is that nobody outside of Angle trusts him. He fires off a dropkick to each member of Team Cage, and the roof lowers from the rafter to signal the start of Lethal Lockdown. Everyone goes for a weapon. Jarrett takes down all the weapons he can and starts tossing them to the members of his team. He uses the trashcan to brain Abyss, and then goes nuts with the trashcan lid on Steiner’s skull. AJ gets the bat and starts flattening anyone he can. AJ makes his way to the roof of the cage, and now the crowd starts to stir. Angle follows while Mitchell hands Abyss a bag of tacks. Harley Race decks Mitchell on the floor. Rhino gores the holy hell out of Tomko as he goes flying out the door to the arena floor. Everyone starts making their way out of the ring. Joe does a suicide dive out of the ring through to door on Tomko. The tacks get brought into play and Cage ends up in them when he gets choke slammed by Sting and Jarrett. Jeff gets a black hole slam into the tacks, and AJ gets tossed off the roof where he lands on the wrestlers who were battling on the floor. Things have definitely picked up towards the end. Abyss gets some more tacks and he loads them into the guitar. Jarrett grabs the guitar and he teases hitting Sting. Instead he tells Sting to move and Abyss gets creamed. Jarrett tells Sting to make the cover and by pinning Abyss he gets the NWA title shot at 28:04. Angle is pretty pissed by that as he pouts on the roof. Sting shakes hands with Jarrett after the match.

Winners: Team Angle via Sting pin on Abyss
-This was boring as hell to start and only picked up once Lethal Lockdown started. I mean there were some less than spectacular war games in the past, but usually the crowd was into the match to keep things somewhat enjoyable. The last 9 minutes saved this match as Abyss, and AJ killed themselves to make this entertaining. Just be prepared to be bored for the first 19 minutes or so. ***

-Jeff says his favorite memory in the ring is winning the NWA title for the first time. He loves the matches with Hardy and Raven in the early days. West loves the Jarrett/Raven match that turned away a 1000 people. He loves standing in the ring when Angle was announced as the newest addition to TNA. He puts over the match he had with Monty Brown on Fox Sports and loves what Monty brought to the table. He thinks his match with Angle at Bound for Glory will be very hard to top in his career. He calls Angle the greatest of the greats and puts him over Flair, Funk, Lawler, Steamboat, and Michaels.

Kurt Angle vs. Jeff Jarrett
-Bound for Glory IV (Chicago, IL)

-The story here is if Jarrett is ready after a two year absence to take on the greatest wrestler on the planet. The fans start a massive “Thank you Jeff,” chant, and then segue to a dueling chant. This is a raucous fucking crowd yo, and that usually helps a match in my opinion. Angle controls early with mat wrestling as expected. He maintains a side headlock, and a few smart asses start a boring chant. Jarrett fights out and fires off a hip toss before getting his own side headlock. The same smart ass fans again start chanting “boring”, so the rest of the crowd drown them out by chanting “Foley.” Angle tries to escape with a belly to back suplex, but Jarrett maintains the hold. Angle backs him into a corner, and breaks with some knees. They run the ropes and Jarrett hits his signature drop kick. A clothesline sends Angle to the floor and Jarrett follows with a slingshot plancha. They brawl on the floor and it ends with Jarrett crashing into the guard rail. Angle tosses him back in the ring, and punts the piss out of the now injured ribs. Cool! Jarrett regains control with an inverted atomic drop, and follows that with an enziguiri. He drapes Kurt over the middle rope and crashes on his back. He gets cocky and struts, so Kurt takes his head off with a clothesline. Heh! Angle goes to a chinlock and controls as the crowd tries to rally Jeff. He is able to break the hold, but runs into another vicious clothesline. Angle starts to get frustrated as Jarrett kicks out of multiple pins. He is so pissed that he goes right back to the chinlock. Again, Jarrett breaks, but gets backed into a corner. Angle charges, but only hits the post with his shoulder. Angle staggers into the DDT to leave both men down for the count. They get to their feet at eight, and square off in the center of the ring. The crowd goes HHH/Cena on them as they boo and cheer each with each punch that is exchanged. A belly to belly release suplex gets a two count for Angle. He tries the Olympic slam, but Jeff counters to another DDT. That only gets two. They fight on the top rope and Angle teases suplexing him to the arena floor. That would be fucking awesome, but obviously it’s not happening. Jarrett ends up hitting the superplex for a two count. The figure four is locked in the middle of the ring where Angle has nowhere to go. Angle sells the hold tremendously as you truly believe his knee is being destroyed. He is able to make the ropes and starts screaming for the ref to break the hold. Apparently the move didn’t have the impact one would expect though as Angle hits the triple Germans. To be fair he does do them with a limp. Jarrett tries to hit a piledriver, but Angle backdrops out of the move. Jarrett tries to roll through that, and the sequence ends with Angle locking in the ankle lock. Jeff is able to break the hold by rolling forward. The Olympic/Angle slam (depending what Tenay calls it this week) follows, but it only gets a two count. Angle is pissed, and doesn’t know what to do. He decides to go to the top rope for the moonsault, and it misses. A great bit of story telling there as Angle wobbled a little on the top rope due to the figure four and that delayed reaction gave Jarrett time to move. The ref gets bumped (of course), and Jarrett lands the stroke. Foley jumps in the ring and starts to count, but Angle is out at two. Foley goes to check on the ref, and Angle uppercuts Jarrett in his two chosen ones. He heads to the floor to get a chair, and Foley tries to stop him. Angle delivers a sick ass chair shot that probably killed what few brain cells Foley had. Jarrett eats a chair shot, but Foley pulls out the ref before he can count. Foley lays into Angle, and makes him eat Mr. Socko. Jarrett grabs the guitar and El Kabong finishes with Foley counting at 20:08.

Winner: Jeff Jarrett via pin @ 20:08
This was a damn fine match, but again, the ending kind of takes away from things. Sure the crowd popped huge, but to me it took away from what was a great match. ***1/2

-Jarrett is asked what his future is outside the wrestling business, and is stumped. He says he will focus on his daughters. He says he will work until he dies because the Bible says if you don’t work, you shouldn’t eat. He wants to give to the business for as long as he can.

-The producers wish to thank Jim Cornette for his continued work on this DVD.

David Johnson and Jim Jameson vs. Bill Dundee and Buddy Landell
-CWA: March 1986

-This match is shown because the ref is Jeff Jarrett and this is his first ever appearance on TV. Dundee was the Southern Champ, and Landell was the Mid American Champ. Johnson and Dundee starts things out for their teams. Dundee tries to call time, but Jarrett won’t let him. Dundee hits a back elbow and makes the tag to Landell. He comes in and drops a few elbows. The tag is made to Jameson and he has a go with Dundee. This is all Dundee and Jameson, and the way the announcers are talking things aren’t going to change. Dundee snaps Jameson down, and starts firing away with right hands. Jameson gets tossed to the floor where they brawl in front of a lot of women. What the hell was that? Wrestling shows I go to don’t feature 15 hot women sitting front row. Things finish once they get back in the ring as Landell pins Jameson after an elbow drop at 3:36. The real fun begins after the match when Landell starts smacking around Jeff. Jerry Jarrett charges the ring, but he is outmanned, and gets worked over by the heels. Jeff gets back to his feet and makes the save for his dad. He pays a price for it though as the heels smack him around some more.

Winners: Dundee and Landell via Landell pin on Jameson @ 3:36
-Not much to say here. The crowd was pretty hot for the post match angle. SQUASH

Tony Falk vs. Jeff Jarrett
-CWA: March 1986

-This would be the second match of Jeff’s career. Falk controls early and the announcers spend the opening 30 seconds discussing Jarrett’s basketball prowess. Falk heads to the middle rope and comes off gingerly with a foot to the chest. That looked pretty weak. Jarrett gets dumped to the floor, but he drives a shoulder on the apron, and uses that advantage to get a sunset flip for the pin at 1:54. A big brawl erupts to end things as Jarrett gets his ass kicked by Dundee and Landell. The faces can’t rescue though as they locked in the back. LeDuke hits the ring, and takes out the heels much to the shock of the announcers.

Winner: Jeff Jarrett via pin @ 1:54
Again, what can you say about a match like this. It’s nice to have this on the disc for historic reasons though. DUD

Jeff Jarrett vs. Hector Guerrero
-CWA: Dec 26, 1987

-Jarrett cuts a promo before the match and it’s about what you would expect for a guy a year into his career. Jarrett gets a couple arm drags to start. Both men are moving at a good pace as this match has already surpassed the previous two matches in terms of quality. Jarrett controls with a headlock, and Hector tries to battle out of that. He escapes and gets a roll-up for a two count. Jeff regains the headlock, and they work off that for a bit. In a funny spot, Jeff lets Hector go and he falls face first to the mat. Hector bails to the floor and then tells the ref his hair was being pulled. Then Hector goes and pulls the hair himself. Awesome! Cheat 2 Win as a great man once said. Jarrett continues with the basics as he hits 2 hip tosses, and locks in an armbar. Hector tries to punch his way out, and finally breaks. He lands on his feet after a backdrop attempt, but Jarrett catches him again with two more hip tosses before applying the armbar again. Hector talks trash to the ref while selling the armbar. Hector is making this quite the enjoyable match. The ref turns his back, so Hector punches Jeff in the eye to finally take control. Nice delayed suplex from Hector and it gets a two count. Jeff tries a sunset flip, but Hector punches him to keep that from happening. +1 for effectiveness right there. A backbreaker gets a two count, and a beautiful double underhook suplex gets another near fall. Hector hits a belly to back suplex, but a splash hits knees. Some in the crowd actually start a Hector chant. Jarrett tries to make a comeback, but Hector goes to the eyes to kill that noise. Hector sets too early on a backdrop and eats a knee. Hector tries to beg off in the corner, but Jarrett is might pissed and punches away. Jarrett tries to kill Hector as he hits three dropkicks. The match comes to a shitty end as Jarrett grabs some flour and tosses it in the face of Hector for the DQ at 8:55.

Winner: Hector Guerrero via DQ @ 8:55
-I’m sure that ending made some sense at one point, but that’s kind of lost on this DVD. The announcer mentioned something about Hector playing a Christmas joke that involved some flour and a piñata. The match itself was going along well until the ending. Jarrett kept things basic, and Hector kept things entertaining. **

CWA Title: Jeff Jarrett vs. Jerry “The King” Lawler
-CWA: Feb 6, 1988

-Lawler offers a hand, and they shake as the opening bell sounds. Lawler controls early with the power game which is weird to see. Jarrett gets tossed from one side of the ring to the other on two different occasions. He gets pissed after the second toss and fires off a clothesline to drop Lawler. A blind charge from Jarrett runs right into a stiff clothesline from Lawler. Nasty bump from Jeff on that one. The King controls with a headlock, but Jarrett counters to a head scissors. Lawler tries to escape with a headstand, but Jarrett lifts him up to drop him on his head in a kind of weird piledriver. Lawler does finally escape and goes back to the headlock. They do a criss-cross while running the ropes, and Jarrett lands a Thesz press for a two count. Jarrett goes to an armbar, and works that with some elbows to the joint. This match is starting to drag as it is lacking the presence of Hector. Lawler escapes and throws a dropkick which is weird seeing. Jarrett fires off one of his own, and then both men try to dropkick each other. The ref gets bumped, and Dundee runs in to blast Jarrett. Lawler gets the cover, and after an eternity the ref finally makes the three count at 7:11.

Winner and Still CWA Champion: Jerry Lawler via pin @ 7:11
-Pretty boring match with a shitty ending. Again, it’s nice to have these rare matches on DVD though. *

Jeff Jarrett and Bill Dundee vs. Cactus Jack and Gary Young
-CWA: Sept 20, 1988

-I wonder why they didn’t give us a blow-off match with Dundee and Jarrett. Instead they give us a match where they are tag partners. Dundee and Jarrett control Young early with a double backdrop. Foley gets the tag, and he has a go with Dundee. In a funny spot Dundee pulls on the chin hair of Foley. Jarrett gets the tag, and we get Jarrett vs. Foley. Kind of weird seeing them as two unknowns after just watching Impact where one is the World Champ and the other is the founder of the #2 promotion in the country. Jack gets abused, and begs off in the corner. He seems to blow a spot, so Dundee kicks him with a stiff boot. Cactus has had enough and makes the tag to young. Jack buries a knee into the back of Jarrett from the apron, and now the heels control. Jeff gets tossed around the ring for a few minutes before making the hot tag. All four men brawl in the ring, and things break loose at the 5:26 mark when the Studd Stable hits the ring. Jarrett and Foley brawl by the announce table as the video footage ends.

No Contest @ 5:26
-Not much of a match really as they never hit the standard tag formula. It was pretty fun seeing Foley and Jarrett in their early days, but that’s about all this match has going for it. *

The 411: At 12 hours long they covered just about everything they could. I still don't really like the documentary being spilt up over the 4 discs, but that's a minor gripe. As for match selection they covered almost everything, and the main goal seemed to be to show all the various people Jarrett has wrestled in TNA. I actually shocked they didn't include the 6 man tag featuring Savage. Still, for $20 they give you a lot of content and if you are a Jarrett fan this is for you. If not, this is still a good set to add to any wrestling collection.

Final Score:  8.0   [ Very Good ]