Keith Watanabe * NET 2.0

The ending was of course a downpoint but the one thing that made a huge statement was the Awesome Kong vs Gail Kim.  Although this wasn't the Aja Kong vs Manami Toyota classics, this match was still very good.  It seems as if both Gail and Kong watched the Aja vs Toyota classics because some of the match highly resembled the structure bits of Aja and Toyota's 1994-1995 encounters.  Awesome hit very heelish offense, just bullying the smaller Kim while Kim would get in a few blows, eventually opening up with her face, high flying offense.  This is simple but great match structure.  Awesome also would supply some of the Japanese style heel power offense, which works well in NA because most people haven't seen how the Japanese heels work (such as the camel clutch, biting, etc.).  It wasn't fancy offense but just believable.  Gail also had to innovate a bit such as busting out a top rope senton, which I haven't seen her do before.  Also, Gail was able to sell the high impact type of offense from Awesome, which was rare for once since you rarely see her sell.  The type of program hopefully will make Gail Kim an overall well rounded wrestler while building up the feud even more.  Quite honestly, I would call this the potential to be the best feud for 2008.  Tons of match types that would really elevate the Knockouts division into something that NA and pro-wrestling can really sink its teeth into.  Hopefully, Gail will stay healthy and TNA will continue prolonging this feud for a few more PPVs (street fights, cage match, 2/3 falls).  I hope that TNA management really looks at the viability of this type of division as a result of the huge buzz that they were able to create.

The rest of the PPV was a bit lackluster, simply existing to progress angles.  Some decent matches but the ending deflated the show.  Despite that, I'm still ever impressed with Christian Cage.  This guy is THE MAN as I said.  He's definitely my favorite thing from TNA (just about next to the Knockouts).