Mike Reviews TNA One Night Only – X-Travaganza 2013 – 05.04.2013

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I saw that TNA had uploaded this X-Travaganza show onto their YouTube Channel and I decided to give it a look because the card seemed interesting. One Night Only were one-off pay per views that TNA would do from time to time, with X-Travaganza being there to highlight the X-Division. We’ve got Jerry Lynn taking to the ring with Rob Van Dam for one last time, and an Austin Aries Vs Samoa Joe bout to close things out. I’m hopeful that both of those matches will be good at least, which should make the show worth watching.

You can view the full card for X-Travaganza below;
TNA One Night Only – X-Travaganza 2013 Card

X-Travaganza is emanating from the Impact Zone on the 5th April 2013 (it was taped on 12th January 2013)

Calling the action are Mike Tenay and Taz, who was seemingly part of Aces and Eights at the time, which was a Heel faction that started off okayish but went on FOREVER to the point that people stopped caring about it

The opening video package focuses on all of the big X-Division stars, with AJ Styles getting a lot of clips, even though he isn’t actually on the show as far as I can tell. And to be honest, not including him on this show seems really weird seeing as he’s one of the biggest X-Division stars they ever had and was the first ever X-Division Champion.

We get the Top 10 X-Division Moments throughout the night, with the following starting us out;

#10 – AJ Styles becomes the inaugural X-Division Champion in 2002

#9 – August 2003 – The first ever Ultimate X Match between Matt Bentley, Frankie Kazarian and Chris Sabin

Can’t argue with either of those, as they both should definitely be included

Match One
Seven Man Xscape Elimination
Matt Bentley Vs Jimmy Rave Vs Puma Vs Christian York Vs Lince Dorado Vs Sam Shaw Vs Alex Silva

Bentley is a cousin of Shawn Michaels who surprisingly never managed to parlay that into a WWF/E run. Rave tragically died young after a litany of health issues, but prior to that he was the crown jewel of the embassy in ROH and one part of the Rock and Rave Infection in TNA. Puma would go on to become TJP. Christian York tagged with Joey Matthews in ECW and then had a TNA run in the 2010’s. Lince Dorado would end up WWE as part of Lucha House Party. Sam Shaw would go on to be Dexter Lumis in NXT/WWE. Alex Silva is someone I’m afraid I don’t know much about but he seemed to mostly work the indies outside of the odd TNA shot like this. He was in one of TNA’s “Gut Checks”, where two unsigned people would get a chance to try and earn a contract, apparently. The rules here is that the first five wrestlers are eliminated by pin or submission, with the final two then having to try and escape to win.

If you roll under the ropes back onto the apron then someone else is free to come in, meaning that this one has a lot of quick paced action, although none of it really leaves much of an impact (pardon the pun). Puma and Dorado are probably the best high flyers here, with the rest of the competitors mostly falling into the “Regular Wrestler” category if you were playing a game like TEW. It’s totally fine as an exhibition of “stuff”, but I don’t think it really needed the cage stipulation. They could have just made it a standard 7 Way match and it wouldn’t have lost much really. Shaw reminds me a bit of Grayson Waller here, with there not being many hints of the serial killer and creepy cult guy gimmicks he would go on to do as his career went on.

Puma looks really good in this one, but both he and Dorado are the first two to go. I’m not sure I would have dumped out the two colourful flashy masked guys so quickly, as they were the ones who were actually working X-Division style the best, and now we’re left with a plate of beige instead. Hey, I don’t mind a plate of beige now and then and will eat a pile of garlic bread, spring rolls and tater-tots if offered, but not at the expense of the theme of the whole meal, but that’s essentially what we’re getting here. Eventually we come down to Rave, Bentley and York, with Rave and Bentley teaming up to work York over. This does at least get some of the women in the crowd to cheer for York.

York is actually an okay lower to mid-card babyface, so he does okay as the babyface in peril here and manages to eliminate Bentley with a neck breaker, giving us Rave and York as the final two. We get some mandatory climbing the cage spots now, with York taking a bump from the fence back into the ring, although he was smart and only really fell from as high as the top rope as opposed to being further up the cage. We get the exchange of punches as both sit atop the cage, which loses some of it’s effectiveness when it’s in a throwaway opener on a throwaway pay per view. York eventually manages to clamber out and he’s the winner after 16 Minutes.

WINNER: CHRISTIAN YORK
RATING: **1/4

Thoughts: This wasn’t actively bad or anything like that, but it didn’t really need the cage stipulation and I’d argue that it lessened the cage as a whole that it was used in a context like this when it wasn’t required. I also don’t think eliminating the two actual high flying guys so early was the smartest move, because you were then left with a bunch of mostly generic looking dudes doing less exciting stuff than Puma and Dorado could do

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#8 – July 2008 – Frankie Kazarian gives Daivari a leg drop whilst he’s trying to unhook the X from the top of Ultimate X. Kazarian was lucky not to break his tailbone doing that one

Jeremy Borash interviews Tony Nese and Rashad Cameron in the interview area. They cut a generic promo about how they are the future of the X-Division and they’ll prove it against two X-Division veterans tonight. In fairness; Cameron’s promo was actually decent, but Nese’s was bland and he sounded nervous to boot.

Match Two
Old School Vs New School
Douglas Williams and Kid Kash Vs Rashad Cameron and Tony Nese

Williams is a very talented wrestler who sadly didn’t have an NXT Black and Gold or AEW to go to during his peak years, so he ended up in TNA instead. Kash was a star in ECW and worked for TNA and WWE in the 2000’s. Cameron wrestled as Sabian in CZW. Nese would end up in WWE and later AEW. Williams and Cameron start out, with Cameron hanging pretty well on the mat with Doug actually. Neither Cameron nor Nese look out of place in there, and in fairness to Cameron he’d been working in CZW since the early 2000’s, so he’d had plenty of experience prior to this and was arguably ready for a chance in a TNA sized company by this point in his career.

The opening exchanges see both Cameron and Nese trying to get some dives onto the Old School team, but the grumpy old guys keep preventing it. This is not only quite funny, but it means that the crowd reacts loudly when the New School guys manage to finish out their babyface shine with a pair of dives. That was great as they actively denied giving the fans what they wanted until till they really wanted it, and then they gave it to them, so the crowd was happy and they got more out of those two dives than if they’d just had the babyface team do them without any difficulty.

We get two heat segments here, with a quick one on Nese and a slightly longer one on Cameron, with the Old School team mostly keeping it violently simple, which works for them as the whole point is that they’re grumpy and non-flashy whilst the New School team are flashier and more exciting. Kash shows his usual violent tendencies at one stage, by kind of combining a Brain Buster into a Bodyslam, and almost flings poor Cameron right on top of his head. Kash getting grumpy and just flinging his opponents around like the archetypal sack of potatoes may have entertainment value, but it kind of goes against the point of this whole Pro Wrestling thing, where you’re supposed to make your stuff look dangerous without it actually being so.

Nese eventually gets the hot tag and runs wild, including a Chris Chetti styled Moonsault, which of course allows Taz to namecheck his family member. The crowd is getting into this and enjoys Nese’s comeback. Nese and Cameron show some decent chemistry down the home stretch, with Williams and Kash both happy to bump around for them now that we’ve reached that stage of the match. Kash eventually manages to get away from Cameron and give Nese a punch when he has Doug up in a fireman’s carry, which allows Doug to slip out and get the Chaos Theory German Suplex for the three count after 13 Minutes.

WINNERS: WILLIAMS & KASH
RATING: ***

Thoughts: Kash seemingly trying to kill his opponents aside; this was a good tag team match. They had two solid grumpy Heels and two flashy exciting babyfaces, and they went out there to work the traditional tag team formula in front of an invested crowd, so it was good fun. They probably should have opened with this one instead of the cage match really, as this was a textbook way to work a tag team opener

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#7 – December 2005 – Samoa Joe chokes out AJ Styles in order to win the X-Division Title for the first time

And following that we get an interview with Samoa Joe by Jeremy Borash. Joe cuts a good promo about how both he and Austin Aries started out in the X-Division and ended up moving into different divisions, but now they’re back where they originally started. I enjoyed this, as Joe kept the shouting to a minimum and focused on telling a story that made sense.

Match Three
Special Referee: Joseph Park
Chavo Guerrero Jr Vs Robbie E

Park is the alter-ego of Abyss. Chavo Jr I’m guessing most of you will know, but in case you don’t he’s a member of the Guerrero Family who worked for WCW, WWE and Lucha Underground, with him being the nephew of Eddy Guerrero and the son of Chavo Sr. Robbie E would go on to be Robert Stone in WWE. Robbie annoys the crowd before the match by talking about he’s the greatest X-Division Champion of all-time. Really, they made this guy the X-Division Champion at one stage? I thankfully don’t remember that part of TNA history. Chavo Jr heads out to let Robbie know that the X-Division evolved from Lucha Libre which his grandfather, Gory, innovated so he wants a match with Robbie now. This leads to Park heading out as the referee so that they have the impromptu match here.

The commentary team reminds us that Abyss was actually X-Division champion at one stage; which I believe happened when Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff had their Heel faction and wanted to control all of the belts. Park is very entertaining in this role, with his facial expressions in particular being really funny. Chavo Jr gets some decent support from the crowd here, with him controlling most of the short run-time whilst Robbie is mostly treated like a bumping buffoon. Robbie uses Park as a human shield at one stage and that allows him to cut Chavo Jr off for a quick heat segment. Robbie E eventually misses a crossbody and collides with Park, with Park gormlessly slamming him down, meaning that Chavo Jr can get the Frogsplash for the three count after 5 Minutes.

WINNER: CHAVO JR
RATING: *1/2

Thoughts: Neither of these guys were really X-Division wrestlers, so they just went out there and had a basic short match. The crowd didn’t hate it at least, so it had that going for it. TNA did have a TV Title division at one stage and both of these two would have made far more sense competing in that instead of trying to do X-Division stuff, as neither of them really worked the exciting high flying style that you’d associate with the X-Division. Chavo Jr did do a Frogsplash, but he was mostly just a standard regular wrestler who did a few holds and mostly stuck to punching and whatnot. He wasn’t a terrible wrestler by any means, but he worked heavyweight style and did the odd slightly flashier move, as did Robbie E, so neither of them really belonged on a show like X-Travaganza

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#6 – A selection of crazy moves, which isn’t really a “moment” as such, but it does let us see some wacky high spots to dubstep at least, so that’s something to have fun with I guess

Jeremy Borash interviews Kenny King who cuts a generic promo about how he’s the future of the X-Division

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#5 – This is just a compilation of high spots from Ultimate X with other wrestlers talking about it, as I continue to ponder whether the folks at TNA understand what a Top 10 list of moments is supposed to be. Kurt Angle does take time to put the X-Division guys over at least, which is nice

Match Four
Ultimate X
Zema Ion Vs Kenny King Vs Mason Andrews Vs Rubix

Ion would go on to be Joaquin Wilde in WWE. King was on the second season of Tough Enough and had a run in ROH before he bailed on them to join TNA. Andrews would be perhaps be better known as Scorpio Sky of PWG and AEW. Rubix was known as Jigsaw on the indies and worked places like CHIKARA and ROH. Ultimate X is a stipulation where you’ve got four cables going across the ring to form an X, with an item that you grab to win. You can’t use a ladder and must use the cables to grab the item. In this case the item is just a giant “X” and the match doesn’t really appear to have any other stakes aside from that. Kind of a weird way to treat one of your company’s signature gimmick bouts, but that’s just TNA being TNA I guess.

Without there being much of a storyline going on here, we just go straight to a display of spots and big moves, and it works fine in that regard. I generally don’t care for having these big gimmick matches used as throwaway bouts to pad the card, as it makes the stipulation itself feel less special and it usually increases the chances of people getting hurt for no real reason. If they knew they were doing this X-Travaganza show then why didn’t they actually set up some sort of storyline reason for there to be an Ultimate X bout on the card? I’m not a fan of random thrown together ladder matches in WWE or AEW either, but they at least will normally make the match be for a belt or a title shot so that there’s a tangible reason for the match to be happening, however loose.

Ion and King look to be Heels here whilst Rubix and Andrews are in the babyface slot. Rubix manages to get himself over with the crowd by doing a very cool rana off the cables onto Ion at one stage, and that opens the door for a festival of dives to the floor. The dives themselves look good and manage to elicit a “TNA” chant from the crowd, so they at least aren’t for naught. Rubix continues to take most of the bigger risks, as he’s getting a bit of a showcase here. I always remember him being okay on the independent scene, so it’s nice to see that TNA didn’t make him a total chump whilst he was on their books. Despite seemingly being a Heel as far as I can tell, King has his fans in the crowd, so maybe I’m wrong and we’re supposed to like King? His promo suggested he was a cocky Heel, but maybe I just interpreted it wrong?

Taz kind of undercuts things a bit by doing a comedy routine where he keeps pronouncing Rubix’s name wrong, like he’s playing Bobby Heenan for the night or something. There’s a moment where everyone is down and Rubix could easily win, so he has to do the lame “slow climb” so that Ion can recover in time to stop him. There’s an odd sequence where Andrews posts King up like he’s going to follow with an uppercut or something ala Claudio Castagnoli, but nothing happens and King just lands on his feet before popping Andrews with a strike and the match just keeps going. I’m surprised they didn’t try editing around that to be honest as it just looked “off”. Rubix actually manages to unhook the X, but King attacks Rubix before he can get it down to the mat and claims the X for himself to get the win after 15 Minutes.

WINNER: KENNY KING
RATING: **3/4

Thoughts: This was a decent exhibition of high spots, but there were some awkward moments in there and I felt that Taz’s comedy routine on the call undercut any chance they had of making this match feel like it was important. I get that this is just a throwaway pay per view, but could they have not made a bit of an effort to try and have some kind of storyline running through it? Even if they just had a stipulation here that the winner would earn a title shot for some undetermined time down the line, it would have made it feel a tad more important than just “let’s throw some people into one of our top gimmick matches for no real reason other than to fill 15-20 minutes on this throwaway event that barely anyone is going to watch anyway”. TNA would do that a lot though, where they’d just have a big gimmick match seemingly for the sake of it without any real reason and it would lead to gimmick matches not really meaning anything anymore because they had them on seemingly every show just to pad out the run time

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#4 – Brian Kendrick defeats Abyss for the X-Division Title in July 2011 to liberate the belt from Hulk Hogan’s Heel faction. I actually remember watching the show where this happened and they did try and make it feel like a big deal, so it makes sense to include it here

So-Cal Val interviews Bad Influence (Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian) ahead of their upcoming match and they cut a fun cocky promo. I found Daniels referring to Val as “Low Cal Valerie” to be a really funny line for some reason

Jeremy Borash interviews Petey Williams and Sonjay Dutt. Williams cuts a wacky promo about how he was doing ab crunches in the womb, whilst Dutt is a bit more grounded. This was a decent promo segment

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#3 – The AJ Styles Vs Christopher Daniels feud. It was certainly a memorable feud, but if you’re doing a list of specific moments then you’d probably be best of picking their most famous match together and focusing the video on that rather than just including a highlight reel of them doing MOVEZ, because their feud was about more than just that

Match Five
Bad Influence (Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian) Vs Petey Williams and Sonjay Dutt

Daniels and Kazarian were appletini sipping cocky Heels at the time. Williams was one of the bigger X-Division stars in the 2000’s thanks to his Canadian Destroyer finisher. Dutt had numerous stints in TNA, playing a generic babyface and an evil guru amongst others. Bad Influence being here means we get to hear their awesome entrance music which is always a bonus. The Impact Zone fans are happy to see Williams, as he hadn’t been around since 2009 when he’d lost a loser leaves TNA match. Tenay and Taz’s squabbling gets really annoying in this one, with it actively detracting from the match at one stage. Williams and Dutt work well as a babyface team to start, shining on Bad Influence with some quick paced offence, leading to Williams getting Kaz in a Sharpshooter whilst Dutt gets Daniels in some kind of Octopus Stretch.

Bad Influence play the role of bumping stooges for the babyface team well, and eventually they cheat to get the heat on Williams, with Daniels coming in illegally to distract Williams, leading to Kazarian getting a Stun Gun (the move, not the item) to cut Williams off. Bad Influence show good tag team chemistry as they work Williams over, with Williams selling it all well and the crowd getting behind him. Williams eventually catches Kaz with a spinning neck breaker and it’s hot tag to Dutt, who runs wild on Bad Influence and looks good on offence whilst they bump and sell well for him. The crowd continues to be into this as they move into the home stretch, with each side having chances to win it. Williams of course teases the Canadian Destroyer at one stage, but the Heels make sure to block it. Dutt goes up for something but Daniels crotches him behind the referee’s back and that leads to Daniels coming in with the BME on Dutt so that Kaz can get the three count after 13 Minutes.

WINNERS: BAD INFLUENCE
RATING: ***1/4

Thoughts: Good tag team action there, with Bad Influence being solid Heels and the Williams/Dutt tandem working well as high flying babyfaces that the crowd got behind. The finish maybe could have been a bit snappier, as it had a tad too much going on at points, but aside from that this was a good match.

Bad Influence tries a post-match beatdown, leading to the babyfaces rallying and Williams busting out the Canadian Destroyer onto Kazarian to pop the crowd. Nothing wrong with that. You give the fans what they want to see, and you do it in a way where it’s the bad guys getting what they deserve, rather than the babyface being a sore loser

We get a video package for the next match, set to DEATH METAL of course, which makes sense seeing as Jerry Lynn is going to be involved in it

Match Six
No Disqualification
Rob Van Dam Vs Jerry Lynn

A classic ECW rivalry getting one last run out. This was the last of Lynn’s matches to make air, but he worked some matches in March before X-Travaganza aired in April. This is the usual RVD Vs Lynn match, although it’s fought at a slower pace than they could manage in 1999, with it being focused mostly around the two trying to out-counter the other. Even though it isn’t as good as the two could manage in their respective heyday’s, it’s still enjoyable just because they have such good chemistry together as opponents.

The No DQ element comes into effect relatively early, with a chair being brought into the ring and the two fighting outside the ring, leading to RVD getting his signature leg drop off the apron onto an opponent draped over the ringside railings. Tenay is starting to lose his voice at this point and Taz is still focused on playing the role of annoying Heel commentator, so the call could certainly be better, but the action in the match itself is decent and the crowd is polite, if not exuberant, about the two wrestler’s efforts.

The problem with someone like Lynn wrestling way past his physical peak like this is that the differences from his peak to his tail end are far more obvious and pronounced because speed and athletic ability were such important components of it all. Contrast that with a Honky Tonk Man, who mostly just stooged around and did a neck breaker for his finisher in his prime, then any physical degradation has far less of an impact on his act overall than it would for someone like Lynn.

Lynn is working hard here though and RVD is doing his best to make Lynn look as good as possible in his last big televised bout, taking big bumps to make Lynn’s offence look extra devastating. Tables get involved, with Lynn managing to Spear RVD through one that is stacked up in the corner for a near fall at one stage. Lynn never really used a Spear in his regular wrestling days, but it’s an easy to do move that gives the crowd the satisfaction of a table bump with minimum risk for the two involved, so it’s a clever inclusion.

RVD tries to do a Frog Splash onto Lynn whilst Lynn is laying down on a chair in response, but Lynn dodges it and gets a roll-up for two in a good near fall. We get one last appearance of “Lynn dodges an RVD leg sweep and leg drop’s RVD on the way down” spot, which remains one of the best sequences in ECW history in my opinion. As Lynn is calling it a career though he’s doing the J-O-B here, and he goes out on one last big bump as RVD knocks him off the second rope through a table at ringside. Lynn survives the pin attempt back inside the ring, but it’s one last act of defiance, as RVD follows up with the Frog Splash for the three count after 16 Minutes.

WINNER: ROB VAN DAM
RATING: ***

Thoughts: Not close to the calibre of match they were capable of in their prime years, but both were working hard and Lynn got to go out on a good match, which was nice to see. Lynn couldn’t physically do what he used to, but he gave what he could and RVD did everything possible to make Lynn look good in the bout

The two hug following that, whilst the locker room empties to applaud Lynn in a nice moment.

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#2 – Austin Aries earns a contract in July 2011

Borash interviews Austin Aries</strong in the interview area, where Aries cuts what feels like a babyface promo, as he puts TNA and Samoa Joe over.

Jerry Lynn talks about how nice it was to have one more match with RVD before calling it a career. RVD comes over and puts Lynn over as well. Two very influential guys there who blew my mind when I first saw them work together back in 1999. I know some don’t like the style they employed in the ring when working together, but I do still think their work has held up to the test of time and I’m glad that feud happened as it played it’s part in launching RVD whilst also showing a lot of people just how good Lynn could be.

The #1 X-Division Moment is Austin Aries cashing in the X-Division Title in order to win the World Title from Bobby Roode in July 2012 at Destination X. That’s fair enough in all honesty, as it was a big moment at the time and it created a stipulation that still exists in TNA where the X-Division Champ can cash in their belt for a shot at the big one should they choose to, so it has ongoing historical significance.

We then get a special mention for the September 2005 match between Christopher Daniels, AJ Styles and Samoa Joe. That was a big deal to folks who didn’t just watch WWE at the time, as it was basically those three doing a high level ROH Main Event on a national pay per view at a time when that didn’t really happen that often. I remember The Wrestling Channel had a special airing of the entire pay per view commercial free over here in the UK, and I’ve still got it on a VHS tape somewhere.

Main Event
Austin Aries Vs Samoa Joe

Both of these two are TNA Triple Crown winners, with each of them holding the World, X and Tag Team Titles at different times. Aries kind of plays Heel in this one, even though he came across as a babyface in his promo earlier. They do some nice technical wrestling to start, with each wrestler holding their own, but it eventually turns more physical, with Aries pinballing around to make Joe look good whilst Joe busts out his usual brutal collection of kicks and chops. Aries even takes a chop over the railings into the front row at one stage, which is an impressive bump and sold very well on Aries’ part.

Aries eventually targets the leg of Joe in order to save himself from more punishment, leading us to our heat segment where Aries works over the appendage whilst the crowd gets behind Joe. Joe sells the work on the leg well, with Aries doing a solid job working him over. It’s a well-worked heat segment, with it all making sense as Aries is smaller than Joe, and also known for sometimes winning bouts by submission, so going after the leg is a sound strategy that plays into his character and wrestling style. Now I doubt the finish of the match will be Aries winning with a leg based submission, but if Aries does find a way to win, and Joe’s injured leg comes into play somehow, then it’ll earn the bout some famed Fitzgerald Bonus Points.

Joe eventually fights his way out of a Figure Four, but his injured leg means he can’t deliver a TOPE SUICIDA, which means Aries can deliver one of his own instead. Aries is too cocky for his own good though and delays finishing Joe off, which allows Joe to turn Aries inside out with a Lariat for the double down. Joe showed great fire there and Aries took a sensational bump. That takes us into the closing stretch, with the two trading elbows in the middle of the ring, which of course ends with Aries going to the leg again like the snide jerk he was always meant to play.

Aries catches a lucky break when Joe counters another Figure Four into a sleeper hold, with Aries arm dropping onto the rope, causing it to be broken even though Aries is actually out. That was a clever way to essentially show that Joe won but that Aries survived by fortune. Joe’s leg slows him down when he tries to attack Aries in the corner following that, which allows Aries to dodge out of the way, paying off that story thread. Aries misses the 450 Splash following that, but Joe’s leg locks up when he tries the Muscle Buster, and that leads to Aries getting a quick jack-knife pinning hold for the flash three count after 18 Minutes.

WINNER: AUSTIN ARIES
RATING: ****

Thoughts: An excellent match, with Aries being a good little jerk and Joe being the big badass who gradually got more tired of his bullshine as the bout wore on. It was nice to see a clean finish that actually played into the leg work that happened during the heat as well. Joe never forgot to sell the leg at any point down the home stretch and the finish was a logical way for Aries to get a win without making the bigger wrestler look weak for getting pinned by the smaller one

In Conclusion:

X-Travaganza is a pretty inessential show, but there’s enough good wrestling on here that I think most would enjoy it. For what essentially amounts to a free video on YouTube, you get some fun action and a really strong Main Event. I’m not sure it was worth shelling out money to watch X-Travaganza back in 2013, just because nothing really had any stakes or impact (pardon the pun) on any of the ongoing TNA storylines. You could miss this show back in 2013 and you’d lose basically nothing from doing so. In 2026 that isn’t the case though so if any of these matches sound like they’re worth hunting down then I suggest loading up the show over on YT and cherry picking the ones you’re most interested in.

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