1. Take No Prisoners (ROH)
2. No Way Out (WWE)
3. Hard Justice (TNA)
4. Royal Rumble (WWE)
5. One Night Stand (WWE)
6. Victory Road (TNA)
7. WrestleMania XXIV
8. Summerslam (WWE)
9. Final Resolution (TNA)
10. Lockdown (TNA)
11. Against All Odds (TNA)
12. The Great American Bash (WWE)
13. Slammiversary (TNA)
14. Night Of Champions (WWE)
15. Sacrifice (TNA)

It's not a great PPV for ROH standards, but it suffices to beat No Way Out in regards to star matches. TNP is the 6th ROH PPV. I have yet to see Undeniable (where Nigel wins the title; he still has it), Rising Above or Respect Is Earned II.

So let's get into the matches. The only ones I expect to read and maybe comment would be telvisnostic, lightning and maybe wounds.

1. Four Corner Survival for a ROH World Title shot later in the night - Tyler Black defeated Claudio Castagnoli, Go Shoizaki and Delirious (** 1/2): Quite good match to get the PPV started. It was a bit funny to watch thanks to Delirious and Claudio. But Tyler wins with the Phoenix Splash, a move that makes the Shooting Star Press less, less impressive. Oh, and Nigel McGuinness did guest commentary for this match. He's a good commentator, actually.

Note: The PPV song was "Watch Yourself" from Ministry. And after this match, ROH aired a News Report video regarding the Tag Team Title changinng since the 5th PPV (AOTF beated Briscoes and lost it a month later to No Remorse Corps), which was a nice touch from ROH.

2. Kevin Steen defeated Roderick Strong (** 1/4): This needed more airtime. 10 minutes isn't much for them, really. Steen wins with a Package Piledriver if I'm not mistaken.

3. Briscoes defeated Necro Butcher & Joey Matthews (AOTF) - Tag Team Street Fight (***): Crazy brawl. Chair shots everywhere (most of them unprotected). Even Necro attacked Mark with a shovel. Hell, he nearly wins the match with a roll-up pin of all things (would have been extremely rare for a guy like Necro). I kinda hated the ending because of three big spots in less than 1 minute. Kida overkill IMO especially between the last two spots. First, Jay Briscoe Death Valley Drived Joey Matthews (a.k.a. Joey Mercury, who will come back to WWE later this year with Christian York as a tag team) through a table. A few seconds later, Mark jumped from the top of the entrance stage and lands on Necro through a table. 5 seconds later, Jaydriller on Matthews and the match is over interrupting a "Holy Sh*t" chant from the Mark-Necro spot. Yep, the ex-WWE guy jobs at the PPV. And there was a BotchaMania worthy spot: one of the Briscoes (Mark) tripped from the top rope while trying to connect the Doomsday Device on Matthews. But ROH would never left Maffew use their footage. F*gs.

Note: I think at this point they aired a video regarding Morishima being suspended from ROH PPVs after attacking a ref.

4. Brent Albright defeated Erick Stevens (* 1/2) - Kinda boring and short match. Sweeney distracts Stevens and Albright (back then heel, now he's a face and on his own without Sweet & Sour Inc.) connects a Half-Nelson Suplex for the win. The announcers put ROH over as the non-flashy company that has their wrestlers working their for their love of wrestling rather than the money whil saying that Sweeney holds wrestlers and sells them down the river to his buddy Vince (McMahon).

5. No Remorse Corps (Rocky Romero & Davey Richards) defeated Jigsaw & Ruckus to retain the ROH Tag Team Titles (*** 1/4) - Fun and awesome match. This match was taped in Orlando (the rest were in Philly) during the WrestleMania weekend. Jigsaw wasn't wearing his mask, he looks like a generic nerdy virgin. Lots of cool spots and the crowd made the match worthwhile too.

6. Bryan Danielson defeated Austin Aries (****) - Damn good match. I don't need to explain much of this, really.

7. Nigel McGuinness defeated Tyler Black (AOTF) to retain the ROH World Heavyweight Title (**** 1/2) - Outstanding match and my MOTY pick for the moment (better than Michaels-Flair and the TNA Victory Road World X Cup intro match). Two heels battling for the title, but before the bell rings, Nigel attacks Black and he becomes the underdog face. At the beginning, it was Nigel offense (no lariats yet) plus him dissing the crowd. Later, offense from Black. Early in the match, Black goes for a springboard, but Nigel stops him with a chair shot to the head. Later, Black crawled back to the ring only to get pinned, but kicks out for a big pop. Later it becomes a vack and forth match. Nigel switches to McLariat mode and starts hitting Black. Lots of nearfalls and even the crwod chanted "That was 3" when Black nearly wins the match. During the match, Nigel aims for Black's left arm, so by the end after a Lariat, he makes Black tap out with a Arms submission move. Great, great match.

I should also mention that this PPV had plenty of AOTF promos. Some were pretty good, the others, not so much.

The score of TNP has at least 0.3 points more than No Way Out, for the record. And the score difference between No Way Out and Hard Justice is around 0.1 FYI.

I have a feeling that maybe Unforgiven could top Take No Prisoners with their 3 scramble matches and the HBK-Jericho match. It can do it. No Surrender, not so much, really. But then again, I didn't had high hopes for the last two TNA PPVs, so maybe it could surprise me again.

Movies I Watched In The Theater = 12

I Am Legend - ** 1/2
Love In The Time Of Cholera - ** 3/4
No Country For Old Men - ****
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street - **** 1/4
There Will Be Blood - **** 1/2
La Môme (La Vie En Rose) - **** 1/4
Iron Man - **** 1/4
Speed Racer - *** 1/2
Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull - ** 1/2
The Dark Knight - **** 1/2
Hancock - *** 1/4
Wanted - *** 1/2

Enjoyable and entertaining for an action flick.

PPV Ranking

1. No Way Out (WWE)
2. Hard Justice (TNA)
3. Royal Rumble (WWE)
4. One Night Stand (WWE)
5. Victory Road (TNA)
6. WrestleMania XXIV
7. Summerslam (WWE)
8. Final Resolution (TNA)
9. Lockdown (TNA)
10. Against All Odds (TNA)
11. The Great American Bash (WWE)
12. Slammiversary (TNA)
13. Night Of Champions (TNA)
14. Sacrifice (TNA)

This excludes some PPVs I haven't watched yet, like the last 3 from ROH, Backlash, Judgment Day and Destination X. For WrestleMania XXIV, I'm including the Battle Royale and Kane vs Chavo. PPVs like Slammiversary, WM and NOC got hurt by having low star rating on 1 or 2 matches while Sacrifice had too many short matches. Hurts their overall... this is based on matches alone, not my personal enjoyment.

I Am Legend - ** 1/2
Love In The Time Of Cholera - ** 3/4
No Country For Old Men - ****
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street - **** 1/4
There Will Be Blood - **** 1/2
La Môme (La Vie En Rose) - **** 1/4
Iron Man - **** 1/4
Speed Racer - *** 1/2
Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull - ** 1/2
The Dark Knight - **** 1/2
Hancock - *** 1/4

My ranking for TDK originally was **** 3/4, but after cooling down, a **** 1/2 ranking seems pretty fair. As for Hancock, a good film, but some things didn't made much sense to me. The fighting between Smith and Theron nearly killed the film, though. Turnoff. But overall, good.

I was checking the star rating for all matches and this would be the ranking of PPVs based on matches alone rather than my own enjoyment.

1) No Way Out (WWE)
2) Royal Rumble (WWE)
3) One Night Stand (WWE)
4) Victory Road (TNA)
5) WrestleMania XXIV
6) Final Resolution (TNA)
7) Lockdown (TNA)
Against All Odds (TNA)
9) The Great American Bash (WWE)
10) Slammiversary (TNA)
11) Night Of Champions (TNA)
12) Sacrifice (TNA)

This excludes some PPVs I haven't watched yet, like the last 3 from ROH, Backlash, Judgment Day and Destination X. For WrestleMania XXIV, I'm including the Battle Royale and Kane vs Chavo. PPVs like Slammiversary, WM and NOC got hurt by having low star rating on 1 or 2 matches while Sacrifice had too many short matches. Hurts their overall... this is based on matches alone, not my personal enjoyment.

As for other stuff, I turned 23 a week ago. And if the next following months go well, I'll be graduating from college/university soon. Yep.

I Am Legend - ** 1/2
Love In The Time Of Cholera - ** 3/4
No Country For Old Men - ****
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street - **** 1/4
There Will Be Blood - **** 1/2
La Môme (La Vie En Rose) - **** 1/4
Iron Man - **** 1/4
Speed Racer - *** 1/2
Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull - ** 1/2

Indy was average at silly. Good effects and action, but half-assed storyline too.

Slammiversary 2008

Petey Williams vs Kaz (*** 1/4): Very good match to open the PPV. Petey was more over with the crowd, despite being a face.

Gail Kim, ODB & Roxxi vs Beautiful People & Moose (* 3/4): Not too good of a match really. I expected better from them. Also, they protected BP with Moose taking the pin.

LAX vs 3D (**): Crowd begged for tables. Nothing happened. Match was okay at best. People really wanted to see the old Dudleys. LAX and 3D failed to get a good technical match.

Kong's 2 Challenges (1/4*): First girl jobbed fast in 3 minutes. Second girl got to hit Kong, but later jobbed in 2 minutes. Later Young brings Elvis and Kong powerbombed Elvis. Shame that she didn't attack Eric. Crowd could have popped bigger.

Wedding segment was horrible.

Kurt Angle vs AJ Sty|es (*** 3/4): Very good match. But it had the potential to be so much better. Guess Angle really needed to be protected.

KOTM (** 3/4): Okay KOTM. Piss poor ending with Joe pinning Roode after a Muscle Buster and climbing the ladder quickly to put the belt on the top to retain. The ending was correct, the way it happened was poor.

One Night Stand 2008

Jeff Hardy vs Umaga (* 1/2): I expected better. The slide from Jeff to Umaga on the stairs was a cool spot. Other than that, not a good match.

ECW Singapore Cane Match (** 1/2): Very fun match. Show bladed badly in the eye. But a good match from all of them.

Cena vs JBL (* 3/4): Final minutes were good, the rest were boring including the poor ending to the match. Cena uses the chain on JBL and locks the STFU, JBL in 2 seconds bleeds from the mouth and loses.

Melina vs Beth Phoenix (** 1/4): Decent match. I'm not rating this higher since they promised an I Quit match (you'd expect weapons and more violence), not a Submission match. Still, good action, but didn't played to the gimmick.

Batista vs Shawn Michaels (***): Good match and storyline there.

Triple H vs Randy Orton (**): Abrupt ending. Not a good match compared to the one at No Mercy. I understand it ended earlier because Orton got injured (which made me pleased to hear, but only accelerates the eventual title reign of Cena and/or extends Paul's reign), but not that good of a match, really.

Undertaker vs Edge (****): Very good match. Both men delivered. Wonder how Taker will come back. If he comes back before 4 months, this would be a cheap way to get rid of him. I don't wanna see the Edge-Taker feud anymore, really. Good wrestlers, but the feud here wasn't that good, really.

New PSP Games I got:

My new laptop (early birthday gift from my dad, he gave it to me today when he was drunk with Jack Daniels):

Well, dunno what else to say. Time is really flying fast and the semester in college is about to end.

Waste of time for the most part of the PPV. Obviously, most of the DWT matches were gonna be short.

Deuces Wild Tournament (Quarter Finals 1): Sting & Storm vs Team 3D (*) - Not much to say here. T3D worked on Sting, Storm was drinking in the corner. Sting had it, he tags Storm and puts him through a table. Devon wins. Whatever.

Deuces Wild Tournament (Quarter Finals 2): Christian Cage & Rhino vs Booker T and Robert Roode (* 3/4) - A few more minutes and it could have been good.

Deuces Wild Tournament (Quarter Finals 3): LAX vs Kip James & Matt Morgan (1/2 *) - Boring.

Deuces Wild Tournament (Quarter Finals 4): BG James & Awesome Kong vs Super Eric & AJ Sty|es (* 1/2) - Same as the 2nd match. Kong didn't look that good. Damn Eric.

Terrordome (** 1/2) - Spotfests, spotfests, spotfests...quite good match. Kaz won and got into the Main Event taking Angle's place (Angle's doctor prevented him from wrestling on the PPV; before Terrordome began, Cornette shows up and says that the winner takes Angle's spot too as well as the X-Division title shot). Oh, and the cage looked quite poor.

Deuces Wild Tournament (Semifinals 1): Team 3D vs Christian Cage & Rhino (* 1/4) - Meh...

Deuces Wild Tournament (Semifinals 2): LAX vs Super Eric & AJ Sty|es (* 1/2) - At least, LAX won.

Women's Battle Royale & Ladder Match (** 1/2) - Poor Roxxi. Loses to Kim (who got booed thanks to Love and Sky helping her; if Roxxi won, Love was getting shaved), gets her head shaved and busted wide open too. Good segment and match.

Deuces Wild Tournament (Finale): LAX vs Team 3D (** 1/2): Nice story and match. Hopefully LAX can bring back some prestige to it. And Homicide (illegal man) gets the pinfall over Devon. Heh...

Steiner vs Kaz vs Samoa Joe (***): Pretty good match, despite a botched spot between Kaz and Steiner.

All in all, not a good PPV. But TNA seems to save the best for the ending... oh well.