Backstage, Karen Angle walks into her husband's dressing room to find Jeremy Borash playing valet and using a portable iron to remove wrinkles from one of Kurt's dress shirts. And she signed a contract for this? While Kurt's worried about the tag champs, Karen has issues with Sharmell, Booker T's wife. Hmmmmm. Hope she remembers that Kurt tried to break Sharmell's ankle a couple of years back in WWE.......

Christian Cage comes down to the ring. According to Cage, greatness comes 3 ways. Either you achieve it, or it's thrust upon you, or you're born with it. Cage would like to have us believe he was born with it. He calls out Styles & Tomko, but only gets Styles. He tries to take credit for everything Styles has accomplished in TNA, even before he arrived on the scene 2 years ago. Oh, please. He claims that Kurt Angle is using Styles. That prompts the Angles---with new theme music for Kurt---to come out to argue the point. No decision has been made yet, but Kurt & Cage come to blows after Styles brings them together----literally---when they tried to use him for a tug of war. Cage flattens Styles with a belt shot intended for Angle. Tomko finally shows up to end the brawl, and Cage wants a decision by the end of the show.

Crystal interviews Robert Roode. He's figuring that if he has to embarass Booker by humiliating Sharmell, he will. Ms. Brooks shows up, and complains. Roode shuts her up and reminds that she takes orders from him. When is this going to end?

Match 2: Booker T (w/Sharmell) vs. Robert Roode (w/Ms. Brooks) The match never started. No sooner had Booker & Sharmell come down to the ring than Karen Angle came running and attacked Sharmell. Booker went to break that up, and Kurt Angle comes down. Kurt & Roode double on Booker, who wisely bails. After throwing a chair into the ring, Booker cuts a promo and says he'll find a partner for later against Roode & Kurt.

Jeremy Borash is with AJ Styles, who apparently has no memory of being KOd by Christian Cage earlier. I think I know where this is going.

Match 3: AJ Styles & Tomko vs. Motor City Machine Guns (non-title) Why the titles aren't on the line is a mystery. Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin are in a 6-man Ultimate X tag match at Final Resolution. Styles is still selling the belt shot from earlier, and is all but totally disoriented. Tomko's not given enough time to shine, which proves costly for the tag champs. After a commercial break, Eric Young has suddenly shown up, trying to give Styles advice, and Mike Tenay reveals that during said break, Styles came to him & Don West. Oh, please. It ends with a little divide & conquer. Shelley eliminates Tomko by planting him against the barricade with a suicide dive. Styles sets up for the Clash, but Young hops on the apron to distract him. Sabin hits a crucifix drop, and Shelley finishes with a sunset flip to completely immobilize Styles. Winners: The Motor City Machine Guns.

Post-match, Tomko is berating Styles for losing focus. Meanwhile, back in Jim Cornette's office, Team 3D is trying to weasel out of Ultimate X, but Cornette's not buying. Devon grabs Cornette, but Matt Morgan breaks that up, and Team 3D leaves on their own rather than be forced out. Cornette's not happy with Morgan's matchmaking from last week.

Match 4: Angelina Love, Velvet Sky, & Gail Kim vs. ODB, Jackie Moore, & Roxxi Laveau Standard women's match, but not quite as sloppy. Not enough time, either. The two veterans, Moore & Kim, start. Everyone gets their time before it's done, though. Laveau went for the Voodoo Slam on Love, who wiggled out. After an enziguri, the hot tag is made to the women's champ, who cleans house. It's down to Gail and Roxxi, who again tries the Voodoo Slam, but Gail counters into the Emerald Frosien (Celtic Cross) and puts this one to bed. Winners: Angelina Love, Velvet Sky, & Gail Kim.

Back in the office, Jim Cornette is reaming out Matt Morgan for his matchmaking last week, but Morgan produces a letter from "TNA Corporate" with a bonus check made out to Cornette, whose attitude changes dramatically. Samoa Joe comes in, and claims he doesn't want to work. Cornette says either he does or he's fired......

"Earlier today", Mike Tenay sat down with Abyss, aka Chris Parks, trying to get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding Parks' parents and former manager James Mitchell. The secret, says Parks, will die with him. Pressed further, he pulls off the mic and leaves.

Match 5: Samoa Joe vs. Elix Skipper Joe is competing in civvies, and totally destroys Skipper. However, his temper, and the escalating situation with TNA management, get the better of him, as he repeatedly shoves aside ref Shane Sewell while hanging Skipper on the tree of woe. Three strikes, and you're out. Winner: Elix Skipper via DQ.

So Cal Val gives Joe a mic, but as he begins a rant against Cornette, the mic is cut off.

Backstage, Jeremy Borash moderates a discussion between Eric Young and AJ Styles while Jackie Moore is trying to comfort an apparently drunken James Storm. Young for some reason discusses----breakfast cereals?! Oh, this is pet coon goofy.

Crystal is with Scott Steiner & Petey Williams. Steiner wants the World title shot he foolishly traded to Petey a couple of weeks back, but Williams won't budge on the deal. Smells like a match at Final Resolution.

Dustin Rhodes, without his Black Reign garb, comes down to the ring and calls out Kaz. Rhodes makes one mistake, claiming Kaz's backstage attack happened "last week" when it was 2 weeks ago. The gimmick here is that Rhodes has no memory of what happens when he's in the ring as Black Reign. Kaz won't apologize. And when Rhodes denies using Misty on Kaz, he thinks the only rats in TNA are the ones hanging all over Kaz backstage, meaning groupies. A brawl ensues, culminating with Kaz hitting a slingshot plancha off the bleachers onto Rhodes and some security people. Kaz vs. Black Reign is likely for either next week or Final Resolution.

AJ Styles is getting advice from one more source----Kevin Nash. Where's his bible when he really needs it?

A year-in-review video package airs, covering a number of wrestlers, including Kurt Angle, Sting, Jeff Jarrett, Gail Kim, Awesome Kong, Styles & Tomko, and people like Adam "Pacman" Jones. Compressing 12 months into 3:00 is pretty impressive.

Match 6: Robert Roode (w/Ms. Brooks) & Kurt Angle vs. Booker T (w/Sharmell) & Christian Cage Well, here's a shocker for you. Two weeks ago, Cage asked Booker to be his partner vs. Roode & Angle, and was turned down. But with Final Resolution 10 days away, and Cage wanting a piece of his former friend so badly he can taste it, well.....! There really isn't much to this match, however, disrupted by a commercial break and all. Halfway, AJ Styles comes down and takes a seat at ringside. Key point in the match comes after Cage takes a blind tag and gets back into the ring. Styles starts to pass his chair, but to whom? He is so flustered, he throws the chair down and leaves. Roode with a low blow undetected by ref Andrew Thomas. However, Booker recovers and cuts off Angle before they can use the stuff piledriver they used on Cage last time. Cage & Roode, the two transplanted Canucks, are legal, and Cage hits the Unprettier to get the win back. Winners: Booker T & Christian Cage.

After Booker leaves, both Cage & Angle call Styles to the ring. The dual berating isn't helping his psyche all that much, and we're left with something we didn't need. A cliffhanger.