Background: Loosely connected storylines gave TNA a reason to bring back its Monster’s Ball match stipulation where anything went featuring Rhino (who had fought alongside Jeff Jarrett to fight Sabu & Raven), Abyss (who had problems with Sabu stemming from nothing other than both men trying to kill each other because they were crazy), Sabu and Jeff Hardy.
Bound For Glory
Orlando, FL
October 23, 2005
Rhino vs. Jeff Hardy vs. Sabu vs. Abyss
Rhino brought a trashcan full of instruments of destruction. Abyss had his chain, and a bag of thumbtacks. Sabu came to the ring with just a chair. Jeff Hardy entered the arena… covered in glow in the dark paint. Tell me who had the advantage in this one with those entrances. Sabu immediately leveled Abyss with a flying chair before taking to the sky on Rhino. Jeff followed Sabu’s thought, sailing over the top onto Abyss. The action spilled into the crowd, with Hardy diving off the high barricades. The crimson began flowing as Sabu and Rhino ripped each other’s heads apart. Hardy wanted to work with Sabu, asking him to do Poetry in Motion. Instead, Sabu used an Arabian face buster on the “Charismatic Enigma”.
Just as Sabu got up, Rhino went crazy on everyone with a Singapore cane. Abyss and Jeff’s fight took them to the entrance, just below the top of it. On opposite sides of the arena, Abyss and Sabu set up tables. Sabu was able to leg drop Rhino through the table he set up, but Abyss couldn’t get Jeff onto his. Hardy knocked Abyss onto the tables with several chair shots to the noggin before using a ladder to climb up the entrance. Hardy – a good eighteen feet in the air, some twenty feet away from the tabled Abyss – jumped off the top of the entrance; driving Abyss through the tables with the Swanton Bomb onto concrete! Back in the ring, Sabu caused Rhino to Gore a chair in the corner before triple jump moonsaulting him. Somehow, Abyss made it back to the ring before Jeff did. Before Abyss could unleash the thumbtacks, Rhino Gored Abyss through another table. Rhino turned to Jeff Hardy, hitting the piledriver off the middle rope on the “Rainbow Warrior” to win this brutal match.
Winner: Rhino (12:20)
Is It A Classic: This Monster’s Ball was easily one of the best hardcore matches in TNA’s early history. Everyone got a chance to shine, and for a “mindless” weapons encounter, it was thoroughly entertaining.
