CHAD OCHOCINCO VS. HEAD COACH MARVIN LEWIS IN A STEEL CAGE MATCH?

Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling offers to host the bout at the “Lockdown” Pay-Per-View event on Sunday, April 17

As the NFL’s Super Bowl draws near, one of the year's major football news stories has been the ongoing rivalry between Cincinnati Begals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco and his head coach, Marvin Lewis.

The ill-will between the head coach and his star player has reportedly been an ongoing issue, and now Ochocinco has challenged Lewis to put an end to their differences once and for all – not on the gridiron field of the NFL, but inside a steel cage!

On Monday, Ochocinco posted the following message to his Twitter account (twitter.com/ochocinco), responding to Adam Schefter of ESPN: "Me and Marvin Lewis in a cage match, set it up, I've earned my stripes on my helmet it's time to fight then play"

As a result, Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling has offered to host Ochocinco vs. Lewis inside a Steel Cage at their annual “Lockdown” event on April 17, which will air live on Pay-Per-View!

“Lockdown” features every match contested inside a 15-foot reinforced steel cage, making it the only all-steel cage Pay-Per-View event in professional wrestling.

If Ochocinco and Lewis agree to settle their differences, TNA Wrestling officials will work with their representatives to sanction the bout, as well as train both combatants in the weeks leading up to the match.

Well, Attendance was Brilliant, I think it was pretty much full which would be round about 5,000

First up was a Four way match for X Division Title - Current champion Kazarian vs Shannon Moore vs Chris Sabin vs Mark Haskins

Solid match, Alot of high flying and nice spots. Mark Haskins was very impressive.
Winner - Kazarian

2. Knockouts Match - Madison Rayne and Tara Vs Angelina Love and Mickie James

Usual Knockouts match, Nothing special and crowd didnt get into it.
Winners - Angelina Love and Mickie James

3. Challenge Match - LionHeart Vs Jeff Jarrett (Special Guest Ref, Greg Hempill)

Jeff was delaying the match like a good heel, Getting in and out of ring, Pretending to leave etc. When the match started Jarrett pretty much controlled it. Ended with Jarrett Hitting LionHeart with the guitar for the 1,2,3.
Winner - Jeff Jarrett

4. Beer Money accompanied by Ric Flair Vs Magnus and Douglas Williams

Crowd firmly behind Beer Money who are really awesome at House shows. Pretty good match, back and forth action.
Winners - Beer Money

5. The Pope D'Angelo Dinero Vs Matt Morgan

Crowd were dead during this match, Was pretty short and not very good.
Winner - Matt Morgan

6. MAIN EVENT - The Hardys Vs Rob Van Dam and Mr. Anderson

Crowd picked up big time for this match. Very good match, Both teams had about even offence.
Winners - Rob Van Dam and Mr. Anderson


Side Notes -

A couple got engaged in front of the whole crowd with the help of J.B.

Dixie thanked the crowd for coming and told us about the new TV arrangements.

Biggest Pop - Beer Money or Jeff Hardy... Quite hard to tell

Biggest Heat - British Invasion or Jeff Jarrett

Big Poppa Pump is back in bussines! si saptamina viitoare Main Event Mafia!

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The build-up to the event in North West England was dominated by Flair-esque WOOing throughout the arena. Jeremy Borash acted as MC and ring announcer to get the crowd going. It was a difficult time for TNA's U.K. house shows, with Impact being off our TV screens for a full month and with A.J. Styles (injured) and Kurt Angle (paternity) sorely missed.

(1) Shannon Moore beat Mark Haskins in a #1 contender match to the X Division Title. A run of the mill opener, there seemed a possible technical fault with the ring microphone, as we could not hear any impact into the mat for this contest. Great to see Moore in singles action.

(2) Mickie James beat Angelina Love in a #1 contender match to the Knockouts Title with Tara as Guest Referee. All three girls were greeted and acted as babyfaces. Mickie was over. Tara embraced Mickie after her win.

(3) X Division champion Kazarian beat Chris Sabin to retain the TNA X Division Title. Sabin tore the house down with his all-action style and was easily the best single performer of the night.

(4) TNA tag champions Beer Money (James Storm & Robert Roode w/Ric Flair) beat Magnus & Douglas Williams to retain the TNA World Tag Team Titles. This was the highlight of the evening. Magnus & Williams were dressed in red tights with Union Jack emblems and billed as representing Great Britain. Beer Money and Flair were idolized by the crowd. Pre-match, Flair took to the mic briefly, picking someone out in the crowd and asking, "Are you what they call a "wanker?". To ensure everyone heard, he repeated his question. Half way through the match, Williams declared that the crowd were "obviously traitors to the crown" and that he and his partner were leaving. Beer Money's showmanship and moveset truly set them apart.

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(5) "The Blueprint" Matt Morgan & "The Freak" Rob Terry beat Jeff Jarrett & "The Pope" D'Angelo Dinero. Great promo from Jarrett, in which he mocked the upcoming wedding between Prince William and his fiance, and labeled the UK fans freeloaders in light of TNA's new UK TV deal with free-to-air channel Challenge. Morgan barely figured. A chant of "steroids, steroids" went up when Terry made a comeback. We're a bit behind the curve with TNA storylines here in the UK, but the last time I saw Jarrett and The Pope, the former was throwing the latter off a ten foot drop in the Impact Zone. The crowd was pretty quiet for this one and the action was sluggish.

Dixie Carter, looking delightful in a yellow dress and accompanied by two young children, came to the ring to emphasized the new TV deal and thank the U.K. fans, and received a rousing reception.

(6) Rob Van Dam & TNA World Hvt. champion Mr Anderson beat Jeff Hardy & Matt Hardy in the main event. (60 minute time limit.) A 7/10 main event. Matt Hardy's Genesis PPV gut has shrunken a little. The Hardy Boys played great cowardly heels. RVD & the Hardys were incredibly over. Anderson had the final say of the evening, commandeering the microphone after the win, and telling Borash he was "doing a worse job than Keys and Gray," who are two high profile British soccer announcers who have lost their jobs in a row over sexist comments in the biggest news story this week in the UK.

At £22.50 a ticket (around $34 U.S.), this was a great value evening's entertainment, though I would have liked to have seen some in-ring toys, a tables match, and some outside interference, all of which would have picked up a fairly low-key, but not unimpressed, Manchester wrestling crowd.

Kevin Nash has been removed from the TNAWrestling.com roster page

Do not expect the Main Event Mafia to return tonight, as TNA has decided to go with a new direction for "They." Word is that it is a completely different direction, which was decided several days ago, and according to a source, "When it goes down, people who expected a ton of big names might be surprised... Sting is not scheduled for TV tapings."

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They is The Fortune
During the match, a ref is bumped and Immortal hits the ring and starts beating down Anderson, but then The Fortune members stop and attack Hardy and the rest of Immortal. So, "They" are AJ Styles, Kazarian and Beer Money. Matt Hardy, Rob Terry, Jeff Hardy, Gunner and Murphy look on in shock. Styles starts cutting a promo but Bischoff comes out and calls Hardy an ungrateful son of a b**ch. Styles says that Bischoff ran another company into the ground but they aren't letting Bischoff do it to TNA. There's a mention that a ruling will be made in March over the power struggle between Hulk Hogan and Dixie Carter as well. So, it's Fortune vs. Immortal.