• There were plenty of things to talk about coming out of Lockdown, TNA's all-cage match pay-per-view, Sunday night. The consensus among fans and pundits is that the Kurt Angle-Mr. Anderson bout is a Match of the Year contender. Among the highlights was Angle doing a moonsault off the top of the cage. I'll say this about Angle: He is a special breed, and that is both a blessing and a curse. It makes him exciting to watch, but it also drives him to take crazy risks that he just shouldn't be taking at this stage of his career and with his injury history. After the match, Angle said that he is going to take some time off and regroup, and that he is going after the TNA world title when he returns. As for Anderson, this feud with Angle has elevated him to main-event status.
• Speaking of veterans who are doing things that they don't need to be doing, what exactly is Ric Flair trying to prove? He was busted open again on this show and took a bump into thumbtacks as well as a trashcan shot to the head.
• In the Lethal Lockdown main event, Team Hogan defeated Team Flair after Eric Bischoff interfered and seemingly turned babyface. Bischoff brought brass knuckles into the ring and teased giving them to Flair before handing them to Hogan, who used them on Flair. Of course, this makes absolutely no sense. Bischoff has been making life miserable for Jeff Jarrett – and other babyfaces – for months, and now he suddenly helps them? Perhaps there is more to the story line than meets the eye, but another swerve on top of this swerve would only make things more preposterous.
• Sean Waltman, who was supposed to team with Scott Hall against Team 3D, no-showed the event. If you had told me that one of The Band wasn't going to show up I would have bet anything that it would be Hall. According to wrestlingobserver.com, TNA officials were ware that Waltman wasn't going to make it to the show in St. Louis due to a licensing issue in Missouri. I have no idea whether Waltman's reasons for missing the show are legitimate, but if he and Hall weren't already on thin ice, they should be. When you have a less-than-stellar track record, you don't deserve the benefit of the doubt. It's not like these guys are making significant contributions to the product anyway. They are the very definition of the saying "more trouble than your worth."
• Kevin Nash took Waltman's place in the match, which was won by Team 3D. Earlier in the show, Nash defeated Eric Young. The latter result doesn't surprise me, but there's no way Young should have lost that match. Nash plays Young – who has more upside at this point than Nash – for a fool and still gets the last laugh. I suppose a case could be made that since Nash was going to be on the losing end of the tag team match, it would have buried him to lose twice in one night. I suspect, however, that even if Nash hadn't taken Waltman's place against Team 3D, he still wouldn't have done the job to Young.
• A.J. Styles retained the TNA world title against "The Pope" D'Angelo Dinero. Styles winning was predictable, but it's the right call. I think there's a good chance that Dinero will get the title one day, but it's not his time yet and there's no need to take the belt off Styles at this point.
• TNA continues to find ways to devalue the X Division and Knockouts championships. Doug Williams was stripped of the X Division title because he was a no-show. Of course, the reason he wasn't there was because he was unable to get a flight out of the United Kingdom due to the volcano. That seems pretty unfair to me, so in my eyes that makes the heel Williams a sympathetic figure. Kazarian ended up winning the vacant title in a triple threat match over Shannon Moore and Homicide, which likely sets up a program between Kazarian and Williams. As for the Knockouts title, Madison Rayne of all people ended up as the new champion in the tag team match pitting her and Velvet Sky against Angelina Love and Tara. The stipulation was that if either Rayne or Sky pinned Love, the Knockouts champion, that person would win the title. This comes on the heels of Tara losing the title to Love because Love picked the correct briefcase. After the match, Tara turned heel by attacking Love.