Before the match, Mike Tenay breaks down the TNA Knockouts Championship match. Winter won the Knockouts Championship back at Hardcore Justice, but Mickie James won the belt back on 1st September episode of Impact. Mickie James needs to avoid the distractions from Angelina Love at ringside to win this return match.
Winter and Angelina Love make their way out. Taz calls this pairing “strange but hot” because 2011. Mike Tenay reminds me that Karen Jarrett is the Commissioner for the Knockouts Division before the TNA Knockouts Champion makes her way to the ring dressed as Wonder Woman.
Mike Tenay & Taz are on commentary for this match, and Christie Hemme is our ring announcer for this match.
MICKIE JAMES © VS. WINTER (TNA Knockouts Championship)
TNA No Surrender 2011 (11th September 2011)
Winter grabs Mickie’s leg to start but a dropkick from the middle rope knocks her down. Mickie James is sent to the floor, but she blocks a shot from Angelina Love and fires back one of her own.
Mickie James knocks Angelina Love down with another right hand, but is blindsided by Winter. Mickie James reverses an irish whip, sending Winter into the steel steps. Winter is sent into the guard rail before bringing it back into the ring. Winter begs off and rakes at Mickie’s eyes as the fans get behind Mickie James. Winter sends Mickie’s face into the mat and sends her into the corner for some forearm shots. Earl Hebner tries to back Winter away, and Mickie James takes a shot out of the corner. Winter walks into a boot to the midsection, and Mickie James hits the hurricanrana out of the corner. Angelina Love grabs Mickie’s ankle from ringside and gets kicked for it, but it allows Winter to turn the advantage back in her favour. Winter hits a suplex for 2, before pulling the champion’s arms back on the mat, but Mickie James gets to her feet and sends Winter over her shoulder.
Winter knocks Mickie James down with a clothesline before she can get any momentum going. Winter sends Mickie James down to the mat by her hair and chokes her across the middle rope. Winter has Hebner distracted as Angelina Love continues choking the champion across the bottom rope this time. Winter gets another nearfall and hits Mickie James with a backbreaker, holding her over Winter’s knee to stretch the spine. Mickie James connects with knee strikes to the side of Winter’s head to escape the hold. Winter picks up Mickie James and swings her into another backbreaker. Winter puts Mickie James in a chinlock and presses her knee into the back to keep the pressure on. Mickie James gets the bottom rope with her ankle to force a break. Earl Hebner tells Winter to break her holds sooner. Mickie James catches Winter in a jacknife pin for 2 before blocking a clothesline and dropping Winter with a neckbreaker.
They exchange forearm strikes, Mickie James hits three in a row before being shoved back into the ropes, she knocks Winter down with clotheslines. Mickie James hits a jimping forearm and a scary-looking flapjack before Angelina Love causes a distraction. Mickie James grazes Winter with a kick and she goes down. Mickie James covers and Winter gets her foot on the bottom rope at 2. Mickie James ducks a Kick and puts a single-leg boston crab on Winter, trapping her other leg. Winter gets to the bottom rope to break the hold, Angelina hands her the Knockouts championship belt but Mickie James is able to duck. Earl Hebner fights Winter over the belt in a tug of war before Mickie James rolls Winter up,1, 2, Winter kicks out just as Mickie Bridges back! Winter sends Mickie James into the corner and she keeps up the pressure with shoulder blocks and kicks to the midsection. Mickie James fights her way to the middle turnbuckle but Angelina Love brings Winter out to ringside to save her from the Tornado DDT.
Mickie James hits a seated senton from the apron on to Winter, Mike Tenay calls it a Lou Thesz press but it’s not close. “Right in the mush” - Taz. Mickie James chases Angelina Love up the ramp, but turns back as Earl Hebner starts counting. Mickie James doesn’t make it in the ring before Angelina Love is able to get back to ringside and grab her. Winter blocks Hebner’s vision as she goes for the mist but Mickie James breaks free at the last second and it hits Angelina Love. Mickie James turns Winter around but there’s enough mist to share! Winter covers Mickie James for the win.
WINNER: WINTER (NEW TNA Knockouts Champion)
This was a good match; all three of these women can work, and they told a nice, simple story. The finish was a clever twist, and they went just the right amount of time before I would have started thinking they were stretching the match. [**3/4] 5.5/10
After the match, Jeremy Borash is backstage with Gunner, who is a part of the Bound for Glory Series.
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