I thought about recapping the whole show, but then we started off with Johnny B. Badd/Sonny Siaki vs the Naturals and I couldn't manage to care.

one third of the CMLL World Trios Champions HECTOR GARZA vs NWA World Champion "rey de la montaña" Jeff Jarrett in non-title -

I'm quickly remind how lagged Gala is when Garza shows up without the mustache I'm used to seeing, and he quite possibly stopped having weeks ago. Although if it grew back fast enough, it'd be funny to have no facial hair on Tuesdays for TNA where's he a face, and then not shave till Friday so he's got an evil mustache for his evil CMLL TV personality.

Having one guy talk in Spanish and one guy talk in English is really annoying, but it gives me a nickname. Crowd chants "LET'S GO GAR ZA" as Jeff shows Hector what he's not fighting for. 15 minute time limit for this match; my TiVo shows about 13:30 left till the top of the hour, so I don't think we're getting a time limit draw. We're told BIG DUST specifically added those extra five minutes here. In between booking his son back into the promotion and a bit leading a woman to hit on him, I guess.

Circle. Lockup, Jeff into a headlock, into a hammerlock, into a hiptoss. Jeff tries to get the crowd to acknowledge how great he is. They do not. Lockup, Jeff with a waistlock, Garza into an armbar, wrapping it into a headlock, Jeff immediately grabs a headlock, JJ shot off, Garza leapfrogs him, but turns into a scoop slam. Jarrett in no hurry, relaxing on the ropes because Garza doesn't worry him. Circle. Lockup, JJ with a headlock, shot off again, shoulderblock for Garza. JJ over the ropes, into a Garza hiptoss. Garza reaches for another, but JJ blocks it by turning away, and celebrates how smart he is for disobeying the physical laws of wrestling. Garza charges into a drop toe hold. I can't get over how he's being booked as a poor mat wrestling guy, after seeing him show superb skills in CMLL. Jarrett with the derisive slaps to the back of the head, and trash talking Garza as he lays on the mat. Garza is stood up and slapped into the face. Garza is angry, and walks over to Jarrett, where Jarrett slaps him again. Garza checks his face, bends over, straightens up, and slaps Jarrett in the face. Right. Whip, dropkick. Whip, under, over, drop toe hold. Revenge slapping on the back of the head. Jarrett gets up, and gets clotheslined out. Garza calls to the crowd, goes off the far ropes, rushes back - and stops before the dive when Jarrett ducks down. Jarrett points to his head for the twelfth time already, and turns around into a pescado. Break at 11:51 left.

We return with 9:20 left (about right) and Garza being smashed into the top of the announce both for the third time, we're told. Garza reverses a whip into the rail, and flapjacks JJ on it. Back in - sure hope they haven't been out all the break! - and Garza goes up immediately. Missile dropkick misses. Don West chalks it up to Jarrett having the experience edge. Right. Stomps. Look at the crowd. Choke on the middle rope. Legdrop on the choke. Kick to the back. Jarrett has dominated most of the match we've seen. Knee. Hector locked in the Tree of Woe, and Jarrett gives him a running knee. Chinlock from the outside while Garza's still hanging. Jarrett frees Garza, and adjusts his own knee pads. Crowd still chanting for Garza. Whip, I guess it was a clothesline misses (weird low camera angle), Garza clothesline sorta, sorta reversed into a sleeper. 6:23 left. One arm down. Two arm down. Third - no. Elbow, elbow, standing up, stopped by Jarrett eye rake. Whip, clothesline misses, Garza's five arm doesn't. Kick, scoop, holding it, slam. Garza fixes his hair, then looks around a lot. I guess not yet? Garza kicks Jarrett as he gets up. Whip, reversed, another fivearm, another fivearm. Whip, reversed, Garza jumps to the middle rope and straights up while Jarrett stands slack jawed. JJ finally decides to walk over and grab a leg - or maybe we were supposed to think Garza kicked him? (Jeff: "SLAP MY FACE") Garza slaps Jarrett in the face! Seated Tornado DDT. Cover?

5:00 left, both men are down. One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Cover, one two NO. Garza with a kick. Corner whip, charge in, Jarrett moves out of the way, Garza charges in chest first, and rebounds out and collides with the referee incredibly fake-ly. JJ goes for the guitar, but he waits for Garza to get up, and by then the ref is up and taking away his guitar. (Which is good, because it was a crappy bump situation.) Jarrett argues, and gets rolled up - one two NO. Garza slams JJ while Really Fat and Really Old walk to the ring. Garza is about to go up when he sees Hall come in, and turns to fight him. Kick for Hall (not really sold.) Punch for Hall (not really sold - hey, what happened to the Hall that put Garza over?) Whip, dropkick does knock Hall down. Nash kills Garza with one punch. Double whip, double clothesline missed, and Garza lands the double dropkick on them. Somehow, this match is still going? And the referee wants to only NOW DQ Jarrett, but Garza's asking him not to? Ref busies himself with Nash and Hall while Garza fights Jarrett. Powerbomb for Jarrett, and Garza heads up. Moonsault - but Jarrett, up and out of the way, hits him with the guitar on the way down. (wait, why didn't he just let Garza miss and beat him?) Jarrett covers as the ref turns around, one two three. (12:13)

I watched this match because I was hoping for a good Hector Garza match, and kinda intrigued by the possibility of Garza possibly spring boarded to the top of the promotion. (With Savage out, anything's possible.) 

Among the issues that bugged me about this match is Jarrett could've had the same match with about any one on the roster. There's nothing specifically Garza or lucha about it. They didn't use a lot of what Garza brought to the table, and they focused on doing stuff Jarrett was used to doing. I believe the point in using different challengers is to give a different match than usual, but this seemed aimed to be just the usual.

What hit the point home is when Jarrett used the sleeper. There are plenty of chinlocks in lucha, but 90% of them involve someone ripping at someone else's mask. KO submissions are rare, so having Garza sell one is going anti-type. Not that he couldn't do it, but Garza probably could've done a lot more dramatic sell with a backbreaker or crab or anything that'd let him wave his hands wildly and insist he's not done yet, rather than just slump to the mat.

There's more Garza can do than a dive, a top rope move, and some moonsaults, and Jarrett not expecting those other things would've been a far more interesting story.

Jarrett and Garza weren't on the same page multiple times thru the match, which didn't help any.

Nash and Hall have won a lot of lotteries in life, but not the "aging gracefully" one. Yow.

I think the idea really was to elevate Garza into a contender, but they didn't really achieve it as much as they thought they did. Jarrett controlled most of the match. It's a much different feeling if Garza hits his move and covers for the sure pin when Nash and Hall arrive to when Garza never even goes up, and Jarrett moves out of the way of the next (and previous) top rope move.