Slammiversary 2006: King of the Mountain Caps One of TNA's Strongest 2006 Cards

Team Canada's Eric Young and A-1 faced the Naturals, Andy Douglas and Chase Stevens, in the two-minute Slammiversary 2006 pre-show bout. Shane Douglas accompanied the Naturals to the entrance and watched their performance with an eye toward restructuring the team. The Naturals actually had A-1 covered near the conclusion when Young interfered from the top rope behind the referee's back. The interruption changed the outcome but did not add a third Canadian wrestler or turn the warm-up into a championship match.

Andy Douglas was the defeated member of the Naturals. The contemporary detailed History of WWE fall entry credits A-1 with the pin after Young's interference, whereas Pro Wrestling History credits Young with the deciding cover. The contemporaneous live WrestleView report identifies Team Canada as the winners without naming the individual scorer, so neither conflicting attribution should be silently declared certain. Shane Douglas criticized his protégés after the loss and said they needed more training. D+ / 5.0 and SKIP reflect a short pre-show storyline beat rather than a meaningful bell-to-bell match.

Team 3D and the James Gang brawled out of the entrance tunnel to open the pay-per-view. The Bingo Hall Brawl stipulation enabled trash-can lids, kendo sticks and a piece of guardrail balanced on chairs. B.G. James sent Brother Devon across the Spanish commentary area, where LAX briefly attacked him before turning on B.G. too. Back in the ring, Brother Ray used a cheese grater on Kip James and Team 3D delivered a flying headbutt onto a trash-can lid. This was an actual two-team brawl despite outside LAX involvement, not a multi-team match.

Kip recovered enough to hit a Fameasser on Brother Ray, but Team 3D regained control and called for a table. They landed the 3D double-team finisher through that table and Brother Devon pinned Kip James. The original card clock records 10:19 while a separate result listing shows a different cut; neither changes the fall. The B / 7.5 reflects crowd response and a complete stipulation payoff without pretending the weapon exchanges were a technical classic. SKIM the late table setup and decisive pin.

The handicap match paired Rhino alone against Team Canada's Bobby Roode and manager Scott D'Amore, who actually wrestled as the second member rather than standing only at ringside. D'Amore bragged he could defeat Rhino without Roode and quickly retreated once the bell rang. Roode handled the tougher exchanges, using a neckbreaker and preventing Rhino from catching the coach. D'Amore returned periodically to pose, land short strikes and show off, while Rhino tried to isolate the instigator of the feud. The storyline used the real handicap disadvantage, not a disguised one-on-one match.

D'Amore missed a moonsault, then hit Rhino with a hockey stick and tried to hoist him onto his shoulders. Rhino escaped, delivered a spinebuster and tossed Roode out of the ring. Rhino pinned Scott D'Amore after the Gore at 11:00. The fall belongs to D'Amore, not the more active Roode, which explains the crowd's revenge payoff. C+ / 6.8 rewards the decisive feud result more than the extended interference-and-tag structure. SKIM the coaching theatrics and late Gore.

Six X Division wrestlers competed under elimination tag rules, so a single final fall did not decide the whole ranking. Petey Williams and Shark Boy started, with Jay Lethal, Alex Shelley, Sonjay Dutt and Senshi rotating through tags and high-risk attacks. Dutt first pinned Shark Boy after the latter missed a flying elbow. Lethal then eliminated Shelley with a release dragon suplex. Williams answered by pinning Lethal after the Canadian Destroyer. This precise order placed Dutt, Williams and Senshi in the final phase, rather than treating all six men as simultaneous losers on a final cover.

Senshi caught Williams with the Warrior's Way double stomp to record the fourth elimination. Dutt fought on with dives and near falls, but Senshi trapped him in the tree of woe and delivered another hard double stomp. Senshi pinned Sonjay Dutt for the last fall and the X Division's No. 1 contender position at the recorded 19:29. The elimination rankings gave the earlier falls consequences as well. B+ / 8.4 credits both the athletic escalation and the unusually meaningful five-fall structure. WATCH the eliminations in sequence.

Kevin Nash returned to singles action against Chris Sabin as part of the veteran's running feud with the X Division. Sabin tried to exploit his speed but repeatedly ran into Nash's size and heavy strikes. He managed a dropkick, attempted the Cradle Shock and countered an early Jackknife, briefly creating the possibility of a smaller wrestler upsetting the heavyweight. Nash brought Alex Shelley to ringside, where Shelley exposed a turnbuckle and later grabbed Nash's leg to stop Sabin from lifting him for the Cradle Shock. Shelley was acting as a second and interferer, not Nash's legal tag partner.

Sabin wiped out Shelley with a suicide dive and nearly scored with another aerial attack, but Shelley tripped him on the exposed upper turnbuckle during the next climb. Nash hit the Jackknife Powerbomb and Kevin Nash pinned Chris Sabin at 8:20. Nash's victory was officially a singles pin, but the repeated assistance makes a clean-power narrative inaccurate. C+ / 6.8 reflects Sabin's resilience and the crowd's involvement while recognizing that the finish protected the veteran through cheating. SKIM the final Cradle Shock escape and turnbuckle interference.

A.J. Styles and Christopher Daniels entered their last-chance NWA World Tag Team Championship challenge against America's Most Wanted, Chris Harris and James Storm. The challengers mixed frequent tags with dives while AMW trapped Styles for long stretches and used their familiar double-team combinations. Gail Kim attempted to help the champions, but an unidentified tall woman entered, chokeslammed Kim and carried her backstage. That intervention prevented further managerial interference without creating an additional legal opponent. Harris used handcuffs on Styles, but Daniels pulled the referee away before a decisive count and later interrupted AMW's Death Sentence attempt.

Storm accidentally struck Harris with a beer bottle during the closing scramble. Daniels brought Harris down and Styles followed with a frog splash; Christopher Daniels pinned Chris Harris to win the NWA World Tag Team Championship. A separate results ledger describes a Best Moonsault Ever in the closing combination, but both sources agree that Daniels covered Harris and the challengers won the belts. The event clock records 17:44. A- / 8.8 honors a sustained title match with a hard-earned final result, not a simple one-move squash. WATCH the disputed finishing sequence and audience celebration.

Samoa Joe had reached the first anniversary of his TNA debut without a loss, and Scott Steiner represented an unusually established heavyweight challenge. Steiner used release belly-to-belly suplexes, a powerbomb and the Steiner Recliner to force Joe into defensive wrestling instead of his customary sustained striking attack. Joe still managed a suicide dive and kicks, briefly seized an armbar when Steiner tried a pin and survived a ringside chair exchange and threatened count-out. Joe's X Division title was not at stake, despite both wrestlers' prominent presentation and the consequence for Joe's unbeaten run.

Steiner applied the Recliner after a low blow, but Joe stood with him and drove him across the top rope. Joe capitalized on the rebound with a quick powerslam; Samoa Joe pinned Scott Steiner for the decisive non-title fall at the card's recorded 13:04. This was not a Muscle Buster or a submission victory, and Joe did not lose his championship. A- / 8.7 credits the credible danger posed by Steiner's size and offense, plus Joe's unusual power finish. WATCH the concluding escape and powerslam.

Christian Cage defended the NWA World Heavyweight Championship against Jeff Jarrett, Sting, Abyss and Ron Killings in King of the Mountain, where a competitor must become eligible by pin or submission and then hang the belt high above the ring. Killings pinned Jarrett first; Christian pinned Abyss, Jarrett pinned Killings following a Stroke near the guardrail, and Abyss pinned Jarrett with Black Hole Slam. Sting later pinned Jarrett using the stunned Earl Hebner's hand. These qualification falls triggered penalty-box stays rather than directly awarding the championship. Abyss also crashed through stacked tables when Sting tipped a ladder, escalating the increasingly crowded match.

Larry Zbyszko low-blowed Christian as he approached the title, and Sting prevented another Jarrett climb before reaching the ladder with Christian. Earl Hebner then shoved the ladder, sending both Sting and the champion tumbling outside. Jeff Jarrett hung the NWA World Title to win the recorded King of the Mountain contest and end Cage's reign. Fans reacted angrily, and referee Rudy Charles removed the belt from Jarrett afterward and handed it to new authority Jim Cornette. That confiscation complicated the celebration, but did not turn the official recorded winner into Sting or Cage. A- / 8.8 reflects the elaborate qualifying stakes and memorable controversial finish. WATCH the entire late sequence.