Victory Road 2007: A Great X Division Showcase Cannot Fix an Overbooked Main Event

Havok and Martyr, representing Raven's Serotonin stable, defeated Japanese wrestlers Akira Raijin and Brute Issei in a short preliminary tag bout before Victory Road 2007's main pay-per-view action. It belongs in the event's complete results, but shouldn't be mistaken for one of the eight principal televised PPV matches. The available source verifies the winning team without supporting an invented individual pinfall or elaborate finishing sequence. Its D+ and 5.4 reflect a lower-stakes curtain-raiser that principally shows Serotonin's presence on the card. SKIP this when choosing highlights; the gauntlet for X Division contendership opens the main attraction far more strongly.

Christopher Daniels won an eighteen-minute, forty-eight-second gauntlet that began with Royal Rumble-style staggered entrants and then turned into an Ultimate X contest after the field had entered. The ten participants included Jay Lethal, Puma, Homicide, Sonjay Dutt, Petey Williams, Shark Boy, Elix Skipper, Kazarian and Senshi. Petey eliminated Puma with the Canadian Destroyer, Homicide eliminated Petey soon afterward, and Elix Skipper eliminated Shark Boy among the early exchanges. Daniels claimed the hanging objective to earn a future X Division Championship opportunity, not an immediate title change. This two-phase rule structure is essential to interpreting the result and why the A- at 8.5 identifies the strongest complete viewing choice on this otherwise uneven event.

B.G. James and Kip James won their Voodoo Kin Mafia tag bout against Doug Basham and Damaja, but Kip's pin on Damaja came after B.G. struck Damaja with a concealed steel chair. The finish was an illegal assisted cover behind the official's back, not the result of an unchallenged clean wrestling exchange. Roxxi Laveaux's addition to VKM and the involvement of Christy Hemme and Lance Hoyt around their opponents reinforced the storyline purpose of the seven-minute match. D+ at 5.0 reflects a thin tag contest with more intrigue at ringside than in the ring; SKIP it in a selective rewatch while retaining the actual Kip-on-Damaja pin for results and wrestler histories.

James Storm defeated Rhino after hitting him with a beer bottle while the referee was down as Rhino attempted the Gore. The pair had fought around ringside before the bell, and Storm's victory led to further humiliation when Jackie Moore returned with a keg and Storm poured beer over the bloodied Rhino. The finish therefore depended on an illegal object and a distracted official, not a definitive clean pin in a neutral singles match. At 7:28, the match was a compact development in their personal feud rather than the final answer to it. C and 6.2 credit the recognizable hostility while recommending a SKIM of the closing sequence over the entire contest.

Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley, the Motor City Machine Guns, beat Jerry Lynn and Bob Backlund in just under nine minutes. Sabin pinned Lynn after a coordinated series of kicks by the Guns; Kevin Nash also intervened by striking Lynn behind the referee's back. The younger team's timing and frequent tags created the match's appeal, but Nash's concealed involvement means it shouldn't be scored as a fully unassisted athletic victory. Backlund's veteran presence offered a contrast to their speed without becoming the deciding fall. B- and 7.4 make this a useful SKIM for the Guns' development and actual winning sequence, not a championship change.

Gail Kim scored the pin on Traci Brooks as she teamed with Eric Young against Brooks and Robert Roode in a mixed tag. Roode's mishap helped decide it: he accidentally struck Brooks with a splash and elbow drop, then Young and Kim drove him from the ring with a double dropkick before Kim finished the fall. The victory intertwined the ongoing Roode–Young rivalry and Brooks's increasingly strained relationship with her partner. Afterward Roode blamed and shoved Brooks, giving the scene a concrete character consequence. C+ at 6.6 credits an efficient feud progression and clear individual winning fall; the eight-minute supporting match did not carry title stakes.

Christian Cage pinned Chris Harris at around 12:29, but Tomko's referee distraction and Dustin Rhodes's concealed handcuff strike on Harris turned the finish into an interference-assisted victory. Cage survived a competitive singles challenge while his associates enabled the decisive cover; it would be inaccurate to describe Harris losing purely because he was outwrestled. The unexpected arrival of Rhodes also advanced the developing Black Reign angle, connecting this contest to the next month's program rather than the evening's title picture. B- and 7.2 reflect a substantial twelve-minute match whose result had meaningful storyline consequences but fell short of a clear independent finish. SKIM the closing distraction if following the Cage faction.

Sting and Abyss defeated A.J. Styles and Tomko after a sustained fifteen-minute tag fight, with Abyss pinning Tomko following the Black Hole Slam. Sting had sent Styles to the floor immediately before the decisive cover, so Styles was not the legal man pinned. The pairing mixed Sting's established star presence, Abyss's power and Christian's Coalition's offense without putting a championship on the line. James Mitchell's threatening postmatch message continued the Abyss storyline rather than altering the result. B and 7.5 recognize a solid upper-card match with a definitive winning wrestler, in contrast to several earlier bouts decided through concealed interference.

Kurt Angle and Samoa Joe defeated World Tag Team Champions Brother Ray and Brother Devon with all three championship classes at stake. After Scott Steiner struck Ray with a pipe behind the referee's back, Joe interrupted Angle's planned finish and pinned Ray himself at about 18:25. That detail is decisive: Joe, not Angle, scored the fall and claimed the right to select his tag championship partner. Angle kept the TNA World Championship, Joe kept the X Division belt and gained tag-team gold from Team 3D; the winners weren't taking each other's singles titles by simply sharing a team. The C and 6.4 recognize an eventful but overcomplicated title match whose double-crossed finish overshadowed the wrestling.