Sting wins 4-way TNA title match, not title

Sting pinned Kurt Angle to win the 4-way "ultimate sacrifice" match for the TNA championship at the Sacrifice PPV but failed to actually capture the TNA title. Under a rule that wasn't clearly explained (at least to this blogger), the champion Mick Foley would only have lost the belt had he himself taken the fall.

Instead of Sting becoming TNA champion then, he takes Kurt Angle's role as the leader of the Main Event Mafia faction. Of course, the unique rules interpretation raises the obvious question of why Sting (& Angle and Jeff Jarrett) didn't all just try to pin Foley and take the more valuable title prize.

Apparently though, TNA is a promotion where one wrestler would rather become Main Event Mafia Godfather than TNA champion, another wrestler would not accept an X Division title win and a third wrestler would lose an "I quit" match without the "I" actually quitting. And people wonder why that promotion still has problems drawing credible PPV buyrates.

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