This week’s Impact Wrestling saw two new matches added to this Saturday’s Turning Point show on the Impact Plus streaming service.
In one match, rivals will become allies as Jordynne Grace will team with Tenille Dashwood to face Rosemary and Taya Valkyrie. Dashwood teamed with Madison Rayne to open Tuesday’s show in a losing effort to Nevaeh and Havok.
Dashwood reluctantly approached Grace after the loss to ask her if she wanted to team up which Grace reluctantly accepted, saying Dashwood would have a chance to earn her trust. With the Knockouts Tag Team Titles tourney starting next week, both are trying to find partners.
In the other new match, former World Champion Eddie Edwards will face Daivari. The latter made his return to the company at Bound For Glory as part of the Call Your Shot gauntlet.
The full card for Turning Point as of now:
World Champion Rich Swann vs. Sami Callihan
Knockouts Champion Su Yung vs. Deonna Purrazzo
Tag Team Champions The North vs. Good Brothers
Jordynne Grace/Tenille Dashwood vs. Rosemary/Taya Valkyrie
Four days before the Impact+ special Turning Point, Impact Wrestling returned from Nashville, TN for this week’s episode.
Opening video recapped the ongoing investigation of John E. Bravo’s shooting, Purrazzo failing to recapture the Knockouts Championship from Su Yung, and last week’s main event between the team of Rich Swann and Eddie Edwards vs. Sami Callihan and Eric Young.
Kaleb with a K opened the show to introduce the upcoming match.
Havok & Nevaeh defeated Tenille Dashwood & Madison Rayne (with Kaleb with a K).
The team of Dashwood and Rayne was formed during last week’s Locker Room Talk, as they decided to join forces heading into the Knockouts Tag Team tournament scheduled to start a week from now. This was the match where they wanted to test themselves out as a team.
Story of the match was that Dashwood and Rayne were all friendly when they had the early upper hand against Nevaeh, but once Havok got the tag and Dashwood had trouble with her, she tossed Rayne into the wolves. Dashwood then let Rayne get destroyed by the team of Havok and Nevaeh, and ultimately, got pinned after Havok’s piledriver.
After the match, Dashwood and Kaleb made the notion that Rayne wasn’t at the level of Dashwood and that they’d find someone else. With one week left before the start of the tournament, Dashwood is likely to find herself a partner by the end of the show, perhaps Jordynne Grace.
– Josh Matthews dreaded having to deal with a losing Madison Rayne in commentary later tonight, but nonetheless, he ran down Saturday’s Turning Point card, as well as tonight’s signed matches.
– Gia Miller interviewed The Good Brothers. She asked about their upcoming tag title match at Turning Point. Anderson said that the Impact Tag Team titles are the only titles that have eluded them, and that on Saturday, they’ll finally win them. Ethan Page walked up and traded slaps with Anderson before walking away. Anderson vs Alexander is the main event tonight.
– We got a commercial for Talk N Shopamania 2.
– Tommy Dreamer interrogated Larry D and later Cody Deaner, who was mad about losing to Johnny Swinger last week. He said that he didn’t shoot Bravo though.
X Division Champion Rohit Raju defeated TJP to retain
Stipulation of the match was that this is TJP’s last chance to challenge for the X Division Championship as long as Raju is the champion. This comes from Raju, who argued to Scott D’Amore that TJP kept losing and won’t go away.
Match saw a dominant and focused TJP, working on Raju’s legs early on. Raju pulled the referee in between him and TJP in order to gain control of the match and work on TJP’s arm. TJP made a comeback and before we knew it, both men were chasing their finishers. There was a great spot with Raju countering the mamba splash into a crossface, which TJP turned into a kneebar.
Finish saw the referee distract himself by putting away the title belt that Raju had pulled. But in the meantime, Raju lowblowed TJP, then followed that with a running knee for the win. Pretty good match, it was given enough time to build up some tension.
Per the stipulation, TJP can’t challenge for the X Division title for now. It could be possible for him to find a loophole and win the title dressed as Suicide or Manik.
– Hernandez confronted Fallah Bahh about the stolen money. Hernandez blamed Bahh for shooting Bravo to hide the money from him. Kiera Hogan and Tasha Steelz walked up and defended Bahh. They told Hernandez off, but while Hogan distracted Bahh, Steelz stole the money from Bahh.
– The Rascalz were in the treehouse for the first time in months. However, they were being evicted from their treehouse, and implied they may be leaving Impact Wrestling.
Chris Sabin defeated Acey Romero (with Larry D)
Two weeks ago, Romero and D took out Alex Shelley with the purpose of making an impact, no pun intended. Last week, Sabin challenged either of XXXL to match.
This was a total speed vs. power match. Romero dominated the match early on, tossing around Sabin from corner to corner. Sabin managed a comeback after sidestepping Romero to the floor and taking him out with a pescado. Sabin went kick crazy, and after a couple of them, finally pinned Romero. Ok match, wasn’t that long, but Sabin looked good.
After the match, D attacked Sabin from behind before XXXL ganged up on him.
– Backstage, Sami Callihan approached Chris Bey and agreed to work together against Eddie Edwards, who is facing Chris Bey later tonight.
– Over at the interrogation room, Dreamer has James Mitchell in the hot chair. Mitchell made the argument that he wouldn’t use a gun to take out someone, nor would he waste Bravo’s virgin blood. Mitchell said he did have an idea on who it could be.
Eddie Edwards defeated Chris Bey
This match came from last week, when Edwards interrupted and spoiled whatever plans Bey had for Rich Swann.
Back and forth match. Bey used his speed advantage to get the better of Edwards early on. Edwards would use his experience to make a comeback and get a roll up win as he dodged a springboard cutter and turned the momentum into a pin. The match was quite short to really build anything substantial, but it showed a lot of promise if these two got more time. I wouldn’t be surprised if it gets added to the Turning Point card. Bey is definitely ready for the main event scene.
After the match, Bey came in with a chair to the ring, making time for Callihan to appear in the ring and take out Edwards with a bat. Rich Swann came down for the save, but Ken Shamrock came down too and between the three, took down Edwards and Swann.
Callihan teased hitting Swann with the bat the same way he did with Edwards when he got him in the eye. The Rascalz, however, ran down for the save and chased away Bey, Callihan, and Shamrock. Interesting to tease the departure of the Rascalz and immediately insert them against the main event team of heels, could be their departure match.
– Backstage, as expected, Tenille Dashwood reluctantly asked Jordynne Grace to team up for the tournament. Grace said she didn’t trust her, but at that Turning Point, they can wrestle together and maybe she can earn her trust.
– Rich Swann thanked the Rascalz for the save. Swann suggested he teamed with Trey Miguel and Rich Swann to take on Dezmond Xavier and Zachary Wentz. Everyone agreed.
– Impact+ Flashback Moment of the Week was British Invasion vs Beery Money Inc. from Turning Point 2009.
– Miller interviewed Purrazzo and Kimber Lee about Purrazzo’s No DQ match with Su Yung at Turning Point. Purrazzo said she always has a plan and that she will regain her title. As she was cutting her promo, Kimber Lee disappeared. Purrazzo went to find her, only to see a message in red paint on the window: “I think ur alone now”. It was then that Kimber Lee appeared against the window, knocked out.
– Back with Dreamer and Mitchell. The conversation ended with Dreamer telling Mitchell that he’d use the information for the investigation. He brought Havok in next, who wouldn’t answer Dreamer’s questions.
Reno Scum (Luster The Legend & Adam Thornstowe) defeated Fallah Bahh & Crazzy Steve
There’s really no build here other than Reno Scum are Hernandez’ henchmen and that Bahh has had issues with him since stealing the money roll.
Nothing match. Crazzy Steve was the babyface in peril from the start. Bahh got the hot tag and ran wild for a bit, but Reno Scum regained control and took out Bahh with the top rope curbstomp/footstomp combo.
With the Good Brothers potentially winning the titles soon, it’s time to build up a couple of heel teams to chase them around, and I’m guessing this is the reason for XXXL and Reno Scum getting some wins lately. Bahh on the other hand…I’m surprised he took the fall in this match. Hernandez didn’t even walk out or anything.
– Backstage, Chris Sabin asked for backup against XXXL on Saturday. The man he asked was none other than his long time rival, “The Cowboy” James Storm.
– Willie Mack was in a hallway backstage getting himself checked by a doctor. He got cleared for Saturday before Moose jumped him.
– Matthews and Rayne ran down the final card for Turning Point, including Moose vs. Willie Mack, Eddie Edwards vs. Daivari, Brian Myers vs. Swoggle, Dashwood and Grace vs. Rosemary and Taya, The North vs. The Good Brothers, Su Yung vs. Deonna Purrazzo, and Rich Swann vs. Sami Callihan.
Karl Anderson (with Doc Gallows) defeated Josh Alexander (with Ethan Page)
Both these teams are scheduled to meet at Turning Point for the Impact Tag Team titles. Last week, Gallows defeated Ethan Page in a singles match, and thus, we now have their respective tag team partners going at it.
Good match. Alexander controlled the match for the first half of the match, working over Anderson’s upper body. Anderson managed a comeback and levelled the playing field a bit. They traded a couple of near falls, but as Anderson called for the gun stun, Ethan Page rushed the ring, attacking Anderson for the DQ.
After the match, both teams brawled for a bit before security came down for the pull apart as the show went off the air.
Final thoughts —
Good show for the most part. The whole Bravo investigation is not particularly good right now, but it’s not bad enough to drag down the rest of the show that had some good wrestling and storyline developments heading into Turning Point this Saturday.
Both on Tuesday’s edition of Impact Wrestling and on Twitter afterward, nearly the full card for Turning Point was announced.
In the main event, World Champion Rich Swann will defend his title against former champion Sami Callihan. The two were on opposite teams in the main event of Tuesday’s show and had a run-in on the previous week’s show as well.
In another rematch, Knockouts Champion Su Yung will defend against Deonna Purrazzo in an anything goes match. Their rematch on Tuesday’s show ended in a disqualification after Yung hit Purrazzo in the stomach with a chair, helping set up the stipulation.
In a Tag Team Title match, champions The North will defend against the Good Brothers. The two teams have been feuding for weeks with Gallows picking up a singles win over Ethan Page on Tuesday’s show. The teams went to a no contest on the Bound For Glory go-home edition of Impact.
Two other matches announced: Moose vs. Willie Mack and Brian Myers vs. Swoggle.
Turning Point will air on Saturday, November 14th on the Impact+ streaming service.
An X Division title match will headline next Tuesday’s Impact Wrestling as Rohit Raju will defend against TJP with a stipulation attached.
The match was made Tuesday when TJP came out for the Defeat Rohit Challenge and made an impassioned plea for a title shot, throwing hot tea on Raju which led to a brawl. Rahit later demanded Scott D’Amore do something about it and the match was made with this being the former champion’s final opportunity to win back the gold as long as Raju is champion.
Other matches announced:
Chris Sabin vs. Acey Romero (w/ Larry D): This has been building for two weeks since Romero and XXXL partner Larry D hurt Sabin’s Machine Guns partner Alex Shelley in an interview segment. Sabin challenged either man to a match next week.
Madison Rayne and Tenille Dashwood vs. Havok and Nevaeh: This was made during Rayne’s Locker Room Talk segment when Rayne suggested Jordynne Grace and Dashwood team up for the upcoming Knockouts Tag Team Title tournament. Instead, Dashwood suggested they team up instead, continuing her rivalry with Grace.
Last week, Impact ended with the big cliffhanger of John E. Bravo getting shot during his wedding with Rosemary. The opening video of Impact was a fantastic recap of the last months, showcasing all the things that Bravo had done that would give reason to many of the suspects to take him out.
D’Amore opened the show telling Dreamer that Bravo was in stable condition, but not out of the water just yet. Dreamer, dressed as Sherlock Holmes, said that he was launching an investigation. Well, if anyone had any doubts, this is going to be a complete comedy.
Deonna Purrazzo (with Kimber Lee) defeated Knockouts Champion Su Yung by DQ
Purrazzo is claiming her rematch clause after threatening to sue Impact Wrestling. Purrazzo’s argument had been that she had called out any man or woman ‘alive’ at Bound For Glory, and instead, Su Yung, who she argued is not alive, had come out and defeated her. D’Amore instead convinced her to get her rematch.
Match saw a more aggressive Yung as she went for the mandible claw and the panic switch early on, but Purrazzo, better prepared this time around, kept reversing and targeting the arm. The finish came quick. Yung locked in the mandible claw, and in order to break it, Lee tossed a chair into the ring. Yung and Purrazzo fought for the chair with the latter accidentally getting hit with it in the gut, causing a disqualification.
The match was too short for it to build a good story, but the wrestling had been good until the weak finish. This finish made it feel like this was a blip on the radar before a bigger match to come.
After the match, Yung took out Lee and Purrazzo and held out the belt.
— Josh Matthews and Madison Rayne ran down tonight’s card, they tried to sell Bravo’s injury as a shoot.
— Over at D’Amore’s office, Rhino and Heath were ready to sign the contract. Heath is still visibly hurting, but hiding it from everyone but Rhino. D’Amore suspected that something was off with Heath and told him to heal up before signing the contract. He even offered to help with rehab, but Heath tried to play it cool, acted offended, and walked out since he wouldn’t be able to prove that he was ready to go.
— After Heath and Rhino left the office. Barrister R.D. Evans walked in as demanded a new rematch for Purrazzo since the one granted had ended in a DQ. D’Amore gave Purrazzo an Anything Goes match at Turning Point for the Knockouts title. D’Amore acted like he had one-upped Evans and Purrazzo, but given that Purrazzo had Kimber Lee with her, it should be an advantage for her.
— Somewhere else backstage, Rich Swann approached Eddie Edwards about their tag team match tonight. They said they had each other’s backs.
Chris Bey defeated Trey Miguel
Both these men were part of the BFG six-person scramble for the X Division title, which unfortunately for them, lost to Rohit Raju. At this point, both of them had to restart their path to the title.
This was your quintessential X Division match, with the fast-paced reversal start. Bey had control for most of the match, working over Miguel’s neck, and using heel tactics to cut him off when Miguel would start a comeback. Eventually, Miguel did manage to gain momentum, but as he prepared the Meteora, Bey cut him off and hit a second rope flying cutter for the win.
Hard to believe that Bey will be the sole challenger for Raju, but it is likely that he will feud with TJP for the number one contendership.
— We got a new installment of Locker Room Talk with Madison Rayne and Johnny Swinger. Her special guests tonight were Tenille Dashwood and Jordynne Grace, both partnerless as the Knockouts tag team title tournament approaches.
Grace said that she was confident she’d find a partner. Rayne tried to get Dashwood and Grace to consider teaming since they both are somewhat tied in wins. Grace asked Dashwood about it, but Dashwood instead asked Madison Rayne to team up, which she accepted. Grace walked out, rejected. Everyone was great here, but I really don’t know why they’re doing this with Grace, they better have a hell of a tag partner set up for her.
— Dreamer interrogated referee Brandon Tolle since Bravo had belittled his officiating. Cody Deaner and Swinger then did some comedy about who was next to be interrogated, but they actually had a match coming.
— Rohit Raju came out for the Defeat Rohit Challenge with a great little promo. Raju should get to cut promos on every show. TJP came out, but wasn’t ring ready. TJP asked for an opportunity, but Raju turned him off. Raju said that TJP was always out there trying to steal his spotlight while he had to legit crawl and claw his way to the title.
TJP answered with a fantastic promo saying that he had put in all the work and had all the accomplishments that Raju wouldn’t even dream about. Raju said that TJP kept talking about the past, but Raju was the present.
TJP had enough and tossed his hot tea on Raju, and so they started brawling until TJP tossed Raju out of the ring. Great little angle, TJP finally came off as someone serious about chasing the title.
— Gia Miller interviewed Chris Sabin. She asked for updates on Alex Shelley. Sabin said he was doing well, but he wanted to address all these teams trying to divide and conquer over the Machine Guns. He challenged either of XXXL for a match.
— Backstage, Raju approached D’Amore to do something about TJP. D’Amore said that TJP is getting one last chance at the title, so Raju can defeat him and finally be done with him.
Last time we saw these four men, they were brawling backstage after Page slapped Gallows right across the face. Today they faced inside the ring.
Story of the match was that Gallows dominated the ring every time that Page stepped up, and so Page kept getting more and more frustrated that they couldn’t even approach Gallows. Eventually, Alexander distracted Gallows enough so that Page could clip him from behind and finally gain control of the match. Page worked over Gallows for a couple of minutes before he started a comeback. As Gallows was about to finish off Page, Alexander got his ankle, but not even with the distraction was Page able to get the better of Gallows, who hit a big boot and won via pinfall. Ok match, but nothing special, Gallows is not the most exciting man in the ring, but Page makes up for it with his selling.
After the match, Anderson and Gallows cleared the ring and sent The North packing.
— Miller interviewed Swoggle about being back on Impact. He said that he was so glad to be back on Impact, and that he had always been seen as a joke and so he was here to turn those thoughts around. Brian Myers interrupted him and told him that he’d always be the sideshow freak of wrestling. He pushed Swoggle to the floor and walked away. Swoggle was actually pretty good in the microphone, why he hasn’t been given the chance to talk before confuses me, and this can’t be leading to a good feud. But if it were to lead to Swoggle managing someone to battle Myers, I think we have something here.
Johnny Swinger defeated Cody Deaner (with Cousin Jake)
There’s no story here other than the skit with Dreamer earlier on, as they’re both suspects in Bravo’s shooting.
The match was all comedy. Deaner kept drinking to gain power and energy, while Swinger kept using old school heel tactics to work over Deaner. Finish saw Swinger try to hit Deaner with a chair, but Cousin Jake stopped him. In the distraction, Swinger used his gimmick fanny pack to attack Deaner for the pin. Nothing match, but I won’t complain about a three-minute match.
— Moose came out to the ring looking dapper. He said in the last few months, he hasn’t been taken seriously, nor has the TNA World Championship. He said that at Bound For Glory, he went to hell and back to reclaim the title and took out one of the best champions in the company’s history. He ran down the names he has defeated all year (mostly older wrestlers), but said that no one talks about Moose, and instead, they talk about Rich Swann.
Moose played the footage of last week’s attack on Willie Mack and told Swann to ask Mack what pain feels like and that he has been warned. Mack came down and attacked Moose, but was taken out instead and beaten down and choked out with the camera cable.
Moose was fantastic, he seems ready to get that big title win.
— Over in Swann’s locker room, Chris Bey congratulated him. He told Swann that he should be the next challenger. Swann told him that Bey needed more than just to ask for a title shot, he needed to earn it. Before Bey could make a claim, Edwards came in as the two headed out for their upcoming match. Chris Bey chasing the world championship? Count me in!
— Dreamer said that he had narrowed down his suspects to 10 people. Swinger, Havok, Brandon Tolle, Cody Deaner, Hernandez, Fallah Bahh, Larry D, James Mitchell, Rosemary, and Taya. This was all comedy and not the good kind.
— Matthews and Rayne ran down next week’s card, including Raju vs. TJP for the X Division title, Chris Sabin vs. Acey Romero, and Rayne/Dashwood vs. Havok/Nevaeh. Also, 11 days away, we get Turning Point on Impact+, where Su Yung defends against Deonna Purrazzo in an Anything Goes match and Moose vs. Willie Mack.
Eric Young & Sami Callihan defeated Impact World Champion Rich Swann & Eddie Edwards
There is a big mix of rivalries between these four men. Last week, we saw Swann retain against Eric Young, but also get threatened by Callihan’s intentions to come after him. Likewise, Edwards has been dealing with Callihan, Shamrock, and Young in the last months.
Match was the basic tag match with Edwards being the babyface in peril, Swann having the hot tag and running wild, and the final minutes with all four men running in for spots. Towards the end, both Callihan and Young go for their signature piledrivers, but Swann and Edwards both reversed at the same time into a sharpshooter and single-leg crab respectively, leading to Young and Callihan having to stop each other from tapping out.
The finish saw Edwards lock in Callihan in a half Boston crab. Ken Shamrock came down, took out Swann, and distracted Edwards enough for Callihan to get him from behind and hit the cactus special for the win.
Commentary early on tried to sell us that Young and Callihan were too big of an ego to work together, but they ended up working perfectly as a team, even fist-bumping as the show went off the air.
Final thoughts —
Good, fun show. We had some really good promos this week, which may or may not lead to feuds beyond Turning Point that is only a week and a half away. A lot of programs still feel up in the air.
In an update posted on her Patreon account on Monday morning, Kylie Rae announced that she’s no longer a professional wrestler.
After missing Impact Wrestling’s Bound for Glory pay-per-view last month, Rae issued an apology in her Patreon update and stated that she’s currently unwell:
Good morning,
I’m truly sorry for the pain I’ve caused and miscommunication, I am currently unwell.
I’m also sorry that I wasn’t able to get this out before your monthly subscription charge.
I wanted to take this time to say I am no longer a professional wrestler and am currently taking a break from social media. It’s been a very hard decision to make but please understand.
When I am well, I will try to fulfill any obligations that have missed.
During this time, most tiers will not be able to be fulfilled, please feel free to unsubscribe from this membership/PatreonAccount.
Thank you for your understanding. <3
Rae was scheduled to challenge Deonna Purrazzo for the Knockouts Championship at Bound for Glory on October 24. With Rae not appearing at the show, Su Yung instead faced Purrazzo and won the Knockouts title. Dave Meltzer wrote about the situation in last week’s edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter:
Purrazzo was to defend the title against Kylie Rae. In tracing back the story, Kylie Rae (Brianna Sperry, 28) was injured two weeks earlier in a match at The Collective, and missed one of her matches that weekend. But everything seemed fine for the show. She was in Nashville at the hotel on 10/23. And then, on the day of the PPV, she never showed up. She never left word. There was the hope during the show that she would show up. Because of the lack of communications, Impact never said anything.
It got weird on the broadcast. The match was held next to last. Before it started Josh Mathews talked about the match as if it was happening. At no point in the show did they indicate anything was wrong. They played the video package for the Purrazzo vs. Rae title match with all the weeks of angles leading to it. Purrazzo was in the ring and Rae’s music played. She never came out. Purrazzo cut a promo about how she wasn’t surprised by this and issued an open challenge to anyone, man or woman, who wanted to face her for the title.
Eventually Yung came out. Yung had been a babyface, Susie, dressed all in white, as Rae’s best friend. It was always pushed that innocent Susie was the alter ego of vile heel Su Yung. And in recent weeks, it was pushed that Su Yung was starting to invade Susie’s body, and how Rae doesn’t know about Su Yung. It appeared that Rae and Yung were being set up for a program. But with no transition, Su Yung came out, and ended up winning the title.
No mention was made about Rae on the broadcast and they really didn’t know anything at the time.
When she never answered messages from people in the company, the promotion contacted the hotel for a wellness check on her and found that she wasn’t there and had checked out. They also contacted her boyfriend and other friends. Later, I believe after the show was over, they did get word that she was physically okay. It was a very sensitive subject that nobody was allowed to talk about. During the show it evidently wasn’t addressed since at the time they didn’t know the situation and didn’t want to say something that could look bad in hindsight.
It was never said, but the idea they appeared to be pushing was that maybe Susie turned into Su Yung and laid out Rae, but that was never said and only slightly hinted at.
Obviously, Rae had issues in 2019 when she was in AEW and was expected to be one of the top women’s stars in the promotion. AEW was very quiet about the situation. She disappeared in June and was out of wrestling for three months, resurfacing at an independent show in Chicago in September. During that period AEW was quiet, and then in September, before she returned, Tony Khan just said that she had asked to be released from her contract and they granted her a release. When she returned, she never really gave answers but was very emotional on the return.
Impact Wrestling has revealed a couple of additional details regarding their revival of the Knockouts Tag Team titles.
It was revealed last night that the tournament to crown new Knockouts Tag Team Champions will kick off on Impact in three weeks (Tuesday, November 17). It will be an eight-team tournament, though the teams for it have yet to be revealed.
There was a segment on last night’s Impact where Tasha Steelz & Kiera Hogan, Jessicka Havok & Neveah, Jordynne Grace, Alisha Edwards, and Tenille Dashwood wanted to know more about the return of the titles. Steelz & Hogan mocked Edwards for not having any friends, which led to Grace agreeing to team with Edwards against Steelz & Hogan later in the show. Steelz & Hogan got the win when Steelz rolled up Edwards. Steelz had moved out of the way of a charge and Edwards accidentally hit Grace. Grace and Edwards argued and shoved each other after the match and Grace walked out.
The announcement that the Knockouts Tag Team titles are returning was made at Bound for Glory this past Saturday. The tournament will play out on Impact, with the finals then being held at January’s Hard to Kill pay-per-view. Hard to Kill is taking place on Saturday, January 16.
The Knockouts Tag Team titles were first introduced in 2009 before being deactivated in 2013.
After a failed threat of legal action on Tuesday’s Impact Wrestling, Deonna Purrazzo will get her rematch against Knockouts Champion Su Yung on next week’s show.
Flanked by Kimber Lee, Purrazzo’s attorney stated his case to Impact general manager Scott D’Amore and threatened litigation due to Yung beating Purrazzo for the title in an open challenge at Saturday’s Bound For Glory. D’Amore said they could be in legal action for years or Purrazzo could exercise her rematch clause next week which she accepted.
Other action announced for next week:
In a match featuring current and former world champions, Impact World Champion Rich Swann will team with Eddie Edwards against Eric Young and Sami Callihan. Swann defeated Young in an impromptu rematch to open Tuesday’s show and had a backstage run-in with Callihan later on the show.
Ethan Page will face Doc Gallows, made after Impact Tag Team Champions The North and the Good Brothers had a backstage skirmish Tuesday.
Tonight’s show featured the fallout from Bound For Glory where three championships changed hands as The North reclaimed the tag team titles, Su Yung defeated Deonna Purrazzo for the Knockouts title, and Rich Swann defeated Eric Young for the Impact World title.
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The show opened with Eric Young and Rich Swann brawling backstage on their way to the ring. They brawled more in and around the ring until referees and security came down for the pull-apart. Young asked for his rematch now, but D’Amore wouldn’t give it to him just yet. Swann asked D’Amore to do it now too, and so…
Impact World Champion Rich Swann defeated Eric Young to retain
Swann was wrestling barefoot and in chinos. He was also recovering from a low blow that took place during the brawl.
This was not much of a match. Young had control early on and worked over Swann, but soon after, Swann recovered, hit the lethal injection and the phoenix splash to retain his title. This must have gone about five minutes.
We got the title rematch out of the way now, so both men can pursue whatever their direction will be after BFG.
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– We saw Nevaeh and Havok backstage where Havok confirmed that Father James Mitchell has been brought back to life. They walked away and headed to D’Amore’s office with the rest of the Knockouts roster where they all wanted news about the soon to be revived Knockouts Tag Team Titles. D’Amore was not there. Kaleb with a K, however, let them know the company just announced online that a tournament will begin in three weeks. Kiera Hogan and Tasha Steelz made fun of Alisha Edwards for not having a tag partner, but Jordynne Grace was there to back her up and challenged Hogan and Steelz to a match.
Tommy Dreamer defeated Brian Myers in a Hardcore Halloween match
Dreamer was still wearing Road Warrior Animal face paint and spikes. He’s really getting some matches out of the haircut. These two have been feuding for about a month now based out of Myers’ lack of respect for Dreamer.
This was an okay time filler match. Dreamer ran wild early when they brawled around the ring, but once in the ring, Myers gained control. They hit each other with walkers, garbage cans, crutches, kendo sticks, and chairs, but there was nothing really Halloween about it.
Then, Dreamer pulled out a bag with candy corn and thumbtacks when he dropped Myers from the top rope. The fInish saw Swoggle sneak out of a garbage can and low blow Myers, setting Myers up perfectly for Dreamer to hit a DVD through a table for the pin.
Hopefully, this is the end of this feud.
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– Gia Miller interviewed Rhino and Heath about what Rhino wanted for his title shot. He said that he and heath would be chasing the tag titles, but before that, they would go sign Heath’s contract. It was never brought up that Heath was legit hurt during Bound for Glory but it was made out to be obvious the two were covering something up.
– Reno Scum and Hernandez grabbed Fallah Bahh backstage to recover their money. Bahh told them he didn’t have the money anymore as he gave it to Bravo. After they left, Bahh revealed he still had the money.
XXXL (Acey Romero & Larry D) defeated The Rascalz (Dezmond Xavier & Zachary Wentz)
Neither team was able to make it to the four-way tag title match for Bound For Glory, so commentary sold this as a start on that pursuit.
The match saw XXXL dominate early on, working over Wentz with power moves. Xavier got the hot tag and ran wild over Romero, but eventually D joined in and cut off Xavier. The finish saw the Rascalz try to superplex D, but Romero broke it off, leaving Xavier down for D to finish him off with a top rope splash.
Both teams have been trading wins for a while, so it’s still up in the air to see where they go. It would be nice for XXXL to mix it up with other teams.
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– D’Amore met with Deonna Purrazzo, Kimber Lee, and “Barrister” R.D. Evan who was there to make an argument for Purrazzo to get the Knockouts championship stripped away from Su Yung and awarded back to her. D’Amore said he was headed to the ring to address this.
– Miller interviewed Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin. She asked about Shelley’s health update and he said he was hurting and would be hurt for a couple of months. Sabin added that once they’re healthy, they’ll be coming for the titles. XXXL interrupted them and said they deserved to be the No. 1 contenders since they have been running over the competition. MCMG told them to screw off because they had nothing for them, and so in return, XXXL squashed Shelley, injuring him further.
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Deonna Purrazzo/Scott D’Amore segment
D’Amore, now in the ring, addressed the Knockouts championship situation. He explained that Evans and Purrazzo had threatened legal action, but that after having reviewed the situation, Su Yung was the rightful champion.
Purrazzo, Lee, and Evans all walked out to the ring. Evans said that the only reason that Yung won the title was because something happened to Kylie Rae, likely at the hands of Yung herself, and thus Purrazzo had to wrestle an unknown competitor. Evans tried to make an argument that changing the title now would save Impact a lot of money, time, and problems.
D’Amore played the same game with Purrazzo, telling her that she could get her rematch next week and reclaim the title, or wait years for the court date and the process to find her in the right. This took too long to set up a title rematch that Purrazzo had the rights to anyway, but at least it was nice to see Evans on screen.
After all that, Yung walked down to the ring and put the mandible claw on both Evans and Lee, hit the poison mist on D’Amore, and then when Purrazzo tried to attack her, Yung locked in the claw on her as well.
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– Backstage, Swann talked with The Rascalz and Willie Mack about having no days off now as a champion. Moose walked up to him and told him that he had the TNA World title and that made him no. 1 in the company. Moose talked trash. Swann got hot and wanted to fight, but instead Mack stood up to Moose. Swann headed to his locker room and came across Callihan and Shamrock, who also gave him threatening looks.
– We got a recap of Ken Shamrock’s Hall Of Fame induction, including brief clips of messages by Bas Rutten, Chael Sonnen, Bret Hart, Ariel Helwani, Mick Foley, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
– Ethan Page and Josh Alexander talked to some of the building security until the Good Brothers interrupted them. They talked some trash to each other before coming to blows.
– The Impact Plus Flashback Moment of the Week was Rohit Raju defending the X-Division title against Willie Mack at Victory Road 2020.
– Backstage, Raju was hosting a party for himself, but only Jimmy Jacobs showed up. Jacobs brought up that TJP had the match won, so Raju kicked out his only guest.
– Bravo confronted Bahh about him sending Hernandez out for him and told him he’d tell the truth to Hernandez. He shunned Bahh, saying that he was dead to him. By the way, Bahh’s attire for the wedding is a Ghostbusters Stay Puft marshmallow man sumo suit.
Even before the match, it became clear that Grace was not exactly excited about tagging with Edwards.
The story of the match was that Grace and Edwards had a lot of trouble working together with Grace wanting to command the match, but Edwards didn’t want to follow Grace’s instructions. So, Hogan and Steelz cut Edwards off for a large part of the match. Eventually Grace got the hot tag and was dominating by herself, but decided to tag in Edwards. This led to the finish where Edwards accidentally took out Grace with a splash. Steelz then rolled Edwards up for the pin.
On commentary, they sold that Grace and Edwards were a good team, but I just didn’t see it. After the match, they confronted one another which ended up in a shoving match. I can now unfortunately see the “team that doesn’t get along” make it far in the tournament.
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– Mack was headed to his car when Moose jumped him from behind and dropped him with a belt shot.
– Taya Valkyrie met up with Rosemary before the wedding. She tried to warn Rosemary that Bravo had become a bit of a lunatic in the past few weeks. Rosemary said she had better plans for Bravo than leaving him at the altar.
– Matthews and Rayne ran down next week’s card: Chris Bey vs Trey Miguel, Purrazzo vs. Su Yung for the Knockouts title, Doc Gallows vs. Ethan Page, and Rich Swann and Eddie Edwards vs. Eric Young and Sami Callihan.
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The Wedding of Rosemary and John E. Bravo
Everyone was wearing costumes. Father James Mitchell was there to officiate the wedding.
The wedding went quick. Mitchell asked if anyone disagreed with the wedding and no one stood up. Bravo, in his vows, did some cutesy Halloween rhymes and threatened anyone that would ruin their day. Rosemary said that once she got a scent of Bravo’s virginal blood, she knew they were meant to be together and that no one from either realm would stop her from getting what she wanted.
They both said “I do” but as they were about to kiss for the first time, the lights went out. A gunshot was heard and when the lights came back on it was revealed that Bravo had been shot. Dreamer, still in full Road Warrior Animal makeup said, “Who shot Bravo? Nooooo!!!!”
This was far less eventful than I expected, but it seems that we are headed into a “Who shot Mr. Burns?” storyline with Bravo. Mitchell was fantastic as always.
Final thoughts:
This was an ok show, but not a strong one coming out of Bound For Glory, especially with the in-ring action. We got some hints for future directions of certain wrestlers, but nothing particularly big.
Alex Shelley, one half of the now-former Impact Wrestling Tag Team Champions, was apparently injured on a piledriver spot at Impact Wrestling’s Bound For Glory Saturday.
Before the match started, Josh Alexander of The North gave Shelley a piledriver on the entrance ramp. He never made it into the four-way match, leaving partner Chris Sabin to go at it alone. The North eventually won the titles without pinning Sabin.
It wasn’t clear whether the spot was part of the story of the match or if Shelley was injured going into BFG and the move was a way to take him out of it. Black Label Pro announced Sunday morning that Shelley was injured and wouldn’t be appearing on their Sunday show as planned.
Shelley took to Twitter Sunday afternoon to explain what was happening:
Wrestling is a really dangerous sport and sometimes things don’t work out the way you want them to. I apologize to @BLabelPro and @SORBilly who was coming out of retirement as well as any independent companies I was negotiating with. Piledrivers are very dangerous. https://t.co/VzRCxTUlJq
So, the C6 nerve root controls your pointer finger and bicep and C5 can refer to your pectoralis. If you feel intense burning in either of these areas following trauma, please seek medical attention. I feel somewhat grateful to have the education to know what the red flags are.
There were a few things that didn’t go as planned for Impact Wrestling on Saturday’s Bound For Glory pay-per-view in Nashville, TN.
As reported last night, Kylie Rae missed her scheduled Knockouts women’s title match with champion Deonna Purrazzo with no announcement made on the show as to why. This left a lot of fans unhappy with people noting that if she was injured or ill, they should have announced it and everyone would have understood.
The story that went around was she was injured, but we were later told that was not the case. We have confirmed that no announcement was made because the company did not know the situation at the time and there was no communication. It is possible she was injured, but it’s unknown what the situation is. Right now all that is known is that she was in Nashville ready to work on Friday and did not come to the building on Saturday.
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As noted earlier today, Heath (Miller/Slater) was scheduled to win the Call Your Shot gauntlet match, but suffered a hernia during the match and was taken to the hospital. Due to the stipulation that if either Heath or Rhino lost the match, both would be out of Impact, the only option they had on the fly was to have Rhino gore Sami Callihan and pin him when they were the last two in the match.
The good news from a storyline perspective is that everything fit with the new ending. The bad news is that Heath is likely to need surgery which would put him on the shelf temporarily. He was taken to the hospital and diagnosed, but was back at the hotel late last night. Miller was injured very early in the match, and he believed it was a groin tear at the time.
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There was also an issue in many parts of the country with Comcast/Xfinity not airing the PPV due to a snafu on the cable side although it appears the broadcast was fine everywhere else. People who contacted us being unable to order generally did order it off FITE.tv when their PPV orders couldn’t be processed.
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Bound for Glory was supposed to be available in French through FITE.tv with Marc Blondin and Sylvain Grenier on the call, the duo who did Impact every week on RDS in Quebec between 2004 and 2015. Due to technical issues, they had to cancel it at the last minute.
They ran a test Friday night and everything was working with the platform they were asked to use. But, no test was done with actual live footage from the venue. Impact asked the duo to be ready for 7:25 pm on Saturday. They were all set up and when they tested it with the live footage, there were audio issues.
Blondin and Grenier could hear themselves and could see the video, but their audio wasn’t going out to where it needed to get to. They asked Blondin and Grenier to fix the problem and they were not able to since the night before everything was working and they had not changed anything since that point. Given the short timeframe from when the issues started to when the broadcast was starting, they had to cancel it.
Heath Miller suffered a hernia injury at Saturday’s Call Your Shot gauntlet battle royal at Bound For Glory which resulted in Impact Wrestling having to call an in-match audible.
PWInsider first reported that Miller, the former Heath Slater in WWE, was supposed to earn an Impact contract and a title shot of his choosing after eliminating Sami Callihan, but due to the hernia injury, Rhino won instead. Going into the match, the storyline was that if Rhino or Miller didn’t win, both would be fired.
Just before Callihan entered as number 19, Miller was kicked in the gut by Brian Myers. After eliminating him, he got hit in the midsection by other wrestlers and started showing signs of being hurt, touching his lower left abdomen and laying on the mat while talking to referees. None of the offense he took looked stiff or out of sorts.
He eventually made his way to his feet after several minutes but was fairly immobile. Clearly moving slowly and in pain, he did take a few punches and superkick from James Storm before being eliminated by Callihan.
Miller signed with Impact this summer after being released as part of the April WWE pandemic cuts.
Three former Impact stars made an appearance at Bound for Glory.
All three made an appearance during the 20 person Call Your Shot gauntlet match. The first to return was Daivari, who previously worked for the company under the name Sheik Abdul Bashir.
He was eliminated by the next return, Swoggle, who teamed up with Brian Myers to dump Daivari to the floor. Swoggle was then betrayed by Myers and eliminated soon after. However, before he left, he helped Tommy Dreamer (who wore Road Warrior Animal face paint as a tribute) deliver a Doomsday Device to Myers.
The big surprise of the night was James Storm, who entered at #15. He made it to the final four, but was eliminated by Sami Callihan, who eliminated both Storm and Heath from the match. With Heath’s elimination, he still remains without an Impact contract.
Callihan and Rhyno were the final two entrants in the gauntlet match, setting up a singles match. Rhyno pinned Callihan with a Gore, meaning he will soon get a championship match of his choosing.
At Saturday’s Bound For Glory pre-show, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson appeared on Impact Wrestling via pre-recorded video to induct new Hall of Famer Ken Shamrock.
Above is a short clip that aired on the pay-per-view, but in the full version that was on the pre-show, Johnson said he shared the ring with many people, but the one man he owes debt and gratitude to is Shamrock.
At a time where he was cutting his teeth as a heel in WWE, he needed the best hero or badass to establish himself and that was Shamrock. He said Shamrock could have refused working with this kid, but he did it. He put over Shamrock’s accomplishments as a founder father and Hall of Famer in the UFC and WWE’s Attitude Era, “the greatest era in professional wrestler.”
He said he was extremely proud of Shamrock, thanked him for the memories and “sweat equity” and said he’ll send him some of his tequila to enjoy.
Impact Wrestling fans tuning into Bound For Glory Saturday were surprised to see that the top challenger to Knockouts Champion Deonna Purrazzo — Kylie Rae — didn’t challenge the champion as advertised.
It was said on the PPV that she was a no show and our Bryan Alvarez was initially told it was due to a non-serious injury. However, we were later told that wasn’t the case and that no announcement was made because the company did not know the situation at the time. All that is known right now is that she was in Nashville ready to work on Friday and did not come to the building on Saturday.
Rae has been active on the indies between Impact taping dates, wrestling as recently as two weeks ago.
Purrazzo issued an open challenge on the show and Su Yung, the former Knockouts Champion, answered. Since 2019, she had been known as Susie, an alter ego of the Yung character that had forgotten her past. Yung, who had been aligned with Rae in recent weeks, defeated Purrazzo to begin her second title reign.
The 28-year-old Rae signed a long-term deal with Impact in March after requesting her release from AEW in 2019. She had earned the title shot with a win in the Gauntlet For The Gold match at July’s Slammiversary.
