TNA World Champion Joe Hendry will come off appearances at WWE WrestleMania 41 and WWE NXT to defend his title against Ethan Page and Frankie Kazarian in a three-way to headline tonight’s TNA Rebellion.
Hendry has also hinted at an appearance from a WWE main roster talent that uses a bus.
Knockouts Champion Masha Slamovich defends against Tessa Blanchard while new TNA International Champion Steve Maclin defends against Eric Young.
The X-Division title will be on line in an Ultimate X match when Moose defends against El Hijo del Vikingo, Matt Cardona, KC Navarro, Leon Slater, and Sidney Akeem.
TNA Tag Team Champions The Hardys defend against The Nemeths while TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champions Ash & Heather by Elegance defend against Jody Threat & Dani Luna, Lash Legend & Jakara Jackson, and Gigi Dolin & Tatum Paxley in a four-way.
The main card is rounded out by Mustafa Ali vs. Mike Santana in a falls count anywhere match, Elijah vs. TBA, and The Rascalz & Ace Austin (with Sean Waltman in their corner) vs. The System’s Brian Myers, JDC & Eddie Edwards.
On the pre-show, Fatal Influence (Fallon Henley, Jacy Jayne & Jazmyn Nyx) take on Lei Ying Lee, Rosemary & Xia Brookside.
***********
Countdown To TNA Rebellion Kicks Off
Gia Miller, O’Shea Jackson Jr. from the No Contest Wrestling podcast, as well as Dave LeGreca and Tommy Dreamer from SiriusXM’s Busted Open Radio are shown seated at a table at the top of the entrance stage as the ‘Countdown to TNA Rebellion’ kicks off from inside the Galen Center.
Fatal Influence (Fallon Henley, Jacy Jayne & Jazmyn Nyx) vs. Lei Ying Lee, Rosemary & Xia Brookside
After running down the lineup and giving their respective thoughts on the matches, they send things to Tom Hannifan and Matthew Rehwoldt at ringside, who introduce the first of two pre-show matches. Out comes NXT trio Fatal Influence — Fallon Henley, Jacy Jane and Jazmyn Nyx.
The trio settles inside the squared circle and their music dies down. Out next is the first two of their three opponents, Lei Ying Lee and Xia Brookside, who come out together. The third member of their team, Rosemary, comes out by herself next.
As soon as they reach the ringside area, the three babyfaces attack the three NXT Superstars before the bell. Inside the ring, Henley goes to work on Brookside as the bell sounds to get things officially off-and-running. Rosemary gets the tag and takes over. She calls out Jane, who comes in.
Rosemary teases the green mist spray, leading to Jane falling to her butt and scooting back. Henley comes in off the tag and gets bullied into the corner and overwhelmed by Rosemary. Rosemary goes for a roll-up, but Henley tags on the way down. Jane catches Rosemary with a knee before entering the ring.
Inside the ring, Jane adds to the offensive lead, helping Fatal Influence settle in their first prolonged lead of the match. Fans break out in a “NXT! NXT!” chant. A different group of fans drown that out with “TNA! TNA!” chants. Nyx tags in and picks up where Jane left off, taking it to Rosemary.
As the action continues, we see the babyface team hit back-to-back-to-back dives to the Fatal Influence team at ringside. Back in the ring, Jane and Brookside land simultaneous pump-kicks.
Rosemary tries sliding brass knuckles on Brookside, who gets up and dramatically refuses to use them. Jane blasts her from behind for the win. Rosemary stands at ringside looking angry about Brookside’s refusal.
Match Result: Fatal Influence defeated Lei Ying Lee, Xia Brookside & Rosemary
Eric Young Sends A Message To Steve Maclin
Backstage, Eric Young is shown with The Northern Armory. He talks into the camera about the word Rebellion and how it derives from Rebellious. He talks about his rebellious spirit and how he isn’t here alone tonight, but Steve Maclin is. He doesn’t plan on leaving without the TNA International Title.
The System Are Ready For Tonight
Backstage, The System are shown talking about their various matches tonight. Alisha Edwards asks if we want to know something. Moose vows to win the Ultimate X title tilt tonight and then help out The System with the rest of their matches.
Up walks Cody Deaner who mentions needing to prove something. He asks to take JDC’s spot in the match against The Rascalz and Ace Austin. The System call him a loser and walk off.
Elijah vs. Shane Haste
Elijah comes out strumming a guitar and doing some singing about Los Angeles-related sports and pop culture references, before settling in the ring to find out who is going to “Walk with Elijah” in this special open challenge on ‘Countdown to TNA Rebellion.’
The TMDK tron plays and out representing them comes Shane Haste. He settles inside the squared circle and the bell sounds to get things started. Elijah immediately takes the early offensive lead. He slams Haste’s head down on the ring apron from the floor.
Elijah continues to control the action for a few more minutes, and then Haste finally slows down his momentum and shifts things into his own favor. He connects with a side-suplex for a close two-count. Elijah floats-over on another move attempt, and counters with a big move of his own.
We see Elijah go for a follow-up, but he eats a falcon arrow from Haste. Haste then connects with a vicious kick that shatters the spine of Elijah. He looks for Bomb Valley Death, but Elijah escapes and blasts Haste with a flying knee. He hits Elijah with the Highwayman’s Farewell piledriver for the win.
Match Result: Elijah defeated Shane Haste
TNA X-Division Championship Ultimate X Match
Moose (c) vs. Matt Cardona vs. KC Navarro vs. Sidney Akeem vs. Leon Slater vs. El Hijo del Vikingo
After the performance of the national anthem and cold open video package, the pay-per-view portion of TNA Rebellion 2025 gets underway with the Ultimate X match for the TNA X-Division Championship. “Alwayz Ready” Matt Cardona’s theme hits and out he comes first. Then KC Navarro comes out with AJ Francis, Sidney Akeem comes out after that, and then Leon Slater.
Mikey and Jackson, “his biggest fans,” accompany El Hijo del Vikingo to the ring when he comes out as the last challenger before the champion made his entrance. Afterwards, the lights go down, the awesome theme for Moose hits and the reigning TNA X-Division Champion, who is legitimately afraid of heights, heads out for his title defense.
As soon as the bell sounds, all of the competitors start trading shots all over the place. Within seconds we see three or four bodies hanging from the Ultimate X wires above the ring. Nothing comes from it, and the whole field gets cleared out, leaving Moose in the ring.
Moose, afraid of heights, unfolds a steel chair and stands on it to try and reach the title. Not even close. More bodies start filling up the ring. We see El Hijo del Vikingo hit a big dive from the ropes to the floor. Moments later, Sidney Akeem hits a picture-perfect moonsault off the ropes to a pile of bodies at ringside.
Up next, Moose hits a powerbomb on Akeem from the ring to a pile of bodies on the floor. Moose then calls out to Alisha Edwards to climb for him. She takes her coat off and begins doing exactly that. Alisha stops and hesitates, but Moose begs her to continue. She does.
Alisha gets all the way up and is hanging from her legs and hands, crawling the wire to the center. She loses her footing and her legs fall. She kicks her legs and falls, but Moose catches her. While holding her, Slater hits the ring and super kicks Moose. Moose falls and Alisha rolls to the floor.
Slater and del Vikingo are on the ropes together. Slater propels off a push from del Vikingo all the way to the wire. He hangs from it and hits a spot off of it to del Vikingo. Navarro hits the ring and takes them both out for a ton of heat. He then looks up and begins his climb. Akeem stops him.
Navarro ends up hanging off the wire, where he lets go and connects with a wild tornado DDT to Slater. Cardona enters the mix but eats some kicks from Navarro. Navarro hits Cardona with his own re-boot spot in the corner.
As the action continues, AJ Francis, who was introduced as a special guest commentator at the start, only for his microphone to never work and him never actually doing it, he appears in the ring and hits his finisher and cleans house. Francis gets Navarro on his shoulders and walks him to right under the title.
Navarro hangs on and Moose spears Francis. Moose reaches up and power bombs Navarro down, but then turns and walks into Radio Silence from Cardona. Cardona turns into a leg-lariat from Slater. Slater climbs the 15-foot podium holding the wires in the corner.
He hits a leaping 450-senton onto a pile of bodies at ringside. They don’t catch him that well, and with full momentum his body smacks the mat on the floor. Ouch. Scary. He gets up and plays to the crowd and appears okay. How? Who knows. He gets up the wires again and climbs to the middle.
He unhooks the title, but they say it’s not over until he drops down. He goes to drop down, and does, but upon landing gets speared by Moose. Moose steps over him, picks up the title, and is declared the winner. Not as smooth as planned.
Match Result: Moose retains the TNA X-Division Championship
Joe Hendry’s WrestleMania ‘Moment’
After the PPV opener wraps up, a lengthy video package airs to show Joe Hendry’s “WrestleMania Moment.” That’s what they called it, don’t shoot the messenger. The best part is after it wraps up, they’ve got to make a big deal out of that guy being their main event later tonight. Whoops!
TNA Knockouts Tag-Team Championships
Ash & Heather By Elegance (c) vs. Spitfire (Jody Threat & Dani Luna) vs. Tatum Paxley & Gigi Dolin vs. The Meta-Four (Jakara Jackson & Lash Legend)
Inside the Galen Center again, the theme for Spitfire hits and out comes Jody Threat and Dani Luna. They settle in the ring for the next title tilt of the evening. Out next from WWE NXT are Tatum Paxley and Gigi Dolin, as well as The Meta-Four duo of Jakara Jackson and Lash Legend.
Finally, the reigning and defending TNA Knockouts Tag-Team Champions Ash By Elegance and Heather By Elegance make their way out to the custom ring introduction by their own personal concierge, George Iceman. “The Liaison” between WWE NXT and TNA Wrestling, Arianna Grace, sits in on special guest commentary. Her microphone works.
Ash and Heather are dressed up like Playboy bunnies, complete with the little bunny ears, etc. The tag-lines graphic shows some notable stats and while it’s still full screen, we hear the bell sound and the crowd pop as the action begins off-camera in the background. Ash and Paxley kick things off.
Ash tags Heather before anything happens. Paxley crawls around and freaks out Heather, too, who then tags out before anything happens. Luna comes in and she and Paxley finally start mixing it up in the early goings.
Hannifan mentions Threat having her hand wrapped up due to an injury she sustained doing jiu-jitsu. We see back-to-back-to-back ring-to-floor high spots. Dolin hits a Whisper in the Wind as the last one, until Jackson stops Heather’s attempted dive.
She picks her up and military press slams her onto the pile. She then puts Legend on her shoulders and Legend dives onto the pile of bodies at ringside. Back in the ring, Jackson tags in. Dolin tilt-a-whirls around Jackson into a roll-up for a two-count.
We see spot-fest 2025 break out, as each team has one member hit a finisher in sequential fashion. This leads to two big stacked suplex spots on each side of the ring. Maggie Lee runs out and holds onto Ash on one side, setting her up to hit her Rarified Air finisher for the pinfall to retain.
Match Result: Ash & Heather By Elegance win to retain TNA Knockouts Tag-Team Championships
TNA Injury Report & A Word From Elijah
After the TNA Injury Report presented by Bioflex airs with updates on Joe Hendry’s status, Zachary Wentz, and Sami Callihan and Mance Warner’s aftermath from their violent Barbed Wire Massacre match, we shoot backstage live to see Joe Hendry’s shoulder being checked on by the TNA medical team.
Backstage live, Elijah talks directly into the camera about winning his first-ever “Walk With Elijah” open challenge earlier in the evening. He says now he gets to sit-back and watch his friend, Joe Hendry, retain his TNA Championship. He believes in him and he’ll be sitting back enjoying it like everyone else.
The System (Moose, Eddie Edwards & Brian Myers) (w/ Alisha Edwards) vs. The Rascalz (Trey Miguel & Zachary Wentz) & Ace Austin (w/ Sean Waltman)
Back inside the Galen Center, The System’s theme hits. Out comes the group consisting of Moose, Eddie Edwards and Brian Myers, accompanied by Alisha Edwards. They touch their System rings and begin their walk to the ring. Moose will be competing for the second time this evening.
Next, Ace Austin’s theme hits and out comes the ABC member by himself. His music dies down and he waits for his partners. The Rascalz theme hits and out comes Trey Miguel and Zachary Wentz. They stop and do the nWo side-pointing gesture as Sean Waltman makes his way out to accompany them.
The bell sounds and it will be Wentz and Myers kicking things off for their respective teams. Went tries to pose to the crowd, which leads to Myers blasting him with a big boot to the bread basket to get things going. Wentz fights back, lays out Myers and tags in Miguel for a double-team spot.
After some initial back-and-forth follow-up action, things begin to pick up. Alisha keeps getting involved at ringside, leading to Waltman informing the referee. This happens one time too many, with Alisha entering the ring. Waltman confronts her. She goes to smack him, but he hits her with an X-Factor.
Waltman and the rest of the guys do the suck-it gesture together, and then The Rascalz and Austin hit Bronco Busters in three corners at the same time with him. Moose goes for a spear, but dives into an X-Factor from Wentz. He and Miguel follow-up with the finish for the win. Waltman celebrates with them. Fun.
Match Result: The Rascalz & Ace Austin (w/ Sean Waltman) defeat The System (w/ Alisha Edwards)
TNA International Championship
Steve Maclin (c) vs. Eric Young
It’s time for another title tilt, but first, Gia Miller is backstage trying to get a word with TNA International Champion Steve Maclin. She asks if he’s ready for this fight with his friend, Eric Young. He doesn’t respond or even react facially. After a long pause, he smirks and walks off.
Back inside the Galen Center, the lights go down and the theme for Eric Young hits. Out comes “The World Class Maniac” accompanied by The Northern Armory duo of Judas Icarus and Travis Williams.
Reigning and defending TNA International Champion “Bulletproof” Steve Maclin is out next with his “Dead Presidents” movie-style entrance mask on. He takes it off, lays his title in front of him and looks ready for battle.
The commentators talk about Young sliding Maclin the mask as his final offer to join The Northern Armory last week. Judas and Williams run up but Maclin lays them out and continues to the ring. He and Young lock eyes, the bell sounds, and they begin to battle.
Young takes the initial offensive lead, but it doesn’t last long, as Maclin fights back and hits a diving Air-Raid style high spot from the ring to the floor on Young and The Northern Armory duo. Back in the ring, Icarus tries getting involved to protect Young.
This leads to Maclin heading out to deal with him, only to be attacked by Williams. They send him back into Young, who goes for the cover, but only gets two. They continue to get involved, leading to the referee ejecting them from ringside.
Maclin fires up and has Young hanging upside down in the tree of woe in the corner. He goes for the spear, but Young does a sit-up and Maclin goes sailing through the ropes, where he crashes and burns hard on the floor.
The top of his head is cut badly. The referee puts on some gloves to check him. The doctor also checks on him. After the action resumes in the ring, literally out of nowhere, Maclin rolls Young up and hooks a leg for the win.
As soon as the match ends, Maclin is attacked by The Northern Armory, who come back out and help Young hang Maclin over the ropes with a giant steel chain. That’s how the post-match scene wraps up.
Match Result: Steve Maclin defeated Eric Young to retain TNA International Championship
Falls Count Anywhere
Mike Santana vs. Mustafa Ali
The commentary duo of Hannifan and Rehwoldt set the stage for the next match of the evening, which is the Falls Count Anywhere match between bitter rivals Mike Santana and Mustafa Ali. The elaborate pre-match package airs to show the road leading to tonight’s showdown.
Once the package wraps up, some Indian-dressed ladies come out dancing while a dude in Indian garb bangs on a drum at the beginning of the entrance aisle. Very upbeat, happy-go-lucky feel to it right before this Falls Count Anywhere blood-feud stemming from addiction issues gets going.
This transitions into the regular dramatic entrance tune for Mustafa Ali. Out first comes Tasha Steelz and The Great Hands duo of John Skyler and Jason Hotch in suits. Ali then comes out in his fancy ring gear with a look of focus in his eyes. He settles in the ring and is ready to rock and roll.
Two guys that are referenced as two decorated boxing champions are shown backstage with a bunch of alphabet-soup belts. Never heard of either of them, and I’m pretty well-versed in the sport of the sweet science. Anyways, they join Mike Santana for his hip-hop walk through the crowd.
The commentators point out that Santana is wearing a vest gifted to him by Homicide. His tights are a tip of the cap to another wrestling legend, Bret “The Hitman” Hart. The bell sounds and the two begin hockey-duking it out in the middle of the ring. Ali knocks Santana to the floor and hits a dive.
Santana takes apart the ring steps. He drags over the bottom half to the end of the entrance aisle. He sits it on its’ side, so it’s up long ways and kind of jagged. He picks Ali up, but Ali slams Santana face-first into what Hannifan calls the diving plate.
He goes for a running dive through the ropes but is sent head-first into the steel steps. The rest of his body folds over him in a scene that looked ugly. Not as bad as Leon Slater’s early in the evening, but just as scary in terms of potential disastrous consequences.
Like Slater, Ali seems fine somehow. Santana continues to beat Ali down as they fight through the crowd. He grabs a bucket of popcorn and whacks Ali with it. Somehow that dropped him to one knee. Must be stale popcorn. Santana climbs up one level and leaps off the barricade with a moonsault for a two-count.
As they continue to fight through the crowd, The Great Hands get blatantly involved. They double-team Santana, leading to Ali hitting a huge balcony dive onto all of them. He tries for a pin on Santana, but only gets a two-count. Fans chant “This is Awesome!” as they fight back to ringside.
Ali sets up to folding chairs. He unfolds them and faces them towards each other. He sits Santana on them and backs up. He charges at Santana, who pops up and in one quick motion, hoists Ali up for a death valley driver onto the pair of chairs. Ouch.
In another wild high spot, Ali has Santana laid out on the hard part of the ring apron outside of the ring ropes. He’s slumped over against the turnbuckles outside of the ropes, with a steel chair laying in front of his face.
Ali does a top-rope coast-to-coast, connects, but then bounces violently off the unforgiving apron to the floor. Moments after that, Ali hits a 450 splash off the top-rope to put Santana through a table at ringside. In the rubble, he goes for the cover, but somehow Santana kicks out.
Half of the ring steps are brought into the ring and set up long-ways in the corner. The Great Hands hit the ring and try and handcuff Santana, but he hits a double Spin the Block on them both. He cuffs them both to the aforementioned steps in the ring.
Santana’s big-reveal follow-up is hurt a bit, as he looks under the ring for something, and obviously has a one-in-four chance of checking the right spot. Let’s just say it took him four tries to find what turned out to be a barbed wire wrapped baseball bat.
Before he can use it, Ali attacks. Tasha Steelz heads under the ring and on her first attempt, pulls out another table and sets it up as the L.A. crowd goes wild. Ali is shown smiling as he watches her set it up from the ring.
Ali picks up Santana, who whips him into the ring post. Steelz slaps Santana. Santana points at her. She tries another slap, he catches it and hoists her up for a leaping power bomb off the ring apron through the table. A lot of man-on-woman violence tonight at TNA Rebellion.
As the crowd is going wild, and Santana is playing to them, he is whacked from behind by a steel chair from Ali. Ali pulls out a third table and slides it into the ring. The Great Hands are shown cuffed to the steps. Ali ignores them and sets the table up.
Ali heads up to the top-rope behind the steel steps that The Great Hands are cuffed to. Santana stops him and climbs up the steps. From up top there, he hits a super-duper-plex through the table. He goes for the immediate follow-up cover, yet somehow Ali klicks out. Santana hits Ali with the barbed wire bat and connects with his Spin The Block finisher for the win. Excellent, excellent match.
Match Result: Mike Santana defeated Mustafa Ali
Indi Hartwell ‘Crosses The Line,’ Joins TNA Knockouts Division
Immediately following the instant classic Falls Count Anywhere match, TNA broadcast member Gia Miller conducted a live interview at ringside.
Miller spoke with former WWE and WWE NXT Superstar Indi Hartwell in the front row, confirming that she has joined the TNA Knockouts division.
It was later confirmed by Hannifan and Rehwoldt that we will hear from Indi Hartwell on this coming Thursday’s special live episode of TNA iMPACT on AXS TV, Sportsnet 360 and TNA+.
TNA Knockouts Championship
Masha Slamovich (c) vs. Tessa Blanchard
Speaking of Knockouts, the TNA Knockouts Championship match is up next as part of what they are referring to as one of three matches featured as the triple-main event of TNA Rebellion. The pre-match video package airs to tell the story leading up to Masha Slamovich vs. Tessa Blanchard.
The package wraps up and upon returning inside the Galen Center, the theme for Tessa Blanchard hits and the challenger makes her way to the ring. The reigning and defending TNA Knockouts Champion Masha Slamovich is out next.
As soon as Slamovich hits the ring, she hits a senton off the apron onto Blanchard to get things started with a bang. She follows up on Blanchard on the floor, but soon after, Blanchard shifts the momentum into her favor.
Blanchard begins dominating the champion, focusing her offensive attack on the leg of Slamovich. Blanchard yanks the knee pad of Slamovich down and continues to isolate the limb of the defending champion. Slamovich fights back and hits Code Red to slow down Blanchard’s momentum.
Slamovich connects with a back-fist and follows up with a German suplex for a two-count. She pounds on her own knee to try and get the feeling back in it. The crowd rallies behind her as she sets up for Requiem. Blanchard avoids it and counters. She hits a dragon screw on Slamovich’s bum wheel.
After some more brief back-and-forth action, Blanchard hits a huge high spot off the top-rope, but Slamovich rolls through and pops up to her feet for a big knee. She then follows up with a modified armbar for the submission win to retain the TNA Knockouts Championship.
Match Result: Masha Slamovich defeats Tessa Blanchard to retain TNA Knockouts Championship
TNA World Tag-Team Championships
The Hardys (c) vs. The Nemeth Brothers
The pre-match video package airs to tell the story leading up to part two of our three-part triple-main event at TNA Rebellion. The TNA World Tag-Team Championships will be on-the-line as The Hardys duo of Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy defend against The Nemeth Brothers of Nic Nemeth and Ryan Nemeth.
The tag lines graphic flashes on the screen with some notable stats that Hannifan runs down as fans are heard very loudly chanting “Hardy! Hardy! in anticipation in the background. We hear the familiar sounds of the unzip and the, well, pleased female moan, before Nic and Ryan Nemeth emerge.
The Nemeth Brothers make their way out wearing the TNA World Tag-Team Championships, which still belong to The Hardys, but were stolen by Nic and Ryan during their visit to the creepy Hardy Compound on the TNA Rebellion “go-home” episode of TNA iMPACT this past Thursday night.
After a healthy delay, the iconic sounds of The Hardys’ theme hits and the roof nearly explodes off of the Galen Center, as the legendary duo of Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy emerge and head to the ring to a sustained roar from the L.A. crowd.
Joe Hendry is the only man on the roster anywhere near their level in terms of crowd reactions week-to-week. As soon as they hit the ring, they tussle briefly with The Nemeth Bros. Nic and Ryan bail to the floor, leaving Jeff and Matt to reclaim their belts. They pose with them on the ropes.
The referee takes the titles and holds them up high to show all four men what’s at stake in this one. Fans chant “Hardy! Hardy!” in the background. The bell sounds and all four collide once again. Jeff and Ryan powder out to the floor, while Matt goes to work on Nic in the corner.
Matt is isolated in the ring for a while, and is on the defensive the entire time. He finally makes the much-needed hot tag to Jeff, who helps shift the offensive momentum in the favor of The Hardys. They appeared to be wrapping things up, when Matt walks into the referee’s arm in mid-pin count.
This allows things to continue. Matt heads out to deal with Ryan at ringside. He ends up getting slammed in violent fashion on an unfolded steel chair set up on the floor. Meanwhile back in the ring, Nic hits Danger Zone on Jeff and covers him for the win. We have new TNA World Tag-Team Champions.
Match Result: The Nemeth Brothers defeated The Hardys to capture the TNA World Tag-Team Championships
TNA World Championship
Joe Hendry (c) vs. Ethan Page vs. Frankie Kazarian
The pre-show panelists, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Gia Miller, Tommy Dreamer and Dave LaGreca are joined by TNA Director of Authority Santino Marella at the top of the entrance stage. They give their predictions, with Jackson Jr. picking Ethan Page and the rest proclaiming they “believe in Joe Hendry.”
Santino then directs our attention to the big screen. The pre-match video package airs to tell the story leading up to our third and final portion of tonight’s triple-main event. When it wraps up, the Tale of the Tape graphic flashes on the screen.
Frankie Kazarian’s theme hits and out comes the Call Your Shot winner, who is cashing in his title opportunity in this triple-threat title tilt tonight. WWE NXT Superstar Ethan Page makes his way out next. Last, but certainly not least, Joe Hendry’s theme hits and the crowd erupts as the TNA World Champion emerges.
The ring announcer handles the final formal pre-match ring introductions for the champion and the challengers, and then the bell sounds to get things officially off-and-running in our final match of the evening. The commentators are quick to point out Hendry’s heavily taped up injured shoulder.
Hendry takes the initial offensive lead, looking for his Standing Ovation finisher straight out of the gate. Page starts to take over, focusing his attack on the aforementioned injured shoulder and arm of Hendry. Page hits a big suplex on Hendry into Kazarian as he was trying to get back into the ring.
Kazarian pulls out a table and enters it into the mix, prompting Hannifan and Rehwoldt to remind everyone that there are no rules in triple-threat matches, so it is perfectly legal to use. Kazarian heads into the ring and starts to go to work on Page, and then Hendry.
Hendry begins no-selling his punches. Kazarian rolls him up, sees Page coming, and hits him with a suplex into a bridge for a double pin attempt on Page and Hendry for a count of two. Kazarian looks for the Chicken Wing on Page, but Page backs him into the corner over-and-over again to free himself.
We see a wild power bomb and super-plex combo stacked spot out of the corner. Kazarian is sent crashing into the timekeeper on the floor. Page hits a draping DDT to Hendry on the floor. The Call Your Shot gauntlet trophy is used as a weapon. Back in the ring, Kazarian mocks Hendry and hits Fade To Black. He goes for the cover, but Page breaks it up.
Page hits a knee to Kazarian but then walks into an Olympic Slam from Hendry. Kazarian hits Angels Wings for a close two count of his own. All three guys are down and recovering as fans chant “This is Awesome.” Kazarian slaps the Chicken Wing on the bad shoulder of Hendry. They back body drop Page still in the hold. Hendry begins fading until a loud “We Believe” chant brings him back to life.
Kazarian tries Fade to Black on Hendry from the ring apron through the table. Hendry escapes and hits an Attitude Adjustment on Kazarian through the table on the floor. Back in the ring, Hendry goes for Standing Ovation, but Page tries countering into a RKO out of nowhere in a repeat of WrestleMania. Hendry avoids it and seconds later does connect with his Standing Ovation for the win to retain his TNA World Championship.
Match Result: Joe Hendry defeated Ethan Page and Frankie Kazarian to retain the TNA World Championship
Trick Williams “Whoops That Trick” Named Joe Hendry
Once the main event of the evening wraps up, Joe Hendry’s viral smash hit theme song plays as Hannifan and Rehwoldt sing his praises and begin wrapping up the broadcast. Just as they thank the fans for tuning in, out of nowhere, Hendry turns into a pump kick from WWE NXT Superstar Trick Williams.
The crowd is in shock. Hannifan and Rehwoldt are at a loss for words as well. Williams has an evil look in his eyes as he takes in the L.A. crowd inside the Galen Center. He waits for Hendry to get up and hits his Trick Shot finisher on him to leave him laying. That’s how TNA Rebellion goes off the air.
Thanks for joining us and don’t forget to follow F4WOnline.com’s Matt Boone on Twitter/X.
