Ace Austin won a four-way match involving Sami Callihan, Moose and Chris Sabin at Friday’s Impact Emergence, putting himself next in line for a World title shot against Christian Cage at Victory Road in September.
The end came when Moose hit two uranages on Austin to set up the Lights Out. However, Callihan hit Moose with a chair, leaving him open for Austin to recover and get the roll-up for the pin while Cage successfully defended the Impact title in his first defense with a win over Brian Myers in the Emergence main event.
The Cage vs. Austin match will take place on the September 18th Impact Plus special, a show that was mainly taped this past week. The Cage-Austin match didn’t happen at those tapings, but will at the company’s mid-September TV tapings.
Regarded as one of the company’s top talents, Austin is a two-time X-Division Champion and Super X Cup winner. He has competed for the World title before, losing in a five-way elimination match at last year’s Slammiversary.
Christian Cage will defend his newly-won Impact World title against Brian Myers at Friday’s Emergence special on Impact Plus.
Cage won the belt one week ago while Myers earned the opportunity by recently winning a 20-man battle royal. The winner will face the winner of a four-way match between Sami Callihan, Moose, Ace Austin and Chris Sabin to determine the next no. 1 contender.
Friday’s show will also feature two other title matches as X-Division Champion Josh Alexander looks to continue his recent hot streak when he defends against Jake Something while Tag Team Champions The Good Brothers will face Violent by Design and Rich Swann & Willie Mack in a three-way title match.
The rest of the show features Petey Williams vs. Steve Maclin; Madison Rayne vs. Taylor Wilde; Knockouts Champion Deonna Purrazzo and Matthew Rehwoldt vs. Melina and Trey Miguel; Matt Cardona vs. Rohit Raju; and Tasha Steelz, Savannah Evans, Fallah Bahh and No Way vs. Decay (Black Taurus, Crazzy Steve, Rosemary, Havok).
Our live coverage begins at 7 PM Eastern.
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Opening video did a good job at recapping the path that took us to Christian Cage vs Brian Myers tonight, but also a little bit of Josh Alexander and Deonna Purrazzo.
Matt Cardona (with Chelsea Green) defeated Rohit Raju (with Mahabali Shera)
A couple of weeks ago, Raju and Shera cost Cardona a big loss against the debuting John Skylar, but after getting payback on Shera, he is out to get Raju this time around.
Cardona is starting to get ‘Deathmatch King’ chants.
Cardona dominated early, forcing Raju to constantly leave the ring to get some space, in some occasions, it be Cardona who would toss Raju to the floor to follow with a slide or dive, and it was until one of these that Raju managed to pull the ring skirt and completely make Cardona crash and burn.
Back in the ring, Raju had gained control, Shera started to assist Raju outside the ring, and to make things worse, some of Cardona’s cuts from GCW started to open up.
Cardona made a comeback and went back and forth with Raju for a bit, but as they went on, Cardona gained more and more momentum. Raju would get a couple of near falls with a reverse STO, but after Raju tried to roll him up with his feet on the ropes, Cardona came back with radio silence for the win.
After the match, Shera attacked Cardona and hit the chokeslam on the knee. Shera set up the running boot, but Green got in the ring and confronted him. Shera, reluctant to hit her, walked away instead.
– D’lo Brown & Matt Striker ran down tonight’s card.
Decay (Rosemary, Havok, Black Taurus, & Crazzy Steve) defeated Tasha Steelz, Savannah Evans, Fallah Bahh, and No Way
A lot of things are happening in this match. This is the in-ring debut of Savannah Evans, Steelz’ new enforcer after she turned on Kiera Hogan. Steelz and Evans are teaming with the babyface team of Bahh and No Way since the former and Steelz were a tag team at the Homecoming show and both share an enemy in common in the name of Decay. Steelz and Evans are looking to challenge Rosemary and Havok for the tag team titles, whereas Bahh doesn’t get along with Decay after it was Steve and Rosemary that eliminated them at Homecoming.
Rosemary and Steelz were to start the match, but after some trash talking, it was Evans that ended up starting the match and she single handedly took down both Rosemary and Steve. No Way and Bahh tagged in to try and continue that control, but Steve escaped and in came Taurus, and Bahh ended up being the one cut off from his corner. They did a couple of biting spots before Bahh crawled back to Evans.
We got a better look at Evans and Rosemary, with the latter getting cut off and isolated. Steelz and Evans kept it to themselves to work on Rosemary as they built Havok for the hot tag.
Havok came in and got a quick near fall with a sky high, broke up by Evans, and we finally got that hoss pair up. Havok dominated until they tagged out.
Steve and No Way paired up, followed by Taurus and Bahh again. Taurus and Rosemary hit a double spear on Bahh for the win, no one was able to jump in time to break the pin. Evans looked good in her debut, commentary sold her well.
– We got a promo from Violent By Design about losing the titles because of weakness, but they have learned from it. EY put over Joe Doering for last night’s performance against Doc Gallows. This had great energy, by the end of EY’s promo, it felt like a babyface promo.
– We got a promo from Violent By Design about losing the titles because of weakness, but they have learned from it. EY put over Joe Doering for last night’s performance against Doc Gallows. This had great energy, by the end of EY’s promo, it felt like a babyface promo.
Steve Maclin defeated Petey Williams
Maclin had been on a path of destruction, taking out every local wrestler that got put in front of him, and eventually that path led him to one of Williams’ friends, Trey Miguel. After Williams saved Miguel from Maclin, the latter took it personal and started going after Williams, leading up to this match when they could finally clash in the ring.
Both men started going at each other on the ramp before the bell. They got in the ring to start the match, but the action quickly went back to the floor when Maclin escaped Williams’ destroyer attempt.
After Williams had dominated and chased around Maclin outside the ring, Maclin caught Williams’ rana and turned it into an apron bomb to completely turn around the match. Maclin got his first near fall with a Cactus Jack falling elbow to the floor.
Maclin dominated Williams, who tried a couple of comebacks, but kept getting cut off by Maclin’s power and strikes. It would take a released German and a running knee for Williams to finally take down Maclin. Even so, when he called for the destroyer, Maclin turned it into a double underhook backbreaker. Williams went for a second attempt at the destroyer, but again it was blocked and Maclin hit his spear to the hanging Williams in the corner.
Williams locked in a sharpshooter, but Maclin broke out by biting Williams, followed with a low blow behind the referee’s sight, and a mayhem for all for the win.
After the match, Maclin tossed Williams outside the ring.
– Gia Miller interviewed Taylor Wilde about her match with Madison Rayne, and what her strategy was to counter Tenille Dashwood and Kaleb with a K who are likely to be there. Wilde said she was ready for everything.
Madison Rayne (with Tenille Dashwood & Kaleb with a K) defeated Taylor Wilde
Madison Rayne made her return out of retirement last week, as she came out to help Tenille Dashwood get a win over Taylor Wilde. Dashwood and Wilde have been feuding for some time, but it wasn’t until Wilde returned a couple of weeks ago that they restarted the feud and Rayne joined in.
Match started with both women measuring each other with Wilde constantly getting the better of Rayne, to the point that Rayne left the ring to regroup with Dashwood and Kaleb, only to be on the receiving end of a dive from Wilde. As they went back to the ring, the referee distracted himself with a nasty cut that Rayne got under the eye, and so Dashwood took advantage to pull on Wilde and allow Rayne to sneak up on her and cut her off.
Wilde made a quick comeback before both women started to trade near falls. At one point, Wilde had a bridging German when Kaleb pulled the referee, but between Dashwood, Rayne, and Kaleb, the distractions eventually allowed Dashwood to send Wilde into the corner shoulder first, ready for Rayne to roll her up for the win.
– Miller interviewed the Good Brothers about their match tonight and wanted to ask about Gallows’ status after his match with Doering. Anderson said that Gallows was good because he was the best big man in the business and tonight, they would successfully defend because they’re the best tag team in the world.
Ace Austin (with Madman Fulton) defeated Moose, Sami Callihan, & Chris Sabin to become the new Impact World title #1 contender.
These four wrestlers were the last eliminated in the #1 contender’s battle royale from a couple of weeks ago, and so they were granted a chance to compete for the same position, to challenge the winner of tonight’s main event between Christian Cage and Brian Myers.
Ace Austin’s story of the match was that Fulton kept saving him, either by catching him when tossed out of the ring, or by straight up putting himself in between Austin and whatever kick his opponents directed towards Austin.
Moose started the match taking everyone out, followed by a couple of pair ups between the competitors. We saw Sabin take out Moose, followed by some Sabin versus Austin, and then Austin versus Callihan.
Moose powerbombed Sabin to the floor on top of Callihan and Fulton, followed by Austin hitting a dive on all of them together.
Back in the ring, Sabin got a near fall on Moose after hitting a tornado DDT. Austin came in and took out Sabin, used his speed advantage to take out Moose, and hit a Fold on Callihan for a near fall. He went for a second, but Callihan dodged and countered with a piledriver.
Callihan chased the package piledriver, but all men came back to the ring and instead got into a strike exchange between each other. Moose was taken out by a triple superkick. Sabin took one from Austin, and Callihan and Austin followed with kicks to each other for the ten count knockout draw tease.
Sabin and Callihan exchanged strikes, ending with Callihan hitting yet another piledriver, but Austin and Moose were there to cut them off. Moose hit two uranages on Austin and set up lights out, but Callihan got him with a chair, not realizing that he left him open for Austin to pull him back for the roll up and get the pin.
Ace Austin will challenge at Victory Road against the winner of Brian Myers versus Christian Cage.
– Gia Miller interviewed Brian Myers. She asked him if he had what it took to defeat Cage. Myers said that Cage was a phenomenal wrestler, but he was going up against the most professional wrestler.
X Division Champion Josh Alexander defeated Jake Something to retain the title.
Jake Something won this shot in a four way match defeating Trey Miguel, Daivari, and Rohit Raju.
This match was all about power versus technique, for the first time since winning the X division title, Something was Alexander’s biggest opponent, even bigger than Black Taurus at Homecoming. Alexander was able to out-wrestle Something, but it always took Something just one strike or one slam, and he was able to cut off Alexander and turn things upside down for Alexander. Even when Alexander went for the diving backsplash, Something just took it, got him in a fireman’s carry, and hit a DVD on the floor.
As much punishment Something dealt, Alexander just had better experience and awareness and always found a way to escape Something’s pins. It was the delayed vertical suplex that Something finally got a two count on Alexander.
Eventually, Alexander hit a desperation Rolling fireman’s carry slam and a knee to the head to slow down Something. Alexander could follow with a pin, but followed with a series of 5 Germans, bridging the 5th for a two count, and then 5 more for yet another huge near fall.
Alexander chased the C4, but Something blocked it. Alexander instead went for the ankle lock, only to get kicked to the floor and receive a diving Something.
Something hit the falcon arrow, but Alexander kicked out surprisingly, no one kicks out of the falcon arrow. Alexander caught Something with an elbow to the back of the head, hit an airplane slam for another two count, only for Something to come back with a belly-to-belly. This match is great!
Something decapitated with a lariat and hit the corner spear. Something went for he blackhole, but Alexander countered into the ankle lock, wrapped the legs, and after a struggle, made the ropes. Alexander desperately piledrove Something on the apron and just asked for the countout, but Something made it back.
Back in the ring, Something’s ankle was busted, but he still managed to powerbomb Alexander, but not pin him. Alexander came back, kicked his leg out and hit C4 spike for the win. Fantastic match.
After the match, both men shook hands in acknowledgement.
– Purrazzo and Rehwoldt were interviewed by Gia Miller. She asked about teaming against Miguel and Melina. Rehwoldt said that they’re getting in the ring with the most decorated woman. Purrazzo brought up that it was last year’s Emergence that she became the first ever Ironwoman.
Deonna Purrazzo & Matthew Rehwoldt defeated Trey Miguel & Melina
Melina will be challenging for the Knockouts Championship at NWA’s EMPOWER show. On last night’s Impact, she made her debut, only for Melina and Rehwoldt to jump her afterwards. It would be Trey Miguel who would run out for the save.
Match started with Melina and Miguel showing off a bit, but once it came down to Melina and Rehwoldt in the ring, Purrazzo and Rehwoldt cut off Melina and isolated her from her corner.
Purrazzo started to focus on Melina’s arm, setting her up for the Venus de Milo, and potentially injure her heading into EMPOWER. All of Purrazzo’s offense was submissino based, so it was until she and Melina got to their feet, that Melina was able to get some space between each other, get her with a Thesz press and a neckbreaker, and until then she was free to tag Miguel.
Rehwoldt and Miguel came in with the former using his speed advantage to get the better of Rehwoldt, but they got hot enough that Miguel tried to do the spot where he slams her partner onto their opponent, except Rehwoldt moved out of the way. Rehwoldt took out Miguel and once again, Melina was the babyface in peril, this time with Melina striking Melina to the back of the head and the inside cradle by Rehwoldt for the win. Not the crispiest wrestling from the women. Purrazzo was way too dominant.
– Miller interviewed Christian Cage about his first defense tonight. Cage put over Myers, but told him that he’s not stepping aside for him and maybe one day Myers will be the champion, but not tonight. Good promo.
Impact Tag Team Champions The Good Brothers (Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows) defeated Violent By Design (Joe Doering & Rhino) (with Eric Young & Deaner) & Rich Swann & Willie Mack to retain the titles.
These three teams were involved in the Slammiversary tag title match that saw the Good Brothers capture the titles for a second time. Ever since, Swann & Mack have feuded with VBD to get tonight’s title shot, which would eventually end in a three way.
Last night, Doering and Gallows had a huge hoss fight, and tonight’s both men wanted to pick up where they left off and started the match with a strike exchange. Mack wanted to play too and tagged himself in on Gallows. Doering was just too big for Mack and easily cut him off.
The match continued with a couple of pair ups, first Rhino versus Swann and then into Swann versus Gallows, who along with Anderson, isolated Swann in their corner. Doering tagged in on Gallows and Swann went from being worked on the Brothers’ corner to the VBD corner. Both teams would continue trading control over Swann for a bit, but once Anderson was in there, Swann was able to escape him and get to Mack for the hot tag.
Mack came in, took down everyone on the apron, and got a near fall with the Samoan Drop and moonsault combo, blocked a gun stun, hit a stunner, and went to the top rope, but Rhino stopped him, tagged himself in, and went for the Gore. Gallows jumped in and distracted Rhino, allowing Anderson to sneak up with a roll up and the pin.
After the match, all of Violent By Design berated Rhino for the loss. I guess the turn is coming for Rhino.
Impact World Champion Christian Cage defeated Brian Myers (with Sam Beale) to retain the title.
Brian Myers won the number one contendership battle royale to earn this shot. At the time, the champion was still Kenny Omega, who was defeated by Cage on AEW’s first ever Rampage show.
Match started with a little bit of back and forth measuring each other. Cage easily got inside Myers head, out wrestling him, which ended up provoking Myers to be more vicious. Cage stayed in control until he gave his back to Beale, who took a cheap shot on Cage, and while it didn’t hurt Cage, it did serve as a distraction for Myers to cut him off with a slam on the apron.
Myers worked over Cage’s neck, but after finally having some control, he decided to go for a top rope elbow, only for Cage to move and let Myers crash onto the mat.
Cage made his comeback, hitting the greatest hits, the punches to the corner, the second rope back elbow, the rope snap the floor, and finally he chased the killswitch, but released it to counter Beale, leaving himself open for a spear by Myers for a two count.
Tilt-a-whirl DDT from Cage for a near fall. Tried to follow with the killswitch, but Myers countered. Myers set up the roster cut, but Cage caught him with a spear and the killswitch for the win. Ok match.
Cage celebrated in the ring as the show went off the air.
Four new matches have been announced for Friday’s Impact Emergence special on Impact Plus, finalizing the card.
Madison Rayne will make her in-ring return when she faces Taylor Wilde. Rayne initially announced her retirement in January 2021, but will get back in the ring after having not wrestled for the promotion since November of last year.
Ahead of their clash at NWA Empower, Knockouts Champion Deonna Purrazzo will get a chance to lock up with Melina when she and “Drama King” Matthew Rehwoldt team up to face Melina and Trey Miguel. The match was made after Purrazzo attacked Melina after her Impact debut victory Thursday over Brandi Lauren, leading to Miguel to come out for the save.
Matt Cardona will take on Rohit Raju after several weeks of back and forth between the two. Cardona was able to pick up a win over Raju’s sidekick, Shera, on Thursday’s show.
Tasha Steelz, Savannah Evans, Fallah Bahh and No Way will team up to face Decay (Crazzy Steve, Rosemary, Havok and Black Taurus) in a eight-man tag match. This came to fruition after weeks of turmoil between Knockouts Tag Team Champions Havok & Rosemary and the newly formed team of Steelz and Evans. On Thursday’s Before The Impact, Steelz picked up a win over Havok.
Here’s the full card for Friday’s show on Impact Plus:
Impact World Champion Christian Cage vs. Brian Myers in a title match
X-Division Champion Josh Alexander vs. Jake Something in a title match
Impact World Tag Team Champions The Good Brothers vs. Violent By Design vs. Rich Swann and Willie Mack in a title match
Petey Williams vs. Steve Maclin
Chris Sabin vs. Sami Callihan vs. Moose vs. Ace Austin in a World title number one contender’s match
Madison Rayne vs. Taylor Wilde
Impact Knockouts Champion Deonna Purrazzo and Matthew Rehwoldt vs. Melina and Trey Miguel
Matt Cardona (w/ Chelsea Green) vs. Rohit Raju (w/ Shera)
Tasha Steelz, Savannah Evans, Fallah Bahh and No Way vs. Decay (Black Taurus, Crazzy Steve, Rosemary, Havok)
The following are spoilers and results from Impact Wrestling’s Monday doubleheader of TV tapings that included two more matches taped for Friday’s Emergence show on Impact Plus.
Impact World Champion Christian Cage came out for a celebratory promo, but was interrupted by Friday’s title challenger Brian Myers and Sam Beale. Cage also retired the TNA title during the segment.
Chris Sabin defeated Sami Callihan. Moose ran out and attacked both men after the match, but Eddie Edwards ran out for the save before Moose was able to finish the job on Callihan with a chair.
Mickie James did a segment to promote NWA Empower and called out Knockouts Champion Deonna Purrazzo to the ring. The champion attacked her which brought out Trey Miguel and Melina to run off Purrazzo and “Drama King” Matthew Rehwoldt.
Rich Swann and Willie Mack defeated Tag Team Champions Good Brothers in a non-title match. Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows put both Mack and Swann through tables after the match.
Rohit Raju and Shera defeated Matt Cardona and Chelsea Green
Jordynne Grace, Rachael Ellering and Taylor Wilde defeated Tenille Dashwood, Madison Rayne and Kaleb with a K
Moose (w/ W. Morrissey) defeated Eddie Edwards. After the match, a massive brawl broke out that included Sami Callihan, Ace Austin, Madman Fulton, Christian Cage, Brian Myers, Sam Beale, and Josh Alexander with the babyfaces standing tall at the end.
Taylor Wilde (w/ Jordynne Grace and Rachael Ellering) defeated Tenille Dashwood (w/ Madison Rayne and Kaleb with a K)
Decay defeated Fallah Bahh and No Way
Moose came out for an in-ring promo and called out Eddie Edwards. The two brawled and Edwards used a kendo stick on Moose until W. Morrissey came out. The two left Edwards laying.
X-Division Champion Josh Alexander defeated the returning Jake Crist in an open challenge. After the match, Chris Sabin came out and challenged Alexander to a title match at Victory Road (date TBA) which was accepted.
John Skyler defeated Laredo Kid
The Good Brothers came out for an in-ring promo and bragged about putting Willie Mack in the hospital. Rich Swann ran out and ran both of them off with a chair.
Trey Miguel defeated “Drama King” Matthew Rehwoldt. After the match, Deonna Purrazzo attacked Miguel but Mickie James ran out to make the save.
Steve Maclin defeated Petey Williams
Emergence results:
Impact World Champion Christian Cage defeated Brian Myers to retain the title
Decay defeated Tasha Steelz, Savannah Evans, Fallah Bahh and No Way in an eight-person tag team match
The following are spoilers and results from Impact Wrestling’s Sunday doubleheader of TV tapings that included most of this Friday’s Emergence show on Impact Plus.
Tapings continue both Monday and Tuesday in Nashville, Tennessee.
Impact TV results:
W. Morrissey and Eddie Edwards were brawling and as Morrissey was about to give Edwards a power bomb, Sami Callihan and his baseball bat made the save for his rival.
Chris Sabin and Sami Callihan defeated Ace Austin and Moose. This is a preview of the four-way no. 1 contender’s match set for Emergence this Friday.
Matt Cardona (w/ Chelsea Green) defeated Shera (w/ Rohit Raju)
Jake Something defeated Kaleb with a K in a no DQ match. X-Division Champion Josh Alexander confronted Something after the match as a preview for their title match Friday.
Chris Bey defeated David Finlay
Melina defeated Brandi Lauren. After the match, Knockouts Champion Deonna Purrazzo and “Drama King” Matthew Rehwoldt attacked Melina which led to Trey Miguel eventually running in for the save. This is a preview of the upcoming Purrazzo-Melina title match at the NWA Empower pay-per-view.
Tenille Dashwood, Madison Rayne and Kaleb with a K defeated Taylor Wilde in a handicap match. After the match, Jordynne Grace and Rachael Ellering evened up the odds as the heels were beating down Wilde.
Decay defeated Johnny Swinger and Hernandez
Joe Doering defeated Luke Gallows
Emergence results:
Steve Maclin defeated Petey Williams
Madison Rayne (w/ Tenille Dashwood and Kaleb) defeated Taylor Wilde
Tag Team Champions The Good Brothers defeated Violent by Design and Rich Swann/Willie Mack in a three-way to retain
Matt Cardona (w/ Chelsea Green) defeated Rohit Raju (w/ Shera)
X-Division Champion Josh Alexander defeated Jake Something to retain
Ace Austin won a four-way no. 1 contenders match over Sami Callihan, Moose and Chris Sabin to earn a World title shot
Knockouts Champion Deonna Purrazzo and “Drama King” Matthew Rehwoldt defeated Trey Miguel and Melina
BTI results:
Eddie Edwards defeated Deaner
Laredo Kid defeated John Skyler
Steve Maclin defeated TJP by DQ after Petey Williams hit Maclin with a chair. Maclin was going to use the chair on TJP, but Williams made the save which made TJP upset.
Impact Wrestling will set up their next World title challenger at this Friday’s Emergence special on Impact Plus with a four-way featuring former champion Sami Callihan, Chris Sabin, former X-Division Champion Ace Austin and former title challenger Moose.
The winner will face the winner of the World title match between new champion Christian Cage and Brian Myers at Emergence. Cage defeated Kenny Omega for the title at Friday’s AEW Rampage while Myers won a battle royal last Thursday to earn the shot.
Here’s the current Emergence card that will be recorded during Impact’s three-day taping run that starts today in Nashville, TN:
Impact World Champion Christian Cage vs. Brian Myers title match
Tag Team Champions The Good Brothers (Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson) vs. Violent By Design vs. Rich Swann and Willie Mack three-way title match
X-Division Champion Josh Alexander vs. Jake Something title match
No. 1 contender’s four-way: Sami Callihan vs. Moose vs. Chris Sabin vs. Ace Austin
Steve Maclin is set to collide with Petey Williams at Impact Wrestling’s Emergence on August 20th on Impact Plus.
Williams has taken issue with Maclin’s post-match assaults as of late. After going to a double countout with Trey Miguel on a recent Before The Impact, Maclin tried to beat down Miguel with a chair but Williams came to Miguel’s aid. The following week, Maclin had defeated Jah-C and looked to brutalize him with a chair, but Williams yet again made the save.
In tonight’s number one contender’s battle royal, Maclin made an example of Williams and helped Sam Beale eliminate him despite Maclin not being a participant.
Maclin is undefeated since joining Impact back in June, while Williams made a return to the company in April after a near two-year hiatus.
The rest of the Emergence card as of now:
Brian Myers vs. Kenny Omega or Christian Cage for the Impact World Championship
Tag Team Champions The Good Brothers (Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson) vs. Violent By Design vs. Rich Swann and Willie Mack three-way for the titles
X-Division Champion Josh Alexander vs. Jake Something title match
Two more title matches are now official for Impact Emergence following Thursday’s show.
One will see X-Division Champion Josh Alexander take on new no. 1 contender Jake Something. Something won a four-way Thursday that also featured former champion Rohit Raju, Trey Miguel and Daivari that saw Something get the pin after the black hole slam.
Something will be going for his first gold in Impact while Alexander will be gunning for the eighth defense of the title.
The other will see Tag Team Champions The Good Brothers take on Violent by Design and Willie Mack & Rich Swann in a three-way for the titles. VBD went to Scott D’Amore Thursday and said they wanted to confirm their rematch clause, but since they were beaten by Swann and Mack recently, he decided to make it a three-way dance instead.
Airing on Impact Plus, Emergence will be taped during the next round TV tapings in Nashville later this month.
The show will also see Kenny Omega defend the World title against the winner of next Thursday’s battle royal.
Fresh off of Homecoming this past Saturday, Impact Wrestling officially announced the date of their next special: Emergence, set for Friday, August 20th on Impact Plus.
The show has been referenced the past few weeks on TV, but this is the first time the date and how to watch has been formally announced.
That night will be a competitive one as it will be running against the SummerSlam go-home edition of WWE SmackDown, AEW Rampage from the United Center, Ring of Honor Glory By Honor night one, WWE 205 Live and New Japan Strong.
The only match set for the show at this point is Kenny Omega defending his World title against the winner of a battle royal set for next Thursday’s show.
This will be the second straight year that Impact has held this event. Last year, it was a two-night affair that stretched over two episodes of Impact’s weekly TV show.
The next title challenger to Impact World Champion Kenny Omega will be determined by a battle royal in two weeks.
During Thursday’s show, Tommy Dreamer revealed the news to Omega and Don Callis during a backstage segment, adding that Omega will defend the title at Emergence which made both Omega and Callis upset.
The date for Emergence has yet to be announced. Last year’s event was held in August over two nights on Impact’s weekly TV show.
This would mark the third defense of the title for Omega as he has wins over Moose and Sami Callihan since winning the title in April.
Omega will team with Tag Team Champions The Good Brothers on next week’s show against Sami Callihan, the returning Frankie Kazarian and a partner to be named.
