Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson have won the NJPW Strong Tag Team Turbulence tournament.
The Good Brothers defeated Violence Unlimited (Brody King & Chris Dickinson) in 10:59 in the tournament finals on this week’s Strong. Anderson pinned Dickinson after hitting a Magic Killer to claim victory.
Following their win, Anderson cut a promo and listed off a series of cities in Japan. He said The Good Brothers are number one and are coming for the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.
The Good Brothers outlasted Clark Connors and TJP in round one of the tournament, Yuji Nagata and Ren Narita in the semifinals, then defeated King and Dickinson in the finals.
Tag Team Turbulence marked the first NJPW action for Gallows and Anderson since leaving the company for WWE back in February 2016.
In addition to working for NJPW, Gallows and Anderson appear weekly on AEW Dynamite. They are also Impact Wrestling World Tag Team Champions, winning the titles at Slammiversary earlier this month.
New Japan NEVER Openweight Champion Jay White will make his in-ring debut for Impact Wrestling tonight alongside Chris Bey against Impact Tag Team Champions The Good Brothers in a non-title match.
White didn’t accept The Elite’s offer to join them and instead said they couldn’t rejoin the Bullet Club. Kenny Omega, Don Callis and the Good Brothers came out to confront him and eventually, Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows jumped White. Bey, who White had earlier offered to join the Club, ran out to make the save.
The show is main evented by Moose vs. Chris Sabin in a Slammiversary rematch that Moose requested.
The rest of the lineup includes Violent by Design (Deaner and Rhino) vs. Willie Mack and Rich Swann; FinJuice, No Way (fka No Way Jose) and Fallah Bahh vs. Ace Austin, Madman Fulton, Rohit Rajua and Shera; and the returning Taylor Wilde vs. Kaleb with a K.
The BTI pre-show will see Steve Maclin look to remain undefeated as he faces Trey Miguel.
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Steve Maclin vs Trey Miguel ended on a double countout on BTI
Maclin jumped Miguel after the match, took him out with a chair until Petey Williams came out for the save and pull-apart.
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Opening video recapped how the new alliance between Jay White and Chris Bey came about, including the altercation with the Good Brothers.
Show started with Gia Miller interviewing Scott D’Amore about a big surprise he had planned for tonight. D’Amore didn’t get to the reveal because Dreamer interrupted him and brought up that it’s been two weeks since Slammiversary, and there is no contender for Kenny Omega set yet. D’Amore passed on the responsibility to Dreamer before leaving.
Impact Tag Team Champions The Good Brothers (Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows) defeated Jay White & Chris Bey in a non-title match
Last week, when Jay White was explaining why he had come to Impact, chasing after David Finlay, he was interrupted by the Good Brothers who want to make sure they are still the leaders and that White should thank and respect them. After an altercation, Bey came out for the save after White had offered a position in the Bullet Club.
Match started with White and Bey in control over Anderson, but once Gallows tagged in, he cut off Bey with ease. The Good Brothers worked over Bey for a long time, not many tags, but a good combination of choking and tossing Bey around, working the back throughout.
Bey eventually managed to dodge Gallow’s attacks and escape to get White the tag, who came in strong, taking down both Brothers, looking like a total babyface.
Bey tagged back in and almost got taken out with the magic killer, but White made the save. Anderson and Gallows still took out White, hit a chokeslam and magic killer on Bey for the win.
Interesting that they would have White lose his first match, but it’s clear that tag team gold is not the plan for him right now.
– Kiera Hogan and Tasha Steelz cut a promo about losing their titles and rematch, but that they will get those titles back. Fallah Bahh interrupted them, and invited Steelz to go together at Homecoming as a team. This actually triggered Steelz to give Hogan some harsh comments about it being Hogan’s fault that they lost the title. Steelz agreed to tag with Bahh, but it seemed to be out of spite.
– D’lo Brown & Matt Striker ran down tonight’s card and an update on the Homecoming card for this saturday.
Taylor Wilde defeated Kaleb with a K (with Tenille Dashwood)
Taylor Wilde returned last week after being off for some time after being attacked backstage. Last week, it was made apparent that it had been Dashwood and Kaleb who took her out, and so she requested a match against Kaleb for tonight.
Match was a good babyface showcase for Wilde, who fought a bully that had size and strength over her. Kaleb had the upper hand early on, but after Wilde tricked him to run into the ropes, Wilde made a comeback.
Kaleb got a near fall with a superkick, after failing, he tried to attack Wilde with his fanny pack, but Wilde managed to dodge, send him outside, and hit a tornado DDT. She hit an ugly poisonrana and a bridging German for the win.
This should likely advance to a Wilde vs Dashwood match now.
– Chris Bey said backstage that he didn’t expect his first match in the Bullet Club to be a loss. White stopped him and told him that he wasn’t in the Bullet Club yet, and he wasn’t impressed by what happened in the ring, but he believed in redemption, and offered Bey a second shot.
– Josh Alexander cut a promo saying he will become the champion the company deserves and needs. He was asking for competition before D’Amore walked up and told him he had wanted to give time for Alexander to rest, but since he was ready, he would take on Black Taurus at Homecoming for the title.
– Miller interviewed Deonna Purrazzo if she thought her plate was too full right now between Impact, AAA, and NWA matches. Purrazzo said that she was perfectly capable of taking on everything and she had actually started training with Invicta FC’s Atomweight champion Alesha Zappitella. Purrazzo announced that she will also enter the mix tagged tournament at Homecoming. Zappitella was there to support Purrazzo.
FinJuice (Juice Robinson & David Finlay), Fallah Bahh, & No Way defeated Ace Austin, Madman Fulton, Rohit Raju, & Mahabali Shera
This match comes from Slammiversary, where FinJuice returned to Impact and beat Fulton and Shera easily. Bahh and No Way joined them in order to level the playing field against the alliance of Austin and Raju.
The babyface started strong, getting the better of Fulton and getting a lot of offense with quick tags and team moves, but when Bahh got in the ring, Raju managed to blind tag himself in and blindside Bahh to cut him off.
The heels worked on Bahh for a bit until it came down to Austin and Bahh, who was too heavy for Austin to keep him at bay, and thus Bahh made a comeback and tagged in Finlay. He ran wild until Shera cut him off, but Robinson came in with the assist to take out Shera.
At the end, with all men coming in to hit their signature moves, Bahh took on both Austin and Fulton, managing to get rid of the latter, but it was the opening for Austin to hit a dive on Bahh and the rest outside the ring.
Back in the ring, Finlay hit trash panda on Raju for the win.
– Miller tried to speak with Kenny Omega, and as usual, Don Callis answered. He said that today, he was going to allow her to talk to Omega because he was in a good mood and everything was working out for them. Omega came out, but didn’t say much since Callis was just putting him over.
Tommy Dreamer approached them and told them that in a couple of weeks, there will be a battle royale for the number one contender’s spot against Omega, to defend at Emergence. Omega and Callis were irate after the announcement.
– We got a new vignette for the Drama King. No debut date set yet.
– Backstage, FinJuice were cutting a promo on the tag team titles when Jay White and Chris Bey jumped them. White rammed Finlay with one of the gear boxes and left him laying. White told him that Finlay will never again beat him.
– Kenny Omega, Don Callis, and the Good Brothers came out to the ring. Omega corrected Callis that it’s 2021 and both real men and real women don’t quit, they get fired. Callis talked about how Omega beat Callihan and how the Good Brothers just defeated Jay White, and in return, they get no respect. Callis kept running his mouth when Sami Callihan returned to interrupt them.
Callihan said that he wasn’t done with Omega and that in two weeks, he’ll win the battle royale and get another shot at Kenny Omega. Callihan said that two weeks was too long a wait, and so Callihan got himself a 6-person match against Omega and the Good Brothers for next week.
Suddenly, Frankie Kazarian, the Elite Hunter, jumped the guardrail and along with Callihan, chased off the Elite. Backstage, Dreamer welcomed Kazarian back. Dreamer will be getting a third person for them next week. Callihan teased that such person will never agree to do it.
– We got a vignette from Su Yung, and the newly transformed into the dark realm, undead Kimber Lee.
– Brian Myers cut a promo that he found a tag team partner, he wanted Beulah McGuillicutty, but Sam Beale had failed to get her phone number. Myers instead called Franscine, she plugged her socials, but rejected him because she wasn’t anyone’s second choice. She caught him because she was smart enough to watch the show. She indeed looked fantastic.
Rich Swann & Willie Mack defeated Violent By Design (Deaner & Rhino) (with Eric Young & Joe Doering)
Both teams are wrestling to get back into title contention after losing the tag team title match at Slammiversary to the Good Brothers.
Deaner and Rhino jumped Swann and Mack to begin the match, but the brawl quickly went to Mack and Swann after VBD was tossed out the ring, followed by a corkscrew from Swann to the floor.
Swann and Mack maintained the upper hand over Deaner for some minutes, but Swann was eventually cut off by the group efforts of VBD. The heat run on Swann wasn’t long, but we had a great spot with Deaner tackling Swann mid air to stop him from tagging in Mack.
Mack got the hot tag and quickly dominated Deaner until EY tripped him behind the referee’s sight. Rhino and Deaner got a couple of near falls on Mack, but in the commotion, Swann got a blind tag and a lethal injection for a near fall himself.
Finish saw Mack hit the stunner on Rhino, setting him up for Swann to hit the 450 for the win. Good short match. Hard to say at the moment, but it would seem like Swann and Mack will be getting themselves a shot at the Good Brothers eventually.
– Over at Swinger’s Palace, Swinger wanted to know the odds for the main event tonight. Cardona and Green walked to the casino, since they were scouting the odds for the Homecoming tournament. Since there was still an open spot for the tournament, Swinger wanted Hernandez and Alisha to enter the tournament and win it for the casino. Petey Williams and Jordynne Grace also joined them for the shenanigans.
W. Morrissey walked up and told Alisha he had a message for Eddie Edwards, that after Homecoming, he’s not coming back home. Swinger’s Palace skits are usually bad, but this was at least productive.
Back from the commercial, Edwards addressed Morrissey’s threats, saying that he has a family, unlike Morrissey who has no one that cares for him. On Saturday, he will defeat him.
Tommy Dreamer walked up to Edwards and asked him to tag team with Callihan and Kazarian to take on the Elite. Edwards was reluctant about teaming with Callihan, but Dreamer told Edwards that he promises that he has his word that Callihan will stay in line, which was enough for Edwards to agree. It will be Omega, Anderson, and Gallows vs Callihan, Edwards, and Kazarian.
Moose defeated Chris Sabin
This is the rematch to their Slammiversary match, where Sabin defeated Moose via roll up. They challenged each other to a rematch last week.
The match worked both as a follow up, but also an abridged version of the Slammiversary match, with Sabin going after Moose’s leg, and Moose using his power advantage to cut him off.
Match saw Sabin start with some offense, but after the match spilled to the floor, Moose took down Sabin and slammed him against the steel steps to really hurt him.
Back in the ring, Moose got cocky and allowed Sabin to cover a bit, enough to attempt a comeback that got cut off again. Moose hit Sabin with some huge chops on Sabin.
Sabin eventually made a comeback when one of those huge chops went directly into the ring post, and so Sabin managed to bring down Moose, but he couldn’t keep him down, and Moose kept pushing for Sabin to bring it. Moose went for the revolution fly spot again, but Sabin blocked, hit a jumping tornado DDT for a big near fall.
Sabin went for cradle shock, but Moose blocked it and hit lights out for the win. Really good match, I would love to see them get more time.
After the match, Moose tried to toss Sabin out of the ring, but Sabin countered, hit a plancha on Moose, chased with a dive to the outside, and they brawled into security came out for the pull-apart.
Jon Moxley will return to AEW next week and will defend his IWGP United States title on the first night of Fyter Fest.
It was announced on tonight’s Dynamite that Moxley will defend the title against Karl Anderson. This will be Moxley’s first match since he and Eddie Kingston lost to the Young Bucks at Double or Nothing back in May.
A video aired tonight, which featured Karl Anderson talking about his return to New Japan Pro Wrestling. He noted that Kenny Omega was the first IWGP United States champion and the fact that Moxley currently holds the title makes him sick. He said that next week he would do what he and Doc Gallows do best, beat up Jon Moxley.
Moxley has been IWGP United States champion since January 4, 2020, when he defeated Lance Archer at Wrestle Kingdom 14. He has been unable to defend the title in Japan and instead has defended it on NJPW Strong. He also defended the title successfully against Yuji Nagata on the May 12 edition of Dynamite.
Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson will return to an NJPW ring for the first time since 2016.
The Good Brothers were announced as participants in NJPW Strong’s Tag Team Turbulence tournament, to be held beginning in July.
Gallows and Anderson last appeared for NJPW in February 2016. They left the promotion to join WWE in something of a talent raid, as AJ Styles, Shinsuke Nakamura, Gallows and Anderson all left NJPW for WWE in January or February of that year.
Gallows and Anderson will be part of an eight-team field. Clark Connors & TJP, Yuji Nagata & Ren Narita, Fred Yehi & Wheeler Yuta, Kevin Knight & The DKC, Jorel Nelson & Royce Isaacs, Brody King & Chris Dickinson, plus JR Kratos & Danny Limelight will comprise the rest of the tournament.
The Tag Team Turbulence tournament will kick off on the July 16 episode of Strong. All four first round matches will air on that show.
The first round matches are:
The Good Brothers vs. Clark Connors & TJP
Yuji Nagata & Ren Narita vs. Fred Yehi & Wheeler Yuta
Kevin Knight & The DKC vs. Jorel Nelson & Royce Isaacs
Brody King & Chris Dickinson vs. JR Kratos & Danny Limelight
Gallows and Anderson held the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship three times in NJPW. The Good Brothers also won the 2013 World Tag League tournament.
Three matches have been announced for next week’s Impact.
Ace Austin will defend his newly-won X-Division title against TJP, who he defeated at Sacrifice this past weekend to win the title. TJP confronted Austin and other X-Division stars backstage, saying he wouldn’t go to the back of the line and would get his rematch next week.
Deonna Purrazzo will take on Jazz in a non-title match. Jazz won the twelve woman tag team match that took place on tonight’s show. She, Jordynne Grace, Alisha Edwards, Havoc, Nevaeh, and ODB defeated Purrazzo, Fire ‘n Flava (Kiera Hogan and Tasha Steelz), Susan, Kimber Lee, and Tenille Dashwood. Jazz won the match after submitting Lee with an STF.
Karl Anderson will take on Eddie Edwards in a singles match. Anderson, along with Doc Gallows, recently lost the Impact World Tag Team titles to David Finlay and Juice Robinson at Sacrifice, while Edwards defeated Brian Myers in a ‘hold harmless’ match.
Tonight’s Impact Wrestling on AXS will feature the contract signing for the Good Brothers vs. FinJuice Tag Team title match on this Sunday’s Sacrifice special on Impact Plus.
In the preview video, the signing goes from laughs to clenched fists rather quickly. The two teams united last week in a win over XXXL and Reno Scum with a tag title match seemingly in the cards ever since David Finlay and Juice Robinson debuted.
Also on Tuesday’s show, former X-Division champions Ace Austin and Chris Bey will go one-on-one after current champion TJP tricked the two into a match as they were confronting him on last week’s show, and Rohit Raju will team with Shera to take on Beer Guns (Chris Sabin and James Storm).
On the BTI pre-show, the aforementioned TJP will battle Madman Fulton in a non-title match.
Our live coverage begins at 8 PM Eastern.
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TJP defeated Madman Fulton (with Ace Austin) in the BTI match.
TJP won with the Mamba Splash. Austin and Fulton attacked him after the match.
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Opening video recapped last week’s match where the Good Brothers and FinJuice teamed up to defeat XXXL and Reno Scum, that eventually led to dissension and the challenge made for a tag team title match at Sacrifice. Also featured, was the main event where Purrazzo defeated Grace and Hogan, only to be attacked by ODB.
Jazz (with Jordynne Grace) defeated Tasha Steelz (with Kiera Hogan)
The team of Jazz and Jordynne Grace will be challenging for the Knockouts tag team titles at Sacrifice. Last week, Hogan and Grace clashed in the 3-way that also included Deonn Purrazzo, this time around, it’s time for Jazz and Steelz.
Steelz started the match cocky, making fun of Jazz, so Jazz got in some offense in order to teach her a lesson. Steelz finally took Jazz seriously and cut her off. They went back and forward for a couple of minutes.
Jazz got a couple of near falls before locking in an STF for the submission win. This was really good once they started going back and forward.
– Gia Miller interviewed ODB about challenging for the Knockouts title at Sacrifice. ODB said she’d be a 5-time Knocked Up Champion soon. Susan confronted ODB and challenged her to a match. ODB was fantastic.
– D’lo Brown & Matt Striker ran down tonight’s card. D’Amore is set to make an announcement about the Swann vs Moose match at Sacrifice.
– Backstage, Trey Miguel saw Sam, one of his trainees, the one that was approached by Sami Callihan last week. Sam said that Callihan told him that if he showed up at Impact and challenged Miguel, he’d wimp out. Sam pushed Miguel’s buttons into accepting the match.
– We got a video package for Swann vs Moose, similar to last week’s, with Moose talking about going for Swann so he’ll be taken seriously, while Swann wanting to beat Moose, who is stronger and faster, but doesn’t want it as much as he does.
Beer Guns (James Storm & Chris Sabin) defeated Desi Hit Squad (Rohit Raju & Mahabali Shera)
These two teams have had a slight feud going for some weeks after Storm’s beer got spilled by Raju. Storm defeated Raju in last week’s episode of BTI, but ended with problems between Storm and Shera.
Story of the match was that Storm and Shera wanted each other, so even when Sabin and Storm had control over Raju, Storm threw it away to get Shera in. Storm was able to get the upper hand on Shera, but when he tagged in Sabin for the double team, Shera regained control and cut off Sabin.
Eventually, Storm got the hot tag and ran wild over Raju. After a couple of minutes, Raju managed to bring down Storm and get ready for the kill, but Shera, who was still hot, jumped in and interrupted Raju to attack Storm. Raju and Shera exchanged words, allowing Sabin and Storm to recover with Sabin hitting Cradle Shock for the win on Raju.
– Backstage, XXXL and Reno Scum discussed who lost last week’s match. Decay interrupted them. XXXL walked away because they didn’t want to deal with Rosemary, but Reno Scum was all in for a match with Decay at Sacrifice.
– Deaner was finally let out of his week-long punishment. James Storm and Chris Sabin approached them and called out EY for the things they were doing to Deaner. Violent By Design attacked Beer Guns and left them laying.
– Brian Myers confronted D’Amore and tried to get Eddie Edwards terminated if he wanted to avoid a lawsuit. D’Amore said that he and Edwards can settle things at Sacrifice in a No Rules match.
– Prior to the match, Sami Callihan came out to cut a promo and call Miguel a quitter, saying the only good thing Miguel has ever done is train Callihan’s new protege.
Trey Miguel defeated Sam Beale
Last week, we saw Callihan go to Trey Miguel’s gym, attack the trainers and trainees there, cause some mayhem, and try to recruit one of Miguel’s guys, Sam Beale
Match lasted one minute when Miguel locked in Beale in a submission and tapped him out.
After the match, Callihan dropped Beale with a package piledriver and used his magic hacking skills to disappear.
– Sabin and Storm cut a promo to EY, asking whatever happened to him. They’ve known EY for 20 years and don’t know where he went wrong. Storm said that at Sacrifice, they’re coming for Violent By Design. Jake Something walked up to them and offered his help to neutralize EY while Beer Guns worked the match.
– We got our weekly AEW commercial with Tony Khan and Tony Schiavone. They said they had a big buyrate at Revolution, they talked about some of the results from Revolution, and even referenced that Omega is terrible at building exploding rings and Eddie Kingston’s actions at the end of the pay per view.
– Good Brothers and FinJuice sat down with D’Amore for the contract signing. D’Amore couldn’t get them to sign because they were challenging each other to drink some shots. D’Amore eventually left and told them to sign the contract and get it back to him. They just kept drinking shot after shot after shot before finally signing the contract. Last shot ended all over the Good Brother’s face before they started brawling all over D’Amore’s conference room.
Chris Bey defeated Ace Austin (with Madman Fulton)
Ace Austin and Chris Bey were both in the #1 contendership 3-way match along with Black Taurus, the match that was won by Austin after Fulton helped him take out Bey. Chris Bey wants revenge on Austin, and after being tricked by TJP, this match came about.
The match was fantastic. It started with a good series of reversals and chain wrestling.
The match then turned into a more aerial match, with Austin gaining control of the match after a couple of kicks and dives on Bey.
Bey made a comeback and the match proceeded with both men going back and forward, some amazing sequences of counters and dodges. At one point, both men fought on top of the turnbuckles, ending with both men spilling to the floor after Austin failed to hit a double underhook superplex.
There were a couple of great near falls, a big one when Austin blocked the art of finesse, only to get hit with the Verta-bey-ker for a near fall.
At the end, Austin was hurt and had to hide behind Fulton and allowed Austin to attack Bey. TJP came out and made sure to lure Fulton to the back, but with the distraction, Bey recovered and hit the art of finesse for the win. Great match.
At this point, Bey may get added to Austin vs TJP.
– Over at Swinger’s Paradise, Josh Alexander confronted TJP for not taking Austin seriously. Cocky TJP said that he beat Alexander, and so he’ll beat Austin too. Alexander told him he’ll be coming after him if he retains.
– Rohit Raju confronted Shera for costing him his second match. Shera attacked Raju and told him he didn’t owe him anything.
ODB defeated Susie
Purrazzo, Kimber Lee, and Susan have been feuding with Jordynne Grace, Jazz, and ODB for some weeks. ODB pinned Susan when both teams met in a 6-woman tag match, and so Susan wanted to get some revenge on ODB.
Match was a squash, ODB beat on Susan from bell to bell, hitting all her signature moves. Susan’s only hope spot came after poking ODB’s eyes, but the advantage didn’t last long. Match ended when Susan threw out all of ODB’s alcohol, ODB got angry, and finished off Susan for the win.
After the match, Purrazzo and Lee came out and attacked ODB until Grace and Jazz made the save. Hogan and Steelz joined the brawl and attacked Grace and Jazz, who they’ll be wrestling at Sacrifice. Heels dominated the ring afterwards. This was good for what it was.
Brown and Striker ran down the Sacrifice card, including the newly added matches of Edwards vs Myers, VBD vs Beer Guns, Decay vs Reno Scum, and Dashwood and Kaleb vs Havok and Nevaeh.
– It was time for D’Amore’s announcement. Moose came out to the ring to hear the announcement and called out D’Amore, who came out and brought out Rich Swann to give the announcement to both men.
D’Amore announced that the main event of Sacrifice will be a title vs title world title unification match. D’Amore also added that whoever wins as the World champion, will be defending at Rebellion against Kenny Omega, in an Impact Championship vs AEW Championship, winner takes all match.
Afterwards, we saw Don Callis talk with Omega, telling him that things are going according to plan.
Birdhouse sent Matt Jackson some skateboard decks and skate socks.
The Elite —
Brandon Cutler still had an erection a week after being dosed with a male enhancement pill by Luke Gallows. Cutler went to Gallows and Karl Anderson for help with his problem. They agreed to help.
Footage was shown from last week’s Dynamite, including backstage video of Shaq and Paul Wight.
Matt was shown explaining to one of his kids with action figures how he and Nick were going to jump off the stage on last week’s show.
Dark Order —
Dark Order were commiserating after losing last night. Hangman Page joined them. The group were bragging about all the gifts they bought for Page after his win over Matt Hardy, but it turned out that they bought them with Page’s credit card.
The group was upset that Anna Jay is out injured. They said that no woman could ever replace her. Just then, Maki Itoh walked in and the group started celebrating.
Miscellaneous bits —
Vicious Vixens came up with a scheme to steal money from people.
Matt and Nick signed some posters before Revolution last night.
A highlights video from Revolution was shown.
Private Party went to Matt Hardy’s hotel room after his loss to Page. They tried to give him a pep talk. Hardy was in a trance-like state eating grapes
Matt Jackson was hanging out with his kids. One of the children brought to his attention that Paul Wight had signed with AEW. This gave Matt flashbacks to being given a chokeslam through a table by Big Show “back when you were a jobber,” as the child said. Matt fled his home.
The Elite —
Kenny Omega opened a pack of 1991 WCW trading cards and was gifted a pair of custom Nike shoes.
Gallows and Anderson were in the hospital waiting room, waiting for Papa Buck after his attack at the hands of Chris Jericho and Sammy Guevara on Dynamite. Brandon Cutler was with them and had fallen asleep. Gallows revealed that he had given Papa Buck two Viagra pills. He then slipped one to Cutler while he was asleep. The punchline here was that Cutler has a small penis.
Dark Order —
John Silver and Alex Reynolds were backstage looking for Sting. They ran into Eddie Kingston. Kingston cut promos on Silver and Reynolds.
The second episode of Dark Order Kai saw Dark Order swear out revenge on Santana, Ortiz, Guevara and Dasha.
Alan Angels was recovering in a cold tub. The rest of the group made fun of his genitals.
Miscellaneous bits —
Matt Hardy met with TH2 and Isiah Kassidy to discuss taking out The Dark Order in their ten-man tag on this week’s Dynamite.
Vickie and Nyla recruited a satanic priest to their group.
The Good Brothers and The Young Bucks discussed why the Brothers were so late in saving the Bucks from an Inner Circle attack on Dynamite last week. Gallows and Anderson revealed that they were late with the save because they had stopped to masturbate beforehand.
The Elite —
The Bucks brought their parents with them to Dynamite. We saw footage of Mama Buck and Papa Buck getting a tour.
Kenny Omega beat two arcade owners at Street Fighter II.
The Bunny tried to poison Brandon Cutler’s coffee, but her plan went awry when The Blade whisked Cutler away before he drank it.
The Bucks thanked Cutler for trying to save them last week and promised him a match with “Jack Swagger” on Dynamite. After Cutler left, The Bucks said that Cutler hadn’t earned the match and this was nepotism in action.
Cutler fell asleep in an airport again.
Dark Order —
The group celebrated their successful save of Hangman Page on Dynamite. Page entered and agreed to be their friend, but stopped short of saying he would join Dark Order. There was a lot of the usual Dark Order comedy here.
BTE Championship —
Sammy Guevara cut a promo and said that he’ll be defending the former BTE title against his mom on his vlog tomorrow.
Miscellaneous bits —
Matt Hardy presented Isiah Kassidy with a gold chain and they bragged about their masterful plan to work the internet into thinking Hardy had heat with Private Party. Hardy tried to enlist referee Mike Posey, then he and Kassidy went off to find TH2.
Hardy paid off TH2 for their attack on Hangman Page last week. TH2 said they wanted double the fee if Hardy wanted to use their services in the future.
The Bucks, Brandon Cutler, SCU and Rick Knox were stuck in an Atlanta airport on a travel delay. They spotted someone wearing an expensive pair of Nike Dior shoes.
The Elite —
Cutler fell asleep in the airport and the group made fun of him.
Dark Order —
John Silver and Alex Reynolds were looking for Sting to recruit to Dark Order. They found Luther and Serpentico instead. Silver thought Luther and Serpentico were Sting and Darby Allin. Luther thought Sting was in U2 and sang “Roseanne.”
Dasha, Santana, Ortiz and Sammy Guevara confronted Alex Abrahantes, 5, 10 and Anna Jay backstage. They did a kung fu movie parody fight. After a pep talk from Vickie Guerrero, Dasha, Santana, Ortiz and Guevara won the battle. Dark Order vowed that this wasn’t over.
Dark Order met in their lair. They were wondering why Hangman chose to align with Matt Hardy instead of them. They decided that it must be because of their small genitals. Anna Jay spoke up and said that they were better off without Hangman.
BTE Championship —
Guevara announced that he will be defending the BTE Championship on his vlog tomorrow in a handstand competition.
Miscellaneous bits —
A dramatic Matt Hardy and Private Party video package was shown, including footage from Quen and Kassidy’s loss at Saturday’s Impact Wrestling show. Kassidy and Quen left voicemails for Matt, as he is not speaking to them after the loss.
Cutler spotted Allie and Penelope Ford playing Animal Crossing backstage. He played nice, then insulted them as he walked away. They heard the insult.
Vicious Vixens held an audition. An audition for what? I’m not sure. Various AEW talent danced for them.
Ahead of this Saturday’s No Surrender, the tag team titles will be on the line on tonight’s edition of Impact Wrestling.
The Good Brothers will defend the belts against Chris Sabin and James Storm with Private Party awaiting the winner this Saturday on Impact Plus. Sabin and Storm made the challenge last week to Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson which got accepted for tonight.
Tonight’s show will also feature the contract signing for Impact World Champion Rich Swann vs. Tommy Dreamer ahead of their match Saturday.
Also in action Tuesday: Trey Miguel, Josh Alexander, Willie Mack & Suicide vs. Chris Bey, Ace Austin, Blake Christian & Daivari ahead of the first-ever triple threat revolver match Saturday; the returning ODB vs. Kimber Lee; Kiera Hogan vs. Nevaeh; and Cousin Jake giving an answer to Eric Young’s invitation to join his Violent By Design group.
Our coverage kicks off at 8 PM Eastern.
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Opening video recapped the ongoing feuds between VBD and Cousin Jake, Sami Callihan and Trey Miguel, and last week’s main event where Moose and Chris Bey defeated Tommy Dreamer and Rich Swann.
Josh Alexander, Suicide, Willie Mack, & Trey Miguel defeated Shawn Daivari, Chris Bey, Blake Christian, & Ace Austin (with Madman Fulton)
This match is a preview of No Surrender’s triple threat revolver match, where these eight men will be participating.
Match saw Josh Alexander and company dominate early on, pairing up, one-by-one with someone from the other team. It wasn’t until it came down to Daivari and Mack, that the former cut off Mack and the heel team got control of the ring. Mack was an interesting choice for babyface in peril, having Suicide there.
Trey Miguel got the hot tag against Christian for a great fast paced sequence. Every man started to take turns on doing spots, leading to Alexander locking in an ankle lock on Austin, with Christian breaking it up with a springboard 450, but causing dissension in the team after Austin accused him of going for his leg. After a couple of spots from Suicide, taking out Bey and Austin, it came down to Miguel and Christian again, with the latter getting a good near fall, but Miguel recovered and locked in what Striker called an hour glass submission for the win.
After the match, Callihan interrupted with a video on the screen. Callihan said that he looks great when everything goes his way, but it’s just a matter of time before he fails again and flakes on the company again.
Trey Miguel has the momentum to win the revolver match, but the Callihan factor is likely to cost him the match on Saturday.
– We got a video of present and past wrestlers wishing the best for Dreamer on his 50th birthday. Weird to see this here, but it was a nice video.
– D’lo Brown and Matt Striker ran down tonight’s card.
Kimber Lee (with Deonna Purrazzo & Susan) defeated ODB
ODB returned last week to aid Jazz and Jordynne Grace as they were being ganged up by Purrazzo and company. ODB said that she’d be sticking around for a while.
ODB dominated from the get go with a chop exchange. Lee did at one point cut off ODB’s momentum, but she was never in full control, ODB kept blocking and getting shots in on Lee. It was a matter of minutes that ODB made a full comeback, hit the bronco buster, the dirty 12, and a chest press for a near fall.
Finish saw Purrazzo and Susan interfere, and so Jazz and Grace ran down for the save, but throughout the distraction, Kimber Lee recovered, played possum, and got ODB with a small package for the win.
ODB looked good, this wasn’t a match that would have exposed her, Lee is quite good at working any level of pace, and thus made ODB look good. This seems to be headed to a 6-woman match.
– Over at Swinger’s Paradise, Fallah Bahh is trying to play blackjack by betting a cookie. Finally, it was revealed that Swinger had Hernandez’ money roll, right before Bahh got kicked out and Swinger did some comedy with Alisha Edwards. This was bad as usual.
– Backstage, Susan complained to Purrazzo and Lee about the chaos out there. Purrazzo and Lee were happy for the win, telling Susan to not worry about them, but Susan was angry and wanted to talk to the manager, she said he’d go ask D’Amore for a 6-Knockouts match for No Surrender. Purrazzo expressed that she was getting tired of Susan.
– Cousin Jake came out to the ring to address Eric Young’s invitation to join Violent By Design. Jake said when he got here, he thought he had it all right, but now everything had been turned around on him and he had to make a choice.
EY, Joe Doering, and Cody Deaner walked out to join Jake in the ring. EY told Jake that he had time to think and that it seemed he was finally understanding what was going on here.
Jake teased joining by getting rid of his vest, but then threw EY’s invitation, said he’d stand for something, he stood for Jake Something, and attacked Deaner.
VBD teased Pillmanizing Something’s neck again, but Deaner stopped him because he wanted a match with him first. Deaner vs Something at No Surrender! Good angle, Jake Something, even in defeat, looked like a great babyface.
– Rohit Raju and Mahabali Shera cut a promo. Raju said that TJP couldn’t beat him and had to rely on his monster, Manik, and thus Raju had done the same, and called upon his own monster, Shera.
– We got our weekly AEW commercial with Khan and Schiavone. They talked about KENTA’s debut attacking Jon Moxley. Khan talked about himself being the forbidden door and thanked IMPACT because it was them that made him realize he has the power to do whatever he wants if he opened his mind to it. Khan thanked Callis and Omega for opening his mind, and teased coming back to Nashville.
– Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows cut a promo backstage on Chris Sabin and James Storm, their challengers for tonight’s main event. They put them over as great wrestlers, but they were not as good as them. AMW, Beer Money, and the MCMGs had been great teams until the Good Brothers showed up. Good promos.
Ever since Fire n Flava won the titles, Havok and Nevaeh have been following and looking to get a rematch for the titles. Last week, Havok defeated Steelz, and now Neveah tries to make it 2 wins for the team.
Match was a similar formula as last week, with Neveah having some power advantage and control until the smaller Hogan cut her off with the aid of Steelz from the outside. Neveaeh quickly made a comeback, with quite an ugly looking slam, Hogan seemed like she landed on her side. She seemed ok.
Last couple of minutes, they traded some near falls, but to change things for once, the referee got distracted with Havok, giving Steelz the opening to attack Neveah, except the referee was able to see Steelz on his peripheral vision, and so he DQ’d her.
With two singles wins over the champions, we’re either headed for the non-title tag match at No Surrender, or straight into the championship bout.
– We got more videos for Tommy Dreamer’s 50th birthday, but now from the wrestlers from AEW, including a great one from MJF and Jericho. Actually, most of them were about how old he was and some were surprised he had made it to 50.
– Hogan and Steelz complained to D’Amore about referee Tolle. Since they brought up that both of them lost, they’ll be defending the titles at No Surrender, but to make it fair, Tolle won’t be the referee during the match, and even if he was, it won’t matter, because it will be a No DQs match.
– XXXL, Tenille Dashwood, and Kaleb with a K came out to the ring to call out Decay about their match at No Surrender. Larry D and Romero explained that they wouldn’t hit a woman and so Dashwood was out to join them.
Dashwood cut a great promo talking trash to Decay and that there is no way “Tooth Decay” will find a third member. Kaleb then challenged anyone in Decay for a match tonight.
Out came Rosemary and Crazzy Steve. Rosemary said they did indeed find a third member for the team, and so she introduced Black Taurus!
Black Taurus defeated Kaleb with a K
This was a hell of a squash, Taurus just ran over Kaleb like a freight train. Kaleb tried to cheat, to run, to counter, but Taurus just destroyed him in about 2 minutes with a spinning slam. Black Taurus is the perfect fit for Decay, I love the addition!
It’ll be Rosemary, Crazzy Steve, and Black Taurus vs XXXL & Tenille Dahwood at No Surrender.
– Backstage, Brian Myers paid off Hernandez for last week’s bounty. Hernandez wanted more money since his singles match at No Surrender was now a tag team. After Myers walked away, we saw Fallah Bahh eye Hernandez and his newly earned money.
Impact Tag Team Champions The Good Brothers (Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows) defeated Chris Sabin & James Storm via DQ to retain the titles.
After Alex Shelley wasn’t able to make it to Hard To Kill, Chris Sabin recluted the help of his former rival, now friend, James Storm. They made their intentions clear, that they wanted to chase the tag titles, that the MCMGs hadn’t directly lost. The Good Brothers are scheduled to defend the titles against AEW’s Private Party at No Surrender, who were not happy that Sabin and Storm sneaked in a title shot before their shot, and have threatened to get involved tonight.
Match was your quintessential tag match, with the babyface having some opening momentum early on. They managed to cut off Anderson for a couple of minutes before Anderson had to rely on an eye rake on Sabin to finally change the momentum and cut the ring in half on Sabin.
As Sabin was in peril, Matt Hardy and Private Party walked out to watch the match from the ramp. The distraction ended up aiding Sabin, as he got away from Gallow’s hands and tag in Storm. After he ran wild for a bit, Storm and Sabin went for a pin, but Private Party ran in, nonchalantly in front of the referee and broke up the pin, with the intention of getting Sabin and Storm DQ’d.
– Backstage, Hardy congratulated Private Party for showing who they are and not letting anyone step before them in line. Hardy hyped them for No Surrender. Scott D’Amore confronted them and told them they crossed the line, and because he now needs to make sure that Sabin and Storm don’t interfere on Saturday, he’s adding them to the match to make it a 3-way tag team dance for the Impact tag titles. Matt Hardy was furious about the decision.
– Brown and Striker ran down the card for No Surrender. Including the 5 newly matches signed throughout this show.
– It was now time for the contract singing for the Dreamer vs Swann title match at No Surrender. Scott D’Amore officiated the process. Swann thanked quietly. Dreamer thanked Swann before signing because he was given the opportunity, even if he is the last man to deserve it in the locker room, he said he truly appreciated this because title matches didn’t come often in his career. He put over Swann, but told him that he has a bad leg and he will go after it and will not hold back.
Before Dreamer could sign, Moose interrupted the contract signing, looking like a total badass. Moose said that the fact that the match was taking place had pissed him off because he had been promised a title shot. D’Amore threatened to suspend Moose if he interfered, but Moose explained that he doesn’t care who wins, he’ll beat whoever wins.
Finally, Dreamer got tired of being ignored and cut saying that he’ll keep fighting for the industry and the locker room and being the champion will give him more power to do so, and that was the motivation to win the title. He signed the contract and shaked Swann’s hand. Moose just kinda walked away, but eyed Swann with a malicious smile on him.
Almost three solid minutes of The Good Brothers, naked, talking about unspeakable things they want to do to The Young Bucks and Anderson’s grandmother.
The Elite —
The Bucks were shown taking reference photos for the upcoming AEW video game.
Footage was shown from the tag team battle royale on last week’s Dynamite.
The Bucks and The Good Brothers talked about “The Forbidden Door” being open, but only for a one or two week program with KENTA and Jon Moxley. Matt and Nick were upset that Gallows and Anderson cost Nick the battle royale.
Dark Order —
The group was making Valentine’s Day cards for their crushes. 5 was going to tell the group that Hangman showed up for their slumber party last week, but he was shouted down before he could reveal the truth.
Evil Uno, Stu Grayson, John Silver, Alex Reynolds, 10 and Colt Cabana all gave their Valentine’s cards to Wardlow. 5 wanted to give his to Hangman. He approached Page, but Page said Dark Order is fine without him and walked off. 5 tucked his card inside Page’s jacket in his locker. Matt Hardy intercepted the card and tore it up before Hangman could read it.
Anna Jay gave Grayson a Valentine’s card that read “f*** off.”
BTE Championship —
Fuego Del Sol, Preston Vance and Brandon Cutler tied in a trivia contest to determine the next number one contender. A handstand competition will decide the next contender to Sammy Guevara’s title.
Miscellaneous bits —
Matt Hardy left a voicemail for Hangman and explained that he didn’t intend to steal the pin in their tag match last week. Private Party walked in on Hardy and acted jealous that he was talking to Page. Hardy said that they were going to Impact tomorrow to make sure that The Good Brothers retain the Impact Tag titles.
Kris Statlander wrote a Valentine’s Day song for Orange Cassidy and asked Brandon Cutler to film her singing it for him. Statlander sat next to Orange and sang the song, but got embarrassed and ran off. Cutler revealed that Cassidy was asleep the whole time.
The Good Brothers and The Young Bucks had more green screen fun. Gallows and Anderson made a lot of references to their genitals. Nick took a shot at EVIL and modern Bullet Club, saying it sucks and this isn’t a storyline, they’re not working with NJPW.
They also showed a spot that had to be edited out of Dynamite where Gallows and Anderson passed an imaginary joint around.
Dark Order —
Anna Jay shoved Stu Grayson over a railing and he took a crazy bump. Tay Conti asked Anna if she liked Stu. Anna played it off.
Stu built a blanket fort and the group had their slumber party. They talked about their crushes. Ten said Wardlow is his. Colt Cabana told a ghost story about his investments.
Anna left the fort and saw Hangman Page contemplating joining the party. She told Page that he broke Dark Order’s hearts and he needs to get out of there and let them heal and move on as a family.
BTE Championship —
Sammy Guevara beat John Silver in a field goal competition to win the title.
Miscellaneous bits —
Luchasaurus and Brandon Cutler called a truce and Luchasaurus took Cutler on an expedition to learn about the history of dinosaurs.
Matt Hardy encouraged Private Party to mess with Gallows and Anderson by ringing a bell. The bell turned Gallows into Phestus “with a Ph in case Vince still owns the name.”
Nyla Rose was on the phone with someone and said that donations have been going well, but she might actually have too much money now.
Gallows and Anderson met with The Young Bucks and discussed how they took out Penta El Zero Miedo on Dynamite. Matt and Nick thought that maybe The Good Brothers went too far in attacking Penta. Gallows and Anderson warned them not to get soft on them.
The Elite —
As he was driving The Bucks to Daily’s Place, Brandon Cutler hit Christopher Daniels’ rental car.
The Bucks confronted Private Party after their heel turn on Dynamite. Matt Hardy entered and said Private Party listen to him and they’re not egotistical like Matt and Nick. After Matt and Nick left, Hardy told Quen and Kassidy that The Bucks aren’t their friends and they need to stick it to them if they get the chance.
Dark Order —
John Silver called Alex Abrahantes and asked if he could delegate his Dark Order recruiting to him. Abrahantes mixed some Kool-Aid and said “This sounds like a job for The Kool-Aid Man.”
Santana, Ortiz, Sammy Guevara and Dasha Gonzalez were walking backstage and saw a bunch of people drinking Kool-Aid, including Tony Schiavone. Santana swore that they would put an end to Abrahantes’ recruiting next week.
Dark Order argued over whose fault it was that Hangman Page didn’t join the group last week. To create harmony, they decided to have a slumber party.
BTE Championship —
Sammy Guevara won a pull-up bar competition to become number one contender to the BTE title.
Footage was shown from Dynamite of The Good Brothers teaming with Kenny Omega. The Young Bucks had been waiting to enter for the match and to team with Omega, but Gallows and Anderson took their spot.
The Bucks confronted Omega, Gallows and Anderson after the match. Omega swore that there had been a misunderstanding on the part of Don Callis and that the trio had not planned to leave The Bucks out.
After Omega, Gallows and Anderson left, Matt and Nick agreed that they had just been lied to.
The Elite —
The Bucks met with Matt Hardy. They told Hardy that he gave them a bad key to their new EVP suite. Hardy said that if they had read their contract, they would have seen that Hardy is the only one with a key to the suite and that they owe him money. Hardy collected all their cash and said that they owe him that amount every week.
Dark Order —
Stu Grayson was on the phone, ordering a chocolate horse in anticipation of Hangman Page joining the group in two days on Dynamite. Alex Reynolds ordered real mermaids. Colt Cabana agreed to bring plastic utensils and Pepsi. 10 said he would bring the coke. Page entered but was quickly sent away so as not to ruin the surprise for Dynamite.
BTE Championship —
John Silver beat Alex Reynolds in beer pong to retain the BTE Championship.
Miscellaneous bits —
The Bunny and Brandon Cutler exchanged fake pleasantries backstage.
Matt Hardy and Private Party had a confrontation backstage. Hardy was upset that Quen had called him a money-grabbing carny. Hardy said that Private Party need to win their match on Dark this week by any means necessary.
Kris Statlander abducted Brian Pillman Jr. and made him read a demeaning message.
Peter Avalon and Leva Bates made awkward small talk backstage.
Luchasaurus and Cutler hyped up their match for tomorrow on Dark.
Bates told Kip Sabian that she let him win when they played video games. Sabian challenged her to another game.
