A stipulation match is the latest addition to the card for Impact Wrestling’s Against All Odds special.
It was announced today that Sami Callihan, Jake Crist & Madman Fulton will take on The Design (Deaner, Kon & Angels) in an Ohio Street Fight at Against All Odds. The show is taking place in Columbus, Ohio this Friday.
The six-man tag bout is a reunion for Callihan’s oVe (Ohio Versus Everything) stable. Fulton hasn’t wrestled for Impact in more than a year.
Impact Wrestling wrote about the grudge match:
Last week on IMPACT!, the ongoing war between Sami Callihan and The Design raged on following oVe’s victory over Decay. Once the match had ended, Sami Callihan and Jake Crist were jumped by Deaner, Kon and Angels. Rich Swann eventually evened the odds but Callihan was disappointed that it took him so long to arrive. At Against All Odds, Swann will be preoccupied as he competes in the 1st-ever 8-4-1 match. This means that Callihan and Crist must find a new tag team partner to battle The Design in an Ohio Street Fight – ‘the monster,’ Madman Fulton! That’s right, Callihan and Crist will reunite with another former member of oVe and there will be no disqualifications, no count-outs and anything goes!
Against All Odds will stream live on Impact Plus, Impact’s Ultimate Insiders YouTube service, and Fite TV. Here’s the updated card for the show:
Impact Against All Odds (Friday, June 9) —
Impact World Champion Steve Maclin defends against Alex Shelley
8-4-1 match for Impact World title shot: Nick Aldis, Bully Ray, Jonathan Gresham, Heath, Moose, “Speedball” Mike Bailey, Rich Swann, and PCO
X-Division Champion Trey Miguel defends against Chris Sabin
Dog collar match: Masha Slamovich vs. Killer Kelly
Impact Tag Team Champions Chris Bey & Ace Austin defend against The Good Hands (John Skyler & Jason Hotch)
Deonna Purrazzo & Trinity vs. Gisele Shaw & Savannah Evans
Eddie Edwards vs. Frankie Kazarian
Digital Media Champion Joe Hendry defends against Dirty Dango
Ohio Street Fight: oVe (Sami Callihan, Jake Crist & Madman Fulton) vs. The Design (Deaner, Kon & Angels)
Impact Wrestling returns from the Sam’s Town Hall and Casino from Las Vegas, Nevada, for tonight’s episode, on the road to Bound For Glory. Opening video took focus on the ongoing story with Eddie Edwards and Ace Austin, The North’s beatdown of Konnan, and the events that led to Brian Cage getting arrested last week.
Twitch stream was hosted by Melissa Santos as usual, she ran down the show and hyped up Bound For Glory, as well as talking about the press conference yesterday.
Ace Austin defeated Eddie Edwards to qualify to the Bound For Glory X-Division title ladder match
Ace Austin made out with some groupies during his entrance. Ace got some more kisses while he had the upper hand during the outside brawls.
Match started with both men going for a strike exchange, which quickly led to Eddie tossing Ace to the outside, hitting a dive, and following him around the ring delivering chops. Eddie crotched Ace on the post, but when he tried to get the match back in the ring, Ace caught him with a kick to get some space.
Eddie went back to the offense and continued to chop Ace in and outside the ring, where Ace managed to snatch a cup with ice and smash it in Eddie’s face, slowing him down.
Back in the ring, it was now Ace that had control, delivering constant kicks to Eddie. Ace’s momentum didn’t last long when Eddie came back with Kobashi-like chops on the corner. Ace caught Eddie with a kick and uppercut in the corner, but Eddie slipped out and dropped him on the turnbuckle. Eddie followed with a super backplex.
Suddenly, out came Reno Scum to the ring, which distracted Eddie enough for Ace to sneak up a two count. Eddie hit a blue thunder bomb for a two count. Ace caught Eddie with a spinning kick for a two count. Eddie finally hit the Boston Knee Party, but Reno Scum pulled the referee to break the count.
Eddie dove on Reno Scum to take them out, but given the chaos, Eddie now went for his kendo stick. Eddie took out both Reno Scum, but lost the stick in the action. Ace hit The Fold, but Eddie kicked out. Thornstowe gave Eddie a piece of metal, which he placed in his armband, hit a hidden blade style strike to Eddie, and pinned him for the win. Good opener, but I’m surprised the finish is not leading to a one-on-one match between these two at Bound For Glory.
After the match, Reno Scum hit a Super Curb Stomp on Eddie, while Ace mocked him. I really wouldn’t mind if these three become a proper stable going forward.
Backstage, Taya is preparing for her match with Havok, when Rosemary walks up to her. Taya pretends she wasn’t looking for her, and tells her that ‘they’ have a problem because she has to fight Havok tonight. Rosemary tells her that life is not fair and she gets to watch. I love their relationship.
The Desi Hit Squad (Mahabali Shera, Rohit Raju & Raj Singh) w/ Gama Singh defeated The Rascalz (Dezmond Xavier, Zachary Wentz & Trey Miguel)
Desi Hit Squad jumped The Rascalz to start the match, eliminated Dezmond and Wentz in order to cut off Trey and focus on him. Miguel tried to fight them off and make a comeback against Rohit, but after dodgin a couple of moves, Raju swept the leg and tagged in Raj.
Raj continued the work over Trey, hitting a deadlift suplex for a two count. Raj and Rohit continued with quick tags and quick pin attempts, a couple of tag moves here and there.
Eventually, Trey managed to take down both Rohit and Raj and tag in Wentz for the hot tag. Wentz and Dezmond both came in and took out Raj with a kick combo, made sure that Shera wouldn’t come in, but when they both went for a dive on all Desi Hit Squad, Shera caught them both with Chokeslams. Trey followed and took out Shera.
Back in the ring, Trey took out Raj. All three Rascalz superkicked Shera, but he wouldn’t go do. Shera took Trey and Xavier down, hit a powerslam on Zachary, and dragged Raj on top of Wentz for the pin. Pretty good match, they’re going strong with Shera again.
It was officially announced that Dr. Wagner’s partners versus The Rascalz are going to be Aerostar and Taurus.
Backstage, Jordynne Grace is working out when Katie Forbes arrives and tells her to park her car. Grace tells her she is going to kick her ass tonight, which Forbes tells Grace that she’s going to need a bigger boot and then started twerking. This is gonna be bad.
Havok (w/ Father James Mitchell) defeated Impact Knockout’s Champion Taya Valkyrie (w/ John E. Bravo) by DQ
As the match was about to start, Tenille Dashwood walked out and joined commentary. Taya berated Havok to start the match, but Havok just went after her and started tossing her around the ring by the hair. Dropped her in the corner with a running splash, followed by running boots, and got a quick two count. Havok hit a Backbreaker, but Bravo distracted Havok, giving Taya the opening to hit a big knee to the face and turn the match around.
Taya hit a couple of running knees for a two count, tried to follow by choking Havok and hitting a couple of elbows, that they did nothing to Havok, who easily came back in control with a kick and another Backbreaker.
Havok now in control again, went for a Superplex, but Taya escaped by climbing the ring post from the floor side, kicked out Havok’s leg, and hit the Footstomp on the Tree of Woe for a two count.
Taya went for Road To Valhalla, but couldn’t keep Havok still, who took her out with a lariat and a Chokeslam, but Bravo pulled the ref and attacked him, causing Kid Ref to DQ Taya.
James Mitchell cornered Bravo, allowing Havok to pull him in the ring and take him out with a Chokeslam. Taya attacked Havok with the title. Tenille went after Taya and they had a terrible brawl that ended with Tenille running off Taya.
oVe cut a video promo saying that what Cage did last week is unacceptable. Fans shouldn’t be getting attacked by animals like Cage. Callihan said that tonight, while Cage is in jail, they take out Tessa and Daga once and for all.
Gabbi Loren interviewed The North backstage, asking if they should be focusing on their BFG match and not Konnan. Page acted like he didn’t know about Konnan. Rich Swann and Mack walked up and said that they’ll take the win at the PPV. Josh Alexander tried to add some fuel to the fire and say that Rhino and RVD are skipping the line while Mack and Swann had to fight to get their shot. Rhino and RVD walked up and said that they’ve been in line for decades.
Stephen Bonnar defeated Moose (w/ Frank Trigg) by DQ
Trigg joined the commentary table, he was really really good.
Moose easily took down Bonnar, messed around with him getting his back, but went to play to the crowd instead of focusing on Bonnar, so the MMA vet came back with a couple of kicks and slammed Moose to the outside. Moose raked Bonnar’s eyes to regain control. Followed with a couple of hooks to the ribs.
Back in the ring, Moose worked over Bonnar, striking him, but he kept mocking him and thus getting distracted, so once again, allowing Bonnar to comeback with a spinning kick.
Moose had to rely again to raking the eyes, but Bonnar kept coming back, now with a Spinerbuster. Bonnar went for a diving rlbow, so Moose desperately tossed the ref to the ropes, tripping Bonnar down, and getting DQ’d in the process. Bonnar was busted open bad over the right eyebrow.
After the match, Moose went to hit Bonnar with a chair, but Ken Shamrock ran down for the save. Shamrock dodged Moose’s chair shot and hit a belly-to-belly. Shamrock locked in the Ankle Lock, tapping out Moose. Bonnar made sure Trigg couldn’t make the save. It may be the shorts, but it looks like Shamrock has been skipping leg day.
Jordynne Grace defeated Katie Forbes
Katie Forbes came out with a pair of those new Kazuchika Okada ‘Rainmaker’ money guns and twerked her way to the ring.
Collar and elbow lock up to start the match, Forbes showed that she had some wrestling skill, but she was no match for Grace. Forbes has added some twerking into her lock reversals.
Jordynne took down Forbes with a shoulder tackle, then with a second rope dropkick, provoking Forbes to leave the ring. Grace went for a dive, but Forbes caught her with a strike as she was crossing the ropes, managing to turn the match.
Forbes went for some chokes and shoulder tackles in the corner, she hit a Handspring Elbow, but then started twerking again, giving Grace the time to recover, wedgie Forbes, and toss her shoulder first into the ringpost, which she followed with a running knee and elbow combo, ending with a Vader Bomb for a two count.
Forbes hit a Tornado DDT for a two count. She mocked Grace, but when she went for a fireman’s carry, Grace escaped, hit Grace Driver, and took the win. This was a lot better than I expected, but then again, I expected something terrible.
Backstage, Johnny Swinger tried hitting on Katie Forbes. She told him she dates RVD, to which he asked if they swing. Jordynne Grace followed and just pushed him down.
Impact Plus Flashback Moment of the Week was Christopher Daniels, Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin, Homicide, Suicide, and Amazing Red in an Ultimate X Match.
Backstage, Daga thanked Tessa for the help, but he can fight his own battles. Tessa told him that tonight they’re teaming, but at Bound For Glory, to each their own.
Backstage, Fallah Bahh was training while TJP is eating doughnuts. Next week, Bahh is wrestling Michael Elgin. Also next week, Rich Swann vs Josh Alexander vs Rhino, Rohit vs Sabu for another X-Division qualifier. Plus a battle royal for the #20 spot for the Call Your Shot Gauntlet at Bound For Glory, which was also announced that the shot won is open to any division, and across them.
Tessa Blanchard & Daga defeated oVe (Jake Crist & Madman Fulton) w/ Dave Crist
Daga and Jake started the match, pushing and slapping each other before Jake asked for Tessa, which was an obvious swerve to tag in Fulton. Tessa and Fulton got face to face.
Tessa went for to hold Fulton, but he just swung her around. Tessa took out Jake with a big tope suicida, but distracted herself from Fulton.
Daga did a blind tag on Tessa and joined her to drop Fulton, but the big man quickly recovered and took out Daga, ramming him to the ring post back first. Fulton hit a huge chokeslam on Daga, who tried to make a comeback, but Fulton kept control and Dave Crist made sure Tessa wasn’t there for the tag.
Daga went for a top rope hurricanrana, but Fulton blocked it and was going for a Powerbomb, but Daga escaped and hit a desperation Cutter. Tessa and Jake both tagged in and Tessa just went crazy on both Crist brothers, getting a two count on Jake after a DDT. Daga and Tessa teamed against Fulton and took him out with an assisted rana, tossing him to the outside, which Daga followed with a corkscrew press. In the ring, Tessa dropped Jake Crist with Magnum for the win. This was an awesome sprint, great stuff, but they had so little time.
After the match, Fulton returned and attacked both Tessa and Daga, hitting a chokeslam on Daga and the End of Days on Tessa.
We got video that Brian Cage had arrived at the arena and he was on his way to the find Callihan and his crew. Cage got to the ring and took out Jake, hit the F-5 on Fulton, and interrogated Dave about Sami, who came out with a chair, but the chair didn’t do anything to Cage, who choked Callihan.
All of oVe ganged up on Cage, allowing Callihan to low blow him a couple of times. oVe handcuffed Cage to the ropes, while Callihan fetched his trusty baseball bat. Melissa Santos came out trying to protect Cage from being hit, and as much as Callihan told her to leave, she didn’t, and ended up taking the Cactus Special in the middle in the ring, as they made Cage watch. Cage screamed for the referees to take her away as oVe posed over her body.
Final Thoughts —
This was a really fun show for Impact, it had some down moments with some of the Knockout matches, but the rest was really packed. Opener and main event matches were fantastic. Everything is heated up for the PPV, as we head to the go-home show next week.
Impact Wrestling comes from St. Clair College in Windsor, Ontario, Canada as the road to Bound for Glory continues. Opening video covered all championship matches from last week and the setups to tonight’s matches.
Twitch stream tonight was hosted by Melissa Santos, who is at the Impact tapings from Fronton Mexico in Mexico City. We had cameos from Ethan Page and Rich Swann.
Moose defeated Fallah Bahh
Bahh has dropped a lot of weight and he was showing a more serious side coming in to this match.
Match started with both men going for the strike exchange. Moose immediately went for the tricks as he tried to step on Bahh’s barefeet and raked the eyes. Moose got control by throwing Bahh to the outside and ramming him against the rails, but Bahh came back with a big running crossbody when Moose started to play to the crowd. Bahh dropped Moose with an over-the-head toss.
Back in the ring, Moose took out Bahh’s knee to regain control of the match. Moose worked over Bahh for a while with stomps and chokes until Moose once again started talking trash, provoking Bahh to hulk up and comeback with a Samoan Drop. Bahh hit a rolling Belly-to-belly for a two count. The exchanced running strikes in the corner before Moose hit a huge Superplex. Moose went for the No Jackhammer Needed, but Bahh dodged it and hit a running hip attack in the corner instead. Bahh went for the Banzai Drop, but Moose got up and hit the NJN for the win. Pretty good opener. Bahh was busted open at the top of the nose, but nothing serious.
Backstage, Dreamer approached Tessa, who told Tommy that she didn’t need his help out there last week. Tommy gave Tessa a history lesson about her grandfather. He told Tessa that he’s not out there because Tully and Magnum asked him to take care of her, but because he believes in her and he wants to stand along Tessa. Good promo, but a bit overdramatic.
We got a video from a forest with Su Yung talking in tongues to her bridesmaids as they carry a coffin with Havok’s name on it.
Josh Mathews and Don Callis ran down the card and announced the Cali Combat special episode for next Friday.
Okay match, it was more of a squash since the story was that Grace was kept caged while Hogan and Rayne worked over Nicole.
The heels started the match getting a cheap shot on Nicole while the referee distracted himself getting Grace out of the ring. After a double team move, Rayne worked over Nicole first, but it didn’t last long as Rayne distracted herself with the crowd and Nicole reversed Rayne’s attack, hit a couple of kicks and a running Meteora for a two count. Rayne managed to push Nicole back to her corner and get Hogan in.
Back from commercial, Rayne and Hogan kept control over Nicole with quick tags, but they started to get frustrated that they couldn’t keep Nicole down for the pin. Nicole finally reversed.
Grace came in and took out both Hogan and Rayne, getting a two count on the latter with a Grace Driver. She quickly tagged in Nicole back again, who pinned the wrong woman in the chaos, allowing Hogan to get rid of Jordynne, leaving Rayne to take out Nicole for the pin.
After the match, Hogan and Rayne teamed up attacking Jordynne until the lights went out and thus returned Rosemary, who speared Rayne and took out Hogan with a Butterfly Suplex.
Kiera Hogan got some “Girl on Water’ chants now that she has blue hair.
Impact Plus Flashback Moment of the Week was the first ever Super X Cup Finals between Chris Sabin and Juventud Guerrera.
Backstage, Alisha Edwards confronted Ace Austin, but Ace made himself the victim saying he didn’t feel safe anymore with Eddie, he said he only wanted to be friends and that he was concerned about her safety too. Alisha’s acting is terrible.
Back from commercial, Ace pretended to had been attacked for Alisha to find him, but unfortunately for him, Eddie also showed up. Eddie was taken away by security and a shouting Alisha.
We got a vignette of Taya walking down Venice Beach with John E. Bravo being a stooge. The stuff with Taya was great, the stuff with Bravo was overly comedic for its own good.
We were getting a card announcement when Josh had breaking news that Rhino and Elgin were brawling outside the building. Elgin rammed Rhino to a truck before getting dragged away from security. Man, this security team is really having a rough night.
Rich Swann, Willie Mack & Rob Van Dam defeated The Rascalz (Dezmond Xavier, Zachary Wentz & Trey Miguel)
All the Rascalz were marking out at RVD before the match, they all wanted to fight him first. This got ‘This is Awesome’ chants before the match even started.
RVD started the match against all three men when they were all taken out with one kick. Mack and Dezmond tagged in and they actually started the match now.
Mack and Swann had control over Dezmond for a while with quick tags and some double team moves. Swann and Dezmond had a nice exchange that lead to the Rascalz gaining control. Now it was time for the Rascalz to do a series of tags and double team moves on Swann, earning Miguel a two count on Swann. Trey Miguel and Rich Swann had another short sequence with reversals, that ended with Swann making a comeback on all three Rascalz.
RVD got the hot tag. He ran over Xavier and Miguel, hit the Split-legged Moonsault on Wentz for a two count. Mack came in illegally and hit the Samoan Drop and Moonsault combo on Wentz, RVD followed with Rolling Thunder, and Swann finished it off with another Moonsault.
Swann setup Wentz for RVD’s Frog Splash, but Miguel took him out, allowing the Rascalz to got for Hot Fire Flame on Swann, now with Mack making the save by pulling Dezmond out of the ring. Miguel hit a Tope Suicida on Mack, leaving Wentz and Swann alone in the ring to get into a great strike-off. Swann won with a great kick combo. RVD finally hit the Five Star Frog Splash, followed by a Phoenix Splash by Swann for the win.
Replace RVD for someone else, and this Swann/Mack vs Rascalz feud could be fantastic.
Melissa Santos interviewed The North. She asked about what is next for them after defeating LAX and The Rascalz. Josh Alexander answered that they’re going to California and taking on all challengers. Next week, they expect competition at Cali Combat. Alexander and Page were awesome here.
Backstage, Rascalz, Swann, and Mack all congratulated each other when Jake Crist came out and teased them all about the X-Division Championship.
The Deaners (Cody Deaner & Cousin Jake) defeated Desi Hit Squad (Rohit Raju & Raj Singh) w/ Gama Singh in a match where the losing team would become the other’s servants
The match started with all four men brawling outside the ring. Deaners took out Rohit early on and hit a couple of double team moves on Raj. Rohit returned to the match and took a gutbuster. Referee tried to get the match in order, sending Cody to the corner, but the distraction allowed the Desi Hit Squad to jump Cousin Jake, but to no avail as the bigger Deaner overpowered them both with a double Suplex.
Back from commercial, Cody Deaner and Rohit Raju are going at it in the ring, with the former getting the better of both Desi Hit Squad members. They’re both sent outside, but as Cody goes for the Tope, Gama grabs his leg from behind. Cousin Jake chases Gama, allowing Raj and Rohit to return and double team Cody and turn the momentum to their side.
Desi Hit Squad kept Cody from his corner with quick tags and occasionally taking out Jake, but after Raj distracted himself with Gama, Cody finally dodged Raj’s running attack and got the tag.
Cousin Jake came in and once again tossed both Raj and Rohit to the outside, with Cody successfully landing the Top this time. Jake followed with a plancha. Jake hit the spear to the corner and a Michinoku Driver for a two count.
Gama once again distracted Jake, allowing Rohit to get a roll up two count. Cody tagged in and set the Time To Give ’Er, but Raj made the save, following with a Rohit Footstomp and Raj Flatliner combo for a two count. Rohit hit a jumping knee and a cannonball on Jake, but failed to land a codebreaker. Deaners then hit the TTG and got the win.
Backstage, Dave Crist told Sami that Fulton is not here, which was Callihan’s plan for tonight’s match. Callihan then cut a promo on Dreamer and Tessa, telling them that they’re taking out Dreamer and that Tessa will never beat Callihan.
Deaners in the back gave the Desi Hit Squad some tools to head over to the farm and start working.
Josh Mathews announced that next week, Rhino vs Elgin takes place. Also, Jake Crist vs Rich Swann for the X-Division title, The North’s open challenge, and a big announcement by Taya Valkyrie concerning the Knockout’s Championship.
Tessa Blanchard & Tommy Dreamer defeated oVe (Sami Callihan & Dave Crist)
Dreamer and Tessa rushed the ring to start the match, sending out both Callihan and Crist to the outside, for Dreamer to land a jumping clothesline and a Sunset Somersault by Tessa.
Back from commercial, Tessa is brawling with Dave outside the ring, Dreamer with Callihan inside the ring. Tessa sneaks up on Callihan, who offers Tessa a handshake, but Tessa rejects it and goes after Sami. Tessa and Dreamer take out Crist, hit Callihan with a double elbow, but before they can follow up, Dreamer is sent to the outside where Callihan hits a Scoop Slam and successfully cut the ring in half on him. Several quick tags between Callihan and Crist, going after Dreamer’s arm.
Dreamer lands a desperation kick and elbow on Crist, but fails to tag Tessa when Sami pulls Tessa off the apron. Dreamer gets another shot with a double bionic elbow and Tessa gets tagged.
Tessa comes in and hits the DDT and Neckbreaker combo on both Callihan and Crist. Tessa lands the corner Magnum on Crist for a two count when Callihan takes out the referee. Tessa and Dreamer hit DDTs on both oVe members to a two count when a second referee comes out. Tessa and Dreamer go for Cactus Specials, but Callihan and Crist low blow their opponents, with only Dreamer getting taken out, but it’s enough distraction for Callihan to return with a kendo stick and take out Tessa. As they go to take out Dreamer, Tessa recovers, takes the kendo stick, sends Callihan to the floor, and hits Magnum on Dave Crist for the pin.
Tessa and Dreamer celebrate in the ring as the show goes off the air.
Final Thoughts —
Okay show, not exactly newsworthy, but the action inside the ring was solid. They sold next week’s episode as a big event that will transition to the Mexico set of tapings.
Impact Wrestling returned from Toronto, Ontario, Canada as the fallout from Rebellion continued. This week’s opening video focused on Michael Elgin claiming the number one contender spot for Brian Cage’s Impact World Championship, the build for tonight’s oVe Rules street fight main event, the return of Rob Van Dam to Impact, and the Knockouts division.
This week’s Twitch stream was hosted by Melissa Santos. Don Callis joined up at the end of the show as they gave an update on Cage and talked about Tessa Blanchard and Taya Valkyrie.
Impact Tag Team Champions LAX (Santana & Ortiz w/ Konnan) defeated Moose & Josh Alexander in a non-title match
Santana and Alexander started with a series of holds and reversals, with LAX earning the early upper hand. Moose and Ortiz came up next, and Moose got the better of Ortiz with a dropkick in the corner and managed to cut the ring in half on him.
Moose and Alexander would work on Ortiz with quick tags and mostly strikes, stomps, and chokes. Ortiz eventually managed to counter Alexander into a cutter and tag in Santana.
Santana took out Alexander with a running kick, took out Moose with a superkick, and along with Ortiz, got a two count after a double-team move. Moose got back in the match and leveled out both LAX members, powerbombing Santana onto Ortiz. Moose hit the Go to Hell on Santana for a two count.
Moose accidentally kicked Alexander, giving LAX the opening to hit Moose with a double enzuigiri to take him out. LAX hit a series of double-team moves on Alexander, ending with the Street Sweeper for the win.
– Melissa Santos interviewed Madison Rayne about facing Taya Valkyrie tonight in a non-title match. Rayne talked about being 2-0 against Valkyrie, and so tonight she will beat Valkyrie once again and put her name in front of the line.
– Santos interviewed Team Rich Swann. Tommy Dreamer hyped their team, going one by one and saying something special about each of them. Dreamer said that all the hate they’ve all had during their careers is represented in oVe and tonight they’re going to war.
Dreamer brought up Cage’s real-life injury to say that the wrestlers on this roster are the people he wants to fight for, along with saying this is men and women fighting together, people of all races teaming up to fight for what they believe in. His voice was cracking up at the end. Good promo, but some parts felt awkward.
– Josh Mathews and Don Callis announced that Elgin “broke” Pentagon Jr. last week, adding him to the number of injured men.
– Tessa Blanchard came down to join the commentary table for the next match. She is a total babyface now in the booth.
Madison Rayne defeated Knockouts Champion Taya Valkyrie in a non-title match
Valkyrie got out of the ring, stalled, and provoked Rayne to chase her as the match started. She used the pursuit to jump Rayne and gain the early control.
Back from commercial, Valkyrie was still in control of the match. Valkyrie was whipping her around the ring, but Rayne managed to dodge one of Valkyrie’s running attacks and hit a rana to get some space. Valkyrie slammed down Rayne every time she tried to start a comeback.
Valkyrie worked Rayne’s limbs with several stretches around the ring and finally went for Road to Valhalla, but Rayne reversed and went to strike Taya.
Rayne got some strikes in, but Valkyrie once again regained control for a bit until Rayne got a desperation boot and tornado DDT to finally drop Valkyrie. Rayne hit an enzuigiri for a two count and a cutter for a second one.
Rayne went for a hurricanrana, but Valkyrie blocked it and hit a backbreaker instead. Valkyrie started trash talking and kicking Rayne over and over again, but as she kept at it, she distracted herself with the fans, giving Rayne the opening to catch a kick. Rayne reversed the kick into a half crab and Valkyrie immediately tap out.
Commentary sold the finish as Valkyrie tapping out to get out of the match unhurt since she has a month free of title defenses.
– The Impact Plus Flashback was Su Yung vs. Allie vs. Tessa Blanchard for the Knockouts Championship from Impact’s ReDefined special episode.
– Santos interviewed RVD. She asked about how he was feeling after coming back after six years. When talking about Ethan Page, RVD confused him with Diamond Dallas Page. He said that Page is not someone he needs to get ready for. This was an RVD promo — with awkwardness and all.
– Somewhere in the Undead Realm, Rosemary cut a promo challenging Su Yung to a Demon Collar match for each other’s souls, winner takes all.
Jordynne Grace defeated Alexia Nicole
Short squash match with Grace tossing Nicole around the ring. Grace hit a delayed suplex and a couple of stomps. Nicole had a hope spot trying to lock in a sleeper hold, but Grace got out easily and hit a giant swing.
Nicole got a couple of strikes in, but Grace just overpowered her and hit a Blue Thunder Bomb. Grace hit the Grace Driver to win. Good showcase for her.
– Backstage, Josh Alexander told Ethan Page that he was there to back him up out there against Rob Van Dam. Page hyped himself up.
– Santos interviewed Kiera Hogan about leaving Rosemary to get beaten up last week. Hogan said that she only did what Rosemary said. Hogan said that ever since arriving she just wanted to be everyone’s friend, and everyone kept leaving her.
Grace came up and asked what Hogan was doing, but Hogan went crazy on her claiming they were never friends. Hogan has gone heel.
Rob Van Dam defeated Ethan Page (w/ Josh Alexander)
RVD took down Alexander to start the match since he was getting in RVD’s face. Page avoided RVD while Alexander distracted him, but RVD had eyes in the back of his head and got the better of both men.
RVD went for the spinning kick to Page as he was draped on the rail, but Alexander blocked him and allowed Page to recover and dropped RVD instead.
Back in the ring, Page worked over RVD with strikes and quick suplexes. RVD made a comeback and used a bodyscissors pin for a quick two count. RVD hit a couple of kicks and Rolling Thunder.
RVD went for the frog splash, but Alexander blocked him and Page hit a spinebuster for a two count. RVD came back with a spinning heel kick and the Five Star Frog Splash to win the match clean in the middle. It’s surreal that Rob Van Dam still looks almost the same as he always did, just slightly heavier.
– Cage gave an update on his injury in a sit-down interview. Cage said that he is waiting for the inflammation to go down so he can get a proper scan and see which path his recovery will take.
Santos added during the Twitch stream that Cage is doing rehab on a daily basis and that he can’t even lift up his own daughter right now.
– Rolando Menendez, investigative reporter, interviewed Elgin about putting people in the hospital. Elgin said the list doesn’t stop there, then Johnny Impact interrupted him and said that Elgin is taking credit for the work Johnny did.
Johnny brought up that Elgin and Mack fought at Code Red and Mack surely didn’t go to the hospital. Elgin said next time — Johnny gets sent to the hospital. This is such a weird story for Elgin.
Desi Hit Squad (Rohit Raju & Raj Singh w/ Gama Singh) defeated The Rascalz (Dezmond Xavier & Zachary Wentz), The Deaners (Cody Deaner & Cousin Jake), and Brett Bates & Aiden Prince
Raju and Bates did a quick sequence of reversals. Singh and Prince then came in, with the latter getting the better of Singh with quick moves but falling against Singh’s power.
The Desi Hit Squad worked over Prince for a couple of minutes until he made a small comeback and landed in the Deaners’ corner, where Cousin Jake tagged in. They took out The Rascalz in the corner and hit a double-team move for a two count.
The Rascalz came back and hit a kick combo on Cousin Jake to take him out. They hit tandem moves on both Bates and Prince. Wentz and Xavier then hit a couple of dives on everyone. However, back in the ring, Raju and Singh sneaked behind Cousin Jake and stole the win with a roll-up.
Too many men and too little time for a good match, but what we got was good. Brett Bates needs to come back and show what he has — he looked great in the short time he got in the ring.
– Killer Kross cut a promo on Eddie Edwards. Kross said that he took Edwards’ kendo stick because Edwards was turning it into an entity. He said they were both similar, but that one had crossed the line between crazy and genius. He finished by telling Edwards that he expected an answer. Great stuff from Kross — as usual.
– LAX and The Rascalz were in the Treehouse. Trey Miguel asked Ortiz to touch the Tag Team title belt. Xavier and Wentz asked why Miguel wasn’t out there with them in the match. They talked some nonsense about having lions and needing lions to protect their stash.
LAX talked about fighting all the tag teams in the world, which woke up The Rascalz as they hoped to be next in line. Ortiz’s new gimmick is that he drinks a lot.
oVe (Sami Callihan, Jake Crist, Dave Crist & Madman Fulton) defeated X-Division Champion Rich Swann, Willie Mack, Tommy Dreamer & Fallah Bahh (w/ Scarlett Bordeaux) in an oVe Rules street fight
oVe surrounded the ring and a brawl began. In the ring, Dave Crist and Bahh wrestled, with Bahh using his size to get the advantage when Dreamer started to toss chairs in the ring. Jake Crist and Swann paired up next, with Swann hitting a couple of kicks on Jake before Callihan took him out.
Mack came in and took out Callihan and both Crist brothers before hitting a tope con giro on everyone. Dreamer went for one too, but Dave cut him off and hit a moonsault. Bahh was next with the suicide dive. Finally, Dreamer had a chance to hit a rolling senton. The brawl continued as Dreamer headed to the back for something.
Back from commercial, Dreamer had a ladder, which was immediately used to take out Fulton and Callihan. Swann and Mack tossed Jake into the ladder, then Dreamer followed with the Terry Funk helicopter spot until Fulton just batted the ladder off.
Fulton took out everyone one by one with a chair and dropped Dreamer with a sidewalk slam on the ladder. Fulton then set up the ladder on the ramp.
On the other side of the ring, Dave and Bahh were fighting with forks. Dreamer was brawling with Fulton. Mack piled up metal in the middle of the ring, but he ended up taking a tornado DDT on them by Jake for a two count.
Bahh hit Jake with a trash can and busted him open. Dave brought in a barbed wire chair and hit Bahh in the back, followed by Fulton hitting a powerbomb onto a bed of chairs. Yes, Fulton powerbombed Bahh! Dave got a two count after a foot stomp on Bahh with the barbed wire chair in the middle.
Swann came in and took on both Fulton and Dave, hitting a cutter on the former and tossing the latter to the outside. Swann climbed the ladder on the ramp, but Fulton stopped him and instead set him up for Jake to hit a cutter from the top of the ladder. Fulton jumped from the ladder, but he got caught in the middle of the air by Bahh with a Samoan drop!
Dreamer brought out Legos and traded strikes with Callihan in the ring. They used the groin claw on each other until Dreamer dropped both Callihan and Dave with double DDTs. Bahh — who wrestles barefoot — was running around the Legos.
Fulton took out Bahh with the End of Days. Mack hit a stunner on Fulton with a chair and hit Attack of the Mack, but Callihan blindsided him with a stop sign and hit the Cactus Special to win the match.
Really great match — guys like Fulton and Bahh that we don’t usually see do much showed a lot more tonight.
Final thoughts —
Good show by Impact. The lines are becoming clear for many of the rivalries ahead of Slammiversary, but we’re still in the dark when it comes to Cage’s future. The show was strong inside the ring and there were a couple of good backstage promos.
The opening video touched upon Killer Kross’ actions at the end of Homecoming, injuring Taya Valkyrie, and Johnny Impact’s reaction from last week’s episode. It also focused on the escalating situation between Rich Swann and Sami Callihan, the cryptic hauntings of Rosemary over Allie and Su Yung, and the current state of the long-awaited reveal of Scarlett Bordeaux’s talent search.
KM (w/ Fallah Bahh) vs. Caleb Konley ended in a no contest
Konley got some control early on when he jumped KM during his entrance. KM was making a comeback when the camera suddenly cut to Brian Cage walking around backstage pushing people and asking for Johnny Impact’s location.
It wasn’t really clear if there was an actual finish since I heard the ring bell go off when Cage was still backstage, but that could have been recorded during a different match, so when Cage attacked KM first, the referee once again called for the bell.
Cage took out KM and Konley. He powerbombed Bahh and hit an F5 on KM. At the end, he turned his attention to referee Johnny Bravo, hitting a big lariat and the Drill Claw. Cage said that all his carnage is on Impact’s hands since Johnny had offered him the next title shot, and now Killer Kross has skipped the line and is getting a shot next week.
Johnny came out to confront Cage, but he was quickly attacked from behind by Kross and Moose. Cage watched from the ring, but he later went down and dragged Johnny to the ring, where he tossed him and was going for an F5, except Kross and Moose were not done and attacked both men, laying them out.
Back from commercial, Cage cut a promo challenging Moose to a match for getting involved in his business.
Josh Mathews and Don Callis were running down the card when Eli Drake came down to the ring for commentary.
Ethan Page defeated Eddie Edwards by DQ
The match was back and forth, but not all that exciting. Edwards initially went around the ring chopping Page — until Page managed to catch Edwards and ram him into the guardrail to get control of the match.
Back from commercial, Edwards made a small comeback, hitting a Frankensteiner on Page and chopping him. Edwards hit a Blue Thunder Bomb for a two count. Page hit a brainbuster for a near fall. Edwards landed a tope suicida and finally went for Kenny the kendo stick, hitting Page and getting himself disqualified.
Throughout the match, Drake talked about how Edwards doesn’t need to use hardcore moves since he used to have all the tools to be a great wrestler. After the match, Drake cut a promo on Edwards. Drake told Edwards that he used to be champion material and now he is running around getting himself disqualified.
Drake challenged Edwards to bring back the American Wolf. A heel promo, but I can’t help but agree with Drake here.
The GWN Flashback Moment of the Week was a six-man cage match with Abyss, Kevin Northcutt & Legend defeating The Gathering in 2003 when CM Punk and Julio DiNero turned on Raven, giving Abyss the win.
oVe cut a video promo. Sami Callihan told Rich Swann that it’s time to come home. He then turned his attention to Jake and Dave Crist’s opponents for tonight’s main event — LAX. Callihan said that tonight, the only family that walks out is oVe.
The Rascalz did their roundtable comedy skit. They talked about Trey Miguel losing at Homecoming and Dezmond Xavier & Zachary Wentz losing against the Lucha Brothers. They hyped each other up to make a comeback.
Jordynne Grace (w/ Kiera Hogan) defeated Dark Allie (w/ Su Yung)
The start of the match was interrupted by the light fixtures malfunctioning, hinting at Rosemary’s presence. This was a short match that saw Allie get control over Grace early, thanks to distractions from Yung.
Grace would power herself into comebacks, but on several occasions, Allie resorted to some cheap shots to keep control of the match. At the end, Grace simply blocked Allie and hit a pumphandle driver for the win. The match wasn’t much, but it kept Grace looking like someone that can take you out if she gets her hands on you.
After Hogan and Grace had walked to the back, the lights went off and on, replacing Yung with Rosemary. Rosemary offered her hand to Allie, who ran away again.
Back from commercial, Scarlett Bordeaux was backstage announcing the winner of the Smoke Show Talent Search — herself. She put herself over by saying that she is the most over woman in the Knockouts division and hasn’t even stepped inside the ring. She said that her in-ring debut is coming. Kinda underwhelming, but realistically, there isn’t anyone that deserves her managerial services or wouldn’t get overshadowed by her.
Impact Wrestling is returning to Las Vegas for a new set of tapings on February 15, 16, and 17.
Brian Cage defeated Moose
Cage started the match going after Moose and wasn’t even stopped by a rake of the eyes. Moose tried to run away instead, but Cage brought him back to the ring the bad way.
Moose and Cage brawled outside the ring for a bit. They whipped each other onto the ring post. Moose at one point hurt his hand, chopping said ring post. Cage blocked a running kick and turned it into an apron bomb.
Back in the ring, Moose went after Cage’s left leg, working on it for a while, and at one point going for a countout win. Cage managed to make it to the ring.
Cage started to make a comeback when Moose decided he wanted to get into a striking match, only for Moose to hit a dragon screw out of nowhere to regain control. Moose hit a pop-up powerbomb and a senton, which finally fired up Cage enough to make a proper comeback and hit a pop-up powerbomb of his own, followed by a buckle bomb and a discus clothesline for a close two count.
Moose hit a dropkick and Go to Hell, but he only got a two count. Out of desperation, Moose went for a chair shot, but Cage dodged, hit the Drill Claw, and picked up the win.
We got a phone call between Josh Mathews and Taya Valkyrie, who informed us that she is still recovering and won’t be cleared until next week. Valkyrie addressed Tessa Blanchard saying that Valkyrie won the championship thanks to Gail Kim, saying that Blanchard bullied a lot of referees and finally got what was coming to her. She said that next week, she will be in Mexico City and ready to defend the title against Blanchard.
Killer Kross cut a promo, pushing Johnny Impact’s buttons as he brought up what he did to Valkyrie and the fans wanting Johnny to lose to Cage or himself. Kross said that next week, he wins the Impact World Championship.
Blanchard was interviewed by McKenzie Mitchell. She shouted at Mitchell and blamed Gail Kim for her loss. Suddenly, Blanchard started attacking some of the crew until Kim came to stop her, getting into a brawl. Blanchard choked Kim with some cables until the Impact officials stopped them.
Back from commercial, Sonjay Dutt and D’Amore were arguing with Blanchard about putting her hands on officials and suspending her. Blanchard stormed off.
X Division Champion Rich Swann defeated Trey Miguel in a non-title match
Great back-and-forth, short match. It started with both hitting a series of reversals and counters, and there were several arm drags by each until reaching a stand-off. They traded dive attempts until Miguel connected with a tope suicida and finally got the upper hand.
Back in the ring, Swann and Miguel traded slaps and kicks before Swann hit a standing Frankensteiner and a frog splash for a two count. Miguel answered with a heel kick and cutter combo for a two count for himself. Miguel went for the corner 619, but Swann countered. There were several rolling pin attempts and reversals, but at the end, it was Swann hitting a second rope 450 for the win.
After the match, oVe came out. Callihan once again offered Swann the oVe shirt, and once again, Swann didn’t join the team. Before he could answer, LAX came out for the main event.
Impact Tag Team Champions LAX (Santana & Ortiz) w/ Konnan defeated oVe (Jake & Dave Crist) w/ Sami Callihan in a non-title match
This started with both teams brawling outside the ring, with oVe working over Ortiz, as Santana had been taken out during the commercial. oVe worked with many quick tags and hit several double-team moves on Ortiz, getting a couple of two counts in the process.
Ortiz finally cut Dave Crist off on a spot, dropping him over the ropes and getting a quick opening to tag Santana. Ortiz and Santana got a couple of tag moves in and double tope suicidas on both Crist brothers.
All four men got in the ring, with oVe hitting a superplex and powerbomb combo for a great near fall. LAX responded with a cutter and codebreaker combo on Jake Crist, followed with a double inverted suplex for the win.
The Lucha Brothers congratulated LAX backstage, telling them it was a good match, to which Ortiz casually offered Pentagon & Fenix another “ass whooping.” Konnan shouted at Ortiz as Impact went off the air.
Overall, a good show for story development since we’re seeing a lot of rivalries start to escalate to a whole new level. Inside the ring, the show started off somewhat slow, but it managed to close with two good matches.
Next week, Impact returns to Mexico City’s Fronton Mexico. Johnny Impact defends the Impact World title against Killer Kross, and Taya Valkyrie makes her return.
Allie & Kiera Hogan defeated Knockouts Champion Su Yung & The Undead Maid of Honor
Yung and the bridesmaids made a scary, zombie-like entrance into the ring.
Hogan and Allie, full of energy, attacked the bridesmaids from the back on the entrance ramp. This was a showcase match for Allie. She hit a spinning dive off the second turnbuckle to the outside of the ring on several of the bridesmaids. Allie hit a codebreaker, which is probably the most overused move on the show, on Yung for the win. But after the match Tessa Blanchard ran in an attacked Allie from the outside while Hogan was subdued by the bridesmaids.
Blanchard hit Allie with a hammerlock DDT and then mugged for the camera. Blanchard is the total package: She has strong ring skills and plays to the camera perfectly.
Blanchard said in a backstage interview that she deserves the next title shot.
“She may be the best women’s wrestler I have ever seen,” commentator Don Callis said of Blanchard.
The OGz defeated Nathan Stokes & Ray Steele
Even though the OGz are not Tag Team Champions, they came to the ring with the belts after they stole them from real champs LAX a week ago.
This was a quick squash match. Homicide won when he dropped Stokes on the back of his shoulders and hit an awkwardly-delivered reverse chicken wing slam. It was a wicked looking move.
“He dropped that young man on his head, sickening,” Callis said.
The OGz’s manager King grabbed the microphone and said his team took LAX’s title belts and made them their own (they spray-painted OGz on the belts).
Just then, Santana and Ortiz from LAX ran into the ring and attacked Hernandez and Homicide of the OGz. Security broke up the melee. Konnan followed them and encouraged LAX to return to the backstage area and leave the OGz alone. After the break, Konnan told LAX not to fall into the OGz’s “trap” and that the right time will come for LAX to strike.
They showed an ad for LAX vs. The Young Bucks on Chris Jericho’s upcoming Rock ‘N’ Wrestling Rager cruise. Callis said “the two best tag teams in the world do battle at sea.”
Flashback Moment of the Week: Jushin Thunder Liger defeated Petey Williams
This was an exciting, high-flying match from Sacrifice 2006, with Liger hitting his signature aerial moves. Liger won with a front face slam to the delight of the fans inside the Impact Zone
Desi Hit Squad (Gursinder Singh & Rohit Raju) defeated KM & Fallah Bahh
Bahh looks like he would have been the perfect heel for Hulk Hogan in the 1980s. The large, rotund wrestler smacked his head and screamed “Bahh” as the match started. Callis said “Gursinder Singh speaks four languages, Fallah Bahh apparently speaks none.”
Bahh is really over with the fans. He hit two big splashes in the corner on Singh and Raju and then hit a leg drop on Singh. KM showed his strength and tossed both members of the Hit Squad around. Bahh and KM hit their patented Tuna Roll on Singh and Raju. The 400-pound Bahh and KM took turns rolling over the two wrestlers.
“This should be illegal,” Callis blurted. “They are gonna hurt someone badly.”
KM hit a full-nelson slam on Raju, but Bahh accidentally distracted the referee so he couldn’t make the count. That allowed Singh to hit a flying knee and a DDT to pin KM, to set up would looks like a potential KM turn on Bahh.
They showed Anthony Carelli backstage trying to hype his protege, Dustin Cameron, who gets a title shot, for some unknown reason, against Austin Aries later in the show. After he went along with every gimmick WWE threw at him a decade ago, it’s surprising that the former Santino Marella doesn’t have a job somewhere with WWE today.
Backstage, Jimmy Jacobs interrupted a Johnny Impact interview and took off Impact’s sunglasses. Impact punched him in the face and challenged Jacob’s stablemate Kongo Kong. “I want the monster. I am not going to ask again,” Impact told Kong
Impact World Champion Austin Aries defeated Dustin Cameron (w/ Anthony Carelli) to retain his title
“If you believe in feel-good stories and you believe in miracles, you are not going to want to miss this match,” commentator Josh Mathews screamed.
Aries walked to the ring slowly eating a banana, and fully dressed in black jeans and a black shirt.
Aries did not take the match seriously, but he outwrestled Cameron in the short bout. Cameron hit a couple of judo throws, but Aries rallied quickly to hit a brainbuster. He could have pinned the kid, but instead pulled him up, prompting Carelli to throw in the towel to save his student. Aries threw the towel back at Carelli and then delivered the Last Chancery.
Carelli jumped into the ring. Aries took off his shirt. The crowd cheered for Carelli’s WWE finisher, the Cobra, but this is a different, far more serious Carelli than the Santino character he played in WWE. Carelli kicked him law and Aries stumbled out of the ring onto the ramp. When he turned around, Eddie Edwards hit him with a kendo stick. He tried to double-arm DDT the champ, but Aries escaped.
They announced Aries vs. Edwards for the title next week.
A goofy looking interviewer named Bob Kapoor tried to interview Scarlett Bordeaux, but he was so mesmerized by her beauty that he couldn’t get any words out. Bordeaux asked the interviewer his name and he stuttered when trying to say “Bob,” so Bordeaux called him “Bobo.”
Bordeaux, in a long red dress, said it was tough living in a world of “threes” when she was “a 10.”
“This is how God made me and I will not be hot-shamed,” she said. Kapoor left and Bordeaux said “I guess men around here aren’t used to seeing women like me.”
“The Smokeshow is here to make wrestling sexy again,” she said.
Eli Drake & Trevor Lee (w/ Caleb Konley) defeated Grado & Joe Hendry (w/ Katarina)
Lee and his regular tag team partner Konley attacked Grado and Hendry to start the match.
Grado took most of the beating during the match. When Konley went after Katarina, Hendry stepped off the apron to protect her, leaving no one for Grado to tag in. Drake hit the Gravy Train for the pinfall victory on Grado.
Once again, Hendry was paying a little too much attention to Katarina, leaving Grado jealous and wondering if his girlfriend and best friend were having an affair. Hendry denies any interest, but it’s clear that Grado is increasingly becoming the third wheel in the group.
Pentagon Jr. & Fenix defeated oVe (Dave & Jake Crist) w/ Sami Callihan
This was a showcase match for Pentagon and Fenix. Callihan was at ringside with his arm in a sling. oVe dominated early, with the Crist brothers even hitting two spectacular over-the-top rope dives to start the match. The crowd was very into Pentagon and Fenix, yelling “Lucha, Lucha.”
The story of the match was the Crist brothers trying to remove Pentagon and Fenix’s masks. When they couldn’t do that, they tied the masks together. Pentagon and Fenix tried to pull apart but couldn’t move. The Crist brothers then both hit superkicks on the restrained wrestlers.
The luchadores finally broke free, and Pentagon Jr. and Fenix hit a spike DDT. Pentagon lifted Dave up with a double underhook to set up the move, then Fenix jumped off the top rope onto Crist’s back and Pentagon delivered the DDT for the win.
Previously: Bobby Lashley & KM defeated Moose & Eddie Edwards.
Tonight: Impact World Champion Eli Drake defends against Johnny Impact and Alberto El Patron in a triple threat match. After Impact, OVE battles LAX in the ultra-violent Barbed Wire Massacre III on Twitch.
Show Recap —
X Division Champion Taiji Ishimori defeated Dezmond Xavier to retain his title
Ishimori had the early advantage and frustrated Xavier, but Xavier gained control and slowed the pace down. He hit an awesome flip dive over the top rope and guardrail onto Ishimori in the crowd.
Xavier hit the Final Flash for a very close near fall. Xavier countered the double knees into a standing corkscrew moonsault for a two count. Ishimori caught Xavier and hit the double knees, followed by a 450 splash to retain the title.
Flashback Moment of the Week: Aron Rex defeated Eddie Edwards in the Grand Championship final at Bound for Glory 2016
The judges awarded the first round to Edwards, then Rex won the second round. Rex had the advantage early in round three but Edwards made a comeback. They traded shots as the round came to an end. Rex won the third round by decision to win the championship.
Kongo Kong (w/ Jimmy Jacobs) defeated Chandler Park (w/ Joseph Park)
Park had a brief flurry of offense until Kong took over and won the match easily. After the match, Kong splashed Park from the top turnbuckle while Joseph Park could only watch.
Impact World Champion Eli Drake vs. Johnny Impact vs. Alberto El Patron ended in a no contest (from BCW in Detroit, Michigan)
El Patron and Drake briefly worked together to take Impact out before turning against each other. Impact brought in a chair and destroyed both opponents. On three separate occasions, whenever one of the guys had the match won, the third guy pulled the referee out of the ring. The ref got upset and challenged all three to fight — and they nailed him with simultaneous superkicks.
Drake scored a close near fall but was upset it wasn’t three. He gave the second referee the Gravy Train. The locker room eventually all ran out and a huge brawl broke out.
Rosemary defeated KC Spinelli
Rosemary was in control early but couldn’t put Spinelli away. She teased spitting the mist and Spinelli covered up, which allowed Rosemary to hit the Red Wedding for the win.
After the match, Rosemary promised to defeat either Allie or Laurel Van Ness for the title. Hania made her Impact debut by jumping Rosemary and viciously beating her down.
LAX (Ortiz, Santana & Homicide) defeated OVE (Sami Callihan, Jake & Dave Crist) in Barbed Wire Massacre III
The ropes were taken down and replaced with barbwire. Santana hit a dive over the barbwire onto OVE on the floor. Both Callihan and Homicide pulled out forks and had a brief struggle. Jake became entangled in the barbwire and Homicide jammed the fork in Jake’s ear.
Jake and Callihan destroyed Homicide with violent chair shots. Homicide poured alcohol on Dave, but Callihan drank it and spit it in Homicide’s eyes. Callihan picked up Homicide for a suplex but instead dropped him on the barbwire. LAX wrapped Jake up in barbwire and Ortiz gave him a running Death Valley Driver into a barbwire board. Jake speared Ortiz through a table at ringside.
Callihan got a near fall with a tombstone piledriver on a barbwire chair. Konnan took Callihan out of the match with a barbwire baseball bat, then Dave and Santana fought on the top of a ladder. Santana drove a bunch of wooden skewers into Dave’s head. Santana then executed a superplex off the top of the ladder through a table for the win.
Next Week: Impact presents a loaded card for Genesis. The lineup features:
Impact World Champion Eli Drake defending against Johnny Impact and Alberto El Patron in a triple threat steel cage match
Grand Champion Ethan Carter III defending against Matt Sydal
Knockouts Champion Laurel Van Ness defending against Allie
