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Ring of Honor TV live results: Rhino teams with Hologram

Posted on by Jeff Moss

For the first time since 2014, Rhino will return to Ring of Honor on tonight’s ROH on HonorClub.

The former multi-promotion star and past SCUM member will team with the undefeated Hologram to take on The Frat House’s Griff Garrison & Cole Karter.

CMLL’s La Catalina returns to battle Trish Adora.

In two separate big man matches, Lance Archer and Satnam Singh will be in action.

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…But not against each other, which let’s be honest, is what we’d all like to see.

Ring of Honor is back in it’s Thursday Night time slot and ready to rock and/or roll!

La Catalina defeated Trish Adora (w/Carlie Bravo & Shawn Dean)

Catalina has “Future Star” written all over her. She has been racking up wins in CMLL and all over Mexico, as well as some ROH heavy hitters like Taya Valkyrie. Adora has been doing her best to adopt the Shane Taylor Promotions methodology like Dean & Bravo have done and it’s paying off in spades with wins over Rachael Ellering (twice!) and Harley Cameron, sans-puppet.

Adora definitely had the bruiser advantage, but Catalina brought luchadore speed to the match. Adora tried to power over Catalina off the top, but Catalina actually remained in control, keeping the match to her chosen pace.

Catalina showed off her hard-hitting skills as well with some really stiff dropkicks on Adora. Adora easily won the posing game though, taking many opportunities to work the crowd as she focused on Catalina’s arm.

Catalina turned the tables though with a really devastating high knee out of the corner. Catalina then went for a modified facebuster with a certain pedigree, but Adora kicked out at two. Things slowed down considerably here which gave Adora more chances to hit big moves, but she couldn’t put Catalina away.

Catalina hit an electric chair on Adora then climbed up for a big frog splash. That was it for Adora as Catalina pinned her and got the win. After the match, Adora showed respect and shook hands with Catalina.

Match Result: La Catalina defeated Trish Adora

-Taya Valkyrie joined us from the back to let us know that the impending Women’s Pure Tournament is a casting call and she’s the main character. She said that she was the headline, not the conversation.

Lance Archer defeated Diego Hill

Hey, here’s a question: Why do members of the Callis Family not have to change their last name to Callis? Just wondering. Anyway, the Murderhawk Monster, Lance Archer returns to ROH by himself for the first time since beating up Crowbar last month. This time, he was looking to beat up Diego Hill who… has neat pants, I guess?

Archer got caught with a kick off the top and started bleeding, leading him to quote the classic movie Dodgeball and exclaim “nobody makes me bleed my own blood!” That was about the end of Hill’s offense as one can probably imagine.

The talkative Archer proclaimed “you done messed up now” as he pummeled HIll, actually attempting to bend him in half in some kind of reverse crab hold. Hill tapped out and Archer didn’t even wait for the music to stop before hitting him with a Blackout for good measure.

Match Result: Lance Archer defeated Diego Hill

-Next a vingette aired announcing the return next week of ROH’s Forever Champ, Women’s World Champion Athena.

ROH Pure Title Match: Lee Moriarty (c) (w/Shawn Dean) defeated Matt Mako

Up next was a surprise ROH Pure Title Match between Matt Mako and ROH Pure Champion Lee Moriarty. This match was from ACTION DEAN~!!!2, an event in honor of Dean Rasmussen, who passed away in 2023. The match took place on May 24th, 2025 as part of the ACTION/ROH Youtube special.

The match started off a little strange for Moriarty, who was forced to use two of his rope breaks within the first 1:44 of the match. He also went for the Border City stretch very early, forcing Mako to use his first rope break at 2:32.

Mako clearly studied Moriarty and seemed to have everything scouted pretty well. he was able to reverse or deflect most of what Moriarty threw at him, but used up his second rope break at 3:25.

The only rough part of the match was that it took place outside at night in Waterdance Plaza in Glendale, Arizona. It looked like kind of a Times Square type place, but the only outdoor lighting was from big LED signs. So it was hard to see the match at times as the ring was flooded with red and blue lights every few minutes.

As the match passed its halfway mark, it was a pretty even affair. Mako changed tactics and tried to over power Moriarty with some big strikes and spinning kicks. Moriarty held on though luring Mako into the corner and dropping him on his face. A second Border City Stretch (complete with hand stomps) forced Mako to use his last rope break at 7:14.

Mako locked in an armbar at 8:44 causing Moriarty to use up the last rope break of the match. With time ticking away, Mako tried to put Moriarty down with a quick rollup into a rear choke, but Moriarty locked in a third Border City Stretch that Mako had to tap out of because he was out of rope breaks.

Killer match though!!

Match Result: ROH Pure Champion Lee Moriarty (w/Shawn Dean) defeated Matt Mako

Torneo Cibernetico Ten Man Elimination Match: Blue Panther, Hologram, Neon, Valiente & Virus defeat Averno, Dr. Cerebro, Euforia, Volador Jr. & Xelhua

Up next was more surprise action from ACTION DEAN~!!!2: a Toreno Cibernetico match! What’s that you ask? No idea. But that’s what Wikipedia is for!

“The match format sees two teams of varying sizes face off against each other. It uses standard lucha libre tag team rules with elimination occurring with a pinfall, submission, disqualification and count out and allows a wrestler to enter the match when their tag team partner exits the ring as well as when they tag out. A special ‘batting’ order system is used in which the wrestlers are given a specific order and may only tag in and out in this order.“

So there you go. I had no idea what to expect in this match, but I like Luchadores and I like a lot of them, so I was excited to see how this played out.

For the first ten minutes or so, it was pure luchadore madness. In spite of the allegedly organized manner of the match and the aforementioned lighting issues, it was very, very hard for anyone watching, including the commentary team, to keep track of who was in the ring against who. They were great about calling out eliminations though, so I kept up as best I could.

Virus survived Blue Panther, Dr Cerebro and managed to eliminate Xelhua (via tapout) before being eliminated himself by Euforia. Volodor Jr entered after that and the tags started flying. Hologram entered to a big ovation and showed why he’s a star against Averno before a huge brawl broke out.

Volador Jr. managed to eliminate Valiente via backbreaker into pinfall before Hologram & Neon jumped in and teamed up to eliminate Euforia after dueling top rope stomps and moonsaults, bringing the match down to 3-on-3.

Next, Blue Panther eliminated Dr. Cerebro with a move that seemed to even surprise him, but that brought in Neon who battled Averno, but found himself eliminated after Averno hit a big facebuster from the top rope.

That left Blue Panther & Hologram against Averno & Volador Jr. They hit a superplex on Panther from the top rope, but Hologram broke up the double pin attempt. Panter returned the favor a few minutes later, saving Hologram.

Panther and Hologram then double eliminated Volador Jr and Averno. Panther eliminating Averno with the move he used earlier to eliminate Dr Cerebro and Hologram used a spinning blue thunder bomb to pin Volador Jr.

Match Result: Blue Panther, Hologram, Neon, Valiente & Virus defeated Averno, Dr. Cerebro, Euforia, Volador Jr. & Xelhua

Wow., Just incredible, but I have to say, after this match I have new appreciation for those “RAW” and “SMACKDOWN” t-shirts that teams wore in Survivor Series a few years back. It was really hard to tell who was who on what team, but damn, was it fun to watch. Definitely check it out on Youtube if can!

Satnam Singh defeated Facade

Back in the ROH arena, and because a Lance Archer squash just wasn’t enough beating up of a little guy by a big guy, Satnam Singh was up next. What can be said about Singh that hasn’t already been said? He’s huge. He was one half of the AAA World Tag Team Champions with the one and only Raj Dhesi (fka WWE Champion Jinder Mahal). He’s going to probably murder Facade. That’s all you need to know, really. 

Singh threw Facade around and pie faced him in the corner for a bit before chopping him hard enough that the first row felt it. He did that a few more times before throwing him across the ring, literally. From post to post.

Facade managed to get a quick chinbreaker on Singh, who simply shrugged it off and threw Facade at the ground a few times until he stopped moving. Singh made the pin and that was it.

Singh is very fun to watch, but like a lot of big men he needs someone to feud with that can bring something different out of him.

Match Result: Satnam Singh defeated Facade

Hologram & Rhino defeated The Frat House (Cole Karter & Griff Garrison) (w/Jacked Jameson & Preston Vance)

The mysterious and enigmatic Hologram made his second appearance on the show, which was his ROH debut with this match. Try not to think about that too much.

Hologram has taken on stalwarts like Blake Christian and Max Castor up in AEW and even had a win over the dreaded Beast Mortos. His partner needs no introduction. He’s Rhino. If you don’t know of any of Rhino’s myriad of accomplishments in pro wrestling, stop now and do some Googling. Their opponents are local jerkbags, The Frat House. As always, it will be a pleasure watching these guys get punched in their various mouths.

Garrison started things off against Hologram which was really fun as they both have similar fast-moving styles. Hologram got the better of Garrison until he got caught in a headlock. Garrison couldn’t hang onto Hologram long though as Hologram put on a show.

Garrison tagged in Karter who waited until Hologram’s back was turned to jump him. Hologram tagged in Rhino though to a massive ovation. Rhino did was Rhino does which is scrunch up his face and beat the ever-loving heck out of whoever is in front of him. In this case, Karter.

Vance and Jameson saved Karter from a Gore by pulling him outside and giving him a chance to regroup. Garrison tried to help but ate a superkick from Hologram. Jameson tried to cause a distraction, which allowed Vance to pull Hologram out and deliver a few stiff shots before sending him back in.

The dust settled and Karter and Hologram were the legal men. Hologram ran into Karter’s high knee, but hit a Spanish Fly to retaliate. Hot tags were made and Rhino and Garrison charged in, with Garrison eating a big belly-to-belly suplex.

Hologram dove out of the ring and got a 3-for-1, taking out Vance, Jameson and Karter. In the ring, Garrison tried to use the pledge paddle on Rhino, but left himself open for a Gore straight from this history books. Rhino made the pin, and the Frat house was defeated.

Match Result: Hologram & Rhino defeat The Frat House (Cole Karter & Griff Garrison)

Great episode!!

Rhino advertised for this week’s AEW & ROH events

Posted on by Bryan Rose

Rhino is heading to AEW & ROH.

The company released a video showing footage of the former ECW Champion in ROH, advertising him both for this Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite and the next day’s Collision, as well as the ROH tapings. Both tapings will be held in Detroit, Rhino’s hometown, at the Masonic Temple Theatre.

This will mark Rhino’s debut with AEW. He is currently a part of the NWA, where he is set to challenge Thom Latimer for the NWA World title during the Crockett Cup tournament that takes place on May 17 at the former ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In the last year, Rhino finished his latest run in TNA after being inducted into its Hall of Fame. Last November, he made a surprise appearance during NXT’s event at the ECW Arena, goring Mr. Stone.

Here is the lineup for this week’s Dynamite:

AEW Dynamite (May 7):

  • The Young Bucks & Ricochet vs. Swerve Strickland, Speedball Mike Bailey, and Mark Briscoe
  • Samoa Joe vs. Claudio Castagnoli
  • Jamie Hayter sit-down interview with Renee Paquette
  • Rhino will appear live

Rhino finishing up with TNA Wrestling this weekend

Posted on by Joseph Currier

Rhino — who was just recently inducted into the TNA Wrestling Hall of Fame — is departing the promotion.

In a Facebook post today, Rhino shared that he is finishing up with TNA at the company’s television taping in Atlanta this Saturday. He’s facing Ryan Nemeth at the taping, which is being held at Center Stage and is TNA’s last event of 2024.

“Tomorrow is my last day with TNA Wrestling,” Rhino wrote. “I am wrestling Ryan Nemeth. It will most likely be the last time EVER I will wrestle in a TNA ring. If you can make it to Center Stage in Atlanta, come and be part of this 5 year chapter of my life and our journey. Thank you to all of the amazing wrestling fans for your support. I’m not done wrestling but TNA and I have parted ways.”

A former WWE and ECW star, Rhino has had multiple stints in TNA, including holding the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in 2005. He’s a former TNA Tag Team Champion as well.

The 49-year-old Rhino has a couple of appearances for Game Changer Wrestling coming up. He’ll be competing for GCW in Rochester, New York on January 10 and Columbus, Ohio on January 11.

With Bound for Glory 2024 taking place from his hometown of Detroit this October, Rhino was celebrated by joining the TNA Hall of Fame.

Rhino, Bob Ryder to be inducted into TNA Hall of Fame

Posted on by Joseph Currier

Two new inductees will be enshrined into the TNA Wrestling Hall of Fame over Bound for Glory weekend.

In his hometown of Detroit, Rhino will be inducted into the TNA Hall of Fame at Bound for Glory 2024. The late Bob Ryder — who was one of the co-founders of TNA — is also being inducted. Their inductions will take place during the Bound for Glory pre-show on Saturday, October 26.

The 49-year-old Rhino, a former star for ECW and WWE, has spent multiple stints in TNA/Impact and still competes for the promotion to this day. He held the NWA World Championship in 2005 while with the promotion and is a former Impact Tag Team Champion.

Ryder co-founded TNA with Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Jarrett and remained with the promotion working behind the scenes until his death in 2020. TNA wrestler Eric Young will accept Ryder’s induction on behalf of his late friend.

Before helping start TNA, Ryder was a wrestling journalist and worked for WCW. Director of Travel Operations was among the job titles he held in TNA.

Wayne State Fieldhouse in Detroit is hosting Bound for Glory on October 26. TNA is also holding a post-PPV television taping there the next day.

The TNA Hall of Fame was first introduced in 2012. Here’s the complete list of inductees:

  • 2012: Sting
  • 2013: Kurt Angle
  • 2014: Team 3D (Bully Ray & D-Von)
  • 2015: Jeff Jarrett, Earl Hebner
  • 2016: Gail Kim
  • 2018: Abyss
  • 2020: Ken Shamrock
  • 2021: Awesome Kong
  • 2022: Raven
  • 2023: Mike Tenay & Don West, Traci Brooks
  • 2024: Rhino, Bob Ryder

Monster’s Ball match announced for Impact Bound for Glory

Posted on by Joseph Currier

One of Impact Wrestling’s signature match types is returning for Bound for Glory 2023.

Impact Wrestling announced today that PCO, Rhino, Steve Maclin, and Moose will face off in a Monster’s Ball match at Bound for Glory. The pay-per-view is taking place from Cicero, Illinois on Saturday, October 21.

Monster’s Ball is a hardcore match that first debuted in 2004. More than 50 Monster’s Ball matches have taken place since then. In the most recent edition of the match, Trey Miguel defeated Crazzy Steve this February.

PCO’s contract with Impact Wrestling is set to expire shortly after Bound for Glory. His contract is up on October 30.

Here’s the updated Bound for Glory card:

  • Impact World Champion Alex Shelley defends against Josh Alexander
  • Impact Knockouts Champion Trinity defends against Mickie James
  • Will Ospreay vs. “Speedball” Mike Bailey
  • Impact X-Division Champion Chris Sabin defends against KENTA
  • Impact Tag Team Champions The Rascalz (Trey Miguel & Zachary Wentz) defend against ABC (Ace Austin & Chris Bey)
  • Impact Knockouts Tag Team Champions MK Ultra (Masha Slamovich & Killer Kelly) defend against Deonna Purrazzo & Tasha Steelz
  • Monster’s Ball match: PCO vs. Rhino vs. Steve Maclin vs. Moose
  • 20-person Call Your Shot gauntlet match
  • Mike Tenay, Don West, and Traci Brooks will be inducted into the Impact Wrestling Hall of Fame

Impact Wrestling live results: Steve Maclin vs. Rhino World title match

Posted on by Josiah MacDonald

Tonight’s Impact on AXS TV will be headlined by World and Knockouts Tag Team title matches.

Impact World titleholder Steve Maclin will defend his gold for the first time against Rhino following the events of last Thursday’s trios match. The winner will defend against PCO at this month’s Under Siege.

Impact Knockouts Tag Team Champions The Coven (KiLynn King & Taylor Wilde) will defend against the star studded team of Jordynne Grace & Deonna Purrazzo. Grace and Purrazzo will square off at Under Siege for Purrazzo’s Knockouts Championship.

In a clash of would-be title contenders, Masha Slamovich will go one-on-one with Killer Kelly.

Nick Aldis will have his first singles match in the company in six years when he faces Sheldon Jean.

The Good Hands (John Skyler & Jason Hotch) will face Decay (Crazzy Steve & Black Taurus) with both in search of a desperately needed win.

The show will also feature the third installment of an interview series with Frankie Kazarian.

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BTI pre-show: Ace Austin defeated Zicky Dice

In a good match, Austin got the win after The Fold. Gia Miller was hilarious on commentary during this match.

Main Show:

Impact opened with a recap of the much-hyped debut of Trinity, and a recap of Rhino’s career leading into his title match tonight. This was fantastic as a reminder of why Rhino was a main event guy outside of WWE for so long.

Masha Slamovich defeated Killer Kelly

Great opening match between Slamovich and Kelly. Despite the clean finish, there is more story to tell here with Kelly holding the submission on. This was a clever way to keep the feud going, and will hopefully lead to more great matches.

Kelly and Slamovich went to the floor quickly before returning to the ring so Kelly could hit a delayed fisherman’s buster for a two count. Slamovich slipped outside the ring and caught Kelly in an electric chair drop that drove Kelly into the apron. Slamovich hit a boot scrape kick to the face of Kelly as she was against the bottom turnbuckle.

Slamovich put a camel clutch on and then bit Kelly’s forehead instead. Slamovich hit a spinning backfist and a high kick. She went for a sleeper, but Kelly drove Slamovich backward and then hit a tiger suplex into the corner. Kelly hit a German suplex for a nearfall.

Kelly tried for a Killer Clutch, but Slamovich countered. Slamovich picked up Kelly and hit a sunset driver for a nearfall. Kelly countered a snow plow and hit a death valley driver for a 2-count. Kelly then locked on the Clutch, but Slamovich ran up the ropes and jumped backward into the Bret Hart/Roddy Piper pin finish. Kelly held the submission on despite being pinned while Slamovich passed out.

– Sheldon Jean was preparing for his match with Nick Aldis. Kenny King walked up and told him that he had to do what it took to win tonight, encouraging him to choose himself instead of doing the right thing.

– Trinity was with Gia Miller backstage, and talked about her debut last week. Jai Vidal walked up and marked out, asking for a selfie with her. Trinity obliged and then asked Miller, “Who was that?” Miller said, “That’s Jai. He works here.” I laughed.

Nick Aldis defeated Sheldon Jean

Aldis got the right match to show he was back to make an impact in Impact.

King joined the announce table for this match.

Aldis hit a series of shoulder tackles at the start, but as it went to the floor, Jean raked the eyes of Aldis and drove him into the ring post. It seems Jean took King’s advice to heart. Once they got back into the ring, Aldis was able to hit two hard clotheslines and a Michinoku driver for a 2-count. Jean tried to cut Aldis off as he went to the top rope, but Aldis shoved him off and hit a flying elbow before locking on the Kingsland Cloverleaf for the submission.

– Dango & Joe Hendry were backstage investigating who attacked Santino Marella recently and Hendry called for Zicky Dice & Johnny Swinger. Hendry said that they were here to answer for their crimes, and Swinger announced, “Hey! It wasn’t me doing gimmicks with Sheiky!” and I nearly died laughing.

Hendry accused Swinger and Dice of taking out Santino. Swinger was greatly offended. Dango called Santino and got him to book a match against Swinger tonight. Dango then invited Hendry to his birthday party and Hendry kindly said yes despite being the only guest and looking like he didn’t want to go.

– In the third part of Frankie Kazarian’s interview with Gia Miller, he talked about how the World title is his ultimate goal because his loss against Josh Alexander was eating away at him. But, if he saw a fight worth fighting, he was going to stand shoulder to shoulder with anyone that needed help.

The Good Hands (Jason Hotch & John Skylar) defeated The Decay (Crazzy Steve & Black Taurus)

The Good Hands got the heat on Steve almost immediately in this match. Steve bit the Good Hands’ good hands and hit a flatliner on Skylar before making a tag to Taurus. As Taurus was tagged in, Hotch tagged in and Brian Myers made his way down to ringside. Taurus hit an awesome pop-up Samoan drop on Hotch, but Skylar made the save.

Steve hit a plancha on Skylar and then started to argue with Myers. Myers attacked Steve on the floor, and Taurus went after him. This led Myers to hitting a stunner across the top rope and then a combo fireman’s carry blockbuster from The Good Hands for the three. Myers then posed with the Good Hands, apparently adopting them after Bully Ray’s defeat at the last PPV.

– Impact World Champion Steve Maclin was backstage with Shera and Champagne Singh, and Maclin said because they failed him last week, their business relationship is over. Singh said that he couldn’t let this slip through his fingers, so he had an idea to salvage the relationship. After they came back from break, Singh and Shera attacked Heath backstage and left him lying just before Rhino’s match with Maclin.

Impact World Champion Steve Maclin defeated Rhino to retain the title

There was nothing to this match, but it was actually went pretty much exactly as it should have with where both guys are on the roster right now. Maclin looked like a killer in this match, and this helped establish him as a serious threat to anyone he faces, along with showing how violent he can be with the post match angle.

Rhino and Maclin brawled all over the ringside area until Maclin started to focus on the left knee of Rhino. Rhino managed to cut Maclin off as he was on the ropes and hit a superplex for a nearfall. Maclin went for the KIA, but Rhino countered into a spinebuster for another nearfall. Rhino went for the gore, but was unable to run due to the attack on the knee. Maclin hit a chop block and a gore of his own for the win. 

Maclin continued to attack the knee of Rhino, wrapping it in a chair and slamming a shovel into the knee repeatedly. Rhino was carried out on stretcher. 

Later, Impact president Scott D’Amore went to see Rhino off, and Maclin walked up and said it was his fault. D’Amore then made his title defense against PCO at Under Siege a no DQ match. PCO then emerged from the ambulance and chased off Maclin as he went to do more damage to Rhino.

– Joe Hendry cut a promo about his broken nose (from his match with Sheldon Jean) and how Dango was going to win tonight as they got to the bottom of what happened to Santino.

Dirty Dango defeated Johnny Swinger (w/ Zicky Dice)

Dango caught a stomp from Swinger before standing up and hitting a falcon arrow for the pinfall.

– Deaner and The Design were backstage, and Deaner accused Sami Callihan of having no one to back him, not even Rich Swann, while his Army of Violence were there to defend him. Suddenly two people in the army started attacking everyone else and Deaner, Kon and Angels stepped aside. It was Swann and Callihan. For some reason, this promo had a soundtrack and turned from scary music to happy rock as the babyfaces attacked. This broke into an all out brawl with security trying break them up.

– Moose asked Brian Myers why he was taking on the Good Hands because he and Myers should be focusing on the tag titles. Myers said that Moose was focusing on both the World title and tag titles, so he could focus on the tag titles and mentoring the Good Hands before promising the Good Hands that he’d take them to the tag titles.

Impact Knockouts Tag Team Champions The Coven (Taylor Wilde & KiLynn King) defeated Deonna Purrazzo & Jordynne Grace to retain

This was fine, but not a great match. Wilde and King haven’t quite gelled as a team yet, but they are clearly trying to make it work in the ring. I think given time, they could become a good tag team. The gimmick isn’t great at all, but at least they’re trying to make the tag team work.

Purrazzo and Grace had the advantage early on, but The Coven were able to get some heat on Grace after a kick from King and an elbow drop from Wilde. Even with Purrazzo tagging in, the champs were able to continue to double team, maintaining their advantage. The announcers asked if Purrazzo and Grace could compete with the well oiled teamwork of King and Wilde, who have teamed together around 4 or 5 times.

I’m fairly certain that is not well oiled. Grace and Purrazzo may have actually teamed more already in Impact! The Coven continued to cheat, choking Purrazzo on the ropes, distracting the referee, and maintaining the offence. Purrazzo managed to twist the arms of Wilde and King and slammed them into each other face first, leading to tagging out to Grace. Grace hit a spinebuster on King and a jackhammer on Wilde for a 2-count.

Grace dumped Wilde to the floor, and Wilde crashed tailbone first to the floor. That had to suck. Wilde and King then hit caught Grace on a dropkick attempt and powerbombed Grace on the apron. Wilde went for a suplex, but Grace fought out and hit a muscle buster on Wilde for a 2-count that King broke up. King pulled Purrazzo to the floor and as Grace tried to hit the ropes, Purrazzo got knocked off the apron after just getting onto it. Grace then tried to hit the Grace driver, but King broke it up and Wilde and King hit a combo spinebuster and pump kick for the win.

The Coven continued to attack Grace and Purrazzo after the match, leading to Trinity running down to make the save. Trinity cleared the ring, hitting a rear view on King before eyeing both Grace and Purrazzo as the show went off the air.

Final Thoughts:

I thought this was a very good episode of Impact this week. The angles were good, the matches were good, and Under Siege was built quite well. I can’t ask for more than that.

Next Week:

  • X-Division Champion Trey Miguel vs. Laredo Kid in a non-title match
  • Moose, Eddie Edwards & Frankie Kazarian vs. Jonathan Gresham, Yuya Uemura & Alex Shelley

New Under Siege additions:

  • Nick Aldis vs. Kenny King
  • No DQ stipulation added to Impact World Champion Steve Maclin vs. PCO

World title match announced for next Impact Wrestling

Posted on by Josh Nason

Steve Maclin will defend his Impact World title for the first time on next Thursday’s Impact Wrestling on AXS TV.

Maclin will face Rhino following the events of Thursday’s show where Maclin teamed with Champagne Singh & Shera against PCO, Rhino & Heath. Rhino gored Maclin on the outside of the ring, leading to his team taking the loss.

Backstage, he confronted Impact president Scott D’Amore about Rhino which led to D’Amore making the title match to the champion’s chagrin.

The Knockouts Tag Team titles will be on the line as The Coven (KiLynn King & Taylor Wilde) defend against Jordynne Grace & Deonna Purrazzo. The Coven have been targeting Purrazzo for weeks. She will defend against her partner for the night at this month’s Under Siege.

Nick Aldis will have his first singles match in the company since 2017 as he takes on Sheldon Jean.

In what promises to be a hard-hitting affair, Masha Slamovich will take on Killer Kelly.

The show will also feature the third installment of Frankie Kazarian’s recent sit-down interview series with Gia Miller.

Here’s the current lineup:

  • Impact World Champion Steve Maclin defends against Rhino
  • Knockouts Tag Team Champions The Coven (KiLynn King & Taylor Wilde) defend against Jordynne Grace & Deonna Purrazzo
  • Frankie Kazarian sit-down interview, part three
  • Nick Aldis vs. Sheldon Jean
  • Masha Slamovich vs. Killer Kelly

Rhino on 27 years in wrestling, planning to wrestle for five more years

Posted on by Denise Salcedo

On his 27th anniversary in pro wrestling, I spoke to the “War Machine” Rhino. With nearly three decades as a professional wrestler, Rhino (real name Terrance Guido Gerin, 46) has seen and done it all in this business.

Rhino on what keeps him motivated to keep wrestling after 27 years in the business

Rhino explained that he keeps wrestling because he’s afraid that there won’t be any wrestlers left to connect between the older and newer generations of wrestling fans. He also explained that is why he never changed his appearance.

“That’s another reason why I never tried to change my look, or style, or my hair color or cut my hair, the only time I wear my hair down is when I wrestle and I can’t wait until the day that I can cut it. I try not to change too much, you never want to see your heroes get older, that’s why I try to keep the same look so I don’t change,” Rhyno explained. “I am that connection from when a kid went to watch me in ECW with their dad, and now they are taking their child to watch me wrestle twenty years later.”

Rhino says he plans to still wrestle for five more years

Currently Rhino is still an active member of the IMPACT Wrestling roster, so I asked him what he still would like to do in the wrestling world. He informed me that he would like to wrestle a few more years and slowly transition to a producer role to help younger talent.

“Well hopefully, God willing, I can have five more years in the wrestling business, I wanna slowly taper off, and then move more to the behind-the-scenes as a producer and along the way work with people and boost up their careers and and help them get on the path that they are supposed to take,” Rhino said.

When asked about who he would like to wrestle that he has never wrestled before, Rhino named Kevin Owens.

Rhino says he left WWE In 2019 when his contract expired because he was unhappy

Rhino confirmed in our conversation that he was offered double the money to stay with WWE in 2019, however due to the lack of house show appearances and traveling, he decided he would rather take the pay cut and do more for the business outside of WWE.

“Well I was very fortunate that they were even thinking of signing me, and doubling [the pay],” Rhino said. “I am not in [the pro wrestling business] because I am looking for glory, I am in it to be in the ring with the younger talent to show them a little bit here and a little bit there, and I also learn because I never stop learning.”

“With WWE, I would have been sitting at home more, because they had I wanna say close to 250 people under contract,” Rhino added. “And I understand that. I never wanted to be a focal point. I would have liked to do the live events and travel with some of the guys because you learn the business in the car traveling town to town [without having] to be on TV. But the thing is they wanted guys to get experience, so when I was only on the road once a month I was starting to hate life. So I chose. Do I collect a paycheck or do I leave, make less money but make more of an impact in wrestling to help other guys, to go on the indies, try to find the next Rock, the next Stone Cold, the next Lita. So that’s what my decision was and IMPACT was such a good fit because Scott D’ Amore is the guy that trained me, and I had seen how he built this roster. If you look from 2019 to now, the roster is a world series team.”

You can check out the entire conversation with myself and Rhino below. 

Matt Cardona vs. Rhino added to GCW Most Notorious

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Matt Cardona is returning to GCW after all.

After a storyline where Cardona said he would never return to the promotion, Cardona engaged in a social media exchange with Joey Janela playing off a WrestleMania VIII angle, with Chelsea Green in the role of Miss Elizabeth, Janela in the role of Ric Flair, and Cardona in the role of Randy Savage. Cardona agreed to return to the company to face Janela. Instead, the company announced Cardona vs. Rhino for their Friday, January 14 Most Notorious event.

Most Notorious will be held in Detroit, Michigan at the Harpos Concert Theatre. The show will air on FITE TV beginning at 7 p.m. Eastern time. Here is the announced lineup:

  • Matt Cardona vs. Rhino
  • Alex Shelley vs. Jimmy Jacobs
  • Leon Ruff vs. Rich Swann
  • Allie Katch & Effy vs. 2 Cold Scorpio & Ricky Morton
  • Atticus Cogar vs. Matthew Justice
  • GCW Ultraviolent Championship match: Alex Colon (c) vs. Hoodfoot
  • Sabu appears
  • Kevin Nash appears

Impact Wrestling live results: Rhino vs. Eric Young street fight

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A street fight between former faction-mates headlines Thursday’s Impact Wrestling as Violent by Design’s Eric Young takes on Rhino.

Rhino was part of VBD until they gave him a beatdown after Rhino didn’t appreciate Young berating him after a mid-September tag team loss. He eventually re-aligned with the returning Heath and they have been feuding with his old teammates.

Thursday’s AXS TV show will also see Knockouts Champion Mickie James team with Chris Sabin against “Drama King” Matthew Rehwoldt and Deonna Purrazzo. Ahead of their title match at January’s Hard to Kill, James and Purrazzo got into a brawl as Sabin and Rehwoldt were having a match last Thursday.

The rest of the lineup includes Knockouts Tag Team Champions The IInspiration and The Influence (Madison Rayne and Tenille Dashwood) against Decay (Crazzy Steve, Havok, Black Taurus and Rosemary) in an intergender match; FinJuice vs. VSK and Zicky Dice of The Learning Tree; and Rohit Raju vs. Lawrence D.

The BTI pre-show match will see Lady Frost against Kimber Lee.

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Lady Frost defeated Kimber Lee (with Brandi Lauren) on BTI

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Opening video was a build-up to Hard To Kill’s main event, where Moose will defend against both Matt Cardona and W. Morrissey. They recapped last week’s main event where Cardona pinned Moose, and where Morrissey had enough of Moose and turned on him. 

Deonna Purrazzo & Matthew Rehwoldt defeated Knockouts Champion Mickie James & Chris Sabin

Deonna Purrazzo has called for her rematch against James at Hard To Kill, but this tag team match comes after Rehwoldt challenged Sabin to a match, where Purrazzo got involved. 

James and Rehwoldt started the match at the request of Rehwoldt. They did a little of power versus speed wrestling, where James dodged and took down Rehwoldt before tagging in Sabin.

Sabin and Rehwoldt went back and forth until Purrazzo distracted Sabin, who got cut off. Purrazzo and Rehwoldt worked Sabin focusing on the head, going for quick pins, and teasing James throughout to keep the referee’s attention divided. 

Sabin made a comeback with a desperation dropkick as Rehwoldt went for a top rope move. James and Purrazzo came in with the tags and straight to the brawl, trading mount and strikes. James went for the MickieDT, but Purrazzo blocked. 

Rehwoldt was taken out, Purrazzo blocked a Cradle Shock, only for Sabin to let her go and dive on Rehwoldt. Followed by a dive from Purrazzo, and one from James on top of her opponents. 

James hit her top rope press, but Purrazzo rolled her over on landing, and with the aid of Rehwoldt outside the ring, Purrazzo kept the pin down for the win. Really good match.

– Gia Miller interviewed Matt Cardona about his win last week and his upcoming title challenge. Cardona talked about coming close to being with Impact for a year and how the title had been the goal. He said that title matches are rare and he will go all out with this opportunity.

Morrissey interrupted him and said that while Cardona always awaits his chances, Morrissey takes them, and this match at Hard To Kill should be a singles match. He threatened Cardona that accidents could happen, so Cardona challenged him to a match with his spot on the line.

– Eric Young cut a promo prior to his street fight with Rhino. He said that he will teach Rhino a violent and beautiful lesson. Doering will make sure that Heath, Swann, and Mack are not a factor.

– Striker and Brown announced that we have a new main event tonight, with Cardona vs Morrissey.

Rohit Raju (with Raj Singh) vs Lawrence D ended in a no contest

This match comes after Raju and D challenged each other to a match last week after D called Raju and Singh ‘riff-raff’. 

This was a speed vs power match, but D did pretty well at keeping up with Raju’s speed. D controlled the match early on, but Raju eventually recovered and took down D with a couple of kicks. 

Suddenly, we saw a split screen of Alexander storming to the ring. He came out, took out Raju and Singh, and smartly enough, D rolled out. 

Alexander called out Jonah to the ring. Instead, Josh got Scott D’Amore, who tried to stop Alexander. He said that he told Jonah to stay at home while he dealt with this problem, and thus booked Alexander vs Jonah at Hard To Kill. 

Alexander didn’t want to wait until Hard To Kill, and just like Moose, D’Amore kept making him wait and wait. Alexander told D’Amore that he was starting to lose his patience, but all that D’Amore could answer was that he was trying to help Alexander learn some patience. Alexander picked up Raj Singh and hit the C4, defiantly in front of D’Amore.

– Backstage, The Bullet Club were asked to sign Turning Point posters, so instead they bullied the merch guy. Laredo Kid confronted them in Spanish, so neither Bey nor Hikuleo knew what he had said.

– Steve Maclin approached D’Amore and once again called for a singles match with Trey Miguel since he was still unpinned and unsubmitted. D’Amore told him that he also hasn’t won and he even attacked a security guard, so the answer was no. 

Rosemary and Havok also approached D’Amore about the Ultimate X, but D’Amore said that he had delegated the Ultimate X news to someone else.

FinJuice (Juice Robinson & David Finlay) defeated The Learning Tree (VSK & Zicky Dice)

Two stories coming together in this match. FinJuice is racking up wins on their path to another shot at the tag titles; whereas Dice and VSK are trying to impress Brian Myers and make up for their loss at Turning Point.

Story of the match was that VSK was professional and had a good gameplan, but Dice’s shenanigans kept getting in the way. 

Robinson started the match and was cut off by VSK, only to recover and tag in Finlay for the hot tag. Finlay took down both VSK and Dice, at which point, FInJuice easily dominated the match and won with a diving elbow and backbreaker combo.

– Moose approached Morrissey backstage. Told him he wasn’t mad Morrissey turned on him, but he and Moose knew they didn’t want Cardona involved at Hard To Kill. Moose proposed they work together one last time and take out Cardona. Morrissey told Moose he didn’t trust him and that he’d take out Cardona by himself.

– Prior to the match, we saw Eric Young tell Deaner and Doering to stay behind. Then he started his entrance and the camera angle looked cool.

Eric Young defeated Rhino in a Street Fight

This match is almost a year in the making. EY and Rhino started their feud a while back when VBD took out Heath, but instead of feuding, EY would brainwash Rhino into joining VBD for months until Heath came back and talked Rhino into leaving the team, as Rhino had started having problems with VBD. 

Both men started brawling in and outside the ring, mostly ramming each other into the ring or the guardrail. Rhino was the first to bring out weapons into the ring, but he gave EY too much time to recover. Rhino was able to block a suplex attempt from EY and drop him on the ramp.

Back in the ring, Rhino started using weapons on EY over and over, but out of desperation, EY dodged and tricked Rhino into going head-first into a garbage can, and just like that, EY turned the match around.

EY now in control, attacked Rhino with weapons, went for a diving elbow, but Rhino recovered and instead caught EY with a superplex. Hit a couple of short clotheslines and shoulder tackles before setting up for the gore. 

Deaner and Doering ran down and went after Rhino, but Heath ran down and managed to take down Doering. EY used the distraction to use his mask and take down Rhino, but he only got a 2 count in the first pin of the match.

EY went for a piledriver, but it was Swann and Mack now that came down and attacked EY, but as Rhino set up a piledriver himself, the Good Brothers ran down and took out Swann and Mack. In the ring, EY low blowed Rhino and hit the piledriver for the win. Good match, but Swann and Mack’s involvement was positioned at an odd time.

After the match, all four teams brawled with VBD and the Good Brothers controlling the ring.

– Gia Miller interviewed The Influence and The IInspiration about their upcoming match and becoming a super group. Dashwood and McKay kept talking over each other and had some disagreements on the super group’s name.

Decay (Rosemary, Havok, Black Taurus, & Crazzy Steve) defeated Knockout Tag Team Champions The IInspiration (Cassie Lee and Jessie McKay) & The Influence (Tenille Dashwood & Madison Rayne) (with Kaleb) 

Taurus started the match for his team, so all of the opponents ran away, so Decay used the opportunity to tease them with a fake out dive.

Once back in the ring, Decay controlled early on, but Rosemary was cut off after some illegal double teaming and interference. It wasn’t long before Lee and McKay’s shenanigans allowed Rosemary to recover and push them back to Decay’s corner. 

Things came down to Rayne and Crazzy Steve, which was more of a dance than a match. Taurus and Dashwood were tagged, only for Dashwood to get military pressed to the floor, taking out Kaleb. The IInspiration and Rayne argued outside the ring, not noticing that Rosemary pinned Dashwood in the ring after a spear. If anything, this was fun.

This seems to be leading to an IInspiration vs Influence match at Hard To Kill.

– We got a recap of Lady Frost’s BTI debut. Afterwards, Miller congratulated her for officially signing with Impact. Before she could talk about her plans, D’Amore approached Frost and also congratulated her. Frost asked to enter the Ultimate X match at Hard To Kill, but D’Amore told her that she needed to go after the newest member of Impact’s office, Gail Kim. 

Gail Kim told her she’d be in the match, against Rosemary, Jordynne Grace, Tasha Steelz, Chelsea Green, and Rachael Ellering.

Striker ran down the current card for Hard To Kill, confirming Alexander vs Jonah and the Ultimate X Match.

Matt Cardona defeated W. Morrissey via DQ

This match was signed earlier today after Cardona challenged Morrissey to prove that he belongs in the Hard To Kill main event. 

Match started on the ramp, as Morrissey rushed Cardona during his entrance. They brawled around the ring, but the referee wouldn’t sound the bell to start the match. After about 3 minutes of Morrissey’s beat up on Cardona, they finally made it to the ring and the match officially started. 

As soon as the bell rang, Cardona caught Morrissey with a codebreaker, but couldn’t keep Morrissey down, who came back and cut off Cardona once again. Morrissey worked over Cardona, mostly switching between big boots and choking Cardona. When Cardona tried to make a comeback, Morrissey pushed him off the ring onto the floor, maintaining control. Morrissey busted open Cardona, sending him to the ring post as a lawn dart. 

Morrissey continued the beatdown, but Cardona managed to dodged one of Morrissey’s corner splash and got enough time to recover and come after Morrissey with strikes. Cardona managed to bring down Morrissey, hit a dropkick and the corner running boot for a near fall. Cardona couldn’t follow up after suffering blood loss, but when Morrissey went for the powerbomb, Cardona managed to drop down, and hit Radio Silence for a huge near fall. 

Morrissey caught him with a big boot and continued the beatdown, but after the referee tried to stop Morrissey, the latter pushed the referee away and so Morrissey got DQ’d. Morrissey answered with a big boot to the referee’s face. Morrissey hit the powerbomb on Cardona for good measure. Chelsea Green ran down to check on Cardona. Moose tried to get Morrissey to take out Cardona, but instead Morrissey hit Moose with a big boot. Morrissey threatened Green, but after Morrissey pushed Green, Cardona jumped in and took down Morrissey. Show ended with Cardona and Green posing with the title in the ring, as Moose and Morrissey looked on.

This was really good, the finish was unfortunate, but the match and post-match angle were the perfect build to Hard To Kill.

Two matches announced for this week’s Impact

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Two matches have been announced for Tuesday’s Impact.

Eric Young will face Rhino in a singles match. This follows their match from this weekend’s Hard to Kill pay-per-view event, when Eric Young, Deaner, and Joe Doering defeated Rhino, Cousin Jake, and Tommy Dreamer in a six-man old school rules match.

Another match that has been announced is Kimber Lee and Susan (Su Yung under a new persona) taking on Jordynne Grace and Jazz. The latter team competed in the Knockouts Tag Team title tournament, but lost in the semifinals to Havok and Nevaeh. Jazz and Grace then had a match at Genesis on January 9, with Grace scoring the win. 

In the main event of Hard to Kill, AEW World champion Kenny Omega teamed with The Good Brothers (Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows) to defeat Impact World champion Rich Swann, Chris Sabin, and Moose, with Omega pinning Swann. The next pay-per-view from Impact will be Rebellion, which takes place on April 24.

Two Impact number one contender’s tourney matches set for next week

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The two remaining first round matches in Impact Wrestling’s number one contender’s tournament are set to air next week.

Michael Elgin vs. Sami Callihan and Rhino vs. Ken Shamrock are both scheduled to air on next Tuesday’s episode of Impact, though there was an angle on last night’s show where Shamrock’s status was put into question when Elgin attacked him and laid him out with a con-chair-to.

The winner of Elgin vs. Callihan will advance to face Trey Miguel in the semifinals, while the winner of Rhino vs. Shamrock will face Hernandez in the semifinals. The tournament kicked off with Miguel defeating Rohit Raju and Hernandez defeating Madman Fulton on Impact last night.

The winner of the tournament will challenge Tessa Blanchard for the Impact World Championship. Blanchard was supposed to defend her title against Elgin and Eddie Edwards in the main event of Rebellion, but — due to the coronavirus pandemic — neither Blanchard nor Edwards were able to attend last month’s Impact television tapings.

Moose was originally announced for the number one contender’s tournament, but he did an interview where he removed himself from it. Moose said he doesn’t care about the Impact World Championship and called his TNA title belt the most prestigious in professional wrestling. Moose declared himself TNA World Heavyweight Champion at Rebellion night two.

Willie Mack will also defend his X-Division Championship against Johnny Swinger on next week’s Impact, and XXXL (Acey Romero & Larry D) will face TJP & Fallah Bahh.

Two matches added to Impact Wrestling’s Hard to Kill PPV

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Impact Wrestling has announced two additions to the card for their next pay-per-view.

Ken Shamrock vs. Madman Fulton and Moose vs. Rhino have both been announced for Hard to Kill. The PPV is taking place at The Bomb Factory in Dallas, Texas on Sunday, January 12.

Shamrock returned to Impact for a match against Moose at Bound for Glory. He’s since been aligned with Tessa Blanchard during the build to her World Championship match against Sami Callihan in the main event of Hard to Kill.

Fulton helped his oVe stablemate Callihan defeat Shamrock on the Impact episode that aired last week. The show then ended with an angle where Fulton attacked Shamrock. Callihan tried to call Fulton off, but Fulton didn’t listen and suplexed Shamrock out of the ring. Fulton then finally backed off when Callihan told him “no more.”

Moose and Rhino got into a confrontation on last night’s Impact after Moose told Rhino that he should have asked him for advice before his match against RVD the previous week. Moose said it was sad that Rhino’s Gore couldn’t do what Moose’s spear did, and Rhino responded by hitting a Gore on Moose. Later in the episode, they brawled when Moose tried to attack Rhino.

Here’s the updated card for Hard to Kill:

  • Impact World Champion Sami Callihan defending against Tessa Blanchard
  • Knockouts Champion Taya Valkyrie defending against Jordynne Grace and ODB in a triple threat match
  • Impact Tag Team Champions The North (Josh Alexander & Ethan Page) defending against Rich Swann & Willie Mack
  • X-Division Champion Ace Austin defending against Trey Miguel
  • Michael Elgin vs. Eddie Edwards
  • Brian Cage vs. RVD
  • Ken Shamrock vs. Madman Fulton
  • Moose vs. Rhino

Impact Wrestling Turning Point results: Cage vs. Callihan rematch

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On Friday, Impact Wrestling presented Turning Point from Hazelton, PA, an Impact Plus special that used to be a traditional pay-per-view.

While this show is not going along with current storylines, it did follow up to Bound For Glory with two championship rematch clauses being cashed in. This show was promoted in conjunction with Pennsylvania Premiere Wrestling.

Tessa Blanchard & Jordynne Grace defeated Havok & Madison Rayne

Originally, Kiera Hogan was going to team up with Rayne, but due to an injury, Havok replaced Hogan. Grace was the babyface in peril until Blanchard came in for the hot tag. Blanchard held her own until Rayne distracted her and fed her to Havok. Rayne tagged herself in when Havok was under control, only for Tessa to make a comeback and win with the Buzzsaw DDT in an ok opener.

— Rhino cut a promo backstage, telling Rob Van Dam that his vacation was over and tonight, RV was being sent to the hospital. 

PPW Heavyweight Champion Clutch Adams defeated Facade, Evander James, Desean Pratt, KC Navarro, and Charles Mason to retain

The commentary team sold Navarro strong as a potential X-Division wrestler, but Josh Mathews still managed to mention that his KT Tape was all wrongly placed. 

The match was mostly one pair of wrestlers competing and then onto another, giving everyone a chance to show their stuff. Navarro, James, and Facade all hit dives with Navarro featuring the most impressive one with the height he got. After another quick run of everyone getting near falls and finishers in, Facade hit a coast-to-coast on Pratt, only for Adams to run in with a flying elbow to steal the pin from Facade. This was an ok match. as no one was particularly impressive. However, Desean Pratt is someone worth developing and keeping an eye on.

— Backstage, Jimmy Jacobs interviewed Moose about his opponent tonight, Fallah Bahh. Moose put over Bahh as a great contender now, but that Bahh wasn’t at Moose’s level yet. Moose is fantastic.

Michael Elgin defeated Mike Orlando

Orlando is a big dude, so Elgin gave him some offense at first. In the end, it was Elgin wrestling circles around him. Elgin mostly chopped and tossed Orlando around the ring. Orlando had a short hope spot landing a suplex, a DDT and a TKO but that only led to a two count. Elgin got some near falls before he hit a powerbomb, backfist, and Elgin Bomb combo for the win. This was not a good match and went way too long.

— Jacobs interviewed Taya Valkyrie about Tenille Dashwood getting a rematch tonight. Taya just said that she probably had to get a favor from management to get this match, but just like at BFG, she’ll take care of Dashwood tonight. 

Moose defeated Fallah Bahh

Bahh started the match with momentum, forcing Moose to rely on dirty heel tactics to turn the match around. Moose went to work over Bahh’s leg for a long while, really slowing down the match, but eventually, Bahh started his comeback. The match really picked up from here on as they started trading big moves and near falls. At one point towards the end, Moose superplexed Bahh, but Bahh fired up and came back with a huge lariat for a two count. Moose came back with two running dropkicks and the No Jackhammer Needed for the win.

Bahh has to be top five most improved wrestlers of the year as his moving toward strong style has really helped his matches a lot. This was the best match of the night thus far.

— Jacobs interviewed Rich Swann and Mack about their title shot with The North. They said there is no Rhino or RVD getting involved with their match like how the BFG match should have been. The North interrupted and said that tonight they’ll beat them again, and Swann and Mack won’t have excuses anymore. 

Impact Knockouts Champion Taya Valkyrie (w/John E. Bravo) defeated Tenille Dashwood in a non-title match

Taya was the only champion to get away with not defending her title tonight. Of all the matches so far, this was the one that went straight to the mat for chain wrestling. Similar to Bahh and Moose, this had Tenille have the upper hand over Taya until Bravo interfered to gave Taya the opening to turn the match around. Taya worked over Tenile’s midsection intertwined with occassional interventions of Bravo and Taya’s fake dog, taking shots at Tenille. 

Eventually, Tenille managed to dodge Taya’s running knees and start a comeback. Tenille got a two count with a top rope crossbody. They went back and forth trading near falls. Tenille hit her running low crossbody to the corner, but Taya kicked out. Tenille went for the Spotlight, but Bravo grabbed Tenille’s leg, distracting her enough for Taya to sneak up behind and roll her up to retain her title in an ok match.

After the match, Taya and Bravo beat up on Tenille until Jordynne Grace came for the save. Jordynne attacked Taya and ran her off.

Impact Tag Team Champions The North (Ethan Page & Josh Alexander) defeated Rich Swann and Willie Mack to retain

This was a really good match. It started with Swann and Mack in control. Swann was hitting Page and Alexander from all angles, but as soon as The North had an opening to double team Swann, they cut him off from Wilie and proceeded to work him over.

After several minutes of Swann being worked on and several tag teases, Mack finally got the hot tag and ran wild. The match broke down into many double team moves as both teams started chasing their finishers. The North initially got theirs countered and Swann and Mack hit theirs, but the pin was broken up.

Finally, Swann set up the Standing Rana into the Frog Splash, but Page blocked the rana, and Border Tossed Swann to take him out. Both North members brought down Mack from the top rope the hard way with thier double facebuster finisher to retain their titles.

— Sami Callihan cut a promo putting himself over while telling Jake Crist that he can’t be the Golden Draw anymore until he regains the X-Division championship. Callihan then told Cage that tonight, he’ll defeat him again and stay the World champion

Eddie Edwards defeated Mahabali Shera to retain the Call Your Shot Gauntlet title shot

Shera used his size and power advantage to run over Edwards early on, but Edwards came back using his experience advantage and used Shera’s power against him. The match then went on to wash, rinse, and repeat that sequence a couple of times as they closed to the finish with Shera getting ahold of Edwards, cutting him off with power and working over him until Edwards would find a way out.

Edwards eventually and unceremoniously hit the Boston Knee Party for the win. This started good, but ended really weak.

— We got a commercial for the Impact Plus December 7th special from Dayton, OH, No Surrender. Swann is challenging Callihan, provided he wins tonight. X-Division Champion Ace Austin faces Eddie Edwards in a tables match, while Valkyrie defends her title against Havok.

X-Division Champion Ace Austin defeated Jake Crist to retain

This was a heel vs heel match, but Austin was given the more devious role as he was the one pulling out all the dirty tricks behind the ref’s back. He also got to work over Crist for most of the first half of the match. 

Crist had a great comeback, hitting a kick combo and later catching Austin’s diving move into a cutter for a two count. Jake went for a Super Cutter, but Austin grabbed the ropes to counter the move and came back with The Fold from the top rope to retain his championship. This was a good match, but somewhat short. 

Rob Van Dam (w/Katie Forbes) defeated Rhino by DQ

The brawl started outside the ring as Rhino was making his entrance. After some minutes around the ring, they finally made it into the ring and we got a good look at the new heel RVD, which pretty much consisted of a lot of taunts and a lot of making out with Forbes. RVD even stopped just short of his own signature moves, yet still managed to beat up Rhino.

Eventually, all the taunting and not actually hitting moves allowed Rhino to recover and make a comeback. Rhino superplexed RVD for a two count. Rhino hit the Gore, but Forbes put Van Dam’s foot on the ropes to break the pin. Rhino went for a chair, but the ref took it away. In the distraction, Forbes low blowed Rhino. RVD brought out a table and tried to Gore Rhino, but Rhino blocked him, picked him up, and drove him through the table for the disqualification. This was a fun match, but the fans hated the finish. 

After the match, Rhino chased the referee away instead of attacking RVD who simply made out with Forbes in the ring. 

Impact World Champion Sami Callihan defeated Brian Cage to retain

The story of the match was that Cage was strong and healed up for this match, and thus none of Callihan’s offense was hurting him. Cage took Callihan on the Tour de Hurt around the ring, slamming him against the guardrail and apron. The champion was desperate and was looking for a countout victory.

It wasn’t until Callihan raked Cage’s eyes and hit a piledriver on the apron that he managed to cut Cage off and gain control. It didn’t last long because Cage recovered quickly, but he was rocked enough so that Callihan could keep up with him. They traded strikes and Cage hit an ugly looking Electric Chair Drop for a two count. Callihan came back with a DVD for another two count and then hit a draping piledriver for another two count. 

Out of desperation, Callihan went for the title belt, but the referee took it away. Amidst the chaos, Cage accidentally clotheslined the referee and hit an F-5 for a visual pin, but the ref was down. 

Jake Crist came down and Cage took both Callihan and Crist out. Cage went for the Drill Claw, but Fulton came down. Cage endured a Callihan low blow, a Fulton chokeslam, a Callihan belt shot, and a Cactus Special, getting pinned by Callihan in finish a good main event. 

Triple threat Tag Team title match added to Impact Bound for Glory

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The Tag Team title match at Bound for Glory 2019 will be a triple threat.

During last night’s Impact episode, it was announced that The North (Josh Alexander & Ethan Page) will defend their titles against Rich Swann & Willie Mack and RVD & Rhino in a triple threat match at Bound for Glory. The pay-per-view is taking place at the Odeum Expo Center in Villa Park, Illinois on Sunday, October 20.

The North have been Impact Tag Team Champions since defeating LAX (Santana & Ortiz) for the titles this July.

Here’s the updated card for Bound for Glory:

  • Impact World Champion Brian Cage defending against Sami Callihan
  • Michael Elgin vs. Naomichi Marufuji
  • Knockouts Champion Taya Valkyrie defending against Tenille Dashwood
  • X-Division Champion Jake Crist defending against Tessa Blanchard, Daga, and two other wrestlers in a five-way ladder match
  • Impact Tag Team Champions The North defending against Rich Swann & Willie Mack and RVD & Rhino in a triple threat match
  • Moose vs. Ken Shamrock
  • The Rascalz (Dezmond Xavier, Zachary Wentz & Trey Miguel) vs. Dr. Wagner Jr. and two partners
  • Call Your Shot Gauntlet match (winner gets a future shot at the Impact title of their choosing)