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Live from Las Vegas, Bryan Alvarez has not one, but two recaps from Thursday night’s action as part of WrestleMania weekend.
The first is the WrestleCon Supershow (featuring what Bryan called the worst match ever) followed by TNA Unbreakable which featured one of the most violent matches in recent memory.
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News and notes from Thursday night’s TNA Unbreakable special on TNA Plus.
Steve Maclin won a three-way to become the first-ever TNA International Champion in the Unbreakable main event.
Maclin defeated Eric Young, and AJ Francis in the three-way to be recognized as the inaugural International Champion. The International title replaces the Digital Media Championship vacated last month. Steph De Lander claimed the Digital Media title and was briefly recognized as Champion following PCO’s departure in January, but never defended the title.
Young and Maclin both won three-way qualifiers earlier in the Unbreakable card, while Francis won his way in to the title match weeks ago on Impact.
Victoria Crawford, formerly known as Alicia Fox in WWE, made her TNA debut in an angle at Unbreakable. After being shown in the audience, Crawford distracted Knockouts World Champion Masha Slamovich during the mixed tag bout on the show, allowing Tessa Blanchard to hit Slamovich from behind.
Chris Bey made a special appearance at Unbreakable. The 29-year-old Bey suffered a broken neck in a TNA match last October, with the company holding a fundraising event for him earlier Thursday, plus auctioning off event-worn gear from tonight’s show on their eBay page.
Sidney Akeem, formerly known as Scrypts in NXT and Reggie in WWE, made his promotional debut as the surprise opponent for Moose in the X-Division Champion’s open challenge at Unbreakable.
Matt and Jeff Hardy gave Nic and Ryan Nemeth an invitation to The Hardy Compound at Unbreakable. The Hardys are set to defend their TNA Tag Team titles against The Nemeths at the Rebellion pay-per-view on April 27.
Matt Boone’s full report from Unbreakable is here.
Some news and notes regarding the TNA Unbreakable event set for Thursday, April 17 —
Chris Bey fundraiser —
TNA has announced a fundraiser for wrestler Chris Bey who suffered a broken neck in a TNA match last October, branding the efforts “Chris Bey All Day.”
One element of the fundraiser is a ticketed breakfast event on Thursday, April 17 that will stream on TNA Plus. A questions and answers segment will allow those in attendance to ask questions of TNA Tag Team Champions Matt and Jeff Hardy at the event, with Bey also advertised as making an appearance at the show. Tickets for the event are $50, with all proceeds being donated directly to Bey.
All staff and wrestlers appearing on the Unbreakable TNA Plus special later that night will wear special Bey merchandise, with TNA then auctioning off those event-worn shirts on their eBay page. Again, all proceeds from the auction will be donated to Bey.
A new grudge match has been announced for the Thursday, April 17 special, with Mance Warner facing Sami Callihan in a Barbed Wire Massacre match.
In addition, AJ Francis became the first wrestler to qualify for the International Championship three-way set for the show to crown the inaugural champ. Two more qualifying matches will take place at Unbreakable, with the title bout to take place later in the evening.
A mixed tag team bout has also been added to the card, with World Champion Joe Hendry and Knockouts World Champion Masha Slamovich teaming against their Rebellion title challengers Frankie Kazarian and Tessa Blanchard.
Another preview match for Rebellion will take place at Unbreakable, with The Hardys and Mike Santana facing The Nemeths and Mustafa Ali in a six-man tag. The Hardys defend their titles against The Nemeths at Rebellion, while Santana will face Ali at that show.
The current TNA Unbreakable lineup:
TNA is introducing a new title, rebranding the Digital Media Championship as the International Championship.
Santino Marella announced on Thursday’s Impact that he was stripping Steph De Lander of the Digital Media title that she claimed to have inherited from former champ PCO in their storyline divorce. He then announced the title will be rebranded, with a tournament crowning the inaugural International Champion.
Three three-way matches will comprise the first round, with one three-way set for next Thursday’s Impact, then two for the April 17 TNA Unbreakable TNA Plus special.
The winners of the three-ways will meet later in the evening at Unbreakable in another triple threat to decide the first-ever TNA International Champion.
The three-way matches are:
TNA Wrestling has provided clarification on the broadcast details for its upcoming Unbreakable live special.
Unbreakable 2025 is being held at Cox Pavilion in Las Vegas on April 17 — the Thursday of WrestleMania week in the city. The show is a TNA+ special that’s happening on the same night that TNA Impact traditionally airs. TNA confirmed today that there will still be an Impact episode that night airing on television from 8-10 p.m. Eastern time, with Unbreakable then streaming live on TNA+ starting at 10 p.m. Eastern (7 p.m. locally in Las Vegas).
The promotion wrote:
No matches have been announced for Unbreakable yet, but TNA teased in their announcement today that there could be surprises at the show.
“Matches for Unbreakable will be announced over the next month, but multiple championship matches will be held in Las Vegas,” the promotion wrote. “Plus, TNA Wrestling executives said that anything can happen in Las Vegas – and often does.”
There is still one more major event on the TNA schedule before Unbreakable. Also a TNA+ special, Sacrifice 2025 will take place from El Paso, Texas on Friday, March 14.
TNA is reviving its Unbreakable event, and has announced the date and location for the TNA Plus special.
Announced Thursday, TNA Unbreakable 2025 will be held on Thursday, April 17 in Las Vegas at the Cox Pavilion. The event will stream on TNA Plus.
A start time for the event was not announced, notable because TNA’s flagship Impact show runs Thursday nights at 8 p.m. Eastern time, indicating that Unbreakable will start at 10 p.m. Eastern or later. Las Vegas is in the Pacific time zone.
April 17 is also the Thursday before WrestleMania 41 in Las Vegas set for April 19 and 20, with most promotions converging on Las Vegas that week and weekend to capitalize on the thousands of wrestling fans traveling for the WWE event.
Tickets for Unbreakable will go on sale next Friday, February 21, with a pre-sale set for February 19.
The first TNA Unbreakable event was held in 2005 and featured one of the best matches in the company’s history, a triple threat with AJ Styles vs. Samoa Joe vs. Christopher Daniels. Under the Impact Wrestling branding, Unbreakable returned for a one-off in 2019 as a TNA Plus special.
The battle of 10/3 between Spike TV and the USA Network has heated up even more.
USA announced on 9/13 that it would now have more than four straight hours of WWE programming the first night. To make it clear that both USA and WWE do consider the UFC as competition, they have moved the start time of Raw to 7:55 p.m., getting a five minute jump on the UFC Unleashed show that will serve as a pre-game show to the two-hour live special that begins at 9 p.m. In addition, WWE will have a fourth hour, scheduled to start whenever the Raw/ They should have let me know the now then called “Raw Exposed: WWE’s 10 Greatest Moments.”
This show is being done to keep UFC and Spike from being the beneficiary of all the hotshot programming, as when Raw ended, Ultimate Fighter would begin, and the regular Raw viewers, particularly those between 18-34 (more than 70% of some good nights) have stayed tuned to see Ultimate Fighter. The idea is not to allow both Raw & the live UFC special to end simultaneously and feed Spike a good rating.
