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X Division title challenge, tag match added to Impact’s Turning Point

Posted on by Josh Nason

Impact Wrestling continues to add more matches to Saturday’s Turning Point event on their Impact Plus streaming service, announcing two more bouts on social media Wednesday.

After his successful defense of the title Tuesday in a win over TJP, X Division Champion Rohit Raju is reopening his “Defeat Raju Challenge”, opening it up to anyone on the roster to challenge for the belt.

The other new match will feature Chris Sabin and newfound partner James Storm against XXXL (Acey Romery and Larry D). Sabin found himself partnerless due to Alex Shelley’s recent neck injury, but after defeating Romero Tuesday, XXXL beat him up and left him laying. He asked Storm backstage if he would help back him up against his enemies and the “Cowboy” accepted.

The matches round out an already deep card for Saturday:

  • World Champion Rich Swann vs. Sami Callihan
  • Knockouts Champion Su Yung vs. Deonna Purrazzo
  • Tag Team Champions The North vs. Good Brothers
  • Jordynne Grace/Tenille Dashwood vs. Rosemary/Taya Valkyrie
  • Brian Myers vs. Swoggle
  • Moose vs. Willie Mack
  • Eddie Edwards vs. Daivari
  • X Division Champion Rohi Raju open challenge
  • Chris Sabin and James Storm vs. XXXL

Impact Wrestling adds two matches to Turning Point

Posted on by Josh Nason

This week’s Impact Wrestling saw two new matches added to this Saturday’s Turning Point show on the Impact Plus streaming service.

In one match, rivals will become allies as Jordynne Grace will team with Tenille Dashwood to face Rosemary and Taya Valkyrie. Dashwood teamed with Madison Rayne to open Tuesday’s show in a losing effort to Nevaeh and Havok. 

Dashwood reluctantly approached Grace after the loss to ask her if she wanted to team up which Grace reluctantly accepted, saying Dashwood would have a chance to earn her trust. With the Knockouts Tag Team Titles tourney starting next week, both are trying to find partners.

In the other new match, former World Champion Eddie Edwards will face Daivari. The latter made his return to the company at Bound For Glory as part of the Call Your Shot gauntlet. 

The full card for Turning Point as of now:

  • World Champion Rich Swann vs. Sami Callihan
  • Knockouts Champion Su Yung vs. Deonna Purrazzo
  • Tag Team Champions The North vs. Good Brothers
  • Jordynne Grace/Tenille Dashwood vs. Rosemary/Taya Valkyrie
  • Brian Myers vs. Swoggle
  • Moose vs. Willie Mack
  • Eddie Edwards vs. Daivari

Three title matches announced for Impact Wrestling’s Turning Point

Posted on by Josh Nason

Both on Tuesday’s edition of Impact Wrestling and on Twitter afterward, nearly the full card for Turning Point was announced.

In the main event, World Champion Rich Swann will defend his title against former champion Sami Callihan. The two were on opposite teams in the main event of Tuesday’s show and had a run-in on the previous week’s show as well.

In another rematch, Knockouts Champion Su Yung will defend against Deonna Purrazzo in an anything goes match. Their rematch on Tuesday’s show ended in a disqualification after Yung hit Purrazzo in the stomach with a chair, helping set up the stipulation.

In a Tag Team Title match, champions The North will defend against the Good Brothers. The two teams have been feuding for weeks with Gallows picking up a singles win over Ethan Page on Tuesday’s show. The teams went to a no contest on the Bound For Glory go-home edition of Impact.

Two other matches announced: Moose vs. Willie Mack and Brian Myers vs. Swoggle.

Turning Point will air on Saturday, November 14th on the Impact+ streaming service.

Callihan vs. Cage World title rematch set for Impact Plus special

Posted on by Joseph Currier

Impact Wrestling has announced when Sami Callihan will be making his first World Championship defense.

Brian Cage will get his rematch for Callihan’s World title at Impact’s Turning Point special on Saturday, November 9. The special will air live on Impact Plus.

Callihan won the Impact World Championship from Cage in a steel cage match at last Friday’s Impact television tapings in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The match aired as the main event of Impact’s official weekly debut on AXS TV last night.

After the steel cage match, Tessa Blanchard came to the ring and confronted Callihan.

Prior to the title change, Cage retained the Impact World Championship against Callihan in a no disqualification match at Bound for Glory.  The steel cage rematch was set up by an angle where Callihan threatened Cage’s family until Cage agreed to give him another title shot.

Turning Point is taking place at the Holy Family Academy in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Ace Austin vs. Jake Crist for the X-Division title and RVD vs. Rhino are also set for the show.

December 13, 2004 Observer Newsletter: Paul Heyman off WWE writing team, TNA Turning Point recap

Posted on by Dave Meltzer

Paul Heyman’s three months on the WWE main creative team ended on 12/3, which, depending on one’s position regarding Heyman, became the biggest internal WWE news of the week for a number of reasons.

Heyman being dropped from the team wasn’t expected by most wrestlers, a lot of whom were very negative about it. In hindsight, it was noted to me that Ranjan Chhibber, a writers’ assistant who is close to Heyman (he was on a three-month trial basis and has since given notice in the past week or so, claiming a family situation), had mentioned to several Smackdown stars two days earlier that he expected some fireworks imminently on the writing team, and strongly praised Heyman to those people ahead of the other writers. He didn’t hint Heyman would be gone, but in hindsight, those who talked with him said it was now what they thought he meant and knew based on what he was saying.

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