A Texas Death Match between Mike Santana and The System’s JDC highlights tonight’s TNA Impact as the road to next month’s Bound for Glory begins.
Santana has been feuding with The System for the majority of the last month and issued a challenge to the former Dirty Dango for the bout following last Friday’s Victory Road.
After his win over Josh Alexander last Friday, Joe Hendry will be on hand to share what he wants next.
After winning the titles last Friday with a win over Masha Slamovich & Tasha Steelz, new Knockouts Tag Team Champions Spitfire (Dani Luna & Jody Threat) will defend their titles against opponents to be named.
Matt Cardona will take on Rhino after attacking him last Friday following Stephanie De Lander’s announcement she needs neck surgery.
First Class (AJ Francis & KC Navarro) will look to rebound from their Friday loss to The Hardys as they battle new signees Sinner & Saint (Judas Icarus and Travis Williams).
The System, The Hardys, Masha Slamovich & Jordynne Grace Kick Off This Week’s Show
An in-depth TNA Victory Road 2024 video package showing highlights from last Friday’s special event in San Antonio, Texas is shown. We then shoot inside the Impact Zone, where Tom Hannifan and Matthew Rehwoldt welcome us to the show.
“Do you wanna know something?” Those are the first words we hear as The System’s Alisha Edwards makes her way out with a microphone in-hand. She asks her question-catchphrase once more and then complains about no longer being a TNA Knockouts Tag-Team Champion due to Masha Slamovich.
Slamovich makes her way out after Edwards continues verbally dressing her down. She gets in Edwards’ face in the ring, and Edwards chastises her to her face for being the weak link in their former MAlisha duo. She says what’s even worse is, she doesn’t even understand a word she’s saying.
We then get the big reveal from Slamovich, who informs Edwards that she has heard every word that has ever come out of her mouth. She says she’s sick of her. As she continues to defiantly respond to her former partner, she is attacked from behind by Tasha Steelz.
Masha starts fighting back, but is taken out by Edwards’ “Kendra” kendo stick. Steelz and Edwards join forces in beating Slamovich down until we hear the familiar sounds of the siren of “The Juggernaut.” Out comes TNA Knockouts Champion Jordynne Grace to make the save.
She comes out, but so does The System duo of Eddie Edwards and Brian Myers. Before anything can happen, the iconic sounds of the theme for The Hardys plays and out comes Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy to a rock star reaction from the Texas crowd.
The System crew bails out of the ring to the floor and the two groups of wrestlers stare each other down. Santino Marella’s theme hits and says if they want to fight, they’re gonna get their wish tonight. He announces a six person tag match with Eddie Edwards, Brian Myers and Tasha Steelz taking on The Hardys and Masha Slamovich.
Santino says as for Jordynne Grace, but before he can say anything, “The NXT and TNA Liaison” Arianna Grace comes out. She announces Wendy Choo & Rosemary vs. Jordynne Grace and one of Arianna’s “very best friends from WWE NXT.” It is never stated who the friend is. Santino says he likes the way she thinks and the segment wraps up on that note.
Eric Young Tells Josh Alexander To Start Acting Like A Leader
Backstage, we see Josh Alexander lost in thought when Eric Young approaches him and asks if he’s got a minute. He tells Alexander he’s been in the same spot he’s in right now. He says they think alike. He says he’s got a lot of guys paying attention to his every word and every move.
He says he’s headed into a place where it’s harder to come back from than he thinks. Young tells Alexander that he’s a leader here, and that it’s time to start taking it serious. He walks off as Alexander seems to be giving that some serious thought.
Hannifan runs down the scheduled lineup for tonight as the official match graphics flash across the screen. The show then heads into the first commercial break of the evening.
First Class (AJ Francis & KC Navarro) defeated Sinner & Saint
When the show returns, Jordynne Grace catches up with Masha Slamovich and tells her she expected her to be one of the people to respond to her many TNA Knockouts Championship Open Challenges in recent weeks/months. She tells her she has a feeling they’ll see each other sooner than later.
The Hardys come out of their dressing room and have a quick chat with Grace and Slamovich. Slamovich says teaming with them is a dream. They tell her to help them continue to show to the world tonight that TNA Wrestling is white hot these days.
Back inside the Impact Zone, the theme for First Class hits and out comes the team of AJ Francis and KC Navarro for our first match of the evening. Their opponents, Sinner and Saint, come out next. Navarro and Travis Williams (Saint) kick things off at the bell.
Navarro starts off strong, but after a handshake goes wrong, Saint takes over and tags in Judas Icarus (Sinner), who picks up where he left off. Francis ends up tagging in and shifting the offensive momentum back in First Class’ favor.
KC Navarro is tossed out to the floor like a rag-doll, and then Sinner hits Francis with a big shot that buys him some much-needed time. He makes it to the corner for the tag and in comes Saint. Navarro also tags back in.
The two mix it up and Navarro is thrown to the floor. Sinner & Saint hit a double-team spot that culminates with a big splash onto Navarro on the floor. Back in the ring, Sinner turns Navarro inside-out for a close two-count.
Moments later, Francis hits the Down Payment choke slam, which Navarro immediately follows-up with a top-rope First Class Splash for the pinfall victory.
Mike Santana Sends A Message To JDC Ahead Of Texas Death Match
Once the match wraps up, we shoot to a shot of someone’s boots backstage. We see a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire clanging off the concrete ground. The camera pans up and we see Mike Santana.
He says tonight we’re gonna find out if JDC is willing to walk through the fire, because he’s gonna baptize him in his own blood. “Cause you motha f**kers, ya’ll locked in this world with me!” After this wraps up, the show heads into another commercial break.
Gia Miller Interviews “Speedball” Mike Bailey
When the show returns, Gia Miller is standing by backstage with new TNA X-Division Champion “Speedball” Mike Bailey. He talks about recapturing the title and how he’s prepared to defend it against the best of the best.
Miller informs Bailey that speaking of the best of the best, she has learned from Santino Marella that Bailey will be teaming up with Leon Slater and KUSHIDA to take on Zachary Wentz and ABC duo Chris Bey and Ace Austin in six-man tag-team action.
Rhino defeated Matt Cardona via Disqualification
Hannifan and Rehwoldt bring up Steph De Lander’s announcement about needing neck surgery and how she’ll be out of action for six-to-ten months as a result. We are shown a digital exclusive from after her announcement at TNA Victory Road where she and PCO talk backstage immediately afterwards. De Lander tells PCO to trust her and be patient.
Back inside the Impact Zone, the theme for “Alwayz Ready” Matt Cardona hits and out comes “The Indy God” for our next match of the evening. He settles in the ring and the theme for his opponent plays, bringing out former ECW legend Rhino.
As soon as the bell sounds, Cardona hops out of the ring and walks around to the entrance aisle. He looks in at Rhino as the referee begins his count. He walks around to the other side of the ring, hops on the ring apron and steps back inside.
He goes to kick Rhino in the bread-basket, but his kick is caught and Rhino starts drilling him with lefts and rights. He backs Cardona into the corner and hip-tosses him out. He backs into the corner himself and stalks Cardona, measuring him for a Gore.
Cardona notices this coming and slides out to the floor to avoid it. Rhino heads out after him and hits a big suplex to Cardona on the unforgiving entrance ramp. Fans break out in the never-ending “ECW!” chants.
What are the odds anyone in that building was alive to watch an ECW show live as it happened? One Night Stand doesn’t count. Rhino heads out under the ring and pulls out a chair. He brings it in the ring with him, but Cardona gets it and hits him with it. The referee calls for the bell.
Post-match, Cardona continues to beat down Rhino with the chair until the lights in the Impact Zone go out. When they come back on, PCO is standing in the middle of the ring behind Cardona. He slaps his hand on the throat of Cardona and hits a chokeslam.
He climbs up for the PCO-Sault, but Cardona exits the ring to avoid it. PCO taps into his inner Ric Flair and starts beating up an inanimate object in the form of the chair Cardona had. It’s not a New York Times best-selling autobiography encouraging readers’ days to be nice, but close enough.
He hits a back-breaker on the chair, a side-slam and a PCO-Sault onto it. That chair learned its’ lesson, and Cardona was up-close to witness it. After this, the show heads into another commercial break.
Spitfire (Jody Threat & Dani Luna) (c) defeated Kendal Grey & Carlee Bright to retain the TNA Knockouts Tag-Team Championship
When the show returns, Spitfire duo Jody Threat and Dani Luna make their way down to the ring for their first scheduled defense of their newly won TNA Knockouts Tag-Team Championships. The two settle inside the squared circle and await the arrival of their opposition.
Instead, “The Liaison” Arianna Grace comes back out and announces that they will be defending their titles against some fresh blood, two of her best friends from WWE NXT, Kendal Grey and Carlee Bright. The pair of WWE NXT Superstars head to the ring and the bell sounds.
Threat and Grey kick things off for their respective teams. They trade headlocks and then Grey suplexes her way free. Threat goes to whip Grey into the corner, but Grey trips and falls down. Taped show. Wonder what the point of that was? Luna tags in and picks up where Threat left off.
Luna and Threat both end up in the ring and they hit a two-on-one stalled suplex, complete with the free-arm biceps pose for some added arrogance. Bright tags back in and helps shift the offensive momentum into the favor of the WWE NXT team.
The champs take back over and hit the Pressure Drop, the same move that won them the titles at Victory Road 2024 against Masha Slamovich and Tasha Steelz. Afterwards, they go for the cover and score the pinfall to pick up the win and their first title defense. After the match, we head into another commercial time out.
Heather Reckless Approaches Ash By Elegance
When the show returns, we see Ash By Elegance bragging about her looks in a mirror, as George Iceman stands behind her bragging about her some more. In walks Heather Reckless who says she wants to take them up on their offer.
She tells them she has a match next week against Xia Brookside and asks if they’ll watch it. They tell her they’ll think about it. Reckless walks off, Ash and Iceman get back to talking about her looks and the segment mercifully wraps up on that note.
Mike Santana defeated JDC in a Texas Death Match
Inside the Impact Zone, the theme for Johnny Dango Curtis hits and out comes the newest member of The System for our next match of the evening. He settles in the ring and his entrance tune dies down.
The catchy-ass theme for Mike Santana hits next and a spotlight follows him as he walks down the steps in the crowd. He makes the long trip to the ring to a nice reaction from the Texas crowd.
As Santana hops the barricade and enters the ringside area, he is immediately met by JDC and the two trade shots. The bell sounds and our scheduled Texas Death Match is underway. Falls count anywhere and whomever incapacitates their opponent enough to keep them down for a count of ten will be declared the winner.
The two fight into the ring, where Santana settles into the early offensive lead. He beats down JDC until he is slumped in the corner. He backs up and charges at him, blasting him with a knee to the dome. He backs up and stalks him. He charges him again but JDC rolls out to the floor at the last minute.
As JDC walks around the ringside area to clear the cobwebs, he is met by a large body flying through the air, as Santana gets a running start and leaps over the top-rope, splashing onto The System member on the floor. Santana heads back out and grabs a trash can, some steel chairs and brings them into the ring.
Santana unfolds the two chairs and sets them back-to-back in the middle of the ring, ready-to-be-sat on, but something tells me he won’t be using them for that purpose. He hoists JDC up, but JDC escapes out the back door.
Santana climbs on JDC in the corner for the ten-punch spot, but before he gets to ten, JDC scoops him up and walks forward, power-bombing Santana across the unforgiving double-chair set-up. Ouch. Fans are already chanting “This is Awesome!”
JDC takes off his shirt and puts the trash can over Santana. He grabs a kendo stick and begins beating the crap out of the trash can with some vicious batting practice. JDC heads to the ropes again and climbs up. He leaps off with the Down ‘N’ Dirty onto Santana, who is still in the trash can and unaware of the moment of impact.
Santana rolls out to the floor upon impact. He gets the trash can off of his head and in a camera shot similar to the evil Mr. McMahon peaking above the ring apron from WrestleMania-past, Santana’s bloody dome pops into frame and gets a reaction from the crowd and announcers alike.
JDC heads over to draw more blood, but is unaware, as are the viewing audience, that Santana is secretly wielding the barbed wire covered baseball bat he was holding in his pre-match promo earlier in the show. He whacks JDC with it and draws some blood from The System member to even up the crimson mask count.
On that note, the show heads into a mid-match commercial break as this violent spectacle continues. When we return, we see both guys still spilling blood like crazy. In particular, JDC is bleeding an absurd amount.
Things culminate with Santana leaping off a ladder (as a referee and stage-hand held it sturdy for him) and putting JDC through some staging equipment for the ten-count and the win. After the match, as Santana is celebrating, he is attacked from behind by Moose. Moose beats him down with repeated chair shots and leaves him laying.
Josh Alexander Begins His New Role As TNA Locker Room Leader
“The Walking Locker Room Leader” Josh Alexander is shown backstage catching up with Sinner & Saint. He explains to them that the competition level for guys like them is at a whole new standard when you enter a promotion like TNA Wrestling. He tells them to keep their heads up and keep trying. We head to another commercial break.
Lei Ying Lee Is Coming To TNA Impact Next Week
When the show returns, we see the latest vignette hyping the arrival to TNA Wrestling of former WWE Superstar Xia Li, who is now working under the ring name, Lei Ying Lee. It is announced that she will make her TNA Impact next week on the show.
Joe Hendry, Frankie Kazarian & Nic Nemeth Talk TNA World Championship
Back inside the Impact Zone, we hear the familiar sounds of the viral smash hit theme song for the hottest rising star in TNA Wrestling, and among those in all of pro wrestling right now — Joe Hendry. “Say his name and he appears …”
The crowd goes bonkers as he makes his way out and does his full ring entrance routine, complete with the side-to-side hand-waive in the ring, etc. Hendry talks about making a statement with his win over Josh Alexander at TNA Victory Road last Friday night.
Hendry says every time he’s down, the fans lift him back up. He has a feeling they’re going to lift him all the way up to the TNA World Championship. With that said, out comes “The King of TNA.” No, not the TNA World Champion Nic Nemeth. The self-proclaimed “King of TNA” Frankie Kazarian.
Kazarian says it’s funny that he thinks the fans will lift him up to the TNA World Championship, when all of the fans in the crowd tonight, for example, can’t lift up their guts to see their own genitals. He says it’s also funny Hendry thinks he’s next in-line for a title shot after winning one match.
He says he only won the match in the first place because he had a weapon in his crotch. He says it’s probably not the first time he had his crotch loaded. He calls Hendry a cross between Shrek and Groundskeeper Willie from The Simpsons.
He says if anyone deserves a shot at the TNA World Championship it’s Frankie Kazarian, “because I believe in Frankie Kazarian.” Fans react with a loud “You suck! You suck!” chant. Kazarian demands Nic Nemeth come out and grant him his TNA World title shot.
We hear the familiar sounds of the pants unzipping and a woman moaning as TNA World Champion Nic Nemeth makes his way down to the ring in a sport coat with his title in-hand. He joins Kazarian and Hendry in the ring. After he and Kazarian exchange words, TNA Director of Authority Santino Marella comes out yet again.
Marella announces that it will be Joe Hendry vs. Frankie Kazarian next week on Impact. The winner will move on to challenge Nic Nemeth for the TNA World Championship in the main event of the biggest show of the year, TNA Bound For Glory 2024 in Detroit, Michigan.
The Hardys (Matt and Jeff Hardy) & Masha Slamovich defeated The System (Brian Myers and Eddie Edwards) & Tasha Steelz
It’s main event time!
The theme for The System duo of Brian Myers and Eddie Edwards hits and out they come along with their partner for the six-person tag-team main event match of the evening, Tasha Steelz. They settle into the ring and then Masha Slamovich’s theme hits to bring her out.
The Hardys’ iconic entrance tune plays and the crowd goes wild as Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy emerge. The six competitors scheduled for our final match of the evening are settled inside the squared circle and ready to rock and roll, but first, the show heads into a quick pre-match commercial break.
When the show returns, the bell sounds and Steelz and Slamovich get things started for their respective teams. After some basic back-and-forth action early on, we see things pick up when all six end up getting involved.
The Hardys help Slamovich live a dream spot, as she helps execute Poetry in Motion. Matt and Jeff follow up with another big double-team high spot before the show heads into a mid-match commercial break as the action continues.
When we return, we see The System helping each other out, with Jeff Hardy’s Whisper in the Wind attempt thwarted by a quick step from the intended landing target. Myers goes to work on Jeff Hardy as fans lambast him with “You suck! You suck!” chants.
We see The System enjoy the offensive lead for another minute or two and then The Hardys help shift the momentum back in their team’s favor. Fans pump up Matt Hardy with “DELETE! DELETE!” chants. Before he can go for his finisher, Alisha Edwards gets involved at ringside.
The referee ejects her from ringside and the crowd pops. She makes a big issue out of leaving. Hands on the hips and the whole deal. Out comes ABC duo Chris Bey and Ace Austin, who each hoist her up and carry her to the back.
Steelz attacks Slamovich from behind in the ring. Masha hits a turning splash through the ropes onto Steelz on the floor. Jeff Hardy hits a Twist of Fate on Edwards. Matt Hardy hits one on Myers. Jeff hits a Swanton Bomb off the top-rope.
Matt goes for the cover. 1-2-3. The Hardys and Masha Slamovich pick up the win in a fun main event. The three celebrate their victory as Tom Hannifan mentions the lineup for next week’s show again, noting the Road to TNA Bound For Glory 2024 kicks off next Thursday night. That’s how this week’s show goes off the air.
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