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KENNY OMEGA & GOOD BROTHERS VS. SWANN & MOOSE & SABIN, BARBED WIRE MASSACRE & MORE: COMPLETE IMPACT WRESTLING HARD TO KILL 2021 COVERAGE

By Mike Johnson on 2021-01-16 18:53:00

Ethan Page vs. The Karate Man.

This was all stuff filmed in front of a green screen.  Hell of a way to exit the company, I suppose.   The idea was every time Page beat Karate Man, he'd be reborn and kick the crap out of Page all over again.   This is the sort of stuff that will give Jim Cornette a 45 minute rant but it felt like it was a tribute to the Speed Racer film with all sorts of crazy backgrounds they found in and from a creative perspective, it was fun eye candy.   Karate Man pulled Page's heart out of his chest like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and then began wandering through a temple.  Fade to black.  I guess Page is dead or something now....until someone else signs him.

Backstage, Don Callis found Moose.  He said he wanted to find Moose and have a chat.  He was buttering up Moose before insinuating that if Moose didn't help them, his contract and his happiness would be in general.  Moose told him he's always played to win and that's what he's going to do tonight.  He said after he wins tonight, he's going to go win the Impact title and then maybe he'll show up in AEW and take Omega's title too.  He walked off on Callis.   Callis realized it was a lost cause and said, "Sh**."

Barbed Wire Massacre: Eddie Edwards with Alisha Edwards vs. Sami Callihan with Ken Shamrock.

There was a steel cage up on one side of the ring, barbed wire boards, barbed wire bats and ropes wrapped in barbed wire.

They tied up and teased putting the other into the wire until finally Callihan was whipped into the ropes and screamed in the wire.   Edwards grabbed a coil of barbed wire and placed it around Callihan's head, pulling backwards and tearing his forehead up. He set a barbed wire board on the mat and tried to force Callihan down onto it but Callihan shoved the board out of the ring.  The board wiped out the announcers' wiring legitimately.  Callihan was beaten down with a series of right hands on the mat.

They battled to the apron, where Callihan drilled Edwards with a clothesline.  The board was placed against the barricade.  Callihan wanted to suplex him out of the ring through the board but was knocked to the floor.  Edwards went for a dive but as he came through the ropes, Callihan smashed him with the board.  Edwards crashed and burned through the barbed wire board.  Callihan nailed the Cactus elbow off the apron to the floor.    He extricated Edwards from the barbed wire and brought him back into the ring, beating him with right hands and sending him into the barbed wire.

Callihan grabbed a video game controller wrapped in barbed wire and beat Edwards with it and then ripped it into Edwards' forehead, bloodying him.   Edwards fought back and nailed a Blue Thunder Bomb on a steel chair wrapped in barbed wire.  Edwards charged Callihan, who was near the cage wall, but Sami moved and Eddie hit the barbed wire cage.   Sami dug his face into the wire.  Eddie fought back but was kicked low.    They each grabbed pieces of barbed wire from the cage and charged at each other, using it as a weapon as they ripped at each other, then struck the other in unison.

Callihan grabbed a barbed wire Singapore Cane while Edwards grabbed a a barbed wire bat.  They exchanged weapons and fought with Edwards nailing Callihan in the gut with it.  Callihan went to the ropes but was nailed again.  Edwards went to the top but was shoved off and caught his neck on the chair that was strung across one side of the ring to hold the weapons.  It looked painful as hell.  

Callihan nailed a piledriver off the ropes through a barbed wire board that was bridged across two chairs.  Edwards kicked up at the last second and began screaming, psyching himself up to fight back. Callihan cut him off with a steel chair to the back.  Edwards nailed the Boston Knee Party with the chair but Callihan kicked up.  Edwards nailed Emerald Frosion on the barbed wire board and scored the pin.  The announcers put over that the finisher was a tribute to the late Mitsuharu Misawa.

Your winner, Eddie Edwards!

They had a hell of a brutal war here.

AEW Champion Kenny Omega & Impact Tag Team Champions The Good Brothers vs. Impact Wrestling Champion Rich Swann & The Motor City Machine Guns' Chris Sabin & TNA Champion Moose.

Don Callis introduced Omega and said Hogan, Flair, Thesz, Gotch were all insects compared to Omega.  Had he said Terry Funk, I might be driving to Nashville right now.

Omega and friends were all wearing Bullet Club shirts.

Sabin and Anderson went back and forth.  Moose and Gallows tagged in and they faced off nose to nose with neither getting the advantage.  Omega and Swann tagged in.  They teased the confrontation but Anderson tagged in.  He and Swann went back and forth.  Swann got the better of it and tagged out to Moose.  He nailed Anderson and held him for a double dropkick.  Moose nailed a standing moonsault for a two count.  Sabin and Anderson battled back and forth.

Swann and Omega tagged in and they battled.  He monkey flipped Omega onto Anderson.  Swann got on Sabin's shoulders to nail assisted DDTs.  Swann and Sabin went for stereo pescados but the Bullet Club moved.  They caught themselves and superkicked Gallows at the same time.  Swann nailed a flip dive off the apron to the floor.  Swann went for the top rope frog splash but Omega blocked it.

Team Omega gained control on Swann.  Anderson slammed him with authority.  Swann was beaten down for a long time as Omega and friends tagged in and out.  Swann finally nailed a Pele Kick on Omega and made the hot tag to Moose.  Moose wiped out Omega and nailed a big uranage on Anderson.  Moose drilled Gallows with a headbutt and controlled everyone.  He mocked Omega and Team Swann nailed a triple kick in the corner.  Moose nailed a discus lariat for a close two count.

Everyone battled.  Omega drilled Sabin and scored a two count.  Omega nailed a sit-out powerbomb but Sabin kicked out at the last second. Omega went for the V-Trigger but Moose nailed a big boot.  Sabin nailed a missile dropkick but Anderson nailed him.  Swann drilled Anderson but Omega nailed him with the V-Trigger.  Omega went to the top but Moose grabbed him and hit a Spanish Fly.  Sabin drilled Omega with his finisher but Anderson broke up the pinfall.  Some great sequences here.

Gallows and Anderson doubleteamed Sabin.  They almost scored the three count but Sabin escaped at the last second.  They went for the Magic Killer but Sabin fought his way out and nailed a spinning DDT.  Swann and Omega tagged in and battled back and forth punches.    Omega nailed a snap dragon suplex and a piledriver but Moose and Sabin made the save.  Moose and Swann nailed a Doomsday Device on Omega but he kicked up at the last second.

Swann nailed a reverse rana.  Omega popped up and kicked him.  Swann superkicked him back and nailed a 450 splash but Omega escaped at the last second.  The battle continued until Omega nailed the V-Trigger and the One-Winged Angel for the pin.

Your winners, Kenny Omega and The Good Brothers!


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