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TRINITY VS. PURRAZZO II, 8 MAN WAR, SANADA VS. SOMETHING & MORE: COMPLETE IMPACT WRESTLING EMERGENCE 2023 PPV COVERAGE

Impact Champion Alex Shelley & KUSHIDA & Chris Sabin & Josh Alexander vs. X-Division Champion Lio Rush & Bully Ray & Moose & Brian Myers.

Alexander got a monster reaction for his return to Canada.

Sabin and Rush started with Rush getting drilled all over.  Time Machine triple-teamed him.  Rush was worked over for some time.  Moose and Alexander tagged in.  Moose missed a charge and was hung upside down in the corner.  Alexander stepped on his well, nether-regions and then slammed him and hit a kneedrop.   Sabin tagged in and went to the ropes but Ray caused him to be crotched on the top.  Ray tagged in and pulled Sabin down into the ring.  Sabin fired away with several rights but was hit with a suplex.

Team Bully took over and for a long time, worked over Sabin.  Moose and Myers tagged in and out.  Myers hit a belly to back suplex.  Bully set up a table outside and Alexander did the same on the opposite side.  Bully did an Abdullah the Butcher style elbow.  Sabin was in trouble for a long time as Team Bully kept tagging in and out.  Myers locked in a front facelock.  Sabin escaped and nailed a kick to the back of the head.

Alexander made the hot tag and nailed a series of German suplexes on his foes.  It started to get more chaotic.  Rush and Shelley had some nice sequences.  KUSHIDA knocked him to the outside and hit a sliding kick.  Ray laid him out.  Sabin nailed a missile dropkick on Sabin.  Moose powerbombed Sabin on the apron outside.  Alexander was drilled with a running uppercut.  Alexander went for a C4 spike.  Moose escaped but was caught in an anklelock.  Moose made it to the ropes.  Alexander turned it into a Sharpshooter.  Myers hit a top rope elbow on the referee, so he couldn't see Moose tapping.  He then attacked Alexander. 

Myers nailed a back suplex and a Roster Cut on Alexander.  Time Machine returned and nailed a triple team boot to the face.  Sabin nailed a dive on Moose but was caught and crushed through a table with a uranage.  Rush nailed a frog splash through a table in KUSHIDA.  Bully beat down Shelley on the ramp to the ring.    Moose set up a table to put Shelley through but the lights went out and when they returned PCO was there to attack Bully.  He wanted to put him through the table but was quadrupleteamed and powerbomed off the ramp through the table, only to survoive and pop back up.  He brawled with them.  

Steve Maclin hit the scene and attacked, then faced off with Alexander.  They brawled on the stage.  Alexander was slammed into the lights on the stage.  Maclin attacked the arm.  Security pulled them apart with the idea Maclin tried to attack the arm that Alexander previously injured.  Alexander, hurting, returned to the ring, where Moose laid him out.  Alexander avoided a spear but was still almost pinned with Moose's feet on the ropes.  Moose speared Alexander and pinned him.

Your winners, Team Bully Ray!

A good tag match with some fun action and story plus angles with Maclin and PCO.

Impact Wrestling announced Jordynne Grace, who had been taking time off, would return at the 9/8 Victory Road PPV.

Gail Kim joined the announcers.

Impact Wrestling Knockouts Champion Trinity vs. Deonna Purrazzo.

They started out with Trinity in control, sending Deonna to the floor after a dropkick.  Trinity follows up with a sliding kick to the outside.  She went for a move but was caught upside down and Purrazzo drilled down her down atop her head.  

Back in the ring, Purrazzo nailed a back cracker and scored a two count.  They battled back and forth until nailing each other with a clothesline at once.  Trinity scored with a series of kicks and knees.  She nailed a flying bodypress for a two count.

Deonna went for the Queen's Gambit but Trinity blocked.  Purrazzo nailed a pump kick for a two count.  Purrazzi scored with a series of moves before snapping Trinity into a Fujiwara Armbar.  Trinity fought to the ropes to force a break.  

Trinity scissored her head and drilled Purrazzo into the mat.  She nailed a split-legged moonsault.  Trinity and Purrazzo battled on the top rope.  Purrazzo nailed a big superplex into the ring.    Both women were down and almost counted down on the mat by the referee.

Purrazzo and Trinity began shoving each other and battered each other with punches.  Trinity drove Purrazzo into the mat for another two count.  They scored several near falls against each other.  Purrazzo kept going back after the arm but Trinity nailed a Cody Red and cinched in Starstruck.  Purrazzo tapped, the second time she has done do to Trinity.

Your winner and still Knockouts Champion, Trinity!

Purrazzo offered her hand in respect.  Trinity accepted it.

They plugged Bound for Glory as they went off the air, announcing Will Ospreay was returning to the company.

A very good, solid top to bottom show from Impact tonight.

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