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Impact Wrestling on AXS TV
12/16/21
We open on a title card memorial for James “Jimmy Rave” Guffey. RIP.
Opening montage of Matt Cardona’s war with W. Morrisey ahead of his title shot against Moose at Hard To Kill.
Match 1: Rohit Rahul (w/ Raj Singh) vs Josh Alexander
Alexander is intense as he makes his way back towards a shot at reclaiming the World Chanpionship that was stolen from him. Rohit is hesitant to engage early, stuns the big man with a gut kick but Alexander blasts his back with a big boot. Rohit taking shots at the ribs. Singh pulls Raju out of danger, Josh makes him pay for that. Raju uses the distraction to ambush Josh and slam his ribs to the apron. Back in the ring, Raju hits an elbow drop to the ribs for two. Crowd trying to cheer Walking Weapon back into this fight. Josh picks the ankle but Raju pulls at the headgear and hits a side Russian leg sweep for two. Raju comes running into a roll through slam. Josh to the top! Singh distracts the ref, Raju crotches him on the top and slams Josh onto the top rope. Raju throwing slaps but Alexander is angry now. Big belly to belly Suplex and he’s coming back to life in this match. Raju tries to fight a powerbomb, Raju with a bridging pin attempt, Josh can barely muster the core strength to get out of there. Josh picks the ankle again but Singh interferes. Josh dodges some strikes but Rohit hits a yakuza kick and cannonball. Raju to the top! Double stomp the ribs! Josh Alexander kicks out! He tries the C4 spike but can’t get Raju up. Big shot to the face, Josh catches a boot and stomps the knee out hard! Raju is crippling as an angry Josh Alexander rages Rohit up for the C4 spike to get the W.
Winner: Josh Alexander
We have a backstage interview with the Good Brothers and Violent By Design, who have formed an alliance. The Good Brothers know they can’t TRUST VBD. Eric Young admits that trust is impossible….this is a business deal.
We have a backstage interview with Chelsea Green, ahead of the first ever Knockouts Ultimate X match. Green says this match will be legendary for Women’s Wrestling. She’s ready to walk out as the number one contender. Moose confronts her and calls her so loyal for staying with a mid-carder. Green calls him a coward for getting in her face instead of Matt Cardona’s.
Match 2: Joe Doering & Doc Gallows vs Rich Swann & Willie Mack
This business arrangement is in full effect. Mack & Swann bring Heath & Rhyno out for backup tonight against the monster party they’re up against. Fast tags and tandem offense against Gallows for the first few minutes. Doering tries to save Gallows from the outside but the big men eat a double dive. Swann gets caught up on the apron, the ref gets distracted and Gallows crumbles Rich with a roundhouse kick that sends him to the door, surrounded by all his enemies. Doering in with a Boston crab. Gallows punishes Swann with strikes to the midsection and a back elbow in the corner. They’ve slowed this down to really work Swann over. Mack finally gets the tag, staggering Doering and Gallows with punches and an enziguri. Swann recovers and they chop Doering down with a double kick. Gallows stands into a flying crossbody. Swann gets thrown off the top by Doering and Mack is hits with a double chokeslam to end this abruptly.
Winners: Gallows & Doering
Heath and Rhyno try to help Mack out but everyone swarms them. Eddie edwards is out with a kendo stick and clears the ring. Big suicide dive as the baby faces recover and run the heels off.
VSK & Zicky Dice are backstage taking about their upcoming match with Decay and a chance at redemption in the eye of Brian Myers. VSK just begs Zicky to be sober for their next match. Zicky agrees…kinda.
We get a promo for Jonah, who explains what being the Top Dog is all about. He talks about his dad being in jail and earning the respect of the prison’s top dog. Josh Alexander? He didn’t earn Jonah’s respect. He earned his wrath. If Josh Alexander is the Walking Weapon. Jonah is Mass Destruction.
Match 3: John Skyler vs Trey Miguel
Crowd is firmly behind the X division champ. Skyler decks him but Miguel rebounds with a dropkick, suicide dive to the floor! He tries another but Skyler hits a slingshot spear! The commentary is going hard on the “Who is John Skyler” stuff. Miguel dodges a corner spear but gets overhead tossed back into the buckles. Skylar caught on the buckles and eats a kick to the face. Miguel with a meteora off the top and Skyler is down for the count.
Winner: Trey Miguel
Trey Miguel celebrates on the ramp but he gets ambushed by Steve Maclin, who leaves the champ laying and holds the X division belt…He waits for Trey to get back up and blasts him to the floor with a belt shot to the head and drags him into the back by his foot.
Backstage, we see Trey Miguel tied up and blindfolded. Maclin splashes water in his face and says nothing can stop him. He says he just proved that he can get Trey ANY TIME he wants. The champ is in PERIL but we cut back to the Impact arena.
Match 4: Chris Bey (w/ Hikuleo) vs Laredo Kid
This has been getting hyped all night. Bey driven to the buckle on the first lockup and complains Kid is pulling his hair (he definitely isn’t). Fast sequences over a wrist lock, Laredo Kid flips right out of trouble and Bey looks worried. Bey with a gut kick and tries to grind the Kid down with stomps and whips. Kid out the corner with a crossbody and a head scissor…Bey escapes a dive and Hikuleo tries to intimidate Kid. Bey uses the distraction to post Kid and get a little too sweet action. Laredo with a ram into the apron for two. Hikuleo is allowed to choke Kid while the ref is distracted by Bey. Chris with some head kicks and a flying clothesline off the top for two. Crowd is split here, as Bey kicks and stomps at the abs of Laredo Kid. Bey misses hangman’s elbow drop and Laredo lands a slingshot senton! Flying suicide headbutt to the outside! Big high angle belly to back suplex. Laredo Kid to the top but Hikuleo throws him off to the floor. Hard landing. Bey tries to capitalize but Laredo dodges and hits a flying forearm into a driver. Time for some moonsaults! Two moonsaults! Two count! Bey blocks a suplex to an inside cradle for two. Kick into a Torture rack spinning cutter. Two count! Bey takes him to the top…Laredo Kid scoops him up and drives him to the mat for two! Laredo to the top, misses the third moonsault. Bey dodges a charge into the corner, Laredo laid out across the top rope and Bey hits the double stomp to it. Kid kicks out! This is awesome chant going from the crowd. Pace picks up, Laredo Kid hits a flip DDT. He dropkicks Hikuleo, who tries to interfere again. Senton from the top to Hikuleo wipes the big man out. Bey recovers and battles with Laredo on the top. Bey flipped off and Kid tries a crossbody but Bey catches him with a cutter OUTTA NOWHERE and gets the three! Great match!
Winner: Chris Bey
We get a look at Deonna Purazzo’s challenge to ROH’s Rok-C, who wants a Winner Take All match after she expects to beat Mickie James for the Knockouts belt at Hard to Kill (and presumably for the AAA Reina de Reinas Title as well). Earlier today she gets into a pull apart brawl with Mickie James at a signing event. We cut to backstage where Scott D’Amore is instituting a No Contact policy between those two. Gail Kim says it’s gonna be a Texas Deathmatch at Hard to Kill.
Match 5: Tenille Dashwood (w/ The Influence) vs Jessie McKay (w/ Cassie Lee)
McKay gets into Dashwood’s face and they taunt each other aggressively. They catch a double kick and have to negotiate a put down…before Dashwood slugs her. Tenille gives her a noogie in a headlock. McKay with a tackle and takes control. McKay stomping Dashwood out. Tenille reverses with a hangman’s neckbreaker for two. McKay gets her hair pulled on the rope and the ref has to warn off the Influence from interfering. Dashwood with a full Nelson and drags McKay to the mat. Jess breaks it on the corner and whips Dashwood down. McKay with some clotheslines, a flying forearm and a gutwrench suplex for two. McKay hits a big boot but Kaleb with a K pulls out the ref during the count. Brawl on the outside, Kaleb trips up Jess and Dashwood hits a basement boot to the head for the pin.
Winner: Tenille Dashwood
We go to out final segment, the Impact World Title match contract signing between Moose, Matt Cardona & W. Morrissey. Scott D’Amore hosts the signing. Everyone makes their entrance to the singing table, Cardona brings Chelsea Green with him. D’Amore points out that Cardona finally has an opportunity to finally win a World championship on his one-year anniversary with Impact. Cardona goes to sign it but Morrissey grabs the clipboard. He didn’t come here to make friends…he came here to become champion…and signs it first and leaves his opponents in the ring and heads to the back. Audible “Deathmatch King” chant for Cardona. Cardona tells Moose that despite his weeks of running him down, his passion is impossible to kill….and signs it. Moose waiting passively and asks Cardona if he REALLY wants to do this. Matt says this delay tactic proves he’s scared. Moose says Cardona will just fail…again. Cardona yells at him to sign it and the champ complies.
\Moose tells Cardona he has a tough challenge ahead of it. He reminds Green of his comments from earlier. She’s so loyal to a mid carder….what’s she going to do after he beats him. Does Green stay loyal or leave him like the “W****” she is. Cardona jumps out of his chair at that word but Moose is ready and bounces his face off the table. Cardona comes flying but Moose boots him to the mat and hits a uranage through the signing table. Green looks up at Moose as she tries to clear Cardona from the rubble.
Moose confidently walks up the ramp but turns back, shoves Green aside and rains fists into Cardona’s face. He wraps a chair around his neck and goes to conchairto it. Green pulls the chair back and almost convinced him to stop. Moose pushes her back and steps away, causing a recovered Cardona to blast Green in the face with a chair. Oh no! Moose rolls out and laughs at Cardona’s mishap while he calls for help and apologizes to an unconscious Chelsea Green.
We fade to black.
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