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BARBED WIRE MASSACRE, JORDYNNE VS. MAX THE IMPALER, SPEEDBALL VS. DELIRIOUS & MORE: IMPACT WRESTLING VICTORY ROAD 2022 PPV COVERAGE

Impact Wrestling “Victory Road 2022”

9/23/22 - FITE.TV

Countdown to Victory Road: 

Bullet Club (Ace Austin, Chris Bey & Juice Robinson) beats Jason Hotch, Jack Price & Shogun. Pretty one-sided, especially the end which was just a waterfall of finishers.

Killer Kelly vs Tasha Steelz. Kelly was in her head from the start, with Tasha very hesitant to engage. Good slugfest as they finally clash. Tasha with a reversal to catch Kelly on the apron and tries to get back into this but Kelly is smiling the whole time. Tasha escaping the Killer Clutch attempts that keep coming out of nowhere. Steelz lands some hard headbutts and kicks to almost get the W. She tries to submit Kelly but gets picked up and slammed with a fisherman’s buster. Hard knees, northern lariat and a huge German. Savannah Evans trying to distract and get Steelz back into this. Kelly gets the clutch on but Savannah Evans tries to choke Kelly with a chain but loses it. Killer Kelly starts to choke out Tasha with the chain. The ref calls for the DQ but Kelly chokes him out with the chain before the bell rings. This was either a DQ win for Tasha or just a no contest.

Speedball Mike Bailey(c) vs Delirious (for the X Division Title)

Delirious is here Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!? This is Speedball’s 9th defense, on his way to Christopher Daniels 15 year record of 13 defenses. I could write this move by move but I’m just kicked back with a smile on my face, enjoying these early minutes of action. Delirious doing everything in the playbook and testing Speedball, even biting the feet and dropping him to the floor. Speedball’s back is trashed and can’t land the flamingo driver. Cobra clutch backbreaker from Delirious! Speedball with a stiff kick! Delirious avoids Ultima Weapon! Splash to the back! Great hard reversals as Delirious keeps taking shots at the back. Speedball with a superkick and kneesault! Delirious with a cobra clutch suplex! Speedball with another heavy kick and lands the flamingo driver for the win! This was f***ing great.

Winner: Speedball We get an update on Joe Doering, who is battling cancer again right now. Impact trying to help raise support for the big man. You can help out here: 

Backstage with Honor No More, who are holding tag team good now and have the Heavyweight Championship in their sights now. There’s still ongoing beef between Eddie Edwards and PCO, Vincent says Edwards can trust him with handling the monster.

Match 2: Honor No More (Vincent & PCO) vs The Motor City Machineguns (Chris Sabin & Alex Shelley) 

Sabin toe to toe with the monster and it’s not going well for him. Shelley tags in and the MCMG send PCO packing with some good combos. Vincent in but the quick tags and double teams are just too strong. Vincent finally gets one over on Shelley and lets PCO continue to soften him up. Good discus forearm to the back. PCO looking great for someone in a street fight last night. MCMG’s superior tag chemistry is the deciding factor here and Vincent gets isolated and beat down. He escapes Skull & Bones…side slam and tags PCO back into the fight. PCO with a draping lungblower and ddt. Sabin hung up and PCO with a disgusting leg drop off the second jeeeeeesus. Vincent with a swanton and Shelley makes the save! PCO tries to cut him off but gets shotgunned through the ropes. MCMG with the double cradle shock on Vincent and Honor No More’s night is not starting in their favor.

Winners: Motor City Machine Guns.

Match 3: Mickie James vs Gisele Shaw (Career Threatening Match)

Mickie James is on a warpath back to the Knockouts Title but has her career on the line with every match. Can Gisele Shaw claim this trophy as her own? She comes out with a “happy retirement” party balloon, wowwwww. James is super aggressive, gets the wrist and just controls Shaw with her veteran skills. Shaw with a flashy slingshot arm drag to get free and James is impressed….but still takes the arm again and works on wrenching it off Shaw’s body. James comes running but Shaw hits a brutal shoulderbreaker! Gisele giving James a taste of her own medicine. James tries to head scissor but Gisele kicks her off the apron. Gisele goes for a baseball slide but Mickie traps her in the apron skirt! Mick Kick on the floor! Gisele runs her into the buckle and tries to take James’ career via countout. What an insult. Corkscrew dive over the ropes as Mickie gets her feet back. Shaw tries to choke her out with a cravat, Mickie catches a knee strike! Shaw reverses the ddt…full Nelson backbreaker to a flatliner! Mickie kicks out! James dodges a kick, drops Gisele on her knee! Seated senton from the top for two! Shaw dodges the mickDT again and blasts a huge kick for two! She drops the knee pad…Mickie dodges, superkick! MickDT for three! 

Winner: Mickie James

Match 4: Triple Threat Revolver for the #1 Contendership for the X Division Title

So its’s a triple threat gauntlet match. Our first three contenders are Mia Yim, Laredo Kid & Trey Miguel. High energy first round as Laredo Kid owns the early going with a high angle moonsault to the floor! Double stack 450! Yim & Miguel both kick out! Trey traps the head and 619’s Kid on the corner. He tries to take out the HBIC but she fires up. Tornado ddt to Laredo Kid! Eat Da Feet! Laredo kid is out!

Alex Zayne is next up. Mia tries to dive out but Zayne catches her and slams her down. Slingshot sliced bread to Trey! Zayne taking control but Mia hits a double rana. She tries a dive but eat a double high kick. Trey with a poisonrana to Zayne! Yim shotguns Trey and slams Zayne down and traps the leg to get another elimination!

Kenny King is here next! He’s feeling VERY confident and almost distracts Yim enough for Trey to steal a rollup. Trey and Yik fighting over who gets to beat up Kenny King. Trey wins that fight but King hot shots him. King with a spine buster on Yim. Mia with a flatliner but King gets a foot to the rope! Great rope sequence with Trey, Mia changes directions and dives out at King! Yim has Eat Da Feet coming again on Trey but King runs in and rolls her up with a handful of tights to get the elimination. boooooo!

Yuya Uemura is out next. He starts hot but King blindsides him with a dragon Suplex for two. Trey back in it and works with Yuya to work over King. But now it’s time for them to clash. Good high energy sequence, Trey catches a spin cycle slam for the flash pinfall over Yuya.

Frankie Kazarian is here! King wants NOTHING to do with this….Kazarian and Trey going toe to toe. King tries to vulture but Frankie is ready for it. Kazarian with a hangman’s ddt ready…Trey with a meteora! Trey trying a double stomp but he flips into a rear naked choke and Kazarian taps him out!

Black Taurus is our last participant! We’re at a normal triple threat to decide the winner! Pop up Samoan drop on King! Torture rack backbreaker to Kazarian! Taurus on a roll but Frankie spikes him with a leg drop! Kenny King trying to take advantage while Taurus is down on the outside. Butterfly powerbomb on Kazarian! Black Taurus back for the save and running uncontrolled. Snap powerslam to Kazarian! Kick out! Kazarian almost with a double pin win! King with a chin checker and tornado kick to drop Taurus! King and Kazarian fighting on the top! Taurus adds himself to the fray! Taurus DDT’d to the apron, he’s down! King misses a dive, Kazarian slingshots him in and hits a cutter for the win! Kazarian faces Speedball for the X Division title at Bound for Glory!

Winner: Frankie Kazarian

Backstage with Rosemary, Taya Valkyrie & Havok! They want their Knockouts Tag Title rematch but Havok is stepping in for Rosemary. Gail Kim makes the match for Bound for Glory! Deonna Purazzo and Chelsea Greene try to taunt them but…Havok lays them out and Rosemary is feeling very confident about their chances.

Back in the Impact Zone, Bobby Fish is here?!? He talks about how he’s been a magnet for controversy lately but he thinks of himself as a guy who does his job well. But after 20 years, he’s just not here for any bulls***. Fish doesn’t work here…so why is he here? He’s been watching the locker room and it’s full of “legit dudes” who aren’t “faking the funk."  Fish is here to pick a fight. Shera is here with Raj Singh and Bobby is laughing it off because he doesn’t know who they are. It may be 2 on 1 but Fish handles them easily. Fish hook on Singh and Shera makes the save for his mouthpiece. They retreat as Fish admits he still doesn’t know who they are. This was bizarre. 

Match 5: Honor No More (Eddie Edward, Matt Taven & Mike Bennett w/ Maria) vs Josh Alexander, Rich Swann & Heath

Heath is right after Edwards at the bell. Alexander wants a piece and Edwards wants nothing to do with THAT. Bennett faring okay after Edwards provides a distraction. Swann with the tag and rolling leg drop to the back of the head! Taven gets him down in the corner and unloads with stomps. Swann fighting back against Edwards but a distracted ref misses Kingdom pulling Swann to the floor and posting him. Slingshot to the knees and Taven flies in with the elbow drop. HNM keeping Swann isolated, Josh and Heath get knocked off the apron and Rich has no one to tag! Swann fighting off the 3 on 1! Double crossbody collision! Swann tags Heath! Snap powerslam to edwards! He’s transfixed on taking out edwards and Bennett is able to chop block him. Taven wraps the knees around the post and HNM is right back in control. Heath sends Kingdom flying, tag to Josh and Edwards is stuck in this fight. Trading hard chops! Josh with the belly to belly! Kingdom trips him up! Josh clears them with a double suplex! Edwards powerbombed off the top into Taven and Bennett! Powerbomb to the knee for two! He wants the C4 but Bennett distracts! And that is the story of this. HNM is a well oiled team fighting against 3 powerful individuals…Alexander could put any one of these guys away but Edwards hits a Boston knee party to break up an ankle lock and a die hard driver on Josh Alexander to get the pin here!

Winners: Honor No More

Match 6: Jordynne Grace vs Max the Impaler (w/ Father James Mitchell) (Pick Your Poison)

Masha Slamovich handpicked Grace’s opponent for tonight’s non-title Throwndown. Grace is giving up a lot of size and power in this one. Max eating up strikes from Grace. Jordynne is reversing and dodging but Max has no reaction for any of these shots. Grace with a huge shoulder block drops the champ. Grace finally landing some hard elbows to the face…spike double stomp to the apron….Max catches a dive and slams Grace to the apron! Jordynne trying to escape but Max drags her back to the floor. Grace strangled up against the ring post! Max drags Grace over to slam her into the stairs as the ref tries to get them back into the ring repeatedly. Max is manhandling her as Mitchell gives them advice. Grace powers out of a bomb And hits an Alabama slam to the ramp! Max isn’t done and powers out of the Grace driver. Max charges and hits the post! Vader bomb but Max kicks out! Grace fights out of a fireman’s carry but eats a huge spear! Grace escapes the powerbomb again! Superplex? Grace hits a sunset flip powerbomb and picks up Max for the Grace Driver! Jordynne wins!

Winner: Jordynne Grace 

Grace grabs the mic. She admits that win was really hard. Pick your poison goes both ways though…and she has an opponent for Masha. And that opponent wanted a match she could destroy Masha is. Next week on Impact…Masha faces Allie Katch in a Monster’s Ball match!!!

We talk about Bound For Glory and this year’s inductee into the Impact Hall of Fame. This year it’s….RAVEN!

Main Event: Moose vs Steve Mackin vs Sami Callihan (Barbed Wire Massacre)

As you might expect, there’s a lot of barbed wire and f***ery around the ring area right now and the three men hesitate to engage. Moose puts Maclin right through a door but Callihan hits a cactus driver 97 on Moose. Callihan is in full Foley mode tonight. Moose is fired up but gets thumbs to the eyes. Moose with a dive to Maclin on the outside and almost breaks his damn neck. Callihan and Moose are going right at it on the outside as Maclin is wiped out in the barricade. We got a table and Moose gets DVD’d right through it. Sami tries to get at Maclin but he gets thrown into the barbed wire ropes. Maclin cutting up Sami’s head with wire. He’s not forgetting about Moose though and makes sure the big man stays down in the table remnants. Maclin suplexed off the steel steps and Moose finally in this. Maclin whipped and trapped in the wire! Moose cutting him up with a barbed wire rolling pin! Maclin’s face is changing paint color from white to red. He fires up with an Olympic slam for two! Moose fights him up top and hits a huge superplex! Sami is back in it but he gets ganged on. Moose with a hot shot to Maclin into barbed wire. Sami with a suplex into a barbed wire chair! We have a bag…what’s in the bag? It’s a N64 controller wrapped in barbed wire?!? Game on! Maclin is a bloody mess and Callihan is having a ball. Maclin with a sudden dive to Moose, flying kick to Sami! Moose breaks it up! Powerbomb to the ropes! Moose with a uranage onto a ball of barbed wire! Kick out! Moose tries a spear but Maclin blasts him with a chair! KIA! Sami breaks it up! We got another barbed wire table! Moose laid out! Sami goes up! Maclin catches Callihan with a rear naked choke as he goes for a cactus elbow. Moose is trapped in the table! Maclin grabs a chair and drops himself down into Moose! Moose sandwiches between the table and barricade! Sami’s got his bat…Steve has a trash can lid….the lid is a shield! Maclin rammed into the corner! Sami swings the bat and drops Maclin hard! Set up the barbed wire door! Powerbomb through the door! Sami is soaking in the crowd love and should be going for a pin. Cactus driver 97! Maclin kicks out! Sami pulls him up for another piledriver but Maclin drops to his knees and hits a low blow! KIA into the barbed wire door! Sami’s out cold! Maclin wins the main Event war!

Winner: Steve Maclin

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