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Impact Wrestling
10/6/22
We open on a memorial card for Antonio Inoki. Legend.
Match 1: Kenny King vs Frankie Kazarian
Kazarian takes on the X Division kingpin at Bound for Glory but he has King in front of him tonight. Heavy lockup, King goes for the Royal flush early but Kaz just blasts a clothesline. King dodges the apron legdrop! Good back and forth action. Corkscrew plancha and King unloads on the outside. Slingshot legdrop for two. Sweep to heavy kicks. Kaz getting ground down but he gets a rollup to turn the tide. Body toss into the turnbuckles, Jesus Kenny ate that with his head. Back and forth strikes, swinging neckbreaker from Kaz for two! King out of a springboard legdrop! King escapes a chicken wing…Kaz eats buckles. Kick out from a t bone. Head kick, snap dragon, tiger driver! Kaz kicks out! Kaz slips a fireman’s carry and falls back into a crossface chicken wing to get the tap!
Winner: Frankie Kazarian
Hype videos for Bound for Glory. We get the tale of the tape for the X Division match and a story recap for Eddie Edwards’ challenge for Josh Alexander’s Impact World Championship.
Match 2: Mia Yim vs Gisele Shaw
Mickie James is down here at commentary to watch this unfold. If Mia wins tomorrow, Mickie has to retire. Mia offers a handshake but Gisele wants her to talk to the hand. Mickie putting over Mia hard on the mic but says she’s not ending her career. Gisele whipped right to the floor and needs a moment to recoup. Mia snatched a guillotine choke but Shaw powers back out and rams to the buckles. Shaw walking down Mia with hard shots, big suplex for two. They collide and drop. Reset and trade shots as they Hager to their feet. Shaw gets shotgunned! Cannonball! Pin is too close to the ropes. Uranage to a backbreaker and flatliner. Shaw has just a heavy reversal game. Mia dodges a knee in the corner….EAT DA FEET! Mia wins!
\Winner: Mia Yim
Mickie James hits the ring to face off with her opponent tomorrow. A tip of the hat.
We have what initially appears to be a recap and promo video from Killer Kelly…but Tasha Steelz interrupts it and decks her. This was a really good swerve into a backstage fight! KK send her into the wall as Savannah Evans blindsides her and chokes her to the floor. Tasha swears to settle things with her in the Call Your Shot Gauntlet.
Backstage another…fan?…is getting kicked out of the arena by security. He’s shouting I AM VIOLENCE, so he's part of the VBD cult that Eric Young has curated. Brian Myers doing a walk past a bunch of potential challengers and representatives of such. He’s just kinda being d-bag as the most professional wrestler. Delirious talking gibberish was great here.
Match 3: Moose vs Steve Maclin (Sami Callihan as Special Referee)
All three of these men look banged up from their Victory Road main event last week. Sami is letting them fight. Who cares about rope breaks? Sami says KEEP GOING. Hard chops around the corners. Maclin with a suicide dive and he’s opened back up from the forehead. Maclin posts Moose as Sami cheers for this WRESTLING! Suplex to the floor. ARE YOU OKAY?!? screams Sami, the Ref Machine. Lol. Moose wipes Maclin’s blood on Sami’s shirt and jacket. Hard boot from Moose but Sami needs to remind him who his opponent is. Moose ripping at the bloody forehead! Hot shot by Moose but Maclin blasts a clothesline! Sami making the ten count but yells at them to get their a**es up. This is great. Maclin with a forearm…tree of woe spear! Sami struggles to make the pin….Maclin is mad cause it’s so slow. Choke bomb off the top! Sami fails to count, he says he got thrown off by the impact of the hit! Spear from Moose! Maclin is down but Sami gives him a thumbs down. Cactus Driver 97’s for both! Sami throws Maclin on top of Moose and counts the three. This was bananas. Loved this.
Winner: Steve Maclin
Backstage, Joe Hendrey takes the final spot in the Call Your Shot gauntlet. Everyone around him celebrates in dance. This was even weirder than last week.
Match 4: The Swingerellas (w/ Johnny Swinger & Zicky Dice) vs Taya Valkyrie & Jessicka(w/ Rosemary)
This is going to be a massacre, right? Yes, it appears so. Jessicka hits a Sickishi Driver to get the win in a little over a minute of one-sided beatdown.
Winners: Taya & Jessicka
Backstage with Deonna Purazzo & Chelsea Green. They are still confident they will be winning at B4G, despite this display of power they just saw.
Match 5: Matt Taven (w/ Mike Bennett & Maria) vs Alex Shelley (w/ Chris Sabin)
Taven right in and trading shots with the tag champ. Taven needs a moment to strategize with the Kingdom before he starts to take control. Bennett and Sabin both getting involved for their respective partners. Maria keeps the ref distracted but Bennet eats an errant dive. PK on the floor from Shelley. Taven back from commercial and works a bow and arrow. Miss on a Lion sault. Double down, Shelley with another PK and float over to a border city stretch! Taven fighting it, spinning kick to the head…lionsault for two! Bennett trying to get involved again, Sabin intercepts! Sliced bread but Maria puts Taven’s foot on the rope! Rebound kick off the rope….frog splash into knees! Shelley almost takes it! Shelley with a punt, Bennett interferes and Taven goes hot! Shelley won’t stay down but we have a pair of good false finishes. Alex hits the Shellshock and Taven is down for the three!
Winner: Alex Shelley
Backstage, we have a pull apart between Eddie Edwards and Josh Alexander. Alisha Edwards gets in the middle to break it up and Eddie questions her loyalty to him. She says that she can’t take this burden of Eddie’s war so either it ends…or they do.
We go to the contract signing between Jordynne Grace and Masha Slamovich. Scott D’Amore is overseeing the proceedings. A dominant champion vs an undefeated buzzsaw. Scott says they’ve come out of their Pick Your Poison matches with an elevated hunger for combat. Masha says…nothing. She signs the contract and just smiles at Jordynne, staring her down. Jordynne has words. She respects Masha and the door she kicked in and the ladder she climbed to get here. Jordynne says she’s not ready to give up the belt just yet. Masha may be undefeated but Jordynne is a Knockouts champion, a former tag champ & first Digital Media Champion. She says Masha has a lesson to learn. Losing….And Jordynne says she’ll be her teacher. We look to be done but Masha wants the mic. She says something in Russian. What’s that mean? “Masha’s gonna kill you”. Slamovich flips the table into the champ and unloads. Table getting set up….Grace is back in it….Muscle Buster through the tab—NO! Masha reverses it! Snow plow through the table and Masha holds the Knockouts belt up high as we go to black!
Bound for Glory is tomorrow night!
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