iMPACT: Trick tricks his way out of iMPACT

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iMPACT: Trick tricks his way out of iMPACT

Greetings and salutations! We are days removed from history at TNA and where an active WWE Wrestler won the TNA Championship. Tonight we will hear from the new TNA Champion. The power of TNA is at stake as Santino Marella teams with Arianna Grace against Stone and Tessa Blanchard. In a match that was supposed to take place at Under Siege, Steve Maclin will defend the TNA International Championship against Matt Cardona. Lei Ying Lee takes on Ash by Elegance. With all of this and more, let’s go to the action.

The show starts with highlights of Trick Williams winning the TNA Championship.

TNA Tag-Team Title No. 1 Contender Four-Way
First Class (AJ Francis & KC Navarro) vs. Aztec Warriors (Laredo & Octagon Jr.) vs. The System (Eddie Edwards & Brian Myers) vs. The Rascalz (Trey Miguel & Zachary Wentz)

The match is very much back and forth and Francis and Navarro seem to be at odds. Things get to a blowing point and they try to do the “Finger Poke of Doom” to steal the win. This brings in all four teams to beat them down. After some more time, The Rascalz pick up the win to earn the shot at The Nemeths at TNA Against All Odds.

Winners: The Rascalz

Backstage, The Nemeths are shown watching on a monitor. They are interviewed and asked about The Rascalz being their next title challengers. They are acting calm and cool and say that it’s fine.

In the back, Francis and Navarro are actually arguing backstage, when Mike Santana attacks them.

We get a closer look at new TNA signees, Harley Hudson and Myra Grace.

The personal concierge for Ash & Heather & M By Elegance, George Iceman, rushes in and freaks out looking for TNA Director of Authority Santino Marella

Raj Singh vs. Mustafa Ali

Ali proceeds to beat down Singh. Steelz even gets involved which allows Ali to hit his top-rope 450 splash for the easy win.

Winner: Mustafa Ali

After the match, Ali and The Great Hands continue to beat down Singh. Ali goes nuts and pushes Steelz aside as the The Great Hands stop and look at him very confused.

Backstage, we see Arianna Grace talking to her father, TNA Director of Authority Santino Marella, about losing to Tessa Blanchard at TNA Under Siege. Santino tells her that he is still proud of her and then Arianna surprises Santino with the news that the two will be teaming up together for a match tonight. It will be the first-ever father-daughter team of Santino and Arianna taking on the team of Robert “Sherriff” Stone and Victoria Crawford with Jimmy Korderas as special guest referee.

Ash By Elegance vs. Lei Ying Lee

Elegance takes the early lead. After some more back-and-forth action, Lee can’t be taken down, and Ash goes berserk. Lee then screams back and hits her with a Thunderstruck.

Winner: Lei Ying

As Lei Ying Lee is celebrating, her music is cut off and out comes Masha Slamovich. She tells Lee “I’ll see you at TNA Against All Odds.”

Trick Speaks….

We see footage of Mike Santana’s match versus Tavion Heights from NXT this past Tuesday night along with his face-to-face with Trick Williams. Trick Williams is then shown and says that he demands a first class airplane ticket and a five star hotel, but TNA only wanted to offer coach so he couldn’t be there live. Trick then warns Mike Santana to not get in his face again or he’ll take him out. Trick makes fun of Hendry once more and says “Let’s talk about it!”

Mance Warner (w/ Steph De Lander) vs. Bryce Hansen

The bell sounds, and after a quick squash, Mance wins.

Winner: Mance Warner

De Lander gets on the microphone and says this is just the continuation of the Mance De Lander Era. She then tells Steve Maclin and Matt Cardona that “The Southern Psycho” is taking the title from whoever wins later tonight.

Footage from Under Siege is shown. Xia Brookside finally snapped. Rosemary is shown laughing and gloats about giving Xia the push to turn to the dark side. Rosemary says there is only one final step and asked if Xia is ready to embrace the darkness. Monster’s Ball next week, she says.

Santino Marella & Arianna Grace vs. Robert Stone & Victoria Crawford

Special guest referee Jimmy Korderas is in the ring. Before the match, Stone says he doesn’t trust special guest referee Jimmy Korderas, so Alisha will be a special enforcer in case anything happens. Stone also says the match cannot go over ten minutes, and that Santino’s “Cobra” is banned and if he uses it, Stone gets his job. as the match goes on, Blanchard tries grabbing Arianna from ringside. Korderas sees it and ejects her. Arianna gets in some good offense and tags Santino. After some quick action, he tags in Arianna back in who hits a cross-body on Crawford for a close 2-count. Stone yanked Korderas out to the floor before he could count three and takes him out. Back in the ring, Crawford hits her Axe Kick on Arianna in the ring and Stone makes the pin with Alisha making the count.

Winners: Robert Stone & Victoria Crawford

Backstage, Eric Young and The Northern Armory are talking until Moose appears with The System. The TNA X-Division Champion brings up their impromptu match at TNA Under Siege, and tells Young to make a match for next week so that he can beat him in his home country. The System walks off. Young has a weird, smile as we go to commercial.

George Iceman comes out and says due to her tough match earlier tonight, Ash By Elegance can’t be here for this “Elegance Brand Reveal.” He then goes on to reveal the brand new repackaged M By Elegance, formerly known as Maggie Lee. M comes out all fancy and elegant looking. She thanks Iceman. As team Elegance is about to have a celebratory drink, Harley Hudson and Myra Grace come out and say they know they need to make an impact so they throw the drinks in the Elegance brands faces.

TNA International Championship: Steve Maclin (c) vs. Matt Cardona

Cardona with a slew of Neckbreakers. Maclin starts to fight back, but is taken down hard with a low blow from Cardona, followed by a Un-Pretty-Her, for a close 2-count. Cardona is not happy and hits Radio Silence on Maclin out of nowhere, but only gets a 2-count again. As the action continues, we see Maclin coming back and is able to hit the KIA finisher to retain his title.

Winner: and Still Champion; Steve Maclin

Mike Santana speaks

Mike Santana is shown walking around backstage and vows to live up to his word and win back the TNA World Championship for TNA next week on WWE NXT. That’s how this week’s show wraps up.

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