[Show: Impact Wrestling] [Location: Orlando, Florida at Universal Studios] [Date: 9/23/15] [Airing On: Destination America]
Dixie Carter is in the ring with most Team TNA members (Lashley, The Wolves, and Bram). Some of the TNA talents are also surrounding the ring applauding Dixie and the team for restoring complete control of the company last week. Drew Galloway makes his way to the ring and celebrates with the team. Dixie praises Galloway as a leader as well as the rest of the team. Galloway puts over the talent and fans as equals.
Dixie announces a world title contender match tonight between Galloway, Lashley, Bram, Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards. Dixie calls out Eric Young, who betrayed TNA to join GFW last week. EY comes out with Chris Melendez’s prosthetic leg. EY brags about his iron-clad contract and how Dixie can’t do anything. Dixie books EY vs. Melendez in a lumberjack match.
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Singles Match: Eric Young vs. Chris Melendez
The prosthetic leg is on the line here. EY is on the attack immediately and dumps Melendez to the outside, but the TNA talent lets him up on his own accord. After some dominating offense from EY, Melendez gets some clotheslines in and a Samoan drop. EY shoves the ref into Melendez, which allows him to nail Melendez with the prosthetic leg. He perches Melendez on the top turnbuckle, but he is shoved off, and Melendez lands a missile dropkick for the win.
Winner: Chris Melendez
We cut to a promo where Taryn Terrell brags about The Dollhouse taking out Angelina Love. Taryn gave Jade credit for the attack and says Marti Bell and Rebel need to prove themselves. Gail Kim vs. Jade is revealed for the Knockouts title tonight.
EC3 tells Jeff Hardy that more paychecks are on the way if Hardy does his part. He says if he screws up tonight, he’s fired. EC3 vs. Rockstar Spud is set for a world title match as mentioned in last week’s episode.
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Lashley talks about the significance of TNA’s victory over GFW last week. He says now his sights are set on tonight’s world title contender match.
Knockouts Title Match: Gail Kim © vs. Jade
Jade nails Kim with a big boot before the bell rings. She attacks Kim in the corner, but the champ recovered with a hurricanronna. Jade reversed a sunset flip attempt into a German suplex. Kim got out of the way of Jade’s corner senton flip. She latched on a figure four leglock using the ring post. Back in the ring, Kim eventually hit Eat Defeat to retain her title.
Winner and still Knockouts Champion: Gail Kim
After the match, Marti and Rebel attacked Kim but were brought down by Velvet Sky and Madison Rayne. Awesome Kong made her way to the ring and had a staredown with Kim.
In the back, Rockstar Spud says both his and EC3’s careers have advanced. Spud says if Jeff Hardy gets in his way, it won’t matter because he wants to become TNA world champion more than Jeff wants to overcome his problems.
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X Division Title Match: Tigre Uno © vs. Kenny King
King outmuscles Uno in the early going. Uno gets the offense going with a drop kick. Uno landed a springboard corkscrew on the outside. He tried to do a springboard in the ring but was met by King’s boot. Later on, King missed a running knee in the corner. Uno capitalized with a tilt-a-whirl DDT, followed by a springboard splash to retain his title.
Winner and still X-Division Champion: Tigre Uno
A promo for EC3 vs. Rockstar Spud airs. The world title match takes place after the break.
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TNA World Title Match: EC3 © vs. Rockstar Spud
EC3 sarcastically puts his hand out and then pushes Spud. Spud chops and kicks EC3 in the corner. He lands a number of punches to the head. The champion got in a full mount position and started punching the challenger. EC3 missed a splash in the corner and was nailed by two forearms and a drop kick. The champion got thrown to the outside, and Spud connected with a dive over the top rope.
Spud was on a roll until he ran into a modified TKO and then the One Percenter.
Winner and still TNA world champion: EC3
After the match, EC3 got Tyrus to heart punch Spud. He then demanded that Jeff hits the Twist of Fate. Jeff refused, and Matt rushed to the ring. Tyrus held Matt in place, and EC3 then demanded that Jeff hit his own brother. Matt low blowed Tyrus and Jeff blasted EC3 with a punch to the jaw.
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EC3 says he will call Jeff out later and fire him. The show cuts to The Revolution in the ring. Storm says without him, many people would still be lost. Storm says Manik and Abyss can’t get the job done. Abyss tells Storm to shut the hell up. He leaves The Revolution saying he stands in no man’s shadow. He says he gave it all for TNA and that Storm didn’t make him. He says he’s done with Storm and leaves the ring.
Storm tries to get Abyss back in the ring but fails. Storm keeps calling Mahabali Shera, “Khoya.” Manik brings that up to Storm but is shoved down twice. Storm tries to slap Manik, but he stops him. Manik takes off his mask and leaves The Revolution as well. Shera comes out and says he’ll fight Storm now, but the former Revolution leader backs off.
Galloway catches up with The Wolves in the back and thanks them for last week. They all wish each other luck in tonight’s world title contender match.
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Matt is in the back with Jeff and apologizes for what Jeff did earlier tonight. Jeff says he’ll be fine.
Bound For Glory World Title Contender Match: Drew Galloway vs. Lashley vs. Davey Richards vs. Eddie Edwards vs. Bram
After a few minutes of action, Bram is eliminated first via double foot stomp from The Wolves.
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The Wolves latch on a Texas Cloverleaf on both Lashley and Galloway. They eventually start hitting each other. Lashley spears Edwards while Galloway hits the Future Shock on Richards. The tag team champions are eliminated following the finishers. Galloway avoids the spear and hits the running boot for the victory.
Winner: Drew Galloway
After the match, Lashley and Galloway shook hands. EC3 is in the back, and he says he’s going to the ring right now and firing Jeff Hardy.
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Galloway says he just fought the absolute best in TNA. He says he’s 100 percent real. He says when he wins the TNA world title, it’ll be for everyone who believes.
EC3 is out with Tyrus and calls out Jeff Hardy to beg for his job. Jeff comes out and reveals he drew on the EC3 placard. Jeff says the creatures don’t live in his reality. He tells EC3 to fire him. EC3 reminds him that if he fires Jeff, he has no checks coming in. EC3 tells Jeff to get on his knees, beg and kiss the world title. Jeff gets on one knee and says EC3 can’t fire him because he quits. EC3 tells the cameraman this show is over.
Thanks for watching along and we’ll see you next time.
