Impact Wrestling is promoting their “Under Siege” event, which will be taking place in two weeks time in the Greater Cincinnati Area (Newport, Kentucky), and will air exclusively on Impact Plus on May 7th.
You can check out the official announcement below:
IMPACT Wrestling Brings 2 Nights Of High-Energy Pro Wrestling Action To The Cincinnati Area, Including LIVE Under Siege On Saturday, May 7
Former NFL Player-Turned-Pro Wrestler Moose & Knockouts Star Deonna Purrazzo Will Be In The Cincinnati Area on April 28-29
IMPACT Wrestling presents back-to-back nights of action-packed live pro wrestling on Saturday and Sunday, May 7 and May 8 – both originating from the Promowest Pavilion at Ovation in the Greater Cincinnati Area (Newport, KY).
The action kicks off Saturday, May 7 with UNDER SEIGE, airing LIVE starting at 8 p.m. ET and streaming on IMPACT Plus and YouTube for IMPACT Ultimate Insiders. Then, on Sunday, May 8, IMPACT presents MAY DAY as the company’s television trucks will capture all of the in-ring action for an upcoming episode of IMPACT’s flagship weekly TV show, #IMPACTonAXSTV (Thursday, 8p.m. ET on AXS TV in the U.S., Fight Network in Canada and Impact Insiders on YouTube.)
In advance of the Cincinnati area shows, former IMPACT World Champion Moose & Knockouts Division star Deonna Purrazzo will be in Cincinnati and Newport, Kentucky for a Media Tour, April 28-29.
Moose is the former IMPACT World Champion, which truly was a record-setting championship run.
Quinn Ojinnaka, the real-life Moose, played for four teams over seven seasons in the National Football League, including the New England Patriots, before transitioning to pro wrestling, making his debut in 2012. His NFL career included time as teammates with legendary quarterback Tom Brady while playing for one of the best NFL head coaches in history, Bill Belichick.
An offensive lineman, Ojinnaka played 62 NFL games after playing at Syracuse University and was selected in the fifth-round of the 2006 NFL Draft by the Atlanta Falcons. Moose and Bill Goldberg are the only former NFL players from the modern era to have gone from the NFL to become the World Champion of a pro wrestling company.
In fact, there are only four others in addition to Moose & Goldberg to have ever gone from the NFL to World Championship glory in pro wrestling, including Bronko Nagurski, who is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The others are Ernie Ladd, Dick the Bruiser and Gus Sonnenberg.
Sports Illustrated spotlighted Moose and his record-setting journey from the NFL to IMPACT World Champion: https://tinyurl.com/r8hdutuy.
Deonna Purrazzo is a 2-time former Knockouts World Champion and is now the reigning Ring Of Honor Women’s Champion. A New Jersey native who has been wrestling professionally since 2013, Purrazzo was ranked No. 3 of 150 female wrestlers in Pro Wrestling Illustrated’s Women’s 150 in 2021.
All the IMPACT stars will be in the Cincinnati area for the May 7-8 shows, including X-Division Champion Ace Austin and Knockouts World Champion Tasha Steelz, along with The Good Brothers (Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson), Mickie James, W. Morrissey, Eddie Edwards, Brian Myers, Chris Sabin, Eric Young, Madison Rayne, Rosemary, Rhino, Heath and Jordynne Grace, among others.
Many of the matches for the Cincinnati area shows will be announced in the coming weeks, but surprises are certain, too, including wrestlers making their IMPACT Wrestling debut.
