During the last episode of IMPACT Wrestling, new World Tag Team Champions were crowned in the Knockouts division. The Coven ( Taylor Wilde & KiLynn King ) got a huge upset win over Death Dollz ( Rosemary & Taya Valkyrie ) to win the Knockouts World tag team titles. With this change happening, Taya is now signed with All Elite Wrestling and more than likely the next TBS champion. The promotion is currently building towards three iPPV specials coming up in the next month or so ( Sacrifice, Multiverse United, Rebellion ). Both the PPV specials for later this month are pretty stacked especially the co-produced IMPACT Wrestling/NJPW outing from Los Angeles.
The State of IMPACT Wrestling
Jordynne Grace will get her contractual rematch against current Knockouts World champion Mickie James on March 24th during the Sacrifice iPPV. The build so far has been good. Jordynne has a visual submission over the champion but it didn’t count since Mickie tapped after their Hard to Kill match Masha Slamovich is still causing problems for the Knockouts World Champion, she and Bully Ray tried to sneak attack Mickie but were thwarted by IMPACT’s resident “Old School Enthusiast” Tommy Dreamer.
A tag match between both sides is happening next Thursday on the weekly IMPACT airing along with Deonna Purrazzo in singles action against Savannah Evans. Time Machine will be facing Deaner and associates in a trios outing along with IMPACT Digital Media champion Joe Hendry in tag team action against Moose/Brian Myers.
Upcoming Pay-Per-View Matches
A few things were recently announced for the upcoming Sacrifice iPPV coming up on March 24th:
- Kenny King vs. PCO
- Trey Miguel defends the X Division championship against a mystery opponent
- Bullet Club defends the World Tag Team titles against Shane Haste & Bad Dude Tito of the New Japan faction TMDK
- Jonathan Gresham vs. Mike Bailey in their 3rd singles encounter,
- Deonna Purrazzo vs. Gisele Shaw in a
- Time Machine ( KUSHIDA, Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin ) vs the team of IMPACT World champion Josh Alexander, Frankie Kazarian & Rich Swann.
The big push of Steve Maclin gunning for Josh Alexander and the World Championship continued this week during the weekly episode. Maclin scored a singles win over former IMPACT World tag team champion Heath on the episode. Credit to the promotion for building up Maclin over the past year with significant wins against Jay White, Chris Sabin, Rich Swann, Sami Callihan, James Storm, and PCO. Also, the promotion recently turned former two-time Knockouts World champion Deonna Purrazzo face for the first time since she debuted in IMPACT.
Here are some of the things recently confirmed for the Multiverse United iPPV on March 30th.
- Mickie James defending the Knockouts World championship against Deonna Purrazzo/Gisele Shaw and the debuting Miyu Yamashita representing TJPW,
- Bullet Club will defend their tag titles against Motor City Machine Guns/Aussie Open & TMDK,
- A scramble match for the X Division championship has been signed – Trey Miguel vs. Rocky Romero vs. Clark Connors vs. Kevin Knight vs. Frankie Kazarian vs. Rich Swann
- A huge 8-man tag match with Sami Callihan, Fred Rosser, PCO, and Alex Coughlin taking on Tom Lawlor, JR Kratos, Eddie Edwards, and Joe Hendry
The world of IMPACT Wrestling heading into the upcoming summer is looking pretty exciting. You can catch the weekly IMPACT show every Thursday night and New Japan Pro Wrestling is currently in the closing stages of its New Japan Cup tour over in Japan, those shows are available via VOD on NJPW World.
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