{"id":83040,"date":"2021-01-19T13:11:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T18:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=83040"},"modified":"2021-12-14T10:33:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T15:33:05","slug":"impact-hard-to-kill-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/01\/19\/impact-hard-to-kill-fallout\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: IMPACT! On AXS (1\/19\/21) &#8211; Eric Young versus Rhino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IMPACT! Wrestling has already started 2021 in spectacular fashion, with last Saturday&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Hard to Kill<\/em> Pay-Per-View sending positive buzz across the wrestling world not usually seen from the often controversial company. However, the feeling going into this Tuesday&#8217;s episode of IMPACT! on AXS TV will be bittersweet, as IMPACT World Champion\u00a0<strong>Rich Swann<\/strong> hopes to rebound after losing the first stage in the war with AEW and their world champion\u00a0<strong>Kenny Omega<\/strong>. What is next for the AEW\/IMPACT! Wrestling warfare, and how will it affect this week&#8217;s episode? Here&#8217;s what to look forward to on the next chapter of IMPACT! Wrestling on AXS TV.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Hard to Kill Fallout<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0<strong>Matt Cardona<\/strong> (known more prominently as\u00a0<strong>Zack Ryder<\/strong>) made his in-ring debut for IMPACT this Saturday, winning by DQ against\u00a0<strong>Ace Austin<\/strong>. Will Cardona prove that he is truly &#8220;always ready&#8221; and appear on television this week?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheMattCardona?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TheMattCardona<\/a> made his SHOCKING debut at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HardToKill?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#HardToKill<\/a>! <\/p>\n<p>Order the replay HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2QIZHX2Rhy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/2QIZHX2Rhy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TwhKrQ6ay8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/TwhKrQ6ay8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThisIsTNA\/status\/1351242960516468736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0<strong>Tasha Steelz\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Kiera Hogan\u00a0<\/strong>debuted their official tag team name,\u00a0<strong>Fire and Flava<\/strong>. What will the new Knockouts Tag Team Champions have in store for IMPACT tonight?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We said what we said, it\u2019s always on PERIODT \ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25ANYBODY CAN GET IT!! Who want the smoke B?!? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FireNFlava?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#FireNFlava<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KOTagChamps?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#KOTagChamps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hr8Ur83Cmq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/hr8Ur83Cmq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kiera Hogan (@HoganKnowsBest3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HoganKnowsBest3\/status\/1350916012695289860?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; After a crushing defeat to Kenny Omega and the Good Brothers, <strong>Moose\u00a0<\/strong>attacked Rich Swann in retaliation. How will Swann react? And has the war with AEW been settled, or do Omega and &#8220;the invisible hand&#8221; have something else up their sleeves?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d1w9tvfspbvyah.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/RichMoose.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Eric Young versus Rhino<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/EsB9SWuXcA8xVNa?format=jpg&amp;name=large\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The newly christened faction\u00a0<strong>Violent by Design<\/strong>, consisting of\u00a0leader\u00a0<strong>Eric Young\u00a0<\/strong>and his &#8220;disciples&#8221;\u00a0<strong>Joe Doering\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Deaner<\/strong>, has become a tandem to be feared in IMPACT! wrestling. At\u00a0<em>Hard to Kill<\/em>, they upset the trio of\u00a0<strong>Rhino<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Tommy Dreamer<\/strong>, and\u00a0Deaner&#8217;s former partner <strong>Cousin Jake<\/strong>, driving home further the fact that Jake may have lost his cousin forever.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Rhino hopes to bounce back by representing his team against the &#8220;World Class Maniac&#8221; in singles action, with the hope that he can settle the score and cause some damage to the dangerous group.<\/p>\n<p>This will be a rematch from last month&#8217;s <em>Final Resolution\u00a0<\/em>pay-per-view, where Eric Young was able to pick up the win against his rival. Rhino will need to dig deep if he wants to finally defeat Young and prove that he is not &#8220;the cure&#8221; that the madman believes he is. It will also be interesting to see how Violent by Design factor into this match, and if Cousin Jake and\/or Tommy Dreamer will be in Rhino&#8217;s corner.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.\u00a0 Make sure to check out IMPACT on their \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/impactwrestling.com\/impactplus\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IMPACT plus!<\/a>\u00a0 service<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Looking to talk wrestling, pro football, or any number of sports? Head on over to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/boards\/index.php\" target=\"_self\">LWOS Boards<\/a>\u00a0to engage in conversation with fellow fans!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMPACT! Wrestling has already started 2021 in spectacular fashion, with last Saturday&#8217;s\u00a0Hard to Kill Pay-Per-View sending positive buzz across the wrestling world not usually seen from the often controversial company. However, the feeling going into this Tuesday&#8217;s episode of IMPACT! on AXS TV will be bittersweet, as IMPACT World Champion\u00a0Rich Swann hopes to rebound after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3677,"featured_media":83173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,2192],"tags":[262,226,7203,6993,1046,6346,184,3968,347,3651],"class_list":["post-83040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impact","category-north-america","category-wrestling","tag-eric-young","tag-impact-wrestling","tag-impact-wrestling-preview","tag-impact-on-axs-tv","tag-kiera-hogan","tag-matt-cardona","tag-moose","tag-rhino","tag-rich-swann","tag-tasha-steelz"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}