{"id":87701,"date":"2021-03-25T17:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T21:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=87701"},"modified":"2021-03-29T12:23:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T16:23:34","slug":"impact-wrestling-moving-thursdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/03\/25\/impact-wrestling-moving-thursdays\/","title":{"rendered":"IMPACT Wrestling Move Headlined by Kenny Omega&#8217;s In-Ring TV Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>IMPACT Wrestling<\/strong> has officially announced that it is moving its flagship show <em><strong>IMPACT! on AXS TV<\/strong><\/em> to Thursdays at 8 PM est beginning on April 8, 2021.\u00a0 That show will feature the huge main event of <strong>Rich Swann<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Eddie Edwards<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>Willie Mack\u00a0<\/strong>against\u00a0<strong>Kenny Omega\u00a0<\/strong>and the <strong>Good Brothers<\/strong> (<strong>Gallows &amp; Anderson<\/strong>).\u00a0 IMPACT Wrestling moving nights comes following speculation that <em><strong>WWE NXT<\/strong><\/em> could be moving to Tuesday nights in the near future.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: IMPACT! will return to its traditional Thursday night time-slot at 8pm ET, beginning April 8.<\/p>\n<p>FULL DETAILS: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bbH0ozhKeI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/bbH0ozhKeI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r2dYrEJ3Nh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/r2dYrEJ3Nh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThisIsTNA\/status\/1375172130824974340?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 25, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>IMPACT Wrestling has released a statement regarding the move:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;IMPACT Wrestling confirmed today that its weekly flagship TV show \u2013\u00a0IMPACT!\u00a0\u2013 will return to its traditional Thursday night time-slot, beginning April 8. The fastest-paced show in professional wrestling will now air at 8pm ET\/5pm PT each and every Thursday on AXS TV.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The return of\u00a0IMPACT!\u00a0to its traditional night will be marked by a massive main event.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The inaugural\u00a0IMPACT!\u00a0on Thursday, April 8 will feature the\u00a0IMPACT! match debut of All Elite Wrestling (AEW) World Champion Kenny Omega, who teams with The Good Brothers \u2013 Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows \u2013 in a six-man main event against reigning IMPACT World Champion Rich Swann, former two-time IMPACT World Champion Eddie Edwards and former X-Division Champion Willie Mack.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Thursday night was the long time home of IMPACT Wrestling as mentioned in a statement by Scott D&#8217;Amore.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;IMPACT Wrestling has years of\u00a0 history airing on Thursdays, which was the night for high-energy, action-packed matches, starring some of the most high-profile stars in pro wrestling history&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>IMPACT&#8217;s newest show <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/02\/10\/impact-wrestling-third-hour-television\/\" target=\"_self\">Before the IMPACT<\/a> will be following the flagship event to Thursdays.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the\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. You can catch IMPACT Wrestling on Tuesday nights on AXS TV and Twitch.TV as well as all the time on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/impactplus.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IMPACT Plus<\/a><\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\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<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMPACT Wrestling has officially announced that it is moving its flagship show IMPACT! on AXS TV to Thursdays at 8 PM est beginning on April 8, 2021.\u00a0 That show will feature the huge main event of Rich Swann,\u00a0Eddie Edwards, and\u00a0Willie Mack\u00a0against\u00a0Kenny Omega\u00a0and the Good Brothers (Gallows &amp; Anderson).\u00a0 IMPACT Wrestling moving nights comes following speculation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":87702,"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":[7,12,6,2192],"tags":[6993,386],"class_list":["post-87701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impact","category-news","category-north-america","category-wrestling","tag-impact-on-axs-tv","tag-kenny-omega"],"modified_by":"Marilee Gallagher, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87701","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\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}