{"id":92429,"date":"2021-05-26T17:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T21:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=92429"},"modified":"2021-05-26T11:59:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T15:59:25","slug":"impact-wrestling-satoshi-kojima-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/05\/26\/impact-wrestling-satoshi-kojima-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: IMPACT! On AXS TV \u2013 Satoshi Kojima Debuts (5\/27\/21)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IMPACT Wrestling returns to AXS TV this week, fresh off of last week&#8217;s exciting episode. New Japan Pro Wrestling star <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/05\/21\/njpw-legend-satoshi-kojima-to-make-impact-wrestling-debut-next-week\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Satoshi Kojima<\/strong><\/a> will make his IMPACT Wrestling debut and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/05\/21\/violent-by-design-win-impact-world-tag-team-championships\/\" target=\"_self\">new IMPACT World Tag Champions VBD<\/a> will make an appearance. You can catch all of the action starting at 8 PM EST. The preshow, <strong>Before the IMPACT<\/strong>, will begin at 7 PM EST. Let\u2019s see what this week&#8217;s edition of IMPACT has in store for us.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THURSDAY at 8\/7c on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AXSTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@AXSTV<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSamiCallihan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TheSamiCallihan<\/a> kicks off IMPACT <\/p>\n<p>Violent By Design address IMPACT <\/p>\n<p>10 KO Tag<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ipeteywilliams?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@iPeteyWilliams<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Walking_Weapon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Walking_Weapon<\/a> vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MegaTJP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@MegaTJP<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FALLAH1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@FALLAH1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IMPACTonAXSTV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#IMPACTonAXSTV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OOVVbUcOtc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/OOVVbUcOtc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThisIsTNA\/status\/1395914810068455429?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 22, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Full IMPACT Wrestling (5\/27\/21) Card &#8211; Satoshi Kojima Makes His Debut<\/h2>\n<p>-Sami Callihan will open IMPACT<\/p>\n<p>-Violent by Design (VDB) will address IMPACT<\/p>\n<p>-Rosemary, Havok, Taylor Wilde, Tenille Dashwood, and Rachael Ellering vs. Deonna Purrazzo, Kiera Hogan, Tasha Steelz, Susan, and Kimber Lee<\/p>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">-Petey Williams and Josh Alexander vs. TJP and Fallah Bahh<\/div>\n<p dir=\"auto\">-Satoshi Kojima makes his IMPACT debut<\/p>\n<h2>New Tag Champions<\/h2>\n<p>Previous Tag Team Champions <strong>FinJuice<\/strong> successfully defended their titles against <strong>Ace Austin<\/strong> and <strong>Madman<\/strong> <strong>Fulton<\/strong> last week. The celebration was short-lived as <strong>Violent by Design<\/strong> cashed in their Call Your Shot trophy on an already exhausted FinJuice. <strong>Rhino<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Joe Doering<\/strong> made short work of the previous champs and successfully cashed in their trophy to win the tag titles. Violent by Design will now take time this week to address IMPACT Wrestling. Find out what is on their mind this week on IMPACT!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Knockouts Divison Chaos<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Tenille Dashwood<\/strong> defeated <strong>Tasha<\/strong> <strong>Steelz\u00a0<\/strong>in one on one action last week. This did not sit well with Steelz who attached Dashwood after the match. <strong>Kaleb With a K<\/strong> tried to intervene but was quickly handled by <strong>Deonna<\/strong> <strong>Purrazzo<\/strong>, <strong>Kimber<\/strong> <strong>Lee<\/strong>, and <strong>Susan<\/strong>. Dashwood then found herself being beaten down by the five Knockouts. <strong>Taylor<\/strong> <strong>Wilde<\/strong>, <strong>Havok<\/strong>, and <strong>Rosemary<\/strong> stormed the ring, sending the five wrestlers to the back. They will now face off this week on IMPACT! to settle the score. <strong>Rachael<\/strong> <strong>Ellering<\/strong> will join team Dashwood as she looks to get even with Steelz and Hogan who <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/05\/15\/fire-n-flava-impact-knockouts-tag-team-championship\/\" target=\"_self\">defeated Ellering and Jordynne Grace<\/a> at<em> Under Siege<\/em> for the Knockouts Tag Team Titles.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/njpwglobal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@njpwglobal<\/a> legend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cozy_lariat?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@cozy_lariat<\/a> makes his IMPACT debut THURSDAY at 8\/7c on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AXSTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@AXSTV<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IMPACTonAXSTV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#IMPACTonAXSTV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gXezBM687B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/gXezBM687B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThisIsTNA\/status\/1396888727398477831?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 24, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Kojima Makes IMPACT Debut<\/h2>\n<p>Satoshi Kojima will join fellow NJPW stars <strong>FinJuice<\/strong> and <strong>El Phantasmo\u00a0<\/strong>in IMPACT Wrestling this week. This continues the invasion of IMPACT by NJPW stars. This will be Kojima&#8217;s debut in IMPACT Wrestling. What awaits the New Japan legend? Find out this week on IMPACT!<\/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 Thursday 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMPACT Wrestling returns to AXS TV this week, fresh off of last week&#8217;s exciting episode. New Japan Pro Wrestling star Satoshi Kojima will make his IMPACT Wrestling debut and the new IMPACT World Tag Champions VBD will make an appearance. You can catch all of the action starting at 8 PM EST. The preshow, Before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3722,"featured_media":92157,"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":[1162,7412,5095,372,385,698,277,1034,7410,6510,1879,7411],"class_list":["post-92429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impact","category-north-america","category-wrestling","tag-deonna-purrazzo","tag-fire-n-flava","tag-havok","tag-kimber-lee","tag-new-japan-pro-wrestling","tag-rachael-ellering","tag-rosemary","tag-satoshi-kojima","tag-susan","tag-taylor-wilde","tag-tenille-dashwood","tag-violent-by-design"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92429","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\/3722"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}