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Impact Results: Thursday Night’s Television Tapings
Impact Wrestling continued their recent set of tapings tonight. WrestleZone reported the following spoilers for Thursay’s tapings. Check them out below:
Xplosion
Grado (w/ Katarina Leigh) defeated Caleb Konley (w/ Trevor Lee)
– Grado wins via pinfall with a Roll ‘N Slice
El Hijo Del Fantasma defeated Jake Crist (w/ Dave Crist)
– Fantasma won with a forward roll. Dave jumped Fantasma after the bell, then Fantasma made a comeback but Sami Callihan ran out and hit him with a bat. OVE tried taking Fantasma’s mask, but Pentagon Jr ran out for the save. He took out OVE and had a staredown with Sami, who ended up running away.
Grado (w/ Katarina Leigh) vs Eddie Edwards
– The match doesn’t start as Eddie ends up hitting Grado with a Singapore cane and yells at Katarina to get out of the ring. Eddie cuts a promo about having Sami Callihan beaten and bloodied, but his chance to end it was ruined, and he calls Tommy Dreamer to the ring. Dreamer tries to reason with him, but Eddie isn’t hearing it and Dreamer tries to tell him to move on. Tommy talks about Eddie and Alisha not speaking in a week, and Eddie asks how he knows that. Eddie gets knocked down, but he ends up responding with a Singapore cane shot that leaves Dreamer on the mat.
LAX defeated DJZ & Andrew Everett
– Ortiz pinned Everett after the Street Sweeper. LAX then celebrated in the crowd with the titles
KM comes out to the ring for a promo and talks about trying to guide Fallah Bahh and taking him under his wing. KM says they need to call the company KMpact Wrestling and says this is all about him. He calls Fallah to the ring, who brings a piece of paper to him and says bye bye before leaving. KM reads it, and it says ‘KM you say you are a friend, but you’re still a bully. You need to grow up, and they will not fight’ but KM will fight someone else. KM thinks he will face Richard Justice, but finds out it’s Scott Steiner instead.
Scott Steiner defeated KM
– Steiner won via submission with the Steiner Recliner
Impact Wrestling Spoilers(4/26, 5/3, 5/10)
Madison Rayne defeated Taya Valkyrie
– Madison wins via pinfall with the Rayne Drop. She cuts a promo after the match talking about how great it is to be home. She says she wasn’t going to be an in-ring competitor, but she needs to capitalize on big moments. She says she made career moments by beating Taya Valkyrie and Tessa Blanchard, and now she has a chance to make another moment for herself, her daughter and everyone who supported her. Madison says she will now face Su Yung at Slammiversary and slay the undead bride. Su Yung’s laughter is then heard over the PA system, but no one shows up, and Madison leaves.
Impact Wrestling Spoilers(5/3 and 5/10)
X Division Championship
Matt Sydal (c) defeated Brian Cage
– Sydal won via countout after Kongo Kong attacked Cage and threw him into the ring steps. Jacobs and Kong end up celebrating with Sydal after the attack
Dezmond Xavier defeated Petey Williams
– Xavier won via pinfall after a Jocay-le. They shook hands after the match
No Disqualification
Tessa Blanchard defeated Kiera Hogan
– Blanchard won via pinfall after a full nelson facebuster onto a chair
Pentagon Jr & El Hijo Del Fantasma defeated OVE (w/ Sami Callihan)
– Pentagon won via pinfall after hitting Jake Crist with a Pentagon Driver. Sami attack Pentagon with a bat and hit Fantasma for good measure. Pentagon threatened to snap Jake’s arm, but Sami hit him with a bat and threatened to unmask him. Fantasma ended up recovering and chased OVE with a chair.
Impact Wrestling Spoilers(5/10 and 5/17)
Xplosion
Su Yung defeated Diamante
– Diamante made her return, which got a big welcome back chant. Su Yung won the match via pinfall after hitting the Panic Switch.
Xplosion
Katarina Leigh defeated Alisha Edwards
– Katarina won after hitting a Uranage. She initially sent Grado backstage, but he came back out and they celebrated together
Xplosion
Eli Drake defeated Fallah Bahh
– Drake won via pinfall after a springboard moonsault. He cut a promo after the match and said he runs this place. Eli said he was in a giving mood, and wanted to give cheesecake to the fans, but they get nothing. Eli says he tells the truth even when he lies, then he gives Fallah some cheesecake before pushing it in his face. Fallah slams him down after a belly-to-belly suplex, then hits a Banzai Drop and eats more cake. He smears it in Eli’s face and goes for another Banzai Drop, but Eli runs away.
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Did your picks win points?
The AEW Continental Classic is underway, with almost everyone competing. Check in here if you haven’t seen the winners and losers of week 1!
Here are your Gold League standings!
- Jon Moxley: 1-0, 3 points
- Swerve Strickland: 1-0, 3 points
- Jay White: 1-0, 3 points
- Rush: 0-1, 0 points
- Mark Briscoe: 0-1, 0 points.
- Jay Lethal: 0-1, 0 points
Here are your Blue League standings!
- Brody King: 1-0, 3 points
- Claudio Castagnoli: 1-0, 3 points
- Daniel Garcia: 0-1, 0 points
- Eddie Kingston: 0-1, 0 points
- Bryan Danielson: Yet to Compete
- Andrade El Idolo: Yet to Compete
My Thoughts:
Nothing too crazy, nothing too wild, this tournament only just got started. The only disappointing point is that they could not get Bryan “cleared to compete” Saturday night. Not sure how much of that is shoot given the bad eye, but this was kinda the problem of wanting him in the tournament over tons of other choices. Bryan wants to face Okada for WrestleKingdom 18, how is Bryan supposed to do that at his best if he’s also gonna be in a round robin, doing five top level matches in about as many weeks? And it takes away from Andrade being able to do something. Also a little surprised we didn’t even hear from Andrade on Saturday.
Now as we heard on Saturday, round two’s matches are set. Gold League will see Mark Briscoe VS Rush, White VS Swerve, and of course, Moxley VS Lethal. Nice variety there, a couple 0-1 guys facing off, as well as two 1-0 guys, and then 1-0 VS 0-1. No offense to Lethal, but he feels like an 0-2 going up against Moxley. Hard to call the other ones but that’s the fun of it. Meanwhile, Blue League sees Brody VS Claudio in a showdown to be 2-0, then Bryan and Andrade finally jump in, Bryan against Eddie and Andrade against Garcia. Sadly, feels like Eddie and Garcia are going 0-2, no way Tony Khan is booking Bryan and Andrade to lose their first shots.
In fact, that could be half the reason they did wait on those two, that’s almost too good for just a first round opener. But I still would’ve done it, same as NJPW does stuff like that for round robins, which this is all modeled after anyway.
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Tony Khan Reveals the Blue and Gold “Leagues!”
Originally livestreamed, Tony Khan and Tony Schiavone officially announced the twelve total entrants and divided them into the two round robin blocks known as the “Blue League” and “Gold League.” If you don’t feel like sifting through the almost 30 minute video, the groups are:
Blue League
- Bryan Danielson
- Andrade El Idolo
- Brody King
- Claudio Castagnoli
- Daniel Garcia
- Eddie Kingston
Gold League
- Jon Moxley
- Swerve Strickland
- Rush
- Mark Briscoe
- Jay Lethal
- Jay White
Tony Khan also explains the rules for the Continental Classic:
- Every match has a 20 minute time limit
- The winner of each match earns 3 points, losers earn 0, 1 point for a draw
- EVERYONE ELSE is banned from ringside for true 1v1 action
Eddie Kingston also joined the selection special as his “life’s work” is on the line in this tournament, both the ROH World Championship and NJPW Strong Openweight Championship on the line as part of the modern day North American Triple Crown Eddie, Tony Khan, AEW, ROH and NJPW are looking to create together. Gold League competes tonight on Dynamite while Blue League will have their start this Saturday on Collision. Look for more articles like this one to keep up with the Continental Classic standings over the next six weeks of tournament action!
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