AJ’s IMPACT Rebellion Results & Review 4/25/21

So we have finally made it. IMPACT’s Rebellion PPV and as we all know the major main event, champion vs champion, Swann against Omega. We, of course, have other matches on the card like an X Division triple threat, both tag titles on the line, Deonna Purrazzo defending the Knockout’s Championship against Tenille and Eric Young leading his cause against the IMPACT Faithful Soldiers. This is looking to be a great night of wrestling and let’s see if they deliver tonight.

Results:

• Josh Alexander vs TJP vs Ace Austin (w/ Madman Fulton) (c) for the X Division Championship:  Josh Alexander wins via Divine Intervention – **** ¼  – TITLE CHANGE!!!
• Violent by Design vs Eddie Edwards, Chris Sabin, Willie Mack & James Storm – Violent By Design wins via East River Crossing – ***
• Brian Myers vs Matt Cardona: Myers wins via Roster Cut- *** ¼
• Jordynne Grace & Rachael Ellering (w/ Jazz) vs Fire n Flava(c) for the Knockout Tag Team Championships:  Rachael Ellering wins via Fishermen Spinebuster – ** ¾ – TITLE CHANGE!!!
• Last Man Standing: Trey Miguel vs Sami Callihan: Trey Miguel is the Last Man Standing – ***
• The Good Brothers vs FinJuice(c) for the World Tag Team Championships:  Juice Robinson wins via Roll-Up – *** – TITLE DEFENSE!!
• Tenille Dashwood (w/ Kaleb) vs Deonna Purrazzo (w/ Kimber Lee & Susan)(c) for the Knockout’s Championship – Deonna Purrazzo wins via Queen’s Gambit – ** ¼
• Kenny Omega (w/ Don Callis & The Good Brothers)(c) vs Rich Swann (w/ Eddie Edwards & Willie Mack)(c) for the AEW & IMPACT Championships – Kenny Omega wins via One Winged Angel – *** ½  AEW WINS!!

Review

Josh Alexander vs TJP vs Ace Austin-

The match starts off fast and rapid to all men as Ace is removed from the ring early on as everyone shows their prowess. TJP with his all-around talent, Alexander with his technical wrestling and Ace with his speed and agility as everyone gets a good amount of high speed offense with what they are best at.  TJP goes for a few holds like the Octopus and weakening his opponents at some points, Ace goes and gets the wrestling goes into overdrive and Josh Alexander gets the strength factor, even executing a Russian Leg Sweep and Superplex at the same time to his opponents.

TJP and Josh Alexander get their submission moves on not only each other but Ace as well but Ace can also get his signature move, The Fold, on Josh Alexander getting things sped up again where nobody looks to get an advantage. After high speed and high risk moves with even Madman Fulton getting involved but all in vain, as TJP gets taken out by Fulton and Divine Intervention comes in the form of a new X Division Champion.

Violent by Design vs Eddie Edwards, Chris Sabin, Willie Mack & James Storm-

Eric Young has his injury so they needed a replacement for EY and it’s shown to be W. Morrissey (Big Cass).

Doering and Eddie start it off and a lot of quick tags are made early on for both sides until the Cowboy and Morrisey get in the right and the Extra Large man takes the initial advantage and beating down the Cowboy. Every member for Violent By Design gets their beatings into Storm until the IMPACT Faithful get the tag and they start beating down Deaner. As the Soldiers get the advantage, Morrisey cuts in, tags himself in and then all hell breaks loose as everyone beats down each other until Sabin superplexes Deaner onto everyone else.

Joe Doering and Willie Mack are the two that come in but Doering isn’t the legal man as Willie Mack gets a stunner on Joe but Morrisey is the one that is legal and lands an East River Crossing to get the win and continues the beat down until the referee pulls Morrisey off.

Brian Myers vs Matt Cardona-

Cardona wants to be nice with his buddy before the match and extends his hand for a clean match but, Myers flips him off and the match starts as they go inside and out of the ring, both men going ruthless in fighting until Myers gets the early advantage by being sneaky and putting the cameraman in the way to stop Cardona and takes him back to the ring. Cardona gets a step over Myers as he gets his offense going and hits the ReBoot and then Radio Silence on the ramp as both men writhe in pain.

As they are on the outside, Myers is rolled in one way and goes to the outside after and takes the attack on the outside and Myers hits a spear onto Cardona, tries to get the win and after Cardona kicks out of that and Cardona hits an Unprettier to Myers. As that happens, Cardona wants to capitalize but gets the Radio Silence countered, getting hurt and hit with a massive Roster Cut for the win.

(Hopefully Cardona is alright after that landing. They did throw up the X)

Tony Khan comes and does a quick interview, telling them that Aubrey Edwards will be there to help the count and put it down the middle until D’more comes and says Brian (Hebner) is perfectly capable of officiating but…given the name… a second ref wouldn’t hurt.

Jordynne Grace & Rachael Ellering vs Fire n Flava-

Ellering actually showing her strength in the ring against both Kiera and Tasha before tagging in Jordynne until the speed and trickiness of the champions takes the advantage back to them. A little miscommunication from the champs comes in and hit each other by accident and the challengers come in to fight the champions off. All hell breaks loose once again as all members take to the skies and makes things even once again until Rachael gets the tag and hits a Fishermen Spinebuster to get a debut win and the Knockout’s Tag Championships.

Trey Miguel vs Sami Callihan-

Sami tries to end things early on as the dumps Trey to the outside and has the count start early and take it to eleven as Trey gets up and the speed picks up quickly as Trey tries to take over again with dives and Sliced Breads but nothing will keep Sami down and the only thing that will keep Trey down is himself so far since he crashes into the guardrails from a Suicide Dive. It’s all Sami now as he brings a production box and use it and the contents against Trey Miguel. A lot of weapons brought out now as Sami brings Trey back into the ring and Trey comes back after countering Callihan’s sadistic strikes and lands a move on the stack of chairs. Trey’s anger gets the better of him after and as both men go for Suplexes, Callihan just powerslams Try into the legs of the table and then sets that same table up for the Cactus Piledriver from the top rope.

As both men get to the count of nine, Sami getting up on his own and Trey rolling out of the ring, falling over and Callihan taking chase to set up more carnage. A piledriver on the steel steps to Trey as Callihan thinks pinning Trey under the steps, Trey slides out, under the ring and goes to hit a cutter through the table on the outside. As they both try to move, Trey uses the guardrail to get up and Sami slips on the table, losing the match.

The Good Brothers vs FinJuice-

Anderson and Finlay start this off and going even with the collar and elbow until the champions tag each other in frequently and beats down The Machine Gun until Finlay puts Anderson in the wrong corner, not that it matters because the champions start beating down Big LG. The Brothers get a tag and advantage shortly after and swings the momentum to the Good Brothers as Gallows beats down Finlay and grounds him to the mat.

LG takes Finlay to the corner, giving David Finlay a small break and the hot tag into Juice and take down the brothers now with frequent tags to take it to the now legal Karl Anderson. As Karl takes the beat down, Luke Gallows gets in the match and starts to fight too, getting a good head of steam and tags LG on for the end, The Magic Killer until Finlay pushes Karl out of the way so Juice can get the roll up win and the belts stay around the waists of FinJuice.

Tenille Dashwood vs Deonna Purrazzo

Deonna starts off early with the power and technical wrestling prowess, making sure Tenille is taken down for a good amount time until Tenille moves and takes control. Tenille gets the Taranchala hold in the ropes and hits a series of running crossbodies in the corner. She even shows the old Emma Lock which is the Muta Lock. Of course, Deonna will get out of this and starts a good assault of offense, putting the Fujiwara one as well and Tenille easily rolls out and hits the Spotlight kick.

Naturally with the two heels with their valets, Kimber and Su…san… get to interfere and stop a pin attempt to save Deonna. As Kaleb, Kimber and Susan get involved outside with each other, Deonna gets the final say with the Queen’s Gambit and steals the victory.

(Aftermath: The three beginning to  beat down Tenille Dashwood only for Taylor Wilde to make her return and take down Kimber and Susan to go face to face with Deonna after.)

Kenny Omega vs Rich Swann-

Both men start off trying to one up and out power each other but Kenny gets slightly in the advantage with cheap shots against Rich and after all the fun and games, Rich takes it to Kenny, high speed offense and giving him a taste of his own medicine with a slap to start that offense. Rich gets the edge and mettle (Because the wrestling world knows Andrew and I play Final Fantasy 14) and tries to make his mark and damage to Kenny. After getting too flashy, Kenny takes control and takes the offense all over the ring and ringside area as Kenny hits the Fisherman Neckbreaker and takes it to Rich’s head and neck as they return to the center of the ring. Kenny keeps the damage going to the neck and back and Rich counters the Ketaro Crusher and takes control.

Omega thinks he can get damage on Swann again but, Swann uses his adrenaline and speed against Omega and actually gets a good amount of offense but the assault early on makes Rich take too much time and after each men go to the ropes at the same time, Rich gets the upper-hand and pushes Kenny off into a Splash, only for a two as Omega now gets the momentum and hits a Doctor Wily Bomb, V-Trigger and then attempts the One Winged Angel but Swann sees it coming and gets out of the way before getting hit with another V-Trigger. Omega looks like he was going to do an avalanche One Winged Angel but rolls out of the move and both do a sloppy fall down as they go back to the strikes. Kenny takes the advantage again with a V-Trigger and hits two Snap Dragon Suplexs before Rich breaks out of the third attack and hits a cutter. Swann goes for a handspring cutter but Omega pull Hebner in the way and take it. Kenny goes to do use a chair but Aubrey Edwards stops him and Swann uses this to do another Cutter and even then, Kenny gets another V-Trigger in and takes control. Croyt’s Wrath, unprotected V-Triggers, Kenny is dissecting Swann until another burst of adrenaline after Eddie and Willie cheer him on and even though Rich gets the advantage, he can’t hit the Phoenix Splash and misses, getting hit with another V-Trigger and with the finish of the One Winged Angel.

Overall Score: 6/10

Well… That’s the show. We have a new challenger for the Virtuosa, the shocking victory of the Tag Team Championships with FinJuice retaining and the X Division showed that they are IMPACT Wrestling. If you want to watch an amazing match with very little goofy shenanigans, go watch the Triple Threat. That was an amazing match. Now, not to take away from the other matches, they were also good to an extent. The Knockouts match was good just, it didn’t seem like Tenille and Deonna had that chemistry in the ring when it was going on. Trey miracled a victory because he was basically getting the hell beaten out of him only to win but pure luck it seemed and that might be the story going forward.

Hopefully Cardona is alright, that looked like a nasty buckle of his knee and hopefully nothing too drastic was done to it. We got the Big Seven Footer that you can’t teach that in IMPACT, possibly for a good while because he’s really starting to look good in the ring and physically too but the main highlight of the night was the X Division. Very little trickery, very little heelish tactics and with Petey winning on the go-home show on Before The Impact, I thought that was Josh Alexander’s card that he was losing but apparently not. Let’s see what IMPACT will have going on for the show after Rebellion with all of these new stories and new players in the game moving forward…

Oh and Kenny Omega won but, Steve Wonder saw that coming a mile away.