TNA Impact 10/17/2024

TNA Impact 10/17/2024

Last week's show is here: https://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2024/10/tna-impact-10102024.html

Pick Your Poison Match - TNA Digital Media Title and International Heavyweight Title - PCO (c) vs Rhino

They shoulder battle and Rhino throws him out. PCO's head is banged off the apron then he takes a chair to the gut. PCO is thrown into the steps. Rhino's head goes into the steps. Rhino hits him with a cookie sheet then backdrops him on the steps. PCO chairs Rhino.

PCO misses a top rope senton on the apron edge. Rhino hits him with a trash can. Rhino chops the post when PCO moves and Rhino is sent into the post. PCO hits Rhino with a trash can then chokeslams him on it. PCO goes for a tope and takes a trash can to the head on the dive.

Rhino is whipped into a trash can in the corner. Rhino powerbombs PCO onto two open chairs. Rhino spears a table when PCO moves. PCO then hits a top rope moonsault on Rhino to win.

Thoughts: It was pretty much all hardcore wrestling here. It was a little slow. PCO took some awful looking bumps as usual and won as expected. I appreciated the big bumps but I wasn't a huge fan of it. 

Gia Miller interviews Nic Nemeth. Nic says he's not worried about the Pick Your Poison match. He says he will pin Matt Cardona tonight but will put the title on the line anytime he wants after since this is a non-title match. Nic says their match has been years in the making. He says he can't wait to knock the look off his face. He says Matt used to be something special. He says he will steal the show and beat Matt Cardona.

Arianna Grace comes out and brings out Brinley Reece. George Iceman then comes out. He says he will show us how its done. He said he heard Johnny Cash is from here but he says he sucks. He says he has someone who is hotter than a ring of fire - Ash By Elegance.

Ash By Elegance vs Brinley Reece

Ash tries to kick her on the handshake. Brin has some new gear that makes her hips look big. Ash pulls her by the hair and George puts lipstick on her. Brin forearms Ash and messes up her lipstick. Ash goes out and screams. George tries to fix Ash's makeup again and Brin hits armdrags.

Brin yanks on the arm. Ash does a push-up and jumping jacks and tries to shoulder Brin over. Ash does more than Brin shoulders her over. Brin then does her own push-ups. Ash says he quits. Brin hits punches. Brin is booted off the apron.

Ash pounds on Brin then chinlocks her. Brin rolls her up then shoulders her over. Brin body blocks her and does a forward cartwheel lariat for 2. Brin squats her, George distracts Brin then Ash hits a reverse ddt. Ash hits a top rope swanton and wins.

Thoughts: It was about average. It made sense and nothing was wrong with it. I do not like Brin's new gear at all. It was kind of silly that George was doing Ash's lipstick when she had lipstick all over her face.

George says they will do a VIP Launch Party by Elegance. He says they should do a makeover on this nxt girl and show her what it's like to be elegant. Ash then puts lipstick on Brin's face and kisses her with all kinds of lipstick on. Xia Brookside then comes out to stop this.

Rosemary and Wendy Choo say "no more humans". They talk about losing last week and Rose says they hate to lose. We see Masha playing with a knife. Masha thinks Rose and Wendsy are behind a door but she doesn't find them. They then appear where Masha was. 

TNA X-Division Title - Mike Bailey (c) vs Leon Slater

They shake hands and stare down. Mike side headlocks him then Leon shoulders him over. They try to dropkick each other at the same time then headflip up together. Mike hammerlock takedowns him. Leon throws him off. Mike slides out. Leon legsweeps him on the apron and slingshot splashes him. Leon plancha's and is caught with a kick during it. Mike then triangle moonsaults on him outside. Leon is sent into the post and we go to
PiP break.

We return and Leon tries to handspring but his arm gives out. Leon stunners him with the other arm. Leon flying facekicks him. Mike hits kicks. Mike misses an ssp and Leon leg lariats him. Mike works the arm and Leon back elbows him. Leon snapmares him then plancha's him. Mike hits a standing moonsault double knee and goes for a hammerlock.

Leon hits his own standing moonsault double knee. Mike then slides out. Leon 619's him outside of the ring then Mike asai moonsaults him outside. Leon blue thunders Mike for 2. Leon crossbodies him and Mike turns it into a spanish fly.

Mike backstabbers the arm and Leon leg lariats him. Leon flying dropkicks him then corkscrew dives him over the post. Leon hits a twisting suplex off the top. Leon misses a 450. Mike sits on his back with a chicken wing.  Mike chicken wing suplexes him and high kicks him. Mike hits a tornado kick and hits ultimate weapon. Mike then does a half-electric chair bomb on Leon and wins.

Thoughts: It went a little longer than it needed to and I would have liked a finish involving the arm. It was a bit smarter than expected with Mike attacking the arm. There was a lot of flying here and the crowd got into Leon a lot. There was some good stuff here and maybe I was okay with this overall.

Mike and Leon shake hands after.

They announce El Hijo de Vikingo is going to face Mike on 10/26. 

ABC and The Hardy's talk. Bey says they are with legends here. Ace says the first time he stepped in a ring was to take a picture with Jeff. He says The Hardy's wanted to make him become a wrestler. Bey says their match going ruined by The System. Bey says they will hurt The System in their 8-man tag next week.

Matt puts ABC over and says they need to be a well oiled machine. He says they will be competitors at Bound for GLory and says may the best team win. Matt says this may be the last full metal mayhem they have left inside of them. Ace says The Machine Guns didn't want to pass the torch so they took it and may need to do it again. Matt says to do it and give it your all.

Steve Maclin comes out to talk. Steve says EY was taken out and there was nothing he could do about it due to The Northern Armory. He calls out Josh Alexander, who is with The Northern Armory.

Josh says he doesn't know if he has the answers to the questions Steve wants. Josh says he hasn't forgotten about Steve being one of the nastiest scumbags this world has seen. Josh asks if we are supposed to believe Steve wants to cater to the idiot fans. Josh says it's not worth it.

Josh says he put his body on the line to keep the doors open so fired people like Steve would have a place to work. He says he's the longest reigning TNA champ in history. He says the fans turned their back on him and ask why they should believe in a failure like Steve.

Steve says he's been here since day one and says Josh would believe in him. Steve says they are alike and thought they could be a team. He says they are nothing alike. The Armory surrounds Steve. They attack Steve and Steve gets triple teamed. Steve is put in zipties. Josh slaps Steve around and calls him stupid. Steve spits at him and gets booted. Josh hits a C4 spike on Steve and the heels pose on Steve.

Santino and Arianna Grace are using a ball tumbler to pick people for a Call Your Shot Bound For Glory gauntlet. He says the winner can choose their shot at a title for one year. Frankie Kazarian comes in. He says he better be selected for it. He calls him a jobber and says to do the right thing. Kaz says he's working on a plan to make sure he's in the world title match at Bound For Glory. Santino wonders what the plan is.

Brian Myers vs Mike Santana

Brian stomps him as he enters, before it starts. Mike hits him with a chain. Eddie Edwards and JDC come out and get hit with the chain. Mike gets on the mic after. He says he's sick of them and says he's ready to go with Moose now. He tells him to get down here. Mike says he's coming for Moose since Moose won't come out.

Mike is looking for him in the back. Moose hits him from behind with a bat and says be careful what you wish for.

We have a sitdown discussion with Jordynne Grace and Masha Slamovich. Grace wants to know why she's x'ing out her photo like a child when she could just talk to her. Masha says how was she supposed to tell her when she got in the Royal Rumble and is defending the title time and time again.

Grace asks if she's supposed to tell WWE no because of her. She says Masha was in the tag division. Masha said she did what she had to do and said Grace never reached out to her to extend a hand.

Masha talks about beating her. She says she's relieved Masha didn't answer her open challenge and says it's been harder to beat her each time. she said she couldn't beat her today but maybe can now. Grace says she has to beat her and says she will do it again. Masha says she loves her but the title is coming home with her no matter what.

Thoughts: This was a makeshift angle due to Alisha Edwards getting injured and it's just hard to buy into it.

Kaz comes down for commentary, saying he's the king and does what he wants.

Pick Your Poison Match - Nic Nemeth vs Matt Cardona

Mtt backs him up in the corner then takes punches and a back body drop. Nic neckbreakers him. Nic goes for a splash and Matt gets his feet up. Matt misses a 2nd rope dropkick then is dropkicked.

Nic hits corner punches and neckbreakers him. Nic hits elbow drops. Kaz asks if Tom the annnouncer has ever peed his pants on commentary. Matt facekicks Nic and hits mounted punches. Nic is sent into the post shoulder first. Matt dropkicks him through the ropes. Nic's head is banged off the apron. 

Matt is back body dropped on the floor. Matt shoves Nic off the apron into the steps. We go to PiP break and return. They fight up top and Matt is dropped down to the mat. Nic is crotched on the top rope andtakes a facewash kick.

Matt is popped up into the buckles and Nic hits a jumping ddt for 2. Matt hits an implant ddt for 2. Nic superkicks Matt for 2. Matt lariats him then Nic hits a  fameasser for 2. Matt low blows Nic and PCO's music hits.

PCO comes out. Security tries to stop him and he nails them. Matt gets distracted and takes a danger zone from Nic. Nic gets the win.

PCO carries Matt out after.

Thoughts: It was about an average match. These two know how to work and weren't going to do anything too wild here. Matt's also not really known as an amazing worker either.

Kaz then hits Nic from behind and beats him up. Joe Hendry comes out to help. Him and Nic double back body drop Kaz. Kaz gets on the mic after. He has a referee shirt and says he will be the special ref for the Nemeth/Hendry match.

Thoughts: They are really going to have to explain how and why Kaz got the special ref position because that makes no sense at face value

Overall thoughts: It was your usual average TNA show. It made sense for the most part and there's no major issues but it's just a hard show to get excited about for various reasons. I'll give them some leeway because they lost a scheduled taping though due to Hurricane Helene. Bailey vs Slater was probably the best match on here but it's nothing I would seek out. I wouldn't recommend this.