TNA Xplosion 9/5/2025

TNA Xplosion 9/5/2025

Last week's show is here: https://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/tna-xplosion-8292025.html

Next week's show is here: https://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/tna-xplosion-9122025.html 

Jake Painter does an inset promo. He says he has had chances to catch lightning in a bottle but came up short. He says he looks to make his mark and achieve his dreams tonight.

Brian Johnson does a promo as he comes out. He says the locker room is ready for TNA to take over the wrestling world. He says what they don't realize is that he's the one who will take them to the promised land. He says the problem is he has to start his quest for change in the rathole known as Baltimore. He says he's from the greatest city on the planet, Philadelphia.

Jake Painter vs Brian Johnson 

They lock up. BJ backs him up in the corner and pats his head. Jake hits punches and chops. BJ bangs his head off the buckles. JP goes up and over then JP hiptosses him. JP hits a corner spear then double upkicks him. JP hits armdrags then does a neat backbreaker backdrop-style. 

JP chops him down. BJ then hits mounted shots. JP is sent into the buckles. BJ hits short arm clotheslines for 2. BJ bulldog chokes him. BJ blocks a backcracker. JP hits lariats then back body drops him. JP corner enzugiri's him then double underhook backbreakers him for 2. 

BJ tries to pin him with his feet on the ropes and is caught. JP backrolls him but BJ holds onto the tights, backrolls him and pins him.

Thoughts: It was a shorter one. There wasn't too much to it and BJ got the win via cheating. I thought for sure Jake was winning here after his inset promo. 

Around The Ring with Gia Miller

Xia Brookside and Lei Ying Lee are the guests this week. Gia says their team seems random but it's not. Lee says Xia's dad trained her and she heard about her in The Mae Young Classic.

They went to a cowboy bar for Lee's birthday. They rode a mechanical bull there. They said they went windsailing the next day. Gia says it's important for tag teams to spend quality time together and do things that aren't work. Xia says their common interest is country music. Gia says they are destined for great things. Lee says Xia is her little sister. Lee then gives Xia a chinese fan. They try to unveil it together but Xia drops it. They then get it right the second time.

The Home Town Man vs Mance Warner

Mance comes out alone without Steph. Mance chops Home in the corner and Home gets the crowd to sing his song. Home hits punches and chops Mance in the corner. Home corner hip attacks him then hits mounted corner punches. Home thne drops him with a punch. Home plancha's him outside.

Mance grabs the ref then eye pokes Home up top. Mance then hits a bridging cutter for 2. Mance running facekicks him for 2. Mance clubs him and Home starts a chant for himself. Home points at him then hits punches. Home hits lariats then slams Mance. Home then elbow drops him.

Home top rope crossbodies him for 2. Mance headbutts him then running lariats him. Mance spinebusters him for 2. Mance misses a running knee then is rolled up and pinned.

Thoughts: It was an okay match for this level of a show. Home Town Man got good reactions here and he picked up the win to make the crowd happy. It was another short and simple one though.

Mance nails Home from behind after then running knees him. Mance impaler ddt's him.

Overall thoughts: We got two new matches here (which is more than usual) and one new interview. The matches were nothing you really need to see but Mance/Home was the better match of the two. I wouldn't recommend this one.