Impact Final Hour results: World title match, Jordynne Grace debuts

Impact returned this week with their “Final Hour” special episode. Austin Aries has not appeared on television since Bound for Glory and they have made no mention of him, so when he returns it looks like they are setting up for a big surprise moment.

Pentagon Jr. & Fenix defeated The OGz

Much of the match was the OGz toying with the smaller wrestlers. Fenix and Pentagon used their typical high-flying moves. Pentagon hit a dropkick into the groin of Homicide. They doubled-teamed Hernandez, but he powered out of it. Hernandez went for a superplex on Pentagon, but Pentagon pushed him back and hit a Finn Balor-like double-leg kick onto Hernandez as he hung from the top rope upside down.

Fenix then hit a swanton off the top rope for a near fall. Pentagon then flung Fenix onto Homicide for the victory. At one point, King tried to interfere but got knocked backwards.

Jordynne Grace defeated Katarina

Don Callis said Grace, making her Impact debut, reminded him of Rhyno. The crowd screamed “Jordynne is going to kill you.”

Katarina got the early advantage, hammering on Grace in the corner, but Grace powered out of it, press slamming Katarina. Grace is being billed as some sort of female monster. Her clotheslines were more like short clubs.

If they were trying to get Grace over as a killer, they didn’t because Katarina got in a lot of offense. Grace eventually won with a bear hug submission.

X-Division Champion Brian Cage defeated Sami Callihan by DQ

Brian Cage returned to Ohio and Rockstar Pro Wrestling, to what he called a “bingo hall.” Oddly it looked like there were at least as many people in the crowd here as there are at some Impact television tapings. A week ago, Callihan had an imposter show up at the event and beat up on him. This week, it was the real Cage.

Cage, in workout clothes, hammered on Callihan with clotheslines early in the match. Cage is unique because he has an incredible physique, yet moves like a little guy. Cage was dominating the match when the rest of Ohio Versus Everyone, Dave and Jake Crist, ran into the ring and started double-teaming Cage for the disqualification. Cage hit a double belly-to-back suplex on the Crist brothers.

Several unidentified wrestlers came to the ring and Cage gave them F5s. Six wrestlers, including the Crist brothers, held Cage on both sides of his body and Callihan hit him in the face with his title belt. Josh Mathews screamed “It took Sami Callihan and every minion in Ohio to get after Brian Cage.”

Callihan then hit a spike piledriver as the crowd chanted “O.V.E.”

Moose defeated Eddie Edwards

Moose plays a heel really well. It’s a character that if portrayed in WWE would get over big. This was sort of a grudge match. The two used to be buddies, but Moose went heel to team with Austin Aries and Killer Kross and at one point kidnapped Eddie Edwards’ wife, Alisha.

Moose is a big guy but shows a lot of athleticism.

Moose hit an incredible powerbomb on Edwards from inside the ring onto the stage. Moose flung Edwards and knocked him out cold. Alisha Edwards came out to tend to her husband. Don Callis screamed “she needs to be careful, this guy is a piece of degenerative garbage.”

Edwards squirmed on the ramp and tried to get back in the ring. Moose tried to spear Edwards back into the ring, but Edwards stepped aside and Moose crashed into the ring.

Edwards was still out from the powerbomb, however, and Moose hit a spear inside the ring for the three count.

Joseph Park, who looks a lot like the guy from Penn and Teller, announced in the ring that he had filed a lawsuit against Impact Wrestling for “unsafe working conditions” on behalf of Eli Drake. Park referenced the fact that his “brother” Abyss once put Drake through a table at Bound for Glory, but that he deserves a pass because he is a Hall of Famer.

Drake, however, turned on Park, giving him a low blow. He then started kicking him, yelling that he was the one who had ruined the business and outed him as the real Abyss.

“You have a broken down, depleted body and should call it quits,” Drake said as he was kicking him. Drake pulled out a chair and hit him in the stomach, the back, leg, and back again.

Callis screamed “why doesn’t Abyss come out and save this sap?”

Drake got in his face and said people like him, who love hardcore wrestling and tables and thumbtacks, were responsible for the death of wrestling.

They continued the Allie-is-possessed angle. James Mitchell confronted Allie on a stairwell. At Bound for Glory, Allie was possessed when she entered the “Undead Realm” against Su Yung. Ever since, Allie has been acting like she needs an exorcism, with Kiera Hogan trying to help her.

“You are fighting a battle you can’t possibly hope to win,” Mitchell told Allie. He said a long time ago he was in her position and tried to fight the darkness, but realized he couldn’t. He told Allie to embrace the darkness. Allie was about to shake Mitchell’s hand when Hogan tried to stop her. Allie rebuked her, however. Yung appeared out of nowhere next to James Mitchell.

“It’s not what I want, but it is how it has to be,” Allie said, and walked away with the two of them.

Impact World Champion Johnny Impact defeated Killer Kross to retain his title

This was a good, but slow-paced match. Impact played the crowd well as a fan favorite. He hit his spinning “Countdown to Impact” elbow dive off the top rope for a near fall. Kross toward the end hit Impact with a powerbomb.

He went for a choke, but Impact reversed it and superkicked him. Impact hit a hurricanrana and then the Starship Pain to retain the championship. They are really trying to build Impact up as a fan favorite. Kross looked good as a personality, but he seemed to tire early after getting in a lot of offense.