Impact Wrestling live results: Against All Odds go-home show

The final stop before Friday’s Against All Odds has arrived with Thursday’s Impact Wrestling on AXS TV.

In a preview of the 8-4-1 match to determine the next World title challenger, Nick Aldis will team with Jonathan Gresham against Moose and Rich Swann.

Heath, another competitor in the 8-4-1, will take on Champagne Singh.

The Knockouts Tag Team titles will be on the line as The Coven (Taylor Wilde & KiLynn King) defend against former champions The Death Dollz (Jessicka & Courtney Rush).

Ahead of his rematch with Chris Sabin for the X-Division title Friday, champion Trey Miguel will face Bhupinder Gujjar in a non-title match.

Before he defends against Dirty Dango Friday, Digital Media Champion Joe Hendry will face Sheldon Jean in non-title action.

In a preview of Friday’s Tag Team title match, Chris Bey of ABC will face Jason Hotch of The Good Hands.

The BTI pre-show will feature Tara Rising vs. Seleziya Sparx.

Our live coverage will begin at 8:30 PM Eastern when the YouTube Insiders feed begins.

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Chris Bey (w/ Ace Austin) defeated Jason Hotch (w/ Brian Myers)

Myers said that somehow Subculture skipped the line to get a Tag Team title shot at Under Siege, but that The Good Hands would win the titles tomorrow. Skyler then said as much as well. In case you missed it, Bey & Ace Austin will defend the Impact Tag Team titles against Hotch & Skyler tomorrow night.

Bey nearly got the win after a nice flatliner off the second rope. He later tried to end matters with Art of the Finesse that Hotch countered with a blue thunder bomb for a nearfall despite the extra spins.

After a series of nearfalls, Bey got the pin after countering a La Magistral cradle. Afterward, all three heels beat down Bey and Austin and raised the titles to help add some HEAT~! to tomorrow night’s proceedings.

– Gia Miller caught up with Heath backstage ahead of Friday’s 8-4-1 match. He’s been working up a game plan for tomorrow to win and beat Steve Maclin and get revenge for his fallen friend, Rhino. 

– Dirty Dango continued with his “I’m doing it for the money” bit, trying to explain why he’s doing what he’s doing. He’s looking for a gig for someone to pay him not to show up. He also said unlike the locker room, he can actually bring girls home and wouldn’t want them to see replica titles on his wall. This was actually very entertaining.

Heath defeated Champagne Singh (w/ Shera)

Heath won a pretty nondescript match with the Wake Up Call and pin to gain some momentum before Friday.

– The Design’s Deaner, Kon and Angels cut a promo ahead of their street fight match with the reformed oVe in Ohio tomorrow night. To no surprise, they are very confident and are threatening, wait for it, violence.

Digital Media Champion Joe Hendry defeated Sheldon Jean (w/ Kenny King) in a non-title match

Hendry cut a promo mentioning that Jean had broken his nose in a previous match and that Jean and King are both reality TV stars. Apparently, Jean was on Big Brother in Canada so I guess that counts?

Jean has some good size and Impact may see something in him as they have put him with King and in against talent like Nick Aldis and Hendry. But, his day was not today as Hendry defeated him with the Standing Ovation chokeslam. Let’s check in a year from now on Mr. Jean.

He moves on to defend against Dirty Dango Friday in a rematch from Under Siege. He called out Dango after the match who came out said he hates pro wrestling and pro wrestling fans. Hendry then debuted a new music video called Divas Reject that saw references to Chris Jericho, Tyler Breeze, Eva Marie, Summer Rae, and, well, Total Divas.

Not bad, Joe. Not bad at all. Well, that is until King and Jean attacked Hendry from behind. That brought out Director of Authority Santino Marella who was taunted by Jean. Jean then found he was alone with Hendry and Marella who then laid out him with…the Cobra which still lives in 2023.

– Gisele Shaw, Jai Vidal and Savannah Evans cut a promo about Friday’s tag team match featuring herself and Evans against Knockouts Champion Deonna Purrazzo and Trinity.

Knockouts Tag Team Champions The Coven (Taylor Wilde & KiLynn King) defeated The Death Dollz (Jessicka & Courtney Rush) to retain

Rush is the now-former Rosemary, back to her “human” persona and dressing in a lot of neon colors with Jessicka. They are the former champions as these two teams have controlled the titles since last October.

Rush had a visual tap on Wilde off a sharpshooter, but the referee missed it. King and Wilde hit their mounted running boot finisher on Rush to get the pin and win. 

I’m glad King is getting an opportunity, but this did nothing for me. While the singles division is still interested, the Knockouts tag division needs some new faces and depth. The fact the titles are on the line tomorrow should tell you something there.

– Alex Shelley did a taped promo hyping his Impact World title shot tomorrow against Steve Maclin. That was followed by a backstage interview with Maclin who was suddenly flanked by new pal Bully Ray. He said he likes Maclin, but that he doesn’t have to worry about any of the names he mentioned during his promo but will have to worry about him at Slammiversary.

– Footage from Masha Slamovich attacking Tara Rising and Seleziya Sparx on the BTI pre-show aired, hyping up her dog collar match with Killer Kelly tomorrow.

X-Division Champion Trey Miguel defeated Bhupinder Gujjar in a non-title match

Miguel will rematch Chris Sabin for the title Friday night. Miguel is still playing the heel, trying to get wins by nefarious means and even via countout as he attempted to here. Miguel was rolling until Gujjar went on a run, ended by missing a frog splash. He eventually hit the Lightning Spiral to pick up the win. He then grabbed the mic and said he’s a generational talent and is tired of not getting respect by way of “Yeah, but…” He said tomorrow, there will be no if, ands, or “Yeah, buts.” Nice line.

– Gia Miller was with Johnny Swinger who is still saying he is going on a 50-match win streak to get a title shot. This included references to Kip Winger “the gimmick stealer” and Vince Russo. He sent Zicky Dice to referee school so he can finally get one of “these stooges” in his back pocket.

– Deonna Purrazzo and Trinity sat down with Miller to hype up their own title match at Slammiversary and their tag team match tomorrow. Seeds of distrust were sown. This was a bit overproduced and Trinity’s delivery wasn’t exactly natural.

– No new matches were announced for Against All Odds, not even a pre-show match.

Moose & Rich Swann defeated Nick Aldis & Jonathan Gresham

All four men are part of Friday’s 8-4-1 match that will crown the next top challenger to which will likely be Maclin at Slammiversary. I’m going to guess either Aldis or “Speedball” Mike Bailey if they want to hold the Aldis/Maclin match off until Bound for Glory in October.

If you need to understand the 8-4-1, here’s your primer.

This was a perfectly fine tag team match. Aldis got the hot tag and nearly got the pin on Moose before both laid each other out with clotheslines. Swann and Gresham then got back in there and traded nearfalls. Moose blind-tagged Moose and they began arguing. Gresham hit a power bomb, but forgot about Moose who hit his own power bomb for the win.

Afterward, all hell broke loose with Heath and later Bully Ray entering the fray. As Bully Ray was about to power bomb Swann, PCO came out and went fist for fist with Bully Ray before hitting a running swanton through the middle rope on everyone on the outside of the ring to stand tall. Both Aldis and Bully looked concerned about PCO as they should because, well, he’s crazy.

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Tomorrow night’s streaming special is coming just a couple weeks after Under Siege, making it a hard sell to really get excited for. I can’t say this did much to help things along as Against All Odds is a transitional show before July’s Slammiversary pay-per-view.

Regardless, there will be some good action from a lot of people that are going to work hard for the good people of Columbus, Ohio.