Impact Wrestling results: LAX vs. Decay in a street fight
Previously: Low Ki made his return to Impact and won the X Division Championship. Also, Josh Mathews returned to commentary after promising to leave the previous week.
Tonight: Grand Champion Moose defends against Davey Richards. NFL players Gary Barnidge and DeAngelo Williams will be in Moose’s corner. Plus, LAX battles Decay in a street fight. Also, Matt Sydal makes his Impact debut.
Show Recap —
– Jeremy Borash and The Pope kicked off Impact without Josh Mathews. Moments later, Mathews made his entrance along with Impact management. Mathews announced that because J.B. decked him last week, J.B. is now suspended and removed from announcing immediately. Mathews and Pope announced the rest of the show without J.B.
Matt Sydal defeated Trevor Lee (w/ Shane Helms)
Trevor Lee jumped Matt Sydal to start the match. Sydal made a brief comeback, but Shane Helms interfered and Lee took over. Sydal hit a standing moonsault, but Helms had the referee distracted. Lee and Helms collided, which allowed Sydal to hit a knee strike and a Shooting Star Press to win the match.
– In the back, Sienna approached Karen Jarrett. She asked about the GFW Women’s Champion and Jarrett promised that she’d be in action later.
– Ethan Carter III came out and had a message for Bruce Prichard. He took his advice and looked in the mirror and what he saw was a demigod. He promised to win the World Heavyweight title at Slammiversary. He discussed costing James Storm the Impact World Championship last week by hitting him in the head with a beer bottle.
Storm then came out and EC3 jumped out of the ring. Storm challenged him to come in the ring, though EC3 declined. Storm insulted EC3 until he ran back in and they brawled. EC3 hit a low blow and the One Percenter on Storm.
– At a restaurant, a waiter brought KM the bill for his meal. KM yelled at the waiter and intimidated him.
GFW Women’s Champion Christina Von Eerie defeated Ava Storie
Christina Von Eerie controlled the early part of the match until Ava Storie took over. Von Eerie made a comeback and hit a sick looking backstabber from the corner to win the match.
– Swoggle was in the crowd again and annoyed ring announcer Rockstar Spud.
– McKenzie Mitchell interviewed Alberto El Patron. El Patron thought he was the number one contender for the Impact World title but was interrupted by GFW World Champion Magnus, who believed he should get the shot. They argued until Karen Jarrett interrupted and announced that Magnus defends against Alberto El Patron in two weeks.
Grand Champion Moose (w/ DeAngelo Williams and Gary Barnidge) vs. Davey Richards (w/ Angelina Love) ended in a no contest
In round one, Davey Richards locked on the figure four to end the round. All three judges gave the round to Richards. In round two, Moose made a fiery comeback and hit a pop-up powerbomb. Moose won round two to tie it up. In round three, Richards hit the double foot stomp and locked on the ankle lock. Eddie Edwards ran out and attacked Richards.
After the match, Richards shoved DeAngelo Williams. Williams responded with his own shove. Richards charged at Williams but Gary Barnidge gave him a big slam.
– Swoggle stole Spud’s format sheet and Spud chased him in the ring. Spud pulled off Swoggle’s shorts and he ran off.
Kongo Kong (w/ Sienna, KM, and Laurel Van Ness) defeated Matt Sigmon
Laurel Van Ness was even more of a mess than she was last week. Kongo Kong hit a cannon ball splash in the corner and followed up with a huge splash off the top to win the match.
VOW (Veterans of War) defeated Fallah Bahh and Mario Bokara
VOW consists of Wilcox and Mayweather (formally Crimson). VOW was in control until Fallah Bahh came in and took over. VOW made a comeback and picked up the win. After the match, VOW promised to win the Impact Tag Team titles.
– During the commercial break, Swoggle viciously attacked Spud with a hammer.
– In the back, Eli Drake wondered why he wasn’t on the live show last week. Tyrus accused him of being jealous, which he denied. Drake promised to do something about this.
Impact Tag Team Champions LAX (w/ Konnan, Homicide, and Diamante) defeated Decay (w/ Rosemary) in a street fight
Ortiz and Crazzy Steve brawled in the ring while Abyss tossed Santana to the floor. Steve pulled out a table and Abyss pulled out a barbwire board from underneath the ring.
Decay set up two barbwire boards and a table in the ring. LAX used kendo sticks and trash cans on Decay. Decay made a comeback when Steve hit a double crossbody on LAX and Abyss hit a double chokeslam.
Rosemary tried to spit the mist into Ortiz’s eyes, but he ducked and she hit Abyss instead. Ortiz put Abyss through a barbwire board. Diamante gave Rosemary a sick looking German suplex. LAX then hit the senton in the corner on Abyss, who was under the second barbwire board.
Steve made a comeback and brought in the thumbtacks. LAX regained the advantage and hit the powerbomb/blockbuster combination on Steve through a table covered in thumbtacks to win the match.
Next Week: GFW Women’s Champion Christina Von Eerie defends against Sienna.