TNA Impact live results: Open Fight Night, Kelani Jordan interview
For the first time since 2017, TNA Wrestling will revive their Open Fight Night concept where wrestlers make challenges that must be accepted.
The one difference is these matches were previously taped as the company is in a one month dark period ahead of next Thursday’s live episode of Impact.
The only match announced thus far will see a four-way tag team match featuring The System’s Brian Myers & Eddie Edwards vs. The Rascalz vs. The Great Hands vs. Sinner & Saint.
After her comments on Tuesday’s NXT, reigning TNA Knockouts Champion Kelani Jordan will have a new sit-down interview.
Our live coverage begins at 8 PM Eastern.
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Santino greets us from a locker room and talks up Bound for Glory, and explains that tonight is open fight night.
This is followed by a promo from Brian Myers released on TNA Digital this week, which set up the four team match coming later tonight.
Tom Hannifan & Matthew Rehwoldt were on commentary.
Sinner & Saint (Judas Icarus and Travis Williams) vs. The Rascalz (Zachary Wentz & Trey Miguel) vs. The Great Hands (John Skyler & Jason Hotch) (w/ Tasha Steelz) vs. The System (Brian Myers & Eddie Edwards) (w/ Alicia Edwards)
The Rascals took all six of their opponents out with a double-dive to the floor. The crowd was behind the Rascalz as they double-teamed Icarus. Icarus caught Hotch with a forearm, setting Hotch up from a doulbe-team from Williams and Icarus. Hotch caught Williams with an eye-poke, but then Myers got the tag and went after Hotch.
Skyler distracted Myers, which allowed Hotch to catch him with a dropkick from behind that sent him to the floor. Skyler attacked Myers on the floor. Back in the ring, The Great Hands double-teamed Myers in their corner.
Hotch and Edwards hit a double team neckbreaker/legsweep on Myers for a near fall. Myers went for a sunset flipper two, but Hotch came back with a dropkick to get his own two count. Hotch dumped Myers to the floor again and Tasha Steelz attacked him on the floor.
Finally Edwards got the tag and hit Skyler with a lariat. Hotch got a high backdrop, and then Myers took Skyler down with a top rope rana. Then the match broke down with everyone getting in the ring for like a minute, before Edwards took out Skylar with a Boston Knee Party, and Edwards got the pinfall.
Match Result: The System wins win Eddie Edwards pinned John Skylar (8:56 aired)
Should have just been a straight tag match between the System and The Great Hands for as much as the others were involved.
— Jody Threat challenged Dani Luna tonight.
— The Elegance Brand is looking for Mr. Elegance. The prize is a one year contract with TNA Wrestling. If you think you’re Mr. Elegance, make a video and send it to EleganceBrand(at)TNAWrestling.com.
Dani Luna v. Jody Threat
Threat went for a forward cannonball off the apron, but Luna ducked and Threat hit the floor with an audible thud. Back in the ring, Luna took threat down with an exploder. Luna went for another exploder, but Threat reversed it and hit an exploder of her own. The comeback was short-lived, and Luna hit a German suplex on Threat.
Threat came back with chops and forearms. Luna escaped a suplex but Threat hit a lariat. Threat dumped Luna to the floor and hit her with the cannonball. Back in the ring, Threat hit kind of a jackhammer for a near fall.
Threat went for a submission, but Luna caught her with a back elbow and a back-body drop. Luna hit a slingshot blue thunder bomb for a near fall. Luna started jawing with the ref, and that gave Threat the opening to grab a rear naked choke. Luna made the ropes to escape.
Luna buried a knee in Threat’s midsection. Threat came back with a forearm, so Luna put her down with another knee. Threat came back with more forearms, but Luna hit a clubbing forearm to the back of Threat’s neck.
Luna went for the Luna landing, but Threat escaped with a rana. Threat wound up on the outside, but Luna, in a impressive feat, got on the middle rope and threw Threat back into the ring with a release German suplex. Luna hit the Luna Landing and got the pinfall.
Match result: Luna pinned Threat (10:05).
It felt like they missed their peak by about 3 minutes.
The TNA Injury Report:
- Mustafa Ali is day-to-day with injuries from the Hardcore War.
- Jake Something is suffering lingering after effects from Rosemary’s mist, but isn’t expected to miss any time.
- Mike Santana suffered a laceration in the Bound for Glory main event.
— Cedric Alexander challenged Mike Santana to leave his title in the back and come out for a fight tonight.
— Nic Nemeth and Mike Santana did a promotional tour all over El Paso. Nemeth wouldn’t make a bad first title defense for Santana. TNA will be in El Paso in December for Final Resolution and two nights of Impact tapings.
— To pad out the run time of the show, the showed a match from last March between The Hardys and the Colons in El Paso a few months ago. Allegedly it was an “El Paso Street Fight” but the first few minutes followed the rules of a straight tag match. Eventually it did break down into a street fight all over the arena, with the Hardys and Colons brawling all over the commentators area and freaking out Hannifan. The Hardys won after a Swanton bomb through a very uncooperative table on Orlando Colon.
— Then they aired a match between AJ Styles and Bobby Roode for the TNA World Title from a 2012 Open Fight night. Roode retained.
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