TNA Impact results: Christmas Surprise match, year-end awards
For the second straight month, TNA Wrestling had a holiday edition of Impact with Thursday’s show that featured the first-ever Christmas Surprise match and their year-end awards.
The match was a ten-person intergender bout where the teams were drawn at random through team captains Ryan Nemeth and Mara Sade opening up different presents to reveal who was on their respective squad.
In the end, Sade, Dezmond Xavier, BDE, Eric Young & Peyton Royce defeated Ryan Nemeth, Mance Warner, Rosemary, Jake Something & Jessie McKay when Sade pinned Rosemary after a superkick. The winning team earned a holiday bonus while the losers got coal.
TNA Year-End Awards
They announced various winners throughout the show which were paired up with backstage promos and parts of notable matches.
- Tag Team of the Year: The Hardys (partial replay of Slammiversary four-way ladder match). There was a glitch where Tom Hannifan was talking about how the Hardys were transcendent in wrestling when a WWE WrestleMania 41 graphic appeared with no acknowledgement. A few seconds later, it appeared again for the next award but was never edited.
- Crossover Moment of the Year: Joe Hendry vs. Randy Orton at WrestleMania 41 (no footage was shown)
- Knockouts Tag Team of the Year: The Elegance Brand
- Knockouts of the Year: Ash by Elegance (footage was shown from The Elegance Brand vs. Spitfire from Sacrifice)
- X-Division Star & Finishing Move of the Year: Leon Slater with Slater’s X-Division title win over Moose at Slammiversary and the subsequent AJ Styles promo afterward shown.
- Match of the Year: Mustafa Ali vs. Mike Santana falls count anywhere from Rebellion
- Male Wrestler of the Year: Mike Santana
- Inspirational Wrestler of the Year: Chris Bey
- Faction of the Year: The System
The full lineup for next Thursday’s New Year’s Day edition of Impact were also revealed.
Since 2011, Josh has been a contributing editor to Wrestling Observer/F4WOnline.com and also hosts the Punch-Out podcast. He has also written for Fight Magazine, Bloody Elbow, Bleacher Report, and other websites. He's a 2000 graduate of the University of Maine, worked in pro sports, and once was an indie ring announcer.