IMPACT tonight at 8/7c on AXS TV and 8:30pm ET on YouTube for IMPACT Insiders.
With Mercedes Moné making waves in Japan with STARDOM and New Japan Pro-Wrestling, many have wondered what the future holds for her former WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship-winning partner Trinity Fatu (formerly known as Naomi in WWE).
PWInsider Elite is reporting that Trinity Fatu will debut for Impact Wrestling during this weekend’s taping in Cicero, Illinois, just across the border from Chicago. Impact had been teasing a big surprise for the tapings at Cicero Stadium, and it appears that surprise is Fatu. Not set to be just a one-off surprise appearance, the report states that this will mark the start of the former “SmackDown” Women’s Champion’s tenure with the promotion. There is no information on the length of her deal with the promotion.
The debut will mark her first appearance on a wrestling program since she and Moné walked out of WWE in May 2022, abandoning their women’s tag team titles out of frustration over the creative direction of the women’s tag division. There had been talk of Fatu joining her husband Jimmy Uso in the popular Bloodline faction, but nothing has come of those rumors. Fatu confirmed late last month on Instagram that she was completely finished with WWE.
Fatu’s partner Mercedes Moné debuted for New Japan Pro-Wrestling in January, also wrestling for NJPW’s sister promotion STARDOM as the IWGP Women’s Champion. Moné recently lost her title and has demanded a rematch in Long Beach, California at NJPW Resurgence. She recently signed an extension with the companies, which are both owned by Bushiroad.
Source: Wrestling Inc.
Impact Wrestling will be holding a set of TV tapings at Cicero Stadium in Chicago, IL this Friday night. Earlier today, the company took to Twitter to tease a “MAJOR SURPRISE” that will be taking place at the tapings. They wrote,
“There will be a MAJOR SURPRISE THIS FRIDAY at #SpringSlugfest in Cicero Stadium in Chicago!
Get tickets and be there to see it in person”
As of this writing, there is no word on what the surprise will be.
Source: eWrestlingNews
The fallout from Rebellion pay-per-view begins on an all-new IMPACT! Tonight at 8/7c on AXS TV and 8:30pm ET on YouTube for IMPACT Insiders.
Impact Wrestling shared a video of Tommy Dreamer in which he says he’s going to ‘go away for a while’ and thanked Impact fans. Dreamer defeated Bully Ray to win Hardcore War for his team at Rebellion last night.
He said: “I’ve known Frankie Kazarian since the original ECW, when he was just starting training. He came up with Killer Kowalski, and he got in the ring, and years later we joke about it, where he was like, ‘This was the greatest experience and the scariest experience in my life.’ Tonight was a pure example of what I love about professional wrestling. It’s an escape. It’s an escape for me. There’s no other place I wanted to be than the middle of that ring tonight. I have received so much love from the professional wrestling community. I just gotta say thank you. I’m gonna go away for a while because mentally, I’m not here, and I gotta get better. Somebody else needs my love. Yuya, Bhupinder, Killer Kelly, Frankie, I wish the world always sees through my eyes. When I walk out there, I see a whole mass of people from different countries, races, creeds, all showing their love for one thing, and that’s professional wrestling. It’s a beautiful world that I’ve lived in, and it’s gonna be the hardest one that I have to leave. But again, for tonight, I just want to say thank you for everything you’ve ever done for me. I have literally wrestled in front of billions of people. Thank you for today, thank you for everything. I love you guys.”
IMPACT Wrestling presents Rebellion 2023 live on Sunday, April 16th. Several high-stakes matchups will take place including a Hardcore War, an Ultimate X match, and a Last Rites match. Several major championship matches will take place including high-stakes matchups for the IMPACT World Championship and the IMPACT Knockouts Championship. The main card will begin at 8 pm Eastern time with a pre-show starting at 7:30 pm Eastern. The pre-show will air for free on the IMPACT YouTube channel and the main card will air on FITE TV. Let’s see what IMPACT has in store for us.
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Mickie James has relinquished the Impact Wrestling Knockouts Championship.
During this week’s episode of IMPACT! on AXS TV, Mickie James was shown in the middle of a ring inside an empty arena. She revealed that she hasn’t been cleared to compete at Rebellion and wants to do what’s right for the business and the locker room. Before leaving her title and hat in the middle of the ring, an emotional James told Deonna Purrazzo and Jordynne Grace that it was their time now.
Grace vs. Purrazzo will now face off at Sunday night’s Impact Wrestling Rebellion pay-per-view event for the vacant championship.
Source: eWrestlingNews
Tonight at 8/7c on AXS TV and 8:30pm ET on YouTube for IMPACT Insiders, it’s the last stop on the road to Rebellion!
Thursday at 8/7c on AXS TV and 8:30pm ET on YouTube for IMPACT Insiders, experience the fallout from Sacrifice and Multiverse United: Only the STRONG Survive!
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