Impact Wrestling ‘Hard To Kill’ Results 1/12/20

(Dark Match) The Rascalz vs. Reno Scum vs. Mahabali Shera and Rohit Raju vs. TJP and Daga –

Winners: Mahabali Shera and Rohit Raju

 

(Dark Match) Joey Ryan vs. Johnny Swinger –

Winner: Joey Ryan

 

Madman Fulton w/Jake and Dave Crist vs. Ken Shamrock –

Winner: Ken Shamrock via Submission

 

Impact X-Division Championship: Ace Austin (c) vs. Trey –

Winner: Ace Austin via Pinfall

– Post-match, Trey’s mom checks on him. Austin goes over and say some stuff to his mom. Trey immediately runs out and takes out Austin. Referees and other wrestlers run out to break things up.

 

Impact Knockouts Championship: Taya Valkyrie (c) w/John E Bravo vs. Jordynne Grace vs. ODB –

Winner: Taya Valkyrie via Pinfall

 

Rob Van Dam w/Katie Forbes vs. Brian Cage –

As Cage slapped hands with the fans at ringside, a woman grabbed his arm, allowing RVD to take him down. It was RVD’s other girlfriend. RVD goes to work on Cage’s arm, but Cage finally gets in some offense with a couple kicks to the head. RVD drops Cage with a chair, Cage’s mouth looks to be busted open after that one. Forbes now comes into the ring and holds the chair in front of Cage’s face. RVD heads to the top rope and hits the van terminator into Cage’s face. Cage looks to be out of it now. Daga runs down to the ring and doesn’t want RVD to keep attacking. Cage is taken to the back now? No announcement is made. Not one-percent sure the match ever even got started, very strange.

Winner: Rob Van Dam via Referee Stoppage

– RVD ends up attacking Daga, and the bells rings! So, looks like we have another match going with RVD.

 

Rob Van Dam vs. Daga –

Winner: Rob Van Dam via Pinfall

 

Michael Elgin vs. Eddie Edwards
Edwards’ Call Your Shot trophy is on the line.

Winner: Eddie Edwards via Pinfall

 

No DQ Match: Moose vs. Rhino –

Winner: Moose via Pinfall

 

– Rich Swann hurt his ankle on Friday and isn’t cleared for tonight’s match. The doctor won’t even let Swann go to ringside, so Mack is going after the titles himself.

Impact World Tag Team championship: The North (c) vs. Willie Mack –

Winners: The North via Pinfall

 

Impact World Championship: Sami Callihan (c) vs. Tessa Blanchard –

Winner: Tessa Blanchard via Pinfall to win the Impact World Championship

WWE NXT UK TakeOver: Blackpool II Results 1/12/20

Trent Seven vs. Eddie Dennis –

Winner: Eddie Dennis

 

NXT UK Women’s championship: Kay Lee Ray (c) vs. Toni Storm vs. Piper Niven –

Winner: Kay Lee Ray to retain the NXT UK Women’s Championship

 

Tyler Bate vs. Jordan Devlin –

Winner: Tyler Bate

 

NXT UK Tag Team Championship – Ladder Match: Gallus (c) vs. Grizzled Young Veterans vs. Imperium vs. Flash Morgan Webster and Mark Andrews –

Winners: Gallus to retain the NXT UK Tag Team Championship

 

WWE UK Championship: WALTER (c) vs. Joe Coffey –

Winner: WALTER to retain WWE UK Championship

Imperium joined WALTER in the ring. They stood tall. The Undisputed Era came out of the crowd and attack Imperium from behind! Crowd went nuts! Adam Cole stood face to face with WALTER. The entire Era surrounded him like a pack of wolves and took him down. Cole screamed this is what’s coming at World’s Collide. Crowd chants their name.

Impact Wrestling ‘Hard To Kill’ 1/12/20

January 12, 2020 at 8:00 PM ET – The Bomb Factory, Dallas, Texas – Available on FITE, Traditional PPV

Impact World Championship: Sami Callihan (c) vs. Tessa Blanchard

Impact Knockouts Championship: Taya Valkyrie (c) vs. Jordynne Grace vs. ODB

Impact X-Division Championship: Ace Austin (c) vs. Trey

Impact World Tag Team championship: The North (c) vs. Willie Mack and Rich Swann

Michael Elgin vs. Eddie Edwards
Edwards’ Call Your Shot trophy is on the line.

Rob Van Dam vs. Brian Cage

Moose vs. Rhino

Madman Fulton vs. Ken Shamrock

MLW Fusion Preview 1/11/20

The semi-final round of the Opera Cup come to a close as Timothy Thatcher competes with Brian Pillman Jr. for a dance with destiny in the tournament finals.

Thatcher’s exceptional execution has reigned supreme thus far.  Will the catch wrestler’s experience, size and ring generalship be too much for the up and coming 2nd generation Pillman?

Will Pillman defy the odds and mirror his opening round performance displaying his tenacity and heart are intangibles Thatcher can’t match?  Tune in to find out!

Following Tom Lawlor’s exhibition bout and heinous conduct last week, the Von Erichs have accepted Tom’s challenge for a World tag team title match against the Spirit Squad.  Has Lawlor manipulated his hired goons into a scenario to dethrone Ross and Marshall Von Erich?

The high-profile league-wide recruitment of Gino Medina continues…. and Konnan has some truth bombs for the blue-chip luchador. The next chapter of the courtship of “El Intocable” continues on this week’s FUSION.

Meanwhile, Opera Cup alternates Injustice promise to make a statement as they circle their opportunity to enter the Opera Cup.

WWE NXT UK TakeOver: Blackpool II 1/12/20

January 12, 2020 at 12:00 PM ET (Preshow at 11:30 AM ET) – Empress Ballroom, Blackpool, England

WWE UK Championship: WALTER (c) vs. Joe Coffey

NXT UK Women’s championship: Kay Lee Ray (c) vs. Toni Storm vs. Piper Niven

NXT UK Tag Team Championship – Ladder Match: Gallus (c) vs. Grizzled Young Veterans vs. Imperium vs. Flash Morgan Webster and Mark Andrews

Tyler Bate vs. Jordan Devlin

Trent Seven vs. Eddie Dennis

WWE SmackDown Preview 1/10/20

Tonight’s WWE SmackDown on FOX will take place from the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana as the road to the Royal Rumble continues.

  • The Usos return to in-ring competition this Friday on SmackDown against King Corbin & Dolph Ziggler
  • Lacey Evans and Sasha Banks to finally square off one-on-one this Friday Night
  • John Morrison to appear on “Miz TV” this Friday night on SmackDown

Backstage News On “WWE Main Roster Money” Offer ROH Made To Marty Scurll

It was recently announced that Ring of Honor will be bringing back the Supercard of Honor show for WrestleMania weekend.

An interesting name that appeared in the press release was Marty Scurll. “The Villian’s” contract recently expired, but he is a free agent who will be working with ROH and the NWA for the near future.

In the latest edition of The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer reported that ROH is offering Scurll “WWE main roster money” in a deal that would have him working only 40 dates per-year, among other perks. There is no word on if he has signed it, but it is reportedly a better deal than the one they offered Matt Taven.

Taven, a former ROH World Champion, signed a new deal in September before his old one expired in October. The contract starts out at double the highest-paid wrestler in NXT, and can end up being about triple by the end of it.

Source: Wrestling Inc.

AEW Dynamite Tops WWE NXT In Viewership, NXT Fails To Crack Top 50

Week 14 of the Wednesday Night War saw AEW Dynamite top WWE NXT once again.

Wednesday’s Anniversary Edition of Dynamite on TNT drew 947,000 viewers, topping the 721,000 viewers garnered by NXT on the USA Network by 31%, according to Showbuzz Daily.

AEW ranked #6 in the Cable Top 150, while NXT ranked #55. AEW ranked #36 in viewership, while NXT ranked #45 in viewership.

Last week’s Dynamite episode drew 967,000 viewers and ranked #13 in the Cable Top 150, and #40 in viewership, so it was only down 2% against a live episode of NXT. Last week’s taped special edition of NXT drew 548,000 viewers and ranked #66 in the Cable Top 150, and #48 in viewership.

AEW drew a 0.36 rating in the 18-49 demographic, beating the 0.19 that NXT drew in the same demo by 89% this week. Last week’s AEW show also drew a 0.36 rating while the NXT episode drew a 0.15 in that demographic.

This week’s NXT episode was the first regular live show of 2020, headlined by the beginning of the 2020 Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic and a Fatal 4 Way main event to crown the new #1 contender to NXT North American Champion Roderick Strong, won by Keith Lee. The Dynamite episode was the big Anniversary Edition.

Real Housewives of New Jersey on Bravo topped the night in the 18-49 demographic on the Cable Top 150 with a 0.45 rating, beating both NBA games on ESPN. Hannity topped the night on cable in viewership with 4.196 million viewers, ranking #10 on the Cable Top 150 with a 0.31 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

The Jeopardy special on ABC topped the night on network TV in the 18-49 demographic with a 24 rating, and in viewership with 14.872 million viewers.

Below is 2020 NXT Viewership Tracker:

January 1 Episode: 548,000 viewers with a 0.15 rating in the 18-49 demographic
January 8 Episode: 721,000 viewers with a 0.19 rating in the 18-49 demographic
January 15 Episode:

2019 Total: 10.209 million viewers over 13 episodes
2019 Average: 785,307 viewers per episode

Below is 2020 AEW Dynamite Viewership Tracker:

January 1 Episode: 967,000 viewers with a 0.36 rating in the 18-49 demographic
January 8 Episode: 947,000 viewers with a 0.36 rating in the 18-49 demographic
January 15 Episode:

2019 Total: 10.840 million viewers over 12 episodes
2019 Average: 903,333 viewers per episode

Source: Wrestling Inc.

Showtime Interested In MLW

As previously reported, there has recently been talk of some big news breaking regarding MLW and a major partnership.

Wrestling Inc. has been able to confirm with sources close to the situation that there is interest in MLW from Showtime. There isn’t currently any other specifics known.

While Showtime has not aired any wrestling programming, they have had interest in the genre in the past. The network was in talks with AEW just last year.

Alex Shelley To Make WWE NXT TV Debut Next Week Reuniting With Kushida In The Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic

Wrestling veteran Alex Shelley will make his big WWE NXT TV debut next Wednesday night as he reunites with former tag team partner Kushida for the 2020 Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic.

Time Splitters were an active team from 2012-2015 and last competed together in 2016.

Alex Shelley is most famously known for his time in TNA/Impact Wrestling as one half of the Motor City Machine Guns with Chris Sabin. He recently guest coached at the WWE Performance Center, leading many to speculate he’d team with Kushida in the tourney, but Shelley attempted to downplay this last night on Twitter.

“Everybody seems to think Kushi needs me,” he wrote. “Kushi and I, and The Bucks, and Forever Hooligans, and ReDragon, helped change [NJPW]’s jr. tag division. But really, he’s going to be awesome with any partner.”

Dusty Classic tournament matches set for next Wednesday are The Time Splitters (Kushida and Shelley) vs. The Grizzled Young Veterans (Zack Gibson and James Drake). Matt Riddle and Pete Dunne vs. Mark Andrews and Flash Morgan Webster will also take place next week, putting an end to the first round.

Tonight’s NXT episode saw the tournament kick off with Imperium’s Marcel Barthel and Fabian Aichner defeat Wesley Blake and Steve Cutler of The Forgotten Sons, while NXT Tag Team Champions Kyle O’Reilly and Bobby Fish defeated NXT UK Tag Team Champions Wolfgang and Mark Coffey of Gallus to advance.

Sources: Wrestling Inc. and Pro Wrestling Sheet