20 Man Gauntlet Match to determine the #1 Contender for the TNA World Heavyweight Title
EC3 to respond about what happened last week when Mr. Anderson got involved.
Matt Hardy & The Wolves VS The Revolution
Knockouts Championship: (C) Taryn Terrell VS Angelina Love
May possible see the Impact debut of Drew Galloway
Impact Top 5:
1. Kurt Angle
2. MVP
3. Low Ki
4. Samoa Joe
5. EC3
Samoa Joe announced on Twitter that he is leaving TNA Impact Wrestling.
PWInsider reports that Joe and TNA negotiated and tried to come to terms for a new deal up until the end and things remained friendly between Joe and the company. The situation was described as similar to the one that led to AJ Styles leaving TNA in 2013, where TNA was not going to be able to match what Joe had been making. TNA made a final offer and left things up to Joe.
TNA made it clear to Joe that the door would be open for a future return.
A lessor factor had to do with Joe’s departure is that TNA is looking to invest more in newer talents coming in.
Source: WrestlingINC.com
Fallout From Lockdown.
Matt Hardy will give an update on Jeff Hardy’s condition.
Bobby Roode VS Austin Aries
Rockstar Spud, Jeremy Borash & Mandrews VS EC3 & Tyrus
Bram VS Crazzy Steve
Madison Rayne VS Awesome Kong
MVP & Samoa Joe VS Kurt Angle & Lashley
Discovery Communications issued the following press release praising viewership for TNA Impact Wrestling on Destination America during the month of January.
DESTINATION AMERICA SCORES BIG WITH FIRST MONTH OF PREMIERES FOR IMPACT WRESTLING
More than four million viewers tune in during first four weeks of premieres
(Silver Spring, MD) – Destination America recorded its best January ever in Prime HH delivery with premieres of Impact Wrestling. The all-new season kicked off on Wednesday, January 7th, with Impact Wrestling LIVE, ranking as Destination America’s best Wednesday evening in network history delivery of M25-54. The show also ranked as the 6th most social television program for the evening with #Destination IMPACT reaching a collective 73M impressions on Twitter.
Premieres of Impact Wrestling settled into their regular Destination America timeslot on Friday, January 16th. For the month of January, Impact Wrestling ranked as the #9 series in ad-supported cable for delivery of M25-54 on Friday nights. On Friday, January 23rd, the network garnered its highest rated and most watched Friday evening in network history for delivery of P25-54 and M25-54, ranking as the #3 sports telecast in cable (behind only NBA Basketball and the X Games on ESPN) and out-delivering networks including A&E, NGC, ESPN2, TNT and FXX among M25-54.
Throughout January, Impact Wrestling posted record-breaking numbers, delivering an average of 276K viewers among P25-54.
Continuing to build momentum, Destination America’s Impact Wrestling recorded its best premiere to date on Friday, February 6th, delivering an average of 345K P25-54, while earning a 0.85 rating among M25-54. Since premiering on the network in January 2015, 4.2M viewers have watched Impact Wrestling on Destination America.
Return of Feast or Fired.
Jeremy Borash w/Spud VS EC3 w/Tyrus
Fallout from BDC (Beat Down Clan) hijacking of Lashley’s TNA World Heavyweight Title belt.
Havok VS Gail Kim
Khoya VS Tigre Uno
Last week Eric Young shocked the world when he turned on his so-called best friend Bobby Roode and cost him the TNA World Heavyweight Championship against Lashley. Below is a IMPACTWrestling.com exclusive video of Roode issuing a challenge to EY.
No DQ Match: Bobby Roode VS Eric Young:
Also last week MVP and Kenny King joined forces with Samoa Joe and Low Ki to help Lashley regain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. Why did they join forces and what is their mission?
TNA World Tag Team Championship #1 Contenders Match: The Hardy’s VS The Wolves:
X-Division Championship: (C) Austin Aries VS Low Ki
Brooke & Taryn Terrell VS The Beautiful People
Eric Young turns on Bobby Roode along with Samoa Joe & Low Ki. Lashley defeats Roode to become new TNA World Heavyweight Champion.
Kurt Angle stepped down as TNA Executive Director & returned to in ring action.
Austin Aries defeated Low Ki to become new X-Division Champion.
Awesome Kong returns.
Impact Wrestling debuts tonight on Destination America live at 9/8c from the famed Manhattan Center in NYC.
TNA Executive Director Kurt Angle will be making a major announcement.
TNA World Heavyweight Championship: (C) Bobby Roode VS Lashley
It is being reported on PWInsider Elite that TNA is making some big changes to Impact Wrestling. Reportedly Impact Wrestling will have a reality TV theme to show when it premieres on Destination America. The idea is to have cameras filming everything from wrestlers walking around backstage, entering the building and even being out of character.
Dixie Carter is said to be a big fan of reality TV and Destination America has a lot of reality-type programming. TNA will be changing the format of Impact some to better fit Destination America.
Source: WrestlingINC.com
TNA has announced that they have re-signed Madison Rayne, Mr. Anderson & The Wolves (Eddie Edwards & Davey Richards).
Update: TNA has re-signed Eric Young.
TNA wants former WWE Champion Alberto Del Rio for Wednesday’s live Impact Wrestling debut on Destination America. TNA has reportedly offered him big money.
Source: F4WOnline via WrestlingINC.com
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