Impact, Rebellion PPV! 4/16/23

Join us tonight for up to the minute results from Impact Wrestling’s Rebellion PPV.

Tonight’s Card:

• IMPACT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

  KUSHIDA vs. Steve Maclin

• IMPACT KNOCKOUTS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

  Jordynne Grace vs. Deonna Purrazzo

• IMPACT X DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIP 3-WAY ELIMINATION MATCH

  Trey Miguel (c) vs. Mike Bailey vs. Jonathan Gresham

• IMPACT WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP ULTIMATE X MATCH

  Bullet Club (Chris Bey & Ace Austin) (c) vs. Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin & Alex Shelley)

• HARDCORE WAR

  Team Bully (Bully Ray, Moose, Brian Myers, Kenny King & Masha Slamovich) vs. Team Dreamer (Tommy Dreamer, Frankie Kazarian, Yuya Uemura, Bhupinder Gujjar & Killer Kelly)

• LAST RITES MATCH

  Eddie Edwards vs. PCO

• The Design (Deaner, Angels, Kon &/or Callihan) vs. Santino Marella, Joe Hendry & Dirty Dango
• [Countdown to Rebellion Pre-show]
  

  IMPACT KNOCKOUTS WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

  The Coven (Taylor Wilde & KiLynn King) (c) vs. Death Dollz (Rosemary & Jessicka)

• [Countdown to Rebellion Pre-show]
  Heath & Rhino vs. Champagne Singh & Shera

Tom Hannifan and Matthew Rehwoldt are once again on the call.   The matches are taking place in Toronto.

Countdown to Rebellion

Match 1.  Heath and Rhino VS Champagne Singh and Shera

Heath starts the match working on Singh.  After laying it in on Singh, Rhino tags in.  Shera also tags in.  An ECW chant breaks out.  The two start slugging it out, until Rhino hits a clothesline.  Shera goes down, and then eats a gore.  Singh interferes from the outside to take Rhino off his feet.  Singh tags in briefly and takes an advantage.  Shera tags back in he continues his teams advantage. Heath tags in and mounts a comeback.  He slams Singh.  Singh then rolls up Heath and puts his feet on the ropes and gets the win.

Winner.  Singh and Shera

Rhino attacked Singh and Shera post match to gain a measure of respect.

Match 2.  The Knockouts World Tag Team Champions, The Coven, Taylor Wilde and KyLynn King VS The Death Dolls, Rosemary and Jessicka

King and Jessicka start the match.  They both land some stiff shots.  King boots Jessicka on the apron.  Jessicka headbutts King into her corner.  Rosemary tags in tries to bite King.  She then forearms King.  King blocks another bite and lands a chin breaker.  Wilde tags in.  Wilde faceplants Rosemary into the bottom corner turnbuckle.  Rosemary kicks Wilde, but King interferes and knocks Rosemary to the floor.  King tags back in and works over Rosemary in the corner.  King gets a couple two counts off punches and a legdrop.  She and Wilde double team Rosemary.  Rosemary needs a tag, but Wilde hits a double knee to the chin.  Rosemary sits up and refuses to stay down.  She hits an exploder.  King and Jessicka tag in.  Jessicka gets the advantage and eventually slams her an Wilde onto each other.  She gets a two count on King.  Rosemary tags in and bites King on the head.  After a spear, Rosemary gets a long two count.  King boots Jessicka to the floor.  Wilde makes a blind tag.  Rosemary spears King, but eats a Wilde Ride and a Witches Wrath.  Wilde gets the pin on Rosemary.

Winners and still Knockouts World Tag Team Champions, The Coven

Rebellion PPV

Match 1.  Ultimate X Match.  The Motor City Machine Guns, Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin VS The Impact World Tag Team Champions, Bullet Club, Ace Austin and Chris Bey, The ABC

Both teams start attacking each other right away.  Sabin and Shelley try to scale the ropes right away, but The ABC counter and knock them off the ropes.  Sabin and Shelley appear to be furthering their tweener role.  The ABC are the crowd favorites.  Each team take turns getting knocked off the cables above the ring.  Sabin pulls Bey to the floor and he lands badly on his knees.  Shelley pulls Ace to the floor and The MCMG’s work on Ace.  Shelley dragon screws Bey on the second rope.  The acrobatics of these teams are off the charts.  Neither team have any fear.  Shelley locks on the figure four on Bey.  Sabin gets pulled from the cables above the ring.  Ace and Bey start working as a team and take out Sabin, but Shelley double clotheslines them both.  Sabin recovers.  Bey can barely hold weight on his leg, but does a incredible spring board DDT on Shelley.  He then moonsaults Sabin from the 2nd rope on the floor.  Ace hits a missile drop kick off the top on Shelley.  Ace then punts Sabin.  He then hurls himself backwards to the floor to take out the MCMGs.  The Champs start to take over.  Ace gets half way across the cables.  The MCMGs then turn up the heat, pulling Ace down and doing their patented tandem offense.  All four finally end up on the cables at once.  They start kick each other off the cables one at a time.  The Champs hit the art of finesse and the fold on Sabin.  Bey gathers himself and climbs the cables and drops the belts to Ace.

Winners and still champions, ABC, The Bullet Club

Steve Maclin cuts a promo in the back.  He says it sucks he has to be in Canada.  He wanted Josh Alexander.  He says this is nothing compared to where he was when he was in the military.  He tells Kushida he is looking at the next Impact World Champion.

Match 2.  The Design, Deaner, Sami Callihan, Kon and Angels  VS Dirty Dango, Santino Marella and Digital Media Champion, Joe Hendry

Hendry starts the match on the mic.  He makes fun of The Design.  He introduces Santino to the crowd.  This is his first match in 9 years on television.  The Design enter last.  Dango and Angels start the match.  Dango takes down Angles and tags in Santino.  He takes down Angles quickly.  Sami tags in.  Santino takes him down and then Deaner.  Sami grabs a front face lock and drags Santino to his corner.  Angels tags in and The Design work over Santino in their corner.  Angels starts barking at Santino’s son at ringside.  Hendry tags in and does a fall away slam and pumpkick.  He then does a fall away on Sami and almost Kon, until Angels kicks him at the last second.  Deaner tags in and he starts on the ground and pound.   Eventually Hendry reverses a suplex.  Dango tags in.  Sami does too.  Dango hits a leg sweep and then a legdrop.  Angles interferes giving Sami an advantage.  Kon tags in next and he slams Dango.  Kon works over Dango violently in the corner.  They make several tags.  Dango fails to get to the ropes after multiple tries.  Santino hits Angles from the apron.  Dango makes the tag to Santino.  He pulls out his classic headbutts and dip aways.  Hendry enters and does a double fallaway slam on Deaner and Angels.  Dango flies to the floor on Kon and Angels.  Deaner hits a discus clothesline on Santino.  Sami goes for a pile driver.  Deaner stops him and grabs a bat.  Deaner hands Sami his bat.  Sami seems to have his light turned back on.  He takes out Deaner with the bat, turning on the Design.  Santino and Deaner are left in the ring.  A cobra is next and it is over.

Winners, Santino Marella, Joe Hendry and Dirty Dango

Tommy Dreamer cuts a heartfelt promo prior to the match about his mother, who sadly is gravely ill.  He says he is going away after this match.  He is in tears.  His team stands with him.

Match 3.   Last Rights Match.   PCO VS Eddie Edwards (with Alisha Edwards)

The rules are simple.  This is a casket match.  The winner must put their foe in a casket and seal the casket closed.

PCO is announced as the French Canadian Frankenstein.  PCO dives to the floor onto Eddie and the brawl starts from there.  PCO and Eddie go at it violently.  Eddie pops out PCO’s shoulder.  PCO actually pops his shoulder back in banging it off the corner post.  PCO then opens his shirt, inviting Eddie to chop him.  The two trade chops and then violent palm strikes.  PCO proves too much.  Eddie even buckle bombs PCO, but PCO just stands up and levels him.  PCO then moonsaults him.  Eddie escapes getting tossed in the casket.  PCO dives from the ramp over the railing and fans onto Eddie.  PCO then chokeslams Eddie on the corner of the ramp.  The blood thirsty fans ask for more.  PCO slams Eddie’s head on the casket repeatedly.  This is a train wreck.  Eddie knocks PCO off the ramp and he falls to the floor badly.  Eddie needed that.  Eddie tries to put PCO into the casket, but PCO blocks and chops him.  They fight on the stage.  Eddie gets a kendo stick and smacks him. He then suplexes and Boston Knee Parties PCO.  PCO is bleeding and placed in the casket, but PCO gets free.  Alisha hits PCO with a shovel.  PCO then hits Eddie with the shovel.  He then chokeslams him into the casket.  The casket door is closed.  It is over.

Winner.  PCO

Match 4.  X-Division 3-Way Elimination Match.  Champion, Trey Miguel VS Jonathan Gresham VS Mike Bailey

The match starts off with scientific wrestling.  Trey bails, realizing he may not be able to wrestle with the to competitors.  Bailey and Gresham grab the champion and toss him around a bit.  Gresham eventually misses Trey and hits Bailey.  Trey explodes with aerial offense on both contenders.  Bailey gets knocked to the floor.   Trey gets a two count on Gresham.  Bailey enters and superkicks Trey.  He then missile dropkicks Gresham, by accident.  Bailey hits a running shooting star.  He then sweeps the leg of Gresham and locks in a figure four on Gresham while taking down Trey.  Gresham gets to the ropes.  Gresham and Bailey trade strong style blows.  They both stop to a few times to level Trey.  Bailey gets thrown from the ring and Gresham goes to work on Trey.  He lands some suplexes and slams, but can only get a two count.  Bailey hits a Frankensteiner on Gresham.  He then scissors Trey to the floor.  The match then picks up as several dives by Trey and Bailey are landed.  Trey hits a springboard cutter from the ramp to the top rope to the ring on Gresham.  Bailey hits a dragon screw on Trey.  Gresham puts Trey into the figure four.  Trey double knees Gresham from the top rope and pins him.  Gresham has been eliminated.  Trey locks on the figure four on Bailey.  Mike reverses it.  Trey reverses it and starts chopping Bailey.  Bailey gets to the ropes.  The two start the chop back and forth.  This eventually becomes kicks and then Bailey hits a crossbody and pins Trey 360 degrees.  He then hits a tornado kick, but misses and ultimate weapon.  Trey kicks him to the floor.  Bailey blocks a sunset flip and does a standing moonsault, landing knees first on the floor.   Bailey then misses ultimate weapon again.  Trey rolls him up and with the help of Bailey’s tights, gets the pin.

Winner and still X-Division Champion, Trey Miguel

Match 5.  Team Bully (Bully Ray, Moose, Brian Myers, Kenny King & Masha Slamovich) vs. Team Dreamer (Tommy Drelamer, Frankie Kazarian, Yuya Uemura, Bhupinder Gujjar & Killer Kelly)

This is basically a War Games rules match, without the cage.  Moose and Frankie Kazarian start the match for their teams.  The match spills to the floor.  Frankie brings a garbage can with him.  He hits a sling shot DDT after hitting Moose with the can.  Frankie then hits a spinning leg drop.  He goes back to the can, but Moose kicks the can into Kaz and then beats him with it.  Moose then positions the can in the corner, but Kaz reverses a whip and Moose goes in hard.  Brian Myers enters next.  Frankie backdrops Moose onto Myers on the ramp.  Frankie tries to fight them both off, but the numbers catch up.  Myers gets a table and sets it up on the floor next to another one already set up.  Frankie blocks a suplex attempt on the tables.  Bhupinder Gujjar enters for Team Dreamer.  I will call him BG for short.  BG takes out Moose and hits a ripcord knee on Myers.  BG gets out a cheese grader and uses it on Myers.  Frankie hits Moose with a trash lid.  Kenny King enters for team Bully.  BG eats a snap dragon suplex and kick from King.  King then takes out Frankie with a sidewalk slam.  Moose then tosses BG to the floor and King sets up another table.  Myers is shown a bloody mess.  Killer Kelly enters next in Team 3D gear.  She staples Kenny Kings forehead.  Moose tries to powerbomb him and she staples his crotch.  She then staples her own head.  Gross.  Masha Slamovich enters next.  She hits Kelly with a chair and throws the staple gun far from Kelly.   Myers hurls Kelly to the floor on several people.  Slamovich hurls herself off the top rope with a chair in tow.  She takes everyone out.  Myers is alone in the ring.  Yuya Uemura enters next for Team Dreamer.  He hits a series of flying forearms on Myers.  He follows up with an overhead suplex.  All of a sudden Team Dreamer stands tall in the ring.  They keep knocking everyone from the apron.  They are defending the ring.  Enter Bully Ray next.  He is brandishing a a table in tow.  Team Dreamer all watch and wait for him, as his team blindsides Team Dreamer.  Bully also has a chain he starts belting everyone with.  Team Bully holds Killer Kelly, while Bully taunts her with the chain.  Enter Tommy Dreamer with a kendo stick.  Bully is bitten by Killer Kelly and Tommy beats him with the stick.  He locks on the spinning toe hold.  Myers tries to break the hold.  Next thing everyone is tied up in a series of submission holds.  Kelly and Slamovich both grab chairs and start banging the guys with them.  Finally they are left to each other.  Kelly lands the first shot and then hits a Death Valley Driver on a steal chair.  She gets a two count.  Kelly heads to the top.  Bully grabs her and launches her to the floor.  Bully then pokes Dreamer in the eye.  Moose misses a spear to Dreamer and hits Bully.  Yuya and BG hit dives.  King gets locked in the Killer clutch.  Slamovich hits a snow plow for a two count.  Slamovich hits a low blow on Kaz.  Dreamer confronts Masha.  She spits on him.  Tommy piledrives her.  The Good Hands, Skyler and Hotch jump Tommy.   Kaz brings in a tall ladder.  Kenny King tosses him to the floor.  Myers sends BG threw a table on the floor.  The Good Hands continue to work on Kelly, but she back drops Hotch to the floor.  Kaz and Kelly hit a cutter on Skyler threw 2 table on the floor.  Back in the ring, Bully low blows Dreamer.  He sets up Tommy on the table and climbs the ladder.  Bully looks scared.  He starts assaulting the refs for not holding the ladder for him.  The refs attack Bully.  Dreamer hits a driver for a two count.  Dreamer climbs the ladder and the refs help him.  Dreamer dives threw Bully and gets the pin.

Winners,  Team Dreamer

Match 6.  Impact World Championship Match, Contender VS Contender, Kushida VS Steve Maclin,  The winner is the NEW WORLD CHAMPION.

This match was set up after injured champion, Josh Alexander had to relinquish the title due to injury.  Kushida and Maclin were the two top contenders for the championship.  Nick Aldis enters as the guest commentator for this match.  Aldis is a former Impact World Champion and 2 time NWA World Champion.  Tom and Matthew seem surprised by Aldis joining them and are excited.  Aldis indeed tells everyone he has joined the promotion and has his sights set on regaining the Impact World Championship.  This is a great signing for Impact.  Aldis immediately gives this match a big match feel with his words.

Maclin heads out first with Kushida next.  David Penzer announces the competitors to the large crowd in Toronto.  Kushida cut his teeth in Canada, training in Scott D’Amore’s school.  Kushida dives the leg on Maclin.  This frustrates Maclin who bails, after Kushida turned the leg dive into a hoverboard lock.  Maclin enrages the fans by throwing a Canadian flag on the floor and stomping it.  Back in the ring Kushida wrestles Maclin to the mat and frustrates Maclin further.  He clearly holds a advantage over Maclin in mat wrestling.  It should be noted Aldis is very much featured in commentary.  The camera even pans to him for a few seconds during the match.  Maclin finally hits a snap mare, but Kushida reverses a wrist lock.  Kushida then connects with a crossbody and locks on the hover lock in the ropes.  Maclin uses the ropes to gain an advantage and his balance.  He hits a stiff back elbow.  Maclin hits a series of single legged stomps, using the bottom rope to bounce off of.  He is working the spine.  Maclin then bends Kushida’s back around the corner post and bends him.  Maclin then suplexes Kushida on the floor.  Maclin takes a moment to flip off everyone in the arena.  Maclin then drops a knee from the apron to the floor.  Back in the ring, he hits a Olympic slam on Kushida.  Kushida tries to kick Maclin from his back, but Maclin goes to the ground and pound.  Kushida hits a backspring elbow off the ropes.  He follows up with a cartwheel dropkick.  Kushida then kicks the left elbow.  He follows with a palm strike and a rollup for two.  Kushida gets a two count off a fisherman’s buster.  Maclin crotches Kushida on the top rope, but dodges Maclin who tried to spear him.  Maclin hit the buckle hard.  The fight goes to the ramp.  Kushida Pele kicks Maclin and then punts him.  Back in the ring, Kushida hits a top rope knee drive.  Maclin reverse momentum and hits a German.  Maclin boots Kushida, buck bomps and power bombs Kushida for a very long two count.  Kushida won’t stay down and catches Maclin on the top rope.  They end up on the top together.  A Kushida Spanish fly into the hoverboard lock isn’t enough.  Maclin gets to the ropes.  Maclin hits a caught in the cross hairs and a KIA, but Kushida kicks out at two.  Maclin dives on Kushida, but Kushida locks on a hoverboard lock.  Maclin just pounds his way free.  Maclin hits a death valley driver, but Kushida locks on the hoverboard lock.  Maclin stands out and drives Kushida into the corner.  Kushida locks on the hoverboard and body scissors again.  Maclin counters with a Super KIA and it is over.

Winner by pinfall and New Impact World Champion, Steve Maclin

Maclin is handed the belt, but he refuses to take it.  He wants Scott D’Amore to hand it to him.  He calls out D’Amore to be a man of his word and come out and do what he said he would do, and hand him the belt.  Maclin takes it and then decks D’Amore with it when he turned around.  Nick Aldis enters the ring and challenges Maclin to do it to him.  Maclin takes the belt and thinks better of it.  Impact got the shot they wanted with Aldis standing face to face with Maclin.

Match 7.  Knockouts World Championship Match, Contender VS Contender, Jordynne Grace VS Deonna Purrazzo

This match is in place as Mickie James injured her ribs and is not medically cleared to compete.  She also had to forfeit her championship.   Purrazzo is out first and then Grace.  David Penzer once again introduces the combatants to the ring.

Purrazzo is two and zero over Grace.  Grace locks on a headlock and takedown as they feel each other out.  Grace chops Deonna in the corner.  Deonna gets the arm and rings it several times.  Neither can keep an advantage as they go back and forth.  Purrazzo hits a ranna after a few arm drags.  The fans seem to be behind Purrazzo.  She is a heal, but has the fans favor.  It should be noted, she is the wife of Steve Maclin.  Grace ends up hurling herself onto Purrazzo on the floor and jack hammers her after that.  Back in the ring, she gets a two count.  Grace has really transformed herself, she is freakishly strong.  She lands a stalling suplex and fans count to 20.  That earns her some cheers from the crowd.  She places Purrazzo on the top rope, but Deonna kicks herself free.  She hits a kick, leg sweep, and lands an arm bar.  Grace breaks free, but spills to the floor after a pump kick.  On the ramp, Deonna dumps Grace to the floor and moonsaults onto her.

Back in the ring, Purrazzo eats a spinning backfist and a reverse driver and kicks out at two.  The two block several holds.  Grace finally locks on a sleeper.  Grace has been busted open by the way.  The two butt heads and go down.  They stand and start going at it strong style.  Purrazzo locks on an armbar.  She turns it into the Venus D’Milo.  Grace gets to the ropes to break the hold.

Grace blocks a whip.  Grace then hits a spinebuster for two.  Grace hits a Grace Driver for another two count.  Purrazzo blocks a superplex.  She turns it into a sunset bomb followed into a Queens Gambit.  She pins Grace.

Winner and New Knockouts Women’s World Champion, Deonna Purrazzo. 

Grace and Purrazzo hug after the match.  Deonna Stands tall as the show ends.  She is a 3 time champion.