TNA GENESIS 2025, NEW CHAMPION CROWNED

Join us for up to the minute results from TNA, Genesis!  Coverage will be ongoing, so check back often for a detailed recap.  Will the WWE invade the TNA, now that the working agreement is official?  Will JBL interfere in the World Title Match?  So many questions will be answered tonight.  Pre Show coverage begins at 7:30pm.  Tom Hannifan and Mathew Rewholdt are on the call.  Dallas, Texas will host the PPV.

• TNA World Championship: Nic Nemeth (c) vs. Joe Hendry
• Knockouts Championship: Masha Slamovich (c) vs. Rosemary in Ravens Clockwork Orange House of Fun Match
• TNA World Tag Team Championship: Matt Hardy & Jeff Hardy (c) vs. Trey Miguel & Zachary Wentz
• Knockouts Tag Team Championship: Jody Threat & Dani Luna (c) vs. Ash & Heather by Elegance
• X-Division Championship: Moose (c) vs. Ace Austin
• I Quit match: Josh Alexander vs. Mike Santana
• Jordynne Grace vs. Tessa Blanchard
• Brian Myers & Eddie Edwards vs. Eric Young & Steve Maclin
• Frankie Kazarian vs. Leon Slater (pre-show)

Pre Show

The Busted Open crew of Dave Legreca, Tommy Dreamer and Mark Henry join Gia Miller for a panel style forum.  They discuss the card and each match, giving their predictions.  They also mention the potential crossover with WWE.  Just then Ashante Adonis comes out making fun of the Cowboys.  He then issues an open challenge for anyone in the back.  We get a taker to the challenge.

Match 1.  Ashante Adonis VS Jake Something

Adonis strikes first with a stiff punch, but Jake hits a shoulder to take Adonis down.  Adonis lands an air drop and then some stiff punches.  Something then counters with a series of stiff shots in the corner.  Adonis fights back shoulders Jake in the corner.  Jake reverses a whip and spears Adonis.  Adonis boots Jake, but eats a punch to the face while trying to jump off the top.  Into the void and it is over.

Winner, Jake Something

Moose and JDC come out next.  He enters telling everyone shut up.  JDC says he is joining commentary on the next match.  The Rascalz cut a backstage promo on the tag match with the Champs, The Hardys tonight.

Match 2.  Frankie Kazarian VS Leon Slater

Kaz comes out first with his Call Your Shot Trophy.  JDC decides to take his shirt off to relax at the announce table.  Kaz hits arm drag arrogantly.  He then slams him.  Slater then returns the favor with the same moves.  He dances and connects with a back thrust kick and back handspring elbow off the ropes.   Kaz dumps Slater to the floor.  Kaz stays in control and Russians Leon.  JDC is hilarious on commentary.  Kaz lands a spinning neckbreaker, slam and springboard legdrop.  Slater hits a single leg dropkick, after being held in a side headlock for a few minutes.  Slater then crossbodies Kaz off the top for two.  Slater then delivers a one armed blue thunder bomb.  Kaz counters with a slingshot cutter.  Slater dumps Kaz to the floor, and then flies to the floor on him over the corner post.  Back in the ring, Slater misses a 450 swanton when JDC distracts Slater.  Kaz rolls Slater up for the pin with a handful of tights.

Winner, Frankie Kazarian

Main Card

Match 1.  X-Division Championship: Moose (c) vs. Ace Austin

Ace jumps Moose right away.  His speed and agility lead the champ to bailing to the floor.  At first Austin keeps the advantage with a cartwheel kick on the apron, but Moose eventually hurls Ace into the barricade repeatedly.  Ace avoids a shoulder and Moose flies into the barricade next.  Ace suplexes Moose on the floor.  Alicia and JDC are now out with Moose and looking concerned.  Moose gets to the ring and catches Ace on the top rope.  He choke slams him on the apron.  Ace spills back to the floor.  He barely beats the 10 count.  Moose slows the match with chops in the corner.  Moose follows up with a rock bottom.  Ace counters with some kick and a click click boom.  The two trade strong style blows.  Moose hits goto hell.  Ace counters a second.  He then scissors Moose to the floor.  JDC and Alicia help Moose to his feet.  JDC then throws Ace into the post.  Moose circles the ring and goes for a spear, but Ace moves aside.  Moose spears JDC.  Ace hits a fold on the floor.  Back in the ring Ace flies on Brian Myers and Eddie Edwards, who showed up.  Ace re-enters to a violent spear by Moose.  He only musters a 2 count.  Ace gets two off a roll up.  Moose spears Ace again and again and it is over.

Winner and still champion, Moose

The System come in to attack Ace, but Maclin and Eric Young make the save.  We go straight to the tag match.

Match 2.  Brian Myers & Eddie Edwards vs. Eric Young & Steve Maclin

The teams brawl on the floor and back in the ring.  Maclin mounts the buckle and pounds on Eddie as we unofficially begin.  Maclin psycho knees Myers, but Alicia interferes.  Eddie blue thunders Maclin.  He then goes to the ground and pound.  He then pokes the eye and tags in Myers.  Eddie tags back in and he rag tags Maclin further with lariats.  Maclin finally reverses a suplex, but Myers tags back in and stops him.  He suplexes Maclin for two.  Maclin finally mounts a comeback on Eddie and tags in Young.  He clears out Myers and Eddie with lariats and dropkicks.  He drops an elbow off the top for two.  Myers kicks him in the head.  Eddie and Myers double underhook Eric for two.  Eric recovers and tags out.  Alicia interferes.  Myers spears Maclin, buy Brian can’t put Steve away.  Eddie and Myers go back on the double, but EY interjects and Maclin hits a KIA and it is over.

Winners, Maclin and EY

Match 3. Knockouts Tag Team Championship: Jody Threat & Dani Luna (c) vs. Ash & Heather by Elegance

Ash and Dani start us off.  Dani uses her power to gain and advantage.  Jody tags in and they do their best Motor City impersonation with a series of moves reminiscent.  Heather bails to the floor for a breather.  Ash kicks Dani as she attempted to dive to the floor.  Heather goes on the attack and Dani ends up on the floor on her back.  Ash and Heather keep Dani down by tricking the ref with the help of their manager.  Dani eats a series of boots, punches and kicks by Heather.  Ash tags back in and locks on a rear chin lock.  Luna gets to her feet and connects with a single leg dropkick.  She gets to Jody.  Heather tags in as well, but Jody clears the ring with lariats and a fallaway slam.  Heather stumbles in and eats a driver.  Ash breaks it up and they do a backstabber/double stomp from the top combo for two.  Jody fires up and gets to Luna.  Jody dives on them both and Luna snap suplexes Ash repeatedly.  Jody firemen’s carry Heather out of the ring.  Dani pump kicks Ash and then Germans her.  Pressure drop and it is over.

Winners and still champions, Spitfire.  

Kaz is shown backstage.  He cuts a promo saying he is up next for whomever wins the TNA Championship tonight.  He says he may even cash in tonight.

Match 4.  Jordynne Grace VS Tessa Blanchard

Tom Hannifan underscores Blanchard’s troubles over the last 4 years, as she enters the ring.  Grace heads out next.  She looks very much the face of TNA Womens wrestling and she attacks Blanchard right away.  Blanchard is slammed all over the ring, tossed to the floor, dove on and jackhammered in about 30 seconds.  Grace starts hot, but Blanchard fights back.  The battle on the floor, but Tessa ends up stomping Grace after being scissored into the barricade.  This match is intense.  Blanchard throws Grace into the steps.  Tessa then kicks Grace in the face and splashes her.  Grace is then reverse DDT’d by Blanchard.  The two end up on the top rope.  Neither gain an advantage.  Blanchard ends up double kneeing Grace faceplants her.  Grace palm strikes Tessa and they end up back on the top.  Grace delivers a fallaway slam off the top rope.  That was brutal.  The two end up duking it out mid ring.  Grace lands a few slams.  She then darts her into the buckle and package powerbombs her for two.  Blanchard delivers a reverse destroyer for two.  Spinebuster by Grace gets a two count.  Blanchard defiantly continues to fight back.  She then cutters Grace for two.  Tessa planchas on the floor on Grace.  She has learned a lot in Mexico.  Grace DVDs Blanchard from the steps to the floor.  They battle to the top rope again with Blanchard crucifix driving Grace for a two count.  A she’s a racist chant breaks out for Tessa.  Grace gets locked in the octopus.  Grace powers free to suplex and then delivering a fishermen’s for two.  Tessa hits a cutter.  She misses from the top.  Grace plants Tessa face first after spinning her by her feet round and round.  Tessa rips a turnbuckle loose.  Grace places her on the top rope.  Blanchard avoids a muscle buster, then buzzsaws Grace on the exposed buckle.  Tessa only gets two.  Blanchard hits a magnum for the win after planting Grace’s face back on the exposed buckle.

Winner, Tessa Blanchard

The fans don’t like this winner at all, but Blanchard is back.  Great match.

Match 5.  I Quit Match, Josh Alexander VS Mike Santana

Santana and Josh takedowns for a few minutes.  Neither gain an advantage.  Santana is looking to make this more of a fight, but Josh wants otherwise.  Santana sees early, Josh is not going to get into a fight that easy.  Finally Santana hits a pumpkick and then flip over the ropes onto Josh on the floor, much to the delight of the crowd.  We get a we want tables chant.  Santana agrees and gives them what they want.  A TNA chant breaks out.  Josh slips a powerbomb threw the table and over head suplexes Santana on the floor.  Josh then whips him into the steps.  Josh then crotches and works Santana on the post.  He then locks on the figure four around the post on the floor.  Santana blocks his head being knocked into the post, but he still gets kicked in the gut.  He then leg whips Santana on the floor.  Back in the ring, Josh does the three amigos.  The fans don’t like that at all.  Josh then misses a crossbody.  Santana misses a kick and then is slammed on the apron violently.  He refuses to quit.  Josh lays in the forearms on the floor, before reentering the ring.  He fights to his feet trading blows with Alexander.  Josh goes back to the gut wrench suplexes.  Santana counters with a lariat and cannonball into the corner.  Santana puts Josh on the top rope and points to the table on the floor.  Josh kicks him off the top, but misses a dive.  Santana DVDs Josh.  Josh reverses a lariat into a ankle lock.  Santana refuses to quit.  Josh then backdrops Santana over the top and threw the table on the floor.  Josh gets another table and puts it in the ring.  He then puts part of the stairs in the ring.  He then slams Santana threw the broken table on the floor.  Josh pulls out chairs and other objects.  Josh then starts using the chair on the leg of Santana.  He hits it repeatedly.  Santana refuses to quit.  Josh tries to zip tie Santana before going to a very violent ground and pound.  That was stiff.  Santana is bleeding from the head, but refuses to quit.  C4 by Josh, but Santana stands out of it and goes bezerk.  He bucklebombs Josh.  Santana rannas Josh off the top and then frog splashes him.  Spin the block next.  Josh refuses to quit.  Santana gets the zip tie and ties Josh’s hands behind his back.  Santana hits a big clothesline.  Josh doesn’t give up.  Santana sets up the table over Josh in the corner.  He then puts the stair mid ring.  Santana then launches himself, cannonballing threw the table, but Josh refuses to give up.  Santana gets a slapjack and beats Josh’s chest so hard he bleeds from the mouth.  Santana threatens to stomp Josh’s head into the stair and he quits.

Winner, Mike Santana

Santana asks Josh to shake his hand.  Josh shakes hand and calls Santana the new standard of TNA and then quits the company publicly.

Match 6. TNA World Tag Team Championship: Matt Hardy & Jeff Hardy (c) vs. Trey Miguel & Zachary Wentz

The renaissance of the Hardy’s continues.  They get a loud ovation from this sold out crowd.  The two teams shake hands.  Just then NXT Tag Champs, Axiom and Nathan Frazier walk out to watch the match up close.  They have their tag belts with them.  Matt and Trey start off.  It is a stalemate between the too.  They each tag out.  Jeff eventually works Zachary into his corner and Matt tags back in.  He works Wentz over in the corner.  The champs then sling shot Wentz under the rope and Jeff legdrops him.  Zack gets free and tags out.  They double Jeff with rapid fire kicks.  Matt gets in, but he is also doubled.  Jeff is then doubled with another MCMG move set.  Matt side affects Wentz on the floor and throws him over the barricade.  Trey is left and Jeff and Matt double him with double basement kicks and legdrops.  Matt deletes Trey’s head into the buckle repeatedly.  Wentz saves Trey after the neckbreaker cutter combo by the champs.  Wentz double dropkicks the champs off the top himself.  Trey enters and they stereo offense the Hardys in opposing corners.  Hardy stumbles into Frazier.  Trey then tries to spear Hardy from the ring.  Trey mistakenly hits Frazier.  This starts an argument.  The NXT champs are asked to leave.  Hardy dives over the steps hitting the poetry in motion.  Jeff then hits an inverted suplex on Trey in the ring.  Matt eats the stairs from Wentz.  Matt hits a side effect.  Trey kicks Matt in the head.  Wentz is tossed to the floor.  Jeff hits another Poetry and Matt misses the twist of fate.  He falls into Jeff, who then eats a superkick.  Wentz sentons him, but Jeff kicks free.  Jeff hits the twist of fate on Trey for two.  Wentz is tossed by Matt to the floor.  He hits a twist of fate on Trey.  Jeff hits the swanton and it is over.

Winners, The Hardys

We get a Chris Bey tribute video.  Hopefully he can return someday.  They say he is recovering.

We see World Champion, Nic Nemeth and Joe Hendry prepare for their match backstage.  Thursday Fraxiom will defend the NXT Tag Team Titles against The Rascalz this Thursday on live tv.  The first live episode in 8 years.

Match 7.  Knockouts Championship: Masha Slamovich (c) vs. Rosemary in Ravens Clockwork Orange House of Fun Match

This is your basic crash and burn, ECW type weapons match.  Masha is all over Rosemary, but Rosemary staples Masha’s hand and then Masha staples Rosemary’s armpit.  Masha uses a cane to the back of Rosemary, until Rosemary spits the green mist on her.  Masha defends herself blindly, until she is tripped face first on a upright chair.  Weapons are set up everywhere.  Masha dives on Rosemary.  Both tumble from the ring threw a table on the floor.  Masha starts choking Rosemary with a chain around the neck.  She then uses a garbage can on her, before using a chair to the head.   Rosemary avoided a moonsault on a chair, resulting in a nasty fall from Masha.  Rosemary retrieves a spiked bat.  She then rubs the nails on Masha.  She then gets a bag of tacks and spills them on the stage.  Falls count anywhere in this match.  Rosemary spears Masha into the tacks.  This is hard to watch.  Now she has a barbed wire board.  Masha kicks free and snowplows Rosemary onto the barbed wire.  She somehow kicks out.  She stomps her on the barbed wire off the top, but only can get a two count.  Masha gets the ladder and brings it in the ring.  Rosemary pushes the ladder over, flinging Masha over the rope and threw another table.  Somehow Masha kicked out at two.  Rosemary sets up some chairs in the ring.  Masha is placed on the chairs, but she sits out and piledrives Rosemary off the top rope threw the chairs.  Gross.  It is over.

Winner and still TNA Womens Champion, Masha Slamovich

Cora Jade walks out and walks towards Masha.  They stand face to face mid ring.  Jade points to the belt and pretends to have the belt on her waist.

Santino Marella joins The Busted Open Crew and Gia Miller on the ramp.  They all give their opinion on who is going to win.  Ryan Nemeth runs out and interrupts the segment annoyingly and says his brother doesn’t care about anyone thinks, he is going to win.  Santino bans him from ringside.  Ryan is tossed.

Main Event.  Joe Hendry VS Nic Nemeth, TNA World Champion

Hendry comes out and he is over with the crowd as anyone has been in years in TNA.  The champ heads out next.  He has a lot of fans as well, but the We Believe chant is very much more than what Nemeth receives.  The two start with a collar and elbow tie up.  Joe takes down Nemeth, brining a smile after the pull apart from the challenger.  Nic gets a few rollups, as does Joe.  Neither had a chance of ending the match.  Joe then eats a dropkick after Nemeth gets frustrated being out counter wrestled.  Hendry then lands a high knee off a whip.  He then tries for the stalled suplex, but Nic counters, turning the move into a sleeper.  Hendry then counter that with a running stalled suplex that showed incredible strength.  Ryan comes out with a ticket and has now reentered the arena.  DDT by Nic on the distracted challenger.  Nic locks on a crossface.  They break up and we get another series of rollups.  Nemeth ends the exchange with a neckbreaker.  Nemeth dances for the crowd and drops a huge standing elbow.  Nemeth then drops another elbow, this time to the back.  Hendry fights back with forearms and a backslide.  Nemeth with a piercing dropkick in return.  His arrogance is starting to come out.  Joe lands a cutter off a whip.  They trade blows mid ring.  Hendry wins the exchange and finishes with a lariat and fallaway slam.  A We Believe chant breaks out.   Nemeth blocks a standing ovation.  He headbutts Hendry, but Joe powerbombs him.  Hendry hits another over the shoulder slam.  They end up on the top and Nic knocks him off, goes for a crossbody and Joe catches him, but Nic counters to a famouser for a long two.  Nic goes to the top again.  Joe catches him and delivers a fallaway from the top.  Out comes Kaz.  JBL comes out land clotheslines Kaz from hell.  A JBL chant breaks out.  He then punches out Ryan Nemeth and walks off.  Standing ovation by Hendry and … two count.  Nemeth hits a danger zone after a superkick… but only gets a two count.  The crowd senses something.  Hendry catches Nemeth trying to superkick and lands a fallaway and standing ovation for the win.

Winner and NEW WORLD CHAMPION, JOE HENDRY

The crowd celebrates with the new champ as the show ends.