Lashley vs. Brian Cage
Cage poses on the apron and Lashley knocks him down to the floor and stomps away. Lashley tosses Cage in the ring and the match gets officially started as Lashley continues to stomp away on his opponent in the corner. Lashley with a should tackle, vertical suplex, and looks for a spear, but Cage jumps over him. Cage lifts and drops Lashley down to the mat, cover, two.
Cage nearly hits the referee with the discus lariat, Lashley with a lowblow as the ref was shoved aside. Lashley with a side suplex, cover, two-count. Cage gets sent out to the floor for a moment. Action back in the ring, Cage with an electric chair sit out, german suplex, death valley driver, cover, one. Multiple corner clotheslines by Cage. Both men out on the floor now, Cage with a body slam on the ramp and then tosses Lashley into the steps. Lashley up on the apron, Cage on the second rope with a deadlift suplex, cover, two-count.
Cage goes up to the second rope, Lashley follows and nails a big superplex, pin, two. Cage goes for drill claw, nope, release german suplex, but Cage pops back up. Cage tries for a discus lariat, no, Lashley with a spear, cover, two! Jumping knee to Lashley’s jaw, drill claw lands this time and that will do it.
Winner: Brian Cage via Pinfall
– In Studio, Sonjay Dutt and Josh Mathews talks Cage picking up two straight matches against Lashley. Also, “Case vs. Case” between Moose and Drake and a preview of the announced Redemption PPV matches thus far.
Allie vs. Su Yung
Allie stomps away at her opponent, throws her in the corner. Allie tries for a superkick, blocked, Yung kicks her in the stomach (maybe? looked a little low) and lands another to the face, cover, two as we head to break. Yung continues to swing wildly, drags Allie to the corner, couple kicks.
Allie is dropped hard to the mat, pin, two-count. Yung is not happy, grabs the kendo stick, but Allie superkicks it away. Couple clotheslines, Allie dumps Yung into the second turnbuckle and a dropkick to Yung’s backside. Suplex into the corner. Braxton Sutter runs out to the ring and momentarily distracts Allie, but she hits a codebreaker, cover, 1-2-no! Allie is not happy, looks for a superkick, Sutter grabs her ankle, Yung gets the kendo stick and hammers Allie with it before heading to the back.
Winner: Allie via DQ
– Rosemary challenges Taya Valkyrie to a match next week.
Johnny Impact vs. Taiji Ishimori
Handshake gets us started. Sportsmanship! Johnny gets going early on and tries for the first first cover the match. Ishimori finally gets some offense in, lands a dropkick and Johnny heads out to the floor for a moment. Ihismori with some misdirection, sit down senton takes down Johnny. Hurricanrana sends Johnny to the floor. Ishimori lands a golden moonsault to the floor.
Ishimori with a double stomp. Both in the middle of the ring throwing back and forth strikes. Johnny catches Ishimori in midair, drops him to the mat, standing shooting star press. Johnny sits his opponent up on the top rope, goes up, Ishimori tries for a sunset flip powerbomb, no, step-up hurricanrana by Ishimori, pin, two. Ishimori tries for 450 Splash, rolls through. Johnny with a springboard kick on Ishimori, starship pain lands, 1-2-3.
Winner: Johnny Impact via Pinfall
– Post-match, Johnny celebrates in the ring, but out comes Kongo Kong with Jimmy Jacobs. Johnny tries to strike first, but Kongo catches him and hits a big headbutt. Another headbutt sends Johnny into the steps. Johnny with a kick and follows that up with a corkscrew flip over the top rope that crushes Kongo. Jacobs holds off his guy as they back up the ramp.
Eli Drake vs. Moose (Case vs. Case Match)
Drake’s case has a title shot at the World Tag Team Titles and Moose’s case has an Impact World Championship title shot, whoever wins, gets both cases. Moose getting the best of Drake early one, Drake heads to the top rope and Moose with a dropkick that sends Drake all the way to the floor. Moose follows and hits with some chops. Moose doing just fine until Drake sends him face-first into the ring post.
Back from break both wrestlers are in the ring now with Drake swinging away at Moose. He shoves Moose into the corner and jams his shoulder into Moose’s midsection. Drake with an eye poke. Moose tries charging into the corner, Drake moves out of the way. Drake with a power slam, drops the elbow, cover, two-count. Drake continues to dominate, does some taunting as Moose tries to get back into this thing. Moose with a headbutt to Drake, couple big splashes into the corner by Moose. Big buckle bomb by Moose followed up by a running low dropkick. Moose accidentally hits the referee after Drake ducked out of the way.
oVe shows up and they go after Moose because he’s a friend of Eddie Edwards. Drake bails out of the ring, Edwards grabs Callihan from behind and chases him off. Moose tosses Dave out of the ring and give Jake a pop-up powerbomb. Drake now has the bat, clocks Moose, wakes up the ref, covers, 1-2-no! Drake hits gravy train and picks up the win and both cases.
Winner: Eli Drake via Pinfall (He now has title shots at the tag and world championship)
