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Ciocco’s TNA Impact Review 6.4.26
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Loading...Impact Zone! It’s Thursday Night, which means that TNA will present a brand-new edition of the weekly episodic brand, taking place from the taping sessions in Sacramento, California! Tonight, we will walk through the garden, see another edition of Family Feud (the wrestling version), and a bit of a revenge plot for the Knockouts Champion!
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So, how is everyone doing on this Thursday evening? Really not a lot going on here, just combing through new music (August Burns Red, Converge, and Guilt Trip? Yes, please!) and still trying to put the AJ Brown trade behind me, and enjoy the dominant run that Christopher Sanchez just went on. I mean, 50.2 innings of shutout ball is truly incredible, and he’s now fifth all-time in MLB history!
But enough about me and enough about you, let’s get ready to Brace for Impact!
Tonight’s edition of Impact is LIVE (to tape) from the sessions that took place in Sacramento, California! As per usual, Tom Hannifan and Matt Rehwoldt will have the call for us.
Cold open/video sequence from the Santino-Stacks match last week, and the Hardy’s and Righteous feud.
No title sequences this week; we’re instead opening with the System.
Eddie Edwards W/the System vs. BDE
BDE has 1.45 million YouTube subscribers. I feel like that’s 1.4 million more than I had back in my day over a decade ago lol.
Edwards smack talks BDE at the bell, but Brandon with a crossbody off the ropes. He sends Eddie to the floor, who pounds the floor in frustration, and to compound that, he gets hit with a Tope Suicida. The System get in the face of BDE, allowing Eddie the chance to crotch him in the corner. Edwards with some chops to the back and he goes up the top and hits an Avalanche Belly-to-Back Suplex! The cover, but BDE is out at two.
Edwards pulls BDE up against the ropes for some chops. Eddie takes him to the corner with some more chops. BDE tries to fight back, but Eddie pokes him in the eye. BDE gets a boot up on Eddie and hits him with some wild punches. Dropkicks and a corner splash from BDE, and he hits a reverse DDT for a two. BDE looking for the Clip Cutter, Eddie catches him, but BDE counters that with a double knee to the face of Edwards.
Alisha is on the apron now, but BDE blocks the slap. Eddie almost hits Alisha, and BDE rolls him up for a two. Clip Cutter connects, but Eddie kicks out at two! The System all get on the apron now, and Eddie gets the knees up on a BDE splash. Boston Knee Party connects, and Eddie wins it.
WINNER: Eddie Edwards
TIME: 4:50
THOUGHTS: BDE continues to look better in the ring, and despite all the insults hurled by a certain HAWK on YouTube, Eddie is a very good wrestler.
RATING: ***
The System circle BDE for a beatdown, but Fabian Aichner is here to save the day! He wipes out everyone but Bear Bronson with a crossbody block, but Bronson hits him with a Urinage, and the beatdown is on. But here comes the Boy from Bradford, Leon Slater! He cracks Cedric in the face with a kick, throws Myers into the ring post, and all three good guys hit a triple SUPERKICK to send Bronson from the ring! SLATER CLEARS THE CORNER AND WIPES OUT THE ENTIRE SYSTEM!
Video package for the Wicked Garden Match between the Hardy’s and the Righteous. If they don’t get the rights to the Stone Temple Pilot’s song, then I will be extremely disappointed. Vincent goes on about a caterpillar turning into a butterfly. Dig what he’s saying, man? We get a look at the Hardy’s walking in the Garden, and Hannifan wonders which version of the Hardy’s will show up.
AJ Francis will perform for us, next!
BREAK IN PROGRESS!
Top Dolla AJ Francis is here post-break. Thank you, thank you! Allow me to re-introduce myself, my name is AJ Francis. And I’m the best big man in the business, and that business is MONEY, MONEY, MONEY. 2026 has been a money year for him, not just at the bank and in the ring, but he’s lost a lot of weight, too. He lost about 300 pounds of deadweight too when he kicked Swann and Navarro to the curb. If you ball them up, that is one person, but they’re only half of him combined. This is veering into Steiner Math territory lol.
Francis says since we are on hallowed ground, a place where the Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, Santana (not that fraud champion), and Tina Turner have performed, Francis is here to give you the performance of this generation. He wants the DJ to hit his theme song.
We get an image of Francis on the screen looking like Elijah, but after a couple of WALKS, the real Elijah has arrived. He thinks he came out just in time before you embarrassed yourself. Sacramento, he has one question for everyone tonight, WHO WANTS TO WALK WITH ELIJAH? So, walk with him and talk with him. He was in the back by himself, and he heard his guitar string, and he heard his music. He knows this is AJ Francis’ time, so he had to come out and see this for himself.
Francis says that this is HIS song and HIS intellectual property. Elijah says he clearly photoshopped his head on Elijah’s body, and this is ridiculous. Francis says that is definitely him, and Elijah says he is on a journey to humiliating himself in front of the whole world. But he’s out here to sing a song for the whole world. But what’s going on, brother? Are you mad that I turned you down over the whole collab thing?
Francis says you want to hear a good joke, and he hands Elijah some paperwork. Francis met with Elijah’s music manager, and he also acquired his names past and present, including Ezekial. He also acquired his music catalogue, meaning that he owns him! WALK WITH ELIJAH chants, and Elijah says he is going to sing a song anyway. This is an original song, and it just popped into his head. It’s called “No Skill Uncle Phil”, but Francis wants a feature, and he knocks out Elijah. Damn, Elijah got busted open HARD from the ear.
Santino Marella and Indi Hartwell are preparing for their match in the back. Daria Rae is here, and she calls them a weird team. She also wants Indi to know that she had nothing to do with the new contract that she got and she walks away. So, that means someone above her head loved Indi enough to re-sign her. Interesting.
BREAK IN PROGRESS!
Elayna Black is in the back post-break. She rattles off the names of every Knockout, and she says she is better than all of them, including Indi Hartwell. She is so desperate that she kisses Santino’s ass to stay relevant. But she doesn’t need to do that, because she stands on her own. She will be the next Knockouts Champion, because we are in the Era of Elyana.
It’s time for Family Feud Part 2! Frankie Kazarian will join the team on commentary for this one!
Stacks and Arianna Grace vs. Santino Marella and Indi Hartwell
The bell rings, and Santino and Stacks will start this off. SANTINO chants, but Stacks ends up tagging in his fiancé. Grace wants Santino to hit her, and she shoves him. Grace slaps Santino, and Indi storms the ring and smacks Grace around. Stacks tags back into the match, and he attacks Marella from behind. Stacks corners Santino with punches, and he fakes a big swing but ends up poking him in the eye. Frankie says that Stacks has good taste in Arianna, even though he insulted her leg tattoo lol.
Marella turns the table with a headlock takeover into a pin for a two. Marella applies a sleeper hold, and he takes Stacks to the mat. Stacks finally breaks free and he hits a basement forearm strike while Frankie asks Tom to stop squeezing his leg. LMAO. Santino fires back with gut punches and a Mongolian Chop, but Stacks decks him with a back elbow and he taunts Santino. Stacks talks WAY too much smack, allowing Santino to apply an armbar, but Grace breaks it up. Indi casually strolls into the ring after the fact, and the lovers look for a double hammer throw.
Santino and Indi dosy-doe and end up cornering their opponents for some mounted punches. Stacks and Arianna crawl to the middle of the ring and beg for forgiveness, but it’s a TRAP, as Stacks assaults Santino. WE WANT COBRA chants, as Stacks lights up Marella with some chops. Santino absorbs them and smacks back and applies a Judo throw into a rear naked choke! YOU STILL GOT IT chants now, as Stacks nearly has his hand tap the mat a third time, but Grace keeps it from hitting the mat.
Stacks goes back to work with stomps, and he chokes out Santino with his boot. We get an abrupt break to commercial for a few seconds, and we return to see Stacks miss a knee drop. Stacks charges Santino, but Marella sends him to the floor. Tags to both ladies now, and Hartwell lights up Grace with clotheslines and one to Stacks for good measure. Spine on the Pine by Indi, but Grace kicks out at two.
Stacks grabs the boot of Hartwell on the way through, but Indi stomps on his hand. It allows Grace the chance to hit Indi with a knee to the face and some strikes in the corner. Spinning neck breaker gets her a two. Grace with a corner clothesline and a snap suplex followed by a basement crossbody for a two. Grace with the dreaded chinlock to Indi right in front of her dad. Hartwell to her feet, she fights off Graceland, but they end up colliding in the middle of the ring.
Tags are made, and Marella greets Stacks with punches. He does the split and hits the hip toss into the headbutt! IT’S COBRA TIME, but no, Grace takes it from her father. Stacks from behind, Grace puts on the Cobra, but Indi saves Santino, and Arianna hits Stacks with it! Marella has two COBRAS, and he gives Indi one. DOUBLE COBRA STRIKE! Marella falls into the pin for the win!
WINNERS: Santino Marella and Indi Hartwell
TIME: 11:20
THOUGHTS: It probably didn’t have to go over 11 minutes, but it wasn’t anything offensive at the end of the day. I’m curious as to how they keep this going from here.
RATING: ***
We will hear from the “World Class Maniac” Eric Young, next!
BREAK IN PROGRESS!
The Elegance Brand are in the back. M by Elegance has one short dress on, just saying. They want to know if Mr. Elegance is alright. He had a giant bunny head on his head, and they want to know if he is on prescription drugs. It’s apparently a rib, until the girls from the Undead Realm arrive to scare them off. I found it interesting that, instead of running away, Mr. Elegance just casually walked away.
Eric Young is in the ring. Can you feel it in the air? He’s been warning us that this place is poisonous, and it needs a cleanse. Joe Hendry was a fraud, and he exposed him. Ricky Sosa was a flash in the pan; he was dealt with. EC3, a former King looking for his crown, and he got rid of him too. He won that Battle Royale a couple of weeks ago, and it’s like fate laid it out perfectly for him. Mike Santana, you wear that title and you represent these people, but Eric sees through it and he knows the truth. You are sick with ego and addiction. Addiction from their applause and approval. I will beat you, because I don’t care about either of those things. I’m above them both!
Mike Santana is here! He enters through his people on his way to the ring as per usual. Santana has the mic. Sacramento, what’s good? Eric Young, all he hears is the words of a man trying to remain relevant, but he hasn’t been relevant in 15 years. Give him a break. You talk about cleansing TNA, EC3 gone, Ricky Sosa, gone. You think you will be the savior of this place?
Young says he has seen wrestlers come and go, management come and go, and he has been the one constant. He has seen this place rot from the inside because of people like you and your ego. Santana says YOU are the reason for the poison, you think being here so long makes up for this, but all you have done is fail this company. Young wants to know if these people care about Santana, and I think the reaction says it all. What they care about is the shiny new toy. And when your shine wears off, they will chew you up and spit you out. They did that to Young, but he feels that he is the only one that can pick this company up and save it. He is going to piledrive you, Mike, he will take that title, and he will take the power back.
Santana says Eric makes him laugh, he really is a maniac. But he is a man of his word, and as God and his Father as his witness, next week he will break his foot off in his ass. So, let’s do this, because I’m sick and tired of hearing you flap your gums, let’s do what we do best and give the paying customer what they want and do this right now!
Young drops his mic and kicks Santana in the balls! Piledriver from Young, and he picks up the TNA World Title and poses with it over a downed Santana. He lays the title over Mike before stepping over him.
Hard cut to the Over Your Dead Body Film, the one where Keith Jardine got shot in the ass lol.
It’s time for the injury report, also brought to us by said film!
Lei Ying Lee will look for revenge against Mr. Elegance, next!
BREAK IN PROGRESS!
Order-4 are here post-break. Mustafa Ali notes that SOMEHOW KC Navarro scored a pin on him last week, so he gets a shot at his title next week. It was a fluke; it shouldn’t have happened. There is no aspect of life where you are better than me, you pink haired freak! He may not be God, but in that ring, you will bow down to him! He keeps starring at Tasha Steelz, and everyone takes off except for Tasha and Jason Hotch.
We see the events from before the break, where Young laid out Santana in the middle of the ring.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I AM THE PERSONAL CONCIERGE! And he has a message for the Knockouts Champion from Ch-Ch-China. You need to learn a lesson in respect and class, or we’ll have to beat it into you. And we have the person to do that, Mr. Elegance!
Mr. Elegance makes his entrance, flanked by Heather and M, complete with her very short dress. Xia Brookside will be on commentary for this match.
Non-Title match: Knockouts Champion Lei Ying Lee vs. Mr. Elegance
The bell rings, and Mr. Elegance puts up his fists. We get a lock-up, and Mr. Elegance throws Lee to the mat and he swims. BTW, in case I never mentioned this, he looks like Matt Riddle, BRO. Xia enjoys ripping on Tom, while Lee trips up Mr. Elegance and she mocks his swim moves. Lee with an arm drag and she does her own dancing and, yeah, that’s SO much better.
Lee mounts Mr. Elegance in the corner, and the rest of the Elegance Brand get on the apron. The ref points to all three of them and he swims away and throws them out. I get throwing out Iceman, but it’s criminal to send Heather and M away, ya dork! Mr. Elegance reverses a Suplex and throws Lee to the mat. Mr. Elegance gyrates over Lee and sits back into a choke hold. He turns that into chocolate kisses/Devil’s kisses, by any name, Lee had her face rammed into his asshole. Lee fights back with repeat body blows, off the ropes looking for the Sunset Flip. He almost swims out of it once, twice, and he sits down for the pin for a two.
Mr. Elegance ducks Lee’s clotheslines and smacks her with a left hand. Mr. Elegance talks some mad smack, but he gets thrown into the corner. He tries again, but Lee with the E. Honda slaps and a trio of thrust kicks. Lee catches Mr. Elegance’s leg and applies an ankle lock! Mr. Elegance swims his way to the bottom rope. Lee pulls him out of the corner into a Tiger Driver for a two.
Lee goes to pick up Mr. Elegance with the DVD, but he escapes and pops her up right into a left hand. Mr. Elegance to the top rope, but he takes too long swimming, and he gets dropped on his crown jewels. Lee pulls him from the corner into the DVD and spins him round and round, but Brookside gets on the apron. Lee knocks her off the apron, and that allows Mr. Elegance to hit Lee with his finisher, and he sits down for the win.
WINNER: Mr. Elegance
TIME: 7:00
THOUGHTS: On the one hand, I’m always happy to see Lee in the ring, or in general. But on the other hand, you have her lose to a Matt Riddle looking goofball who swims like he’s an Octopus trapped on land. In light of the announcement that Brookside will face Lee for the title on June 28th, booking Lee to lose her makes even less sense if I’m being honest.
RATING: No comment.
Brookside gets into the ring post-match and she has a mic. She says that it has been made official for Slammiversary, she will face Lee for the Knockouts Title. And that title is coming home with her!
We see The Righteous walking; we see the BROKEN Hardy’s walking! They will go to the Wicked Garden, next!
BREAK IN PROGRESS!
Matt and Tom set the mood for the main event match. Oh, so the Wicked Garden isn’t actually off-site or a cinematic match. Frankly, I’m interested in how this turns out. Mackenzie Mitchell tells us that the only way to win this match is by pinfall or submission and then welcomes us to the Garden.
Vincent and Dutch are flanked to the ring by their followers, who snap their fingers in unison. BROKEN Matt and BROTHER Nero don’t need anyone but themselves, however. We get the obligatory break before the main event.
BREAK IN PROGRESS!
Wicked Garden Match: The Righteous vs. The BROKEN Hardy’s
The bell rings, but everyone takes their sweet time taking off apparel, which could have been done during the break. I do like the mood lighting for this match. Two sides of the ring are wrapped in barbwire and floral arrangement, and we have decorative barbwire boards in the corner of the ring. To illustrate how that works, Dutch gets put through one by the Hardy’s!
And the fight is on, as Matt and Dutch square off, as do Vincent and Nero. THIS IS AWESOME chants, and I dunno, let’s backtrack in a little bit. Vincent sends Nero into the barbwire ropes and proceeds to rip the fishnets over the wire. Matt has a manual claw, and he tries to take out Dutch’s eyes with it, but he settles on breaking his forehead open with it. Vincent attacks Matt from behind and looks to wrap some of the floral barbwire around the forehead of Matt as the fans chant for the Hardy’s. Matt screams in agony as he gets cut across the forehead.
Vincent approaches Nero, but he goes into his other form Jeff’s double leg, double leg drop, and basement dropkick for the matches’ first pin. Combination leg drops from both Hardy’s on Dutch, and they team up on Vincent. Double back elbow and a double elbow drop for Vincent, as he rolls out of the ring. Dutch joins him on the floor, as Vincent works over Matt, but Nero throws some kind of a substance from a vat into Dutch’s eyes. Matt sends Dutch crashing into the ring steps, and he enjoys the taste of his own blood.
Vincent takes Nero to the other side of the ring, while Matt looks to DELETE Dutch out of existence via the ring steps. Given what we are seeing in this match, I dare say he could do that. Vincent chokes out and bites Nero, while Dutch has turned the tables and he slams Matt into the ring steps. Dutch and Vincent attack Nero in the ring, but he fights back with a floral arrangement attached to him. Matt pulls Dutch out of the ring, but he kicks Matt into the announce table, so Matt drinks some A-Game from one of the bottles on the table! He grabs Vincent now, but Vincent throws him shoulder first into the ring post.
The Righteous work over Nero, as Vincent shifts some items around in the ring, and Dutch clocks Matt as he tries to get into the ring. Nero charges Dutch, but he catches him and he throws him into the barbwire garden table. Vincent punctuates this with a leg drop, as we see Matt stalking around on the floor. Nero gets his forehead punched in by Dutch, and he rolls out of the ring with a part of the broken table still attached to him via the barbwire.
Dutch brings Matt into the ring and he chokes him out, while Vincent stalks Nero on the floor. Dutch with the pin, but Matt kicks out at two. Vincent returns Nero to the ring, and he has the barbwire crown that he smashes over the head of Nero. Matt has turned the tables on Dutch, and he wraps barbwire around his hand and punches Dutch in the dick! Nero is trapped in the barbwire, but he still manages to hit a Twist of Fate into a Plot Twist from Matt for a two. Brother Nero finally frees himself from the barbwire, and the Hardy’s gang up on Vincent. They wrap barbwire around the skull of Vincent and pull back, as we see Vincent’s eyes comically pop out of his sockets. Dutch saves Vincent, but he ends up getting a double suplex from the Hardy’s.
The Hardy’s take the barbwire, and they wrap it around the mouth of Dutch! Vincent makes the save, but he ends up in the corner, where the Hardy’s hit Poetry in Motion! To the other corner, where Dutch suffers the same fate! Side Effect by Matt, but Dutch kicks out at two. Matt signals he will DELETE Dutch, but Dutch bulldozes Matt into the table in the corner, causing Nero to crash on the top rope as well. THIS IS AWESOME chants, and yeah, I’m still not sure.
Nero jumps from the top rope, but Vincent smacks him with a broken piece of the table. They wrap Nero up in the ropes and Vincent has a glove. There is a flower in it, and Vincent jams it into the mouth of Nero! It must have been an LSD laced flower, I’m guessing. Matt hits a double Twist of Fate to both Dutch and Vincent, and Nero stumbles around the ring. Matt tries to help him, but Nero ends up on the floor, as Tom notes that he is convulsing.
The Righteous use this distraction to attack Matt from behind. We see Nero foaming from the mouth on the floor. and there is a stretcher that takes him away. Vincent says he wanted him to meet Lily from the Valley. Well okay then. NERO WON’T BE TAKEN OUT; HE STORMS THE RING AND HE…WELL…HE FLAILS TO THE MAT! Death Walks from Dutch to Matt, Orange Sunshine by Vincent, and the Righteous win this.
WINNERS: The Righteous
TIME: 21:00
THOUGHTS: I mean, it wasn’t TERRIBLE, but it wasn’t GREAT, either. I’m hoping that this is some kind of sendoff for Matt and Jeff, ere, Nero, and the Righteous move on to someone else.
RATING: ***1/2
Post-match, Carlos Silva hands Dutch a crown, and he gives it to Vincent. It looks like they are going to do more damage to Matt and Nero, but the lights go out, and when they come back out (well, the mood lighting anyway) they are gone! Suspense!
And with that, we are done!
