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TNA Impact Results 3/27/15

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Credit: Sean Ross Sapp

– James Storm is out and says Jeff Hardy isn’t here tonight. He says he crippled Jeff Hardy and took out Matt Hardy. He crushes a watermelon on the floor and says it’s Jeff Hardy.

Hardy comes out and says he can walk well enough to beat up Hardy. Manik comes out and attacks Hardy, but eats a Twist of Fate. Abyss comes out and jumps Hardy from behind, but gets a few chairshots of his own. Hardy reveals there’s a lid on the cage for tonight’s match.

– MVP is backstage with Low Ki and Kenny King, and says they need to make a statement.

– James Storm is backstage and says he’s sick of Jeff Hardy. He tells Shera to dispose of Jeff Hardy of he’s going to dispose of Shera.

X Division Championship
Rockstar Spud (c) vs. Low Ki

Low Ki punishes Spud early on with a big chop, and methodically beats down the champion. Spud comes back with chops of his own, but gets stops dead in his tracks by one from Low Ki.

After a big kick, Low Ki tells the ref to make a big ten count for a knockout. Spud gets back to his feet and fires back with a huge jab combination. He also hits a tornado DDT for two.

MVP shows up and distracts Spud, allowing Low Ki to blast him in the head. Drew Galloway appears and then distracts the BDC, which leads to Spud locking up a small package for the win.

Winner: Rockstar Spud via pinfall (small package) to retain the X Division Championship.

– BDC is in the ring and says if Galloway doesn’t come out to the ring, they’re going to beat up fans. Galloway obliges and plays to the crowd. Kenny King says he’s going to break Drew’s legs. Both sides are getting fired up. Galloway and two unknown men hit the ring and send BDC reeling.

Brooke vs. Awesome Kong

Brooke leg kicks Kong several times, but runs right into the freight train. Brooke starts using her speed advantage, but is quickly slammed to the mat. Kong methodically controls Brooke for several minutes.

Brooke hits a springboard chop and reverses a powerbomb into a facebuster. Instead of pinning, she comes off the top with a flying elbow but only gets a two count. Brooke is caught off the top with a chokeslam. Implant Buster gets the win for Kong.

Winner: Awesome Kong via pinfall (Implant Buster)

Kong hits another Implant Buster, and goes under the ring to get a table. Taryn Terrell comes to make the save, dropkicking Kong repeatedly and dumping her from the ring. Kong recovers and puts Terrell through a table.

– Backstage, Austin Aries teases cashing in his briefcase on Kurt Angle.

– Shera attacks Hardy backstage but gets beat down with bottles and ladders. This is the fourth or fifth sneak attack of the show.

– TNA Champion Kurt Angle comes to the ring and thanks the fans. EC3 interrupts with Tyrus by his side, and commends him for beating Lashley. He then puts over his own winning streak and the fact he’s defeated every TNA Hall of Famer. He says he’s taking the TNA Title.

Bobby Roode’s music hits, and says he belongs in the TNA Title discussion. He and EC3 get face to face as EC3 holds Tyrus back. Eric Young also comes out and throws his hat into the ring. Austin Aries does the same. Finally, Bobby Lashley does too. Angle says he and Lashley can have a re-match right now. A huge brawl breaks out and Mr. Anderson runs out as well, joining the fray.

Bobby Roode, Austin Aries & Mr. Anderson vs. EC3, Tyrus & Eric Young

We join this match in progress with the faces working over EC3’s arm. Finally EC3 makes a tag to Young, who drops Roode and makes the tag back out to EC3. Aries gets a hot tag and takes everyone on the heel side out.

The match breaks down and each competitor takes turn sending another out until Aries hits a suicide dive on EC3 and Tyrus. Back inside Roode tosses Young off the top rope and hits a spinebuster.

Aries misses a 450 splash and Young locks on the figure four, which forces Aries to tap out.

Winners: EC3, Eric Young & Tyrus via submission (figure four)

– Bram comes out and says Magnus is a coward for sending his woman out to do his dirty work. Magnus and Mickie James cut him off, and Magnus says he wants to fight Bram anywhere and everywhere. Bram says he just wants to see Mickie cry. The two brawl until Bram gets the upper hand and drags Mickie in by the hair. He tries to make her kiss his boot, then kiss him, but Magnus suplexes him and beats him down.

Cage Match
James Storm vs. Jeff Hardy

Roode crushes Hardy with a trash can right out of the gate and starts his attack. Hardy fights back with a headscissors and a clothesline before setting up a chair to hit Poetry In Motion, but misses the second time and bounces off the cage as we go to commercial.

Back from the break Storm is still in control, tossing Jeff Hardy into a trash can. Hardy battles back and lands his signature leg drop for a two count. He hits a Twist of Fate, but catches knees on his Swanton attempt. James Storms capitalizes with Eye of the Storm for a two count.

The crowd is trying to get Hardy back in to the match, but Storm continues the beating with a Russian legsweep and a lungblower, followed by a superkick. Hardy kicks out, and Storm goes to grab a cowbell.

Storm measures Hardy, but gets tossed into the cage. Hardy lands Whisper in the Wind and a Swanton, but Storm kicks out. Storm low blows Hardy to get the advantage back, but gets hit with a garbage can. Hardy hits a cage assisted top rope Frankensteiner, but only got two. That was a really cool spot.

Hardy grabs a trash can lid and blasts Storm with it twice. Then he grabs a cowbell, but Storm keeps getting up. Twist of Fate sets up a monkey bar splash for the win.

Winner: Jeff Hardy via pinfall (monkey bar splash)

Alundra Blayze’s WWE Hall Of Fame Inductor Revealed, Full Line-Up For This Year’s Ceremony

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PWInsider reports that Natalya will be inducting Alundra Blayze (Madusa) into the WWE Hall of Fame on Saturday night. Below is the line-up. Be sure to join us for live Hall of Fame coverage beginning at 7pm EST.

* Warrior Award: Connor Michalek, inducted by Daniel Bryan and Dana Warrior

* Larry Zbyszko, inducted by Bruno Sammartino

* Tatsumi Fujinami, inducted by Ric Flair

* The Bushwhackers, inducted by John Laurinaitis

* Alundra Blayze, inducted by Natalya

* Rikishi, inducted by The Usos

* Arnold Schwarzenegger, inducted by Triple H

* Randy Savage, inducted by Hulk Hogan

* Kevin Nash, inducted by Shawn Michaels

Big Update On Sting’s WWE Future

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Sting briefly spoke with The Associated Press this week to promote WrestleMania 31.

The article noted that Sting vs. The Undertaker could be a possibility for WrestleMania 32 but Sting commented on his future after this Sunday’s WrestleMania 31 pay-per-view:

“I’m feeling like this is probably going to be my last one. We’ll see how everyone reacts. If I’m asked to do one more at Survivor Series or maybe even WrestleMania next year, at this point, I would consider it. But realistically, this is going to be my last one.”

WrestleMania Today Recap With Dusty Rhodes, Dolph Ziggler, John Cena And Others

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Credit: Marc Middleton

The second episode of WrestleMania Today from San Jose opens up with Renee Young, Byron Saxton and Corey Graves. We get a look around Axxess as the panel hypes the show. Below are highlights from this episode:

* Renee talks about Bray Wyatt vs. The Undertaker and leads us to a video package. We come back and they talk about how out-there Wyatt is. Graves believes this may be more genius than madness. Graves says Wyatt has manipulated The Deadman to come back from wherever he’s been. Graves picks Wyatt to win while Saxton predicts Taker to get the win. We get a look at John Cena’s appearance on Kimmel this week.

* We come back and are joined by WWE Tag Team Champions Tyson Kidd and Cesaro. They talk about being the best tag team in WWE and retaining at WrestleMania 31. They say there’s no better way to kickoff WrestleMania than with them. We go to Saxton’s sitdown interview with Roman Reigns. We come back and Renee asks how Brock Lesnar re-signing with WWE changes things. Saxton believes it may be an advantage for Lesnar as all he’s focused on is retaining and that may be a bigger challenge for Reigns. Graves says Reigns has a chance if he can stay the course. We get discussion on Axxess and a lengthy vignette from The Bella Twins. We come back and Renee says things are getting real in the Divas division. She says The Bellas, Paige and AJ Lee are throwing fire at each other. We go to a vignette for Axelmania.

* We get more hype for the battle royal and come back to Kane on the panel. He talk about the battle royal and then Renee asks about Seth Rollins vs. Randy Orton. Kane says this is a very important match for Rollins because it could take him to the next level. Kane says this is a sleeper match to steal the show. We get a video for Rollins vs. Orton but there’s lots of freezing and restarts on the Network today. Renee thanks Kane for coming and we go to another break.

* We come back and they talk more about Axxess. Graves says Hideo Itami making his WrestleMania debut could be the start of something. We go to a video package for Triple H and The Ultimate Warrior’s family revealing the new Warrior statue at Axxess on Thursday night. We come back to the panel for discussion on Warrior and this leads to a video package for Connor Michalek receiving the Warrior Award at the WWE Hall of Fame. The panel talks about Connor and Graves says he missed out by not getting to meet Connor. We get a video package or John Cena vs. Rusev for the WWE United States Title. Graves wonders if we’ll ever see Cena again if he can’t get it done on Sunday. We go to a sitdown interview with Cena and Saxton. Cena talks about how important WrestleMania is and how big of an opportunity it is. Cena says Rusev is a super athlete and can do some amazing things but he doesn’t want any of Cena. Cena says he wanted the rematch from Fastlane so bad because of how the finish happened with Lana involved. Cena says as good as Rusev is and he’s damn good, he doesn’t want any of Cena at WrestleMania. Cena talks more about WrestleMania and we go back to the panel. Graves says if Cena fails, it will be because of his own doings. Renee wonders what this will do to the WWE Universe if Cena loses because they’re behind him 100%. Graves says it will crush people and break their hearts. Saxton doesn’t believe Rusev wanted this match and if it weren’t for Lana, we wouldn’t be discussing the match even happening. Graves says he hasn’t seen Rusev since they got to California but they talk about how impressive his workout video was. Graves says they both better be ready for a war on Sunday and Renee agrees.

* Renee brings up the Intercontinental Title Ladder Match and we get a video preview that’s narrated by Graves. We come back and Dolph Ziggler has joined the panel. They talk about the ladder match and we get Michael Cole’s recent sitdown interview with Daniel Bryan. Ziggler says everything he’s scratched and fought for, Bryan has done it. Ziggler has no hard feelings. He feels like Bryan is a nice guy but you need a killer instinct to win this match on Sunday. They go on and are interrupted by “Mean” Gene Okerlund, who is ringside at the NXT ring. Ziggler goes down to Gene and says he’s always wanted to do this. Ziggler says he will cement his legacy at WrestleMania. We get a video package for Triple H and come back to Dusty Rhodes on the panel. Dusty is looking forward to Stardust bringing home the Intercontinental Title and talks about how it’s cool to be a dad with both of his sons on WrestleMania. Renee asks him about Sting vs. Triple H. Dusty praises Sting but says he must be prepared because he’s going up against a bad man. Dusty says this is going to be huge. Saxton leads us to a video on the match.

* We come back and Dusty believes Sting is going to bring it. He cuts a good promo on the match, so good that Renee asks him to stick around and just keep talking. They lead us to a video package on 2015 WWE Hall of Famer “Macho Man” Randy Savage with comments from other Legends. We get more Hall of Fame talk from the panel. Renee then leads us to a video package on The Streak ending last year with WWE Superstars and Divas commenting. Graves says the end of The Streak is why he thinks Roman Reigns won’t be able to beat Brock Lesnar on Sunday. Saxton talks about how Reigns will be an entity and a competitor that we haven’t seen before at WrestleMania 31. Renee closes it and that’s it for WrestleMania Today.

WrestleMania Set Designer On What To Expect This Year, Ryback And Ziggler

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– Ryback and Dolph Ziggler are wearing the new Microsoft Band to track their movements and fitness while in California for WrestleMania 31 week. You can track their activity on WWE’s website at this link.

– WWE’s website has an interview with Jason Robinson, the man who designs the sets for WrestleMania events. He commented on what to expect from this year’s set:

“Expect something different from us. The atmosphere being West Coast and daylight presented some very unique challenges for us to overcome. The structure itself isn’t really tied to a particular thing like the city or arena, but we have this really unique thing where we can’t hide anything. We have to be open, [because] everybody’s going to see everything. I can’t do the theater magic and hide the bad parts. So we’ve had to work really hard. Everything had to tie in and feel like it was part of the image and the structure. It’s a unique set, a unique way of lighting the ring because of the sun. You’ll see some different search lights around there, and from a lighting point of view and the set, we’ve had to deal with having full sun on the set because you can’t hide anything. You’ll see it’s a different set from us this year.”

Why WWE Is Really Concerned About Daniel Bryan’s Future, Talk On His WrestleMania Role

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Source: PWInsider Elite

Regarding why Daniel Bryan is in the WWE Intercontinental Title Ladder Match at WrestleMania 31 instead of the WWE World Heavyweight Title picture, it’s not that WWE doesn’t see him as a big part of the company or a top competitor, but one of the reasons is that there is still major concern over his health.

Bryan chose to undergo a unique form of rehabilitation for his injury last year and there is a strong fear within WWE that his injuries could become reoccurring issues due to the rehab he did. There’s concern that the rehab Bryan chose is not a long-term permanent fix and just a short-term fix that could cause the problems to relapse.

It’s likely that Bryan would be in a more prominent position at WrestleMania this year if WWE officials weren’t worried that the elbow issues will come back.

Bryan’s situation was compared by one source to Kurt Angle having several non-invasive surgeries on his neck years ago but over time Angle ended up having a lot of other issues stemming from the neck injury.

Talk On Steve Austin Not Attending WrestleMania 31, WWE Reportedly Had Plans For Him

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Source: PWInsider

As noted, WWE Hall of Famer Steve Austin revealed on his podcast that he will not be in town for WrestleMania 31 and that he will be watching the show from his ranch in Texas.

Austin revealing that he won’t be in person at WrestleMania surprised several people within WWE as he was scheduled to arrive this weekend. Apparently WWE also had plans in place for Austin once he arrived.

No word yet on why Austin isn’t coming to Santa Clara but it’s enough of a situation that it has become a hot topic among the WWE staff this week.

Spoilers: TNA Impact Results 3/27/15

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– TNA taped the March 27th and April 3rd episodes of Impact Wrestling several weeks back in Orlando. Thanks to Erin, below are spoilers for tonight’s episode but we’re not sure yet on when the first taping ends so it’s possible some of these spoilers are for next week’s episode.

* James Storm cut a promo inside the steel cage and talked about ending Jeff Hardy tonight. Hardy came out and they had words. Manik attacked Hardy but got taken out. Abyss then attacked but got hit with a steel chair.

* Kurt Angle came out for a promo in the ring. He’s interrupted by Tyrus and Ethan Carter III, who insult Angle. Bobby Roode comes out and also wants in on the World Title picture. Eric Young comes out and wants in also. Austin Aries beings his Feast or Fired briefcase out and says he’s going to win the title soon. Angle says he will face everyone and he leaves. Bobby Lashley comes out and isn’t happy. He and Aries get attacked by EC3, Tyrus and Young until Mr. Anderson makes the save.

* Ethan Carter III, Tyrus and Eric Young defeated Bobby Roode, Anderson and Aries.

* Awesome Kong defeated Brooke Tessmacher. Kong goes to attack after the match but Taryn Terrell makes the save. They brawl and Kong throws her through a table.

* Bram cuts a promo on Mickie James and Magnus but they interrupt. Magnus and Bram start brawling. Bram hits a low blow and tries to kiss Mickie but he gets attacked again and beat down.

* Rockstar Spud retained the X Division Title over Low Ki. Drew Galloway brawled with The BDC during the match. MVP cut a promo on Galloway and they had words. The former Camacho and Shaun Ricker come out to help Drew. They call themselves The Rising.

* Gail Kim defeated Angelina Love.

* Eric Young defeated Bobby Roode.

* The Wolves come out for a promo and announce that due to Eddie Edwards being injured, they are vacating the TNA Tag Team Titles.

* Magnus defeated Bram in a Falls Count Anywhere Match. James Storm ended up interfering to calm Bram down and it looks like he will be with Storm.

* World Champion Kurt Angle defeated Lashley in a match where they had a screwy finish, likely leading to a rematch as Lashley did get his shoulder up before the pin.

* Jeff Hardy defeated James Storm in a cage match with weapons.

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