X division, Tag Championships defended in spectacular bouts
Two of IMPACT’s richest prizes were on the line march 30 at Multiverse United, with multi man environments putting the champions at severe risk throughout from multiple contenders.
Opening the main card was the X Division Championship, a six person scramble seeing Trey Miguel defending against Rich Swann, Rocky Romero, Frankie Kazarian, Clark Connors and Kevin Knight. Miguel had challengers from both IMPACT and NJPW, but his foes would break down party lines to attack the confident champ, a barrage of dropkicks taking him to the floor.
As chaos ensued, Connors would be on the back foot as Kazarian scored a slingshot DDT before taking down the rest of his competition one by one; Knight proved the exception to the rule as he dropkicked Kazarian out of the sky. As everyone wanted a piece of the action, a tower of doom would see all six men laid out, but Romero was on his feet, and Forever Clitheslines saw everyone downed before Connors went on a Spear frenzy of his own.
In the end it was Knight alone with Connors, and eating a second rope spear, but Miguel had perfect timing to throw the Wild Rhino out the ring and pick up the pinfall victory.
The IMPACT Tag Team Championships would be on the line when the A-B-C team of Chris Bey and Ace Austin defended against Motor City Machineguns, Shane Haste and Bad Dude Tito of TMDK, and Aussie Open. A frenetic start saw all the teams battle for territory center ring, with Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin earning the high ground and then flying off it to Aussie Open with a pair of planchas. Setting Haste for Skull and Bones to try and finish early, the Guns were not so lucky, Haste dropping Sabin with a reverse powerslam and then cannonballing into Shelley as TMDK took control.
Shelley was taking heavy damage, and wen he got a break, had to settle for a tag to Bey rather than his own partner. Haste would be blind tagged by Fletcher though, and now it was Aussie Open and BULLET CLUB, Bey getting drilled with a long delayed vertical suplex as Aussie Open looked to end things. Austin was waiting in the wings, and brought his pace, athleticism and stiff strikes to save his partner, and wanted 1-2-Sweet, but were denied by the Guns, and now the match was breaking down once more.
Sabin and Shelley once again wanted the high in ring ground to themselves, and once again flew from that position, but Bey would get a blind tag in the process, the BULLET CLUB side now legal opposite Aussie Open. Dunkzilla Davis would power down Bey for a very near two before setting for Corealis, but Austin would make the save; as bodies flew everywhere it was Davis standing tall and connecting with Fletcher for Dental Plan on Haste.
Tito would come in to aid his partner, and Haste threw himself wildly to Austin on the floor. Tito would be left in ring with Bey and Austin, and was dropped with the 1-2-Sweet combination of Art of the Finesse and the Fold for the win.
