FinJuice, Eddie Edwards scoop victory over Good Brothers and Kenny Omega

FinJuice stood tall after IMPACT Wrestling’s Under Siege event on May 14, picking up a six man tag team victory alongside Eddie Edwards over the Good Brothers and Kenny Omega. 

David Finlay would start the bout with his opponent from Thursday night Karl Anderson, and navigated him into the FinJuice corner, where quick tags and tandem offense created early control. Anderson would be able to muscle Juice into the corner, bringing Doc Gallows inside, but the big man would also fall prey to the IMPACT Tag Team Champions until a rake of the eyes put Finlay in the wrong corner. 

With Anderson back inside, the Good Brothers team again found issues dictating the pace. Eddie Edwards was backed into the corner, and Anderson made the tag to Kenny Omega, but even triple world champion Omega struggled, a double bulldog from FinJuice creating a nearfall. An Anderson distraction, and Gallows trip on Juice still wasn’t enough to swing the balance against Robinson, who landed a snug right hand on the Machine Gun, but a basement dropkick from Omega finally shifted the tone of the match. 

Now finally in control, Omega and the Brothers were intent on keeping it, Robinson rooted to the mat until a high angle suplex out of an Anderson headlock brought Finlay back in. The New Japan Cup semifinalist took out all three of his opponents, before a flying European uppercut landed on Anderson. Finlay sized up Anderson for a decisive blow, but Omega would cling on to Finlay’s ankle, and the Good Brothers took violent advantage. 

A hard suplex scored for Gallows, who set Finlay up to get squashed in the corner, but a high cross scored instead, and Finlay evaded a charging Anderson to bring in Edwards. Gunning for Omega, Edwards connected with a Blue Thunder Bomb for a nearfall, and an emphatic Tiger Driver for an even closer 2.5 count. 

As the match broke down, Juice hit the ring and teed off on Gallows, but was interrupted by an Omega V-Trigger. Omega and the Brothers hit a triple splash on Edwards, and a triple team neckbreaker got two as FinJuice were sent outside. The tag champions prevented the Magic Killer on Edwards, who scored with a lariat to Omega, but a TKO from Anderson nearly led to three. 

Anderson couldn’t hit the Gunstun on either Edwards or Finlay however, and the Prima Nocta stunned Anderson into Pulp Friction, before the Boston Knee Party from Edwards secured a satisfying victory for him and his team.

Also at Under Siege, El Phantasmo challenged Josh Alexander in an all Canadian bout for the X Division Championship. After being out wrestled on the mat early by amateur master Alexander, Phantasmo showed frustration early.  ELP would catch the champion with a right boot to take over, but on making Alexander run would again find himself dumped to the mat and then pitched with a back body drop. 

A stiff back breaker followed for Alexander, who got a two count, before the alleged loaded boot of Phantasmo came into effect, a stomp to the foot changing momentum for ELP. Phantasmo sprung to the top rope and delivered a head scissors whip for two, and when he found himself in trouble in the corner with hard chops from the champion, the challenger once more went to the foot before tying Alexander in the Tree of Woe and applying a boot to the groin. 

Alexander would counter out of the corner with a spider suplex, and the match spilled to the outside of the ring before Phantasmo shifted focus from the foot to the signature right hand of Alexander. ELP again sprung to the top rope, and went to walk Alexander around the ring, but the challenger’s arrogance carried with it a steep price as Alexander slammed Phantasmo off the top. 

Still not learning his lesson, ELP went for more insulting offense with the dreaded purple nurple, instead enraging Alexander into hard forearm shots. Alexander flowed from one heavy hit to the next, and almost secured an ankle lock, but this time it was Phatasmo flowing out of the hold and into a quebrada for two. After a spinning neckbreaker, ELP loaded up Sudden Death but was countered into a hard suplex from the champion, a second attempt resulting in an even harder release German. 

With momentum building, Alexander went to the top rope to finish off Phantasmo, but would be caught and crotched, before a top rope Frankensteiner and the Thunder Kiss ’86 splash created a very near two. ELP went for the CRII, and Alexander looked for his own Divine Intervention finish, both bridging into nearfalls, before the champion landed a powerbomb backbreaker and went back to the ankle lock for the submission win.