Wrestlelamia.com provides live coverage of TNA Hard To Kill 2024, the first TNA event in seven years!
âRefresh the page throughout the evening as Wrestlelamia provides live, ongoing coverage of TNA Hard To Kill 2024, live from the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. The full card is listed below:
TNA World Championship: Alex Shelley vs. Moose
TNA Knockouts World Championship: Trinity vs. Jordynne Grace
TNA X Division Championship: Chris Sabin vs. El Hijo del Vikingo vs. KUSHIDA
TNA World Tag Team Championships: The ABC vs. The Grizzled Young Veterans vs. Mike Bailey and Laredo Kid vs. The Rascalz
TNA Knockouts World Championship #1 Contenderâs Ultimate X Match: Alisha Edwards vs. Dani Luna vs. Gisele Shaw vs. Jody Threat vs. Tasha Steelz vs. Xia Brookside
Alex Hammerstone vs. Josh Alexander
Dirty Dango vs. PCO
TNA Digital Media Championship No Disqualifications Match: Tommy Dreamer vs. Crazzt Steve
Rich Swann vs. Steve Maclin
Brian Myers and Eddie Edwards vs. Eric Young and Frankie Kazarian
A frenzied opener saw Steve Maclin largely dominate the high-flying Rich Swann, avoiding his key offence by breaking down the former World and X Division Champion. A 450 Splash from Swann was the closest he came to victory before a KIA double-arm DDT secured the win for Maclin, the first victory of the new era.
Gia Miller interviewed Moose, Brian Myers, Eddie and Alisha Edwards, and former NFL running back DeAngelo Williams backstage, with Moose revealing theyâre now known as The System.
DJ Whoo Kid introduced AJ Francis, the former Top Dolla of WWE, to premiere his music video for We Out$ide. Joe Hendry interrupted, initially praising Francis before premiering his own music video, dissing the ex-Hit Row man. Francis laid out Hendry with a Chokeslam.
Frequent tags from Eric Young and Frankie Kazarian gave them the early advantage, with Kazarian and Eddie Edwards renewing their hostile rivalry of 2023. The newly-named System soon took over, manhandling the TNA veterans with a Roster Cut to Kazarian sealing the win for The System.
Violently back and forth, Crazzy Steve and Tommy Dreamer battled with steel chairs, forks, and trash cans, each taking a beating from the other. A Cutter from Steve with Dreamerâs head wrapped in a chair ultimately led into Steve capturing his first singles title in TNA, putting âThe Innovator of Violenceâ down with a middle-rope DDT. Tommy Dreamerâs reign ends at 128 days.
A video package, highlighting the return of TNA before Eric Young introduced Hard To Kill. The entire TNA roster stood on-stage.
A rush for the X hanging above the ring started proceedings before the match wholly broke down. Ringside action saw numerous Knockouts take a tumble, including a Cutter from Tasha Steelz to Jody Threat off the steel truss onto everyone else at ringside, while Threat later took out Gisele Shaw and Xia Brookside with a double F5. Boiling down to Shaw, Steelz, and Dani Luna, âThe Quintessential Divaâ knocked her competitors from atop the structure before dropping to the mat with the red X.
PCOâs entrance saw him brought back to life by a team of surgeons in a good piece of creativity, but his match vs. Dirty Dango barely got started before Alpha Bravo - flanking Dango alongside Oleg Prudius - intervened, breaking up an attempting PCOSault. Rhino came to the former ROH World Championâs aid, leading to TNA Director of Authority Santino Marella creating a six-man tag team match, Jake Something being the final competitor.
A rapid start from Jake Something saw him vault himself into the ring, quickly taking down Dirty Dango and Alpha Bravo, though the Dango-led trio soon dominated the match. Rhino soon came to blows with Oleg Prudius, knocking the former Vladimir Kozlov off his feet, before PCO and friends tore Alpha Bravo apart. A PCOSault to the former IMPACT referee got he, Rhino, and Jake Something the victory.
An unknown woman, donning high-heeled boots and blonde hair, was shown exiting a vehicle outside âearlier todayâ.
Courtney Rush and Jessicka reverted to their Rosemary and Havok personas, reforming Decay in an impromptu Knockouts World Tag Team Championships match.
In a competitively-fought back-and-forth title match, MK Ultra were able to isolate Rosemary before âThe Demon Assassinâ made the tag to Havok. A double Suplex took down both Killer Kelly and Masha Slamovich, before Havok escaped a Snow Plow pinfall attempt at the count of one. With Slamovich taken out, Decay planted Kelly with a Spinebuster combination to become two-time World Tag Team Champions. MK Ultraâs reign ends at 180 days.
Gia Killer interviewed Steve Maclin backstage, with Maclin promising 2024 to be the year of mayhem.
TNA President Scott DâAmore was joined on-stage by Dorian RoldĂĄn PeĂąa, the CEO of Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide, announcing a working relationship between the two promotions.
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An expectedly enthralling three-way bout contested the TNA X Division Championship, as Chris Sabin, KUSHIDA, and reigning AAA Mega Champion, El Hijo del Vikingo wowed the audience with a sensational bout. An inside-out 450 Splash from Vikingo and a middle-rope Canadian Destroyer onto the ramp from Sabin were the leading highlights, with Chris Sabin later downing his Time Machine partner KUSHIDA via Cradle Shock to hold onto the newly-designed X Division Championship. Chris Sabinâs reign continues at 124 days.
An early Match of the Year contender saw Josh Alexander and the debuting Alex Hammerstone tear each other apart. Though Alexander held momentum in the early goings, Hammerstone soon broke âThe Walking Weaponâ down, annihilating him with a series of hard-hitting manoeuvres, including a gnarly apron Death Valley Driver. Josh Alexander managed to pick up the win, though, smashing his way through one of pro wrestlingâs hottest free agents with a C4 Spike to start 2024 with a mammoth victory.
A surprise result saw The ABC duo of Ace Austin and Chris Bey reign supreme, still as the World Tag Team Championships, putting Trey Miguel of The Rascalz down with the 1, 2, Finesse. Although a smattering botches hampered the matchâs quality to a degree, the quartet of duos produced a superb four-way bout, reminiscent of the promotionâs glory days that saw each team get a moment to shine, including a spot where the late-formed tandem of Mike Bailey and Laredo Kid narrowly missed claiming the titles. The ABCâs reign continues at 82 days.
Ahead of the Knockouts World Championship match, Ash By Elegance - the former Dana Brooke - was shown sitting in the audience.
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Though Trinity losing the Knockouts World Championship had been heavily expected owing to her publicly-discussed return to WWE, she and Jordynne Grace contested a compelling, back-and-forth match for the title that saw Grace outpower the former Naomi on multiple occasions, including Jackhammer-ing her on the floor. Hitting her signature offence, such as the Rear View and the Starstruck, wasnât enough for Trinity, as a Juggernaut Driver sealed her fate and allowed Jordynne to become Knockouts World Champion for the third time. Trinityâs reign ends at 182 days.
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Headlining the first event back under the TNA banner, Alex Shelley and Moose worked a match unlike anything else on the card, wrestling a slower, more mat-based style that allowed the matchâs bigger moments peak. A Shellshock at ringside saw a near-count out retention for Shelley, who went move-for-move with his larger challenger and after a tussle in-ring, Moose reversed a second Shellshock into a Spear to lift the TNA World Championship. Alex Shelleyâs reign ends at 216 days.
Post-match, Moose was laid out by the debuting Nic Nemeth, formerly Dolph Ziggler of WWE. Standing in the crowd, he revealed a TNA shirt, indicating that he has joined the company full-time.
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