Wrestlelamia provides live coverage of TNA Rebellion 2024!
Refresh the page throughout the evening as Wrestlelamia provides live, ongoing coverage of TNA Rebellion 2024, live from the Palms Casino Resort in Paradise, Nevada. The full card is listed below:
TNA World Championship: Moose vs. Nic Nemeth
TNA Knockouts World Championship: Jordynne Grace vs. Steph de Lander
TNA X Division Championship: Mustafa Ali vs. Jake Something
TNA World Tag Team Championships: The System (Brian Myers and Eddie Edwards) vs. Speedball Mountain (Mike Bailey and Trent Seven)
Last Man Standing: Josh Alexander vs. Hammerstone
Full Metal Mayhem: Eric Young vs. Frankie Kazarian
Joe Hendry vs. Rich Swann
TNA Digital Media Championship: Crazzy Steve vs. Laredo Kid
TNA Knockouts World Tag Team Championships: Spitfire (Dani Luna and Jody Threat) vs. Decay (Havok and Rosemary)
Leon Slater and The ABC (Ace Austin and Chris Bey) vs. The Rascalz (Myron Reed, Trey Miguel, and Zachary Wentz)
In what was an expectedly scintillating contest, the cintet of high-flyers opened the Countdown To Rebellion pre-show like only the X Division can, with this acting as a welcome party for TNA newcomers Leon Slater and Myron Reed, who both performed over-the-corner somersault dives. With the match breaking down, The ABC downed Reed, allowing Slater to execute his jaw-dropping Swanton 450 for his first three count in TNA.
First Cla$$, the pairing of AJ Francis and Rich Swann, introduced their MANBOY MAFIA entourage during a backstage interview with Gia Miller.
Though marginally slower compared to its predecessor, Crazzy Steve’s Digital Media Championship defence vs. Laredo Kid was fought with the pure grit expected of Steve, who resorted to cheap tactics, such as biting the masked grappler’s head and attempting to pull said mask off. Ultimately, this came back to bite him - quite literally - as Laredo Kid bit Steve before putting him away with the Laredo Fly to lift his first taste of TNA gold. Crazzy Steve’s reign ends at 97 days.
Steph de Lander revealed she’s hired The Good Hands - Jason Hotch and John Skyler - to assist her during her match vs. Jordynne Grace.
With Rancid legend Lars Frederiksen spurring them on from ringside, Spitfire’s Dani Luna and Jody Threat took the fight to Decay in their first defence of the Knockouts World Tag Team Championships, with Luna taking both Rosemary and Havok out with a top-rope somersault plancha. Later removing Havok from the equation with a double Powerbomb, Spitfire laid out Rosemary with an aided Spinebuster to retain the titles. They were confronted post-match by Masha Slamovich and Alisha Edwards, signifying the next contenders for the titles. Spitfire’s reign continues at 43 days.
Cody Deaner interrupted two protesters conducting an in-ring protest against Jake Something’s X Division Championship challenge, ultimately DDTing one on top of the other’s groin.
DJ Ashba performed the American national anthem as the main card began.
Continuing the exhilarating X Division offence showcased in the pre-show six-man tag team match, Mustafa Ali vs. Jake Something was nothing short of an elementary X Division Championship match, with unfathomable counters on offer from both, including a mind-melting Powerbomb counter by Jake off an attempted Mustafa Ali Hurricanrana. Near-falls were also exchanged following respective 450 Splash and Black Hole Slam finishers before a pinning combination and a hold of the ropes allowed Mustafa Ali to remain champion. Mustafa Ali’s reign continues at 43 days.
Shawne Merriman, the 2005 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year who rose to prominence playing for the San Diego Chargers and who was mentioned as being a friend of AJ Francis’, was shown sitting in the crowd.
Mocking First Cla$$ with an AI-enhanced entrance video depicting AJ Francis and Rich Swann performing his entrance music, Joe Hendry took Swann to the limit, at one point flipping him a full 450 degrees off a back body drop. The one-time Digital Media Champion soon found himself tumbling to ringside after Francis pulled down the top rope and, after a brief staredown between Francis and Shawne Merriman, Hendry was Lariated by the latter, revealing a ruse as he aligned with First Cla$$. Swann’s pinfall win came after a Frog Splash.
Starting immediately when Eric Young struck Frankie Kazarian with his hockey mask while making his entrance, the pair of TNA stalwarts made use of a slew of weapons in what was the eighteenth Full Metal Mayhem match. Between a Kazarian Spear sending Young careening through a ringside table and EY caving in Kaz’s head with a trash can, both men felt the wrath of one of TNA’s signature stipulations. In the end, the self-proclaimed ‘King of TNA’ scored the victory as Frankie Kazarian drilled Eric Young’s head into the edge of a table via Flux Capacitor, instantly busting his head open.
Introduced back to TNA Wrestling by Director of Authority Santino Marella after Steve Maclin demanded a match, Mike Santana emerged victorious over the one-time TNA World Champion, putting in a strong showing against Maclin. Both fought with intensity, going back and forth as they traded counters before Santana was able to counter an attempted KIA into a discus Lariat for his first TNA pay-per-view victory since, rather apropos, the 2019 Rebellion pay-per-view.
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Gia Miller interviewed The System backstage, where Alisha Edwards confirmed her partnership with Masha Slamovich did not grant Slamovich membership into the group, whereas TNA World Champion Moose introduced former defensive end and linebacker John Abraham as his guest of honor.
With the match following a theme of targeting Trent Seven’s leg, the defending champions took an immediate advantage, although ‘Speedball’ Mike Bailey fought with courage to keep his team in the match as he kept both Eddie Edwards and Brian Myers on their toes with flurries of lightning-fast kicks. A mid-air Spear at ringside wiped Bailey out of the match whereas back inside the squared circle, a Roster Cut/Boston Knee Party combination put Trent Seven down for good. The System’s reign continues at 43 days.
In a menacingly brutal Last Man Standing match, Josh Alexander and Hammerstone both sustained nasty bumps across the ring apron, with the former being Gorilla Press Slammed from off the top turnbuckle. ‘The Walking Weapon’ was also busted open hardway after being struck with his headgear, beginning a systematic beatdown from Hammerstone that included an unnecessarily brutal middle-rope Nightmare Pendulum that dropped Alexander across a pile of thumbtacks. As the match broke out to the stage, it was Hammerstone who failed to withstand the referee’s ten count, being dropped on his head via C4 Spike to grant Josh Alexander his second victory over the ex-MLW stalwart.
A new Jonathan Gresham vignette in which he coughed up black ink, indicating his metamorphosis back into ‘The Octopus’.
The Personal Concierge introduced Ash By Elegance ahead of the Knockouts World Championship match, which she watched from a private balcony.
Both Jordynne Grace and Steph de Lander relied on their power as they vowed for the former’s Knockouts World Championship, with Grace coming out hot from the start, diving onto the Aussie standout with a Suicide Dive. The Good Hands’ intervention soon left the referee laying, which brought out PCO, Kon, and a returning Sami Callihan in a series of lights out moments, ending in Callihan sending Steph de Lander back into the ring for a Juggernaut Driver from Grace as she retained her title. Jordynne Grace’s reign continues at 97 days.
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A brief video package aired, confirming Slammiversary 2024 for Saturday, July 20 from Montreal’s Verdun Auditorium.
Nic Nemeth’s father Don and brother, AEW’s Ryan Nemeth were shown sitting in the front row ahead of Nic’s match vs. Moose.
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In what was the most evenly-fought contest of the night, Moose and Nic Nemeth went blow-for-blow over the former’s World Championship, with Nemeth doing everything in his power to lift a World Title for the first time in over a decade. Being Powerbombed on the ramp wouldn’t put him down as he fought back with Superkicks, a Rough Ryder, and a Spear, but Moose fought back with a colossal Spear of his own to cling onto the title. Moose’s reign continues at 97 days.
Post-match, the lights out teaser that aired on Thursday’s TNA iMPACT! played once more, with ‘Broken’ Matt Hardy laying out Moose with a Twist of Fate.