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Destination X Pre-Show and Last Call As per usual, the pre-show represents the last call. Goal is to get this show up by Thursday. I've booked the six weeks leading into Slammiversary and am excited to tell that tale. Destination X is really the kick off to the road to Slammiversary and I think it'll be a fun show. Quick Picks Last Call (Thank you to the six of you who have already predicted)

What a unique ruleset/game world. Have fun.

Bulletproof vs. Elite AEW World Tag Team: FTR © vs. Lucha Bros Scorpio Sky vs. Cody #1 Cont. for TNT Title: Ortiz vs. Darby Allin vs. Jack Evans Bea Pristley vs. Hikaru Shida Hammerstone vs. Joey Janela

Interesting take and spin on things (which I love). Very intriguing and unique.

Destination X Preview

<p>I love The Dynasty... and what MLW has done with them, so this is awesome.</p><p> </p><p> Contendership Final: Jericho</p><p> AEW TNT: PAC © </p><p> Good Brothers </p><p> Nightmare Family (Cody/Dustin/QT)</p>

<p>AEW World Tag Team Championship: <strong>FTR ©</strong> vs. Motor City Machine Guns</p><p> <strong>Cody</strong> vs. Frankie Kazarian</p><p> #1 Cont. Tournament: <strong>Chris Jericho</strong> vs. Luchasaurus</p><p> #1 Cont. Tournament: Chris Hero vs.<strong> Brian Cage</strong></p><p> #1 Cont. Tournament: <strong>Sammy Guevara </strong>vs. Orange Cassidy</p><p> #1 Cont. Tournament: Shawn Spears vs. <strong>Matt Hardy</strong></p>

<p>Love the presentation... admittedly barely know these guys, but I LOVE real world diaries from lesser followed places and feel they deserve attention.</p><p> </p><p> 1. <strong>Quiet Storm v</strong>s. Takuho Kato</p><p> 2. Ricky Fuji , Kaji Tomato , SUGI & Shoki Kitamura vs. <strong>Takuya Sugawara , Tatsuhiko Yoshino, Kota Sekifuda & Drew Parker</strong></p><p> 3. <strong>Yuji Okabayashi & Akira Hyod</strong>o vs. Kengo Mashimo & Taishi Takizawa </p><p> 4. Ryuji Ito & Kohei Sato vs.<strong> Chris Vice & Yoshikazu Yokoyama </strong></p><p> 5. <strong>Daisuke Sekimoto, Yuji Hino & Ayato Yoshida</strong> vs. Tank Nagai , Towa Iwasaki & Takuya Nomura</p><p> 6. BJW World Strong Heavyweight Title: <strong>Daichi Hashimoto © </strong>vs. Shinjiro Otani</p>

<p>NJPW Summer Struggle</p><p> IWGP Jr Heavyweight Title - <strong>Hiromu Takahashi</strong> vs Yusuke Kodama</p><p> </p><p> NEVER 6-Man Titles -<strong> Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kota Ibushi & Ryusuke Taguchi</strong> vs Kazuchika Okada, Will Ospreay & YOSHI-HASHI</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Tetsuya Naito & EVIL</strong> vs Zack Sabre Jr & Taichi</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Taiji Ishimori, Yujiro Takahashi, Dick Togo & Ikuto Hidaka </strong>vs Hirooki Goto, Yuya Uemura, SHO & YOH</p><p> </p><p> Yuji Nagata, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Pegaso Iluminar & Gabriel Kidd vs <strong>Minoru Suzuki, El Desperado, DOUKI & Yoshinobu Kanemaru</strong></p><p> </p><p> <strong>SANADA, BUSHI & Shingo Takagi</strong> vs Tomohiro Ishii, Toru Yano & Mikey Nicholls</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Togi Makabe</strong> vs Yota Tsuji</p>

<p>Early June Impact Wrestling (Week 1, and 2)</p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><img alt="fcNRcv2.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/fcNRcv2.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> ---------------------------</p><p> Destination X is the next "Impact Plus Special Event" this one will be more unpredictable than most Impact Plus events as there are some bigger events/issues here as we build towards Slammiversary (now six weeks away)... The main event is Eddie Edwards vs. the distracted Sami Callihan in a World title rematch, plus Ace Austin defends his X-Division title in an Ultimate X bout with his rival TJ Perkins and Chris Bey also involved. All this and more...</p><p> </p><p> Feel like I've packed a bunch into these last four episode and the Destination X preview will try to unpack some of that.</p><p> </p><p> Beyond that, I'm starting to think of ways to use Xplosion better... Kings Ransom was the first team to start working there "semi-exclusively" and now Ken Shamrock has debuted former NCAA All-American, Kal Jackson. Just trying to build some new talent...</p><p> </p><p> Hope y'all enjoy.</p>

NJPW New Japan Road in USA KENTA & Jay White vs Miro & Josh Barnett --- Fun show, let Barnett take the fall and he and Miro start a program on the US shows. Tom Lawlor vs Travis Huckabee Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa & Chase Owens vs David Finlay Jr, Cheeseburger & Alex Coughlin LX Ken vs Marty Scurll Karl Fredericks vs Clark Connors Rocky Romero vs Mystery Opponent Bonus- Who is the new Suzuki-Gun member?: Jeff Cobb

Destination X Round Robin Standings Coming up on the June Week 1 episode the tournament continues with TJ Perkins vs. Jake Crist and Rich Swann vs. Wentz. OOC: Crappy graphic, but wanted to try to highlight the eight guys in the Destination X Round Robin. Might update this graphic later, but hey, visuals are always fun.

Rey Fenix vs. Jungle Boy Mr. Brodie Lee & Austin Gunn vs. The Natural Nightmares Darby Allin vs. CIMA Jake Hager vs. Marko Stunt Who is the new signee in the AEW Women's Division? Hmmmm... Diamante

Impact May Week 3 and 4

NJPW New Japan Road in Japan Tetsuya Naito, SANADA & Hiromu Takahashi vs Minoru Suzuki, Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr NEVER 6-Man Titles - EVIL, BUSHI & Shingo Takagi vs Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kota Ibushi & Ryusuke Taguchi Kazuchika Okada, Will Ospreay, Tomohiro Ishii, SHO & YOH vs Tomoaki Honma, Togi Makabe, Satoshi Kojima, Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Tiger Mask Hirooki Goto & Yuya Uemura vs Dick Togo & Ikuto Hidaka DOUKI & El Desperado vs YOSHI-HASHI & Toru Yano Yuji Nagata, Gabriel Kidd, Yota Tsuji & Pegaso Iluminar vs Taiji Ishimori, Yujiro Takahashi, Gedo & Jado

Post-No Surrender Discussion With Impact wrapping up their most recent Impact Plus special let's take a peek behind the curtain. The opening bout was initially designed to promote Daga and Tessa as a strong unit/top threat. Originally planned for Tessa to be the one to challenge Ace Austin at Slammiversary with Destination X as a mere distraction. But Tessa leaving Impact in reality and her general "bad reputation" in the locker room led me to rethink her story... And then the game played into this by pure happenstance. Tully Blanchard died 8 days after this show, and I had already written Tessa off for the next tapings (which were four days before). With Tully's unfortunate death (the second big blow for AEW, Jim Ross passed two weeks earlier), it gave me an easy reason write off Tessa and as such she is now done with Impact. Daga will be sticking around, but we won't likely see him until after Slammiversary as I have nothing for him. Plan to reintroduce him either in August, or when I co-promote some shows with AAA in the Fall (likely November, but maybe August). Taya Valkyrie and Rosemary's quick little story was based around their current "friendship" of sorts and it'll continue to develop. I'm still debating the Knockout Tag Titles, but as of now I don't plan to bring them into the picture... but the division will continue to add talent as was hinted with the debut promo that aired before this match. Moose's TNA Heritage run will give him a storyline through Slammiversary and potentially longer. I've always loved the big gold belt they introduced in the early 2010's and Moose bringing it back is absolute gold. I'm think thinking that we will use this to introduce a midcard/upper midcard title, but for now, Moose is a make-believe champion and he'll continue to feud with former faces of TNA. Slammiversary will be fun. Hernandez and the Deaners is a temporary pairing to give them something to do, we will likely pivot away from this, but Hernandez needs something and this is a good use of a tag team and off-site booking. Ace Austin's announcement about Destination X was directly related to one of your comments asking why we didn't have Destination X. I've always loved Ultimate X and loved the concept of Destination X so hearing someone comment that it was missing led to this... the X-Division champ bringing it back made sense to me. Ace Austin is a future star and he's been killing it here... this was designed to make him feel powerful and give me a chance to test the new tournaments feature. There is a bigger picture here, but Ace Austin and TJ Perkins little feud may have a shot to come to a head if Perkins can escape his group... As for the groups, The Rascalz may have to face eachother which is a fun twist... beyond that let's talk about The Rascalz. Dez, Wentz and Trey are beginning to shift away from the perpetually stoned gimmick to a more serious, but still stoned gimmick. Trey has been found knocked out or passed out for weeks now and tonight he got accidentally involved in a title match. There is a bigger purpose and bigger story... it'll keep developing and hopefully will make sense and give all of them a bigger direction. As we move towards Slammiversary (10 weeks away) I've really thought about the new direction of Impact, let's just say we have some young stars that will carry us into the new future, but we also have some established guys who have earned a chance. Rob Van Dam not using his X-Division title shot yet or in the upcoming tournament is very intentionally... he's lazy now, and more interesting in Katie Forbes and friends. That leads to why he has a feud with Willie Mack. Mack has a purpose, RVD has a purpose and that makes me happy. The North are now on a 10 week collision course to Slammiversary but with no real threats to the title, we have to get creative... taking inspiration from their real life skits filmed why they were stuck in Canada, I expect we will see The North pick on jobbers until Slammiversary. Tommy Dreamer has announced he's retiring, and that coincides perfectly with Slammiversary... I have a great send-off match planned for him and this match will help build towards that. Madman Fulton is strong and Raven has really been helping him. The Unkindness as a group has a slow-burn, but they will be growing and the entanglement with both Dreamer and Callihan in seemingly separate arcs is completely intentional. One is based on violence, the other mind games. Two things that I've always found Raven to be a master at. Last but not least, The World Champion, Eddie Edwards is great performer in the ring and makes for a good champion. He may not be perfect but he's great to carry us to Slammiversary, and potentially beyond. Currently, I have a story mapped out for it, but I may move away from that as things develop. He needs a good challenger build-up through Slammiversary, so we will have that finalized over the next month as we run through Destination X. Last but not least, I won't spoil anything but there are a number of faces who will be added to the roster to both refresh and replenish the roster. As of right now that number is looking like five workers but I may add more. I will make the same promise the real Impact is, "At least one former World Champion will debut at Slammiversary". ------------------------------------------------ No Surrender was our highest rated event so far, but fell short of some TV tapings. I'm still getting a hang of the new systems. The North vs. The Rascalz was the match of the night and was our third best match so far. Predictions: Nobby_McDonald 6/7 Blodyxe 4/7 The Lariat 4/7 Kijar 4/7 Overall Predictions (Five Shows In): Nobby_McDonald: 25/30 (+1) Powerbrock100: 21/23 (+4) Blodyxe: 18/22 (+4) Kijar: 16/22 (+1) Munit: 12/16 Olivertaylor276: 10/15 (+1) The_Lariat: 10/15 (+1) 20Legend: 4/8 Thinking we will run this batch of predictions through Slammiversary then award some prizes, so thank you to the eight participants thus far and the numerous readers! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- For an Impact Plus event this one had a couple more twists and turns. Madman Fulton getting DQ'd threw everyone, rightfully so. Rosemary/Taya I debated all three finishes, but ultimately went the obsessed with Bravo route, because it opens some fun lanes for the next few months. I also love The Rascalz as a tag team and think the story we are building towards will help them in the long run. They are some of my top performers so the character development will help them. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is an open book, so any questions (about the game world or booking decisions) are more than welcome and encouraged. I'm always good with breaking the fourth wall to give you the insight into my thought process.

I really liked the Lucha Fighter concept, so this is cool to see it here.

The Buy In Colt Cabana vs. Austin Gunn --- Gunn will get a nice boost wrestling Cabana, but Cabana wins. Jake Hager vs. Luchasaurus --- Luchasaurus isn't style, though the gimmick makes me laugh. Hager is a better star. Main Card Orange Cassidy/Trent vs. Lucha Bros vs. Scorpio Sky/Kazarian --- Biggest threats Sammy Guevara vs. Jungle Boy --- Bigger star in my mind. Darby Allin vs. Brian Cage --- I love this match, Cage wins, but I'd love a Darby upset Young Bucks vs. Santana & Ortiz --- Continuing to move towards the big tag title explosion with FTR or Omega/Page. Cody vs. Chris Jericho --- I could go either way, ultimately Jericho's age leads me to saying Cody wins. AEW TNT Championship: PAC © vs. Chris Hero --- I love the concept of this title, but man do I find it ugly (then again, I really dislike most of the modern belts WWE and Impact have come up with recently... I really like the AEW World Title and the ROH ones though... end random thought) AEW Women's World Championship: Hikaru Shida © vs. Kris Statlander vs. Riho vs. Nyla Rose vs. Thunder Rosa vs. Bea Pristley --- Going off the board a bit here, I think Bea brings a different dimension to the title race and I'm going with her even though I doubt she stands a chance. AEW World Tag Team Championship: Adam Page & Kenny Omega © vs. FTR -- FTR vs Bucks, Titles on the line in the future. Seems to fit. Page maybe beginning a singles feud/run. AEW World Championship: Jon Moxley © vs. MJF --- MOX is better than MJF, and MJF knows it.

Impact Plus Presents: No Surrender

<p></p><div style="text-align:center;"><img alt="97SITDE.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/97SITDE.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> Pre-Show Up, hoping to get to the full show this weekend. Gotten a bit busier these last few weeks, but we are still rolling along.</p><p> </p><p> The full card for this Impact Plus exclusive...</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Impact World Championship</strong></p><p> Eddie Edwards {C} vs. Jake Crist</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Impact World Tag Team Championship</strong></p><p> The North {C} vs. The Rascalz</p><p> </p><p> Madman Fulton vs. Tommy Dreamer</p><p> </p><p> Daga/Tessa Blanchard vs. Reno SCUM</p><p> </p><p> Rosemary vs. Taya Valkyrie</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Moose's TNA Heritage Open Challenge</strong></p><p> Chase Stevens vs. Moose</p><p> </p><p> Chris Bey, Rob Van Dam and Rohit Raju vs. Petey Williams, Rich Swann, Willie Mack</p>

<p>Personally, I'd lean towards those people staying with NXT/WWE. I could see Cole making the jump if he and Britt wanted to be together, but would have a hard time seeing Vince let that happy.</p><p> </p><p> AEW TNT Championship: <strong>PAC ©</strong> vs. Scorpio Sky</p><p> Cash Wheeler vs. <strong>Kenny Omega</strong> -- Omega has the singles experience</p><p> <strong>Hikaru Shida/Riho</strong> vs. Kris Statlander/Thunder Rosa vs. Nyla Rose/Bea Pristley --- I like these two for the win, but could see any option as realistic</p><p> The Gunn Club vs. <strong>Mr. Brodie Lee/Colt Cabana</strong> --- Austin Gunn would be an interesting addition to Dark Order and I figure Billy is probably moving towards retirement.</p><p> <strong>The Inner Circle (Jericho/Santana & Ortiz)</strong> vs. Cody & Natural Nightmares -- QT eating the pin</p><p> <strong>Sammy Guevara</strong> vs. Marko Stunt</p><p> Orange Cassidy vs.<strong> Rey Fenix</strong></p>

Mox — keeping Wardlow strong for the future, but Mox wins heading to PPV The Inner Circle (Jericho/Sammy/Hager) Death Triangle Riho Mr. Brodie Lee Chris Hero

<p>PWL ELITE LEAGUE</p><p> Held in New England, USA</p><p> Austin Aries v <strong>Marty Scurll</strong></p><p> Ayako Hamada v <strong>Tessa Blanchard</strong></p><p> <em><strong>Ethan Carter III </strong></em>v Heath Slater</p><p> James Storm v <strong>Jeff Cobb</strong></p><p> <strong>Jordynne Grace</strong> v Melissa Anderson</p><p> Carly Colón v <strong>Eric Young</strong></p><p> What will be the match of the night? Aries vs Scurll</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> PWL SECOND LEAGUE</p><p> Held in The Maritimes</p><p> JT Dunn </p><p> Delmi Exo </p><p> Aden Cross</p><p> Jake Lander</p><p> Alyx Sky</p><p> What will be the match of the night? Dunn/Veidt</p>

30-Man Over the Top Rope Royal Rumble Match 15 Superstars from Raw. 15 from Smackdown. Only 1 Winner to go to Wrestlemania. (I'm going with Randy Orton). World Heavyweight Championship Match The Rock will be the Special Guest Enforcer! Triple H © vs. "The Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels WWE Championship Match "The Next Big Thing" Brock Lesnar © vs. Hardcore Holly WWE United States Championship Match The Big Show © vs. Rey Mysterio Triple Threat Match for the WWE Women's Championship Lita © vs. Trish Stratus vs. Jazz World Tag Team Championship Match "Nature Boy" Ric Flair & "The Animal" Batista © vs. The Dudley Boyz