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Joe Hendry Kicks Off 2025 | TNA iMPACT! 1/2/2025 Show Review & Results

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Broadcast on:
03 Jan 2025
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Joel Pearl (@JoelPearl) and Cresta Starr (@CrestaTheeStarr) review TNA iMPACT! for January 2, 2025:


- Jordynne Grace, Masha Slamovich & Spitfire vs. Ash By Elegance, Heather By Elegance, Rosemary & Tasha Steelz

- KUSHIDA vs. Ace Austin

- Rhino vs. Ryan Nemeth

- We’ll hear from Jordynne Grace

- Tessa Blanchard says she will show up

- Joe Hendry kicks off 2025

- Nic Nemeth to speak

- We’ll hear from Mike Santana



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Tonight's show is brought to you by 2024, because they recorded it the night after Final Resolution. So it's a month ago. But it's fine. It's OK. We're going to talk about it, because it was live for us. For those of you in Canada, it was live for the first time over on SportsNet 360. I am one of those Canadians who got to watch it. I do have questions about how you all may have received it if you watched over in Canada. But of course, my American friend is with me, as she always is. Cresta Star is back, and we are back. Welcome back, Cresta. Happy New Year. Yee-haw, apple pie, Yankee Doodle Dandy. Just because you sound your American friend, I felt-- Oh, baseball. Baseball is very American. That's true. You did hit the three. Yeah, I think there's something-- a football. Yeah, there's a lot of that this week. Yeah, kicking stuff. Not UK football, American football. Touchdown, yeah. Yeah, seven points, six points, six points, six. Feel going. Something, I don't know. Hi, it's me, Cresta Star. I have missed TNA. I have missed you guys. I can't wait to discuss the highs and the lows. And it's wrestling, so get into it. Yes, and you can get into it by, of course, leaving a thumbs up, a like on the video. If you saw your little thumbs up bar kind of sparkle right now, it's because I said leave a thumbs up or a like on the video. So go ahead and do that. And of course, subscribe to us here at youtube.com/fightful and fightfulselect.com the best soon to be six bucks in the business. But you can still get it for $5 or $54 a year if you lock in now before the end of January when the price does go up by $1. Subway did it, we can too. That's all I got to say about that. Let's talk about impact overall thoughts before we dig in. I mean, we didn't have a chance to talk about the elephant in the room who made her appearance very well known. And that is the return of Tessa Blanchard to TNA. That news dropped just before final resolution. I've given my thoughts over on in the weeds. Our sister channels Morning Show over on Fightful Overbooked. Y'all can see it there, plenty of talk there. But Kresta, you and I haven't really discussed it. So your thoughts, she's back. Here we go. - Wow, wow, tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes. That's the most Google answer that I'm going to give. I mean, tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes. - It's been a month and I feel like a lot of people are just stuck. And that's how it is. We're just stuck. - All I can hope for is good matches, but I already know what I'm going to do. I'm going to treat it like I treat anything else that I don't want to watch in wrestling. I'm going to close my eyes and summon Cthulhu. - And he's going to eat Tessa? - No, he's going to eat my brain and give me more brain worms. I'm just going to get the brain worms, you know? Me and RK got a lot in common. - I'm going to say the RK special. - The RK special. - You're going to drop a bear in Central Park while you're at it? - There's a joke there, but far be it for me to say it. (laughs) - You stay awake in those areas, Kresta Star. I believe that you can. - No, it wasn't about the bear. - Oh, it wasn't about the bear. - It wasn't about the bear. It wasn't about the bear. - Sorry, that's my question. - Okay, my jokes to myself. Yeah, you know, that's all I have. That's all I have. Something, something people are allowed to change, something, I don't care though. - Something, something she's never proven that she's been apologetic throughout the whole thing. I've given my thoughts. Like I said, I'm pointing you over to win the weeds. If you really care and you really want to hear it, I have given plenty of conversation. We spent 45 minutes to an hour talking about it, Jeremy and I did check out the history or the lack thereof when it comes to her post-TNA run or things that were expected that were never done. There's plenty of that. And do people deserve a second chance? Yes, but people deserve a second chance after they show that they have genuine remorse and give any sort of apology. And there has not been one. There has been no remorse. There has been no formal apology. And that's, I don't think that that's much for fans to ask for. I really don't. This could have been nipped in the bud years ago. Young, stupid, I don't want to be this person. I will do better, whatever you needed to say, but it was never done. And for everyone who's going to say, this is, you know, oh, well, the stuff with La Rosa Negra, she got over that. No, she didn't. I will once again give a little bit of a refresh. There was a Negra, by the way, yes, Ricardo's saying, accountability is the word. Absolutely that's the word I'm thinking of. La Rosa Negra forgave Tessa because she didn't want to live with that in her heart. Tessa never apologized. La Rosa Negra just said, I don't need this. I'm moving on with my life. And that's it. Tessa never said anything, never did anything. Accountability goes a long way. And just Ricardo sent a super chat saying, y'all telling me, 'cause I just can't see a plus. And there are people who decided that they wanted to speak with their wallets and that is their decision. I'm not going to fault anyone who are big fan of Tessa and want to see her back. I'm not going to fault anyone who is not interested in watching TNA with her around. I get both sides. I can tell you from my side, I was pretty let down when that decision was made. And we had the reporting over on www.fifelselect.com and we talked about it at nauseum, at length. And it's just the way it is now. It sucks because I feel like when it comes to the wrestling world, there are a lot of, there are a few unforgivables and unfortunately racism just never seems to be one of them, especially against black people. It just never seems to be one of them. And it's quite frustrating because I do find her quite talented. I can say that I was a fan, but it's very much, in my opinion, the whole cog and same thing. You can say whatever you want. And it's time is wrestling. And it's frustrating because I think about the other performers in that situation, maybe like, ew, everyone else was literally busy. And again, people are allowed to grow and change, but there has been no accountability. There has been nothing like, hey, I fucked up, I'm dumb, I'm stupid. You know, I want to be better. I can't tell you how to run your company. It's just incredibly disappointing. That's what I can say. Like, it's like, it's incredibly disappointing. It's so disappointing. Like, literally, I, and now you have people who are like, ew, TNA, how's that fit? How was that fit? But whatever. - At the end of the day, it is, so at the end of the day, it's a business. We talked about the fact that TNA, as a company, has been up over 2024. They had bigger houses than they've ever had. They've had a lot of really good shows that they've put on, and they are a ensemble cast, which is something that's very interesting when you talk about bringing in someone like Tessa and the reporting, again, that they didn't tell people that she's coming in ahead of her signing. You cannot do that to a locker room that is close-knit. You cannot do that to a locker room that trusts each other and deals with things internally as they do. This is a point of contention internally, potentially as well. We don't know because we're not there, but I can tell you right now, if TNA thinks that this is going to add thousands upon thousands of views to their content, I personally don't know if it's going to do that. I don't. And if this is their idea of going big in 2025, I hope they have better ideas. But here we are. - Well, that's all I could say, because at the end of the day, I know what's going to happen. It's the state that it happens every time. You'll rustle for a bit, you'll put on a banger, and people are like, that was 20 years ago, man. I was like, look at this match, you just had that. (laughs) Like, not for nothing. And I laugh because you have to, like, respectfully. Even someone in the chat like, well, how do you know she's not talking about it? There it is! There you go! There it is! There it is! There you go. - No, listen, let me put it right back at that person who said it in the chat. Our reporting, again, at FiffleSelect.com, was that Jordan Grace, who is scheduled to face Tessa Blanchard at TNA Genesis, pushed back on working with Tessa. I'm not saying that she's been kept in a room and locked away from everyone, but I don't know how comfortable people are around her. And listen, they haven't been together since the TV tapings after Final Resolution. They haven't seen each other in a month. They're not seeing each other again for another two, three weeks. They're going to be, the first time everyone is going to be in a room, will be at Genesis in Texas. So, it's, believe me, it's not a worksheet. If for anyone who's telling us it's a worksheet, no, I guarantee you, I'm promising you, I am telling you, a billion times, do not start with it's a worksheet, it's not, it is not, believe me, it's not. We, this is similar to when Scott was fired. They let him go shortly after hard to kill. And then the first time they got together was like, I'm two months, about a month and a half later. And it was again, how is the locker room going to be? They rallied around each other, they worked together. Could be the same thing here, where they rally around each other, they work together, they got a pay-per-view, blah, blah, blah, business as usual. So again, it's a little different than what's got, what happened with Scott, but it'll be a big, it'll be a big test in a big show. - We'll see, like I was saying, let it play out. Anyway, let's get into Tia now. Enough, enough of this woman right now. We got to talk about her to main events. - You know, right, since we're all on it, let's just talk about the main events. - All right, that's it. - We're already there, so let's just get it out of the way. 'Cause that was the, that was the, there was a 1A and a 1B story tonight. And so we might as well get to one of the one stories. Spitfire, Masha Slamovitch, and Jordan Grace defeated. The elegance is, Tasha Steels, Tasha Steels, and Rosemary, that's fine match. It was a good main event match. I was watching, I got so used to watching on T&A Plus on YouTube and all that, I finally started watching the show that I commercials again. God damn, there were a lot of commercials in this main event match. - Oh, okay, to be fair on T&A Plus, I still get that day and says, we'll be right back and there was no picture this time. There was no picture, you got commercials. - That sucks. But the match itself was good. There was good storytelling from all eight women. Everyone has kind of their story coming out of it. The elegance is versus Spitfire. That was going on throughout the match. Those four are gonna eventually have a tag team title match, probably a genesis. And the elegance is, is, is probably gonna win. Masha and Jordan get their spots in. Tasha Steels of course had had the match against Masha and Rosemary and Masha are on their collision course. The one downside is that in this match, we're all waiting for that inevitable, which was Tessa getting involved. However, at the end, Masha gets the win. She hits the, what they're calling the Requiem, but it's also known as the white knight driver on the indies, hits that on Tasha Steels definitively. That's over, no more Tasha and Masha for now. And next up is Rosemary because post-match, Tessa Blanchard comes out, she attacks Jordan Grace. Rosemary missed Masha Slamovitch and the elegance is in Spitfire brawl. Tessa and Jordan Grace brawl backstage, Tessa chokes out Jordan Grace with the handle of her bag, drags her down the loading dock, which is what's, what happened. That loading dock is where Tessa exited out of at final resolution. So like they're using it as a story point and Tessa said she's back to take her locker room back. And then the show ends with the elegance is in the ring, holding up the knockouts deck title, which was hilarious. Cause it was such a weird production decision to have that be the closing shots. What do you think of this main event match? What do you think of the, the brawl, the Bollywood at the end of this whole show? - Okay, so the match itself was fine. I did appreciate Tasha steals and Masha Slamovitch started this match off really stiff. Of course, gotta point out the quad two plexes from all the ladies, that was fantastic. I will say, unfortunately, showing the security guard being attacked before the match, that was literally one of my notes. Okay, get to the end of this so we can either have the Tessa DQ or we have Tessa run out. I thought the elegance is for a tag team that's supposed to allegedly take the titles off of Spitfire. I didn't feel there was a lot of cohesion, but I felt like this was also a smash so it didn't have to be. I will say, when Tessa Blanchon ran out and started beating up Jordan Grace, y'all just stood there and let it happen. I thought we don't like her. Like, what are we doing? Y'all also like, oh my God, what's happening? Like this was, it was such bad after school special acting. I wanted to squirt gun everybody and say, start the scene over again. This was ridiculous. I can't believe that, and by the time the bad guys got into the ring, the heels got into the ring, it was like a good 10 seconds of, that's just this, people in the crowd were yelling out, help her. (laughs) So that was a, there was a lot of choices there at the end. The dragging of Jordan Grace out by the bag. If I didn't like you before, Tessa, I hate you now. (laughs) That was unnecessary, and you know what? I gotta give credit where credit is due. Use the heat to your advantage. You already know people don't like and be disrespectful. I say, get it, Dominic Mysterio, does it, you do it too, girl. Besides that, you know, like, again, it goes back to my, I don't wanna see that. That's fine, that's okay for me. There are people, if you think it'll get money, do your big one, TNA. But like, we could, Saffeta Evans could've did this. You know what I mean? Like, hey, Gail Kim could've did this. Hey, I don't know, we could've got to have a daughter do this. You know what I mean? That's just me. But what did, I don't know if you have anything to add on that. - So don't get it twisted. I know that Tessa is a very talented wrestler. Everyone is well aware of her abilities in the ring. They are. They would be silly to just talk away those things. However, there is another side to it. There's a real life side to it. And people are turned off by that. Do I think that Jordan Grace and Tessa Blanchard can have a fantastic pro wrestling match at a pay-per-view level? Absolutely, do I think they will? Yes, will the story be good? Sure, if they're both bought in, they're both doing business. Jordan's never been one to act unprofessionally when given an opportunity, even if she's not the biggest fan of somebody. Yes, of course, it's just, again, knowing what we know about Tessa Blanchard's history, there is, that turns people off. The segment itself, again, the match was very good. Again, it was long and the commercials kind of took me out of it. But when they did the final closing segment, to me it didn't feel like they weren't helping her. It felt like they were kind of shocked at first. It's like, oh, she is here, like Tessa is here. And then all the heels kind of got their way in. You saw Spitfire get dragged out of the ring, and then Rosemary went after Masha Slamovitch and missed it her, like, what felt like immediately. Maybe I was just taking my notes and I didn't think of it the same way. The only person who wasn't in it was Tasha's deals and she was selling, having eaten the pin. Yeah, Tasha was dead. Yeah, well, and that was supposed to be because the knockouts champion used her final move on her, and that was fine. So to me, it didn't feel like the way that you explained it, but, like, I can see how you could see it that way. That, like, why didn't they jump into helper? I think it was because the idea was they were supposed to be shocked that Tessa just showed up again. Why are you shocked? Maybe that's just me. I'm trying to zoom out and be like, okay, let me give you a critique, but as a fan, it's like, Ayo said it the best in chat that Jordan's obsessed with Tessa. But also, she came for Genesis, which in Canon was like a week or two weeks before, or whatever it was. So why wouldn't she show up again? And even if so, nobody else is watching the product. Like, you saw that they cut to the security guard where y'all was backstage warming. I don't know. Like, as a fan, it's like, bro, the response time was too slow. And by the time you guys did respond, everybody else was awake. I get it. I get where you're coming from, too. I get what you're saying, like, on the one hand. Okay, oh my God, Tessa's here. Let's react on us too late. But to me, it was like, bro, one, two, three, crowds chanting. You help her. I'm like, what are you all doing? I'm not worried about the wrestling either. Let me be clear here. I wasn't fan. I was a big fan. I know the wrestling is gonna be fine. It's just the outside stuff where it's like. - Yep. The stuff of the security guard. So for those who may have not watched the show, Jordan Grace, earlier in the night, had an interview with Gia Miller and effectively said, I'm gonna go wait for Tessa. I will be at the loading dock where she made her presence known. And so she sat down at the loading dock on a chair for the rest of the night. And then at one point, it's time for her match. So her partners go to get her and then Santino Morella jumps in and says, oh, I have security here. He's going to help her, da, da, da, on guard. If you haven't figured it out yet, Santino Morel is the dumbest clown. And so we know what's gonna happen. And they come back from the break ahead of the main event. And that security guard was laid out. And it's like, who did this? Who did this? And nobody knows because the eight woman tag has already started. Or at least the entrances have started. So they don't know in the ring that the security guard has been taken out. The idea here is that Jordan goes out and she feels like, it's safe enough because they have security on the case and it'll be fine. She doesn't know that security's been knocked out. So that's kind of the explanation, quote unquote, in the wrestling world that why she was fine with going out and doing the match and so on and so forth. It's, what if it's, there were a lot of things that just felt like, it almost felt like they knew this was their last taping of the year. And they just kind of did shit. There's a - Hurry up. I got a plan to catch for you for real. - Hurry up. So there's a promo from Kazarian. And I like this promo. He's got, I still got this, call your shot, got lit to a trophy out. It's good. And then Lee on Slater walks in and called him over did Kazarian, he's like, hey, you're a great talent. You're really good at this, blah, blah, blah. I'm gonna offer you my mentorship. And Slater's like, yeah, that'd be great. I'm really down for that. And Kazarian's like, well, why don't you carry my trophy to the ring and you can watch me wrestle, watch a star wrestle. And then Lee on Slater is like, no, it's not really what I'm doing here. And like, I'm gonna do it my own way. I'm gonna pave my own path. And Kazarian's like, well, remember who paved the road, you're on. And during that segment, there's a boom that just kept like a boom mic that just kind of lowers into the shot now. And I'm like, uh. - I didn't see that. (laughing) - You just leave in the shot. And it's like, come on. And then I do like JDC comes in. So as a kid's a good hand, he's just missing something. He just needs a nickname. And then they make a joke about the future because for those who don't know, Frankie Kazarian back in the day in TNA was known as the future of Frankie Kazarian. And they both kind of laugh it off like, no, that'll never get over. It was cute and it was silly. But there were so many moments tonight where I was like, yeah, they're just trying to get through this shit. - I respect it. I have family to see. New year, New Year's balls to go drop. That's so horrible. - I mean, when the final resolution ended and it was like the final selected report, you know, this contracts out, this contract, all of these contracts were up because they're one year deals with TNA. I was like, man, they just, they put all of their final contracted wrestlers on these shows so that they could have them lose before they go home. Like Kushida lost a match tonight. Rhino is having his swan song this weekend next week. They're just like one after another. All these people who are done are just slowly getting, you know, taken out. And it's fine. That's the end of the deals. This is very funny to me. - That's the way it's supposed to be. A wise man named Joe Pearl said, if you're putting someone over, you go out on your back or something like that. - Yeah. Next week, maybe not so much, but we'll see. (laughs) I don't know where to start now. Joe Henry, we'll start with that. Let's go right to the top of the show. He comes out number one contender for the world title of Genesis. He won that final resolution, that match by the way. The four way, usually Macklin, Santana, Alexander and Henry. If you haven't watched it yet from final resolution, go out of your way, probably one of the matches of the night. There were some really good matches of final resolution. That one, and believe it or not, Nick Nemeth and AJ Francis had a really, really solid main event. AJ Francis, who by the way, this week, resigned with TNA wrestling. No shock there, but it was really nice to hear that. So Joe Henry says he's gonna win the title, does all the shtick. And then Ryan Nemeth comes out, Nick Nemeth's brother. Ryan Nemeth is just being that obnoxious little brother. That's his new gimmick. And it works, but it's so obnoxious. Henry is tarnishing Big Brother Nick's reputation, according to Ryan. And Ryan's getting wudded by the crowd, and he just lets it happen. That part was like, do you know that this is frustrating? Or are you just kind of like, are you just letting it happen? Anyway, they talk about Henry being a snake. Nobody trusts him, the fan shouldn't trust him either. Blah, blah, blah. Then Joe Henry makes a joke about Ryan's comedy. And in this whole thing, they get a little too meta, for me at least. They start talking about how Joe Henry is nothing but a mid-carder. And then at least Henry turns around and was like, well, it makes you a janitor. So mob up the floor and get me a coffee. I'm like, okay, that's the best saving of it. But I don't need this meta type of promo style in my wrestling personally. I don't know how other people felt about it, but I feel like, you're just a mid-carder, is a little too inside. That's how I felt. I like what Ryan's doing. I like what Henry's trying to do. Seems like he ditched the complete, my mission gimmick, which is good. Hope he stays away from that. But what do you think of this promo? 'Cause it's gonna lead to a whole lot of things on tonight's show. - I love he loved this, Ryan. My brother, oh, you're so annoying. Oh, this is great. Listen, if you're gonna be a smarmy piece of crap, I love a good trope. And this is fantastic. My big brother, he's gonna be so bad at you. If my brother comes and gets you, I'll say, yes, I love it. I will say that I get what you're saying about having wrestling promos or things like that be a little bit too insidery. However, I would argue that now wrestling is more, it's kind of like a meme. And as the yout get into it, a lot of them know what a mid-card is and made a venture. So it makes sense to start adding it into your vernacular when you are talking to another wrestler, but it's ironic coming from Nick Sam is brother, calling someone else a mid-carderter. I'm like, bro, that's, if you ain't gonna come with nothing else, you coming with the audacity today. So I understand, I completely understand. And Joe Hendry was right, 'cause if Joe Hendry's a mid-carder, what does that make you a janitor? But I didn't know Jared has went and got coffee. So maybe he meant the coffee and the garbage. So that's my critique on there. I understand it. I get what you're saying about, don't call someone. You of all people can't call them by no mid-carder or whatever it is. But also I feel like nowadays people, the memes and a lot of the, that's not super insider lingo to me. And that's a lot of surface level that people know. So I'm in on it, I know, I know. - So there is something to this. So someone in the chat was saying, they should have called him a meme, which is what a lot of people have been calling Joe Hendry as a meme wrestler. And that would have fit perfectly, but I don't know if that was pitched. And someone said, no, or, and the janitor thing, it felt like Hendry didn't wanna say jobber because, and that's again, you're going through inside. - That's super rude. - And it just doesn't fit, like it fits the vernacular, but it doesn't fit the entirety of the promo. It just felt like they were trying to do something and it didn't come together. But it's not complete my mission, so everything's okay. That really low bar, but we figured it out. It was just not great for the insider stuff. The rest of the promo was fine. This new Ryan Nemeth character, he comes out and I'm like, oh, he's so obnoxious, I hate this. And then I'm like, oh, he's so obnoxious, I hate this. In a good way, it's a good character because you're supposed to hate him because now he's being like, big brother, big brother. Come save me. - He had me, he pushed me to dirt, and he called me ugly, and he took my shoe. (laughing) Like we all know people like that. - It's my little brother. (laughing) - It's so funny, and it's so funny. And then they mentioned that Ryan's got a match with Rhino tonight, so they decide that they're the one we just do it right now. And so Rhino comes out. Ryan Nemeth beats Rhino by his qualification because Nemeth is working heel throughout the whole thing. And this is another thing that kind of, this is, okay, so here's the thing about the Nemeth working heel thing that I'm hoping they kind of get to 'cause they sure sure shouldn't do it tonight. No talk of JBL. No talk from any angle, no commentary talk, no Nick Nemeth talk, no Ryan Nemeth. 'Cause Ryan Nemeth got taken out by JBL at Bound for Glory, and Henry was in that match. So there is something bubbling here, something has to happen, but we'll get to that in a second. Rhino uses the chair that Nemeth introduces. Rhino loses the match, and then later backstage, Ryan's like, Nick will be upset. Rhino did this to me, my big brother, my big brother. Basically, why'd he bitch Ryan? That's what we're seeing, and it's fantastic. Rhino comes in, and of course, Santino Morella interjects again, and next week it's gonna be Rhino, and Joe Henry comes in, and he says, I'll be the partner for Rhino, and they're gonna take on the Nemeths. - I gotta tell you, that promo he's lying on the doctor's chair, I was in stitches. He hurts, he hurts, oh no, he hit me. My brother's gonna be like, bro, ah, ah. Ryan Nemeth, this is top tier. I don't care if no one else likes it, I'm a fan. If you ain't got no fans, I'm dead. That was great. It's the right level of, yo, I'm gonna beat your little brother up. I'm gonna beat your little brother up. I get your little brother. And Ryan Nemeths, I mean, Nick Nemeths makes some good points throughout the show, 'cause this does lead up to the, sorry, when we're talking about the doctor's room in particular, he's like, what's happening, brother? And he's like, yeah. And he went from the doctor to her time, where the brother, brother, look, look, look, look. And it's kind of like, I feel like it's giving maybe Ryan Nemeth contracted JBL, and then trying to make it look like it's something else to make his brother be more killer inks things. And Nick Nemeth is gonna go along when it wants to choose roles out, because my brother, man, now you want me to judge my brother. So that's my two cents on it. But yeah, Nick Nemeth, this is 10, I mean, Ryan, I mean, this is 10 out of 10. I like this annoying heel character. Good job. - Yeah. Yeah, there's something that's gonna play in here, and I like it. They're using him well when it started tonight. I was like, this seems real shitty. And then it kept going. And I was like, oh, no, no, no. This might be very fun. So I'm willing to let this one play out. The Rascals are backstage. They talk about their history as tag champions. They put over the hardies as the tag champions, doing all their moves when they were kids. And then that's tag title for Genesis. Jeff Hardy in the middle of it. Well, Matt Hardy is like, well, you gotta beat the goats. And then Jeff Hardy is like, well, no, you gotta beat the Rams, the righteous, angelic, magnificent souls. It'd be pretty cool if he did that. And I'm like, what the fuck happened to Jeff Hardy? - Listen, man, I want to be on whatever journey he's on, because he knows something that we don't so. - The man, I just, he's on another plane. And I'm not talking PL, oh, I guess it is PLA, any. He's not in an aircraft. - He's on a-- - He's on a plane. Someone in the chat, he's vibing. Yeah, he's-- - Exactly. - He's vibing. - Two chains, a whole 'nother domain. That's what he says in a whole 'nother domain. - So Rascals, Rascals and Hardies is gonna happen. And that's fun. I'm looking forward to that match. Check out a text format interview with Trey Miguel Dropped. There's some notes in there over on Puebla Select, a couple articles that have dropped as well. Trey and I had a really good conversation over Slam Aversary Weekend, talking about NXT and talking about all the stuff that happened around Slam Aversary with the tag match that they had with Wesley coming back. So go check that out. A lot of really good comments from Trey. Go, yeah, it's all over there. A sauce and defeats Kushida, Kushida's good night to TNA. - Great match. - This was last match. - That was Kushida's last TNA match for now. - At Verizon, anyone can trade in their old phone for a new one on us with unlimited ultimate, which means everyone in your family could get a new phone and stay on your family plan, keeping you close. - Hey mom, you seen my toothbrush? - Yeah, I'm almost done with that. - Oh, maybe too close. Trade in an additional term supply. See Verizon.com for details. - Joe Montana here, in my football days, I knew the importance of a strong defense. Now I'm sharing how you can help defend your health against pneumococcal pneumonia and invasive pneumococcal disease. Are you 50 or older like me? The CDC now recommends vaccination against pneumococcal disease. Even if you're healthy, your age puts you at increased risk and over six times greater risk of hospitalization with pneumococcal pneumonia than adults under 50. This gives you your appointment today at vaxassist.com. - Sponsored by Pfizer. - I mean, now for nothing, Kushida, you are like our big brother who goes off and does stuff. We'll see you in a couple of months. - He'll be in a Japan. It's fine. Him and Kevin Knight are doing plenty. Kushida, that was his last match with TNA for now. Ace Austin had a fantastic match, those two. Kushida also lost a moose at final resolution. - Sure. - So that's fine. Austin is on the rise in singles competition in TNA. So we'll get back to that in a second 'cause this is a really fun competitive match 'cause Kushida working over Austin's arm. Austin and Ace Austin having to power through the pain. Eventually Ace hits the fold for the win and I'm just like Kushida has left the building. Well, you can talk about the post match. I don't know if you have any notes about the match itself before we move along. - I do. I do appreciate Ace Austin keeping up with Kushida, whether it was stiff speed, whatever. Ace Austin has come into his own, whether he's a singles competitor or a tag competitor. Also, when he did his handstand like to avoid it 'cause he's like, get that shit outta here. It looked like he literally crumpled. I felt so bad for him. It was like, ugh. Also that one arm gut wrench suplex? Where do they do that at? I also too like, tonight he was really quanzilla for real. Like his base was ridiculous. I have to give it up to both of these men. All also to the, whatever that was off the top rope until the arm bar was gnarly. Kushida is a mad man and I would take the pin. I would take the finger-punk of doom, couldn't pay me to wrestle him. And Ace Austin's arm, either he's a good seller or that inside looks like shredded mozzarella, bro. - That Kushida, that Kushida arm bar suplex thing, that's like his special. He does that. It used to be-- - It was clean every time. - Yeah, it used to be that he would do it from the hoverboard lock, you know? It's just like we talked about the moose Kushida arm bar spear hoverboard lock thing. It's similar thing, Kushida will take someone up at the top rope, take them down by the arm and they'll do a flipy-doo into some sort of arm bar submission spot. It was good. Again, those two have a lot of history. They have a little, they work together in various matches. Ace getting the win with the fold was perfect. And post-match, Ace Austin gets the microphone. Thanks fans for supporting Chris Bay 'cause they're chanting Chris's name from the audience. They tell the story, Ace Austin does, about Chris Bay going into surgery and as they're doing that, he tells Ace to go on a crazy singles run for him. And so Ace wants a TNA title he says. He calls out Nick Nemeth, but instead Moose comes out and he tries to get Chris Bay's name out for heat. And they said Ace is like, "Don't you dare, don't you dare." And so instead it's gonna be Moose and Ace of Genesis for the exhibition championship. And again, this is, I pointed it out in the crossover. This is why I cannot stand Santino Morella. He comes out and I'm not gonna put on the voice. He says he's been on a singles tear since Chris Bay's injury. I'm like, "No, he hasn't." He's had a bunch of tag matches and he only recently had a singles match at final resolution. He beat Trent Seven and it was a fine match. And then he beat Kushida tonight. But like, that's two, you don't get a title match because you beat Trent and you beat Kushida. It's not how it works. And Santino trying to put it over as a big deal. It's like, "What are we doing here?" Either way, Ace does deserve this. You and I have talked about this ad nauseous. When it comes to a sauce in Chris Bay, singles are tagged, they deserve more. It sucks that Chris Bay's injury is what is forcing this, but the opportunity is there. And it feels like they're going to go with Ace, at least as a feel good story. What did you think of the promo and the stuff with Moose and Santino and all this stuff? - First of all, Moose, nobody asked you. We did not call your name and we did not want you to show up. Second of all, I wouldn't want to fight you either. If you fight Moose, you have to fight the whole system. Who has time? I said Nick Nemeth for a reason. (laughs) If I have Ace, I'm like, "Yo, don't worry." I don't want to fight you Moose 'cause you're not going to fight me alone 'cause you're going to be Eddie Edwards. You're going to be Jayden. I don't want to do that. Also, also pretending to be upset Moose. You're going to be like, "What's happening here?" What's happening here? So, I do like that Ace Austin was like, "Bro, I'm one of the best X division champions. "It's nothing to me to make it a fourth time. "I just hope, I don't think it'll happen, "but I can hope, this is the year of hoping." Maybe you do put it on Ace Austin. I don't think Moose needs to be X division champion. It would be that feel good story. I don't think anyone would be mad at it. I don't think it takes away from Moose. I think it's a good, hey, it's a good start to something and we all love Chris Bay and by extension and not to say we don't love Ace Austin. We love Ace Austin even more. I don't think anyone loses from it. I do think Moose will beat Ace Austin eventually at Genesis. I just, me. - I would rather they pivot and give the title to Ace. - I will too. - There is a piece of me that thinks they will. I don't want to give into it now because it's getting into tourist boiler territory. I've talked about it over on our Discord because people have asked about stuff that came out of the spoilers and the taping stuff. I'm going to leave it at that. When it's introduced to the TV, I'll talk about it, but at the match for Genesis, I think there's a good chance Ace Austin wins, but we also, we don't know if there's a timeline for Chris Bay and recovery. Everyone's been very, I don't want to say tight lip because it's none of our business. It's a very serious health matter, but we don't know how long Chris is going to be out. And if it feels like it's going to be for a while, Ace is a great former X Division champion that you can start really building seriously into your main event if he has that title. So I could see him winning and just moving on from there with whether the solid title run that pushes him further up the card in 2025 into 26. - No, I totally agree with that. I think that would be fantastic. And it has its own built in feel good story. And it goes back to what I think the plot device of the system is no one feels bad when you lose it, when they pin. Like you guys are jerks, nobody feels bad. So Moose is a good jerk, a good heel. And it's a good way, in my opinion, to keep Ace's name in the conversation, to keep Chris Bay's name eventually in the conversation. So again, I always wish for a speed of recovery, because like I said, it's a very serious health matter. So all we can do is hope that they come back soon and that they get well soon, at least enough to do regular stuff and wrestling hopefully down the line. So, speed of recovery to Chris Bay. - Speaking of the system, you mentioned them earlier, Macklin, Eric, Young, Gresham in the back. It's a really weird segment. It's just like a what's happened, what happens next? That was EY's question to Macklin and Gresham. And all of a sudden the system walk in right in front of the camera, right in front of the shot. And they're just like, "Whoa, we're going to go "to tag tunnels back." Moose has that dex division champion, which is good for Genesis, what are we going to do? And then just because of random fight, because Macklin just decks at where it ever is. And I'm like, all right, sure, here we go. I'm sure that this will be a fine six person tag, six man tag, but like, I do wonder, what are those six guys going to be doing going into the pay-per-view? - Facts, he matches, oh, I'm sorry. - What, something that happened? - I mean, yeah. I did like Jonathan Gresham's sweater in this segment. I had to put that out. The sweater in beanie combo was very nice. - He is a good dresser, he is a fine dresser. - Call him salad, 'cause that boy be dressed, I'm sorry. - Nice, nice. It's like Big E, he's, you ever hear his joke about "Call Me Big Wolf" 'cause I'm a heavy sweater? - No, that was just straight, I love that. - "Call Me Wolf" 'cause I'm a heavy sweater. - Thank you, thank you Joel, thank you Big E. - A couple of super chats from Ricardo. First one was, by the way, "Happy New Year Joel and Kresta." You both roll, you roll too. Thank you, pal, appreciate you. Happy New Year to you and to our chat, of course. And there was one they sent earlier regarding Tessa, which was, you know, she was also forced in with management armors, and that's awful too. And it's true because that came in from Anthem, making the call, it wasn't a, you know, it was a, we're gonna do it and that was it. No one seemed to have any other say in the matter, and that stuff's frustrating. Well, there's also frustrating, just going back to the test, the thing was, you have Tom Hanifen when they're showing Jordan waiting at the garage, we're like, "Well, Tessa, crash in back tonight." And I'm like, "Whoever's doing this quality control "for your production, again, I'm sorry to harp on you, "you've promoted that Tessa Blanchor will appear tonight "all week on your socials. "You can cut out that dialogue from your, "do a reread, do something 'cause don't ask, "well, Tessa, crash tonight because you've been promoting "that she will." That's a little nitpick, but it's like, "You can do this." Anyway. - Not, I don't have anything to add to that, but you right, but also I dropped something about my keyboard, not my keyboard, my, whatever, I'm a jabroni. That's the more local story. - I'm all about it. I feel like we have the same chair. Have we had this conversation before? - Maybe, I got it from Costco. - Mine's at Amazon Basics. I mean, they're probably the same thing, just ones in real life and ones online. - Oh no, you've got the three thing. I've got the one in the back. We're old. - We're old. - Lumbar support, it's all it is. - Yeah. (laughs) - I said scoliosis. - No, no, that's the worst. All right, the last thing we got to talk about, actually, probably one of the last things, this Mike Santana promo, which I personally really enjoyed. It comes out, he's holding Josh Alexander's headgear because Josh basically kept Santana from winning a Genesis at Final Resolution in that four way we talked about. Santana's basically like, I beat life on the streets. I beat being rock bottom and rehab. I beat betting on myself, living comfortably. He was talking about his time in AEW. He's like, I'm going to be the guy. I'm going to be the standard at TNA and then out come the Northern Armory. Josh basically mentions their similarities. Talking about LAX, the North, how the North said LAX packing. And I'm like, oh, I see this coming. And then Josh says, as long as I'm in TNA, you'll never be the guy. And I'm like, oh, you see this coming. Cresta, you and I have talked about this. If they're not giving the title to Santana, then Josh is going to give him the heart and soul on the way out from TNA. And it's absolutely happening. Not before they're going to have Santana beat Northern Armory's ass next week, because they're going to do a gauntlet. Those were his words. He's like, I can kick your ass, I can kick your ass, I can kick your bald ass. - I'm just laughing because Judas Icarus and Travis Williams talk to get beat up again. - Yeah, it's really great. But I do like that they mentioned the similarities between Josh Alexander and Mike Santana's rise in TNA. This is two guys betting on themselves, doing the work and being those dudes. And now Santana has the opportunity to become what Josh was as Josh leaves for free agency, he could come back to TNA. There is a possibility that he decides, you know, maybe free agency is it for him, the deals don't work, TNA matches a deal, whatever it is. If he comes back, there's room. But assuming he doesn't, Santana's the guy. And I know you and I sat here and talked about how it should have been at this pay-per-view, it should have been a genesis, it should have been. Listen, they're going to have UBS for slam-aversary. They're going to be on Long Island. Santana's a New York guy. If they want to do a big, big moment, big homecoming moment, to me, that's it. That's the moment. And if it's going to wait until July, I can wait that long for Santana. And Santana's a good guy to have the heart and soul. Because I think he has something like, when they talked about the similarities that Josh Alexander has as well. When these guys talk and deliver, I guess, I don't know if you call it the rallying cry promos, you really feel it. You can see yourself in Josh Alexander. When he said, "I beat Christian Cage for the TNA title." And I didn't even put it around my waist before I got pinned. That sucked. I remember watching that. However, I understand what he's trying to point out in that moment. Like, listen, bro, I get what you say, but I don't know how he'll wind up complaining. We're both going to zip up and lace up our boots, zip up our pants and come out here and fight and wrestle. We're the same, but you're not me. And to the kernel of truth, as long as Josh Alexander is there, he's right, you'll never be the heart and soul. Because the moment Josh Alexander goes face, these crowds will turn on you. I've seen it. I've seen it. I've seen it. Daniel, Daniel Branson was cooking what he called us fickle, but they will turn on you because, like, that's just real. Josh Alexander, gotta go out as a hero. Because the moment Alexander, oh, sorry. The moment Alexander is like, now I'm gonna be a good guy. I'm like, "Yeah, Max Alexander, we like you, but, uh, suck 'em up." [laughs] And there's nothing wrong with that. I do think that him in a heart and soul, the face of the brand situation, beating up big heels like moose, beating up big heels like, let's say Trent Seven comes back. People are just gonna be nasty. He's the guy. He's the guy. Because with all due respect to Joe Hendry, Joe Hendry's the guy, but kind of like Cody Rose, like, you're such a good, sanitized guy when you get a little bloody. It's like, ugh. Mike Santander is literally an innocent. He may, you know, give you the glock-a-doodle-doo. Yeah, he'll beat you up in the rear. Yeah, you know what I mean? I'm not mad at that. I think he would be fantastic, but in order for that to happen, Josh Alexander is completely right. He's gotta go. And poor Northern Armory. 'Cause Mike Santander's about to beat you guys up for free. [laughs] But I will say, Judas Icarus and Travis Lee's have been nothing but fantastic. I can't even say they've improved. Because since they've been here, they've been fantastic. And I'm very happy for them to be put in such a position. Even if you get in the good hands treatment, you're still getting on the spotlight. So good for you. Again, these are two guys that when Josh leaves, I want them to go and be the tag team. That would, that we know they are. They're young, they're still plenty of time, but I want them to start capitalizing now and not just be Josh's lackeys. 'Cause there was opportunity right away. It feels like they haven't fully realized it yet. But that also might just be because they didn't know what was going to happen with Josh in his contract. Now that he's put it out there, I'm done, you know, February 15th. That's the end of it. It's just it. So I'm still curious where the World Title system goes. Not the system, where the World Title card goes. Because if Joe Henry wins at Genesis, then you go all the way to rebellion. Maybe he's maybe sacrificed. There's a win rebellion. There's a title defense. He wins again. And that's when he gets cashed in on by Frankie Kazarian. Then you go back to. Yeah, then you go back to Kazarian and Santana UBS in July. And that starts the Santana reign. 'Cause I don't think that Santana beating Joe Henry is a good idea. I agree with that 4,000%. I don't think that does. It's going to screw one or the other. And I think it'll be Santana. Unless they do something where. Henry turns heel, but I don't think the fans would necessarily go for it. Yeah. Something really dastardly. So instead I would expect Kazarian to. Yeah. But then they got to do a few that last April through July, they can do something. So that's kind of where I'm at. Joe Henry has a short ish title reign and have Santana win it. By July. I think that would suck about that is because I think we've talked about this before about how TNA, especially in their main event scene is so top heavy. I do think that Joe Henry with all the momentum he had in 2024 deserves a lengthy run here in 2025. That is not to this anything away from Mike Santana who also had a phenomenal year in 2024. With all due respect to Moose, he's had a phenomenal year, whether he took the bad guy route or whatever he was on everything, whether you like him or not, Moose is out of good. And then there's still Frankie Kazarian looming in the background. It's very top heavy. I'm happy for Nick Nemeth. And I'm not saying his title range should end either because what's going on with JBL. That's been dragging on now. And now like for three form, we want to know. So I don't know how they booked themselves here. Not all of those guys are going to get a title. I know that. But like who out of those like Frankie Kazarian is obvious. You say we could screw him, but why would you do that? You go screw Santana, you go screw Joe Henry again. Nick Nemeth got the title right now. Moose is going to cash in on somebody is Moose going to do the same thing he did to Josh Alexander to Mike Santana. You're not even going to put the belt around your back. And he's going to tack cash in his exhibition. I don't know where it goes. I just know that the main event scene is very top heavy for them. And as excited as I am. You guys are kind of booking yourself into a corner here. So what you going to do? This is one thing that I continue to harp on. And that is when I watch these matches. If you got to put Henry and Santana their matches from this past year up against each other. I'm sorry about Santana had better overall matches. It's not a knock on Joe Henry as a performer. I think he's fantastic. But when I watch Santana's matches, man, I'm thrilled. I'm I'm in there. I am watching. There's a good story. There's a good pace. There's something to it. That's why I'm like, he is world champion head of the company guy. Henry, no knocking him like he's really good. There is a place for him in his position. And I'm not saying mid card. I'm not saying he's bad. I'm just saying. I see longevity with Mike Santana more than I do Joe Henry. And that has nothing to do with the idea that Joe Henry might be out the door at the end of his contract to go maybe go to WWE. If he does, great. He has a short world title reign. That's good. It shows that they they reward him for the time that he put in awards him for the work that he does. Rewards him for the fact that he's gotten better over the year and put in the work. That's a reward. But long term again, Santana is that dude. That's where I'm at with that. No, I agree. I think there's a comparison here to be drawn that in this case, Santana is Brett Hart. And Joe Henry is Sean Michaels. They're both phenomenal performers, but for two separate reasons, if that makes sense. So Chad is saying something that I very much disagree with now. Saying Joe Henry puts asses in the seats. I think up until October. Yeah, yeah, he had a hot run. And they kind of they kind of I don't want to say they screwed him, but he's definitely been cooled off significantly where the way it used to be before he was up there with levels of Becky CM punk chance. It was it was ridiculous. The the parties, the hardies are putting asses in seats. Believe me when I say they are going to see the heart. They're not not going to see Henry, but the tie definitely shifted. When I was at the slam aversary, I mentioned this again in Montreal, they were all there for speedball and they were there for PCO PCO for a big deal because of his history in Montreal. But when Joe Henry's music hit, they were all in and they were big fans. Do not get me wrong. Fans were behind Joe Henry. They continue to be, but I don't think that people are buying the tickets or watching the shows specifically for Joe. I think that they're seeing him as a big player in this company, but they're not seeing him as the guy right now. Which is kind of unfortunate because I do think that there was a momentum there. I will say that to agree that he does need to be rewarded. I don't know if that's the right word for it, but I do think that there should be a title run for one, Mr. Joseph Henry. Mainly because I do think that there are people who still tune in for him to that point. And I think it would reward the quote unquote casual viewer because I love TNA. Let me say that again. I said it at the cross. I'll say it. I love TNA and I do see why people will tune in for someone like him. He's fantastic, but the most TNA thing to do is not make him change. They didn't strike while the iron was hot, but maybe they didn't think that the iron was hot enough for him. And I've had this conversation with Jeremy over in the weeds a billion times. And like I get both sides of it. I thought they could have struck while the iron was hot. I think the worst thing that they did was with slam aversary having a six man elimination match, which at the time I was like, oh, it's good. It busts up the main event scene because there were so many dudes at the top. It busted up the scene. Yes, but they also took a guy who held the title, the world title for almost two years and they eliminated him from the match and did the whole, you know, now we're definitely going to have a new champion. There was no importance behind who wins the title at that point. Like it wasn't a big moment that Moose finally lost. They just turned it into Joe Henry beat Moose. Let's move on. Yeah, it was they didn't make it a big moment, which I would have liked. So again, just talking about striking with the iron is hot and someone in the chat mentioning, you know, he's comparable Joe Henry is comparable to LA night. You want to cheer for him, but the world title might not be in the cards. And I think that's a really apt. Like I could say that. But I do think I think he's going to win it at Genesis because you cannot honey dick the fans for a third time. You cannot. People were already upset about for glory, you cannot do it again for a third time. I want to believe that you cannot do it again. And I again, as a TNA loyal TNA faithful. Yes, you absolutely can. Yikes. Yikes. I hate to say it like that. But I will say that in this case, part of the issue is TNA is very top heavy. And that's that is not a bad problem to have. You've got a lot of people at the top of the card, because whether it's Nick Neman, or Moose, or Joe Henry, or Kazarian, or Mike Santana. There's a argument there for all of those guys. There's even an argument there for people we're not even thinking about. Ace Austin, there's an argument for that. There's an argument for the system to implode and a JDC or an Eddie Edwards. They are so top heavy, so top heavy, that unfortunately for Joe Henry, when he got his meteoric rise, I think they should have did it right then and there. And we could have do what we're doing now. And it had been fine. But if you don't strike at some point, like Joel said, you can't honey dig the fans again, but I'm also like, Bro, this is TNA. They're absolutely all going to honey dig us again. But if you don't do it now, then I don't think it's ever going to happen, unfortunately. If I'm TNA, put the title on Henry. You go to the live impact and you make a big deal out of it. Joe Henry has an announcement. I'm going to be part of the Royal Rumble, the first TNA World Champion in history. The first current TNA World Champion in history to be in the Royal Rumble. And that make that a big moment on live TNA television played on socials, blah, blah, blah. And then Henry goes into the Rumble in a couple of weeks afterwards with the title, and that's easy as that. I would love to see that. Make that a big moment for TNA. I don't know if they'll do it, but he's teased it certainly enough that he would do it. Or that at least he'd be a part of the Rumble, which I could see. Have a moment with that world title. Mickey James did it. That was a total. I was just thinking the same thing. Like didn't Mickey James do that too, but that would be such a nice first. With Mickey, it was completely different too, because Mickey was still a free agent. She was working impact at the time with that title around her waist, but she was never signed to a deal. She was per appearance, and she had the title, and she wanted to wear it out there. And it took a lot of finessing and finagling to make that happen, and then it did, which was great. But this time it would be TNA contracted star with their World Championship coming to the ring for the Rumble. Doesn't have to be long. Just long enough that you get to put it over. Wanted a Genesis going into the Rumble. What if he wins? Then he becomes a double champion at WrestleMania. Give him a little something. Yeah. That's cute. If he made it with that title, I agree with that. If you put the title on him, and that's how he makes it to the top five in Royal Rumble. That'd be so cute that put a lot of eyes on the product once again. And that'd be something I just don't know how you pull that trigger. And in the world, if you and I are thinking on the same page, you have Henry do that. Henry comes back to TNA. Does maybe one more title defense get screwed over by Frankie Kazarian who then gets screwed over by somebody else. You know what I mean? It could work. It like mooses. Let's say it is Ace Austin versus Moose. Moose squashes Ace Austin or whatever. And Ace Austin becomes obsessed with him. Like I'm going to beat you and be like, he's crazy. I'm not fighting him again. You know what I mean? Something like that. I know I can beat up Kazarian. I'll do it. I'll option see it and get this crazy. You go fight the mother at the vision. I got better things to do. What does he, Henry, go into the Royal Rumble? Frankie Kazarian calls a shot during the Rumble wins the TNA world title. JBL on commentary. He's not supposed to be here, Michael, but I am JBL. Why are you here? Not to make it as comes out of nowhere. What is happening? Perfect. But I see, I see if you want to make a big deal on your first live impact in years. The crowning of Joe Henry is the world title. The world champion had happened. Now he's making this major announcement. I'm declaring for the Royal Rumble the first TNA active world champion. That's a moment. That's something the TNA can rest their hat on and make it a big thing to start the year. But for now, the world champion is still Nick Nemeth and we didn't talk about him coming out saying I'm going to steal the show, I'm going to win a Genesis, retain my title. Nick Ryan Nemeth comes out and he's like big brother, big brother, big brother. And he heals it up annoyingly. And Nick basically walks off saying Ryan got them into this mess and now they're going to have to TCB take care of business because it's the 80s again across all wrestling shows. He gets Saturday Night's main event. They're using 80s themes. The TNA is using every 80s reference possible in one night. The TNA is just like, sorry, A.W. is using every reference possible to the 80s. And now you got TCB because Nick Nemeth is a product of the 80s. Still no JBL reference, but that's the show. Anything to add about the Nick Nemeth promo at the end of the night that we completely skimped over till now? He's Nick Nemeth's brother, B.N. Basically a good rap on January 2nd, 2025. TNA Impact will be back next week, won't we? Yes, we will, ladies and gentlemen. I can't wait. Can't wait. You can plug your stuff and all that stuff. Oh, yeah. I have stuff to plug. Hi, my name is Krista Starr. Hopefully I'm here every Thursday with you. With you talking about TNA Impact Wrestling. You can find me here Thursdays and Saturdays where I go over collision with Meridian, Rick, or some cast of Fightful members. You can also catch me every Wednesday, mostly. Yeah, because I'm a jabroni on twitch.tv/crestastar or tick-tock.com/crestastar before it gets banned here in the United States. You guys are fantastic. You can find me on blue. Blue Scott said Blue Moon. That's a beer. You can find me on Blue Sky. Crestastar. My link tree is in the bio. And I can't wait to be friends with you. Joe Pearl, where can they find you? For now, we're still on Thursdays doing the TNA post show. We'll be back next week. We are going to do a TNA Genesis review. Steven Jensen sitting around just being like, I don't know if they want me to cover the GCW show at Hammerstein or if they want me to just. Motherfucker, you're doing our show. You are doing the Genesis post show, Steven Jensen. Okay. I'm telling you now. So the three of us will be here after Genesis to cover that show. But we also Cresta and I do every week Thursdays with the Ring of Honor crew after. There you go. Before we go after. Anyway, that's that. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Jeremy Lambert and I go in the weeds. We do that 10 a.m. Eastern over on our sister channel, Fightful Over Books. We'll be live tomorrow. If you're listening to me on Thursday, it's Friday. You should probably go tune into the show now. But until then, that's all I got. 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