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Impact vs Lucha Underground Recap by Arya Witner


Date: 04/07 3:00 PM
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Written by Arya Witner

My 7th show of the weekend had Josh Mathews and Matt Striker called the action. The crowd booed the mention of Impact. Striker had no idea who Mackenzie Mitchell was and Melissa Santos said they weren't going to start until people got "f---ing excited".

1.) Matanza Cueto won the 6-way match over Chavo Guerrero, Jack Evans, Caleb Konley, Moose and Impact X-Division Champion Matt Sydal

Matanza was exposed as not being a giant when Moose walked up and towered over him. Heck Matanza is barely taller than the referee. In a match full of cool moves Evans and Sydal seemed to have a contest over who could do the coolest moves and honestly Evans won that one. Matanza pinned Caleb with a spinning powerslam.

-Time stood still as Chavo asked for a microphone to cut a promo and there wasn't one anywhere nearby. Chavo said Season 4 of Lucha Underground starts June 13 and this season will hopefully be even greater than the last one.

2.) Impact Knockouts Champion Allie defeated Taya Valkyrie

Hey, we got a chop battle! This match built well with Allie having to overcome her larger opponent. Taya went for the Road to Valhalla but the adorable Allie got out of it and picked up the win with a Back Stabber and a Codebreaker.

3.) Scott Steiner & Teddy Hart defeated OVE

I haven't watched a Teddy Hart match in a decade and now I've watched two today. Steiner came out in an NWO Wolfpac t-shirt. Teddy used a Springboard Moonsault to the floor before the match even began and then a Power Bomb into a backbreaker as the first official move of the match. Teddy threw Jake Crist into the air and Jake landed on Teddy's head.

Striker insinuated that Dave and Teddy were shooting on each other during one awkward spot. Steiner, the smartest man in the match, stayed on the apron until the hot tag, which caused the fans to explode. Scott flipped off Jake before tossing him across the ring with a suplex and then submitted Dave with a Steiner Recliner.

4.) King Cuerno, Drago & Aerostar beat Dezmond Xavier, Andrew Everett & DJZ

A great 6-man tag, easily the best match of the show so far and one of the best 5 matches I've seen in the last two days. HOWEVER if I never hear DJZ's horn ever again it will be too soon. Cuerno actually got busted open on his chest, probably from a chop and put a shirt on to end the match. Everett got the biggest heat of the match when, during the dive sequence, he stopped Cuerno from diving. They forgave him a second later when he used a Springboard Corkscrew Splash. A series of springboard dives on Drago led to a near fall that was broken up by a springboard dive by Aerostar. After all that Cuerno submitted Everett with a beautiful Rolling Indian Death Lock.

5.) Trevor Lee (w/Caleb Konley) vs Famous B

Famous B cut a promo before the match and introduced his backup and would actually wrestle instead of him in this match: Marty The Moth.

Real Match 5.) Trevor Lee (w/Caleb Konley) pinned Marty The Moth (w/Famous B)

Caleb Konley tried to interfere, but Famous B superkicked him. One problem with this match is these two look remarkably similar. Lee smashed Moth's head into the turnbuckle, but Marty was mad that Trevor was doing it wrong, so Marty smashed his own head into the turnbuckle properly. The finish saw Lee pin Marty with a small package and a handful of tights after Caleb distracted The Moth.

6.) Impact Tag Team Champions LAX defeated Killshot & The Mack

Another really good match here. The Mack is surprisingly athletic for a man with that body type and won over the crowd by doing a headstand in the corner and doing a little bit of a dance. The other three looked good, but Mack was the star. The highlight of the match was Killshot throwing Ortiz off his shoulders and right into a Pounce by Mack. The roughest spot was Ortiz not catching Killshot on a double team and LAX seemed lost for a few seconds. Santana then pinned Killshot after a double team Power Bomb/Blockbuster.

7.) Brian Cage pinned Eli Drake

Drake cut a promo on Lucha Underground, saying he's on Impact every single week, while LU does one season a year and is on a 2 year taping break. Brian Cage is representing LU, even though he is undefeated in Impact currently. Drake didn't want to wrestle and instead offered to go out drinking with Cage instead. Shockingly Drake didn't really mean it and tried to attack at the bell, but that backfired.

Both guys looked good and Eli Drake is honestly one of the most underrated guys out there. Cage laid out Drake with an uppercut for the win over another former World Champion.

8.) Jeremiah Crane defeated Eddie Edwards in an I Quit Match

A match that has legitimate buzz, but it leads to the weirdness that Edwards is feuding with Sami Callihan, while instead he's wrestling Jeremiah Crane. This was a wild brawl from the start. They brawled backstage and suddenly Crane came stumbling back followed by a chair flying at his head. Crane took a Fisherman Buster on the ring apron, which is the hardest part of the ring.

After 10 minutes they finally got in the ring, which is a novel concept. Eddie threw chair after chair at the head of Crane to no avail. Eddie took a Death Valley Driver onto a chair and was choked with a chair. Eddie pissed off Crane by calling him Solomon Crowe (his NXT name). Crane brought part of the guardrail into the ring, but karma bit him in the ass as Eddie power bombed him onto the guardrail.

The finish saw Eddie set up Crane with a chair over his face, but before he could do anything OVE ran out for a distraction. Crane took Eddie's head off with a chair shot and pulled out a baseball bat. The referee tried to stop Crane, so Jeremiah leveled him with it. Don Callis ran down, yelling at Crane and threw in the towel, ending the match. Crane was about to do it anyway, but Moose ran down for the save and Crane ran away.

-On Redemption on April 22 they will have Pentagon Jr vs Fenix.

9.) Pentagon Jr defeated Impact World Champion & Impact Grand Champion Austin Aries and Fenix in a non-title triple threat match.

This was supposed to be a Tag Team Match with Alberto El Patron, but for Reasons, AEP isn't here and we got a 3-way instead. Josh mentioned having no idea why the match got changed, they were told about it during the show. According to social media, he simply no showed the event.

I don't know how much notice these three had before finding out that this would be a 3-way, but they did a pretty good job nonetheless. Aries used a 450 on Pentagon and a Last Chancery on both men, but none of them worked. Finally Pentagon and Fenix laid out Aries with double superkicks and Pentagon pinned Fenix with a release sit-out power bomb.



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