Tonight on Impact: Josh Alexander relinquishes the X Division Title in preparation for Bound For Glory; Bullet Club’s Hikuleo tries to murder David Finlay IV; Intergender action sees Rohit Raju face Chelsea Green; we find out why Mickie James is in the Impact Zone; and in the pre-show, it’s the rubber match between John Skyler and Laredo Kid!
Meanwhile in football, your NFL Game of the Week of the Day is Texans/Panthers, and ESPN is showing Marshall facing Appalachian State.
After the break, your roundup of the best in independent wrestling for the weekend!
Hoo daddy we got a lot of stuff going on!
- LAKEWOOD, OH — Let’s kick things off right tonight as Absolute Intense Wrestling gives us Ace Degenerates (Tonight, 7:30PMET, IWTV)! The card is definitely more a lower-deck episode, although you still get some fun matchups with The Production facing Members Only, Isaiah Broner against Twan Tucker, and up top, the Rip City Shooters issue an open challenge!
- NEW YORK CITY — GCW continues their national tour with Getlostalot (Friday, 8PMET, FITE)! Nick Gage and Grim Reefer go weapon-for-weapon! Tony Deppen battles Japanese star Taiji Ishimori! And a main event dream match sees Minoru Suzuki battle Homicide!
- WILLIAMSTOWN, NJ — Hardcore Hustle gives you their signature event, HustleMania 4 (Saturday, 8PMET, IWTV)! Greg Iron defends the Hybrid title against Kennedi Copeland! 44OH put the tag gold on the line against Bruce Grey and Tyler Voxx! Atticus Cogar and Dek Grant face off for the Danny Havoc Memorial Hardcore Title in a ladder match! And it’s a barbed wire cage in the main event as Rickey Shane Page defends the big gold against Chuck Payne, Devon Moore, and Ron Mathis in a four-way!
- STILL IN WILLIAMSTOWN — The next afternoon, Sean Henderson gives us a palette cleanser with A New Beginning (Sunday, 3PMET, IWTV)! Boomer Hatfield against Matt Makowski! Alex Colon and Colby Corino use whatever barbed wire the main event left behind! Ava Everett, Becca, and Davienne in a women’s triple threat match! And how about this for awesome — Anthony Greene, fresh off his performance on AEW Dark, takes on the one and only 2 Cold Scorpio!
- RESEDA, CA — Pro Wrestling Guerrilla is back with Threemendous VI (Sunday, 6PMPT, taped for DVD)! Bandido defends the big gold against Davey Richards! AEW and Ring of Honor collide when Evil Uno faces Tony Deppen! Alex Shelley and Jonathan Gresham redefine technique! And in the signature three-way, it’s AJ Gray, JD Drake, and Lee Moriarty!
Your independent Match Of The Week is from Beyond, and it features two people I consider my friends in the business — Lady Frost and Victor Benjamin, the married duo of Pretty Proper! They take on one of the top tag teams in the East, the Sea Stars, in this battle!
Bring the insanity!