TNA Thursday Night iMPACT Results 4/16 - Eric Young Faces EC3, We Hear From Mike Santana & More

Welcome to Wrestling Inc.'s results for "TNA Thursday Night iMPACT" on April 16, 2026, coming to you from the Upstate Medical University Arena at the Oncenter War Memorial in Syracuse, New York!

After making his return at TNA Rebellion this past Saturday, EC3 will be in action tonight as he goes one-on-one with Eric Young. With Young having confronted new TNA signee Ricky Sosa backstage shortly after he put pen-to-paper on the contract at TNA Sacrifice on March 27, EC3 hasn't competed in a TNA ring since coming up short to Moose at TNA Bound for Glory on October 24, 2020.

Speaking of returns, KC Navarro will be making his own tonight as he goes head-to-head with his former First Class tag team partner AJ Francis. This will mark Navarro's first match in TNA since taking part in a TNA World Tag Team Championship Four-Way Ladder Match at TNA Slammiversary on July 20, 2025 with Francis, while Francis scored a win against The Home Town Man on last Thursday's episode of "Thursday Night iMPACT" and came up short to Nic Nemeth at Rebellion thanks to Navarro becoming involved.

Jada Stone and Order 4's Tasha Steelz have crossed paths with one another a number of times over the last several weeks, including the February 5 episode of "Thursday Night iMPACT" when Steelz and her stablemate Mustafa Ali scored a win against Stone and Elijah, the February 26 edition of "Thursday Night iMPACT" when Stone emerged victorious against Steelz, and Sacrifice when Ali and Steelz scored a win against Stone and former TNA International Champion Trey Miguel. The two women will be meeting in the ring once again tonight when they collide in the ring once again.

Additionally, TNA World Champion Mike Santana will be making an appearance on tonight's show with something on his mind to share coming off his successful defense against The System's Eddie Edwards at Rebellion.

We are live! The show kicks off with a video recapping the events of Rebellion.

Tom Hannifan and Matthew Rehwoldt then greet audiences at home as Nic Nemeth joins the announce desk with his Call Your Shot Gauntlet trophy in hand. AJ Francis then makes his way out, and KC Navarro follows.

The two men stare one another down as the bell rings and the two lock up. Francis sends Navarro crashing into the ring post face first on the outside, then whips him into the corner spine first back inside the ring and charges at him.

Navarro catches Francis with a boot and looks to fly off the middle rope, but Francis catches him and sends him crashing into the mat. He mocks Navarro by pretending like he's about to tag in, then gets him up on one shoulder. Navarro counters into a Tornado DDT on Francis and connects with a pair of shotgun dropkicks on him, then lands another shotgun dropkicks on Francis' spine and sits him on the top rope.

Navarro ascends to the top rope, then looks to fly. Francis sees Navarro coming and sends him crashing into the mat, but Nic distracts Francis. This opens the door for Navarro to roll up Francis for the win.

Winner: KC Navarro

Back from the break, we head backstage to EC3. EC3 explains that comebacks require purpose and confirms that he's back in TNA Wrestling.

Back at ringside, The System makes their way to the ring.

Brian Myers says himself and Bear Bronson are the new TNA World Tag Team Champions after Rebellion and hands the microphone to Eddie Edwards. Eddie says he should be the TNA World Champion, but she didn't lose his TNA World Championship match at Rebellion to Moose. He says it's because of Moose, then says Alisha Edwards is his ride or die.

Alisha asks the fans if they want to know something, then says she's glad that hanging out with her made Moose a little smarter. She says Moose likes stooging, then says it does't change the fact that herself and The System played Moose like the fool that he is. Cedric Alexander takes the microphone and says The System were supposed to dominate at Rebellion, but they're still dealing with a Moose problem instead. He calls Leon Slater a "lying, conniving, piece of garbage" for using his X-Division Championship belt to beat him at Rebellion and says he's owed another shot at the X-Division Championship.

Slater's music hits and he makes his way out. He asks Alexander when he'll be quiet and says Alexander better take his name out of his mouth before he attacks him, then tells Alexander to face the fact that he beat him and says Alexander always has boo boo face he's on the verge of becoming the longest reigning X-Division Championship of all time.

Eddie says that Slater just gets lucky, but can't do what it takes to get the job done. Moose's music hits and he makes his way out. He says all of professional wrestling knows that Myers is Edge's b**** from his days as an Edgehead in WWE, then says he has numerous Knockouts in the back who will back him in saying that Alisha isn't a nice person. Alisha tells Moose that he's nothing compared to her husband Eddie, but Slater cuts her off and says that himself, Moose, and all of The System are in wrestling attire. He challenges The System to a match, but Daria Rae's music hits and she makes her way out. She says a match won't be happening tonight, but Slater pushes back. Rae then opts to make a 4-On-2 Handicap Match pitting Moose and Slater against The System.

Back from the break, Elijah approaches Daria Rae backstage looking to face Frankie Kazarian in the ring. Rae calls Kazarian, but Kazarian says no to a rematch.

Back at ringside, Order 4 makes their way out. Mustafa Ali says he's happy after dethroning Trey Miguel as TNA International Champion at Rebellion, then says the fans should be happy too because they finally have a champion who doesn't need a second chance like Mike Santana, Miguel, and The Hardys. He says he's the guy who gives second chances and issues an Open Challenge for his TNA International Champion to anyone on the TNA roster or wrestling across the world on the independent scene. He says once Tasha Steelz defeats Jada Stone, Stone will realize that in Ali, we trust.

Stone then makes her way to the ring.

The bell rings and Stone fires off right hands on Steelz. Stone fires off an uppercut on Steelz in the corner and delivers a dropkick to her under the bottom rope, then rocks Steelz with a kick to her head. Steelz sends Stone crashing into the ring post face first, then fires off a stomp on Stone's head and levels her with a clothesline.

Back from the break, Steelz fires off stomps on Stone in the corner and sends her crashing into the bottom rope face first. She jams her boot into the back of Stone's neck, but Stone rolls up Steelz. Steelz kicks out and rocks Stone with a kick to her head, then jams her boot in Stone's face.

Stone fires off forearms on Steelz, then levels her with a clothesline and follows it up with a Sling Blade. She lands a meteora on Steelz off the middle rope and follows it up with a split legged moonsault off the top rope, then goes for a pin but Steelz kicks out.

Steelz connects with Hail Mary on Stone and pins her, but Stone kicks out and Steelz dumps her out of the ring. Order 4 stands over Stone as they potentially look to attack her, but the referee ejects them from ringside.

Stone rolls up the distracted Steelz in the ring, but Steelz kicks out. Stone then lands the Spark Stunner on Steelz for the win.

Winner: Jada Stone

We then head over to a video of Rosemary in the Undead Realm. She comes across Joseph Park and has a conversation with him before we head over to Tessa Blanchard still wandering around the Undead Realm. She attacks two people she comes across sitting in a row of pews with The Bunny, but fights them off and quickly leaves.

Back from the break, Mike Santana makes his way out.

Santana says Rebellion how he knew it would and says Eddie Edwards threw everything that he had at him. He says he cracked the foundation that Eddie talked about in half to still stand in the ring as TNA World Champion, then says he's put down everyone thrown at him and says he wants to hand out some opportunities of his own. He says there's someone in the back who changed his life for the better like he did and got in the best shape of his life: Rich Swann.

Swann's music hits and he makes his way out. He says it's not everyday that a wrestler gets a TNA World Championship match, then voices the respect that he has for Santana as he battled his demons to pull himself back together and get back on top of the professional wrestling business. He asks Santana if he's sure that he wants to give him a TNA World Championship match, then says Santana is looking at aggressiveness and charisma. He says he knows that people would talk about the TNA World Championship between himself and Santana, then promises to give Santana every ounce of fire he has. He says he'll fight Santana all night long.

Santana calls Daria Rae to the ring to make a TNA World Championship between himself and Swann official next week.

We then head over to the Injury Report, where the suspended Indi Hartwell and EC3 have been cleared while Trey Miguel and The Hardys have not been cleared.

Back from the break, we head over to a video from Léi Yǐng Lee who questions why Xia Brookside betrayed her during her TNA Knockouts World Championship against Arianna Grace at Rebellion. When Gia Miller asks Brookside why, she refuses to answer and walks away.

Back at ringside, EC3 makes his way out.

Young attacks EC3 on the entrance ramp and dumps him in the ring. The bell sounds and Young wears down EC3 with a submission hold. EC3 clotheslines Young and the referee out of the ring by mistake, with other officials calling off the match to check on the injured referee.

Winner: N/A

After the match, Young sends EC3's hand bouncing off the ring post. Young places a chair on EC3's head, but security holds EC3 back. EC3 breaks free, but Young sends him crashing into the ring steps neck first.

Back from the break, we head over and see Rosemary continuing to wander the Undead Realm. She comes across a friend wearing a mask resembling a scarecrow and holding an axe. We head over to Allie and Mara Sadé wandering on their own, and they come across a tall woman decked out in gold and wearing horns before finding Victoria Crawford who bumps into the apparition. Tessa Blanchard finds Rosemary and demands that she tell her how to leave, but Rosemary refuses to do so and the two women brawl with one another. Father James Mitchell helps Blanchard, Crawford, and Mila Moore (who they had found) to leave by directing them towards a door.

In the ringside area, Blanchard, Crawford, and Moore crawl out from the Undead Realm and emerge from under the ring. Rosemary and Sadé attack The Diamond Collective, but The Diamond Collective gain the upperhand. The lights go out, and when they come back on, Allie makes her way out and gets in the ring. She levels Crawford, Moore, and Blanchard with superkicks and stands tall with both Rosemary and Sadé in the ring.

Back from another break, Matt Hardy sends a message to The Righteous via video as Jeff paces in the background.

Back at ringside, The System makes their way out. Leon Slater and Moose follow.

Slater and Alexander begin the action. The bell rings and Alexander clocks Slater from behind. He connects with a pair of mat returns on Slater, but Slater rocks Alexander with an enzuigiri.

Moose tags in and lands an uppercut on Alexander in the corner. He follows it up with a uranage and kips up, but Bear Bronson attack Moose from behind and fires off right hands on him. Moose flies over the top rope to level Bronson, but Brian Myers looks to spear Moose. Myers accidentally hits Bronson when Moose moves out of the way, and Moose powerbombs Alexander on top of Myers and Bronson. Eddie Edwards attacks Moose from behind, but Slater flies over the top rope and ringpost to level The System on the outside.

Moose spears Alexander and pins him, but Myers breaks the fall. Eddie takes advantage and lands a Boston Knee Party on Moose, but Bronson tags in and rains down elbows on Moose. Moose fires off chops on Bronson, but Bronson delivers a sit-out senton to Moose and pins him. Moose kicks out.

Eddie tags in, but Moose fires off chops on Edwards in the corner and tags out to Myers. Myers and Alexander whip Bronson (who has tagged in) into Moose, but Moose takes out Bronson.

Slater and Eddie tag in, and Slater levels an interfering Myers with an enzuigiri. He delivers a leg lariat to Eddie before ascending to the top rope and delivering a crossbody to him. Eddie kicks out, but Alexander tags back in and sets up for Lumbar Check. Slater rolls up Alexander, but Alexander kicks out and delivers Lumbar Check to Slater for the win.

Winners: The System