TNA Slammiversary 2026 Results - Santana Vs. Nemeth, Six Titles On The Line

Welcome to Wrestling Inc.'s live coverage of TNA Slammiversary, emanating from Agganis Arena in Boston, Massachusetts. 

Nic Nemeth will be challenging Mike Santana for the TNA World Championship, having cashed in the Call Your Shot Gauntlet trophy eight months on from winning it. Nemeth is looking to start his second reign with the title by ending Santana's own second run since January.

Mustafa Ali will be defending his TNA International Championship in an open challenge, continuing his promise to invite talent from around the world to prove their mettle against him. 

Cedric Alexander's X-Division Championship will be on the line against six others in the return of Ultimate X. Former champion Leon Slater will be challenging alongside Frankie Kazarian, Mr. Elegance, KC Navarro, Fabian Aichner, and Amazing Red is wrestling in TNA for the first time since 2011. 

Lei Ying Lee will be defending the TNA Knockouts World Championship against her former partner in Xia Brookside. Brookside turned on Lee at Rebellion to cost her the title at Rebellion, only for Lee to later win the title, and then get pinned by Brookside in a Champions' Challenge. Thus entitling Brookside to her title challenge against Lee. 

The Elegance Brand's Heather and M By Elegance will be defending their TNA Knockouts World Tag Team Championship against Rosemary and Allie. And the TNA World Tag Team Championship will be on the line as the System's Brian Myers and Bear Bronson face the Hardys, the Righteous, and the Great Hands in a four-way ladder match. 

Elsewhere on the card with no titles on the line, AJ Francis and Elijah look to settle their differences in a singles match, and Eddie Edwards will face Moose in a No Surrender match. 

TNA Slammiversary is scheduled to begin at 4 PM ET and will be available to watch via TNA+ streaming or PPV through the likes of Triller TV. There will be two matches on the Countdown pre-show starting at 3 PM ET, with Elayna Black facing Indi Hartwell and Mara Sade in a three-way, and Eric Young taking on Ricky Sosa in singles action. 

Mara Sade and Indi Hartwell strike up a temporary partnership to deal with Elayna Black, thrusting her from the ring before getting into their own fight. Black returns to the ring and takes control of the match, picking the bones of their battle. 

Now it's Sade's turn to be thrown from the ring, allowing Hartwell and Black to get stuck into it. Sade returns to the ring and has the match won with a sit-out powerbomb on Black, but Hartwell breaks up the fall. 

Sade connects with a moonsault to Hartwell, Black sneaks in and hits Blackout to make the winning pinfall. 

Elayna Black def. Mara Sade and Indi Hartwell via Pinfall

After the match, Hall of Famer Traci Brooks makes her entrance and says Sade and Hartwell will want to hear what she has to say. She announces that starting Thursday, there will be a 16-woman tournament to crown the first-ever TNA Knockouts Television Champion. 

A referee comes out to present the new title belt, which will be defended exclusively on "TNA Impact."

"Ladies, let's make history," she concludes.

Introducing the brand new Knockouts Television Championship. #TNASlammiversary https://t.co/DHI5opWQAI pic.twitter.com/ORpU1rSrGc

— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) June 28, 2026

Mustafa Ali makes an appearance with the panel of Daria Rae, Tom Hannifan, and Matt Rehwoldt to ask Daria who his opponent later on stands to be. She says that she has an opponent lined up but before she can say anything further, Santino Marella appears on the ramp to announce that he too has an opponent lined up. 

Daria takes issue with Marella undermining her but before she can continue, he interrupts again to say that they have a unique opportunity to make a three-way open challenge for Ali's International Championship. 

The bell rings and Eric Young and Ricky Sosa tie up, Young pushing Sosa into the corner before tossing him back into the middle and slapping the back of his neck.

Sosa bounces back up and begins his own rally, laying a kick in to drive Young into the corner. He chops him in the adjacent corner and follows up with a dropkick to send Young from the ring. 

Sosa flies with a senton over the top rope to take out Young on the outside. Back in the ring and he makes his first cover of the match, getting a two-count. He takes Young to the corner, softening him up with a step-up enzuigiri but being maneuvered into the Death Valley Driver from the top rope for Young to get his first near-fall. 

Young threatens the referee for stopping the count before turning back to Sosa. He casts him into a corner and looks to whip onto the opposite side, but it is reversed by Sosa. Sosa follows up with a hurricanrana from the top rope back into the ring, dumping Young face-first into the top turnbuckle before running back into him with a flying uppercut. 

Sosa delivers a moonsault from the top rope and goes for the cover, again for a two-count. Sosa looks for Blue Thunderbang, but Young rakes his eyes to get out of it. Young goes to the top and delivers an elbow drop, goes for the cover, but Sosa kicks out at two. 

Young folds Sosa with a right hand, going back to the top rope again. He goes for a moonsault, Sosa rolls out of the way. Sosa connects with a sit-out Michinoku Driver and goes for the cover for two. 

Young goes for the piledriver, slipped by Sosa. Young rebounds from the rope but gets caught in Blue Thunderbang, Sosa making the cover for the winning pinfall. 

Ricky Sosa def. Eric Young via Pinfall

Before the main show gets started, Cody Deaner stands on the stage backed by the TNA locker room, including President Carlos Silva, for a ten-bell salute and tribute to Joe Doering.

We begin #TNASlammiversary with a tribute to Joe Doering. Tonight's event is dedicated to Joe. @CodyDeaner pic.twitter.com/9ovYqWw0VA

— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) June 28, 2026

The bell rings and all competitors rush one another, Leon Slater taking Cedric Alexander on the outside. KC Navarro flies looking to take out Slater and Alexander, they catch him, but Fabian Aichner flies from the top rope to take them all down. 

Frankie Kazarian rushes across the X-rope to grab the title but Amazing Red catches him before taking everyone out on the outside. Alexander and Red continue in the ring, Alexander hitting a Michinoku Driver before making for the title. Navarro pulls him down and Slater kicks him out of the ring before Slater and Navarro themselves get into it. 

Navarro hangs Slater on the middle rope and delivers the 305. Now Navarro is heading up top to claim the title. Slater grabs his ankles and catches him into a powerslam position. Navarro tries for a DDT reversal, Slater catches that too. Navarro hangs Slater on the middle rope and goes for a 305, Slater catches him this time. 

Aichner gets involved and tries to rip Slater from the apron, but Slater is eventually taken out by Mr. Elegance, ramming him into the ringpost. 

Red, Kazarian, Aichner, and Alexander all climb to the X-rope and look to claim the title. Alexander falls first. He pulls Aichner down. Kazarian and Red fall down and begin to battle one another. When they are both fallen Mr. Elegance enters the ring again and makes himself for the title. He has the title in his grips but stops to pose, allowing Navarro to grab him down. 

Red re-enters the ring and faces off with Navarro. Navarro attempts a Code Red but Red counters it to land a tornado DDT, following up with a Code Red of his own. He lands another Code Red to Kazarian and heads to the rope, but Slater cuts him off. Red delivers Code Red from the top rope to Slater. 

Alexander pulls Red from the ring and enters to meet Kazarian. Kazarian gets the better of him and heads back up to the rope, but Aichner takes him down with a springboard crossbody. 

Slater, Red, Navarro, and Aichner gather at the far right corner of the ring, looking to climb up. Mr. Elegance and Kazarian get Navarro and Red up in electric chair positions, Slater climbs up to the rope and chooses to take them all out with a double blockbuster. 

Slater and Red stare at one another from opposite corners of the ring before climbing the rope and dueling for the title. They have it unhooked and are tussling for it up top. Slater gets the better of the tussle and has the title in his hand. 

Alexander emerges in the ring beneath them and snatches the title, technically touching the ring first with the title and retaining it. 

Cedric Alexander def. Leon Slater, Amazing Red, Frankie Kazarian, Fabian Aichner, Mr. Elegance, and KC Navarro in Ultimate X to retain the TNA X-Division Championship

After the match, Slater and Red bump fists out of respect. Kazarian takes a microphone and praises Red for stepping back into a TNA ring for Ultimate X. He says that TNA OG to TNA OG, he has his respect forever. 

He tells him to look at the screen, where a video package of Red and his TNA exploits is played; Amazing Red is inducted into the TNA Hall of Fame to a standing ovation from the crowd.

X-Division icon @AmazingRed_iOD will be inducted into the TNA Hall of Fame at #TNABoundForGlory this October. #TNASlammiversary @FrankieKazarian pic.twitter.com/myKk66OyiU

— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) June 28, 2026

AJ Francis makes his entrance with Expressions serving as his hype-man, Elijah plays Seven Nation Army as he makes his entrance. Expression claims that is Francis' intellectual property and says he cannot play it.

The match starts and Elijah gets the better of Francis, battering his head against the apron before landing a drive-by kneestrike. Expressions distracts Elijah for Francis to take advantage. Francis teases a dive to the outside but its a ruse for the crowd. Elijah rushes Francis back in the ring, again Expressions distracts him. 

Francis continues to wear down Elijah against the ropes, the referee breaks them up and Expressions uses the distraction to garrote Elijah with the bottom rope. 

Francis looks for a powerbomb, but Elijah maneuvers him up for an Alabama Slam. Elijah follows up with strikes in the corner. He hits a stunner to Francis and makes the cover, Francis kicks out at two. 

Elijah goes to the top and flies into a spear from Francis, who then sits him atop the ropes in the corner. Francis reverses an attempted Drifter Destroyer and connects with a moonsault before getting another two-count. 

Elijah gets the better of Francis yet again and this time he deposits Francis onto the turbuckle. Elijah uses the leverage to connect with a Tombstone Piledriver, makes the cover, but Francis kicks out at two. 

Expressions enters the ring with a guitar, Elijah catches him in the act and grabs the guitar. Elijah smashes the guitar over his head. 

That allows Francis to roll up Elijah, the referee counts two but Francis pulls him back up for a powerbomb. Francis follows that up with a Styles Clash and makes the cover. But Elijah kicks out. 

Francis seeks a chokeslam to Elijah from the top rope, but Elijah reverses it and walks the rope, connecting with the Drifter Destroyer. He pins Francis for the three-count and wins the match. 

Elijah def. AJ Francis via Pinfall

Rosemary almost immediately gets the better of M by Elegance with a wrist lock, throwing her around the ring. Rosemary tags to Allie for a double team, before Allie scares M to her corner to tag Heather by Elegance in. 

Allie drops Heather with shoulder tackles and follows up with a running forearm to her seated in the corner. Allie ties up Heather in the ropes while Rosemary attacks M. Ash by Elegance enters the ring, the referee turns to eject her from it, and M attacks Allie to allow Heather some space. 

Heather tags out to M. M drops Allie with a slam and wheelbarrow slams Heather onto her, with Heather now the legal competitor and wearing down Allie with a rear choke in the middle of the ring. 

Allie gets to her feet but is ripped down by Heather. Heather tags back out to M, who comes into the ring to drop Allie once more and make the cover. Only for a two-count. Allie comes back with twisting neckbreaker and has some space. Ash gets back up on the apron and begins jawing with the referee, allowing the Personal Concierge to pull Rosemary from the apron before she can tag in. 

Heather and M continue to work over Allie in the ring, with Heather hitting a dropkick to Allie in the corner before Toast-to-Toast from M for a two-count. Allie tries to get up but is Sparta-kicked back down by M. M turns to boast, Allie returns to her feet and takes her down with a running lariat. 

Allie finally tags to Rosemary as M tags to Heather, Rosemary meets Heather with running clotheslines and suplexes her out of the corner. Follows that up with a side slam and makes the cover, but Heather kicks out. M is screaming at ringside, apparently afraid of Rosemary. 

Even still, M blind tags herself in to take advantage. Allie enters the ring to take out Heather. But M takes her out from the top rope. Rosemary spears M and everyone is down. 

Rosemary makes a cover but Ash pulls her from the ring to break the count. Ash retreats behind the Personal Concierge and Rosemary hits him with the poison mist. 

She returns to the ring and M drops her, looking for the Nip and Tuck double team finisher with Heather, but Rosemary rolls out of the way. Rosemary hits an inverted DDT and makes the cover, gets the three-count. Rosemary and Allie have won the titles. 

Rosemary & Allie def. The Elegance Brand via Pinfall to win the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship

Mustafa Ali enters to await the opponents of this open challenge. The first one is revealed to be Rich Swann. The second one is the debuting Uhaa Nation, formerly known as Apollo Crews in WWE. 

The match starts and Nation presses Ali out of the ring, getting into it with Swann. He gets the better of the first exchange before Swann begins to rally back, Ali re-enters the ring and rolls up Swann for a near-fall. Nation aids Swann in getting rid of Ali before recommencing their own fight. 

They begin an exchange on the apron as Ali targets Nation, Nation ducks him and Ali crashes to the floor. Back in the ring, Nation hits a splash and makes the cover on Swann. Only a two-count. 

They start striking before catching Ali taking to the top rope, turning to stun him and going back to striking. Nation has Swann up for a suplex, but Swann falls back into Ali on the top rope, and Ali hits a Styles Clash to Swann onto Nation. He goes for the cover on Nation but he kicks out. 

Ali switches Swann's momentum into a powerbomb and makes the cover, but Nation breaks it up. Nation powerbombs Ali and goes for the cover but this time Swann breaks it up. Swann and Nation take their fight to the outside, and Nation is sent into the steel steps. 

Ali and Swann now fighting on the apron, Swann hitting a hurricanrana to send Ali to the floor. Swann follows up with a flying knee to the Nation, bringing him back into the ring for a 450 splash and going for the cover. Nation kicks out. 

Nation reverses a roundhouse into a German suplex, delivering another one to Ali, then back to Swann, and then back to Ali again. He looks for another on Swann but he fights out of it. Ali hits a German to send Swann into Nation, catching him and sending him backward with another German. Ali takes out Nation and all three men are down. 

Nation is still down as Ali and Swann strike over him, slowly rising as he too rises. Swann jumps off of Nation's back to hit a tornado DDT sending Ali into Nation. Swann goes up top and hits a frog splash to Ali, makes the cover, but Ali bridges out of the pin at two. 

Swann goes back to the top rope but Nation cuts him off with a knee, superplexing him back down into the middle of the ring. He has Swann beat in the middle of the ring, but Tasha Steelz climbs up onto the apron distracting him. 

She steps down as Special Agent Zero makes his entrance. Nation comes out to meet him but Ali takes him out with a dive to his back. Zero sandwiches Nation between two parts of the steel steps. 

Back in the ring, Ali looks for the 450 on Swann. Swann rolls and kicks spit out of Ali's mouth. Swann looks to press the advantage but gets his shoulders caught by Ali in a backslide. The three-count is made and Ali retains his title. 

Mustafa Ali def. Rich Swann and Uhaa Nation to retain the TNA International Championship

Moose doesn't even get to finish his entrance before Eddie Edwards boots him off of the apron. The bell rings as Edwards leaves the ring to meet him. Moose lifts him up immediately and hits a powerbomb onto the apron. He pulls Edwards to the powerbomb position again, throwing him against the ring post. 

He gets in Alisha Edwards' face, telling her to throw the towel in and end the match. She doesn't, so Moose sets up the steps to deliver another powerbomb, instead getting dropped by Edwards onto the steps. Alisha screams in JDC's face, as Moose's cornerman, and tells him to throw in the towel. He doesn't. 

Back in the ring and Edwards finds himself caught in an uranage from Moose to switch momentum. Moose dumps him back outside the ring. Moose throws him back in the ring. Then goes underneath the ring and grabs a table, putting that in the ring before Edwards uses a baseball slide to send it into Moose's face. 

Edwards stamps on Moose's ankle, putting the table into the ring and dragging Moose up. He thrusts Moose into the ring post. Edwards puts Moose back in the ring, delivering a chops in the corner – the second of which Moose responds to, placing Edwards into the corner and chopping him. An exchange of chops ensues. 

"F*** you Eddie!" Moose yells as he looks for a discus forearm, but Edwards avoids it and delivers Boston Knee Party. He cannot make a cover per the stipulation, so he and Alisha instead yell for JDC to throw the towel in. 

He doesn't, so Edwards grabs a chain from beneath the ring. He hits Moose over the back with it, wrapping it around his own knee presumably for another Boston Knee Party. He goes for it, but Moose catches him and delivers a powerbomb.

Moose begins setting up the table in the corner. He calls for Alisha to throw in the towel but she flips him off. He runs for the spear but it's blocked by Edwards, who continues burrow the chain-wrapped knee into Moose's midsection. 

Edwards heads back outside the ring as JDC ponders throwing the towel in. Edwards comes back with a zip tie and ties Moose to the middle rope by his left wrist. He now tries to tie the right. Moose tries to fight but a headbutt rights that, and Edwards ties him up. 

Edwards goes to the outside and grabs a kendo stick. He begins to hit Moose with it with no way of protecting himself. 

JDC gets up onto the apron with the towel in hand. Moose tells him not to throw it, and JDC drops back down in obligation. Moose's wife has now jumped the guard rail and grabs the towel, tries to throw it in but JDC stops her. 

In that tussle, Edwards grabs her by the hair and throws her to the floor. Moose's son has now entered the fray to check on his mom. Edwards drags him into the ring and goes to powerbomb him with Moose watching on. Moose's son hits a low blow to Eddie while Moose's wife on the outside slaps Alisha to the floor. 

Moose breaks out of the cable ties and delivers a spear to Edwards. He wraps the chain around himself and delivers another spear, pointing to the table for the next one. He runs for it. Alisha runs between them and throws the towel down, ending the match. 

Moose def. Eddie Edwards via Surrender 

After the match, JDC delivers a stunner to Edwards as he finds his feet. He staggers into Alisha and Moose spears them both through the table in the corner. 

The bell rings and Lei Ying Lee and Xia Brookside jaw at one another before coming face-to-face, Brookside slapping first. Lee responds with a double-leg takedown and a ground-and-pound. 

Lee continues to beat down at Brookside on the floor, bringing her back up by her hair and throwing her across the ring repeatedly. Brookside has no time to breathe as she's thrown around the ring and dropkicked. 

"I need time," Brookside calls out as Lee refuses to relent. Lee follows up with a German suplex and Brookside rolls herself out of the ring. Lee follows her with a rolling senton from the apron to the floor. Lee grabs her by the hair and throws her into the apron repeatedly. Lee rolls in and out of the ring to break the count. 

Lee continues to drive knees into Brookside's mid section and superkicks her into the ringpost. She looks for another kick but Brookside avoids it and Lee's leg bounces off the post. Brookside takes the limping Lee out and rolls in and out of the ring to break the count. Brookside throws Lee into the ring, grabbing her leg and smashing it against the ring post. 

She continues to smash the leg on the edge of the ring before returning to it, continuing to work over the injured leg. Brookside grabs Lee's hair now and slams her down to the mat, follows up by tying Lee's leg up on the bottom rope and delivering a dropkick to it. 

Brookside ties up Lee's legs, torquing the injured leg and slapping down at the champion's face. Lee responds with her own strikes and continues to headbutt Brookside until the hold is broken. Lee makes the cover for a two-count but Brookside immediately kicks her leg out from beneath her. 

Brookside continues to kick away, but Lee catches her and turns it into a knee hook. Brookside fights out of it. Lee hits a roundhouse with her injured leg. She fights through the pain to deliver a pump kick to drop Brookside. 

Lee mounts Brookside in the corner and delivers ten punches along with the crowd chant. She comes back down and delivers a suplex, making the cover and getting a two-count. Lee looks for Warrior's Way, but Brookside slips it and hits a chop block to the injured leg.

The action is taken to the top rope with reversals on both sides before Brookside looks for a superplex, Lee escapes it and hits a powerbomb. Lee makes the cover but it's just a two-count. 

Lee returns to the top rope but Brookside grabs her leg, Lee kicks her off, but Brookside tears her down and Lee's face clatters against the exposed turnbuckle. Brookside connects with her finisher and makes the cover, gets the winning pinfall. 

Xia Brookside def. Lei Ying Lee via Pinfall to become new TNA Knockouts World Champion

A replay shows that Brookside tore the buckle pad off as she was kicked away. Brookside has the title wrapped around her by Carlos Silva. 

The Hardys grab a ladder during their entrance and mow down the Great Hands and the System before getting into it with the Rigtheous inside the ring. 

Matt Hardy sets up a ladder in the middle of the ring and is joined by Jeff Hardy in climbing for the titles. But the other teams rip them down and target them. Each team fights one another when the Hardys are gone, last leaving the Righteous in the ring. Dutch flies over the top rope and takes out all the competitors gathered on the outside. 

John Skyler is not one of them, as he climbs onto the top rope. He is met by Vincent, but he picks Vincent up and delivers a rolling senton into the competitors on the outside. Jason Hodge uses that opportunity to climb the ladder. But Brian Myers comes into the ring and tips the ladder, Hodge chooses to moonsault off of it onto the competitors outside. 

Myers makes his climb before the Hardys return to the ring and rip him down. Matt adjusts the ladder and Jeff holds him in the corner. They work together to hit Poetry In Moton and then Matt connects with a Side Effect. 

A second ladder is introduced to the ring by the Hardys, and they each climb one to try and claim the titles. The Righteous pulls them down and thus ensues a brawl. Matt gets the better of Dutch as Vincent gets the better of Jeff, and they both climb the ladders and brawl atop them. 

Matt takes Vincent down the ladder rung-by-rung smashing his face against them as they go. Matt and Jeff then go beneath the ring and pull out a table. They set it up but then the Great Hands come and take them out. They pick up the steel steps together and run over Jeff with them, going beneath the ring themselves to grab a table. 

Bear Bronson and Myers meet them once they set it up, themselves going beneath the ring for a table which they place upon the ones already set up. Then the Righteous meet them, take them out, and grab their table to complete the stack. 

Myers and Bronson take out the Righteous, returning to the ring and climbing a ladder together. The Great Hands pull them down and deliver superkicks, toppling one ladder and using the other to clear the field. Bronson runs right through the ladder to drop them, delivering a senton to it with them beneath it. 

The Righteous re-emerge on the ramp with their own ladder adorned with barbed wire and flowers a la the Wicked Garden. They put it in the ring. But Bronson uses a pre-existing ladder to the take them out. He grabs the Righteous' ladder and puts it in the corner, picking up Vincent and trying to put him through it. Dutch pulls Vincent off of him and drives Bronson through the ladder instead. 

Vincent places the ladder on the mat, Dutch slamming him onto it, followed by a Vincent senton onto Bronson and the ladder. Vincent now opens the ladder while Dutch places him between it, slamming it closed on his back. 

Myers spears Vincent to save his partner, but Dutch dumps Myers onto the ladder to further damage Bronson in the process. 

The Righteous climb a standard ladder to claim the titles, but they are pulled down as the Hardys return to the ring. 

When the field clears again it is Vincent and Myers climbing the ladder for the titles, brawling as they meet at the top. Vincent shoves the Lily of the Valley in the mouth of Myers, causing him to collapse off of the ladder even after Vincent has done.  

Bronson powerslams Vincent onto the Righteous' ladder, climbing up the one in the middle of the ring. But Dutch now climbs to meet him. They begin to brawl at the top of the ladder as the Hardys return to the ring, toppling the ladder and sending them through the stack of tables on the outside of the ring. 

The Hardys now climb the ladder looking to claim the titles, but the Great Hands return to the ring and pull them down. They now climb to the top and have the titles in their hand, but the Hardys rip them down and send them crashing through a ladder wedged on the outside. 

The Hardys climb the ladder in the ring and claim the titles, winning the match. 

The Hardys def. The System, The Righteous, and The Great Hands in a Ladder Match for the TNA World Tag Team Championship

A package plays with a tribute to Konnan from TNA World Champion Mike Santana, ending with the announcement that Konnan will be inducted into the TNA Hall of Fame. 

The bell rings, Mike Santana and Nic Nemeth stare one another down. They butt heads and Santana slaps Nemeth. Nemeth slaps him back and they begin to tussle. 

The tussle breaks and they go back in, Santana getting the advantage this time, sending Nemeth to the mat. Nemeth takes himself out of the ring to get some breathing space. Nemeth returns the ring and begins grappling again, quickly escaping the ring when Santana gets out of it. Santana follows and Nemeth slips back into the ring, frustrating the champion. 

Santana returns to the ring and Nemeth rolls him up for a two-count. Santana throws Nemeth out of the ring and Nemeth quickly runs expecting the chase. But when he returns to the ring he gets dropped by a boot. Santana now takes the fight to the outside and continues to chop away at Nemeth against the guardrail. 

Santana rolls in and out of the ring, resetting the count, continuing to take Nemeth to another guard rail for another audible chop. Nemeth ducks to avoid another chop against the ring, but Santana recovers and throws him into the timekeeper's area. 

Ryan Nemeth enters the ring and starts to call for the champion. Santana goes to meet him but the referee comes between them. The referee ejects Ryan Nemeth from the match, leaving the ring to ensure he follows the order. 

Santana turns back to deal with Nemeth. But Nemeth hits him over the head with the Call Your Shot trophy. Nemeth returns to the ring as the referee does, with Ryan Nemeth finally having left. The referee continues to count but Santana returns to the ring before the count-out. 

Santana is busted open now, and Nemeth immediately leaps on him and starts pounding away at the cut. Nemeth locks in a cross-face. Santana counters into a roll-up for two but Nemeth follows it up with a leaping elbow drop, going for the cover and himself getting a two-count. 

Nemeth continues to go for the cut and gets reprimanded by the referee. He cinches in a rear choke in the middle of the ring. Santana climbs to his feet and slams Nemeth against the corner, but Nemeth returns to cinch in another rear choke.

Santana continues to feed off the crowd and reaches his feet again, leaping back to break the hold for the second time. Nemeth goes to throw two rights but has them caught and replied both times, with Santana adding two more to drop him. 

Santana hits a rolling Buck Fifty for the two-count. He follows that up with a Death Valley Driver in the next exchange, making another cover for another two-count.

Santana looks for Spin The Block but gets caught with a superkick, Nemeth falling into the cover but only for a count of two. 

Nemeth connects with Danger Zone and makes surely the winning cover. But Santana kicks out before the count of three. 

Nemeth is now dialing up for Sweet Chin Music. He hits it but Santana sponges the kick to hit a Spin The Block, going for the cover. Nemeth this time kicks out of the finisher. 

He looks for another Spin The Block but Nemeth kicks his legs out beneath him, delivering another kick to the face and going for the cover. Santana powers out at one and drops Nemeth. 

He looks for another Spin The Block, but he collapses on the spin and stumbles into a Danger Zone. Nemeth makes the cover. One. Two. Three. 

Nic Nemeth def. Mike Santana via Pinfall to become new TNA World Champion