TNA Thursday Night Impact Results 9/17 - Tag Team Match, KO TV Championship On The Line

M By Elegance of The Elegance Brand will be putting her Knockouts Television Championship on the line as she defends against one half of the reigning Knockouts World Tag Team Champions Kiera Hogan. This will mark M's first defense since she defeated Jada Stone in the finals of the Knockouts Television Championship Tournament on the August 27 episode of "Thursday Night Impact" to become the inaugural titleholder.

LJ Cleary will be competing in his first ever TNA match tonight as he squares off against Rich Swann in a qualifier for the TNA Bound For Glory Six Way X-Division Championship Match. As of writing, KC Navarro and Fabian Aichner have already secured their spots in the October 11 match, defeating Joe Alonzo on the September 3 episode of "Thursday Night Impact" and Rohit Raju on last Thursday's edition of "Thursday Night Impact" respectively in a pair of qualifying matches.

Moose will be in action as he goes one-on-one with Frankie Kazarian in a rematch from their Escape The Cage Match at TNA Lockdown on August 23. If Moose loses tonight's match, then he will have to leave TNA per the agreement that the two men had come to in the midst of a verbal confrontation between one another on Kazarian's talk show "The King's Speech" last Thursday as Avery Styles was present in the ring with them.

Elijah will be joining forces with Ricky Sosa to take on The System's Eddie Edwards and Cedric Alexander. While Elijah looked to sing a song about The System to the TNA fanbase about The System, the stable interrupted him to put him on notice for saying less than flattering things about them. Ricky Sosa then ran out to the ring to even the odds for Elijah before things between the two parties could become physical.

Additionally, Zoey Serrano will be taking on Harley Hudson after the former and Knockouts World Champion Xia Brookside came up short to the latter and Indi Hartwell on the September 3 episode of "Thursday Night Impact". Leon Slater will also be going head-to-head with one half of the current TNA World Tag Team Champions Ryan Nemeth after both being taken out by a mystery attacker over the last couple of weeks backstage.

We are live! The show kicks off with a video recapping the recent ongoings between Frankie Kazarian and Moose, as well as Matt Hardy and Nic Nemeth. Tom Hannifan and Matthew Rehwoldt greet audiences at home as Kiera Hogan and Allie make their way to the ring. The Elegance Brand follows.

The bell rings and M wears down Hogan's arm with a submission hold. Hogan sends M crashing into the middle rope and delivers a Hip Attack to the back of her neck, then connects with a leg drop on M and goes for a pin.

M kicks out and lands a shotgun dropkick on Hogan, then wears her down with a shoulder submission hold. Hogan powers up to her feet, but M delivers a codebreaker on her and ascends to the top rope. She looks to land a moonsault on Hogan, but Hogan moves out of the way and lands a shotgun dropkick on M. She rolls up M, but M kicks out and Hogan delivers a kick to M's face. Hogan then ascends to the middle rope, but M pulls her off and delivers a belly-to-back piledriver on her for the win.

Winner (and still): M By Elegance

We then head backstage, where John Skyler asks Mila Moore how she felt after Tasha Steelz got involved in the match between John Skyler and Special Agent 0 last Thursday. Skyler looks to ask Moore a question, but Moore's phone rings and cuts them off. Skyler then reveals he was looking to ask Moore out on a date.

LJ Cleary makes his way to the ring. Rich Swann and BDE follow.

The bell rings and the two men go back and forth with one another. Swann delivers a kick to the side of Cleary's head, then sits him on a chair outside the ring and takes a lap around it. He lands a big boot on Clearly's face, but the two men get back inside the ring.

Cleary looks to fly off the ropes, but Swann intercepts him with a kick to his face and delivers a Frog Splash to him off the top rope. Swann looks to deliver a Phoenix Splash, but Cleary sees Swann coming and delivers a Death Valley Driver to him. Cleary connects with a Sunset Flip on Swann and pins him, but Swann kicks out and delivers a 450 Splash on Cleary off the ropes for the win.

Winner: Rich Swann

The System then makes their way to the ring. Ricky Sosa and Elijah follow.

Eddie Edwrads and Elijah begin the action. The bell rings and the two lock up. Elijah leveled Eddie with a shoulder, but Sosa and Cedric Alexander tag in. The two men go back and forth with one another, but Elijah tags in and delivers a hanging DDT to Alexander.

Sosa flies over the top rope to level Eddie on the outside and clotheslines Alexander out of the other side of the ring with Elijah. Alexander and Elijah then exchange right hands with one another, but Elijah dumps Alexander back inside the ring. Eddie tags in and fires off a chop on Elijah's chest, but Elijah levels Eddie with a chop of his own and tags out to Sosa. Sosa and Elijah level Eddie with a back elbow, but Sosa levels Eddie with a chop and lands a shotgun dropkick on his spine.

Alexander tags in back in and fires off chops on Sosa's chest. Sosa sends Alexander crashing into the top turnbuckle face first, but Elijah tags back in and sends Eddie crashing off the ring apron. Elijah levels Alexander with a back elbow after Alexander has tagged back in, then fires off right hands on him.

Alisha Edwards hops up onto the apron, but Elijah levels an interfering Eddie with a right hand while the referee is distracted. Alexander lands a German suplex on Elijah and lands a shotgun dropkick on him, but Eddie tags back in.

Elijah levels Eddie, but Eddie levels Elijah. Alexander tags back in and jams his knee into the back of Elijah's neck, but Sosa tags back in and delivers a hurricanrana to Alexander. He rocks Eddie with a boot to the side of his face and levels him with a reverse DDT, then rocks Alexander with a right hand. Elijah then delivers an Airplane Spin F5 to Alexander, and Sosa follows it up with a springboard moonsault. He goes for a pin, but Eddie breaks the fall.

Elijah walks the top rope looking for Old School on Eddie, but recalibrates when he sees Bear Bronson and Brian Myers on the outside. He flies off the top rope to level them before Eddie is dumped out of the ring and Sosa connects with a running uppercut on Alexander in the ring for the win.

Winners: Ricky Sosa and Elijah

After the match, Eddie sneaks up behind Sosa and cracks a chair across his spine. Broson and Myers send Elijah crashing into the ring steps, and Eddie lands a piledriver on Sosa. Eddie takes a seat on the chair and Alisha hands him a mic, with Eddie telling Sosa he's been wrestling longer than Sosa has been alive and saying he's seen many guys like Sosa realize the professional wrestling life is no longer for them. He says it's time for action and challenges Sosa to a match at TNA Bound for Glory on October 11. He says it's time to find out if Sosa belongs in the TNA locker room.

We then head over to The Injury Report, where we find out that Xia Brookside has not been medically cleared with contusions while Leon Slater, Frankie Kazarian, and Moose have all been medically cleared.

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