TNA Announces Main Event for iMPACT

[THEBUZZKILL]

TNA ANNOUNCES GAUNTLET MATCH FOR THURSDAY’S “iMPACT!”
Winner to get World Title shot at March’s “Destination X” Pay-Per-View

Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling has announced that a Gauntlet Match will take place at this week’s “Thursday Night iMPACT!” on SpikeTV at 9pm ET. The winner of the bout will earn a title shot at NWA World Heavyweight Champion Christian Cage at the “Destination X” Pay-Per-View in March.

All of TNA’s top stars will compete to determine a true number one contender for the NWA World Heavyweight Title. Two TNA stars will start the bout, with a new entrant every two minutes. Competitors are eliminated when they are thrown over the top rope. The final two participants remaining will compete in a one-fall singles bout to determine who advances to the Pay-Per-View to get the World Title shot!

TNA Wrestling management has announced the following names to compete in the huge Gauntlet match:

Abyss
AJ Styles
BG James
Chris Sabin
Eric Young
James Storm
Kip James
Kurt Angle
Rhino
Robert Roode
Samoa Joe
Scott Steiner
Sting
Tomko

All this and much more this Thursday night on Spike TV – witness the aftermath of the “Against All Odds” Pay-Per-View as TNA begins the road to March’s “Destination X” epic event!

Check back to TNAwrestling.com on Monday night for an updated preview of what will take place this Thursday night on “iMPACT!”

[Big DSR Energy]

Sounds cool.

[KingPopper]

Good to see they are doing something major to go head to head with raw. I think I'll be watching this instead of seeing Donald Trump in a WWE ring...

[Spankymac is sick of the swiss]

Let's see, since TNA hate is the fashionable thing, how will people find a way to bitch about this?

[Ace Diamond]

Not too bad, there might be a way they could screw it up but i'm going to reserve judgement. I think it'll come down to Angle and Joe.

[rrm15]

LETS GO TOMKO! *clap clap clap* LETS GO TOMKO!!

[Big DSR Energy]

chuckymac314 said:

Let's see, since TNA hate is the fashionable thing, how will people find a way to complain and/or rude female about this?

Ahem:

All of TNA’s top stars will compete

BG James
Eric Young
Kip James
Robert Roode

And perhaps someone will chime in with:

"Since Russo's booking, can we expect a reverse gauntlet match? Where the first person eliminated wins, LOL?"

[EJS]

So it's a Royal Rumble (with the pinfall thing added for the last two)? Or am I reading the rules wrong? Since that doesn't sound anything like a "Gauntlet Match" to me.

[superfoe]

Why couldn't they include Alex Shelly, just to make us hope that possibly he could almost have a chance of getting a title shot?

[G✇JI☈A]

Sounds good.

It will be impossible for Russo to make it go less then 5 minutes. So it should be good match.

Now watch as it is overbooked.

[THEBUZZKILL]

WOW, I just realized how long this match last.

[Chris Decker-The Wild Rover]

i'd mark for eric young winning this

[Ace Diamond]

gojira1954 said:

Sounds good.

It will be impossible for Russo to make it go less then 5 minutes. So it should be good match.

Now watch as it is overbooked.

As long as he stops doing camera cuts to things not pretaining to the match...

[EJS]

thebuzzkill411 said:

WOW, I just realized how long this match last.

Well by definition it has to last 24 minutes. But I could see there being at least two commercial breaks in there... so -8, thats at 16+ minutes of guarenteed wrestling in this one match! Probably more like 20 or 22 (if there are only 2 breaks), since it's not going to end immedietly after the last guy enters.

There will be more wrestling in this one match than all of last week's episode.

[Chuckie Finster]

hadesgigas said:

So it's a Royal Rumble (with the pinfall thing added for the last two)? Or am I reading the rules wrong? Since that doesn't sound anything like a "Gauntlet Match" to me.

This is a typical TNA gaunlet that they've done since the first ever show. This is one of their specalty matches that I look forward to seeing and htey haven't screwed up. This should be fun to watch.

Think KNOIGBRBFG.

[MGH]

Haha wow, they found a way to force a match to last longer than 3 minutes. Hopefully it's good, and hopefully this leads to Joe's push to the title.