00:00The fans are not okay for Fatal Influence.
00:04Following time, team matches scheduled for one fall.
00:08Introducing first, the team of Jasmine Nix and Fallon Henley,
00:15Fatal Influence.
00:19Well, I'm sure these two are not feeling too bright after WWE heat wave.
00:24But the smile on my face will make up for it, will fill this entire room.
00:29Because Ash by Elegance, I am so happy to be living in her world as
00:34Knockouts World Champion.
00:36Rawal, for the first time in the history of the Elegance brand, you and I agree.
00:40Congratulations to Ash by Elegance bringing home the TNA Knockouts
00:46World Championship at WWE Heat Wave.
00:50And our opponents, the team of Cassie Lee and Jesse McKay, the Inspiration.
01:10Now, I will say the Elegance brand has made enemies in both NXT and TNA.
01:19It was recently the Inspiration were sounding off in the wake of Emergence,
01:24which was live on TNA+, you can watch it back anytime on demand on TNA+.
01:29It was the Inspiration who feel they were screwed out of winning the TNA Knockouts
01:34World Tag Team titles at Emergence by Heather and M by Elegance.
01:38And last week on Impact TNA Social and Digital Platforms,
01:42Nix and Henley got in the face of Lee and McKay and said that we're going to attempt to bring the
01:48Knockouts World Tag Team titles back to NXT, quote, the superior brand.
01:54And there ain't no way that the Elegance brand is going to let that happen.
01:58None of us can afford to let anything like that happen ever again.
02:03But we are truly living in the Elegant era.
02:06I mean, they are running roughshod all over the Knockouts division.
02:10Not only, of course, the Knockouts World Championship,
02:13but the Knockouts Tag Team Championship that we know these two teams would love to gun for.
02:18One down, one to go.
02:20All eyes now on the reigning TNA World Champion, NXT's Trick Williams,
02:25who was pinned by Santana earlier tonight.
02:28This is Jesse McKay to start things off against Jasmine Nix.
02:32Fatal influence.
02:33Things didn't exactly go their way.
02:35A heat wave, their involvement in the matchup got them ejected.
02:39But it was the tactic to the Elegance brand that we've seen for a long time
02:44that helped Ash by Elegance become the Knockouts World Champion.
02:48I don't condone it, but I'm thrilled to see the Knockouts World Championship home in TNA Wrestling.
02:54See, you gotta do what you gotta do.
02:57There's the right way, the wrong way, and the elegant way to get things done.
03:01And clearly, with all the gold draped around them, it works.
03:05Well, the elegant way has often been cheating, Raywalt, and that wasn't the case at Heat Wave.
03:10It was a no-disqualifications match, so I will acknowledge that.
03:14But at Emergence, I think the inspiration has a legitimate gripe.
03:17Hold on a second there.
03:18Henley made a tag behind Lee's back.
03:21Nyx takes control, and Fatal influence is in command.
03:25But, I mean, even at Emergence, that was a four-way tag team matchup.
03:28Lots of chaos.
03:30Technically, no disqualifications in many of those scenarios as well.
03:33That's flimsy. That's flimsy.
03:35Nothing I do is flimsy. I am solid as a rock.
03:39But, either way, the decision is final.
03:42And the Elegance brand, as we've said...
03:43Covered by Henley. Kick out by Lee.
03:46...is ruling over this with a benevolent fist.
03:51The Elegance brand have held the Knockouts World Tag Team titles now for 167 days.
03:58The record for the longest-reigning female-only Knockouts World Tag Team Championship team is 182 days.
04:07Great combination there by Fatal Influence.
04:11Cassie Lee's in trouble.
04:12Here's the cover.
04:13Shoulders down and a kick out.
04:15So, not only...
04:18Another cover by Nix.
04:20Lee staying in it.
04:22Another cover.
04:23Another cover.
04:24And Lee has to survive once again.
04:26Look, I'll give it to the relentlessness of Jasmine Nix.
04:29They're forcing...
04:30Forcing Cassie Lee to kick out over and over again.
04:34And now, wrenching back in the submission here.
04:38That's great tag team strategy.
04:40Cutting her off as well.
04:41I mean, again, I said it once.
04:42I'll say it again.
04:43Both these teams would love to represent their brand as tag team champions.
04:49TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champions.
04:52Cassie Lee trying to find her way back.
04:55Obviously, the reigning TNA World Champion.
04:58NXT's Trick Williams has a tremendous bullseye on his back.
05:02He's trying to scramble after he was pinned by Mike Santana in tag team action earlier on tonight.
05:09Santana wanted to spin the block.
05:10Mike Santana especially wants a TNA World title shot.
05:14All right, now Nix is legal.
05:16Cassie Lee evades Valen Henley.
05:19And there goes Nix to the outside.
05:21But hold on.
05:22Henley, great teamwork there by Fatal Influence and a tag made.
05:27But now, the pressure is on.
05:30We've seen it done once.
05:31We know it can be done.
05:32The pressure is to get it done with the TNA World Championship now.
05:36Window of opportunity here for the inspiration up against Fatal Influence.
05:42And right now, the Elegance brand holds all the gold in the knockouts division.
05:49And it is a beautiful thing.
05:51Unlike what is happening to Fatal Influence right now, courtesy of Jesse McKay.
05:56There goes Jasmine Nix hard to the outside.
06:03And McKay with the double knees.
06:08Oh, face first into the knee.
06:10Is it enough?
06:11Goes Henley.
06:12Cover.
06:12Oh, and McKay can't end the matchup.
06:14Pretty even matchup thus far.
06:17You have to imagine whoever wins this not only gets a little bit of those brand bragging rights,
06:22but punches their ticket up higher on the ladder for another knockouts tag team.
06:28Oh, title shot.
06:31But a lot of talk about holding the line from the likes of Steve Macklin,
06:36protecting TNA from outsiders.
06:38That was the line that Slater, the Hardys, and Macklin took weeks ago.
06:41And the Inspiration trying to do that right now.
06:44But Henley distracted the referee so Nix could go after one half of the Inspiration.
06:50Like it or not, again, effective tag team work there.
06:54Illegal contact, Ray Walt.
06:56You call it effective.
06:57I call it illegal.
06:58I call it both.
07:00And a Pele kick in the middle of a TNA ring.
07:04Nix, the cover.
07:05Henley trying to play defense.
07:07Oh, and it's broken up by Cassie Lee at the last moment.
07:10A very last moment, Tom.
07:12That was like a 2.9-er right there.
07:17Jesse McKay saved by Cassie Lee.
07:20Some fierce competition.
07:22And the tag team ranks amongst the knockouts.
07:25I'm still reeling from the ferocity of Dani Luna last week here on Impact,
07:31showing all of her frustration,
07:33taking it out on both Indy Hartwell and her former Spitfire tag team partner, Jody Threat.
07:40Hey, sometimes when enough is enough, you got to take that extra step.
07:44Looks like it might be happening here.
07:46And they smash.
07:47And the inspiration, just a step ahead of Fatal Influence.
07:52The inspiration are the women's tag team in professional wrestling.
07:57And they're proving it right now.
07:59Cover.
07:59And a second.
08:00Oh, it's broken up there by Henley.
08:03Good timing there from Phel and Henley.
08:10Boom.
08:10Big spinning heel kick there by Cassie Lee.
08:14Hold on.
08:14Can Knicks take this one?
08:16And a kick out.
08:19Big kick to the face.
08:21Now a tag made to Jesse McKay.
08:23Fallon Henley's been taken out of the equation, Ray.
08:26Well, could it be time?
08:27Look out.
08:28Vitalizer.
08:31Is that enough?
08:33The inspiration, put away Fatal Influence of NXT.
08:37Here are your winners.
08:42The Inspiration.
08:47If you ask me, I believe that the Elegance brand and their successes inspire these two to victory tonight.
08:54Another big win for TNA.
08:56Listen, congratulations to the Elegance brand and asked by Elegance.
09:01The Knockouts World Championship has come home.
09:03But now the competition steps up on the path to bow for glory.
09:07Every knockout in TNA is putting their sights on the Elegance brand.
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