00:0029 in 2025, flat out, Ariana Grace has done nothing to earn a TNA Knockouts World Title shot.
00:32You're not wrong, Tom, and she has to step in there, to your point, with one of the most dangerous
00:37strikers in all of pro wrestling, but you are right, she used her connection with Santino Morella, and it worked,
00:47and I think that's something that Daria Ray has been trying to point out for weeks now, that is why
00:52someone like her, the suit is here, Santino is prone to these emotional decisions, Ariana, yes,
01:00she played on that, and it worked, this is something we need to look at, management about, more than Ariana
01:06Grace.
01:10Laying Lee has dispatched Zarya from NXT, and even her own tag team partner, Zion Brookside, to hold on to
01:18the championship, what has Lee prepared to do against Grace, at No Surrender?
01:25The wrestling contest is scheduled for one fall, and is for, the TNA Knockouts World Championship.
01:37Introducing first, the challenger, accompanied by Channing Stax Lorenzo, from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, Ariana,
01:48Grace, and her opponent, from Chongqing, China, she is, the TNA Knockouts, World Champion,
02:07Laying Lee!
02:09Laying Lee!
02:15Laying Lee has been a proud champion, captured the title, for this company, back at NXT Heat Wave, over two
02:22months ago,
02:23and has been a fantastic representative, of the TNA Knockouts World Championship.
02:31The true definition of a fighting champion, and a fighter champion, Laying Lee, capable in all sorts of martial arts,
02:41of course, as well as professional wrestling,
02:43brings a lot of tools to the table, Ariana Grace, to your point, maybe doesn't have the record to back
02:49up this matchup,
02:50but, I hope she's been doing her training.
02:56Ariana Grace, manipulated her father, to get a championship match, she didn't deserve.
03:01Yep, and it worked, and so I, I don't, I don't blame, she's gotten the match, but this could be
03:06over in the blink of an eye,
03:08that's how talented Laying Lee is.
03:10No, that's very, very true, but, it worked to a degree, and again, I don't blame Ariana Grace, for using
03:17that tool,
03:18I blame Santino Morella, for being that gullible.
03:25Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, and Laying, Lay, nearly ended the match up that quickly.
03:32Trey Walls, you've covered combat sports, pro wrestling, whatever you want to call it,
03:36all it takes is that one strike, right on the button, it can all be over.
03:40The shot that knocks you out, is the one you never see coming.
03:46Now, Stax, the former TNA International Champion, running interference for his fiancée.
03:52Ariana Grace getting an up close and personal look, at the Knockouts World title there.
03:59On the move.
04:01Oh, knee right to the midsection.
04:02Ariana did tell Stax earlier on tonight, that if she doesn't get her way this evening,
04:06she's gonna break up with her fiancée.
04:11I know, Santino Morella would love that, it would be a banner night for him.
04:17I don't know if Santino wants to see his daughter's potential marriage ruined over
04:24professional wrestling.
04:25I think he wants her to be happy, and that's why Santino granted her the matchup.
04:29He wanted to give her an opportunity to prove herself,
04:31because that's the lie that Ariana sold her father.
04:35I don't know if I'd ever believe that Santino Morella is happy,
04:39as long as Stax is in the picture,
04:41but I guess that's something for a future family reunion.
04:48Hey, please.
04:50Oh, my God.
04:53Oh, wait a second.
04:54Is she?
04:55She's back!
04:58Doomsday Danny Luna is back in TNA!
05:03Danny Luna was supposed to challenge Lee for the TNA Knockouts World title at Genesis last month,
05:11but hasn't been able to travel to the United States due to international visa issues.
05:16Oh, you have to imagine in that time, she's been pent up and pissed off,
05:21and I can't blame her.
05:23Oh, and Danny Luna attacking security!
05:30And all this brouhaha distraction has allowed Ariana Grace to take advantage of Lee Ying Lee in the ring here.
05:38Danny Luna, you can understand her fixation on Lee Ying Lee,
05:42but now Ariana Grace has managed to turn it around here with the TNA Knockouts World title on the line
05:49and a neckbreaker!
05:50Here's the cover, hook to the leg, and a kickout at two!
05:54Lee's gonna have to regroup quickly.
05:59The real question in my mind, though, is not only what is Lee Ying Lee gonna do to regroup,
06:05but now that Ariana Grace has this advantage,
06:09admittedly, a rare opportunity.
06:11How does she really step on the gas?
06:14How does she truly make the most of it?
06:19And now Grace driving Lee face-first into the apron.
06:24That's a good start.
06:30The title can only change hands via pinfall or submission inside the ring.
06:36Champion's advantage to Lee.
06:37The title cannot change hands via countout or disqualification.
06:42Grace resetting the ten count.
06:43Ariana Grace knows that very well, wants to leave here
06:48with the Knockouts World title.
06:51Tonight, she can't let it become a disaster.
06:55Lee was able to block there on the outside.
06:58Now Stacks in the face of Lee Ying Lee,
07:00who goes face-first into the steel post.
07:06Stacks on the outside.
07:07Danny Luna making her presence known here.
07:11Lee Ying Lee's had to have her concentration
07:14in several different places here.
07:18I'm trying to figure out who in this relationship corrupted who.
07:21Was it Stacks corrupting Ariana?
07:23Or was it the other way around?
07:26Here's the cover.
07:27Shoulders down.
07:28Trying to win the title and a kick out by Lee.
07:30Okay.
07:32Well, let's take a look back here on the outside.
07:36This suplex to Laying Lee.
07:39Absolutely flattening the Knockouts World Champion.
07:43Middle of the ring, Ariana Grace going to work on the neck of Laying Lee.
07:53Lee trying to get back to a base here and does so.
07:59Grace trying to counter.
08:01There's a cover, pressing the shoulders down,
08:03trying to hold on to the championship.
08:04The interference of Danny Luna earlier on
08:07created this opening for Ariana Grace in the first place.
08:11Oh, wait.
08:12Look out, wait.
08:13Let's go for a neck breaker.
08:15Backslide.
08:16Cover.
08:16Kick out there by Grace.
08:18Oh, and now launching herself.
08:20Corkscrew uppercut.
08:21Here's the cover.
08:22Shoulders down.
08:23Lee is still in it.
08:25A lot of credit to the Knockouts World Champion.
08:28Not staying down for long, continuing to try to fight up,
08:32get back to her feet.
08:33Has answers for nearly everything Grace does,
08:36but to the challenger's credit,
08:39always finding a way to return the champion back to the mat.
08:42What you're seeing is a second-generation star in Ariana Grace
08:47who ultimately became sick of living in her father's shadow.
08:51Santina Morello, who's entertained millions all over the world for decades.
08:56Ariana Grace was happy to ride that coattail
08:59into a lot of opportunities in this company
09:02and her father's side last year.
09:04But when the stardom didn't go directly to her,
09:07when Ariana Grace didn't take the spotlight
09:10or it wasn't handed to her,
09:12she lashed out at her own father.
09:14It's pettiness.
09:15I think it's a little reductive
09:17to simply turn it into some jealous pageant girl
09:21wanting the spotlight on her.
09:22Let's not forget the years
09:25that Santino didn't watch his own daughter grow up
09:28because he was out there entertaining those millions.
09:30That's a lot of pain.
09:31And Santino obviously feels the guilt of that,
09:34but he was trying to provide a better life
09:35for his daughter and his family.
09:37And now he's paying the price.
09:40Shot right to the main section.
09:41Now, Lee able to chop down Grace.
09:44Oh, and this is Ariana Grace perhaps paying the price,
09:47but wanting a matchup against arguably
09:50the best striker in TNA today.
09:52It's a huge rally for the Knockouts World Champion,
09:56Leying Lee.
09:58The warrior living up to her name.
10:02Now, Lee charging into the corner,
10:05picking out where she left off after Luna returned.
10:10It surprised us all here at No Surrender.
10:13Those hammer fists raining down
10:16in the cranium of Ariana Grace.
10:23And now Grace is in trouble.
10:25Oh, it's suplex there by Leying Lee.
10:29Cover.
10:30Trying to hold on to the title.
10:31And a kick out.
10:34Credit to Ariana Grace.
10:36There are a lot of resilience
10:38from someone who many, I think,
10:40consider the underdog.
10:42Now, trying to get some stacks here.
10:45Trying to pull Ariana Grace, maybe, to the outside, to safety.
10:48Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
10:50Go, go, go, go, go, go.
10:51Stax can't help his fiancée, or else you'll get disqualified.
10:55Page Prince of Ali, our referee, keeping an eye on this.
10:58Grace with a kick to the face.
10:59Hold on, an opening here for Grace, and a kick out by Lee.
11:03I counted the, oh, a shot to the throat from Ariana Grace.
11:09Face right into the knee.
11:12Oh, a twisting neck breaker.
11:15Is that enough?
11:15Shades of her fiancée there.
11:17Here's the cover and a kick out by Lee.
11:21And now the frustration really starting to set in
11:23within Ariana Grace.
11:26And Stax on the outside, feeling the pain.
11:34What is going through the mind of the challenger
11:37for the knockouts world title?
11:39Got the champion laid out.
11:46Grace thinking top rope here.
11:51And they call it high risk for a reason.
11:56Bray's taking a risk, going to the top turnbuckle,
12:00and Lee there to meet her.
12:04And now heading to the high rent district here.
12:10High risk.
12:11We saw that dangerous earlier with Stax and Trey Miguel.
12:14Anything can happen up there.
12:17Straight headbutt, down goes Lee.
12:21Went for a double stop, able to roll through.
12:25Charging it, Lay Ying Lee, the champion.
12:28Turned and suplex.
12:31What a torque on that one as well.
12:34That's the power of Lay Ying Lee.
12:41And now the challenger deposited on the top turnbuckle.
12:46Lee wants to pick up where she just left off.
12:49Once again, putting Ariana Grace up on the top rope.
12:55The TNA Knockouts World Championship on the line here,
12:59inside the pinnacle in Nashville, Tennessee, at no surrender.
13:04Will the plan pay off for Ariana Grace and Stax?
13:10Was it all worth it for a daughter to manipulate her father?
13:17Right now, the knockouts world champion has dangerous designs.
13:22But Ariana Grace!
13:24Superplex out of the corner.
13:29It took a lot out of the champion as well.
13:33Both women are down in this TNA Knockouts World Championship bout.
13:38Come on, baby.
13:41Get up.
13:43Stax rooting on his fiance.
13:47She can make a little bit of history here tonight.
13:51Count of five, both have to the count of ten to get back to their feet so this match can
13:55continue.
13:57Capacity crowd on hand here in Nashville, Tennessee.
14:03Oh, big right hand there by Lee.
14:06And Grace answering back.
14:09Center of the ring here.
14:17Hold of Ariana Grace to go strike for strike with Lay Ying Lee.
14:23How tough is your chin?
14:29Oh, and a bump kick there connecting with the shoulder.
14:32Now Lee off of the ropes.
14:34An opportunity here for Ariana Grace.
14:38A miss with the kick.
14:39Now Lee.
14:41Back and forth here.
14:43Oh, big spinning kick.
14:46It's all about the TNA Knockouts World Championship here and no surrender.
14:51And now trying to set up for it onto the shoulders.
14:55Go for the Warriors' way.
14:57Oh, man, I go.
14:58I'm going to Grace.
14:59Grabbed the eyes there.
15:01The referee didn't see it.
15:03It was out of the referee's vision.
15:06Grace went to the eyes.
15:08Outlay the cover.
15:09Shoulder's down on a kick out.
15:13Shoulder's down on a kick out.
15:13And there's a running kick.
15:15Come on, come on.
15:18And now Stax has got leveled by Lee.
15:24Lee is fed up here.
15:29Taking out Stax on the floor.
15:34Lee is trying to end this.
15:36Oh, but Ariana Grace uses the middle rope to slow up Leying Lee.
15:42Oh, wait a second.
15:44Oh, not this.
15:46Santino Morales' Cobra.
15:49He's stolen by Ariana Grace.
15:53Could this be the plan?
15:55Oh, the Cobra.
15:56But then following it up, doing it her way.
16:02Face first into the knee.
16:05Ariana Grace is Knockouts World Champion.
16:11Here is your winner and new TNA Knockouts World Champion, Ariana Grace.
16:25You can make some argument about stolen valor and stolen Cobras.
16:31But I'm just going to say it runs in the family.
16:39TNA President Carlos Silva's in the ring.
16:45It was the Cobra followed up by the Face Buster straight to the knee from Ariana Grace.
16:53High impact that sealed the deal.
16:56And a new Knockouts World Champion.
17:00And there is one person, Tom, in my opinion, who is to blame for this.
17:05If you or anybody is upset about this, and that is squarely at the feet of Santino Morales.
17:14Ariana Grace had done nothing to earn this title match.
17:19She emotionally manipulated her father.
17:23She cheated to win.
17:25And now Ariana Grace is TNA Knockouts World Champion.
17:30We've witnessed one of the biggest upsets in TNA history, but this is a travesty.
17:36This is arguably the darkest moment in the history of the TNA Knockouts World Championship.
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