00:03Following contest, it's scheduled for One Fall.
00:06Introducing first, accompanied by Mila Moore and Victoria Crawford.
00:11From Charlotte, North Carolina, she's the undeniable diamond,
00:20Tessa Blanchard.
00:22This past weekend at No Surrender, which you can watch back anytime on demand on
00:26TNA+.
00:27We saw a Knockouts Battle Royal to determine the future number one contender
00:31to the Knockouts World Championship.
00:33Tessa Blanchard thought she had won it, but she forgot about Jodie Threatt.
00:38Jodie Threatt, who we thought was eliminated, but was hanging on literally by her feet.
00:44Surprising Blanchard at the end of it all and getting herself a guaranteed Knockouts
00:49World Title shot.
00:51The two at a confrontation backstage later that night at No Surrender,
00:55and that's led us to this matchup tonight on TNA Thursday Night Impact on AMC.
01:01And her opponent, from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Jodie Threatt.
01:10Jodie Threatt is the wild child in certainly a chaotic time for the Knockouts Division.
01:17She's got herself a guaranteed future TNA Knockouts World Title shot.
01:22After that battle of Royal at No Surrender, people that same night at No Surrender,
01:26and her old tag team partner, Dani Luna, returned.
01:30Doomsday Dani Luna also has a guaranteed future TNA Knockouts World Title shot.
01:35It's a crowded picture for Ariana Grace, not to mention the former champion, Lei Ying Li.
01:42Of course, Lei Ying Li has a rematch in her back pocket, and if Tessa Blanchard is successful in this
01:47match, she just beat one of the contenders for the Knockouts World Title.
01:53Maybe that bumps her up the list for a Knockouts World Title shot.
01:57Tessa Blanchard has made it very clear as a two-time world champion in this company,
02:02she will go after the TNA Knockouts World Championship, quote, whenever she pleases.
02:09Anyone wearing that title is on borrowed time as far as Tessa Blanchard is concerned.
02:15One of the toughest, roughest, most effective technicians in all of professional wrestling.
02:25Wait, great counter there by Jodie Threatt.
02:27Shoulders down, Threatt trying to put away Blanchard.
02:34Now Jodie Threatt digging into the submission game, trying to turn over Blanchard, who counters, though.
02:41Trying to set up for that Boston craft, perhaps.
02:44And the move, oh, clotheslines here in the corner.
02:47This has been a staple of Jodie Threatt during her time here at TNA Wrestling.
02:52You can't forget, of course, Mila Moore, Victoria Crawford on the outside.
02:57You always got to have eyes in the back of your head.
03:00About them.
03:01Threatt bursts into the corner and nearly took out Blanchard.
03:05Meanwhile, Jodie Threatt, ever since the explosion of Spitfire, has kind of been on her own.
03:12No backup is a dangerous situation when you're with someone like Blanchard, Crawford, and Moore.
03:18To your point, the tag team Spitfire was once Jodie Threatt and the aforementioned Danny Luna.
03:24They captured two Knockouts World Tag Team Championships together.
03:28Blanchard in control of Jodie Threatt here in Nashville.
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04:04As Blanchard has been taking it here to Jodie Threatt relentlessly.
04:11And this is the world, this is the zone that Tessa Blanchard lives in.
04:17You can call it being a bully.
04:19You can call it being excessive, whatever you want.
04:22I call it effective.
04:26There's plenty of people in the TNA locker room that would call it exactly that for the record.
04:31Tessa Blanchard putting all of her body weight on Jodie Threatt.
04:36Double stop right to the midsection.
04:39Blanchard's got the peanut gallery here at ringside with Mia Lamour and Victoria Crawford.
04:44Look, you can take pot shots all you want, but all it takes is one errant strike from them,
04:49distraction here, whatever, all the things you hate about everything here in wrestling, Tom.
04:54But all it takes is one moment and having that kind of backup can make all the difference.
04:59This nasty abdominal stretch by Tessa Blanchard.
05:04Right after the ribs, been focusing the ribs of Jodie Threatt this entire matchup.
05:11I have to ask you, we heard from Ariana Grace, the new TNA Knockouts World Champion earlier on tonight.
05:16Sounded mighty proud of herself.
05:18Do you think she's thought about what comes next for her as champion?
05:22We talked about all these challengers.
05:24I mean, look, I agreed with everything she had to say.
05:27You use every tool you have, whether people like it or not.
05:31But to your point, she is now sitting at that precipice on that mountaintop.
05:35I hope she's ready to continue digging into the bag of tricks as all these challengers come knocking.
05:41I think Ariana Grace was so out to stick it to her father, Santino Morella.
05:46Maybe she's basking in the victory a little bit too much.
05:50Maybe.
05:50Only time will tell.
05:52Maybe more fuel will be added to that fire to really stick it to Santino Morella.
05:58Oh, and now Jodie Threatt really sticking it to Tessa Blanchard.
06:02There's a release German suplex.
06:05That's a big opening for Jodie Threatt, who's had a lot of her breath taken away from her.
06:12All that damage to the ribs.
06:14You can't breathe.
06:16You can't fight.
06:18Now Threatt all over Blanchard's center of the ring.
06:22Threatt thinking about pop, shove it.
06:24This is how she eliminated Tessa Blanchard from the Battle Royal and no surrender.
06:29There's Crawford and Moore getting involved.
06:31That'll draw a disqualification.
06:33Well, clearly Blanchard's pals and Tessa Blanchard herself are sick of it.
06:40They don't need the official win.
06:45You will never, ever be on my level.
06:54I'll never, ever be on my level.
06:56I'll never, ever be on my level.
06:57I'm not, I'm not.
07:04Trying to send a message here
07:07to Jodie Threatt setting up.
07:10Continuing the attack on the ribs.
07:13Oh!
07:16Blanchard with those elbows right through the ribs.
07:20Threat's defenseless, but wait a minute.
07:22There's Harley Hudson and Myla Grace.
07:26Finally a little bit of backup for Jody Threat.
07:30Hudson and Grace who warned Threat about Blanchard, Crawford, and Moore back at No Surrender.
07:37They were also a part of the battle royal.
07:39Hudson and Grace supporting Threat.
07:41We're going to try and regroup here because coming up next, tag team action.
07:45Grace Swan and BDE against Center and Saint is next.
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