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Impression Wrestling Down Beneath Tour 2023 (June 30 & July 1) Preview

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Impression Wrestling Down Beneath Tour 2023 (June 30 & July 1) Preview

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This Friday (June thirtieth) and Saturday (July 1st), Impression Wrestling heads to Australia for the primary time within the promotion’s 21-year historical past for a double shot of exhibits on the Equex Centre in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales.

New Japan had been initially purported to be operating their inaugural Oceanic Cup on this slot however needed to cancel, with Impression doing them a stable and stepping in to run a pair of what are quintessentially home exhibits. 

The FITE bundle masking each nights’ motion is $14.99, which looks like fairly good worth for 2 playing cards that look respectable, if not blow away, on paper. 

Impression Wrestling Down Beneath Tour 2023 Night time #1
Friday, June 30

The primary occasion of Night time One is a rerun of the Towards All Odds essential occasion from earlier in June, with Alex Shelley this time fulfilling the function of champion fairly than challenger as he faces Steve Maclin. As a lot as the result appears a mortal lock with each males already booked in differing spots for Slammiversary, these two are each nice staff and if their earlier title match is something to go by, that is positive to ship in an enormous approach. 

That’s one in every of three title matches on the cardboard, with Chris Sabin and Joe Hendry additionally placing their X-Division and Digital Media straps respectively, on the road. Sabin, who gained the belt for the ninth time in his profession at Towards All Odds, faces Frankie Kazarian and Robbie Eagles in a three-way dance, whereas Hendry defends towards former two-time Impression World Champion Eddie Edwards.

Reigning Impression tag champs Ace Austin and Chris Bey are in non-title motion on this night time towards the workforce of Moose and Brian Myers. Now, that ought to have been a pleasant little setup angle for a match at Slammiversary however Impression needed to go and damage any component of intrigue by asserting a four-team match, involving Moose and Myers, for that PPV earlier than their crew landed in Australia.

Knockouts World Champion Deonna Purrazzo and Gisele Shaw are set to renew their rivalry on Night time Two and as such each are slated for warm-up singles motion on Night time One. Purrazzo faces Steph de Lander, who she beforehand beat in Impression earlier this 12 months, whereas Shaw takes on Melbourne’s Erika Reid

De Lander and Reid aren’t the one homegrown feminine abilities on the present, with Aysha, who has appeared on NWA Powerrr in current weeks, set to face Killer Kelly

Tentatively scheduled because the opener is one in every of my most anticipated weekend matches – Adam Brooks taking up the one and solely Slex, The Enterprise. Each very spectacular staff, these two had a storied feud throughout the increase interval of Melbourne Metropolis Wrestling, and this shall be their ninth profession singles match collectively. With Brooks heading to the N-1 in August and Slex simply being nice, this looks like an apparent spot for each guys to try to impress. 

Impression Wrestling Down Beneath Tour 2023 Night time #2
Saturday, July 1

Once I talked about these Australian exhibits on The Flagship not too long ago, I mentioned that the 2 native acts I particularly wished Impression to make use of on this tour had been Slex and The VeloCities. 

My want shall be happy on night time two when the latter, the workforce of Jude London and Paris De Silva, face off towards NJPW Rogue Military members and fellow Aussies The Pure Classics. The match shall be good, I’m positive, however my essential hope is that all of it ends with Scott D’Amore handing out contracts to The VeloCities. They’re far too good to be as underutilized as they’re for the time being – they bought one reserving over Mania Weekend for goodness’ sake – they usually’re the precise type of act (together with Slex) that Impression must be making an attempt to select up.

The primary occasion of Night time Two is prone to be the Impression World Tag Group title match between reigning champions ABC and the previous three-time champions The Motor Metropolis Machine Weapons. These groups have had a incredible story over the past 12 months, top-of-the-line successes of the Impression reserving workforce, and their matches have at all times delivered. I anticipate this one to be precisely the identical and though Impression might decide to offer Shelley and Sabin all of the gold (a la Samoa Joe and Kurt Angle in 2007), ABC retaining is essentially the most smart possibility.

That’s one in every of two title matches on Night time Two, with the winner of the earlier night time’s Digital Media conflict between Joe Hendry and Eddie Edwards set to defend the belt towards Moose. As a lot as a title change Down Beneath would liven issues up a bit, the constructing blocks in place for Slammiversary for all three males on this little bracket tip off Hendry recording two profitable defenses in Wagga Wagga. 

As talked about in my Night time One preview, Deonna Purrazzo faces Gisele Shaw in singles motion. It isn’t formally a title match for the time being however it might effectively be by the point these two hit the ring for his or her third one-on-one assembly of 2023. The present report sits at 1-1, so it makes all of the sense on the planet for Purrazzo to make that 2-1 and construct momentum forward of her title match with Trinity at Slammiversary. 

An intriguing singles match on Night time Two will see Steve Maclin face Frankie Kazarian. These two have met as soon as earlier than one-on-one, with Kazarian successful that November 2022 assembly by disqualification. Maclin beat Kazarian in a current tag workforce match although. With Kazarian’s budding feud with Eddie Edwards ongoing, it appears that evidently might dictate the end, defending Kazarian in defeat whereas placing Maclin over.

Like on Night time One, Robbie Eagles is in three-way motion on Night time Two. This time, ‘The Sniper of the Skies’ will face off towards Brian Myers and Adam Brooks

Finishing the lineup, in the meantime, shall be a singles match between Killer Kelly and Steph De Lander.

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