Tonight in El Paso, the fuse keeps burning on the TNA vs. NXT powder keg. One week before Team TNA and the NXT outlaws lock themselves inside a five-on-five Steel Cage, TNA iMPACT! rolls into the El Paso County Coliseum with a card built entirely around consequences: grudges that need settling, gold that needs chasing, and a looming war that needs a clear advantage. Coming off a wild Final Resolution where Frankie Kazarian clung to the World Title, Stacks stole the International Championship, and The Righteous crashed the Hardys’ celebration, this episode feels less like a cool-down and more like the next hard gear shift on the road to Genesis and the historic steel cage showdown next Thursday. 

TNA’s own preview, plus Fightful, ProWrestling.net and 411mania all confirm a loaded slate of matches and key segments headlined by a brutal Knockouts Dog Collar Match, a six-way X-Division No. 1 Contenders bout, and a pivotal clash between Matt Cardona and Lexis King with the numbers advantage for next week’s cage match hanging in the balance. 

At 8/7c on AXS TV and TNA+ (Sportsnet 360 in Canada), the El Paso crowd will watch the fallout from Final Resolution collide with the future of the TNA–NXT alliance in real time. 

Here is everything advertised for tonight’s show

• Knockouts Dog Collar Match: Dani Luna vs. Indi Hartwell  
• X-Division Championship No. 1 Contenders Six-Way Match: Jake Something vs. Cedric Alexander vs. Ryan Nemeth vs. BDE vs. Jason Hotch vs. Dezmond Xavier  
• Winner Gets the Advantage in Next Week’s TNA vs. NXT Steel Cage Match: Matt Cardona (Team TNA) vs. Lexis King (NXT outsiders)  
• Tag Team Match: The Elegance Brand (Heather By Elegance & M By Elegance) vs. Harley Hudson & Myla Grace  
• Tag Team Match: The System (Brian Myers & Eddie Edwards) vs. Sinner & Saint (Judas Icarus & Travis Williams)  
• In-Ring Promo: The Hardys (Matt Hardy & Jeff Hardy) speak ahead of next week’s Steel Cage battle and their issues with The Righteous  
• In-Ring Segment: TNA World Champion Frankie Kazarian hosts another edition of The King’s Speech  

Dog Collar destiny: Dani Luna and Indi Hartwell chained together

Final Resolution ended with Léi Yǐng Lee celebrating another successful Knockouts World Title defense against her best friend Xia Brookside… until Dani Luna crashed the party, attacking both women and turning a respectful title bout into chaos. The brawl drew in Indi Hartwell, who stormed out to fight Luna and may have cost herself a clearer path to the championship in the process. 

Weeks of cheap shots, run-ins and post-match attacks have stripped away any pretense of sportsmanship between Luna and Hartwell. TNA’s official preview calls their rivalry “escalating animosity” that has reached a breaking point, and tonight the promotion literally locks them together in a Knockouts Dog Collar Match, with heavy chain linking both women and nowhere to run. 

For Luna, this is about brute force and obsession. She has made it clear that the Knockouts World Title is her target, to the point of derailing Lee’s big night and leaving bodies behind just to make a statement. Hartwell, meanwhile, has had to tap into a more unhinged side of herself—one that doesn’t back down from violence, one that’s willing to bleed to stop Luna from terrorizing the division. 

Dog Collar matches in TNA history have tended to be less about crisp wrestling exchanges and more about grit: blood, bruises, and the sickening sound of chain hitting flesh. Tonight’s bout feels like a turning point for the Knockouts division—whoever walks away from this is going to be in prime emotional position to stalk Léi Yǐng Lee’s title heading into 2026.

Cardona vs. King: Playing for the Steel Cage advantage

The TNA–NXT war has been morphing from guerilla strikes into full-fledged faction warfare. At Final Resolution, the NXT outlaws helped Stacks steal the TNA International Championship from Steve Maclin, then went so far as to threaten lighter fluid in the ring before TNA’s locker room emptied to stop them. 

That chaos led Director of Authority Santino Marella to sign a massive five-on-five Steel Cage Match for next Thursday’s iMPACT!, pitting Team TNA (Matt & Jeff Hardy, Steve Maclin, Mike Santana, and Matt Cardona) against the NXT outsiders (Lexis King, Stacks, Brooks Jensen, Tyson Dupont & Tyriek Igwe). 

Tonight, one critical piece of that match gets decided:

• Matt Cardona vs. Lexis King – Winner earns the numerical advantage inside next week’s Steel Cage.  

For Cardona, this is the continuation of a banner stretch. He survived a vicious Street Fight with Mance Warner at Final Resolution, fighting through doors, chairs, trash cans and even his own action figures to leave El Paso victorious. 

King, meanwhile, has quietly become the most dangerous chess piece of the NXT invasion. He helped Stacks capture the International Title and has leaned into his role as the manipulative architect of the NXT squad’s chaos. 

With the Steel Cage’s staggered entry rules at play, tonight’s winner essentially dictates whether the cage tilts towards relentless TNA pressure or suffocating NXT numbers. It’s not just a personal statement; it’s the tactical hinge that could swing next week’s war.

Six-way X-Division scramble: A golden ticket to Leon Slater

Leon Slater walked out of Final Resolution with the X-Division Championship still in his grasp after a chaotic title defense against AJ Francis that saw social-media standout BDE and Rich Swann play crucial roles. The message was clear: the X-Division is where TNA chaos turns into highlight-reel history. 

Tonight, a stacked field collides for the right to be next in line:

• X-Division Championship No. 1 Contenders Six-Way Match: Jake Something vs. Cedric Alexander vs. Ryan Nemeth vs. BDE vs. Jason Hotch vs. Dezmond Xavier.  

TNA’s own hype frames this as a “golden ticket” opportunity, and Last Word on Pro Wrestling notes that the bout encapsulates everything about the current X-Division landscape: established workhorses, wildcard personalities, and aerial daredevils all intersecting in one match. 

• Jake Something brings raw power and a chip on his shoulder, a base of pure strength in a division traditionally defined by speed.
• Cedric Alexander is the polished technician and high-flyer who can chain together momentum in bursts, a nightmare in multi-man environments.
• Ryan Nemeth has used charisma and antagonism to steal moments on TNA programming, but a win here would prove he’s more than just a punchline in a turkey suit.  
• BDE is the viral wild-card, someone who already meddled in X-Division affairs at Final Resolution and now finds himself in an official spotlight.  
• Jason Hotch is representing Order 4’s interests after that group’s show-stealing battle with The Rascalz at Final Resolution, bringing stable warfare straight into the contender mix.  
• Dezmond Xavier, already tied deeply to the Rascalz’ resurgence, might be the most purely explosive athlete in the match—precisely the kind of challenger who could push Slater into all-time classic territory.  

Whoever emerges from this six-way doesn’t just earn a title shot; they inherit the burden of carrying TNA’s most frenetic division into 2026 alongside Leon Slater.

Elegance vs. reality check in the Knockouts Tag scene

In the Knockouts tag team ecosystem, The Elegance Brand has been loudly—and expensively—staking their claim. Heather By Elegance and M By Elegance have paraded through the division with personal concierge in tow, making it abundantly clear that their long-term goal is the Knockouts World Tag Team Titles. 

Tonight they run into resistance from the opposite end of the spectrum:

• The Elegance Brand (Heather & M By Elegance) vs. Harley Hudson & Myla Grace.  

Hudson and Grace are not here to play supporting roles in someone else’s fashion show. They’re hungry, they’re scrappy, and they’re staring at a division where the champions have already set a high bar. A win over the Elegance Brand puts their names into the conversation for future title opportunities; a loss risks seeing them painted as just another pair of stepping-stones on the Brand’s luxury walkway.

The intrigue here isn’t just in who wins, but how. Last Word on Pro Wrestling even hints that “cheat magic” tends to follow the Elegance Brand around—if Hudson and Grace can overcome that, they’ll have something real to brag about. 

The System vs. Sinner & Saint: Can the future disrupt the machine?

The System—Brian Myers and Eddie Edwards, flanked by the looming presence of Moose and Alisha—have spent 2025 operating like a corporate takeover of TNA’s main event scene. At Final Resolution, with Frankie Kazarian retaining the World Title and the NXT invasion spilling over, the faction stood right in the eye of the storm. 

Tonight, they step into a different kind of test:

• The System (Brian Myers & Eddie Edwards) vs. Sinner & Saint (Judas Icarus & Travis Williams).  

Sinner & Saint made their presence felt during TNA’s Open Fight Night, impressing enough to earn this shot at shaking up the top of the tag division. They’re violent, fast, and fearless—exactly the kind of team that can catch an established act off guard. 

But The System are wrestling lifers who have made careers out of grinding up promising teams and spitting out cautionary tales. With JDC’s retirement looming at Genesis and the NXT war threatening the faction’s sense of control, a loss here would be a major crack in their armor. A win, on the other hand, reinforces a familiar TNA lesson: you don’t prosper in this company without learning to survive The System.

The Hardys speak before the storm

At Final Resolution, Matt and Jeff Hardy successfully defended the TNA World Tag Team Titles against NXT’s Tyson Dupont and Tyriek Igwe—only to have their celebration eerily interrupted by the arrival of The Righteous. Vincent and Dutch made their presence felt, signaling that the legendary Hardy Boyz have fresh monsters to contend with as 2026 approaches. 

Tonight, the Hardys take the microphone on iMPACT! to address two mounting pressures at once:

• The mind games of The Righteous.
• The looming Steel Cage war next Thursday, where they stand on the front lines of Team TNA.  

With TNA set to move onto AMC in January, the Hardys have become both the standard-bearers of the tag division and symbolic anchors of the brand itself. Whatever they say tonight is likely to shape not only the tag title picture heading into Genesis, but also the emotional tone of next week’s cage match.

Kazarian’s King’s Speech: A champion under siege

Frankie Kazarian went through hell at Final Resolution to put JDC to sleep with the chicken wing and keep the TNA World Championship around his waist. The moment should have been a coronation; instead, it dissolved into yet another brawl with the NXT contingent as Lexis King and company escalated their assault on the company’s core. 

Tonight, Kazarian returns to the podium for another edition of The King’s Speech. 

The questions hanging over his address are obvious:

• How does the champion view the NXT invasion after Final Resolution’s near-disaster with lighter fluid in the ring?
• What does he have to say about JDC’s impending retirement and The System’s shifting priorities?
• And with Genesis already taking shape—where Kazarian is set to defend against Mike Santana—how does he plan to carry the title into TNA’s biggest year yet?  

Kazarian has built his late-career run on a mixture of veteran gravitas and ruthless opportunism. Tonight’s speech is his chance to remind both rosters—TNA and NXT alike—that the king is still firmly seated on the throne, even as the walls close in.

From the chains of the Knockouts Dog Collar Match to the chessboard of the Steel Cage advantage, tonight’s TNA iMPACT! is the kind of episode that rewrites power rankings in a single night. With Final Resolution in the rear-view and Genesis plus TNA’s AMC era on the horizon, every match in El Paso feels like a step farther down a road there’s no turning back from.

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