Impact Wrestling Uncaged Results, Video Highlights, and Analysis - 15 February 2019
We've finally arrived. Impact Uncaged, featuring two huge title bouts. Johnny Impact has been surrounded by three incredibly dangerous challengers for months; the Machine Brian Cage, and the deadly duo of Killer Kross and Moose. Impact faces his toughest challenge yet, as he has to defend the Impact World Championship against all three men in a Fatal-4-Way match tonight.
We would also see the finals of the World Cup tonight, pitting Team Impact (Fallah Bah, Eli Drake, Eddie Edwards, and Sami Callihan) against Team AAA.
Tessa Blanchard was screwed out of the Knockouts Championship at Homecoming back in January when Gail Kim, the special guest referee, interfered, allowing Taya Valkyrie to steal the belt. Tonight, she got her chance at redemption in a match with the champ. Taya needed to prove that she could beat Blanchard on her own. She'd have to prove that in a dangerous Street Fight, however, and take on someone who had nothing to lose in Blanchard.
Knockouts Championship Street Fight: Tessa Blanchard vs Taya Valkyrie (c)
Blanchard rushed Valkyrie during her entrance with a chair. The champ avoided her assault, sending her back down the ramp. She brought Blanchard back inside, along with a chair. Blanchard cut her off as she got back in, then set the chair up in the turnbuckle, looking to send Valkyrie head first into the steel.
Valkyrie stopped herself, then avoided a clothesline, sending Blanchard onto her head with a German suplex. Valkyrie then laid in some heavy kicks to the spine of the challenger before tossing her to the outside. Valkyrie played to the crowd a bit, then looked to take Blanchard out for a suicide dive, only to be met with a steel chair to the face. Blanchard took control of the bout here, slamming Valkyrie into the ring post and setting her up against the barricade.
Blanchard launched a chair into her head, then connected with a running dropkick into the chair, crushing Valkyrie's head between it and the steel barricade. Valkyrie attempted to fight back, slamming a steel pan across the back of Blanchard's head, but was immediately tossed over the barricade. Blanchard cut off another comeback, superkicking Valkyrie in the knee as she dove off the barricade.
Blanchard wrapped the steel chair around Valkyrie's head and neck then shoved her into the ring post. Valkyrie stumbled to her feet as Blanchard went to pick up some cables. Back in the ring, Blanchard began choking the champion out with the cords. Blanchard ripped off Valkyrie's shirt and spit on it, before throwing it back in her face.
Blanchard stalked Valkyrie, as she stood near the corner with the chair, but was sidestepped, driving her head first into the chair. Valkyrie leveled Blanchard with multiple clotheslines, and a running double knee seemingly left Blanchard unconscious in the corner. Valkyrie set up a cooking pan in between Blanchard's legs, then hammered it in with a chair. Blanchard broke out of the pin attempt, and escaped from the Road to Valhalla, dropping Valkyrie to the mat with a full nelson facebuster.
Blanchard repeatedly pelted the back of Valkyrie's skull with chairs, but the Knockouts Champion continued to kick out. Blanchard went up top, only to be stopped by a flying chair from Valkyrie. Valkyrie dropped Blanchard from the top with a Samoan drop, crashing onto the pile of chairs in the ring below as we went to commercial break.
Back from commercial, Valkyrie and Blanchard were trading strikes. The two women then sat down in chairs and continuously slapped each other before Valkyrie had enough, sending a chair into Blanchard's face and shoving it into her skull with a boot. Valkyrie went for a clothesline when Blanchard got back up, only to be speared by the former champion into a tall board. It didn't break, however, and Blanchard speared her into it again.
Valkyrie managed to kick out, somehow but had to try to recover fast, as Blanchard got another table. Blanchard set her up on the table, only to be shoved off the top rope. Valkyrie took her down on the outside with a diving crossbody.
Back in the ring, Blanchard kicked out of the pinfall. Blanchard avoided a submission but was met with a knee to her face for her trouble. Placed on the table, Blanchard was driven through the wood with a diving double stomp. Valkyrie finally put her away.
Result: Taya Valkyrie defeated Tessa Blanchard via pinfall to retain the Knockouts Championship