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Destination X (2017) (aka Impact!: Destination X) was a

Impact!.[1][2][3]

Five

Dave Crist and Jake Crist) made their GFW debut at the event.[4][5][6] The event also marked the returns of Jim Cornette, Petey Williams and Taryn Terrell to GFW.[7][8][9]

Storylines

Main event match

On the July 20 episode of

El Hijo del Fantasma in a three-way match. However, Lashley interrupted Sydal and demanded a title shot of his own and then both men insulted each other on mic, leading to Lashley attacking Sydal.[10] On the July 27 episode of Impact!, Lashley demanded that executive Bruce Prichard give him a title shot at Destination X. However, Sydal interrupted Lashley and attacked him as retribution for the previous week.[11] On July 28, it was announced that Lashley would compete against Sydal in a match at Destination X, with the winner getting a title shot of his choice.[12][13]

Undercard matches

At Slammiversary XV, the

Knockouts division ever.[10] This came to a head on the August 10 episode of Impact!, where Jarrett announced that Sienna would defend the title against Gail Kim at Destination X.[15]

On July 4, it was announced that the

All American Wrestling, Drago representing Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide, Sammy Guevara representing Wrestle Circus and Taiji Ishimori representing Pro Wrestling Noah.[17] Ishimori and Xavier qualified for the tournament final, setting up a match between the two in the final of Super X Cup at Destination X.[18]

On the July 6 episode of Impact!,

X Division Championship belt, proclaiming himself to be the next X Division Champion.[19] Dutt attacked Lee the following week on Impact!,[20] and then Bruce Prichard banned Dutt from the Impact Zone.[10][11] On the August 3 episode of Impact!, Dutt defeated Lee under a disguise as the masked Mumbai Cat. After the match, Dutt challenged Lee to a ladder match for the X Division Championship at Destination X until he was escorted out of the arena by security guards on Prichard's orders.[21] On the August 10 episode of Impact!, the match was made official for Destination X.[15]

On July 27, vignettes began airing on Impact!, hyping the debut of Crist Brothers (Dave Crist and Jake Crist) as a tag team called Ohio Versus Everything (oVe).[11] The following week, on Impact!, it was announced that oVe would make its GFW debut at Destination X.[21]

Cancelled match

At

Paige.[22] As a result, on August 14, GFW stripped Patron off the Unified World Championship, thus cancelling his scheduled Destination X match against Ki.[23]

Event

Preliminary matches

The event kicked off with

Unified Knockouts Championship against Gail Kim. Kim nailed an Eat Defeat to Sienna but KM distracted the referee and Kim knocked off KM from the apron, which allowed Taryn Terrell to hit a Taryn Cutter to Kim. Sienna then nailed an AK47
to Kim to retain the title.

After the match, the executive

Unified World Championship to Lashley. However, Jim Cornette came out to announce that he was the new executive and fired Prichard and then decided that a Gauntlet for the Gold
would take place for the vacant title on the following week's Impact!.

Next, the final round of the

450° splash to Xavier for a near-fall and then Xavier nailed a Jocay-le
to Ishimori to win the tournament.

Next,

Caleb Konley interfered in the match on Lee's behalf while Dutt was climbing the ladder to retrieve the title belt and attacked Konley until Petey Williams made his return to GFW and delivered a Canadian Destroyer
to Konley, allowing Dutt to knock Lee off the ladder and retrieve the title belt to retain the title.

In the penultimate match of the event,

Zachary Wentz
. oVe knocked out Cade with the high low kick for the win.

Main event match

In the main event,

shooting star press by Sydal by raising his knees up and attempted to hit a spear
but Sydal sidestepped it and rolled him up for the win.

Reception

Larry Csonka of 411 Mania gave a rating of 5.5 to Destination X, considering "the card was good on paper, even with losing the GFW title match" and criticized GFW on reversion to "interference in title matches, old names returning, and some sort of authority figure/power struggle angle." According to him, "the matches greatly under delivered, mostly average, especially the X-division matches." He thought that Destination X "had a ton of potential," but "failed to deliver and felt like the usual poorly planned “reboot” style episode we get from the company. This wasn’t the best first step on the road to Bound for Glory; you have to do better when there's so much product out there to choose from."[24]

Aftermath

Eli Drake won the vacant Unified World Championship (renamed to GFW Global Championship) in a Gauntlet for the Gold match on the August 24 episode of Impact!.[25] The following week, on Impact!, Jim Cornette announced that Matt Sydal would receive his earned title shot against Drake for the Global Championship on the September 7 episode of Impact!.[26]

Petey Williams' interference in the X Division Championship match led to Williams making his in-ring return to Impact for the first time since 2009, defeating Caleb Konley on the August 31 episode of Impact!. Trevor Lee attacked Williams after the match until Sonjay Dutt made the save.

falls count anywhere match between Dutt and Lee for the X Division Championship on the September 14 episode of Impact!.[28]

Taryn Terrell explained her betrayal of Gail Kim, saying that Kim never thanked or appreciated her for accompanying Kim during the latter's

Hall of Fame induction and insulted her, saying that Kim cheated on her husband Robert Irvine and the Knockouts division, leading to Kim rushing to the ring to brawl with her.[25] Allie confronted Terrell on her attitude towards Kim, leading to Terrell attacking her.[26] On the September 7 episode of Impact!, Sienna and Terrell defeated Kim and Allie in a tag team match and continued to attack them after the match, until Rosemary made the save. Taya Valkyrie made her GFW debut and chased Sienna and Terrell away from the ring and then attacked Rosemary.[27] The six Knockouts would feud with each other over the following weeks, leading to a six-Knockout tag team match being announced for Victory Road, pitting the team of Sienna, Terrell and Valkyrie against Kim, Allie and Rosemary.[29]

Taiji Ishimori and Dezmond Xavier would compete in a Destination X rematch on the January 18, 2018 episode of Impact!, where Ishimori defended the X Division Championship against Xavier. Ishimori retained the title.[30]

Results

No.ResultsStipulationsTimes
1
Tag team match
02:18
5Matt Sydal defeated LashleySingles match where the winner gets a GFW title shot of his choosing14:52
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match

Tournament bracket

Quarterfinals
(TV –
Impact!
) 		Semifinals
(TV – Impact!) 		Finals
(TV – Destination X)
         
Dezmond Xavier
 		Pinfall
Idris Abraham 11:57
Dezmond Xavier Pinfall
Drago 15:10
Drago Pinfall
Sammy Guevara 04:38
Dezmond Xavier Pinfall
Taiji Ishimori 08:56
A. C. H. Pinfall
Andrew Everett 06:25
ACH 10:07
Taiji Ishimori Pinfall
Davey Richards 08:30
Taiji Ishimori Pinfall

References

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