Victory Road (2021)

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The 2021 Victory Road was a

Victory Road chronology, and the first Impact Plus special to stream on YouTube, following the launch of the "Impact Wrestling Insiders" membership program on the platform.[1][2]

10 matches were contested at the event. In the main event,

Impact X Division Championship
.

Production

Background

Victory Road was an annual

Impact Wrestling (then known as Total Nonstop Action Wrestling) between 2004 and 2012. In 2013, TNA discontinued most of its monthly pay-per-view events in favor of the new pre-recorded One Night Only events.[3] Victory Road would be revived as a "One Night Only" event in 2014
, and a special edition of Impact's weekly television series in 2017.

Storylines

The event featured

weekly television program.[4]

At

Brian Myers to retain the title, after which the title match between Cage and Austin was announced for Victory Road.[6]

Since winning the

X Division Championship at Rebellion, Josh Alexander retained his title against multiple wrestlers.[5][7][8][9] On the September 2 episode of Impact!, Alexander issued an open challenge to any former X Division Champion, and his challenge was answered by Jake Crist. After defeating Crist, eight-time X-Division Champion Chris Sabin came out and issued his own challenge to which the title match between Alexander and Sabin was announced for Victory Road.[10][11]

On the August 19 episode of Impact!, Sami Callihan saved his old rival

alliance against Edwards and Callihan on the September 2 episode of Impact!, where they attacked Edwards.[10] On the September 9 episode of Impact!, Callihan saves Edwards' wife Alisha from an attack by Moose and Morrissey, then Edwards and Callihan join forces to beat them.[14] Later it was announced that Edwards and Callihan would face Moose and Morrissey at Victory Road.[15]

At Emergence,

World Tag Team Championship.[5] On the August 26 episode of Impact!, Swann and Mack defeated them in a non-title bout, but the Good Brothers took them out and planted Mack with a double powerbomb through a table.[13] On the September 9 episode of Impact!, Anderson defeated Swann in a Bunkhouse Brawl match.[14] The following week, Anderson explained how having Gallows by his side helped him during that match, and Mack was in the hospital and couldn't assist Swann. The two came across Mack using crutches but revealed that he was fine, and attacked them alongside Swann. Impact EVP Scott D'Amore met with Swann and Mack to announce that they will face the Good Brothers for the tag titles at Victory Road.[16]

At Emergence, Matt Cardona defeated Rohit Raju, but was attacked by Shera afterwards.[5] On the September 2 episode of Impact!, Raju and Shera defeated Cardona and Chelsea Green in a tag team match, after Raju took out the latter with a knee strike.[10] On the September 16 episode of Impact!, Cardona attacked Raju and Shera earlier in the day, and was berated by Scott D'Amore when he came to him later that night. D'Amore announced that a no disqualification match between Cardona and Raju would take place at Victory Road, as long as the former does not lay his hands on the latter until that day.[17]

Results

No.Results
Impact World Championship[6]
12:05
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match

References

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  6. ^ a b IMPACT Wrestling Staff (August 20, 2021). "Christian Cage Defends the IMPACT World Title Against Ace Austin at Victory Road". Impact Wrestling. Archived from the original on September 15, 2021. Retrieved August 21, 2021.
  7. ^ IMPACT Wrestling Staff (May 15, 2021). "Under Siege 2021 Results". Impact Wrestling. Archived from the original on May 25, 2021. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
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