Changes: Impact Grand Championship

Revision as of 20:41, 4 June 2018

This championship is currently Inactive. This means that this title is not still defended in a promotion and doesn't need to be updated regularly.

The Impact Grand Championship is a professional wrestling championship owned by the Impact Wrestling professional wrestling promotion. It was introduced at the August 13, 2016, taping of TNA's television program Impact Wrestling.

History

The title was introduced at he August 13, 2016, tapings of TNA's television program Impact Wrestling, after then-TNA President Billy Corgan announced that the TNA King of the Mountain Championship would be deactivated and retired in favor for the new championship. Corgan also announced an eight-man single elimination tournament that would feature new rules that would apply to the title. The new rules would be similar to how bouts were contested in professional wrestling in Europe in which each match would consist of three timed rounds, with a team of judges to determine the outcome based on points, if there is no winner via pin or submission within the time limit. The final match of the tournament took place at Bound for Glory on October 2, with Aron Rex becoming the inaugural champion by defeating Eddie Edwards (replacement for the legitimately injured Drew Galloway).

On the January 25, 2018 Genesis episode of IMPACT!, Matt Sydal defeated champion Ethan Carter III in a "No Rounds, No Judges" match. Subsequent title defenses would also be contested under normal match rules, no longer using rounds, points system or judges.

On the January 14 IMPACT! tapings, following the gifting of the title to Josh Mathews by Matt Sydal, it was announced by the company's executive vice president Don Callis via Twitter that the company would be retiring the belt, stating that there were too many championships in the company which were devaluing its top tier titles. Later during the January 14 tapings, Impact World Champion Austin Aries would challenge and defeat Sydal in a title-for-title match, with Sydal placing the Impact Grand Championship on the line.

On June 4, 2018 Impact Wrestling announced then Grand champion Austin Aries had merged the Grand championship with the Impact World Championship thus unifying the two championships.

Rules

Three 3 minute rounds, with special event matches going 5 minutes.
10 point must system.
Judging categories: Physicality, aggressiveness, controlling the action.
Wins can happen anytime via pin or submission.
If there is no winner after three rounds, a winner is decided by judge's decision.

Inaugural championship tournament (2016)

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

Drew Galloway

Sub

Braxton Sutter

Drew Galloway

Split

Eddie Edwards

Mahabali Shera

Eddie Edwards

Sub

Drew Galloway

Aron Rex

Aron Rex

Trevor Lee

Aron Rex

Eli Drake

Jessie Godderz

Eli Drake

External links

TNA Grand Championship at CAGEMATCH.net

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 On the January 14 ''IMPACT!'' tapings, following the gifting of the title to [[Josh Mathews]] by Matt Sydal, it was announced by the company's executive vice president [[Don Callis]] via Twitter that the company would be retiring the belt, stating that there were too many championships in the company which were devaluing its top tier titles. Later during the January 14 tapings, [[Impact World Championship|Impact World Champion]] Austin Aries would challenge and defeat Sydal in a title-for-title match, with Sydal placing the Impact Grand Championship on the line.
+On June 4, [[2018]] Impact Wrestling announced then Grand champion [[Austin Aries]] had merged the Grand championship with the [[Impact World Championship]] thus unifying the two championships.
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