TNA Snake Eyes TV Taping Spoilers – Return of TNA Xplosion, Nic Nemeth & Kazuchika Okada in Action

TNA Wrestling held their first set of television tapings under their newly rebranded name on Sunday at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada.

This new set of tapings was Snake Eyes themed and will be for a future episode(s) of TNA Impact!

Among the notable moments from the tapings included the official announcement of the return of TNA Xplosion. This series was previously held by TNA/Impact from 2001 to 2021 and was eventually replaced with Before The Impact as the lead-in pre-show for Impact’s weekly Impact! television show. It is currently not known if Xplosion will be replacing Before The Impact or will be its own separate show.

#TNA Xplosion is BACK! pic.twitter.com/4kRyw4c3PU

— miguel contreras (@migueljoto) January 15, 2024

Other notable moments from the tapings included Nic Nemeth making his official in-ring debut for TNA and Okada wrestling in his first match under the TNA banner since June of 2011.

Full results from TNA’s Snake Eyes spoilers on January 14:

TNA Xplosion:

• Rhino defeated Shera
• Joe Hendry defeated Rich Swann

TNA Snake Eyes:

• Six-way match – Jake Something defeated KUSHIDA, El Hijo del Vikingo, Trey Miguel, Laredo Kid, and “Speedball” Mike Bailey
• Nic Nemeth gave an in-ring promo talking about accomplishing a lot in his wrestling career but only in WWE. Nemeth stated that his goal is to become the TNA World Champion and will celebrate with the fans when he does it and it will be the best night of his career. Nemeth also stated that he first wants to earn it. This led to Steve Maclin coming out to interrupt. Maclin talked about his road to glory in TNA and compared it to Nemeth’s who he called a phony and said he had 20 years to tell his story. Maclin also stated that it was his time and fans will never ask what happened to Nic Nemeth and instead they’ll ask what happened to Dolph Ziggler. Nemeth responded by hitting a Zig Zag to Maclin to end the segment.
• Xia Brookside defeated Tasha Steelz
• Grizzled Young Veterans (James Drake & Zack Gibson) defeated Eric Young & Frankie Kazarian. After the match, Kazarian attacked Young in response to Kazarian accidentally punched Young during their match that led to their loss.
• Jai Vidal gave an in-ring promo. Vidal stated that he broke out in Vegas and from what he’s seen, he’s reminded why he left. Vidal then issued an open challenge for a match, which was responded to by PCO.
• PCO defeated Jai Vidal
• Chris Bey defeated Kevin Knight. Following the match, Grizzled Young Veterans came out and attack Bey and Ace Austin laying out both of them.
• Dirty Dango & Oleg Prudius defeated Dante King & Damian Drake. This was a one-sided match with Prudius destroying the other team while Dango was busying on his phone and only bothered to tag himself in for the finish.
• TNA Knockouts World Championship – Jordynne Grace (c) defeated Trinity. Following the match, Gisele Shaw & the Shawntourage ran out and attacked Grace and Trinity.
• Nic Nemeth defeated Zachary Wentz. Following the match, Steve Maclin ran out and attacked Nemeth leading to Nemeth fighting back and hitting a Zig Zag on Maclin to stand tall in the end.
• MK Ultra (Masha Slamovich & Killer Kelly) defeated Jody Threat & Dani Luna. Following the match, MK Ultra attacked Threat & Luna.
• Josh Alexander defeated Will Ospreay. Following the match, TNA President Scott D’Amore came out and gave a heartfelt promo thanking both men for their work in the company.
• Kazuchika Okada & Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin & Alex Shelley) defeated The System (Moose, Brian Myers, & Edward Edwards)

Source: Fightful.com