Impact Wrestling Announces Slammiversary Date
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Rebellion PPV, a teaser video was shown for this year’s
Slammiversary taking place in July. Today, Impact announced the official date for the PPV is Saturday, July 17.
As noted, the promo featured images of Samoa Joe, Chelsea Green, Mickie James, and Kazuchika Okada.
Two bigger shows are set to take place before that, starting this Saturday at
Under Siege. AAA Mega/Impact and AEW World Champion Kenny Omega and The Good Brothers go against Eddie Edwards and Impact World Tag Team Champions FinJuice. That show streams on Impact Plus and FITE.
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Rich Swann faced Kenny Omega at the Impact Wrestling Rebellion PPV this past Sunday, where he lost his Impact World title in the main event. According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Swann had his bell rung at one point in the match and was “out of it” after a spin kick. He was said to be “dead weight” in the final minutes and Omega had to “take over.”
While it appeared that Swann was simply blown up and tired, he was simply trying to ‘regain his bearings’.
Impact Wrestling TV
Aired April 29, 2021 on AXS TV
Highlights aired from the Impact Wrestling Rebellion PPV which featured Kenny Omega vs. Rich Swann in a title vs. title match as the main event…
The show cut to the locker room bickering and standing in front of Scott D’Amore’s office. D’Amore got out the office and correctly assumed that everyone wants to wrestle Kenny Omega. D’Amore told everyone that they can leave because he’s going to address the state of the championship inside of the ring. Once everyone left, Don Callis walked out of D’Amore’s office and thanked D’Amore for dispersing the mob of wrestlers after Kenny Omega.
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that Impact Wrestling Rebellion was the most successful PPV for the company in ‘many years’, although exact numbers are unknown at this time.
The streaming numbers at the start of the show were higher than the total number of buys for any show since Anthem bought the company from Dixie Carter in 2017. It was also the largest streaming number in Impact history.
For television PPV (based on the numbers from one major company), this was double what Hard to Kill did and seven times the total buys (and nine times the paid buys) of Bound for Glory. The TV number, including late buys, will likely increase another 10%. It’s ahead of the numbers they did during their final years on Spike, but nowhere near the peak with Kurt Angle vs. Samoa Joe and Kurt Angle vs. Sting. TV PPV buys look to be around 9,300 early in the week and streaming are believed to be more than that.