It’s official: Brooke Tessmacher, who has been on a hot streak of late with consecutive victories in various types of matches over Gail Kim, will get a title shot against the champion next weekend at Sacrifice.
Rookie Brooke has been very impressive since becoming a full-fledged wrestler on Impact Wrestling last year. She was voted Most Improved Wrestler by Diva Dirt’s writers and by the fans in 2011.
Best known as one half of former Knockouts Tag Team Champions, TNT with Tara, the question is how will Brooke fare in her first big singles push? So far, the former WWE Diva has picked up three victories over Gail in tag team and singles action over the past three weeks on Impact Wrestling, but when it comes to the big pay per view match for the title, will she be able to hold her own?
Sacrifice airs on pay per view on Sunday, May 13th.
Watch a clip of their last match below:
49 Comments
at 1:52 pm
i hope brooke wins and tna hires epiphany to be her rival in the near future
Acid Rain Reply:
May 6th, 2012 at 3:11 am
Are any women in OVW supposed to be called up? Sojo was already in TNA and other women are still taking indy bookings.
at 1:55 pm
Next week we have Tess vs velvet so I figured they would announce it if she won that match
velvelove Reply:
May 4th, 2012 at 1:58 pm
Or if velvet won bel would be announced
at 2:06 pm
Boy if someone told me that all members of extreme expose (including Miz hanging with them) would become champions 5 years ago lol!
Before everyone gets in “wahhhhh she doesn’t deserve it, if Brooke wins I’ll riot, f *ck that little wannabe model, wahhhhh” it’s only a title shot, I think they’re rotting and giving most knockouts shine before they move on to something else so:
COME DOWN folks, we know she isn’t going to win (be cool with it though) Gail is probably going to run through the whole roster til well…… I dunno…..
perceval Reply:
May 4th, 2012 at 9:33 pm
Ah, you beat me to the Extreme Expose bit. Who would have ever guessed that to be the group that everyone would be breakout stars from? She’s not going to win, of course, but we’ll see how far she’s progressed.
va Reply:
May 6th, 2012 at 12:32 am
i hope gail wins
at 2:16 pm
SCREW YOU HATERS MAN!! (In advance)
The fact that your looking for an “intelligent” argument is ridiculous. Your over thinking the sitch. Let Brooke have her moment and Im sure YOU will have yours someday
Brook is hot as hell and a hardhitter in the ring!! The chick kicks ass!! Pure fire!!
Gail Kim has allready ran through Mickie ODB Tara and Velvet Sky..she even ran over Madison Rayne. So Brooke LETS GO BABY!! AT Sacrifice its going to be a sweet match!!
Slapavel Reply:
May 4th, 2012 at 2:42 pm
im with you on that!!!!!
va Reply:
May 6th, 2012 at 12:33 am
brooke is an average wrestler
at 2:19 pm
Here’s the storyline that I want brooke gets the shot and velvet gets mad bringing back heel TBP :)
Acid Rain Reply:
May 6th, 2012 at 3:12 am
I’d book it.
at 2:37 pm
Im not going to hate on brooke. I think she really has done a great job in the past year. Of course Id rather be seeing something with angelina and winter but Brooke deserves sometime in the spotlight.
at 2:45 pm
i really hope that brookes wins , im not getting my hopes up, but hey if she loses, who will be the next contender. Sarita or Rosita, i love them so much, but the haven’t really did anything.
at 2:46 pm
the match from yesterday was really nice.. Brooke using Gail’s finisher was impressive..
but I still hope that Gail retains on the PPV :D
at 3:20 pm
I actually have no complaints. Brooke and Layla have worked their ASSES off and they deserve to be champions in whatever company they wrestle for
at 3:30 pm
Looking foward to this.
at 3:52 pm
I want to see that match like right NOW!! hehe
I dont know if Brooke is gonna win the title, I hope so, but she has improved a lot!!! and well Gail as a heel is fun too (even she has stole some “Maryse-manerism”).
But anyway, both of them are great, so is gonna be an awesome match!!!
at 3:54 pm
Totally looking forward to this! :)
I’m sure it will be a great match!
at 4:00 pm
I hope Brooke wins it!!! Brooke has both marketability, and youth: which most of the other Knockouts don’t have!!!
va Reply:
May 6th, 2012 at 12:35 am
marketabilty?
Marketabilty is the reason why womens wrestling isn’t respected in the usa because company looking for sex appeal instead of talent
at 4:40 pm
Sooooo proud of Brooke. From extreme expose, seeing the success of Layla and Kelly i can’t be more prouder of all three of those women. Hoping for a big upset for Brooke, Gail needs that title off, and we need a new Knock Out on top. It could be good if done right. She will most definitely be a underdog champion. And if she do win please someone make a picture with Brooke on the left with the knock out championship, Layla in the middle with the women’s title, and Kelly on the right with the Divas title.
at 4:43 pm
It seems like all of the KO’s are just lining up to get fed to Gail.
I can’t get past the disjointedness of the feuds. Gail gets a dirty pin on Velvet, which leads to nothing. Gail & Madison have a spat, which leads to nothing. Mickie teases tension, which leads to nothing.
Personally, I think it’s a little soon for Brooke, but meh. I’d like to see Velvet finally get a decent run & feud.
kristalmelinafan Reply:
May 4th, 2012 at 5:13 pm
That’s Tna they never follow up. There’s no rematch clauses or nothing. I use to like Tna because of their story lines and action, now wwe is more the story line and tna is the action. Now it’s beginning to look like wwe have both and tna has just nothing. imo
mariah. Reply:
May 4th, 2012 at 9:43 pm
Could not agree more. I’m not into what TNA is doing with their Knockouts at the moment.
Acid Rain Reply:
May 6th, 2012 at 3:13 am
Do you guys actually watch Impact anymore? I haven’t watched since maybe February.
at 5:15 pm
Happy for Brooke, I’ve really taken notice of her improvement in the ring the past few weeks. The only issue I have is basically what Melon2617 said, it feels like another person being thrown under the Gail Kim train. Not that I have a problem with Gail being champion I’d just prefer to have an ongoing fued with a payoff finish instead of these random monthly feuds and maybe TNA could start a secondary angle just to give more knockouts screen time but thats just me being greedy.
at 5:24 pm
Should be a good match though I wonder if this will be just another feud of the month for Gail or if it will lead to anything more ongoing.
at 6:49 pm
While I’d obviously love a Knockouts title run for Brooke, I’m not expecting it this soon. She was absent for months, and although she’s largely over with the fans, this feels more like a feud to put her on the map as a legitimate contender (which she’s knocking out of the park). Then again, this is TNA, and you never know what they have up their sleeve.
at 6:49 pm
yes i love brooke i really hope she dethrones Gail. I love Gail don’t get me wrong but my god her tittle run has been so BORING she squashes people left and right…and nothing ever happens. but hey thats just my opinion.
And Tbh like Beths tittle run WAY better and she was not on t.v. That much.
TheGamergirl22 Reply:
May 7th, 2012 at 1:32 am
imagine if they switched reigns
Beth dominating everyone, and Gail getting squashed ever non title match, but yeah it’s weird that when she battle Madison their still friends. If that was Beth ant Nattie that would be the main diva feud for the next 4 ppvs
at 6:50 pm
i hope this turn out to be good match brook really improved and i think she deserve that exposure .
right now the only challengers yet gail to go through rosita,sarita and odb
at 7:54 pm
As much as i like Brooke, i wouldn’t want to see her winning especially if velvet has been held back from it for so long – i’m not a velvet fan either. haha. the KO division seems like its stalling at the minute. i’d love to see TBP all lose in singles action week by week and then reunite as heels and attack Gail Kim (champion) which turns her face – a heel gail kim isnt really working anymore for me.
Kessuki Reply:
May 4th, 2012 at 7:55 pm
*by TBP you know who i mean.
number1AngelinaLovefan Reply:
May 5th, 2012 at 12:23 am
Agreed i am so SICK of Gail being a Heel
Kessuki Reply:
May 5th, 2012 at 3:04 am
you know what i want to see? Angelina VS Gail Kim and madison switches sides to help Gail lose the title. :)
at 9:11 pm
Gail seems to be too much of a pivotal investment on TNA’s part to really end her title reign anti-climatically; I love Brooke but don’t think she’s the one to end Gail’s emphatic run.
perceval Reply:
May 4th, 2012 at 10:26 pm
Yeah, I don’t see them, after building up Gail for several months, just having her randomly drop the title to whoever. This isn’t WWE. Whoever beats her, it needs to be a big deal.
Of course, this being TNA, their long term plans for Gail’s title reign may be connected to whenever Beth’s or Nattie’s WWE contracts expire. :)
adifferentsame Reply:
May 5th, 2012 at 4:35 pm
I think it would be a strategic move on WWE’s part to wait until Beth extends her contract before launching a programme with Kharma.
at 9:17 pm
I like Brooke but she should not beat Gail at the PPV for the title.
at 10:46 pm
i would have brooke win here because gail is about to get married and perhaps shes going to be taking time off. this will set up velvet feeling like i did all i could to get the title and nothing came of it. this sets up a jealousy angle were you bring back tbp because they feel they’ve been put on the backburner because of the girls tna brought in who couldn’t amass the success that tbp had and now theyre raging bitches with bad pms and they’re on the hunt for their title. tna could have tbp torment the roster until they get what they want. Or they could bring in athena and have her feud with brooke so the divison can have a new set of women to focus on.
wl75 Reply:
May 5th, 2012 at 1:00 am
I agree on this actually- Gail doesn’t have to have a rematch right away, they can hold it off until the June PPV if they wanted to.
at 2:19 am
i really hope this feud between them continues. so i want her to win and somehow lose. this push will be good for a knockout whether she win or lose.