TNA is in Nashville, Tennessee, tonight for No Surrender, and all the Knockouts gold is on the line.
No Surrender kicks off with a Knockouts Battle Royal involving every single Knockout in the division vying for a chance at the TNA Knockouts World Championship.
The Diamond Collective takes control of most of the match until Tessa Blanchard eliminates her own team members. The last standing are Blanchard, Mara Sadé, Elayna Black, and Jody Threat, hanging on by a thread. Sadé eliminates Black, but Blanchard pushes Sadé out of the ring to eliminate her. Blanchard boasts, thinking she’s won, but gets dumped out to make Threat the No.1 Contender.
Blanchard is seething after losing an opportunity at the Knockouts title. And Threat asks what she’s up to next Thursday. Blanchard says she’s not afraid of threats and is ready to eliminate them.
TNA Knockouts World Tag Team Champions, The Elegance Brand, will defend their titles against Xia Brookside and Indi Hartwell. Brookside and Hartwell have consistent victories over M and Heather By Elegance in singles action. But, will team up tonight for the first time to see if they stand a chance of holding the titles.
Hartwell plays in front of the face of The Elegance Brand, but it costs her as she gets raked in the eyes. Brookside gets the tag in, but yet again, The Elegance Brand is up to their tricks as Mr. Elegance gets involved.
Brookside is in deep trouble until Hartwell finally takes it into her own hands and gets the hot tag in. Unfortunately, Hartwell eats a Nip & Tuck, and despite having her foot on the rope, Ash By Elegance prevents the break as The Elegance Brand successfully defends their titles.
TNA Hall of Famer, Mickie James, appears in Nashville and reminds The Elegance Brand what legends are made of.
NXT’s Arianna Grace is set to challenge for the Knockouts title against Lei Ying Lee. Earlier, she was evicted from ringside, and her boyfriend Stacks, had lost the TNA International Championship. Grace vows that if one more thing goes wrong, she’ll break up with him right before Valentine’s Day.
The match gets underway, and Grace is immediately overwhelmed by Lee’s offense. Suddenly, Dani Luna returns to interrupt the match and attacks security, sending her to the back. With the distraction, Grace finally gets her offense in on Lee.
They spill to the floor, and Lee hits the ringpost and takes a suplex on the floor thanks to Grace.
Lee begins to fight back to pick up where she left off after Luna’s distraction, but Grace is taking the fight back to her. Grace gets propped onto the top rope and eats a Superplex as both women are down.
Grace eats a roundhouse kick by and is about to get taken out by Lee until Stacks makes a distraction with the Knockouts title. Lee takes out Stacks, and Grace uses father’s Cobra she stole and follows up with a Knee Facebuster to become the new TNA Knockouts World Champion.
Marella is furious at Grace, but runs into Daria Rae instead. Rae questions his professionalism, reminds him of her power, and why she’s “The S.U.I.T.”
What did you think of No Surrender? Did the right women walk out champions? Is there more in store in the Knockouts division for James? And can Threat fend off Blanchard? Let us know in the comments below!