Final Impact - GFW Impact Wrestling recap for September 7, 2017

We see footage from earlier today where Eli Drake, Chris Adonis and Matt Sydal enter the building.

Petey Williams and Sonjay Dutt beat Caleb Konley and Trevor Lee.

The Latin-American Xchange (Santana and Ortiz) beat John Bolin and Zachary Wentz. oVe (Dave and Jake Crist) are seen watching from backstage as LAX dominates. After the match, oVe shows up. LAX may claim to be family, but they are brothers and a tag team this birth. They have heard talk that LAX is the best tag team on the scene...but that was before they showed up. They are the best in the world, and they plan to prove it by taking the tag titles. Konnan says he LAX are the ones who dictate the terms, and tells them to head to The Crash to show what they're made of. oVe is up for the challenge.

Taryn Terrell and Sienna beat Gail Kim and Allie after Sienna uses Allie's momentum against her to get on top of Allie for a pinfall after a top rope cross body. After the match, Taryn Terrell and Sienna attack Gail Kim and Sienna, then Rosemary runs in and fights them both only for the numbers game to catch up. Suddenly, the moment is broken by the debuting Taya Valkyrie (also known as just Taya in Lucha Underground), who steps in the ring and stares down Sienna before attacking Rosemary and hitting her with a Widow's Peak.

We hear from Eli Drake before his match for the GFW Global Championship tonight against Matt Sydal.

Jim Cornette shows up. He thanks everyone at home for tuning in, as is a great time for GFW with the international competition and new talent. After plugging the GFW Global Championship main event, he says that he sees Eli Drake cracking and Matt Sydal coming on strong. After he predicts that Matt Sydal will become the new GFW Global Champion, Johnny Impact shows up. He says Cornette is talking about who the man is. He says he is the man. He then challeneges the winner of Drake vs. Sydal. Johnny says he respects Sydal and would love to face him. He doesn't respect Drake, but also wants to face him, too. Whomever he faces, worlds will collide. Suddenly, The Latin American Xchange (Konnan, Santana, Ortiz, Low Ki, Diamante) shows up. Konnan says Johnny's opinion on the title scene is as worthless as his AAA Megas Championship. He says Cornette overlooked LAX. Cornette tells LAX they are not being discriminated against, nor are they getting any favors. Low Ki and Johnny scream at each other. Low Ki tells Johnny this is GFW, not WWE or Lucha Underground. Johnny responds by fighting LAX himself. Amazingly, Johnny manages to hold his own, and security has to rush in and separate all of LAX from one man. Not surprisingly, some of the security guards get knocked out, and LAX has to hold back one of their own in Low Ki. Security guards try to hold Johnny Impact back, but he tries to get his hands on Low Ki one more time before LAX get out of there. Cornette tells LAX to get out or else they will all be suspended.

A red-in-the-face Cornette makes Johnny Impact vs. Low Ki to decide a new #1 contender for the GFW Global Championship official for next week. He hopes they beat each other to death.

At the behest of Joseph Park, Grado tells Laurel Van Ness the wedding is off. Van Ness snaps after Grado leaves.

We see a mini-video documentary of GFW at AAA's TripleMania XXV, where we see and hear about the experiences of the GFW talent and staff as they spend time in Mexico. The incident between Sexy Star and Rosemary is briefly discussed.

We learn more about Dezmond Xavier.

AAA's Pagano is coming soon to GFW.

It is announced that Eddie Edwards is the first American-born wrestler to win Pro Wrestling Noah's GHC Heavyweight Championship.

We learn more about Garza Jr.

"The Stand-by Wrestler" Richard Justice is still backstage, even if Kongo Kong has caused him to be in serious pain. He tells Mackenzie Mitchell "Never take yourself out of the game, because you might not be able to get back in."

We hear from Matt Sydal before his match against Eli Drake for the GFW Global Championship.

Eli Drake retains the GFW Global Championship against Matt Sydal. During the match, Chris Adonis places the GFW Global Championship on the apron, then places a steel chair inside the ring. This distracts the referee, allowing Drake to attempt to hit Sydal in the face with the Global title only to fall victim to a knee. After a near-fall, Sydal goes up top again, but when Chris Adonis gets on the apron, Sydal hits him instead of going for the top rope Shooting Star Press on Eli Drake as originally planned. This last-second deviation causes the ref to be pre-occupied on checking on Chris Adonis, and Eli Drake tries to use the Global title as a weapon behind the referee's back again, this time successfully.

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