Final Impact - Impact Wrestling recap for October 20, 2022

Dirty Dango beats Johnny Swinger in the BTI Match after "Outlandish" Zicky Dice accidentally hits Johnny Swinger with the fanny pack.

Backstage, Chris Bey and "Rock Hard" Juice Robinson talk about their match, but neither of them have seen "Inevitable" Ace Austin. Chris Bey looks for Ace Austin in the parking garage, finds him laid out and calls for help. Tommy Dreamer shows up to help, but Bey and Robinson do not trust him due to his being friends with Bully Ray and want to know where Bully Ray is at.

Bully Ray and Tommy Dreamer beat Bullet Club (Chris Bey and "Rock Hard" Juice Robinson). After the match, Bully Ray tells Chris bey that he has no beef with Bullet Club and that he did not attack Ace Austin.

Backstage, we hear from Heath and Rhino. Heath says tonight is the night that they make good on their promise to become tag team champs. He says Honor No More has been screwing everyone and that he did not make them forget what they did to Rhino. Rhino says that he scratched his way back to Impact for revenge and the tag team titles while Heath made their lives a living hell, and that he will take Matt Taven and Mike Bennett to hell by tearing them in half with a Gore.

Backstage, Tommy Dreamer asks Bully Ray to talk to him, as he knows he did not attack "Inevitable" Ace Austin. Bully Ray tells him he did not attack Ace Austin. After Tommy considers the issue squashed, Moose shows up. Moose says "Once a scumbag, always a scumbag," and Bully Ray laughs as Dreamer tells Moose that he has no family and calls him "a freakin' bastard," then asks how he knows it was not him. Moose says he would not know, because he would probably deny it, too.

Taylor Wilde beats Mia Yim. After the match, Mickie James shows up and says it is good to have Taylor Wilde back in Impact Wrestling, as she has watched her since she debuted in 2007 and climbed the ladder of success while she climbed it simultaneously. She says that they are now in the same ring and locker room at the same time after being ships passing in the night, and as she proposes that they have a match, "The Quintessential Diva" Gisele Shaw and VXT ("The Virtuosa" Deonna Purrazo and Chelsea Green) attack both Taylor Wilde and Mickie James. Suddenly, Jordynne Grace shows up and lays out Gisele Shaw while VXT slowly leave.

Backstage, we hear from Mickie James, Taylor Wilde and Jordynne Grace. Mickie says jealousy is an ugly thing and says that while Gisele Shaw has friends, she has friends too, and the three of them challenge Shaw and VXT ("The Virtuosa" Deonna Purrazo and Chelsea Green) to a six-Knockout tag match.

In footage from last week, Jason Hotch talks to a woman about how Joe Hendry stole his spot in the Call Your Shot Gauntlet Match and did not win, but does not mention his name. Hotch tells the woman not to say "Say his name," but she says it anyway and Hendry pops out of a nearby locker and says "We don't lose...we learn," before challenging Hotch to a match. When Hotch turns around to look at the woman, she is now wearing a Joe Hendry T-shirt, and he leaves in disgust.

Before the next match, Joe Hendry says that when you are him, life is different, as he can command a room full of people with just his own words. He says that as good as a listener he is, he is an even better wrestler, and he has heard the fans say they believe. He says that everyone believes in over 200 pounds of pure motivation and that everyone believes in Joe Hendry.

Joe Hendry beats Jason Hotch.

The Impact Plus Flashback Moment of the week is Chris Sabin cashing in Option C on Bully Ray on the July 11, 2013 of Impact Wrestling and winning the TNA World Heavyweight Championship at Destination X 2013.

Scott D'Amore is in the ring. He says the X Division is not about weight limits, but no limits, and mentions Frankie Kazarian beating "Speedball" Mike Bailey at Bound For Glory to win the X Division title for the fifth time and become the first to hold it in three different decades. D'Amore then introduces Kazarian to the ring, and Kazarian shows up. D'Amore says he has no doubt that Kazarian put a lot of thought into exercising Option C, and warns him that there is no turning back if he follows through. He says that if this happens, the X Division Championship will be vacated and up for grabs in an eight-man tournament that culminates at Over Drive, the same night that Kazarian will challenge "The Walking Weapon" Josh Alexander for the Impact World Championship. When D'Amore asks Kazarian if this is what he wants to do, Kazarian says he has never been more certain in his life as he hands the X Division Championship over. He talks about his first X Division title win and how he became a player in the industry afterwards. He says that beating a fighting champion in "Speedball" Mike Bailey for his fifth X Division title was as special as the first, and when he won it, he thought about Option C and all of his accomplishments and how he has loved wrestling, which has not always loved him back. He says that wrestling has also given him so much, including his wife and son, and that everything, including the surgeries, have been worth it as he does this for his family. Kazarian then thought about how his family is proud of him, then mentions that he is not as proud of himself because he has never won the big one and become World Champion, and that has eaten at the pit of his stomach. He says he has seen friends who have gone on to win the title and how he is better than some of those former champions, yet he has always been a bridesmaid and never a bride, and his blood, sweat and tears will be for nothing if he does not win the World title. As Kazarian declares that he is exercising Option C, he is attacked from behind by Steve Maclin. Maclin hits Kazarian with Caught In The Crosshairs, then Josh Alexander shows up and chases Maclin out of the ring before helping Kazarian.

Backstage, Alisha Edwards asks Eddie Edwards where he has been when the rest of Honor No More shows up. Eddie says he has been doing a lot of thinking and says that either this ends or he and Alisha end. When Alisha asks what that means, Eddie says everyone will find out.

Mickie James announces that Impact Wrestling will return to the Fort Lauderdale, Florida area on December 9 and 10 for Winter Warfare.

Backstage, Frankie Kazarian meets with Josh Alexander and tells him he can look out for himself, then advises Alexander not to trust Bully Ray.

Rich Swann beats Eric Young after Deaner's distraction backfires and Swann reverses a powerbomb attempt into an O'Connor Roll. After the match, a man in a yellow hoodie grabs Swann from behind so that Deaner can attack Swann and throw him back into the ring. Before Young can hit the spike piledriver, the ring goes dark. When the lights come back on, Swann has disappeared, and Sami Callihan is in the ring. Callihan chases Young and Deaner out of the ring with his baseball bat.

Backstage, we hear from Matt Cardona and Brian Myers. Cardona says he is back and that he is proud of becoming the longest-reigning Digital Media Champion. Cardona says there are four titles for them to collect, and Myers says that it is time to up their game and win the Impact World Tag Team Championships.

Heath and Rhino beat Honor No More (Matt Taven and Mike Bennett) to become the Impact World Tag Team Champions! During the match, Kenny King, PCO and Vincent show up, and as the referee tries to keep them out of the match, Maria Kanellis-Bennett tries to stop the Gore only to be grabbed by Rhino. Bennett grabs Rhino from behind and Maria produces a bag of white powder, but when Maria throws the powder, Rhino ducks and Bennett is blinded instead. Heath hits Bennett with the Wake-Up Call Taven gets in the ring and wants to know what happened, and Rhino readies the Gore. Taven avoids it, but Maria eats the Gore instead. Heath then hits Taven with the Wake-Up Call, and Heath and Rhino win the tag team titles and fulfill their self-made promise. After the match, Eddie Edwards shows up, and he mentions Alisha Edwards' ultimatum that either Honor No More ends or their relationship ends. He says that Honor No More started very publicly and made their mission known to the world, and says it is only fair that this is done publicly.Eddie says that over the last couple of weeks, he has asked himself time and again if Honor No More is worth saving, as he sees nothing but failure undermining the mission. He says Taven and Bennett have failed and want to know if they are still loyal. Taven and Bennett say they are loyal. Eddie says that Kenny King had the X Division Championship but let it slip from his grasp, and asks if he is loyal. Kenny says he is loyal. Eddie says PCO is concerned about saving his own skin, and asks Vincent if he is loyal to Honor No More or to PCO. Eddie says PCO has been a failure and the reason he lost at Bound For Glory, and asks PCO if he is loyal. PCO says nothing, and Eddie says that his hesitation is all he needed to hear. Vincent puts the black bag on PCO's head, and Eddie says PCO is nothing but a bitch. PCO rips the black bag off and finally lays out the rest of Honor No More. Vincent grabs a chair and hits PCO with it, but PCO punches the chair into Vincent's face before taking Taven and Bennett out with a somersault senton through the ropes and choke slamming Vincent into an open chair.