Final Impact - Impact Wrestling recap for April 13, 2023

El Reverso beats Johnny Swinger in the BTI match. During the match, "Outlandish" Zicky Dice puts Swinger's foot on the rope but is caught by the referee, and when El Reverso confronts Zicky, he is able to avoid an attack from behind from Swinger, who inadvertently knocks Zicky off the apron before Reverso rolls Swinger up for the win.

Kenny King beats Frankie Kazarian after Brian Myers gets on the apron during a ringside brawl between Team Dreamer (Tommy Dreamer, Frankie Kazarian, Yuya Uemura, Killer Kelly, Bhupinder Gujjar) and Team Bully (Bully Ray, Kenny King, Masha Slamovich, Jason Hotch, John Skyler) and Moose shows up behind the referee's back to hit Kazarian with a Spear. After the match, the brawl continues, and Team Bully comes out on top. Moose and Myers also get involved in the brawl, helping Team Bully out.

We see footage from before the show earlier tonight where Steve Maclin interrupts the Canadian national anthem and declares himself the next IMPACT Wrestling World Championship and that IMPACT Wrestling is his now. He also says there is not a single person in the building who can beat him up before KUSHIDA shows up and brawls with Maclin on the ramp and into the ring. Maclin soon gets a chair, but KUSHIDA manages to fight him off and punch him in the face until security arrives to break up the brawl. When Maclin tries to get back in the ring, KUSHIDA knocks him off the apron with a backspring kick to the face.

Laredo Kid beats Black Taurus, Lince Dorado and Rich Swann in a four-way X Division showcase. (This is Laredo Kid's first appearance in IMPACT in sometime, especially given that he had been out from last October until March of this year after rupturing his intestines during a match in Monterrey, Mexico.)

We see a video package for The Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley) vs. Bullet Club ("Inevitable" Ace Austin and Chris Bey) for the Ultimate X Match for the IMPACT Wrestling World Tag Team Championships at Rebellion.

Backstage, Jessicka Havok and Rosemary stop in front of a coffin. Rosemary tells Havok that the dark forces that kidnapped Taya Valkyrie would have been lying in wait for them if they went after them, then tries to go into the Undead Realm alone. When Rosemary opens the coffin, she finds out that their way to the Undead Realm is being blocked, and Havok says that The Coven (Taylor Wilde and KiLynn King) is responsible for this and that she will take care of Taylor Wilde tonight. Rosemary then says that she will need more time to plan.

Taylor Wilde beats Jessicka after KiLynn King gets on the apron and knees Rosemary in the gut when Rosemary confronts her.

We hear from Jordynne Grace, who says that she is waiting for Mickie James's status for Rebellion. She says that while she has lost her title and has been patient and impatient at time, she knows she will get her rematch at Rebellion. Jordynne then says that after focusing on what she cannot control, she vows to focus on what she can control, and that is regaining the Knockouts Championship to become a three-time champion.

Backstage, we hear from Eddie and Alisha Edwards. Alisha admits she was the harshest towards Eddie recently, and she was excited when Eddie put the past behind him only to find out that PCO was holding him back. As a result, she intervened. Eddie says that PCO keeps coming back and that it must come to an end, and it will come to an end at Rebellion.

Before the next match, Joe Hendry says that the tandem of him and Dirty Dango is so inspiring that it will make everyone say "We believe," which Dango gets right this time.

Dirty Dango and Joe Hendry beat The Design (Callihan and Angels) after Callihan inadvertently hits Angels, starting ana rgument between Callihan and Deaner that allows Hendry to hit the Standing Ovation on Angels for the win. After the match, Kon attacks Hendry and Dango from behind, and as The Design goes on the attack, Director of Authority Santino Marella shows up. Dango and Hendry fight back against The Design (Deaner, Kon, Angels, Callihan) and Santino beats up Deaner before hitting Angels with the Cobra.

We see a video package for KUSHIDA vs. Steve Maclin for the IMPACT Wrestling World Championship at Rebellion.

We hear from PCO, who says that Eddie Edwards tried to kill him and that he will not die, because he is not human. He proclaims that at Rebellion, he will bury Eddie Edwards and give him last rites.

We hear from Bully Ray, who says that nobody knew anything and that there is no leader in Team Bully (Bully Ray, Kenny King, Masha Slamovich, Jason Hotch, John Skyler, Moose, Brian Myers), and that they all have the same mission of defeating Team Dreamer (Tommy Dreamer, Frankie Kazarian, Yuya Uemura, Killer Kelly, Bhupinder Gujjar). He says he cannot think of anyone different that he would put on his team, and that his team is the team Tommy Dreamer should be worried about and losing sleep over every night. Bully then says that if Dreamer thought Sacrifice, what his team will do at Rebellion will be worse. He asks Dreamer why he buries himself and brings other people into this, and tells him that screwing with him will not get him anywhere. He also tells Dreamer that he wishes he was as united as Team Bully and that his team will win Hardcore War.

Tasha Steelz beats "The Quintessential Diva" Gisele Shaw when Gisele goes for the Denouement on the outside only for Tasha to dodge it and Gisele to hit her knee hard on the ring steps.

Backstage, Mickie James tells Director of Authority Santino Marella that she has just gotten off the phone with the doctor. Santino tells Mickie that the ring is all hers, then tells her "You're the best."

The crowd leaves the arena in order to give Mickie James an empty arena in which to make official her status for Rebellion.

We hear from Mickie James, who is alone in a now-darkened arena. She says that she did not how to mention what she is about to mention in front of friends and family, and says that "The Last Rodeo" was her way of proving she could still hang and be champion. She says that she could not do this without the fans. Jordynne Grace and Deonna Purrazzo watch from backstage as Mickie James says there is always someone better waiting to knock one off their perch, and while it would have been an honor to be defeated, the one thing she cannot handle is time. Mickie admits she feels twenty years old again whenever she is in the ring, but when she goes backstage, time and age catches up to her and she can feel it. She says that with Rebellion around her corner and with her injury, she must do what is right for the locker room. She thanks the fans for "The Last Rodeo" and allowing her to believe in herself again, then says that she has gotten off the phone with her doctor and has found out that she is not cleared to compete at Rebellion. Mickie says she is a woman of her word and tells Jordynne and Deonna "It's your time now" as she lays the Knockouts Championship and her hat in the middle of the ring and leaves.