Impact Wrestling Homecoming is a professional wrestling event held by Impact Wrestling. It was established in 2019, marking the promotion's return to its initial home arena, The Asylum in Nashville, Tennessee, where Impact originally held its weekly pay-per-view events from 2002 to 2004 when the promotion was still called Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). Initially held as a pay-per-view (PPV) in 2019, the event was revived in 2021 as a special that aired exclusively on the promotion's streaming service, Impact Plus. The 2021 event was held at Impact's new home arena, Skyway Studios, also located in Nashville.
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American professional wrestler, better known by her ring name Alexxis Nevaeh, was signed to Impact Wrestling under the ring name Alisha Edwards. She previously used the ring names Lexxus and Alexxus in New England Championship Wrestling, Chaotic Wrestling, and World Women's Wrestling. She also worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling using the name Mercedes Steele.
New England Championship Wrestling; World Women's Wrestling
Lexxus debuted in May 2006, at a joint New England Championship Wrestling (NECW) and World Women's Wrestling (WWW) show on May 7, defeating Mia Love. Over the next few weeks, she lost to Tanya Lee, but defeated Della Morte. This win however, would prove to be her last in 2006, as she lost to Tanya Lee, Kacee Carlisle by disqualification, Portia Perez, and Alicia. On January 27, 2007, at NECW's SnowBrawl show, she challenged Tanya Lee for the World Women's Wrestling Championship, but was unsuccessful. She broke her losing streak at the NECW/WWW show, Pick you Poison, on February 25, when she defeated Portia Perez. At the NECW/WWW 1st Anniversary Spectacular show on March 25, Lexxus defeated Mistress Belmont, who was accompanied by Della Morte. After the match, Morte attakced Lexxus, and attempted to burn her with a curling iron, but Ariel saved her.
Lexxus then began challenging for the World Women's Wrestling Championship, defeated the championship Tanya Lee on two occasions in non-title matches. When she gained an opportunity to win the championship at the Double Intensity event, however, she was unsuccessful. On August 12, Lexxus competed in two matches at a NECW/WWW show. In the first, she lost to Tanya Lee by disqualification in a singles match. In the second, however, she won the championship in a four-way match, defeating Tanya Lee, Natalia and Jana on August 12, 2007. She successfully defended the championship against Tanya Lee, Ariel, Mistress Belmont and Sammi Lane. She lost the championship to Ariel on March 9, 2009, after holding it for a year and a half. She regained the title from Ariel after defeating 10 top WWW stars first to get the title shot. She lost it to Mistress Belmont, who lost it back to Alexxis on August 8, 2010 in a steel cage match.
The Blowout Boys briefly separated in September 2008, and Lexxus remained with Danny while Tommy hired his girlfriend, Adriana, as his new manager. On November 7 at Night of Chaos, Lexxus defeated Adriana in a match where the Blowout Boys were handcuffed together at ringside. On December 5, Lexxus changed her ring name to Alexxis at the event where Tommy turned on Adriana and rejoined Alexxis and Danny E. The Blowout Boys' first match since they reunited was on February 6, 2009 at Cold Fury 8: Infinite Possibilities, when they defeated Fred Sampson and Psycho.
On June 3, 2011, Alexxis won the CW Women's Championship by defeating Nikki Roxx. After three title defenses over Ivy, Mercedez KV and Nikki Roxx; Alexxis lost the Women's Championship to Mercedez KV in an "I Quit" match on December 2.
Deonna Kupryk is an American professional wrestler currently signed to Impact Wrestling, where she is a former two-time Impact Knockouts Champion. She also appears in Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) — with which Impact has a partnership — where she is a former AAA Reina de Reinas Champion. She is also a former Ring of Honor Women's World Champion.
Deonna began her career in 2012, wrestling in various independent promotions, eventually appearing national promotions Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and Ring of Honor (ROH). She also worked for the Japanese promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom (Stardom). In 2018, while under contract with ROH, she was announced to be part of the independent event All In. Later she signed a contract with WWE and was assigned to the NXT brand. However, she was released in 2020. After her release, Deonna signed with Impact Wrestling (the former TNA) and quickly rose through the ranks in the women's division, and would become a four-time women's champion between Impact, AAA, and ROH.
Matthew Thomas Rehwoldt is an American professional wrestler and color commentator who currently appears in Impact Wrestling where he performs under his real name. He is best known for his time in WWE, where he performed under the ring name Aiden English. Rehwoldt signed a development contract with WWE in 2012 and was assigned to the farm territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) and later to NXT. In NXT, he formed a tag team called The Vaudevillains with Simon Gotch, winning the NXT Tag Team Championship. They were called to the main roster in 2016, but the team ended in 2017 when Gotch was released. English was then paired with Rusev, starting an act where every day was "Rusev Day". In 2019, he became a color commentator on 205 Live and NXT UK, but he was released in April 2020. Currently he works on the independent circuit and Impact Wrestling using the name Matt Morris. Outside of wrestling, Rehwoldt started the "Rough Cuts" social media campaign for unfinished art and the "Wrestling With Whiskey" project on YouTube.
Matthew Kaye is an American professional wrestler, professional wrestling commentator, actor and former high school teacher, using the ring name Matt Striker. He provides English commentary for Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (AAA) pay-per-view (PPV) events in Mexico. He also wrestles on the United States independent circuit. He is best known for his time in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as both a wrestler and commentator.
Accie Julius Connorbetter known by his ring name D'Lo Brown (also formatted as D-Lo Brown), is an American professional wrestling road agent and semi-retired professional wrestler. Brown is well known for his time with the World Wrestling Federation between 1997 and 2003, where he held the WWF Intercontinental Champion and WWF European Championship. He is also known for his appearances in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he held the NWA World Tag Team Championship, Ring of Honor and in Japan with the promotions All Japan Pro Wrestling and Pro Wrestling Noah. In September 2009, Connor was re-signed by TNA as their lead agent. Additionally, D'Lo was in charge of talent development and acquisitions heading up the TNA Gut Check program.
On the March 7, 2013 episode of Impact Wrestling, Brown attacked Kurt Angle and revealed himself as the Vice President of Aces & Eights, turning heel in the process. Three days later at Lockdown, Brown interfered in Angle's steel cage match against fellow Aces & Eights member Wes Brisco, costing Angle the match. Later that evening, the President of the Aces & Eights was revealed to be Bully Ray.Brown wrestled his first televised match in four years on the May 2 episode of Impact Wrestling, losing to Kurt Angle in an I Quit Match.As a result of his loss, Brown was demoted to a prospect the following week. On July 17, Brown announced his release from TNA
Return to AJPW (2013)
On August 11, 2013, All Japan Pro Wrestling announced that Brown would be returning to the promotion the following month to take part in the 2013 Ōdō Tournament.Brown returned to the promotion on September 11 in a non-tournament tag team match, where he and Bambi Killer defeated Burning (Atsushi Aoki and Yoshinobu Kanemaru), with Brown pinning Kanemaru for the win.Three days later, Brown was eliminated by Kanemaru in his first round match in the Ōdō Tournament.For the rest of the tour, which lasted until September 23, Brown worked midcard tag team matches, suffering pinfall losses in most of them.On October 3, Brown was announced also for All Japan's next tour, which started October 12. Brown continued teaming regularly with Bambi Killer, which eventually led to the two forming a heel stable named DK (Dark Kingdom) under the leadership of Kenso on November 21.
Future Stars of Wrestling (2014–2015)
Brown formerly held a weekly class on Friday for "Future Stars of Wrestling" training center in Las Vegas.
Personal life
Conner is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) graduating from the University of Maine.He and his wife Jennifer were married in 2001 and have two daughters, Bria (born in 2003) and Payton (born in 2009).
Joshua Lemay is a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Josh Alexander. He is currently signed to IMPACT Wrestling, where he is part of a tag team with Ethan Page called The North. He is a one-time Pro Wrestling Guerilla (PWG) World Tag Team Champion with Ethan Page as Monster Mafia, and a one-time AAW Heavyweight Champion.
Peter Williams III is a Canadian professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he is a two-time TNA X Division Champion and a former captain of Team Canada. He was also in Lucha Libre USA where he held the LLUSA Tag Team Championship with Jon Rekon. He is referred to by the nickname "The Canadian Destroyer", a reference to his front flip piledriver finisher of the same name.
Patricia Forrest Gresham (née Parker) is an American professional wrestler, bodybuilder and powerlifter, best known by her ring name Jordynne Grace. She is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where she is the current TNA Knockouts World Champion in her third reign.
In TNA, Grace is a three-time TNA Knockouts World Champion, one-time TNA Digital Media Champion and TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champion. Upon becoming the inaugural Digital Media Champion, Grace was recognized by TNA as the first Knockouts Triple Crown winner.
Matthew Brett Cardona is an American professional wrestler currently signed to Impact Wrestling, where he is the current Impact Digital Media Champion in his first reign, and The National Wrestling Alliance, where he is the current NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion in his first reign. He also holds several championships in various independent promotions, and his self-promoted Internet Championship, with which he is in his second reign. He is also known for his time in WWE, where he performed under the ring name Zack Ryder from 2005 to 2020.
Cardona debuted in professional wrestling in 2004, teaming with Curt Hawkins on the independent circuit. Both men were signed by WWE the following year, making their main roster debuts in 2007. After the team split in 2009, he made appearances on WWE's ECW brand until 2010, following which he was featured sparingly on television. In 2011, he launched a YouTube web series in which he proclaimed himself WWE's "Internet Champion"; this, along with his creative use of social media, helped him establish a substantial cult following. Over the course of his time with WWE, Cardona held the Intercontinental, United States, and Raw Tag Team Championships (the latter with Hawkins on two occasions).
Cardona was released by WWE in April 2020, and had a brief stint in All Elite Wrestling (AEW) in July of that year under his real name. Cardona has been a free agent since the completion of his AEW contract in September and has been making appearances with Impact Wrestling since making his debut at their Hard To Kill event in January 2021.
Chelsea Anne Cardona (née: Green; born April 4, 1991) is a Canadian professional wrestler, stuntwoman, and model. She is currently signed to WWE, where she performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Chelsea Green. She is one-half of the current WWE Women's Tag Team Champion with Sonya Deville in their first reign. She is also known for her time in Impact Wrestling, where she is a former Impact Knockouts Champion and Impact Knockouts World Tag Team Champion. She is the fourth woman to hold the WWE and Impact Women's Tag Team Championships after Zelina Vega and The IIconics (Billie Kay, and Peyton Royce).
Green has appeared extensively on the independent wrestling circuit in North America and Asia. In addition, she has appeared for the National Wrestling Alliance, Ring of Honor, and World Wonder Ring Stardom. During her first run in Impact Wrestling, which is when she won the Impact Knockouts Championship, Green performed under the ring name Laurel Van Ness. She also played Reklusa on the Lucha Underground TV series.
Stephen Kuprykis an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he performs under the ring name Steve Maclin, and is a former Impact World Champion. He is also known for his time in WWE, where he performed under the ring name Steve Cutler.
William Morrissey is an American professional wrestler currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) under the ring name Big Bill. He is best known for his tenure with WWE, where he performed under the ring name Big Cass, a shortened version of his previous name Colin Cassady. In WWE, he came to prominence for his partnership with Enzo Amore, whom he teamed with from 2013 to 2017. Together, they won the NXT Year-End Award for Tag Team of the Year in 2015. He was brought up to Raw alongside Enzo Amore the day after WrestleMania 32. He was later moved to the SmackDown brand, where he had a brief feud with Daniel Bryan, before being released by the company in June 2018. After leaving WWE, he resumed teaming with Amore (now known as nZo) on the independent circuit. He worked in Impact Wrestling under the name of W. Morrissey.
Brian Myers is an American professional wrestler and promoter. He is currently signed to Impact Wrestling, where he is a one-time TNA World Tag Team Champion (with Trevor Lee). He is best known for his tenures in WWE from 2006–2014 and 2016–2020 under the ring name Curt Hawkins. Myers signed with WWE in 2006 and was assigned to their developmental territories. In 2007, he was called up to the main roster and would eventually win the WWE Tag Team Championship with Zack Ryder. In 2014, he departed from WWE and returned to the independent circuit and worked there until 2016 when he re-signed with WWE. Shortly after his return, he amassed a WWE record 269-match losing streak which ended at WrestleMania 35 when he won the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship with Zack Ryder, almost ten years after they last held any titles as a team.
Melissa Ann Hiatt, better known by her ring name, Missy Hyatt, is an American retired professional wrestling valet, commentator, and occasional professional wrestler. She is best known for her appearances with World Championship Wrestling from 1987 to 1994; she has also appeared with World Class Championship Wrestling, the Universal Wrestling Federation, the World Wrestling Federation, Extreme Championship Wrestling, and Impact Wrestling.
Steven Scott is a Canadian professional wrestler, currently signed with Impact Wrestling, under the ring name Crazzy Steve, where he is a former Impact World Tag Team Champion. He also wrestles on the independent circuit for various other promotions.
Holly Letkeman is a Canadian professional wrestler and actress currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Rosemary. She has worked for promotions such as BSE Pro, BCW, Maximum Pro Wrestling, NCW Femmes Fatales, Steel City Pro Wrestling and Shimmer Women Athletes. She is also a former Shimmer Tag Team Champion with Sara Del Rey.
is an American professional wrestler of Puerto Rican descent. Teams and stables
Team Adams - with Deonna Purrazzo and Karen Q Championships and accomplishments
Beautiful, Intelligent, Sexy, and Dominate, its no wonder why Tasha Steelz is known as The Garden State Goddess. With an athletic background in basketball, outdoor track and field, softball, and a fitness background in strength and condition training, Steelz is no stranger to taking on any new challenges that comes her way. Her strength, speed, charismatic personality, passion, love, dedication, determination, discipline and desire to succeed in the world of professional wrestling makes her stand out from all the rest. Being the underdog of the women's divison, Steelz plans on putting her body on the line, climbing to the top and staying there as IWF's most dominate and dangerous women's wrestler ever by any means necessary! When you hear: "All Steelz, All The Time", you'll know that you're stepping into Steelz world, on Steelz time and this "Power Of Steelz" creator means business. Tasha became the first IWF Women's Champion on April 16, 2016, defeating Erin Winter and Michele Dee in a Triple Threat Elimination Match at Rec Center, Nutley, NJ.
Chaotic Wrestling
CW Women's Championship (1 time)
Independent Wrestling Federation
IWF Women's Championship (Inaugural) Trainer
Kevin Knight
Debut
2015
Richard Allen Swann is an American professional wrestler currently signed to Impact Wrestling. He is a former one-time Impact World Champion, former one-time TNA World Heavyweight Champion and a former one-time Impact X Division Champion. Swann is also known for his time in WWE, where he performed under the name Rich Swann, which is his ring name today. In WWE, he is a former WWE Cruiserweight Champion. Additionally, Swann has competed for promotions such as Full Impact Pro, Evolve, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), Chikara, Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), Dragon Gate and Major League Wrestling (MLW). He is a former RevPro British Tag Team Champion, FIP World Heavyweight Champion, FIP Tag Team Champion, Open the United Gate, Open the Owarai Gate and Open the Triangle Gate Champion. In 2018, Swann signed with Impact Wrestling winning the Impact X Division Championship and later winning the Impact World Championship becoming the second African-American to hold that championship (after Bobby Lashley) and the third African-American world champion in the history of the company after Ron Killings and Bobby Lashley. In 2021, Swann would unify the Impact World Championship and the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. Overall, Swann is a five-time world champion in wrestling.
Terrance "Terry" Gerin is an American professional wrestler and actor, better known by the ring name Rhino (also spelled Rhyno in WWE). He is best known for his career in Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico, World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). He is currently employed by Ring of Honor. Gerin is a two-time World Champion, having held the ECW World Heavyweight Championship (last champ in original ECW), and the NWA World Heavyweight Championship once each. He is also a three-time WWF Hardcore Champion, a two-time (and final) ECW World Television Champion and a one-time United States Champion, which he won in the WWF during the Invasion storyline. He also has held several independent championships in his career as well. On the July 26 episode of SmackDown Live, Rhyno returned to attack "free agent" Heath Slater with a Gore.[109]On the August 9 episode of SmackDown Live, the two wrestled each other with the stipulation that if Slater won, he would be signed to the SmackDown roster; however, Rhyno defeated Slater. On the August 23 episode of SmackDown, Slater was offered a spot in the tournament for the newly instated SmackDown Tag Team Championship if he found a partner. After struggling to find a partner, Rhyno approached Slater and agreed to be his partner for the tournament. Rhyno and Slater defeated The Headbangers in the first round and The Hype Bros in the semi-finals to advance to the finals at Backlash,where they defeated The Usos to become the inaugural champions, while also granting Slater a contract.On the September 13 episode of SmackDown Live, Rhyno and Slater defeated The Ascension to successfully retain the titles in their first defense following Slater's official live contract signing. At No Mercy, Rhyno and Slater retained the titles against The Usos. At Survivor Series, Rhyno and Slater were the team captains for Team SmackDown in the 10–on–10 Survivor Series Tag Team Elimination match, where they were defeated by Team Raw. At TLC on December 4, Rhyno and Slater's tag team championship reign came to an end at 84 days after they were defeated by The Wyatt Family (Bray Wyatt and Randy Orton) Two days later on SmackDown Live, Rhyno and Slater received their rematch, but failed to regain the titles. At Elimination Chamber on February 12, 2017, the duo were the first entrants into the tag team turmoil match for the titles, eliminating Breezango and The Vaudevillains before being eliminated by The Usos. At WrestleMania 33, Rhyno competed in the André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, which was won by Mojo Rawley. Gerin is close friends with Adam Copeland and Jay Reso, best known by their ring names Edge and Christian. Following the SmackDown taping on September 16, 2011, Gerin made a one-night return to WWE as a part of an "Appreciation Night" to celebrate Edge's career. He also made an appearance at Edge's induction ceremony into the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2012
Jeremy Fritz is a Canadian professional wrestler and television personality, best known under his ring name Eric Young. In IMPACT, formerly known as Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he wrestled from 2004-2015 and returned in 2020, he has won a dozen championships, including his two world titles, one IMPACT Wrestling X Division Championship, three Legends/Global/Television/King of the Mountain Championships, and four World tag team championships, having held the NWA World Tag Team Championship twice with Bobby Roode, the TNA World Tag Team Championship twice once with Kaz, and once as a member of The Band with Kevin Nash and Scott Hall (under the Freebird Rule), and the only male to co-hold the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship, winning the title with female wrestler ODB. He is also one of only five men to win the IMPACT Grand Slam.
Eric Maher is an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Eddie Edwards. He is currently signed to IMPACT Wrestling, where he is a former IMPACT World Champion, two-time IMPACT X Division Champion and IS a five-time IMPACT World Tag Team Champion with Davey Richards. Edwards has also wrestled for Ring of Honor (ROH), where he is a former World Champion, the inaugural Television Champion, and a two-time World Tag Team Champion with his partner Davey Richards as The American Wolves. He won ROH's Survival of the Fittest tournament in November 2010 which propelled him to win the World Championship. His World Championship victory made him the first wrestler to win the ROH Triple Crown and the only wrestler to ever hold both the Impact Wrestling and ROH Triple Crowns. He was also a regular for the Southern California-based promotion Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) and has made several tours of Japan with Pro Wrestling Noah, where he is a former GHC Heavyweight Champion, and is, to date, the only foreigner ever to win said championship. Between Impact, ROH, and Noah, Edwards has won 13 total championships (including three world championships) and is the only wrestler to have held the IMPACT, ROH, and GHC world championships.
Jessica Cricks is an American professional wrestler, better known by her ring name Jessicka Havok. She previously worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where she competed under the ring name Havok, and is a former one-time TNA Knockouts Champion. She regularly performed for several independent promotions, including Shine Wrestling and Women Superstars Uncensored, where she is a former two-time WSU Champion.
