The 2023 Rebellion was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Impact Wrestling. It took place on April 16, 2023, at the Rebel Entertainment Complex in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Nine matches were contested at the event, including two on the pre-show. In the main event, Deonna Purrazzo defeated Jordynne Grace to win the vacant Impact Knockouts World Championship.
04-16-2023
2h 57m
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Impact Wrestling
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US
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en
Main Cast
Deonna Kupryk
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.
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.
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.
Yujiro Kushida is a Japanese professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist, better known by his mononymous ring name Kushida. He is currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).
Frank Benedict Gerdelman is an American professional wrestler. He is signed with Ring of Honor (ROH) under the ring name Frankie Kazarian and is a two-time ROH World Tag Team Champion with Christopher Daniels. He is best known for his work with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), under the ring names Kazarian and Kaz, he also wrestled under the gimmick of Suicide where he became one-time TNA X Division Champion under the character.
Kazarian also wrestled in the independent promotion Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, where he is a two time former world champion, having won the PWG World Championship in 2003 and 2004. Also, he is the inaugural PWG World Champion when he won the Bad Ass Mother tournament. Kazarian is also a five-time TNA X Division Champion and a three-time TNA World Tag Team Champion.
Yuya Uemura is a Japanese male professional wrestler currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a member of the Just 5 Guys stable. He has also made appearances for Impact Wrestling and All Elite Wrestling.
Mark LoMonaco is an American professional wrestler. He currently wrestles for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) under the ring name Bully Ray, where he is the President of the Aces & Eights stable. LoMonaco wrestled for Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) from 1995 to 1999 under the ring name Buh Buh Ray Dudley and for World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWF/E) as Bubba Ray Dudley from 1999 to 2005. He began performing with TNA in 2005 as Brother Ray before adopting his current ring name in 2010. Along with his kayfabe half-brother D-Von/Devon, LoMonaco is one-half of the tag team the Dudley Boyz (also known as Team 3D). Characterized by their unorthodox ring apparel and usage of tables in their matches, Team 3D are recognized as 23-time world tag team champions. Along with 10 WWE Hardcore Championship reigns, and his TNA World Heavyweight title reign, LoMonaco has held 34 total championships between WWE, ECW, TNA, and New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW).
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.
Kenny Layne is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Kenny King. He is currently signed to Ring of Honor (ROH), where he is a former ROH World Television Champion, while also being a former one-time ROH World Tag Team Champion. He was a contestant in the second season of WWF Tough Enough. He is also known for his time in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he was a two-time X Division Champion.
Masha Slamovich is one of the hardest working wrestlers in Victory Pro Wrestling.
The Russian national is not satisfied with being the best in VPW, but around the world. Slamovich has toured Japan, and after winning the VPW Women’s Championship, she toured Canada as well.
Hometown: Moscow, Russia
Debuted: 2017
Quinn Ojinnaka is an American professional wrestler and former American football player, known professionally as Moose. He is currently signed to IMPACT Wrestling, where he is a former two-time IMPACT Grand Champion. In addition, Quinn has been the GWF Heavyweight Champion and he has also worked for Ring of Honor, Revolution Pro Wrestling, Evolve Wrestling, New Japan Pro-Wrestling, and Pro Wrestling Noah. As an offensive lineman, he played college football at Syracuse and was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the fifth round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He went on to play for the New England Patriots, St. Louis Rams, and Indianapolis Colts.
Jonathan Gresham is an American professional wrestler currently signed to Ring of Honor (ROH).
Gresham has worked for many promotions, such as Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) where he is a former CZW World Heavyweight Champion as well as Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw), Chikara, IWA Mid-South, Full Impact Pro (FIP), Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), and Evolve among others.
He has wrestled in over fifteen countries.
Émile Charles Baillargeon-Laberge is a Canadian professional wrestler, currently signed to Impact Wrestling, where he performs under the ring name Mike Bailey.
He is the current two-time IWS World Heavyweight Champion and former two-time KO-D Tag Team Champion. Bailey was also the winner of CZW's 2015 Best of the Best, DDT's 2016 DNA Grand Prix and RevPro's 2021 British J Cup tournaments.
Pierre Carl Ouellet is a Canadian professional wrestler. He is currently wrestling for Ring of Honor (ROH) as PCO, where he is a member of the stable "Villian Enterprises" alongside Brody King and Marty Scurll; they are the current holders of the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship.
Ouellet is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling as one-half of The Quebecers/The Amazing French Canadians with Jacques Rougeau (with whom he held the WWF Tag Team Championship on three occasions). Other promotions Ouellet has wrestled for include Extreme Championship Wrestling, the International Wrestling Association, Major League Wrestling, and NWA Total Nonstop Action. After retiring in 2011, Ouellet returned to the ring in 2016, undergoing a career renaissance with the "gimmick of part beast-turned-man, part old-time strongman On May 21, 2016, Ouellet made his return to professional wrestling at an MWF event, entitled "Collision," in Valleyfield, Quebec, Canada, defeating Jake Matthews, following a cannonball. Under a new gimmick as a "French Frankenstein" as Ouellet described it, he became a regular name in several independent promotions. On April 2, 2018, Ouellet defeated Walter at Game Changer Wrestling's (GCW) Joey Janela's Spring Break 2 in New Orleans. Ouellet's performance and online footage of his unconventional workout regimen impressed the independent wrestling audience, and led to many higher-profile bookings.
PCO doing a dive onto Rickey Shane Page in 2018
On June 18, 2018, Ouellet was announced as the first of twenty-four participants for Pro Wrestling Guerrilla's (PWG) annual Battle of Los Angeles tournament. At 2018 Battle of Los Angeles - Stage One on September 15, he made his company debut, losing to Brody King in the Opening Round. Two nights later, at 2018 Battle of Los Angeles - Final Stage, he led a losers' ten-man tag team match, in which Team PCO (Ouellet, Darby Allin, Dan Barry, Jody Fleisch and Puma King) defeated Team DJ Z (DJ Z, Adam Brooks, David Starr, T-Hawk and Timothy Thatcher).
Ring of Honor (2018–present)
On December 1, 2018, Ouellet announced his exclusive signing with Ring of Honor. He debuted for ROH at the December 15 tapings joining up with Marty Scurll and Brody King in a new stable called Villain Enterprises. At Honor Reigns Supreme 2019, Villain Enterprises defeated Silas Young and the Briscoe Brothers. PCO and King would then go on to win the 2019 ROH Tag Wars Tournament during the ROH Road To G1 Supercard tour in February 2019, and on March 15, 2019, he and King defeated the Briscoes to win the ROH World Tag Team Championship for the first time in a Las Vegas street fight at the ROH 17th Anniversary Show. The following night at the Ring of Honor Wrestling tapings, PCO, King and Scurll defeated The Kingdom to win the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship, making PCO a double champion within a 24 hour span. At the G1 Supercard, PCO and King dropped the ROH World Tag Team Championship to the Guerrillas of Destiny in a winner takes all four-way tag team match, with G.O.D.'s IWGP Tag Team Championship belts also on the line. Ouellet lost the sight in his right eye at the age of 12 after an accident with a pellet gun
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.
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.
Curtis Jonathan Hussey is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs under the ring name Fandango. Hussey began his professional wrestling career in 1999. He worked for several promotions beginning in September 1999. He competed in several Independent promotions in New England, winning the PLW New England Championship, the PWF Northeast Tag Team Championship with Kenn Phoenix on more than one occasion, the PWF Northeast Heavyweight Championship, NCW New England Championship, the Tag Team Championship with Damian Houston, and the SCCW Lightweight Championship. In 2006, Hussey signed a development contract with World Wrestling Entertainment and was assigned to Deep South Wrestling (DSW), WWE's developmental territory. He was then moved to Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) in June 2008, where he won the Florida Tag Team Championship on more than one occasion with Tyler Reks and Derrick Bateman. In December 2010, he competed in the fourth season of NXT as Johnny Curtis, and he eventually won the competition in March 2011. In 2013, Hussey re-debuted as Fandango. In April, WWE audience members started singing and dancing to his entrance music, which rose substantially on iTunes charts and generated much hype in mainstream media.
Joseph Samuel Hendry (born 1 May 1988) is a Scottish professional wrestler and musician. He is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and has also been making appearances for WWE on the NXT brand since June 2024 via a working partnership between TNA and WWE. In TNA, Hendry is a former one time and the longest-reigning TNA Digital Media Champion.
In addition to various other independent promotions, Hendry is known for his appearances in his native Scotland with Insane Championship Wrestling (ICW) from 2013 to 2019, where he was a one-time ICW Tag Team Champion, and in England with New Generation Wrestling from 2015 to 2018 and Defiant Wrestling (formerly What Culture Pro Wrestling) from 2016 to 2018. He also performed in Ring of Honor, first in 2016 and then from 2018 to 2022, and also appeared in World of Sport Wrestling from 2018 to 2019. He first appeared in Impact Wrestling (renamed TNA in 2024) in 2018 before returning to the company in September 2022. Hendry first made some brief non-wrestling appearances for WWE in 2014 before returning in 2024 on NXT through a working partnership between TNA and WWE.
Anthony Carelli is an Italian Canadian professional wrestler best known by his ring name Santino Marella. Known for his work in WWE, Anthony is a two-time WWE Intercontinental Champion, former WWE United States Champion, and former WWE Tag Team Champion with Vladimir Kozlov.
American professional wrestler, currently appearing for Impact Wrestling. He was a member of stable The Design under the ring name Angels. He previously competed for All Elite Wrestling (AEW) where he was a member of the stable The Dark Order.
Ryan Parmeter is an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Conor O'Brian. He is signed by WWE, where he was working in their developmental territory NXT Wrestling as Konnor. He was part of the fourth season of NXT, and earned fourth place on the show's fifth season, NXT Redemption.
After spending four years wrestling on the independent circuit as Ryan Payne O'Reilly, Parmeter signed a WWE contract in 2005, and was assigned to Deep South Wrestling (DSW), a developmental territory, where he wrestled as Rough House O'Reilly. He won the DSW Heavyweight Championship twice, before briefly appearing in Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW). He also appeared in several dark matches prior to Raw and SmackDown, and at several ECW house shows. In October 2007, both Parmeter and his girlfriend, Krissy Vaine, requested to be released from their WWE contracts for personal reasons.
Following his release, Parmeter took time off from wrestling, before debuting for NWA Charlotte in February 2009. In July 2010, he was re-signed by WWE, and returned to FCW where he began wrestling as Conor O'Brian. In November 2010, he was announced as a participant in the fourth season of NXT.
Austin James Highley is an American professional wrestler who currently competes in IMPACT Wrestling as Ace Austin, where he is a former IMPACT X Division Champion. He began his career in Combat Zone Wrestling after graduating from the "CZW Dojo" wrestling school and has also competed for various promotions throughout the United States and Mexico including Major League Wrestling, Tommy Dreamer's House of Hardcore, Florida-based World Xtreme Wrestling and Mexico's Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA).
Chris Bey is an American professional wrestler, currently signed with IMPACT Wrestling. He is also known for his work on the independent scene, most notably for Championship Wrestling from Hollywood (CWFH) and Game Changer Wrestling (GCW).
Joshua Harter, better known by his ring name Chris Sabin, is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand. He is most known for working for Total Nonstop Action (TNA) and Ring of Honor (ROH) and for being one half of The Motor City Machine Guns alongside his tag team parter Alex Shelley.
Sabin won 14 total championships while with TNA. He is a one-time TNA World Heavyweight Champion, a record 10-time TNA X Division Champion, a three-time TNA World Tag Team Champion with Alex Shelley, and during a talent exchange with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) a one-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion and a former Strong Openweight Tag Team Champion, also with Shelley. On September 13, 2024, it was reported that Sabin with his tag team partner Alex Shelley signed a contract with WWE.
Shantelle Larissa Malawski is a retired Canadian professional wrestler best known for working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Taylor Wilde. Wilde was the first wrestler to hold both the TNA Women's Knockout and TNA Knockout Tag Team Championship.
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.
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.
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
