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Impact Wrestling is reportedly planning on putting more emphasis on the X Division Title.
As noted, tonight’s Before The Impact episode on AXS will feature the first-ever 60-Minute Ironman Match for the X Division Title with Josh Alexander defending against TJP. The match will conclude during the first few minutes of tonight’s regular Impact episode on AXS.
In an update, the idea behind tonight’s Ironman Match is to elevate the X Division Title in a major way going forward, according to PWInsider.
One source compared the X Division push plans to when WWE Hall of Famer Rob Van Dam held the ECW World Television Title for 700 days, from April 4, 1998 until it was vacated on March 4, 2000 due to injury. That was the longest ECW World TV Title reign in history, and the idea was that the title was just as important as the ECW World Heavyweight Title. That is what Impact is hoping to achieve with the X Division Title.
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Karrion Kross defending his title against
Finn Balor. And for tonight s show, the brand has followed that up by announcing a whopping… two matches. Two matches. So either these are going to be some old-school smokey Madison Square Garden
Bruno Sammartino-Esque long feats of strength that each last an hour, or we re going to get some surprise unannounced bouts as the show goes live tonight.
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Now to be fair, the two announced matches are pretty consequential, including the main event featuring a triple threat match of