AND NEW! Jordynne Grace is once again the Knockouts Champion.
Grace defeated Trinity for the title in the penultimate match of the night at TNA Hard To Kill. This is Grace’s third title reign in TNA/IMPACT history, and her first under the TNA name.
Trinity’s lone title reign as Knockouts Champion ends at 180 days.
Results
Check out a recap of the match, courtesy of our live coverage page:
Knockouts World Championship: Trinity (c) vs. Jordynne Grace
Dana Brooke, now known as Ash by Elegance, is shown at ringside for the next title match.
Trinity and Jordynne start with a handshake and then a lockup. Grace flexes and Trinity twerks a little. Test of strength lockup in the center. Trinity ducks a clothesline and does a back kick. Grace drops Trin back first on the mat before doing chops in the corner. Grace with a powerslam, kickout. Trinity avoids the Juggernaut Driver by rushing to the ropes. Trinity leaps off the top with a crossbody followed by a spiking facebuster. Grace regains her footing and flies through the ropes to tackle Trin before hitting the Jackhammer on the floor.
Ash is shown on camera clapping. We cut back to the ring where Trinity kicks Grace in the chest. They trade slaps until Trin drives Grace into the turnbuckle and lands the split legged moonsault, cover. Grace catches Trinity out of the corner with a musclebuster, nearfall. Trinity powers out of a cover and traps Grace in Starstruck. Grace covers but Trinity pops up with the Rearview for another nearfall. On the apron, Trinity spikes Grace and covers. Back inside, they trade blows again before Grace does a spinning shot.
Trinity powers Grace up with a sitout powerbomb and turns it into Starstruck. Grace stands up with Starstruck applied and Trinity uses the ropes for leverage. Grace pivots it into a German. Spinning backfist from Grace followed by Juggernaut Driver for the three.
Winner AND NEW: Jordynne Grace
We see Ash by Elegance clapping again at ringside. Jordynne hugs Trinity.
I want her to give me everything she has
WrestleZone Managing Editor Bill Pritchard spoke with Jordynne Grace ahead of Hard To Kill. The Juggernaut spoke about her approach to the match. She said she hopes to bring out a side of Trinity that people haven’t seen before.
“I don’t think Trinity has ever wrestled anyone like me before. Before she came to IMPACT, I don’t think that she’s ever wrestled anyone like Deonna [Purrazzo], or Gisele [Shaw], or KiLynn King. I don’t think she’s wrestled anybody who’s basically been in the trenches and had to cut their teeth on the independent scene,” Jordynne Grace explained. “I don’t think she’s ever faced someone who had that grit about them.”
Grace won’t discount anyone’s hard work, but she saw one advantage she holds over Trinity.
“She’s had a completely different struggle than I have, but I do think that the edge that I do have on her is that I did it for a long time. I have that grit and I just have that extra little edge about me that is gonna take her off guard,” Grace said. “And I think that I can bring out a little bit of that and a little bit of that intensity. She’s such a nice person, but I want her to kick my ass. I want her to punch me in the face as hard as she can. This isn’t WWE. I’m not going to go and run and complain to anyone if she does it. I really want her to give me everything she has for real.”
The next first
What is the next “first” she wants to accomplish in the company?
“I want to be the face of TNA. I wanna be, I guess in this era, the first face of the women’s division in this TNA. That’s what I want to be,” Grace stated. “Obviously there’s been TNA Knockouts World Champions in the past, but I’ll be the first in this era, and I think it’s a really important era.”
