Welcome to Wrestling Inc.'s live coverage for "TNA Thursday Night Impact" on August 13, 2026, coming to you from the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania!Nic Nemeth will be putting the TNA World Championship on the line in a TNA ring for the first time since retaining against KC Navarro on the July 23 episode of "Thursday Night Impact" as he defends against one half of the reigning TNA World Tag Team Champions Jeff Hardy. Nic became increasingly frustrated with Jeff during last Thursday's edition of "Thursday Night Impact" when Jeff seemingly paid no attention to anything he had to say about him as Jeff worked on a piece of artwork during a backstage contract singing between both men for tonight's match.Speaking of Navarro, he defeated Brian Myers in singles competition last Thursday via disqualification thanks to interference at the hands of Myers' System stablemate Eddie Edwards. Eddie and Myers continued to beat down Navarro in the moments that followed until Fabian Aicher came to Navarro's aid. TNA Director of Authority Santino Marella subsequently made a tag match pitting Navarro and Aichner against Eddie and Myers, which was ultimately won by the latter two men. Following such events, Navarro will be going head-to-head with Eddie tonight while Myers will be colliding with another rival of The System in Ricky Sosa.The first semifinals match in the TNA Knockouts Television Championship Tournament will be held tonight, as Indi Hartwell squares off against The Elegance Brand's M By Elegance. Hartwell defeated Vicious Vicki Venuto in the first round and "WWE NXT" star Thea Hail in the quarterfinals to secure her spot in the semifinals, while M received a buy into the semifinals when a first round match between fellow WWE star Wendy Choo and Elayna Black ended in a time limit draw with the winner of said match set to have taken on M in the quarterfinals.Additionally, Rich Swann and BDE will be joining forces with a mystery tag team partner to square off against Order 4's Mustafa Ali, John Skyler, and Special Agent 0 in a Six Man Tag Team Match. Moose will also be hosting "The Face Of The Franchise Speech" talk show before he faces off against Frankie Kazarian in an Escape The Cage Match at TNA Lockdown on August 23.We are live! The show kicks off with a video recapping the Knockouts World Championship match between Xia Brookside and Wendy Choo last Thursday, as well as the contract signing between Nic Nemeth and Jeff Hardy.Tom Hannifan and Matthew Rehwoldt then greet audiences at home as Ricky Sosa makes his way to the ring. Brian Myers and Bear Bronson follow.
The bell rings and Sosa delivers a bodyslam to Myers. He follows it up with a senton, but Myers slides out of the ring for a time out. Sosa catches him in a side headlock, but Myers sends Sosa crashing into the ring apron face first and spine first. Myers wears down Sosa with a submission hold, but Sosa levels Myers with an enzuigiri to his head and connects with a scoop powerslam on him.Sosa connects with a springboard moonsault on Myers and pins him, but Myers kicks out. He delivers a pump kick to send an interfering Bronson off the ring apron, opening the door for Myers to take advantage and land an elevated flatliner on him. He goes for a pin, but Sosa kicks out.Sosa levels Myers with a dropkick, but Cedric Alexander runs out to hop onto the apron. Sosa knocks him off, but Myers catches him with a Sidewalk Slam. Bronson then distracts the referee as Myers grabs hold of the X-Division Championship belt. He looks to hit Sosa with it, but Leon Slater grabs the X-Division Championship belt from him. This opens the door for Sosa to deliver a running uppercut to Myers and pin him for the win.Winner: Ricky SosaAfter the match, Slater says he laid down a challenge to Alexander for a Steel Cage Match for the X-Division Championship at Lockdown. He says Alexander turned down the fight when he hasn't been known to do so, then says it wasn't because The System told him not to or because the fans don't want it, but because Alexander is jealous and scared. He challenges Alexander to the Lockdown match again and says he's willing to give whatever it takes this time, prompting Alexander to tell Slater that he's "Prime" and has no reason to be jealous of him.Alexander tells Slater he'll defend the X-Division Championship if Slater gives him his record, clarifying that it means Slater's tied up record for being the longest reigning X-Division Champion of all time will be erased if he loses. Slater agrees, but Alexander tells Slater that he only has himself to blame for the erasure of him from history.Hard refresh this page for updates ctrl + F5 on Windows; Cmnd + shift + R on Mac
