Backstage: Bully Ray Confronted About Abyss
Backstage, Bully Ray is asked where Abyss is since he was shown earlier beating him up after their match. Ray acts like he doesn’t know.
TNA World Title: Bobby Roode (c) vs. Jeff Hardy
Jeremy Borash does introductions for both guys. The crowd is into Hardy. They boo Roode a bit. Both guys trade control of the offense early on. Hardy then gets a small run of interupted offense for a bit. They go to the floor and Hardy gets a running start and jumps off the ring steps, crashing into Roode, who was against the guard rail. Roode goes back on the offensive and hits a suplex followed by a knee drop off the middle rope for a nearfall. Roode locks Hardy into a chinlock rest hold. Hardy fires up on offense and the crowd is way into it. Roode cuts him short and slams him down hard onto the mat. Roode stands up plays heel for the crowd. Roode throws Hardy under the bottom rope and onto the floor outside of the ring. Back in the ring, a “let’s go Hardy” chants start up from the fans in the TNA Asylum. Roode again cuts Hardy’s offense short, which also shuts up the crowd. Roode locks in a crossface on Hardy, who eventually makes it to the ropes to break the crowd. Roode goes up to the middle rope and mocks Hardy’s dancing. He tries jumping off onto Hardy, but Hardy gets his feet up. Roode still manages to get back to his feet and the two start exchanging punches. Hardy gets the better of it and gets back in control of the offense. Roode eventually stops him short and hits a spinebuster to calm the crowd down. Hardy sets up his finisher on Roode, but Roode manages to avoid it by rolling out to the floor. Roode grabs his title belt and starts walking up the ramp, but Hardy catches up with him and brings him back to the ring. Hardy hits the Twist of Fate when they’re back in the ring. Hardy followed that up by hitting the Whisper In The Wind for a nearfall. Hardy sets up another Twist Of Fate, but this time Roode pushes him off and tries again to leave the ring. Hardy again stops him and brings him back to the ring. Roode swings his title belt at Hardy but Hardy avoids it. Roode rolls Hardy up out of nowhere and tried pinning him with his feet on the ropes. The ref catches him and Roode begs off. Roode then kicks the ref low to get himself DQ’d. He succeeded. Hardy hits the Twist of Fate on Roode and tries pinning him, but the ref informs him that the match is already over due to the DQ. Hardy hits Roode with another Twist of Fate, then takes the title belt and runs laps around the ring. He eventually drops the title belt across a still laid out Roode and heads to the back. That’s all folks!
Winner via DQ: Jeff Hardy
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