TNA Impact Wrestling Review: Results and Analysis for January 5

TNA World Heavyweight Championship Match
Eddie Edwards (c) vs EC3 vs Lashley

Result: Edwards wins via pinfall

This match was set up at the beginning of the show with both EC3 and Lashley pleading their cases.  Edwards accepted the challenge to battle both men in the main event tonight.  Edwards and EC3 double team Lashley to try and make it a one on one match.  Finally, EC3 and Edwards are left alone in the ring to do battle.  When Lashley gets back in, he drops both men with a double german suplex.

Lashley’s dominance begins and the number’s game is now irrelevant.  He exposes the turnbuckles in the corner but the loss of focus allows EC3 and Edwards to fight back.  The two adversaries throw their best shots at each other but neither can end it.  Lashley continues to pick his spots by taking out both men simultaneously.  He hits a spear on both men into the exposed turnbuckle then hits another one on EC3 on the outside of the ring.  Lashley reverses the Boston Knee Party into a spear but the awareness of Edwards allows him to roll to the outside.

Bobby Lashley looks to use the championship belt but Davey Richards takes the belt away to allow Edwards to hit the Boston Knee Party.  As Davey Richards returns, Eddie Edwards retains the TNA World Championship to close the first episode of 2017.