Impact Wrestling Bound for Glory 2019: Full card preview and predictions

Call Your Shot Gauntlet Match

We’ll start here because there’s less to say about this than most matches on the card. The concept is simple: it’s a Gauntlet Match where the winner gets a shot at any title they want. Simply put, it’s one of those matches made simply to get everyone who doesn’t already have a match onto the card.

Trying to pick a winner is like pulling a rabbit out of a hat. So I’ll just go random and say Jessicka Havok. Hate to come off like one of those clickbait slideshow sites by saying that I explain my answer why on the next slide, but trust me, if I explained now, it’d spoil my predictions for the Knockouts Championship match.

Winner: Jessicka Havok

X-Division Championship Ladder Match – Jake Crist (c) vs. Ace Austin vs. Tessa Blanchard vs. Daga vs. Ace Romero

Plenty of fun combustible elements in this match, including Ace Romero, who will be making his debut after his signing was announced last night. Just over 90 days into Crist’s reign, it seems he’s enjoyed a solid reign so far after defeating Rich Swann (who had the longest reign with the belt in recent memory) back in July. It can be argued that it’s too early to take the title off of him, but I think a title change takes place tonight, and I can’t think of a better new champion than Tessa Blanchard.

I might be biased because I legitimately think Tessa Blanchard is the best wrestler on the planet (if not, she’s certainly among the best), but given her Match of the Year candidate with Sami Callihan from Slammiversary and the fact she’s been competing against and racking up wins vs. dudes just about every week ever since, I feel like she’s due for a title win.

I can see a World Championship win in her future, but to get fans accustomed to Blanchard breaking records as the first woman to win a title primarily held by dudes, she can start by doing just that with the X-Division Championship first. Give her a lengthy reign with that title, and then move her on to the main event scene, as any promotion would with the average dude going from mid-card to main event. Equality, y’all.

Winner: Blanchard