An announcement was recently made by IMPACT Wrestling that the company’s monumental and exclusive Ultimate X Match will be taking place on their upcoming 1000th episode and that the match could end up being a special bout, which is the signature match of IMPACT’s X-Division.
There is no word yet on who will be competing in the match or what the eventual winner will earn, but this will be the 50th Ultimate X Match in the history of IMPACT, and it remains to be seen if the company will do anything special to mark the huge milestone.
The first-ever Ultimate X Match took place on August 20th, 2003 at the NWA-TNA Weekly PPV #59 and it saw Michael Shane become the IMPACT Wrestling X-Division Champion by defeating Frankie Kazarian and then-IMPACT X-Division champion Chris Sabin in a 3-Way Match. The last Ultimate X Match took place at this past July’s IMPACT Slammiversary PPV, and saw Kushida defeat Jake Something, “Speedball” Mike Bailey, Alan Angels, Kevin Knight and Jonathan Gresham to become the new #1 contender to Lio Rush and his IMPACT X-Division Title.
IMPACT Wrestling’s 1000th episode special will air on Thursday, September 14 as the post-Victory Road episode, but the show will be taped on Saturday, September 9 from inside the Westchester County Center in White Plains, New York. This episode will take place one day after the 2023 Victory Road PPV Event from the same venue.
