{"id":225158,"date":"2026-11-13T12:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T18:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=225158"},"modified":"2026-11-13T12:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T18:05:10","slug":"tna-impact-hits-misses-11-12-mustafa-ali-stealing-a-win-dollhouse-vignette-santino-cancelling-a-rematch-trey-miguels-mini-documentary-brookeside-with-the-righteous-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2026\/11\/13\/tna-impact-hits-misses-11-12-mustafa-ali-stealing-a-win-dollhouse-vignette-santino-cancelling-a-rematch-trey-miguels-mini-documentary-brookeside-with-the-righteous-more\/","title":{"rendered":"TNA IMPACT HITS &#038; MISSES (11\/12): Mustafa Ali stealing a win, Dollhouse vignette, Santino cancelling a rematch, Trey Miguel&#8217;s mini-documentary, Brookeside with The Righteous, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-256593253\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Advertisements\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><h3>HITS<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Elayna Black defeating M by Elegance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was good that Elayna got the win tonight as I think that she has been a surprise Knockout of the year contender for TNA and she needs to be quickly raised back to the top of the Knockouts division. I&#8217;m curious to see what happens to both M and Heather now that they&#8217;re essentially singles acts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mustafa Ali stealing a win from Frankie Kazarian due to Avery Styles&#8217;s inexperience<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I like the idea of Kazarian losing matches due to the inexperience of Avery Styles. I hope that they don&#8217;t rely on the trope of &#8220;misunderstandings&#8221; when it can clearly be reviewed and explained on camera. I like that this story has multiple landing spots that could make sense. If TNA can stick the landing here I think that both Ali and Avery Styles can be greatly elevated which is important for 2027.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Xia Brookside as a good fit with The Righteous (with a caveat)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been very critical of this storyline, and I still might be, but I think that I like the idea of Xia Brookside being a good fit for The Righteous. A much better fit than Harley Hudson (which is why I am so confused as to why she was needlessly sacrificed). I think that Hudson was included simply to have her as an easy first feud for Brookside which, in my opinion, is booking backwards. I think that Brookside could actually be elevated in this stable but they are going to need to put more effort into explaining her motive for joining The Righteous and their motive for bringing her in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trey Miguel&#8217;s &#8220;Destination Next&#8221; mini-documentary (and lesser so Leon Slater&#8217;s)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I thought that TNA did a good job with this &#8220;Road Too&#8221;-type mini documentary highlighting Trey Miguel&#8217;s hometown, childhood, family, friends, early life and motivations. I do feel like I know him, as a person, better after watching it and it did arouse some emotions in me. That being said, I&#8217;m not sure the strategy in framing him as such a likable, underdog babyface against the current biggest babyface in the company in Leon Slater is the best idea. Particularly as his first title defense. Slater&#8217;s &#8220;Destination Next&#8221; video was okay but I honestly didn&#8217;t take nearly as much away from it as I did with Trey Miguel&#8217;s which is a slight issue. I didn&#8217;t feel as strong a connection, which is odd, as I feel like a majority of the time Slater is the more interesting character. Perhaps, it had more to do with a difference in production\/formatting.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-1231205418\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Advertisements\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em>ARTICLE CONTINUED BELOW&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Check out the latest episode of &#8220;Destination Impact&#8221; with Zac Clarke and Jerud Buhagiar, part of the PWTorch Dailycast line-up: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/episode\/destination-impact-zac-jb-discuss-build-to-slater-s-first-title-defense-against-miguel-ali-kazarian-styles-storyline-predictions-more--76290417\">CLICK HERE<\/a> to stream (or search \u201cpwtorch\u201d on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or any other iOS or Android app to subscribe free)<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Destination Impact - Zac &amp; JB discuss build to Slater's first title defense against Miguel, Ali-Kazarian-Styles storyline predictions, more\" src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?episode_id=76290417&amp;theme=light&amp;playlist=false&amp;playlist-continuous=false&amp;chapters-image=true&amp;episode_image_position=right&amp;hide-logo=false&amp;hide-likes=false&amp;hide-comments=false&amp;hide-sharing=false&amp;hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>MISSES<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Moose &amp; Matt Hardy vs. SYX at Destination X?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With Jeff Hardy being &#8220;killed off&#8221; a couple of weeks ago because of TNA&#8217;s taping and PPV in Canada and Jeff&#8217;s criminal history preventing him from attending those events, I thought that Matt Hardy might take some time off to let us miss him, as well. Nope. Instead we get Moose and Matt Hardy and Moose Vs. SYX Vs. The Nemeths at Destination X? I&#8217;m not sure that match has much appeal to begin with and it further adds to the Hardy fatigue (and honestly the Nemeths fatigue) and the problem with the start and length of the Hardy-SYX feud to this point. Also, what has the team of Matt Hardy and Moose done to deserve a tag team title shot? Compounding the Hardy fatigue, Matt comes out on tonight&#8217;s go-home show and has to be the one to save Moose. It was counterproductive, in my opinion, as it made SYX look like dweebs. That&#8217;s not the kind of heels that they&#8217;re supposed to be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the point of Brian Johnson?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m genuinely curious what the point of Brian Johnson is? Was it simply to justify even more time on screen for both Daria Rae and Santino as an unneeded middle-man? Why was Santino condescending to him and if the &#8220;board of directors&#8221; is even watching the product why are they simply okay with Daria cozying up to Brian Johnson if he is supposed to essentially be her &#8220;babysitter&#8221;? With the Jensen Huang story in the news this is an even odder decision.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Giving Apex a squash match as champions?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why are the Knockouts Tag Team Champions wrestling a jobber team in a squash match? I understand the purpose of a squash match to help get over a team that needs to justify a title shot but why are the champions wrestling such low-level talent? On top of that, the jobber team got too much offense in. Side note, please stop having Indi Hartwell on commentary. She has value but it isn&#8217;t behind the booth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SYX pre-taped promo play-acting<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"pwtor-3827319878\" class=\"pwtor-content-1 pwtor-entity-placement\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Advertisements\"><!-- Tag ID: pwtorchcom_test_300x600 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __300x600\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>It just felt too robotic and play-acting for me. It wasn&#8217;t God-awful but it also wasn&#8217;t on par for one of the strongly pushed acts in the company.<\/p>\n<p>Hinting at AJ Francis getting an International Title match<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, I think that Francis is underutilized in TNA. That being said, in terms of TNA in kayfabe, what has he done in recent months to earn a potential International Title shot against AJ Francis? He always loses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was the John Skyler segment?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Was John Skyler supposed to be in prison or something? He was filmed eating what looked like a disgusting pile of food, presumably backstage, and some guy came up to him and asked if he was going to finish it as Skyler slowly pushed it towards him. Maybe it was someone currently on the TNA roster, but I didn&#8217;t recognize him. Skyler also mutters &#8220;Mila&#8221; after hearing a random woman&#8217;s laughter. Is his new gimmick supposed to be &#8220;pathetic loser&#8221;? I hope that TNA has a plan with Skyler if they&#8217;re going to continually give him TV time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The idea that Santino has the power to vacate a contractually obligated championship &#8220;rematch&#8221; clause<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If something is literally &#8220;contractually obligated&#8221; how does Santino have the power to potentially vacate it? Because he didn&#8217;t like the fact that Nic Nemeth interfered in a ladder match costing Elijah when the match literally allowed for interference and &#8220;disrespected&#8221; him? Santino looked worse to me in this scenario than Nic Nemeth did. Of course, we know that Nic was going to beat Elijah anyone so the match had no doubt in the outcome and it was a boring match on top of it (which is fairly rare for a Nic Nemeth match).<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Dollhouse Vignette to end the show<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First off, why was this completely random vignette chosen to end the go-home show to Destination X? Secondly, why are you introducing what looks like an incredibly stupid stable called &#8220;The Dollhouse&#8221; with the random Mismash of Taryn Terrell, Harley Hudson and Mila Moore with absolutely zero context? It&#8217;s completely backwards. There were literally no hints or breadcrumbs or even any interactions between these wrestlers. Mila Moore and Harley Hudson were just with other partners or being courted by other partners and Terrell hasn&#8217;t been seen on TV in my recent memory. Also, poor Hudson. Putting her in the out of left field Righteous weirdness right into another unexplained potential stable.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PWT Talks NXT - PWTorch NXT Post Show (10\/20) w\/Nate Lindberg &amp; Kelly Wells\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4utok5umawo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-4061084960\"><div id=\"pwtor-2696049490\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Advertisements\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>HITS Elayna Black defeating M by Elegance It was good that Elayna got the win tonight as I think that she has been a surprise Knockout of the year contender for TNA and she needs <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2026\/11\/13\/tna-impact-hits-misses-11-12-mustafa-ali-stealing-a-win-dollhouse-vignette-santino-cancelling-a-rematch-trey-miguels-mini-documentary-brookeside-with-the-righteous-more\/\" title=\"TNA IMPACT HITS &#038; MISSES (11\/12): Mustafa Ali stealing a win, Dollhouse vignette, Santino cancelling a rematch, Trey Miguel&#8217;s mini-documentary, Brookeside with The Righteous, more\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,28,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opnionandanalysis","category-specialists_hitsandmisses","category-specialists"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2026\/11\/Screenshot-2026-11-13-at-12.03.35-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225160,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225158\/revisions\/225160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}