Trey Miguel is the new number one contender to the TNA World Championship after winning a five-way ladder match on the Bound For Glory fallout edition of TNA Wrestling’s Thursday Night iMPACT. The victory sets up a title match between Miguel and newly crowned champion Leon Slater at Destination X, TNA’s final special event of the year.
The main event saw Miguel compete against Elijah, Jason Hotch, Moose and Ricky Sosa, with the winner guaranteed a contract to face Slater for the sport’s top prize. According to Wrestling Inc, Nic Nemeth factored into the main event’s outcome, helping Miguel secure the contract that was hanging above the ring.
Slater himself only recently became TNA World Champion, and the ladder match was positioned as the first order of business in determining who would get the opportunity to dethrone him. With five competitors in the mix, the match carried the kind of high-risk, high-reward stakes typical of a contract-on-a-pole stipulation, and Miguel came out on top to claim the opportunity.
Destination X has traditionally served as one of TNA’s signature events, historically built around high-flying and technically driven matches, and the promotion has billed the upcoming edition as its final special event of the year. The Slater-Miguel pairing now headlines that card, putting the TNA World Championship on the line in what shapes up as a showcase of the company’s current top-tier in-ring talent.
For Miguel, the win represents a significant step back into the main event picture, while Slater will be defending his newly won title in his first announced challenge since capturing the championship. Elijah, Jason Hotch, Moose and Ricky Sosa each fell short in the ladder match, though their involvement on a Bound For Glory fallout card underscores how central they were considered to the post-pay-per-view storyline shakeup.
No further details on the stipulation or build toward Destination X have been confirmed beyond the championship match itself. TNA has not released additional match announcements for the card at this time.
