{"id":338930,"date":"2026-05-22T15:13:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=338930"},"modified":"2026-05-22T15:13:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:43:47","slug":"mike-santana-hangs-onto-tna-world-title-after-rematch-against-steve-maclin-on-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/mike-santana-hangs-onto-tna-world-title-after-rematch-against-steve-maclin-on-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Santana Hangs Onto TNA World Title After Rematch Against Steve Maclin On Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Picking up where they last left off nearly two months ago on the Sacrifice pay-per-view event on March 27, Mike Santana went “Front Toward Enemy” with Steve Maclin and prevailed. “The Realest” stays the TNA World Championship after their foremost event rematch on this week’s episode of “TNA Impact.”<\/p>\n

Valiantly enraged after waiting so long, Maclin got here in hot within the early goings of the match, as he slammed the champion’s face twice into the steel post before dragging out a table. To the fans’ delight, the table was used not on Santana, but on Maclin. “The Real Deal” drove Maclin head-first into the table. Like a shark smelling blood within the water, Maclin stayed on top of a knee injury that Santana obtained sooner or later within the match. Bouncing back, Santana sent Maclin crashing through the table with a superkick. Playing possum, Maclin tried to hit a K.I.A., but Santana countered quickly, by turning it into his Spin the Block finisher to retain.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Learning of this impromptu contest by on-screen Director of Operations Daria Rae last week, the last time Santana and Maclin saw each other, they were unable to proceed their match after concerns were that Maclin had suffered a reported concussion after a kick to the jaw. Luckily, the previous Impact World Champion was officially cleared to compete last week, thus establishing tonight’s high-profile match.<\/p>\n

Tonight’s match marks the fifth title defense Santana has had up to now in his second reign, which began on the “Impact” premiere on AMC this past January. Outside of Maclin, Santana has put his title on the road against other former world champions, Eddie Edwards and Wealthy Swann. Now, Santana has one other waiting within the wings in Eric Young, as he won a Number One Contenders Battle Royal last Thursday. When their match will happen hasn’t been announced as of this report. Nonetheless, TNA’s annual summertime event, Slammiversary, is just across the corner, on Sunday, June 28, on the Agganis Arena in Boston, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article><\/div>\n

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Picking up where they last left off nearly two months ago on the Sacrifice pay-per-view event on March 27, Mike Santana went “Front Toward Enemy” with Steve Maclin and prevailed. “The Realest” stays the TNA World Championship after their foremost event rematch on this week’s episode of “TNA Impact.” Valiantly enraged after waiting so long, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":338931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21056],"tags":[18744,800,47728,2561,7760,15883,2390,1148,14959,813],"class_list":["post-338930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wwe-and-more","tag-hangs","tag-impact","tag-maclin","tag-mike","tag-rematch","tag-santana","tag-steve","tag-title","tag-tna","tag-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338933,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338930\/revisions\/338933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}