Trey Miguel is on his way to Edmonton, Canada, but TNA still isn’t sure he’ll arrive in time to face Leon Slater for the TNA World Championship. The match is set to headline Sunday’s Destination X.
According to Mike Johnson of PWInsider, the promotion has a backup main event in place should Miguel not make it to the Edmonton Expo Centre. However, that match has not been revealed.
The start time for Destination X is 5 p.m. local time (7 p.m. ET) on TNA+ and traditional PPV, with the pre-show starting an hour earlier. PWInsider reports that between five and 10 wrestlers were still at airports as of Sunday morning, trying to get on rescheduled flights or new connections after Friday’s nationwide FAA ground stop. Some of those flights won’t land until after the pre-show, and several of the top matches on the card feature at least one of those wrestlers.
In addition to the backup main event, TNA has another way to handle any matches that have to be pulled from the show. The report said one of the plans is to move those matches to the Impact tapings in Calgary on Wednesday and Thursday at the WinSport Event Centre, just three days later.
All of the wrestlers are expected to make it to Calgary in time. If Slater vs. Miguel is one of those matches, the title bout would come off the pay-per-view and air on iMPACT! on AMC.
Sunday’s Destination X is TNA’s first pay-per-view since Slater, 22, won the TNA World title by defeating Nic Nemeth at Bound for Glory on October 11, becoming the youngest world champion in the promotion’s history.