As noted, TNA retired its King of the Mountain Championship after current title holder Bobby Lashley unified the belt with his TNA World Heavyweight Championship. This should air on next week’s episode of Impact Wrestling.
In its place will be a brand new title called the TNA Grand Championship, and you can check out a photo of Billy Corgan debuting the new title below. An 8-man single elimination tournament was announced featuring the new rules that will apply to this title. Each match will actually be three timed rounds, so basically UFC style, with a team of judges to award the win based on points, if it goes the distance:
So this is the NEW IMPACT Grand champion belt (replacing the KOTM title-wtf) matches will have mma style rules :/ pic.twitter.com/V1ILoQgAld
— HazardF5 (@HazardF5) August 14, 2016