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Immortal
Stable
MembersHulk Hogan (leader)
Eric Bischoff
Abyss
Jeff Hardy
Jeff Jarrett
Gunner
Murphy
Name(s)Immortal
New Regime[1]
They[2]
DebutOctober 10, 2010[3]

Immortal is a villainous professional wrestling alliance in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). It currently consists of Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff (the kayfabe directors of TNA), Abyss, TNA World Heavyweight Champion Jeff Hardy, TNA Founder Jeff Jarrett and his security guards Gunner and Murphy. Immortal are often joined on-screen with fellow stable Fortune whom they are in-alliance with. The group is named after Hogan's long–standing nickname, The Immortal.

History

Background

Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff debuted in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling on the January 4, 2010, edition of Impact!, where they were introduced as business partners of TNA President Dixie Carter.[4] As faces, Hogan and Bischoff exercised control over the company, and attempted to help the company succeed. In February, Hogan began a friendship with Abyss and had a feud with Ric Flair and A.J. Styles – who would later start the stable Fortune.[5] This continued until the June 17 edition of Impact!, where Abyss turned on Hogan.[6] Abyss claimed that he was controlled by some entity – to which he referred to as "they" – and that they were coming to TNA.[7] Abyss began prophesizing the arrival of "they" on October 10 at Bound for Glory and attempted to gain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship for them by brutally attacking the champion Rob Van Dam, sidelining him for over a month.[8] As a result of the injury, Bischoff stripped Van Dam of the TNA World Heavyweight Championship and announced a tournament to determine a new champion.[9]

Since Hogan's arrival, Sting had suspected that Hogan and Bischoff were up to something, but only hinted at this with vague accusations of Hogan. To prevent this, he attempted to gain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship and feuded with Rob Van Dam and Jeff Jarrett, while seen as a heel.[10] Eventually Kevin Nash, whose partners in The Band had recently been ousted from TNA, was slowly tuned out by Hogan and Bischoff. He spent a few weeks questioning Hogan and Bischoff, as well as Jarrett for backing them up, and had a rendezvous with Bischoff's secretary, Miss Tessmacher, where presumably he learned some details about their plans.[11][12][13] This led to Nash aligning himself with Sting to help his cause on the August 5 edition of Impact!.[14] Nash and Sting feuded with Hogan, Bischoff and Jarrett, accusing them of deceiving everyone and playing the "smoke and mirrors". Having also learned Hogan's and Bischoff's plans after a meeting with Miss Tessmacher, D'Angelo Dinero joined Sting and Nash,[15][16] while Samoa Joe was recruited by Jarrett.[17] Sting, Nash and Dinero challenged Hogan, Jarrett and Joe to a tag team match at Bound for Glory, but with Hogan out due to a back surgery, Bischoff made the match a three–on–two handicap match.[18]

Formation

At Bound for Glory, Jarrett turned on Joe during their three–on–two handicap match against Sting, Nash and Dinero.[3] The main event of Bound for Glory was a three–way match between Jeff Hardy, Mr. Anderson and Kurt Angle for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. Near the end of the match, Eric Bischoff came to the ring with a chair and attempted to interfere with the match, but was stopped by the surprise appearance of Hulk Hogan.[3] Hogan and Bischoff appeared to have a disagreement, but this was a ruse as they helped Hardy win the match.[3] After the match, it was revealed that Abyss, Hogan, Bischoff, Jarrett and Hardy were "they".[3]

On the October 14 edition of Impact!, Hogan (once again using the "Hollywood" moniker he used while a member of the nWo) christened his new alliance "Immortal".[1] Bischoff revealed that it had all been an elaborate plan to take complete control of the company. He revealed that he had tricked Carter into signing over the company to him and Hogan a week earlier when Carter thought she signed the paperwork to fire Abyss.[1] Also that night, Immortal formed an alliance with Ric Flair's Fortune.[1] At Turning Point the alliance of Immortal and Fortune scored a clean sweep, when Fortune defeated EV 2.0 in a ten man tag team match, Abyss defeated D'Angelo Dinero in a lumberjack match, Jeff Jarrett defeated Samoa Joe and Jeff Hardy retained the TNA World Heavyweight Championship in a match against Matt Morgan.[19] On the following edition of Impact! Hogan presented Hardy with a new design of the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, which he dubbed the TNA Immortal Championship.[20] Dixie Carter returned on the November 25 edition of Reaction, informing Hogan and Bischoff that a judge had filed an injunction against the two on her behalf over not having signatory authority, indefinitely suspending Hogan from TNA.[21] Two weeks later Bischoff declared that the alliance of Immortal and Fortune needed all the belts in TNA to use as a leverage against Carter.[22]

In wrestling

Championships and accomplishments

References

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