The following week on IMPACT, a low-level member of Aces & Eights named Mike was interrogated by Austin Aries into leaking information about Aces & Eights, but Aces & Eights came out and knocked out Mike with a hammer to prevent him from revealing anything. One week later, Aces & Eights attacked Aries again, knocking him unconscious with a foreign object. On the August 23, 2012, episode of Impact Wrestling, Aces & Eights brawled with members of the TNA roster, injuring the right arm of TNA World Heavyweight Champion Austin Aries. Aces & Eights later interfered in a four-way tables match, attacking Jeff Hardy and the eventual winner, Bully Ray.

Over the next several weeks, the stable continued to attack both faces and heels, they were initially introduced as a Vigilante Gang Īces & Eights made its first appearance on pay-per-view at Hardcore Justice on August 12, 2012, attacking D'Angelo Dinero backstage (providing a kayfabe explanation for his absence from television to recuperate from a shoulder injury). we've got something for you Hogan, wait and see!' The Dead man's hand comprising two Aces and two eights, was held by Wild Bill Hickok when he was murderedĪces & Eights returned (in greater numbers) to TNA on the July 12, 2012, episode of Impact Wrestling, attacking both Sting and Hogan, with Hogan billed as having sustained a pelvic fracture (providing a kayfabe explanation for his absence from television while recovering from surgery to alleviate back pain). On the July 5 episode of Impact Wrestling, an unnamed man delivered an envelope to TNA General Manager Hulk Hogan containing a photograph of aces and eights playing cards (known as the ' dead man's hand') and a note reading 'see you next week', saying 'we're not cowards. The stable debuted on the June 14, 2012, episode of Impact Wrestling, with three masked wrestlers attacking Sting as he discussed his induction to the TNA Hall of Fame. The name of the stable is a reference to the two pair poker hand known as the ' dead man's hand'. It had the gimmick of a Vigilante Posse motorcycle club members of the stable rode motorcycles, wore kuttes, and were referred to as either 'prospects' or 'patched in'. Motto: 'When You Ride With the Aces and Eights, You Never Walk Alone'Īces & Eights were a villainous stable in the American promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA, later Impact Wrestling), initially consisting of a group of masked wrestlers before their identities were revealed.

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