Background

On August 15, 2019, it was announced that Impact Wrestling would begin a partnership with a travel and media company Wrestling Travel, which would serve as the sponsor for the Impact Plus event Prelude to Glory, which would take place on October 18 at the Palais Royale in South Bend, Indiana.^[4]

Storylines

The event featured wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.^[5] Storylines were played out on Impact's weekly television show.

On September 22, the first match announced for Prelude to Glory was a six-woman tag team match, featuring the Knockouts Champion Taya Valkyrie, Madison Rayne and Kiera Hogan against Tenille Dashwood, Jordynne Grace and Rosemary.^[6]

On the July 26 episode of Impact!, Ace Austin began trying to impress and flirt with Eddie Edwards' wife Alisha Edwards which continued throughout the following two months and faked injury by walking through a wheelchair to arouse feelings of sympathy within Alisha and tried to create dissension between Eddie and Alisha.^{[7][8][9][10][11][12][13]} The rivalry further escalated when Eddie Edwards attacked Austin after his match on Impact! and was driven crazy with the feud which led to Edwards losing to Austin via disqualification in two matches.^[14][15][16] On September 30, it was announced that Edwards would face Austin in a street fight at Prelude to Glory.^[17] On the October 11 episode of Impact!, Austin defeated Edwards to qualify for a spot in the five-way ladder match for the X Division Championship at Bound for Glory.^[18]

A few more matches were added to the card stemming from matches scheduled for the Bound for Glory card.^[19]

Preliminary matches

The event kicked off with a tag team match pitting Rich Swann and Willie Mack against The Desi Hit Squad (Mahabali Shera and Rohit Raju). Swann nailed a Lethal Injection to Raju and then Swann and Mack nailed an electric chair, neckbreaker combination to Raju for the win.

Next, Fallah Bahh took on Johnny Swinger. Bahh nailed a Banzai Drop to Swinger for the win.

Next, two local wrestlers Russ Jones and Theo Storm competed in a match, which was quickly interrupted by Moose, who attacked Storm and took him out of the match and wrestled Jones in a match, which Moose quickly won by performing two Game Changers to Jones for the win.

Next, Havok took on local wrestler Elayna Black. Havok dominated the match with her power moves and hit a tombstone for the win.

In the following match, Sami Callihan took on Dez. Dez was about to perform a Final Flash on Callihan but Callihan shoved the referee into the ropes and executed a Cactus Special on Dez for the win.

After the match, Callihan insulted his Bound for Glory opponent Brian Cage and made personal remarks regarding Cage's wife Melissa Santos, which led to Cage attacking Callihan with a F5 and then his scheduled opponents and Callihan's oVe teammates Jake Crist and Madman Fulton attacked Cage until Tessa Blanchard made the save, leading to a tag team match pitting Cage and Blanchard against Crist and Fulton. Cage took out Fulton with a superplex and then Blanchard nailed a Magnum to Crist and Cage executed a Drill Claw on Crist for the win.

Main event matches

Later, a six-woman tag team match took place pitting Kiera Hogan, Madison Rayne and Taya Valkyrie against Jordynne Grace, Rosemary and Tenille Dashwood. After Rayne accidentally attacked Valkyrie, Dashwood nailed a Spotlight to Valkyrie for the win.

The penultimate match of the event was a Street Fight between Eddie Edwards and Ace Austin. Edwards attacked Austin backstage before the match to begin the match. After brawling through the arena and the ringside, the match spilled to the ring. Edwards hit Austin repeatedly with the Kenny and then nailed a Boston Knee Party to Austin for the win.

The main event was a six-man tag team match pitting The North (Ethan Page and Josh Alexander) and Michael Elgin against their Bound for Glory opponents Naomichi Marufuji, Rhino and Rob Van Dam. Van Dam nailed a Five-Star Frog Splash on Page for the win.