Feast or Fired


Feast or Fired is a professional wrestling match concept featured in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. The idea is based on the object on a pole match, which sees wrestlers trying to gain possession of items hanging from poles attached to the ring posts. In this case, the participants in the match try to grab one of four briefcases from the poles. In the match itself, a wrestler can only claim a briefcase if he/she leaves the ring with it and both feet touch the floor.

Stipulations

Inside each of the briefcases is some sort of paperwork. Traditionally. One of the cases holds a contract for a TNA World Championship match, one holds a contract for a TNA [X Division Championship] match, and one holds a contract for a TNA World [Tag Team Championship] match. The fourth and final briefcase contains a pink slip, which fires the wrestler carrying it. For some matches, alternate championships have been used used, with the TNA King of the Mountain Championship and the TNA Digital Media Championship in place of the X Division Championship in 2016 and 2023, respectively, and the TNA International Championship in lieu of the Tag Team Championship in 2026.
The winners of the briefcases do not reveal what is in them that night. Instead, they are revealed in a segment on a later episode of Impact!. Before the contents of the cases are revealed, each wrestler is given a choice to keep their case or forfeit it, which protects the wrestler from being fired, but also gives up any potential title match.
Once a wrestler wins a briefcase, it may be defended in matches similar to the way championships are.
The allocated time period during which a wrestler must invoke their title opportunity has not been explicitly stated, all that has been said is that the title opportunity can be invoked "anywhere, anytime", making it similar in fashion to the WWE Money in the Bank ladder match contract, which lasts for one year.

Feast or Fired Cash-in Matches

Cash-in matches

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Won cash-in match and the championship
Won cash-in match but not the championship
Lost cash-in match

#Case HolderChampionshipEventDateResult
TNA World Tag Team ChampionshipAgainst All OddsWith Bullet Bob Armstrong, they lost to A.J. Styles and Tomko
TNA X Division ChampionshipImpact!Defeated Jay Lethal.
TNA World Heavyweight ChampionshipSacrificeLost to Samoa Joe.
TNA World Tag Team ChampionshipImpact!With Consequences Creed, they defeated Beer Money, Inc..
TNA X Division ChampionshipImpact!Defeated Suicide.
TNA World Heavyweight ChampionshipImpact!Defeated Sting via disqualification after the Main Event Mafia interfered. TNA Managing Partner Mick Foley gave Hernandez a second chance by returning the briefcase.
TNA World Heavyweight ChampionshipNo SurrenderLost to new champion AJ Styles in a five-way match that also involved defending champion Kurt Angle, Matt Morgan, and Sting.
TNA X Division ChampionshipImpact!Defeated Amazing Red.
TNA World Heavyweight ChampionshipAgainst All OddsLost to AJ Styles in a No Disqualification match with Eric Bischoff as the special guest referee.
TNA World Tag Team ChampionshipImpact!The Band defeated Matt Morgan.
TNA X Division ChampionshipImpact Wrestling
Lost to Austin Aries.
TNA World Heavyweight ChampionshipImpact Wrestling
Lost to Magnus.
TNA World Tag Team ChampionshipImpact Wrestling
With Abyss, they defeated The Wolves.
TNA X Division ChampionshipImpact Wrestling
Defeated Low Ki.
TNA World Heavyweight ChampionshipDestination X
Lost to Kurt Angle.
and Trevor LeeTNA World Tag Team ChampionshipImpact Wrestling
Defeated The Wolves.
TNA World Tag Team ChampionshipImpact Wrestling
Beer Money defeated The Wolves.
TNA World Heavyweight ChampionshipImpact WrestlingDefeated Matt Hardy.
TNA King of the Mountain ChampionshipImpact Wrestling
Defeated Bram.
Impact World Tag Team ChampionshipRedemptionWith Scott Steiner, they defeated LAX.
Impact X Division ChampionshipRedemptionLost to Matt Sydal.
Impact World ChampionshipImpact WrestlingLost to Pentagón Jr..
Impact World Tag Team ChampionshipBound for GloryABC defeated The Rascalz to win the Impact World Tag Team Championships.
Impact Digital Media ChampionshipImpact Wrestling
Defeated Tommy Dreamer via disqualification.
TNA World ChampionshipHard To KillDefeated Alex Shelley.

Race for the Case

Race for the Case was a similar concept used by Impact in 2017. This was a pole match where different colored briefcases hang from poles. Retrieving a briefcase allows to the participant to challenge any wrestler in any match stipulation on an Open Fight Night episode of Impact Wrestling. Inside each briefcase contained a number from one to four, which denotes the winning wrestlers placement in being able to make a challenge. Once a wrestler lays down a challenge, the other briefcase holders are no longer able to make the same challenge.