Production
Background
On September 18, 2017, it was announced that Impact Wrestling would hold the Bound for Glory pay-per-view event on November 5, and subsequent tapings of its television program Impact! from November 6 to November 10 at the Aberdeen Pavilion in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. [6]
Storylines
Genesis featured professional wrestling matches that involved different 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. [7]
At Bound for Glory, Eli Drake successfully defended the Global Championship against Johnny Impact due to interference by the returning Alberto El Patron, who was enraged on being stripped off the title and being replaced by Impact instead of getting his title rematch. [8] After a confrontation on the November 9 episode of Impact!, [9] Impact and Patron competed in a match on the November 30 episode of Impact!, which Impact won. Drake and Chris Adonis attacked the two competitors after the match until Petey Williams made the save for Impact. [10] On the December 7 episode of Impact Wrestling, Impact and Williams defeated Drake and Adonis after Patron interfered to attack Drake. [11] On the December 14 episode of Impact Wrestling, Patron, Impact and Williams defeated Drake, Adonis and Kongo Kong in a six-man tag team match after Patron took out Impact and pinned Drake. [12] On the January 18 episode of Impact!, Drake defended the title against Impact and Patron in a three-way match which ended in a no contest due to interference by various wrestlers. [13] It was later announced that Drake would defend the Global Championship against Impact and Patron in a Six Sides of Steel match at Genesis. [14]
At Bound for Glory, Lashley and King Mo defeated Moose and Stephan Bonnar in a Six Sides of Steel match. [8] The rivalry continued on the November 16 episode of Impact!, when American Top Team leader Dan Lambert negotiated Lashley's release from Impact, so he could focus on mixed martial arts. However, Moose interrupted it to attack Lashley but ATT members outnumbered him until James Storm made the save and the two cleared Lashley and ATT from the ring. [15] ATT attacked Storm after he defeated Texano Jr. on the November 30 episode of Impact!, but Moose made the save, leading to Lambert challenging Moose and Storm to a tag team match against Lashley and himself on the following week's Impact!. [10] Lashley and Lambert won the match on the December 7 episode of Impact!. [11] On the December 14 episode of Impact!, Moose said Lashley could not beat him one-on-one without ATT's help but Lashley said he could fight Moose anytime. Storm then challenged Lambert to a match which Lambert accepted on the condition that if Storm lost then he would be forced to leave Impact. Storm accepted the challenge. [12] Lambert defeated Storm, with ATT's help on the January 4 episode of Impact!, thus forcing him to leave Impact. [16] After Moose and Eddie Edwards lost a match to ATT's Lashley and KM on the January 11 episode of Impact!, [17] a match was made official between Moose and Lashley for Genesis. [13]
On the November 9 episode of Impact!, Impact Grand Champion Ethan Carter III interrupted Matt Sydal after the latter won a match and insulted him by saying that he came up short in title shots despite winning his matches. [9] EC3 would then retain the Grand Championship against Fallah Bahh by using underhanded tactics the following week. [15] On the December 7 episode of Impact!, EC3 defended the title against Sydal in a match that ended in a draw due to judges' decision, meaning that EC3 retained the title. [11] On the January 4 episode of Impact!, EC3 defeated Sydal and Bahh in a three-way match via judges' split decision. [16] Sydal would then attack EC3 during his match against Petey Williams on the January 11 episode of Impact!. Sydal would criticize the judges' decisions and told EC3 not to hide behind the Grand Championship rules and fight him in a match for the title with a sixty-minute time limit and having no judges and no rules. [17] The regular match between EC3 and Sydal for the Grand Championship with no judges and no rules was later made official for Genesis. [13]
On the December 14 episode of Impact!, Allie defeated K. C. Spinelli, Madison Rayne and Sienna in a four-way match to become the #1 contender for the Impact Knockouts Championship. [12] Allie and the champion Laurel Van Ness began feuding with each other as they attacked each other during the following weeks. [16] [17] It was later announced that Van Ness would defend the title against Allie at Genesis. [13]
