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Feast or Fired


Feast or Fired is a professional wrestling match concept featured in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). 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, wrestler can only claim a briefcase if he/she leaves the ring with it and both feet touch the floor.

Inside each of the briefcases is some sort of paperwork. One of the cases holds a contract for a TNA World Heavyweight 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 (with a partner of that wrestler's choosing). And (until 2017) the fourth and final briefcase contained a pink slip, which fires the wrestler carrying it (in 2016 the X Division title was removed from the mix, replaced by the - now defunct - TNA King of the Mountain Championship).

Feast or Fired is comparable to the Money in the Bank ladder match conducted in WWE with the difference that WWE only offers one briefcase and the winner of its match has a guaranteed shot at a World Championship.

The winners of the briefcases do not reveal what is in them that night. Instead, an in-ring segment is done on an episode of Impact Wrestling sometime afterward. Before the contents of the cases are revealed, each wrestler is given a choice to keep their case or forfeit it. If a wrestler chooses to forfeit the case, he loses whatever is inside. For example, if the wrestler forfeited the case with the pink slip in it, he would not be fired but would have lost out on a title match if the case had a contract inside.


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