Feast or Fired

Homicide and Curry Man compete in the 2008 Feast or Fired match at Final Resolution. Curry Man claimed the briefcase shown in this picture, which contained a pink slip and resulted in his firing.

Feast or Fired is a professional wrestling match concept featured in Total Nonstop Action (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 ringposts. In this case, the participants in the match try to grab one of four numbered 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. The match is very similar to the popular game show Deal or No Deal.

Stipulations

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). The fourth and final briefcase contains a pink slip, which fires the wrestler carrying it.

2016 was the only year that a case containing a match for the now-defunct TNA King of the Mountain Championship was featured as a prize, taking the place of the X Division Championship Match. It is not yet known if the removal of an X Division Championship match will be permanent.^[1]

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 the WWE 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.

After the 2007 Feast or Fired match, a follow-up "Feast, Fired or Fifty Grand" match took place, where the four briefcase winners (who had yet to find out what was inside their cases) competed in a four-way match in which the winning wrestler had the option to exchange their case for a $50,000 prize, or another winner's case. This was the only year this type of match took place.

Once a wrestler wins a Feast or Fired briefcase, it may be (and has been) 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 aforementioned WWE contract, however, most have assumed that the contracts are good for one year due to the match taking place annually.

Matches

Feast or Fired information

Record

Matches

Participant List

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