The 2017 Victory Road (aka Impact!: Victory Road) was a special episode of Impact Wrestling and the tenth edition of Victory Road professional wrestling event produced by the Impact Wrestling promotion, which took place on August 20, 2017 at the Impact Zone in Orlando, Florida and aired on television on September 28, 2017. Four matches were contested at the event including three championship matches. In the main event, Eli Drake defeated Johnny Impact to retain the Global Championship. On the undercard, Trevor Lee successfully defended the X Division Championship against Petey Williams and oVe (Dave Crist and Jake Crist) defeated The Latin American Xchange (Santana and Ortiz) to capture the World Tag Team Championship. Production Background In 2004, Impact Wrestling (then known as Total Nonstop Action Wrestling) introduced its new weekly television program IMPACT!, which led to it stopping running weekly pay-per-view events and began producing monthly pay-per-view events with Victory Road as its first pay-per-view event. Victory Road would be held as a monthly pay-per-view event by TNA until 2012. In 2013, TNA discontinued most of its monthly pay-per-view events in favor of the new pre-taped One Night Only pay-per-view events. 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. Storylines between the characters played out on Impact Wrestling and Xplosion. On the August 24 episode of Impact Wrestling, Eli Drake won a Gauntlet for the Gold by last eliminating Eddie Edwards to win the vacant GFW Global Championship. The following week, on Impact Wrestling, Johnny Impact challenged Drake for the title but Edwards demanded a shot as well for being the runner-up in the match, which led to Jim Cornette making a tag team match featuring Drake and Chris Adonis against Impact and Edwards, where if Impact or Edwards scored the pinfall then that person would become the #1 contender for the title but Drake and Adonis won the match. On the September 14 episode of Impact Wrestling, Impact defeated Low Ki to become the #1 contender for the Global Championship at Victory Road special and was attacked by Drake and Adonis after the match. The following week, Impact demanded a title shot against Drake but Drake was competing for Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide in Mexico, so Impact successfully defended his