Suicide (character) - Television - Return and Name Change

Return and Name Change

After nearly two years of inactivity, vignettes began airing for Suicide's return to TNA on May 9, 2013. Suicide made his official return defeating Petey Williams and Joey Ryan on the May 23 episode of Impact Wrestling earning an X Division Title shot at Slammiversary. For this return, Suicide was portrayed by T.J. Perkins. Suicide received his title shot on June 2 at Slammiversary XI, but was defeated by Chris Sabin in an Ultimate X match, also involving Kenny King. On the June 27 episode of Impact Wrestling, Suicide won the X Division Champiosnhip in a three-way match including Chris Sabin and Kenny King. After the match, Hulk Hogan came out on to the stage with Perkins, where he revealed that Perkins was the real Suicide before demanding that the imposter in the costume remove his mask. Later that night, both Hogan and World Heavyweight Champion Bully Ray demanded the imposter remove his mask, leading to Suicide eventually taking the mask off and revealing himself to be Austin Aries, a former rival of Ray. Aries then announced he would willingly vacate X Division Title to receive a match for the World Heavyweight Title at Destination X, which he had also done successfully in the previous year. On the July 4 episode, however, Aries had to first defend the title against Sabin and Perkins, who began using the ring name Manik, while retaining a modified version of the Suicide costume and mask.. The match was won by Chris Sabin who then went on to announce that he will cash the title in for a shot at the world championship.