[3] The event featured professional wrestling matches that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines.

[4] On January 23, Impact Wrestling announced the first match for Sacrifice on Twitter to take place between Daga and Jake Crist.

[5][6] On the January 28 episode of Impact, Daga and Dr. Wagner, Jr. defeated Reno Scum in a tag team match and then Ohio Versus Everything (Dave Crist, Jake Crist and Madman Fulton) attacked Daga and Wagner after the match.

[8] At Hard to Kill, Tessa Blanchard defeated Sami Callihan to win the Impact World Championship in the main event.

[9] On the January 21 episode of Impact, Blanchard cut her first live promo after her title win but was interrupted and attacked by the X Division Champion Ace Austin and the Knockouts Champion Taya Valkyrie, which led to Austin's Hard to Kill opponent Trey making the save for her.

Blanchard and Miguel would lose a mixed tag team match to Austin and Valkyrie later that night.

Next, The North (Ethan Page and Josh Alexander) defended the World Tag Team Championship against The Rascalz (Trey and Wentz).

Rohit Raju interfered in the match by pushing Trey off the top rope, allowing North to hit an Argentine backbreaker and a spinebuster combination to retain the titles.