TNA Impact Wrestling Coverage: MVP Arrives, Joe is Gunna Kill Magnus

MVP is the new investor and TNA is certainly a bit different than they were just a few weeks ago.

MVP’s appearance, combined with Velvet Sky’s departure from Chris Sabin’s camp, as well as the arrival of Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards and Sam Shaw’s continued development, TNA is much more a place for the younger and hungry than a home for former WWE stars and undersized or green indie performers.

For the first time in a long time, TNA has a tiny bit of positive momentum.

Matches:

Velvet Sky and TNA Knockouts Champion Madison Rayne vs. Gail Kim and Lei’D Tapa: A quick match that saw Rayne nail Tapa with a Spear to eliminate her from the action. With Tapa deployed, Sky caught Kim with her sit-out Pedigree to earn the win.

Gunner and James Storm vs. Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian: Before the match, Storm pledged his support to Gunner and proved it. After Storm eliminated Daniels with a Super Kick, Gunner hit the Diving Top Rope Headbutt on Kazarian for the win.

Eric Young and Abyss vs. TNA Tag Team Champions Jessie Godderz and Robbie E w/Zema Ion: Abyss and Young and the champs right where they wanted until Abyss flipped out and destroyed the referee and his own partner. After the match, Young challenged Abyss to a Monster’s Ball match next week.

Ethan Carter III and TNA World Heavyweight Champion Magnus vs. Samoa Joe and Kurt Angle: A pretty standard match where all four competitors traded offense for a good 10 minutes. Joe was the most explosive of the bunch, but Angle hit several German and Belly-to-Belly Suplexes. After Angle beat on Carter on the outside, Magnus was left all alone with Joe, who quickly made the champ tap out to the Kokina Clutch.

After the match, the Lone Wolves revealed MVP as TNA’s new “investor.”

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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