TNA Impact Wrestling Coverage: Young Gets a Leg Up on Angle

If you thought Eric Young was nuts before. You haven’t seen anything yet. With the war between the BDC and The Rising getting hotter and Young and Kurt Angle still feuding over the TNA World Heavyweight title, the show has been solid. Add in best of five tag team series for the Tag Team titles between two awesome teams and Gail Kim and Taryn Terrell’s showdown for the Knockouts title and for the first time, in a long time, things actually make sense in TNA.

Matches:

Jade and Mart Bell w/Knockouts Champion Taryn Terrell vs. Brooke and Rebel: A sloppy tag match with little sexiness aside from the women in the ring. After Rebel missing the Split Leg Drop, The Dollhouse got the win with the Double Chokeslam.

Mr. Anderson vs. Tyrus w/ Ethan Carter III: The stipulation before the match was that if Anderson beat Tyrus, he’d get a match with EC3. After getting thrown out by Earl Hebner for trying to bring a chair into the ring, ECIII was forced to watch Anderson hit the Mic Check on his heavy and get the win.

Magnus vs. Abyss: A battle of former TNA World Heavyweight Champions, this one was hardcore. Even though Magnus called out James Storm, he ended up getting Abyss. Although Abyss was naturally in control, Magnus fought back hard and just when it seemed he was ready to take control, Manik and Khoya double-teamed him, allowing Abyss to hit the Chokeslam, ending the match in a no-contest.

Best of Five Tag Team Series for TNA Tag Team Titles: Match One: The Wolves, Eddie Edwards and Davey Richards vs. The Dirty Heels, Austin Aries and Bobby Roode: Great back and forth action that felt like a hockey game in Overtime, you knew a finisher wasn’t going to win the match, it was going to be something wild or sneaky. Although there was some miscommunication between Aries and Roode at times, they were solid and polished while Edwards and Richards played to their high-flying strengths. After Aries kicked out of a massive Knee from Richards, The Wolves appeared to have the Pop Up Buzzsaw Kick in their plans, but Roode proved to be the better partner, breaking up the move. After an Aries Missile Drop Kick, Aries followed it up with a corner Dropkick, allowing Roode to go for the Powerbomb, but a Richards pinning combination, with Aries back turned, allowed the Wolves to steal the first match of the series.

Jessie Godderz vs. Robbie E: This was filler before the main event, but still a decent, but short encounter. Robbie E. got three wins in about five minutes, thanks to a few Rollups and Cradles. After the match, Godderz beat on R. while the crowd chanted “Boring.”

Hardcore War: Team Young: Eric Young, MVP, Low-Ki, Bram and Kenny king vs. Team Angle: Kurt Angle, Drew Galloway, Mica, Eli Drake, Bobby Lashley and Chris Melendez: This was a crazy match, but one that ended even wilder after Young finished off Melendez with the Piledriver and later ripped off Melendez’s prosthetic leg and wrapped it around Angle’s neck, forcing him to say “I Quit.”

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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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