TNA Impact Wrestling Coverage: Sting Gets ‘Serious’

This might go down as one of the best episodes of Impact this year.

Barely any filler and quality matches. This is what Impact is supposed to be.

While it may be remembered for its start, overall, it was a great show.

Apparently, after a promo with Eric Bischoff, it appears Sting is TNA’s version of DC Comics’ The Joker. From the laughing to facial expressions, it appears TNA creative thinks this is the angle that what’ll give his career some new life. While it was slightly entertaining, can it really provide the company with a ratings boost?

Probably not.

At the very least however, it’s an attempt on TNA’s part to lively up their product, which is absolutely needed.

Between that and the Jeff Jarrett in Mexico angle, the all X-Division Destination X pay per view in three weeks and the chance that Jerry Lynn and Rob Van Dam will compete at the event, TNA is at least trying to stretch its wings.

Add in a great X-Division match and a handful of other solid contests and this week’s episode of Impact Wrestling had a much better flow to it.

If they can continue to provide this type of high impact show, with as little filler as possible, TNA has room to grow.

Matches:

Scott Steiner vs. Bully Ray:
A decent back and forth match that was dominated by Steiner, who delivered a variety of clotheslines in addition to a nasty looking T-Bone suplex and an overhead belly to belly. After the referee was taken out, Bully Ray hit Steiner with his wallet chain for the win. Later in the night, he was offered a spot in Immortal.

ODB and Jackie vs. Miss Tessmacher and Velvet Sky:
A contest filled with more melee attacks than grapple maneuvers. The pace was lacking and there was never any real flow. Nevertheless, this appears to be a decent knockouts feud that has room to grow. That was mostly due to the work ethic of Velvet Skye, who delivered several solid clotheslines in the match.

Crimson and Matt Morgan vs. Beer Money: This was an excellent tag match filled with offense and a quick pace. James Storm continues to prove why is the best tag wrestler of this generation. Morgan continues to make the case for a serious push. The only thing it was missing was a decent angle to give it a true purpose.

Zema Ion vs. Dakata Darsow vs. Federico Palacios: Ion won this three-way contest with a 450 on Darsow. A solid match that was more about high spots, Ion almost killed himself with a sloppy corkscrew move off the top to the outside that missed terribly. Nevertheless, a great TV contest.

Winter vs. Mickie James in a street fight: Winter’s best work in the company to date. Vicious throughout, she also did a great job of selling. With Angelina Love hitting her finisher on James behind the referee’s back, Winter got the win on the TNA Knockout champion.

Abyss vs. Sting: A rough match that TNA used to “paint” Sting as a darker character. While the end proved that point exactly, as Sting hit Abyss with a glove covered in barbed wire, he wrestled most of the match as a face- basically the same way he’s always wrestled. For this angle to truly take off, Sting has to devote more of himself creatively to it and add a few new moves into his moveset.

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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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