TNA Impact Coverage: A Complete Mess

At this point, TNA couldn’t get someone over if they bought them a leapfrog.

Their heels couldn’t get heat if they covered them all with Bengay.

This promotion is a mess right now and just a few days before Bound for Glory, there doesn’t seem to be anyway it can get itself out of the mud.

While the action itself was solid, the storylines involving Hogan, Sting, Roode and Angle are totally lackluster. No one wanted to see Hogan vs. Sting in 1999 when they were still in decent shape. Why now then? Roode and Angle will be a great match, but there is no real heat on Angle and Roode needs more mic time to get over.

Again, this show is a mess.

Matches:

Christopher Daniels and Jerry Lynn vs. Rob Van Dam and AJ Styles:
Four great workers made this a technically sound contest and a more than capable opening match. A nice combination of near-falls, counters and double team moves, along with the routine moves that make these guys so much fun to watch in the first place, made this enjoyable. Styles ended up taking over the match though with a slew of aerial and high impact moves and eventually got the win after he hit his Styles Clash finisher on Lynn.

Matt Morgan vs. Samoa Joe: This match was a waste. Morgan won with a leapfrog cradle of sorts. No chemistry between these two at all. After the match, Crimson came to help Morgan and Joe challenged them both to a Triple Threat match at Bound for Glory.

Jesse Sorensen and Brian Kendrick vs. Austin Aires and Kid Kash: Sorensen can go. He gets better and better every week. All four of these guys can wrestle and from the get go, the athletic ability was on full display. Like the earlier tag team match, the double team moves and fast tags were prevalent. However, with no real story to bring it all together, it felt like it was for nothing. Kendrick got the win with his sliced bread finisher on Aries.

Mr. Anderson vs. Scott Steiner w/ Bully Ray as Special Enforcer: A routine match that was nothing special. Ray spoke trash on the outside and interfered with Anderson after he hit his Mic Check finisher on Steiner. Soon after, Abyss hit the ring and accidently hit Steiner in the face with a chain. Anderson made the most of that and covered Steiner for the win.

Handicap Match: Robert Roode vs. Jeff Jarrett and Gunner:
A handicap match that ended with Roode making short work of both Jarrett and Gunner, who he made submit to the crossface. After the match, Immortal attacked him. James Storm came out in his tag team partner’s defense, but he caught a beating as well. Soon after, Kurt Angle came into the ring to continue the beating, but Jeff Hardy came into the ring and took out Immortal all by himself.

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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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