TNA Impact Wrestling Coverage: More ODB and Eric Young Please

Caveman speak, boring promo and squash matches highlighted another weak episode of TNA Impact. Aside from the Eric Young and ODB segment, the show offered no smiles, nothing to chuckle about. Sadly, ODB’s use of the TKO in her match with Winter was the best wrestling move all night as well.

Essentially every angle is stale. There’s nothing interesting between Frank Kazarian and AJ Styles. TNA is wasting away Robbie E in a tag team role, in spite of the fact that he’s the TV Champion. The Bischoff family circus is boring. James Storm and Kurt Angle need to do more unique wrestling [their matches are good, but too routine] and less talking. The same goes for Robert Roode and Jeff Hardy. The DQ at the last pay per view didn’t help the angle. Fans deserve a clean finish at a PPV or at least something worthwhile that can build the program. That didn’t happen this past weekend. Because of that, the show continues to barely swim in the little pond it’s created for itself.

The fans of this company and the talent, that have proved before that they are capable of so much more, deserve better than this.

Matches:

World Television Champion Robbie E and Rob Terry vs. TNA Tag Team Champions Crimson and Matt Morgan: Joke of an encounter as Morgan and Crimson double Chokeslamed Robbie E for the win. After the match, Samoa Joe and Magnus beat down the champs.

Winter w/ Angelina Love vs. ODB w/ Eric Young: This match was all ODB. Several clotheslines, an avalanche, fallaway slam and a TKO put Winter to sleep. The comedic stylings of Young made the match even more entertaining.

Number One Contenders Match: James Storm vs. Kurt Angle: Best match of the night, but still nothing special. Both competitors had their moments, hitting all of their routine offense, but in the end it was exactly that, routine. At one point, Storm put on a horrible version of the Ankle Lock on Angle. It looked as if RAW announcer Michael Cole taught him the hold. Nevertheless, Storm was able to bounce back and hit his Last Call Super Kick for the win.

TNA World Heavyweight Champion Robert Roode vs. Jeff Hardy: The two battled on the outside for a few minutes before the match officially started. While they have good chemistry, there was nothing out of the world in this match until the last few minutes when Hardy got rolling. Aside from the spot where he missed a jumping calf kick and landed against the guard rail, there wasn’t much out of the ordinary. Roode was solid in his sniveling, dirty heel role and sold well in addition to hitting his signature offense. But rather than get a clean finish or anything worth waiting two hours for, Hardy was a split second away from recapturing the TNA title when Bully Ray pulled the referee out of the ring. There was no decision, no DQ, nothing. It made this good match a waste of time.

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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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