TNA Impact Wrestling Coverage: No More Hulk, Please

“He’s got a big decision to make”– Impact Wrestling CEO Dixie Carter on Hulk Hogan’s deciding to become Impact General manager.

The bigger decision should be when the TNA creative team should get The Rock treatment and get boots kicked into their collective rumps.

Between the stale angles that lack in logic, Hogan as the new TNA GM, the Quentin Tarantino shifts in time and the continued push of Garett Bischoff, Impact is in desperate need of a shake up.

At this point, there’s only one solution to the mediocrity on Impact. Shut the show off for a month, play best of compilations and then come back with a revamped and recharged product.

This just isn’t working anymore.

Aside from  Austin Aries’ progression on the microphone and the hi-jinx of Eric Young and ODB, Impact is a complete bore.

Please no more lackluster promos. And please, no more music videos.

Just let these guys wrestle.

With the return of the Motor City Machine Guns next week, lets hope the Tag Team Division is the first element of a revitalized show.

Matches:

Madison Rayne vs. Velvet Sky: Rayne is one of the best female workers since Trish Stratus. She is a master of ring psychology and can flat out go. Sky continues to get better every time out and can do more than sell at this point. After a running bulldog, Rayne hit the sit out pedigree for the unexpected clean win over the former Knockouts champion.

Crimson vs. Matt Morgan: Crimson was dominant early on, but Morgan got the majority of the big offense in. And back and forth battle, these two appeared out of gas after about five minutes. Luckily, the double count-out ended the match before it got too ugly.

Mr. Anderson vs. Jeff Hardy: Solid match. These two worked hard here. With the added weight, Anderson looks more like Ronnie Garvin every week. Full of counters, this was fun to watch. Well, until Kurt Angle interfered and allowed Anderson [who didn’t see Angle] to hit Hardy with the Mic-Check for the win.

TNA X-Division Champion Austin Aries and James Storm vs. Bully Ray and TNA World Heavyweight Champion Bobby Roode: Aries took a beating early on, but held his own against Ray. Could these two really get involved in an angle? They’re both good on the mic and Aries can wrestle with anyone. With all of Ray’s experience, this could be better than expected. Aries was in the match selling through most of it, but once Storm got the tag, the match changed entirely. Storm was a flurry of clotheslines and after Roode missed the beer spit in Storm’s eyes, The Tennessee Cowboy hit his Last Call Super Kick for the win.

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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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