TNA Impact Wrestling Coverage: Aces & Eights Continue Assault

Hulk Hogan and Sting caught a beatdown from the “Aces and Eights” gang last week, which made them unavailable for this week’s show.

Did you just cheer?

How dare you.

Those guys are legends.

While Hogan hasn’t had a good match in at least five years, Sting can still go, but hasn’t been in a decent angle in a long while.

This week, Kurt Angle and Gut Check contestant Sam Shaw were taken out as well by the Aces and Eights too, followed by TNA World Heavyweight Champion Austin Aries and Robert Roode during the show’s final segment. Rumors on the dirt sheets say former WWE superstar Luke Gallows and Wes Brisco, son of former NWA Tag Team champion Gerald Brisco are a part of the group.

In other news, TNA also signed former WCW cruiserweight champion Chavo Guerrero.

But the big question is, how will this group and the signing of Guerrero continue TNA’s recent push in the right direction? At this moment, it’s hard to tell.

With Hogan, Sting and Angle off the show this week, more time was spent on the gang and actual wrestling. At the same time, the show seemed to drag.

The decline of AJ Styles and this terrible angle he’s in with Christopher Daniels, Frank Kazarian and Claire Lynch has to end soon too. Enough. Just let Styles fly. That’s what he was born to do. After a decade in the sport, he’s still terrible on the mic, so why does TNA continue to show him at his weakest?

Matches:

Bound for Glory Series: Samoa Joe vs. The Pope: With only seven points in the Bound for Glory Series, Pope needed points and wasted no time against Joe. Trying various submission holds and a bevy of strikes, Pope was pretty strong against the former TNA Champion. Joe was smarter though, grabbing the arm of Pope and getting the submission win. Not a great match, but good to see Joe keep winning matches.

Bound for Glory Series: Jeff Hardy vs. Robbie E. w/ Rob Terry: The heel team was solid in the early going, but Hardy make the typical face comeback after a nice Whisper in the Wind. However, he spent more time beating up Terry on the outside and got counted out, resulting in a Robbie E win.

Get Check: Sam Shaw vs. ?: The Aces and Eights gang destroyed Shaw before the match got started.

Bound for Glory Series: Mr. Anderson vs. AJ Styles: A Routine encounter. These guys can obviously work and the match was enjoyable, but it wasn’t anything new. During the last few minutes, it appeared both Styles and Anderson were gassed. The near-falls and countered sped things up a bit, but overall, this was mediocre. Anderson won via the rollup after countering the Styles Clash.

Bound for Glory Series: Rob Van Dam vs. Christopher Daniels: A decent match, but again, nothing special. Daniels used the ropes and countered the Rolling Thunder for the win.

Bound for Glory Series: Magnus vs. Bully Ray: Best paced match of the night. These guys broke a sweat. Magnus nearly won with a Texas Cloverleaf, but missed a big elbow, which allowed Ray to use the Cutter for the win.

Robert Roode vs. TNA World Heavyweight Champion Austin Aries: Another good match from these two. At one point, this could have been the best match on Impact this year. There was a hearty combination of submission work, striking, near-falls, counters and spots on display throughout. The “We want T-shirts” chant was weird, but the match was otherwise enjoyable.

Well that was until the Aces and Eights took out both Aries and Roode.

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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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