Impact Wrestling Power Rankings: A Boomstick, a Wedding and a New Tag Team?

It would have been easy to forget about the wrestling this week on Impact with the wedding of Bully Ray and Brooke Hogan. Simply put, there wasn’t much of anything on the show. Regardless, there were some people who found their own time to shine.

5: Jay Bradley: After his win over Brian Cage last week, Bradley was face to face with the judges and after Tazz told him no, Bradley told the judges to “Open the door” and he’d take care of the rest. After Al Snow and Bruce Pritchard told him yes, Bradley and his “Boomstick” landed himself on the Impact Wrestling roster.

4: Velvet Sky: The fans still love her and with her win over Gail Kim, she holds on to her title shot against Knockouts Champion Tara. She’s still far from the most decorated female wrestler in the company, but she’s beautiful and she tries. If you think that’s not enough, you’re wrong. She’s grown in the ring over the last year.

3: Austin Aries and Robert Roode: These guys have the makings of a wonderful tag team. They would be amazing together. They work well in the ring and have chemistry on the microphone. Instead they keep squabbling over the World Title, when it’s painfully obvious that Jeff Hardy will be the champion for the near future. They could easily dethrone the current tag team champions Chavo Guerrero and Hernandez.

2: Frank Kazarian and Christopher Daniels: The two cut a fun promo where Kazarian called the fans “Butt Puppets” and took on James Storm and Jeff Hardy to start the show. Although they lost the match, Daniels’ decimation of Hardy afterward was all that mattered. With Daniels World Title shot next week, Daniels and his sidekick haven’t got a rub like this in months. It’s about time too. They are better on the microphone than they get credit for and are easily two of the best workers in the company.

1: Aces and Eights: Just when you thought the gang was going to be quiet this week, Tazz announces himself as the newest member of the group and they take out Bully Ray, Sting and the rest of the wedding party. Sure, it felt like it was robbed out of a scene from Monday Nitro, but it was still fun to watch.

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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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