Impact Wrestling Coverage: Where the Bad Guys Win

“When you ride with the Aces and Eights, you’ll never ride alone,” Bully Ray, during his first promo as the TNA World Heavyweight Champion.

Bully Ray’s win over Jeff Hardy at Lockdown was huge, but AJ Styles’ return raises even more questions.

With Styles’ presumed heel turn, who will save the company from The Aces and Eights? The entire roster is filled with heels or old, washed up faces. Something needs to change fast; otherwise the company will destroy itself creatively.

Aside from the gang doing whatever they wanted, little else went down this week on Impact.

TNA needs a hero.

Matches:

TNA Tag Team Champions Robert Roode and Austin Aries vs. Chavo Guerrero and Hernandez: The match never happened. The Aces and Eights dismantled Guerrero and Hernandez before the champs ever made it to the ring.

Gail Kim and Tara w/Jessie Godderz vs. Knockouts Champion Velvet Sky and Mickie James: Sadly, this was almost the best match of the night. Sky and James had several unique double team maneuvers early in the match, but Tara and Kim fought back with solid heel tactics. Later in the match, Tara and Kim added a few double team moves of their own. Sky took control of the match, but Kim once again hit Taryn Terrell to change the pace of the match. When the referee got involved and struck Kim, Tara capitalized with a Widow’s Peak on James, who just hit a top rope Thesz Press on Kim. With Tara preoccupied, Sky nailed her with the modified Pedigree, the “In Your Face,” for the win.

Robbie E. vs. Rob Terry: A sloppy match that saw Terry win with a variation of the Alabama Slam. After the match, he danced. Snore.

Christopher Daniels w/ Frank Kazarian vs. James Storm: “The Cowboy” had some early troubles against “The Legion of Boom.” Even though he won the match with The Backstabber, Kaz and Daniels beat him up after the match. AJ Styles made the save, but took out Storm as well. With longer hair and a beard, this isn’t the same Styles of old.

Sting vs. Austin Aries w/Robert Roode: Naturally, Aries and Roode were unable to work together and Sting was in control. With some fun on the outside including a Stinger Splash, Sting was out for blood. Once Roode got thrown out of the match and referee Brian Hebner was focused on him, Aries went to work. But when he tried to apply the Scorpion Deathlock, he couldn’t remember what leg to lead with. That gave Sting another chance. After a Gorilla Press Slam, Sting countered the Brainbuster into the Scorpion Death Drop that Aries managed to kick out of. After another splash in the corner, Sting had Aries dead to rights with the Scorpion Death Lock in the center of the ring. Just when you thought it was over, The Aces and Eights hit the ring and destroyed Sting.

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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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