TNA Impact Wrestling Power Rankings: A Royal Flush and Aces and Eights Reign Supreme in TNA

March 2, 2013 Patrick Hickey Jr. Professional Wrestling, TV 0

With less than ten days before TNA’s Lockdown pay per view, the company scrabbled to put the rest of their angles together. With a new X-Division Champion and the team’s announced for the Lethal Lockdown match, things are shaping up rather quickly.

In our weekly TNA Impact Wrestling Power Rankings, we take a look at the stars with the most momentum going into one of the company’s signature events.

5: Velvet Sky: A clean and shockingly quick win over Tara may have many of the fans fooled, but Sky still needs a lot of polish. Although she hit all of her offense without a hitch and is getting better every week, she’s still more a beautiful entertainer than a “worker.”

4: Ivelise Felez: After a mediocre showing on Tough Enough last year, a darker-haired, in better shape Felez had a wonderful knockouts match with Lei’d Tapa. Using a variety of high-flying moves, but maintaining a strict, submission and strike-based offense, Felez won with a Guillotine Choke. If she doesn’t earn an Impact contact, it’s a shame. Hell, with Tapa’s size and strength, she deserves a spot too.

3: Austin Aries: Not his best match in TNA this week, but it was easily one of the most intriguing heel finishes on the show, ever. After the referee stopped Aries from hitting Hernandez with the title, Aries pulled a chain…out of pants…belted Hernandez with it…then threw it down Hernandez’s pants…for the win. If that’s not entertaining, then you’re watching the wrong television show.

2: Kenny King: Wins over Rob Van Dam don’t happen often. Wins for titles over RVD are even rarer. With a fantastic in-ring arsenal and good promo work, King has made himself a legitimate X-Division star. His win over RVD on Impact isn’t the end of their feud though. Easily with some of the best chemistry in the company, the two are all but confirmed a rematch at Lockdown.

1: The Aces and Eights: You thought the group was barbaric before? You haven’t seen anything yet. With Kurt Angle uncovering the truth behind the group’s leader this week on Impact, it’s only a matter of time until Angle shares the news. Once that happens, expect the club to reclaim the savagery that put them on the TNA map in the first place.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14316 Articles
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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