TNA Impact Wrestling Power Rankings: Petey Williams and a Waste

April 6, 2013 Patrick Hickey Jr. Professional Wrestling, TV 0

For nearly a month, TNA has been on a mission to bore.

While the card for next week’s show looks to be one of the better one’s this year, this week’s show was completely lackluster.

Check out our weekly power rankings to see what stars managed to shine on a cloudy episode of Impact.

5: Joey Ryan: The king of sleaze made sure the Knockouts match was hilarious. A guy that screams charisma, TNA has to find a way to get him on television more often. With Matt Morgan now apparently on his own, Ryan deserves a long-term angle in the X-Division or maybe even a shot at the Television title. He doesn’t have to win either. He just has to be able to compete on a consistent basis. One of those good-bad guys, Ryan can be a force on the lower-mid-card.

4: AJ Styles: Sure, James Storm ruined the moment with a terrible promo, but the decision Styles faces is an interesting one. If Styles joins the Aces and Eights, the club gets a legit performer and the credibility they sorely need. If he stays with TNA, the battle with the gang won’t change completely, put it does give TNA a lift. After years of doing the right thing, expect TNA to play the Sting-Crow angle. Styles will take his time making a decision and cause plenty of drama along the way.

3: Petey Williams: It wasn’t his best performance with the company, but Williams made the X-Division fun again this week. The thought of a Williams encounter with Kenny King is enough to make any wrestling fan salivate. TNA needs Williams back in the company terribly. The fans loved to see him back.

2: Kurt Angle: While all the “faces” in the ten-man tag match had some moments to shine in the ring, Angle is their leader both on the mat and on the microphone. Although he’s on the last leg of his career, he’s still got some mileage left. He’s a great face when used properly and it looks like he’s going to be in the center of this angle moving forward. That’s a good thing.

1: Aces and Eights: The gang not only won their ten-man tag team match, they provided the only interesting segments with the final Brooke Hogan/Bully Ray confrontation and a laid back look at the club during a “meeting” earlier in the show. There are plenty of things wrong with TNA right now and while the Aces and Eights aren’t perfect and can be tweaked, they are the only remotely intriguing aspects of the show right now.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 13861 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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