Impact Wrestling Power Rankings: Tag-Teamed

June 1, 2013 Patrick Hickey Jr. Professional Wrestling, TV 0

The new time slot for Impact has seemingly revitalized the product. After a fun and fast-paced card, TNA left the door open for plenty of great performances and the boys in the back delivered.

Check out this week’s Impact Wrestling Power Rankings to see who has a win on their minds for this weekend’s pay per view.

5: Sting: Although he capitalized on a distraction caused by Abyss’ music, The Stinger wrestled another quality match against the World Heavyweight Champion. He knows he’s not the guy he used to be and shouldn’t be in the World Title picture, but he’s making the best of a bad situation in TNA. He can still work- plain and simple. If he could only cut out the Boy Scout face drama, then things could finally get interesting. In a promo a few weeks ago, Sting said he planned on dismembering and destroying Bully Ray. It would be nice to see that come true- metaphorically speaking that is.

4: Samoa Joe: The Samoan Submission Machine made a nice return this week on Impact and wasted no time taking out DOC, Wes Brisco and Garrett Bischoff. The announcement of the six-man tag with Jeff Hardy only makes his return that much sweeter. One of the most talented workers in the company today, Joe’s return is an important one for TNA. Maybe this time the company will allow Joe to run a little bit before they remind him he’s an a leash.

3: The Aces and Eights: The club lost the opening match against Sting and Joseph Park. Later on Magnus and Samoa Joe embarrassed Garrett Bischoff, Wes Brisco and DOC. At the end of the night Anderson couldn’t put away AJ Styles, but that didn’t stop the faction from claiming a few victims. After the main event, The Aces and Eights took out Sting and a few other TNA stars to make sure no one thought they’d let a few mishaps ruin a night.

2: Gunner: Umm, did Gunner destroy Austin Aries with two moves this week? Did that actually happen? Yes it did. Maybe it had more to do with Aries’ bad behavior over the past few weeks, but Gunner still made a big time statement this week and gives his team massive momentum going into Slammiversary. With a new look and a solid skill set, Gunner makes an already impressive Tag Team division that much stronger.

1: The Tag Team Division: It’s quite possible that TNA may currently have the best tag team division in the history of their company. Four excellent teams that can do it all in the ring; it’s a shame that only one can wear the straps. It’s fair to say that more people may be interested in this division now than the current drama with the Aces and Eights and the Heavyweight title.

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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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