TNA Impact Wrestling Power Rankings: The Greatest Who Ever Lived

At this point in their history, TNA is like the puppy that can’t stop peeing on the carpet. Regardless of all the screaming, yelling and beatings, TNA will never stop dropping the ball creatively.

Luckily, there’s never been a problem with the in-ring product and this week, there were some phenomenal matches.

Check out our weekly TNA Impact Wrestling Power Rankings to see who rocked the ring the hardest.

5: Bobby Roode: The former TNA Champion promised “it pays to be rude” this week on Impact and after he broke a glass bottle over Hernandez’s head for his first win in the Bound for Glory Series, he proved it. Say what you want about his lack of charisma, but Roode is entertaining in the ring and is a threat to whoever holds the TNA World Heavyweight Championship.

4: AJ Styles: After a fantastic match last week on Impact against Jeff Hardy, Styles and Austin Aries tore the house down. Featuring great technical wrestling, some spots and plenty of strikes, Styles is beginning to come into his own again.

3: The Main Event Mafia/Aces and Eights: They got the last segment of the show, but were out-shined by the arrival of Tito Ortiz. Both of these groups are losing ground, quickly.

2: Chris Sabin: Not his best match on Impact, but Sabin took care of Manik, the X-Division Champion and had enough gas left to ensure that Bully Ray didn’t get a few cheap hits on him. While it’s too early to tell how solid a World Champion Sabin will be, it’s obvious he’s going to let his in-ring performances do most of the talking.

1: Austin Aries: “The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived” continues to cut solid promos and back up all his antics in the ring. This guy needs to get back in the World Title picture and fast. The crowd responds to him perhaps more than any other performer in the company today. His match this week with AJ Styles proves once again that he can perform with anyone.

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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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