TNA Impact Wrestling Power Rankings: How Long Can This Company Live?

With a minuscule card, boring promo and nothing to look forward to on the horizon, this week’s Impact Wrestling is another prime example of how lackluster the company has become.

Check out this week’s TNA Impact Wrestling Power Rankings to see who tried their hardest to make the show worth watching.

5: Mr. Anderson: His return signals the end of Bully Ray’s World Title aspiration and ensures that the middle of the TNA card will have a bit more depth. Well, at least on paper. At the end of the day, with a mediocre creative team at best, there’s little Anderson can add to the show. Regardless, it was nice to see “The Asshole” back.

4: Ethan Carter III: EC3 destroyed a jobber with a version of Dean Ambrose’s Front-Face Bulldog. With a great look, a cool finisher and instant heat from being a part of the Carter family, can EC3 be a decent mid-card heel? With Abyss rotting away with the TV title, that would be a gold strap that would look good around the waist and serve two purposes, elevate EC3 and make good use of a title that has laid dormant.

3: Bobby Roode/Kurt Angle: It’s the only angle with any amount of passion this week. Angle is motivated and emotional, while Roode was surprisingly charismatic as well. It’s too bad that segment wasn’t focused on and was more continuing to lay the foundation on their angle than intriguing television.

2: Bromans: Robbie E. is one of the best workers in the company, but has been buried more times than The Brooklyn Brawler. Godderz is a young stud with plenty of potential. Together, they are one of the only interesting things going on in TNA right now. It’s too bad the company doesn’t have a clue what to do with them. While working with James Storm and Gunner will help them build a nice clip reel in the ring, there’s little these guys can do creatively together.The thought of the Bromans working with Bad Influence however however could be a ton of fun.

1: AJ Styles: He won the gold at Bound for Glory and had a decent match with Ray this week. With the drama between him and Dixie Carter continuing, Styles should continue to be the face of the company for the foreseeable future.

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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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