TNA Impact Wrestling Coverage: Fire Dixie

More melodrama, mediocre matches and not a damn segment that entertained, Impact Wrestling continues to drown in its own blood.

Aside from Samoa Joe’s proclamation that he’d fight AJ Styles if he won the World Heavyweight Champion tournament, Impact was far from sexy.

Forget Turning Point. This show needs to be taken off the air for two weeks and rebooted. New champions, new angles, alliances- hell, a new everything. That’s the only thing that can possibly save this show.

Matches:

Mr. Anderson vs. Knux: Anderson sold for about five minutes but got the win with a quick Mic-Check. With his career on the line next week, this win is a big one for him.

Christopher Daniels vs. Joseph Park: A poorly-paced match that proved once again that Abyss needs to come back ASAP. Daniels won with a low-blow behind the refs back.

Ethan Carter III vs. Dewey Barnes and Norv Fernam: A joke that ended after Carter gave both of his opponents the One Percenter.

Gail Kim Open Challenge: TNA Knockouts Champion Gail Kim w/Lei’d Tapa vs. Hannah Blossom: Away from the main event, this was the most entertaining match of the night. Kim is in a league of her own and her decimation of Blossom proved it. Although Blossom scored some minor offense, Kim was never in any real trouble. After a few minutes of strikes and her signature steel post Figure Four, Kim won with the Eat Da Feet.

Submission Match: World Heavyweight Champion Tournament: Kurt Angle vs. Austin Aries: The only real match of the night. Bobby Roode stood on the entry ramp and tried to distract Angle, but the former Olympic Gold Medalist was on his game. Both Angle and Aries traded offense and submissions for a good, well-paced 20 minutes, but neither could get advantage. Even after a Brainbuster, Aries couldn’t softened up Angle enough. With Roode still watching, Angle got Aries to submit with the Crossface.

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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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