TNA Impact Wrestling Coverage: Playing Dead?

AJ Styles is no longer TNA Champion because he won’t do things the Dixie Carter way.

Sounds a bit like the WWE’s current storyline, right?

Now with an eight-man tournament to crown a new champion, TNA is a creative mess. In the meantime, Styles is defending the belt all over the world, with his most recent defense in Triple A against Judas Mesias.

Away from the shenanigans from Christopher Daniels and Frank Kazarian, the solid in-ring tag feud between the Bromans and James Storm and Gunner and the war between Bully Ray and Mr. Anderson, there isn’t much going on in TNA that’s entertaining. Most of it, like Dixie Carter’s terrible Stephanie McMahon-esque bitch boss, is a complete waste of time.

With the Main Event Mafia dead in the water, The Aces and Eights with three members and no real heat anywhere, why would anyone watch the show right now?

Matches:

James Storm and Gunner vs. Jessie Godderz and Robbie E: The Bromans sold for about eight minutes with barely any offense. A nice heel move by Robbie E. allowed Godderz to get the pin on Storm.

Ethan Carter III vs. Norv Furnam: Waste of an encounter. Carter III won with the Diving Front Bulldog.

Over the Top Gauntlet Battle Royal-Winner to earn a World Title Tournament Spot: Sting vs. Frank Kazarian vs. Knux vs. Eric Young vs. Christopher Daniels vs. Manik vs. Magnus: Standard Battle Royal in TNA that saw a flurry of eliminations towards the end. Magnus, Sting and Bad Influence were the last four left. Daniels was the next to go and quickly there after, Magnus eliminated both Sting and Kazarian.

TNA Knockouts Champion Gail Kim with Lei’d Tapa vs. ODB: Sad that this was the best match of the night. There was a solid pace and the crowd was into it. A less than interesting finish involving Lei’d Tapa made sure Kim kept her title.

Bobby Roode vs. Kurt Angle: This was a solid match until the storyline reared its ugly head and Angle played dead and was taken off via stretcher.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14230 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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