TNA Impact Wrestling Coverage: Hail Magnus

March 23, 2014 Patrick Hickey Jr. Professional Wrestling 0

This week’s Impact had some storyline development and a decent card, but it was lacking in intrigue. Magnus’ run as World Champion has been great for him, but it hasn’t done much for the company. Simply put, there’s a new mix of talent, but it’s still lacking in star power.

When you spend 15-20 minutes of show time on the Beautiful People and Bully Ray, there’s a problem.

With another Kenny King vignette and a surprise promo from Mike Knox, TNA continues to throw smaller bite sizes of fun our way, but these are anything but developments that can change the company. Although they are trying to develop new stars, with their most entertaining performers in the ring, Christopher Daniels, Frank Kazarian, Bobby Roode and Austin Aries not on the show in any way, there was little to call home about.

Matches:

Bobby Lashley vs. Ethan Carter III: Lashly was in complete control to the point where ECIII struggled to just land strikes. When it appeared Lashley was ready to finish off Carter, Willow interfered and beat on Carter to get the match thrown out. After he beat on Carter some more, Willow put Carter’s leg in a chair and stomped on it.

Gail Kim vs. Lei’D Tapa: Although Tapa hit a few moves, but Kim, thanks to a Dragon Sleeper and kicks, was able to stay in the match. After a few minutes of back and forth, Kim beat Tapa with the Eat Defeat to kick her out of the company.

TNA Tag Team Champions Jessie Godderz and Robbie E w/ Zema Ion vs. Eddie Edwards and Davey Richards vs. Tigre Uno and X-Division Champion Senada: After The Wolves and the high flyers took out The Bromans, they started fighting amongst eachother. With all three teams fighting now, double-team moves and heel tactics were a plenty. The Wolves nearly won with an awesome Powerbomb/Back Cracker maneuver, but the Bromans interfered and soon hit Tigre Uno with the Brodown for the win.

TNA World Champion Magnus w/Abyss vs. Samoa Joe w/MVP: Surprisingly, Magnus was in control for a big chunk of the action. Just when Joe began to mount an advantage, MVP and Abyss began to brawl on the outside. When MVP grabbed Abyss’ tacks, The Monster nailed the TNA Executive with a steel chair. When Joe went for a Suicide Dive, Abyss nailed him with the chair as well. With Joe down, Magnus hit the Top Rope Elbow for the win.

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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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