TNA Impact Wrestling Coverage: MVP Turns Heel

Just when TNA seems to have something solid going, they kick themselves in the rear, hard enough to clip the back of their testicles. MVP’s heel turn is eerily reminiscent of the recentWWE storyline with Triple H and Daniel Bryan, while the new Mike Knox faction, The Menagerie, feels like The Oddities, meets The Wyatt Family.

While the action in-ring competition was solid, the storyline development was a mess another example of the incompetence of TNA’s Creative team.

Matches:

Evening Gown Match: Knockouts Champion Angelina Love and Velvet Sky vs. Brittany and Madison Rayne: After Love and Sky double-teamed Brittany to eliminate her, Rayne worked over Sky to strip her out of the match. Just when it appeared Rayne had the match won, Sky came back and apparently showed the referee her breasts. With his back turned, Love pulled off Rayne’s dress for the win.

Kurt Angle vs. Ethan Carter III: Angle dominated with various suplexes, but his knee “blew out.” Obviously weakened, Carter continued to work on Angle’s knee and eventually got the pin.

Ladder Match: TNA Tag Team Champions Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards vs. Robbie E. and Jessie Godderz: An awesome, but short ladder match that saw the Wolves take out the interfering Zema Ion with a Backbody Drop off the top of the ladder to take out The Bromans on the outside.

Frank Kazarian vs. Mike Knox w/The Menagerie: The new-look Kazarian has fallen down the card after forming one of the coolest duos in TNA history with Christopher Daniels a few years ago. Not nearly as dominant as he used to be, Kazarian seemed petrified of Knox’s sideshow freaks. With little effort, Knox beat Kazarian with a version of the Sit-out Powerbomb.

Magnus w/Braham vs. WIllow: Magnus was solid, but Willow was n control. Luckily for Magnus, Braham took Willow out on the outside to get the match thrown out. After the bell, he hit a modified Fisherman Suplex for the exclamation mark.

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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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