TNA Impact Wrestling Coverage: First Blood for Bully

MVP and his crew had an easy night as the TNA Director of Wrestling Operations ended up booked all of his enemies in matches against each other. With the heels thriving and the good guys crying in the corner for most of the night, this week’s Impact was an irritating one.

Add in another appearance from the Menagerie, as well as the containing drama between Gunner and Samuel Shaw, as well as James Storm and Mr. Anderson, TNA continues to be a scattered mess. Although the in-ring action was solid solid, the story lines become more difficult to watch every week.

Matches:

Bram w/Magnus vs. Willow: A back and forth encounter until Magnus tried to apparently stop Bram from using the piece of steel on Magnus before he took the crowbar and nailed Willow himself. Striking Willow several times, the “old” Magnus is back.

TNA World Tag Team Champion Davey Richards vs. TNA World Tag Team Champion Eddie Edwards: The two tag team partners chain wrestled until Kenny King told them to stop fooling around. Still not striking one another, the two continued to trade submissions and pinning combinations until Edwards won with the Rollup. After the bell, King went to the ring shared his disgust that the two never struck one another during the match, before he got kicked in the face by Richards.

Hired or Fired: Austin Aries vs. Samoa Joe: After the two traded offense for a few minutes, Eric Young and Bully Ray got the match thrown out and got Kenny King to arrange an eight-man first blood match between the company’s two warring sides.

Madison Rayne w/Brittany vs. Knockouts Champion Angelina Love w/Velvet Sky: Interference and hair spray from Sky in the eyes of Rayne allowed Love to retain her title.

Eight-Man First Blood Match: Samoa Joe, Bully Ray, Austin Aries and TNA World Heavyweight Champion Eric Young vs. MVP, Kenny King, Ethan Carter III and Bobby Lashley: An enjoyable main event that saw every competitor dish out some signature offense. Things got spicy after Aries took out MVP, King and Lashley, which allowed Bully Ray to nail EC3 with his chair across the forehead to draw blood and win the match.

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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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