TNA Impact Wrestling Coverage: NYC-Approved

The return of the six-sided ring and the wild New York City crowd fueled another wild episode of Impact Wrestling.

We’ve said it before, but Impact needs to be on the road more often. The fans in Orlando lack the energy of the bigger cities and it shows. This week’s Impact was a solid one, but was made better by the excitement of the crowd.

Between the solid card, and the wild finish with the return of D-Von Dudley, this week’s Impact proves that the company still, after all of these years of missed opportunities, still has potential to grow and even succeed.

Matches:

Bully Ray and Tommy Dreamer vs. Rhino and Ethan Carter III w/Rockstar Spud: This match had a lot of layers between Ray’s heavy strikes and Rhino’s barrage on the outside, as well as effective double-teams from Dreamer and Ray. After it all, the finish threw all the wrestling out the window, as Spud caused a distraction that allowed Carter to get the Rollup win on Dreamer.

X Division Over the Top Guantlet Match: Austin Aries vs. Eddie Edwards vs. Manik vs. Davey Richards vs. Zema Ion vs. Crazy Steve vs. Senada vs. Tigre Uno: An insane battle royal full of spots. Senada and Aries were the last ones left and after Aries kicked out of the Tiger Suplex, he hit two Discus Elbows before finishing off the former X-Division Champion with the Brianbuster.

Eric Young and Bobby Roode vs. MVP and Kenny King: Young and Roode had this match all sewn up until MVP hit Roode with a crutch to earn the team of EY and Roode the win via DQ.

No DQ: Brittany vs. Madison Rayne: These two kicked the crap out of each other. While Brittany had her moments, Rayne got the win with the ultra effective Package DDT.

TNA World Heavyweight Champion Bobby Lashley vs, Jeff Hardy: A great match that saw Hardy go to the well with the Swanton Bomb too many times and it cost him the match. After Hardy misses a Swanton on the outside and crashed on the steel steps, Lashley finished off Hardy with the Spear.

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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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