TNA Impact Wrestling Coverage: A Blast from the Past

With no Bobby Lashley, Bobby Roode or Eric Young in in-ring action this past week, you’d expect the show to be a bore, but with an awesome six-man X-Division elimination match and a Main Event that featured The Hardy Boys vs. Team 3D, Impact Wrestling found a way to get it done.

Although the lack of an X-Division and TNA World title match did hurt the significance of the show, the awesome, one of a kind house show mentality gave Impact Wrestling a fun feel. It’s certainly not going to work every week, but it was a blast from the past this time around.

Matches:

X-Division Elimination Match for #1 Contender’s Shot: Low-Ki vs. Manik vs. Homicide vs. Zema Ion vs. Tigre Uno vs. Crazy Steve: A wild X-Division encounter that saw Low-Ki and Homicide make it to the finals. After a few sequences of back and forth action, Low-Ki countered the Gringo Killer into the Ki Crusher for the win.

Gunner w/Samuel Shaw vs. Mr. Anderson: A no-contest after Shaw got involved to calm down the two allies. Anderson still has a grudge against Shaw, so expect them to settle the score this week on Impact.

Fatal Four Way: TNA Knockouts Champion Gail Kim vs. Taryn Terrell vs. Angelina Love vs. Velvet Sky: Terrell performed well in the four-way, but it was Kim, who took advantage of an argument between Sky and Love to finish off Sky with the Eat Defeat to keep the Knockouts title. With Love and Sky now fighting amongst themselves, Terrell and Kim can now have the match every one wants to see.

Bully Ray and Devon vs. Matt and Jeff Hardy: Bully Ray and Devon got the clean win with the 3D, but did the Hardy’s make them work for it or what? Unlike Team 3D, who used many of their usual double-team maneuvers, the Hardy’s improvised more and proved they can still entertain in new ways. Overall, it was a solid match between two of the greatest tag teams of all time.

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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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