The New York crowd continues to revitalize the TNA brand as a wild Impact that featured a rare match between the Hardy Boys and Team 3D topped the show.
Check out this week’s TNA Impact Wrestling Power Rankings to see what other surprises occurred in the last episode of Impact Wrestling before Hardcore Justice.
Honorable Mention: Low-Ki: He may not be in TNA all the time anymore and it may be difficult to find out where and when he’s performing, but when he’s in the ring, Low-Ki brings it. His win over Homicide last week on Impact puts him in a spot to challenge for Samoa Joe’s X-Division title. Win, lose or draw, Ki will make Joe earn every drop of sweat during the match.
5: Ethan Carter III: He didn’t even have to wrestle this week to piss everybody off. The best heel in TNA today, Carter needs to get back in the ring to capitalize on all of the heat. Aunt Dixie’s days in TNA may be numbered for now, but Carter’s are still just beginning.
4: Kurt Angle: Impact Wrestling’s General Manager has done a great job getting the fans excited and while his future with the company is still up in the air, he’s continued to make himself a more than useful and valuable member of the TNA roster. Regardless, they need to find a way to get him healthy and back in a ring in one way or another.
3: Samoa Joe: The reigning X-Division Champion is cocky as ever and we love it. His match with Low-Ki this week on Impact will be an awesome match and one that continues to show that Samoa Joe is one of the best performers in Impact Wrestling.
2: Gail Kim: She continues to prove every week that she’s the best female worker in the business. Now that she’s taken care of Angelina Love and Velvet Sky, a match with Taryn Terrell is almost a no-brainer.
1: Team 3D and the Hardy Boys: The thought of these two tag teams having one more match was pretty awesome and both teams didn’t disappoint. With their singles careers lacking real momentum, it would make sense for both teams to find a way to get in the Tag Team title mix. The Wolves are no slouches and a three-way match would have Match of the Year possibilities.
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.
The New York crowd continues to revitalize the TNA brand as a wild Impact that featured a rare match between the Hardy Boys and Team 3D topped the show.
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