Away from the shameless plugs of Destination America programming, this past week’s Impact Wrestling featured four solid matches and plenty of storyline development in the mid-card and promises for next week’s show.
However TNA World Heavyweight Champion Ethan Carter III was absent from the card, making you think what the current state of that title is. Why would the promotion leave their biggest star off the show for most of it, especially when he’s one of the most charismatic faces they have?
Matches:
Street Fight: Bram vs. Magnus: A run of the mill Streetlight that saw Bram get the win after a Low Blow and a Rollup. After the match, James Storm beat on Magnus with a cow bell and promised him things were about to get a heck of a lot worse.
Slammiversary Replay: Drew Galloway vs. Bobby Roode vs. Jeff Jarrett vs. Eric Young vs. Matt Hardy: A 30-plus minute match, it was nice to see this on Destination America, but it took up way too much of the regular show. If you missed it, Jarrett got the win after he hit The Stroke on Young on top of the Ladder.
Chain Match: Eric Young vs. Rockstar Spud: This was a pretty brutal match that saw the action go all over the place. Of course, Spud did the majority of the selling, and Young got the win with the Piledriver.
#1 Contender’s Table Match: Matt Hardy vs. Bobby Roode: Not a bad hardcore match for 10 minutes as Hardy and Roode beat on each other in a variety of ways. After the two countered their finishers, Hardy sent Roode out of the ring with a Back Body Drop, through a table to win a shot at the title.
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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