This week’s Impact was all over the place, literally. More like a clip show, with minimal efforts inside the Impact Zone, it felt a little off. However, with the wars between Top Team and GFW, AAA and GFW and Johnny Impact and Eli Drake, there was plenty to take in.
Matches:
Ethan Carter III and James Storm vs. El Hijo de Fantasma and Texano: After Texano and his partner can’t get on the same page, Storm hits the Last Call Super Kicker for the win.
GFW Tag Team Champions: oVe: Jake and Dave vs. Atlas and Banks: Lots of great back and forth, but oVe won with the Double-Team Tombstone Variation.
Pro Wrestling NOAH GHC Heavyweight Champion Eddie Edwards vs. Naomichi Marufuji: This was a war (watch the match online and not the clip on Impact) that saw Edwards win with the Criss-Cross SnowPlow over a game Marufuji.
Chris Adonis and GFW World Heavyweight Champion Eli Drake vs. Johnny Impact and Garza Jr.: Your typical heels vs. faces match that saw Impact get the hot tag and steal the match with a counter and a Rollup.
GFW X-Division Champion Trevor Lee vs. Ultimo Ninja: Lee was his typical heel self, winning with a Foot Stomp and a massive grab of the tights.
Moose w/Stephan Bonnar vs. Lashley w/Dan Lambert: Moose smelled up Lashley’s eye and Lambert nailed Moose with a trophy to give the former Impact Grand Champion the win via DQ.
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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