While there was a nice amount of building of future storylines, the addition of indie tag team The Heavenly Bodies and a weak match involving the Desi Hit Squad made this week’s Impact feel like an overhyped indie house show.
Matches:
Scarlett Bordeau Invitational: Trevor Lee vs. Sami Callihan w/Jake and Dave Crist: Thanks to help from Jake, Callihan won with Cactus Special. After the match, Brian Cage hit the ring and took out the Crists and took Callihan’s bat from him and nailed him with the F5 before the Crists made the save.
The Heavenly Bodies Desirable Dustin and Gigolo Justin vs. Impact Tag Team Champions: LAX: Santana and Ortiz w/Konnan: This match lasted entirely too long as LAX was clearly the better team. After 10 minutes or so , Lax got the win with the Street Sweeper.
Gama Singh vs. Rohit Raju: Singh got the win when a new member of the Desi Hit Squad hit him with the Darren Young Fireman’s Carry Gutbuster. After the match, the three left together.
Fallah Bahh and KM vs. Killer Kross and Moose: Although Eddie Edwards took Moose out of the match, Kross got the win with the Kross Jacket Choke on KM.
Su Yung vs. Kiera Hogan w/Allie: After Allie was “scared†out of the ring, Yung hit the Panic Switch for the win.
Impact World Champion Johnny Impact vs. Fenix: Fenix did everything but win. This was a war. But just like that, Impact won with the Moonlight Drive and the Starship Rain. After the match, the OGz attacked Fenix before Pentagon made the save.
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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