TNA Impact Wrestling Coverage: The Beginning of the MVP Era

March 16, 2014 Patrick Hickey Jr. Professional Wrestling 0

In the wake of Team MVP’s win at Lockdown, it was expected that Impact Wrestling would have a different type of flavor.

Between the returns of Angelina Love and Bobby Lashley and the Impact debuts of Tigre Uno and Sanada, as well as another Kenny King vignette, Impact Wrestling was a far better show than NXT this week.

Let the MVP Era begin.

Matches:

Samoa Joe vs. Abyss: The chants chanted “Joe is gunna kill you,” as he basically tore in Abyss. But with his mid-section hurt, Joe wasn’t able to maintain an advantage. Working on his injured body, Abyss fought back. Naturally Joe fought back with chops and his signature Back Splash, but every move hurt him more. After a Knee in the corner, Joe tried the Musclebuster, but couldn’t pull it off, allowing Abyss to hit the Chokeslam. With Joe down, Abyss picked up Janice and went to strike Joe, but Eric Young it the ring and nailed Abyss with the top rope Dropkick to get the match thrown out.

Brittany vs. Gail Kim w/Lei’D Tapa: Kim began the match with a Yakuza Kick and kept the pressure on. Although Brittany fought back with strikes, Kim was on her game. But when Tapa got involved and accidentally hit Kim, Brittany was able to (horribly) roll up Kim for the surprising win. After the match, Kim and Tapa went at it, apparently beginning their own feud.

TNA Tag Team Champions Robbie E and Jessie Godderz w/Zema Ion vs. TNA X Division Champion Sanada and Tigre Uno: The Bromans used power moves early on, but Sanada and Tigre Uno were solid as high flyers. After they sold through the early part of the match, they went on a tear, hitting everything from Front Dropkicks and Suicide Dives. After the stretch of wild moves, Sanada hit the Moonsault for the win.

Street Fight: Sam Shaw vs. Mr. Anderson: A quick match that saw Anderson capitalize on Shaw’s obsession with his Christy Hemme Mannequin and hit the Mic Check for the win.

Rockstar Spud vs. Willow: Spud never had a chance. After beating on Spud for a few minutes, Willow put him in the tree of woe and then nailed him in the groin with his umbrella. After he caught the referee with the Twist of Fate, he made Spud the victim of a Reverse Michinoku Driver. The destruction continued when Willow put Spud’s leg in a chair and beat on it before he climbed a ladder and hit the Splash.

After the match, Bully Ray hit the ring and called out Bobby Roode, who he hit with the Bully Cutter and then Powerbombed through a table.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14230 Articles
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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