Another crazy New York City crowd, the teaser promo of a new member of the Impact Roster (possibly female star Jessicka Havoc) and a slew of great matches made Destination X 2014 an indication that Impact Wrestling, even in the face of losing their TV contract with Spike, isn’t about to take anything laying down.
Matches:
TNA Tag Team Champions Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards vs. Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy: A great opening match that proves Matt and Jeff still have plenty of fire together as a tag team. They even nearly won the match after a Matt Side Effect and a Jeff Swanton, but the Wolves were resilient. Later in the match both Hardys got the Wolves in the Ice Pick, but again, the Wolves managed to escape. More a testament to the Hardy’s ability as a tag team than anything else, the reformed tag team went through all of their moves. It was like a video game at times. The Wolves hit their signature maneuvers too, including the Double Stomp and Catapault Side Kick, but the Hardy’s wouldn’t go down either. However, the Powerbomb/Backstabber combination was too nasty to kick out of and allowed the Wolves to put down Matt for the win.
X-Division Qualifier: Zema Ion vs. Manik vs. Low Ki: All three competitors hit trademark moves, but Low Ki got the win with the Ki Crusher in another awesome match from the former X-Division and Tag Team Champion.
X-Division Qualifier: Crazy Steve vs. Sanada vs. Brian Cage: Crazy Steve proved just that and Cage exhibited a ton of strength, but the revamped Sanada got the win with his Tiger Suplex on Steve, who was already weakened after Cage hit a nasty Death Valley Driver variation.
X-Division Qualifier: Samoa Joe vs. Homicide vs. Tigre Uno: Homicide and Uno hit their share of signature moves, but Joe won with a massive Muscle Buster on Homicide to advance in the tournament.
TNA World Heavyweight Champion Bobby Lashley vs. Austin Aries: Lashley took everything Aries had from multiple Discus Elbows to the Brainbuster. Capitalizing when Aries missed a Suicide Dive on the outside, Lashley put the pieces together back in the ring with a massive Spear to reclaim his 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.
Another crazy New York City crowd, the teaser promo of a new member of the Impact Roster (possibly female star Jessicka Havoc) and a slew of great matches made Destination X 2014 an indication that Impact Wrestling, even in the face of losing their TV contract with Spike, isn’t about to take anything laying down.
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