[4/28] Impact Wrestling: Rebellion Thread

[Vic Damone. Jr]

Heard this was pretty good

i watched this shyt last night, couldn't jump in the thread because I was doing multiple things. But yeah, did Fenix get knocked the fukk out for a few seconds?

edit: and Santana(?) of LAX went through two match ending spots and kicked out. When he caught the avalance pile driver double team through the chairs, he was up and winning 60 seconds later.

Cage and Johnny both kinda trash now. Johnny be botching and Cage supposed to be the strong guy-spot machine, but he got that Batista level strength.

Gail Kim and that Samurai Jack face little girl had a decent match.
Sami Callihan . At least he pulled off a crisp cradle suplex. Rich Swan can't decide if he wanna be happy/dancing or crazy and mad.

Overall the show sucked.

Can’t unsee this now

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

I think Impact's problem right now is that it's perfectly fine wrestling, and that's literally all you can say about it. They currently lack anything of distinct quality that makes you say that you NEED to watch Impact for something you can't get elsewhere. At this point, it's just more wrestling.

outside of new japan, everybody is lacking that distinct quality.

at least impact has the wrestling going on for them.

where else are you gonna see the instant classic LAX/lucha bros feud?

 

[stro]

outside of new japan, everybody is lacking that distinct quality.

at least impact has the wrestling going on for them.

where else are you gonna see the instant classic LAX/lucha bros feud?

Everywhere. They've had matches in TNA, PWG, AAW, UK indies, Joey Ryan's promotion, Amazing Red's promotion...they've taken their feud all over the place in the past year.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

at this thread barely getting any replies, TSC don't mess with Impact

Was working last night but heard it was lit and even some dude saying that it was better than Slammaversary. fukk I been sleeping on Impact for a good minute

 

[2CT]

Was working last night but heard it was lit and even some dude saying that it was better than Slammaversary. fukk I been sleeping on Impact for a good minute

idk about better but it was just as good

last 4 matches were all good to great IMO

 

[stro]

Taya is so bad wtf. She's like 2008 Diva era bad. Every time I see a TNA event that stands out the most to me. She's just terrible.

 

[stro]

Solid show over all, like most TNA big events over the past year or so.

Scramble had a lot of fun flippy shyt, lmao at that Austin Ace nerd. I can't tell if he's supposed to be doing a magician gimmick or a Gambit cosplay. Kind of confused at all the shyt Eddie "Eddie "Tommy Dreamer" Edwards" Edwards has been been through in the past year and now he's in opener X divsion scramble matches. Not that I give a shyt about Eddie Edwards, but do they just not have an angle for him right now because it seemed like he was arguably THE main focus of the show for much of the past year.

The intergender comedy match like...why? If you're going to do intergender matches, take them seriously, not act surprised and laugh when the woman wins.

Moose/North vs Rascalz was pretty fun. I don't know where this extra Rascal came from but they work together well.

Taya/Jordynne was awful, because Taya is just garbage. Everything she does looks looks like it's in slow motion and has no impact whatsoever. She looks like she can't even keep up with her own spots, let alone someone else's spots.

Swann/Sami it's always fukk Sami. Has he ever won one of his own gimmick matches? lol This was definitely hurt by the comedy weapons in what was portrayed as this intensely personal grudge match. Weak ass cookie sheets, legos, and plastic wet floor signs did not at all fit with the story they were alleging to be telling.

Gail/Tessa...man Gail was struggling out there. The ring rust was real and she took so many bad bumps. I'm sure she was sore as fukk the day after. I'm not really sure what the point of the angle was. When it started back at the Homecoming show I was thinking about how lame it was because 1. Gail has barely been retired so her "coming out of retirement" meant nothing. She "retired" in 2017, then did a 6 month retirement tour, and had a match last year afterwards anyway. So really she's been retired for a year and it feels hollow as shyt to have her as the "retired legend coming back for one last match". 2. It's obviously just a filler feud for Tessa to keep her out of the title scene because they turned Taya heel.

Impact/Cage...I dunno. Johnny is forever a mid card at best dude to me, and Cage is only impressive for doing spotfests and bringing Kanyon spots and catchphrases back, so trying to do a story match with an injury early in didn't make for anything impressive. Lance Storm was also looking Lmao that Morrison STILL can't hit his fukking finish clean. He's been doing it since 2005 and has connected with it maybe 5 times. You gotta feel for both Cage and TNA to have been building up to Cage winning the title for like a year now only for him to get a legit injury a few minutes into the culmination of the angle. Considering TNA has been a Canadian indie for 2 years now it's pretty surprising it took this long for Elgin to arrive. I can't imagine he's going to move the needle at all for them, but new blood is new blood and I'd rather have Cage/Elgin than former WWE mid carders in the main event.

Lucha Bros/LAX TLC what an ugly and brutal match. Every big bump was taken about the worst way possible. Every chair bump that was supposed to be flat back on the seat ended up being sideways on the lip or seat. Fenix's head on the spanish fly It's amazing with all the wild shyt they do and all the bookings they take that Penta and Fenix haven't been injured, but there's no way Fenix came out of that not fukked up.


Unspectacular, but solid.

 

[Legal]

Solid show over all, like most TNA big events over the past year or so.

Scramble had a lot of fun flippy shyt, lmao at that Austin Ace nerd. I can't tell if he's supposed to be doing a magician gimmick or a Gambit cosplay. Kind of confused at all the shyt Eddie "Eddie "Tommy Dreamer" Edwards" Edwards has been been through in the past year and now he's in opener X divsion scramble matches. Not that I give a shyt about Eddie Edwards, but do they just not have an angle for him right now because it seemed like he was arguably THE main focus of the show for much of the past year.

The intergender comedy match like...why? If you're going to do intergender matches, take them seriously, not act surprised and laugh when the woman wins.

Moose/North vs Rascalz was pretty fun. I don't know where this extra Rascal came from but they work together well.

Taya/Jordynne was awful, because Taya is just garbage. Everything she does looks looks like it's in slow motion and has no impact whatsoever. She looks like she can't even keep up with her own spots, let alone someone else's spots.

Swann/Sami it's always fukk Sami. Has he ever won one of his own gimmick matches? lol This was definitely hurt by the comedy weapons in what was portrayed as this intensely personal grudge match. Weak ass cookie sheets, legos, and plastic wet floor signs did not at all fit with the story they were alleging to be telling.

Gail/Tessa...man Gail was struggling out there. The ring rust was real and she took so many bad bumps. I'm sure she was sore as fukk the day after. I'm not really sure what the point of the angle was. When it started back at the Homecoming show I was thinking about how lame it was because 1. Gail has barely been retired so her "coming out of retirement" meant nothing. She "retired" in 2017, then did a 6 month retirement tour, and had a match last year afterwards anyway. So really she's been retired for a year and it feels hollow as shyt to have her as the "retired legend coming back for one last match". 2. It's obviously just a filler feud for Tessa to keep her out of the title scene because they turned Taya heel.

Impact/Cage...I dunno. Johnny is forever a mid card at best dude to me, and Cage is only impressive for doing spotfests and bringing Kanyon spots and catchphrases back, so trying to do a story match with an injury early in didn't make for anything impressive. Lance Storm was also looking Lmao that Morrison STILL can't hit his fukking finish clean. He's been doing it since 2005 and has connected with it maybe 5 times. You gotta feel for both Cage and TNA to have been building up to Cage winning the title for like a year now only for him to get a legit injury a few minutes into the culmination of the angle. Considering TNA has been a Canadian indie for 2 years now it's pretty surprising it took this long for Elgin to arrive. I can't imagine he's going to move the needle at all for them, but new blood is new blood and I'd rather have Cage/Elgin than former WWE mid carders in the main event.

Lucha Bros/LAX TLC what an ugly and brutal match. Every big bump was taken about the worst way possible. Every chair bump that was supposed to be flat back on the seat ended up being sideways on the lip or seat. Fenix's head on the spanish fly It's amazing with all the wild shyt they do and all the bookings they take that Penta and Fenix haven't been injured, but there's no way Fenix came out of that not fukked up.


Unspectacular, but solid.

at the bolded.

Im with you in not seeing anything special in Taya. I'm sure she's got at least a couple of great matches that have earned her the rep she seemingly has, but I just haven't seen them.

 

[stro]

"not seeing anything special" is not it. She's outright bad. I get she has a look that stands out in Mexico, but lucha is a lot looser with "good wrestlers". It sucks to say but it's pretty obvious her LU and TNA runs are because of her relationship with Morrison and not her talent or charisma.

 

[TobiOT]

Brought the PPV, I'll check it on Friday.

 

[stro]

One thing that really stands out as a huge positive with TNA is that heels get clean wins. That alone is so refreshing after 20 years of WWE heels having to win via cheap roll ups or interference and 10 years of ROH doing the same shyt and TNA doing it with the most convoluted fukkery levels possible up until recently.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Kind of confused at all the shyt Eddie "Eddie "Tommy Dreamer" Edwards" Edwards has been been through in the past year and now he's in opener X divsion scramble matches. Not that I give a shyt about Eddie Edwards, but do they just not have an angle for him right now because it seemed like he was arguably THE main focus of the show for much of the past year.

he was in the middle of an angle with eli drake.

they probably would've been facing each other, if drake hadn't quit.
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Everywhere. They've had matches in TNA, PWG, AAW, UK indies, Joey Ryan's promotion, Amazing Red's promotion...they've taken their feud all over the place in the past year.

and none of those other promotions are very accessible. let alone on television.