[7/22] Impact Wrestling presents Slammiversary 2018 *Located conveniently next to Cabana Pool Bar*
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Mason quartermaine
Banned
its to do with josh matthews but thats strange bookingTessa can beat Allie clean but can't be Madison Rayne
lolTessa's theme
Yung Pharaoh
All Star
Mason quartermaine
Banned
Just watched this
-opening match was dope but seeing morrison gave away the end
-Tessa/allie was surprisingly entertaining. I like tessa so the end didnt bother me but that wasnt the right result. Horrible worker notwithstanding is sienna still with this company?
-Hardcore matches are somewhat antiquated but given the backstory the eddie/dreamer match was good then it ended abruptly. Just hope the post match stuff just meant dreamer is retired not eddie will be a hardcore guy.
-Cage/sydal
dont know what more cage has to do, he has the look and wrestles like powehouse/luchadore yet hes not catching on
the end was a bit
if cage's foot connected that would have been ugly
-Yung/Rayne meh, I liked rayne when she was with tbp and a heel but this phase of her as gail kim 2.0 is
glad she lost
-5150 street fight could have been better choreographed
-Hated sami callahan so had low expections for the hair vs mask match.Dope match which didnt need the hair stipulation tbh. Probably stole the show
-Great to have a normal wrestling match without a gimmick but the mainevent had no time and some of the no sells were
All in all if this keeps Impact might be back.
-opening match was dope but seeing morrison gave away the end
-Tessa/allie was surprisingly entertaining. I like tessa so the end didnt bother me but that wasnt the right result. Horrible worker notwithstanding is sienna still with this company?
-Hardcore matches are somewhat antiquated but given the backstory the eddie/dreamer match was good then it ended abruptly. Just hope the post match stuff just meant dreamer is retired not eddie will be a hardcore guy.
-Cage/sydal
dont know what more cage has to do, he has the look and wrestles like powehouse/luchadore yet hes not catching on the end was a bitif cage's foot connected that would have been ugly-Yung/Rayne meh, I liked rayne when she was with tbp and a heel but this phase of her as gail kim 2.0 is
glad she lost-5150 street fight could have been better choreographed
-Hated sami callahan so had low expections for the hair vs mask match.Dope match which didnt need the hair stipulation tbh. Probably stole the show
-Great to have a normal wrestling match without a gimmick but the mainevent had no time and some of the no sells were
All in all if this keeps Impact might be back.
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Homeboy Runny-Ray
From Around The Way
saw her on xplosion from about a month ago.
shes prolly on more of those eps.
Wacky D is so excited for the show that he's posting from both of his accounts.
tags don't work no more?
Mason quartermaine
Banned
This year? What org has had a ppv that good in the last 7 yearsLet's talk about how this is the best ppv this year tho
Mason quartermaine
Banned
I saw people complaining about the camera work, but they don't have the fukking crane cam in there that's made Impact look like a sitcom wrestling episode for 12 years now, so that's a plus in my book. Did they get rid of it on Impact as well or was it just because of the venue they were in?
I can only imagine my reaction to seeing my first Su Yung match was like that of a young fan in Texas in 1981 seeing The Greak Kabuki for the first time, being interested in all his theatrics and weird shyt, then realizing everything he does in the ring looks like shyt.
I watched most of the show this afternoon. Fell asleep during Sydal/Cage and slept through the entirety of Yung/Rayne. Show was solid.
Only negatives are have are that the production obviously isn't there, but it never has been in the entire history of TNA/Impact, and it never will be. Slammiversary felt especially bush league at times with a lot of missed action and lighting issues. They do really good video packages though. Also, three hardcore matches on one show was overkill.
Can't believe I'm watching Impact in 2018. Haven't watched a full show (TV or PPV) in probably four years or so. This was a good effort and I'll keep an eye on the promotion for now. I do recommend they drop the Impact name. I actually like Impact Wrestling as a brand name, but it's too much stained by the TNA association. They should go for a complete clean break and rename the company.
- 4-way match was a good spotfest
- Tessa shows a lot of potential (I think Allie sucks though)
- Edwards/Dreamer was decent but the stuff at the end with Eddie supposedly realizing the error of his ways and then Dreamer "passing the cane" felt rushed and a bit of a mess
- LAX vs. OGz was a good hardcore match. The music in the video package before the match was really good and all of the videos promoting this feud have been good, even if I don't really care about even except Hernandez.
- Pentagon vs. Callihan was wild, violent and good. I wondered why Edwards/Dreamer had very little blood. I guess it didn't want to overshadow this match.
- Aries/Moose was really good. I'm not completely sold on Moose though, so I'm fine with Aries keeping the belt. Kinda silly to see Aries dominate a guy of Moose's size though at times.
Only negatives are have are that the production obviously isn't there, but it never has been in the entire history of TNA/Impact, and it never will be. Slammiversary felt especially bush league at times with a lot of missed action and lighting issues. They do really good video packages though. Also, three hardcore matches on one show was overkill.
Can't believe I'm watching Impact in 2018. Haven't watched a full show (TV or PPV) in probably four years or so. This was a good effort and I'll keep an eye on the promotion for now. I do recommend they drop the Impact name. I actually like Impact Wrestling as a brand name, but it's too much stained by the TNA association. They should go for a complete clean break and rename the company.
It’s been a minute since I was at rebel, but the ceiling there is probably not high enough for them to use the crane. Plus fight network doesn’t really film anything besides in studio shows, this is the first or second year they’ve started filming out of a studio and live
TrueEpic08
Dum Shiny
Finally watched the rest of this...
Those of you calling this the best PPV of the year when NJPW and the NXT Takeovers exist are insane. So stop that nonsense right now.
With that said, there really wasn't a great match on the show, but nothing disappointed, and the booking was so strong that it made me want to keep watching Impact despite none of the matches really impressing me. This is undoubtedly a GOOD thing, since this would be an impossible accomplishment for the TNA of old.
Match by match:
-Fatal-4-Way was every fatal-4-way ever, with millions of spots, no structure, and almost no sense of the wrestlers actually trying to win for most of the match. Decent enough opener though, and Fenix was amazing (if a little too flashy with their moves at times). Wasn't moved, but it was fine on the whole.
-Tessa vs. Allie would've been great if Allie could make me believe she was actually trying to hurt somebody for the first two-thirds of the match. Tessa was damn near the best wrestler on the card last night. Stiff strikes, crisp movements and technique, great facials and charisma, she did literally everything right save for a very minor fukkup at the beginning of the match, and pretty much has everything you could ask for in a wrestler right now (including sex appeal, which is fukking amazing given that she has Tully's face and has the strongest jawline in women's wrestling). This match should've been for the Knockouts belt, and Tessa needs to have that belt by the end of the year. MVP of the night.
-Edwards vs Dreamer was alright, which is a minor miracle given that I thought I'd never want to see a Tommy Dreamer match again. But Eddie's turn(?) has been booked so well that they hooked me in, so kudos to them, I guess.
Teasing the flaming table spot without delivering was dumb (though I kinda get it) and the ending kept me interested in where the storyline is going...call it a success, on the whole.
Also, the camerawork fukking blew at points in these first three matches. Should've counted how many spots were missed in the 4-way because of awful camerawork. I'm pretty sure half the reason I was so lukewarm on the match was because of the camerawork, fukking hell.
-Cage/Sydal was dumb because Brian Cage is a dumb wrestler who does extended flippy shyt while looking like Jay Cutler (this guy:
). 13 years in the business, been huge for like 6, and still does a bunch of nonsense that a guy his size really shouldn't be doing (or, at least, should minimize for maximum effect when he does do it). If anyone can explain to me why he gave Sydal a Steiner Screwdriver after that SSP botch, I'm all ears.
-Su Yung/Rayne also wasn't really good, and while I'd say that a match full of Madison Rayne doing moves isn't anything I want to see (still can't throw a good strike, still can't make anything look like it really hurts), the alternative didn't really look that much better (may have actually been the worse option). Su Yung has an EXCELLENT gimmick that the bookers protect very well (as they should, WWE could take notes from this), but there ain't much there at all beyond the gimmick. Josh sitting there doing nothing while they hauled his wife away in a coffin was fukking jokes.
-LAX/OG'z was a mess of spots and headshots that had me numb long before the finish. Already talked about this in the thread, but this structureless nonsense wasn't for me AT ALL. Also, this was one of the two finishes that had me a little confused: if you're continuing the feud (which has been very good despite my reservations about this whole LAX-as-gangbangers bullshyt) and you're going to do an angle where the OG'z beat down LAX and steal and deface the belts, then why not have the OG'z just win? Again, I kinda get it, but it still doesn't totally make sense to me. Still interested in the feud though (testament to the strength of Konnan and Eddie Kingston as characters, really), so that's something.
-Pentagon/Callihan was, like Tessa/Allie, so close to being great. But then they had to do too much, and they really did WAY too much (spiking each other repeatedly got stupid, and the Package Piledriver onto the chairs not being finish was the dumbest of dumb indy shyt). Still, large portion of the match was very good, and ending was satisfying. I'm never watching this again, though.
-Aries/Moose was the other thing that kind of confused me. The match was worked like we were getting a title change, but then Aries just brainbusters Moose and pins him?
I mean, I probably wouldn't have put the belt on Moose after that promo, but that was just weird. Pretty good match, even though I'm just kind of over Aries as a human being nowadays.
Even with all of my reservations about the PPV, if you're interested in Impact's new direction, the PPV's worth a watch. Even though the wrestling leaves me cold at points, the writing's so good that I'm fine with the matches ranging from kinda mediocre to just pretty good, because they've done such a good job with the characters and booking that I'm interested in the direction coming out of the matches as much as the matches themselves.
Hell, most of the board will (and does) like it more than I do, so that's something.
Those of you calling this the best PPV of the year when NJPW and the NXT Takeovers exist are insane. So stop that nonsense right now.
With that said, there really wasn't a great match on the show, but nothing disappointed, and the booking was so strong that it made me want to keep watching Impact despite none of the matches really impressing me. This is undoubtedly a GOOD thing, since this would be an impossible accomplishment for the TNA of old.
Match by match:
-Fatal-4-Way was every fatal-4-way ever, with millions of spots, no structure, and almost no sense of the wrestlers actually trying to win for most of the match. Decent enough opener though, and Fenix was amazing (if a little too flashy with their moves at times). Wasn't moved, but it was fine on the whole.
-Tessa vs. Allie would've been great if Allie could make me believe she was actually trying to hurt somebody for the first two-thirds of the match. Tessa was damn near the best wrestler on the card last night. Stiff strikes, crisp movements and technique, great facials and charisma, she did literally everything right save for a very minor fukkup at the beginning of the match, and pretty much has everything you could ask for in a wrestler right now (including sex appeal, which is fukking amazing given that she has Tully's face and has the strongest jawline in women's wrestling). This match should've been for the Knockouts belt, and Tessa needs to have that belt by the end of the year. MVP of the night.
-Edwards vs Dreamer was alright, which is a minor miracle given that I thought I'd never want to see a Tommy Dreamer match again. But Eddie's turn(?) has been booked so well that they hooked me in, so kudos to them, I guess.
Teasing the flaming table spot without delivering was dumb (though I kinda get it) and the ending kept me interested in where the storyline is going...call it a success, on the whole.Also, the camerawork fukking blew at points in these first three matches. Should've counted how many spots were missed in the 4-way because of awful camerawork. I'm pretty sure half the reason I was so lukewarm on the match was because of the camerawork, fukking hell.
-Cage/Sydal was dumb because Brian Cage is a dumb wrestler who does extended flippy shyt while looking like Jay Cutler (this guy:
-Su Yung/Rayne also wasn't really good, and while I'd say that a match full of Madison Rayne doing moves isn't anything I want to see (still can't throw a good strike, still can't make anything look like it really hurts), the alternative didn't really look that much better (may have actually been the worse option). Su Yung has an EXCELLENT gimmick that the bookers protect very well (as they should, WWE could take notes from this), but there ain't much there at all beyond the gimmick. Josh sitting there doing nothing while they hauled his wife away in a coffin was fukking jokes.
-LAX/OG'z was a mess of spots and headshots that had me numb long before the finish. Already talked about this in the thread, but this structureless nonsense wasn't for me AT ALL. Also, this was one of the two finishes that had me a little confused: if you're continuing the feud (which has been very good despite my reservations about this whole LAX-as-gangbangers bullshyt) and you're going to do an angle where the OG'z beat down LAX and steal and deface the belts, then why not have the OG'z just win? Again, I kinda get it, but it still doesn't totally make sense to me. Still interested in the feud though (testament to the strength of Konnan and Eddie Kingston as characters, really), so that's something.
-Pentagon/Callihan was, like Tessa/Allie, so close to being great. But then they had to do too much, and they really did WAY too much (spiking each other repeatedly got stupid, and the Package Piledriver onto the chairs not being finish was the dumbest of dumb indy shyt). Still, large portion of the match was very good, and ending was satisfying. I'm never watching this again, though.
-Aries/Moose was the other thing that kind of confused me. The match was worked like we were getting a title change, but then Aries just brainbusters Moose and pins him?
I mean, I probably wouldn't have put the belt on Moose after that promo, but that was just weird. Pretty good match, even though I'm just kind of over Aries as a human being nowadays. Even with all of my reservations about the PPV, if you're interested in Impact's new direction, the PPV's worth a watch. Even though the wrestling leaves me cold at points, the writing's so good that I'm fine with the matches ranging from kinda mediocre to just pretty good, because they've done such a good job with the characters and booking that I'm interested in the direction coming out of the matches as much as the matches themselves.
Hell, most of the board will (and does) like it more than I do, so that's something.
