The Kingdom spent most of 2022 in Impact Wrestling, and Matt Taven recently looked back on his time there. Taven recently spoke with
Fightful for a new interview and talked about the group’s run in the company as part of Honor No More. You can see some highlights below:
On his time in Impact Wrestling: “Well the Impact Wrestling locker room is one of the best locker rooms I’ve ever been a part of. That says a lot because Ring of Honor was such a family, especially towards the end. We really had this mentality of us against the world. During the pandemic we became even closer than I could even imagine. So it was tough. Once that came to an end, none of us knew what was going to happen next. So to find ourselves in Impact in a place where, for the first time in ten years, I’m in a foreign locker room. I’m like, ‘Oh, I’m the odd man out, all of a sudden.’ But at the same time, there’s so many familiar faces from Moose, obviously Eddie Edwards, and a bunch of other guys that had been in Ring of Honor in the past and places like here in Greektown, you run into a bunch of people. I saw Bhupinder, who I haven’t seen since Impact. There was so many familiar faces once we got there, once we finally got our stride, it was like, ‘Oh, man. This could be a home for a little bit.’”
On how he viewed his run there: “But at the same time, we were looking to keep our momentum going. We had come to the end with Ring of Honor unfortunately and a lot of us didn’t know what was going to happen next. All of a sudden we got a phone call, it’s less than a month after my last match against the Briscoes in Ring of Honor, and here I am showing up at Impact. I just looked at it as another challenge, as another place to make my name and to cement my legacy and the fact that I can say I was also am Impact Tag Champions is another check on the resume or CV.”