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ROLL CALL OF CURRENT CHAMPIONS Impact World Champion: Josh Alexander Alexander beat Eric Young in a fan-service move match at Slammiversary, but still won with his own finishing move. I've read spoilers for the next few weeks, so I know who his next challenger is. Impact World Tag Team Champions: The Good Brothers Everything old is new again. Gallows and Anderson, now in their third reign, STILL haven't shared the ring with the Motor City Machine Guns, and I don't know when that happen (it should). There are a couple of challengers I can see challenging them, but nothing right now too obvious. Impact X Division Champion: "Speedball" Mike Bailey As I expected, Speedball took the title from Ace Austin - however, it was much earlier than I expected! Even though the title changed hands in Ultimate X47 and Austin was therefore not pinned, I personally thought the newest member of the Bullet Club would hold on to the title for a few months more. Those two are going to wrestle again, but I don't know when. Impact Knockouts World Champion: Jordynne Grace As much as Tasha Steelz tried, she just couldn't get over as champion, so Grace won the title in the first-ever Queen of the Mountain match. Much like the X Division Championship picture, I could see a match between the two coming soon. Impact Knockouts World Tag Team Champions: Rosemary and Taya Valkyrie Former nemeses turned allies following Havok's merciless beating by Masha Slamovich, Rosemary and Taya Valkyrie won the titles from the Influence at Slammiversary. Spoilers indicate the direction of the division. Impact Digital Media Champion: Rich Swann When Matt Cardona got hurt, it became clear that whomever contracted to Impact Wrestling facing off with him first would take the title from him. It just so happened Rich Swann was wrestling him at a Wrestling Revolver show, so there you go. NEXT PAY-PER-VIEW EVENT: BOUND FOR GLORY October 7th, from Albany. Edward Mass fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Aug 5, 2022 |
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That is, if he gets past Joe Doering on July 1st in a match just announced. (Alexander will get past Doering on July 1st)
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I didn’t even know she was signed!
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Good on Impact supporting Gisele. https://twitter.com/IMPACTWRESTLING/status/1540410715835699200?t=b0OpooGl-XZCG25HOrK5SQ&s=19
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https://twitter.com/IMPACTWRESTLING/status/1541526791151566857 I was joking in the last thread about this being the only throwback stip they didn't do at Slammiversary, but welp...
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Against All Odds is tonight Youtube Countdown preshow: Black Taurus vs Laredo Kid Rich Swann defends the Digital Media title against Brian Myers in a Dot Combat match (no DQs or countouts, tech-related weapons allowed) Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) vs Bullet Club (Ace Austin and Chris Bey) Chelsea Green and Deonna Purrazzo vs Mickie James and Mia Yim Honor No More (Eddie Edwards, Matt Taven, Mike Bennett, Kenny King and Vincent) vs Heath, Good Bros (Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows) and America's Most Wanted (Chris Harris and James Storm) Moose vs Sami Callihan in Raven's Clockwork Orange House of Fun match Rosemary and Taya Valkyrie defend the Knockouts tag titles against The Influence (Tenille Dashwood and Gisele Shaw) Speedball Mike Bailey defends the X title against Trey Miguel Jordynne Grace defends the Knockouts title against Tasha Steelz Josh Alexander defends the world title against Joe Doering
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Apparently Havok hasn't been on TV because she's been wandering Hell
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I was out doing prep for holiday stuff and missed the show, but AAO developments: Brian Myers won the Digital Media title Masha Slamovich is coming after Tenille Dashwood Speedball Mike Bailey is doing open challenge X title defenses as of next week Kenny King joins Eddie Edwards in terms of Honor No More members fed up with PCO, he's probably getting kicked out soon Maclin helped Moose beat Sami Callihan Emergence is next month's special
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I just now got the joke for the term “Dot Combat”. Pretty sneaky, Marchie Archie.
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apparently meltzer highly praised kazarian vs sabin from the most recent episode of impact, calling it a high level g1match impact uploaded the whole match https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af5quutYiak
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Edward Mass posted:Time Splitters reunion
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i completely forgot that they did a weird time splitters reunion in nxt in january 2020. two house show wins over cutler & blake, then a loss to james drake & zack gibson. rough.
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Fun episode! Speedball/Angels was good, as was Purrazzo/Yim. Madison Rayne's masquerade-style protective face mask was a great character bit.
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Edward Mass posted:Speaking of knockouts… And she's hungry, too. https://twitter.com/Kelly_WP/status/1545529925687562250?s=20&t=pae6-ZNEdbghT6yqVBpMmA
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I just noticed they stopped announcing Masha Slamovich's hometown, which makes sense given that she's supposed to be a babyface.
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So who is the Impact booking team right now? I know Jimmy Jacobs, Archibald Peck and Gail Kim are all involved in some way.
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D'Lo Brown is also on the team, but I have no earthly idea who is the head of creative.
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Edward Mass posted:D'Lo Brown is also on the team, but I have no earthly idea who is the head of creative. Maybe D'Amore?
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Lumbermouth posted:Maybe D'Amore? You know what, you're right - Wikipedia says Scott D'Amore was appointed head of creative after Jeff Jarrett got fired in 2017. It's kind of crazy how D'Amore went from Team Canada manager to running the whole promotion. Edward Mass fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Jul 21, 2022 |
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Edward Mass posted:You know what, you're right - Wikipedia says Scott D'Amore was appointed head of creative after Jeff Jarrett got fired in 2017. He's been head booker before, arguably during their best period, I believe? 2005-2006.
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Yeah, but I'm talking about his status now as EVP. It's like Gedo also being Takami Ohbari.
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Holy poo poo Jordynne is even more jacked than I remember.
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Current card for Emergence next month: Bandido vs Rey Horus in a AAA showcase match Rosemary and Taya Valkyrie defend the Knockouts tag titles against VXT (Deonna Purrazzo and Chelsea Green) Jordynne Grace defends the Knockouts title against Mia Yim Josh Alexander defends the world title against Alex Shelley
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Another solid episode of television wrestling. I hate everyone else in Honor No More, but I had forgotten how much I enjoy Bennett and Taven ad-libbing in the ring. Taven threatening Ace Austin for wearing purple, Bennett forcing people in the front row to too-sweet him, all that TV bully poo poo that I love in heels.
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I really hope Ace Austin's future after all the BoSJ and Bullet Club stuff isn't just "welp, back to Impact". Dude's a legit star and the world knows about him now.
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sticklefifer posted:I really hope Ace Austin's future after all the BoSJ and Bullet Club stuff isn't just "welp, back to Impact". Dude's a legit star and the world knows about him now. He signed a new deal back in March, so he's there for the long haul. If I was Scott D'Amore, I'd see if there's space on the January 4 Dome Show for Ace Austin to win the Impact World Championship from Josh Alexander.
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I'm going to Emergence in Chicago and it's going to be the first live wrestling show. I'm hoping that PCO gets on the card, and I'm hoping my wife gets to meet Jordynne Grace although she might die if that happens.
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Dave and PWInsider both saying Good Bros’ deals expired after the tapings were over. Fightful saying they at least agreed to stick around through summer. Still tag champs either way 
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Edward Mass posted:He signed a new deal back in March, so he's there for the long haul. If I was Scott D'Amore, I'd see if there's space on the January 4 Dome Show for Ace Austin to win the Impact World Championship from Josh Alexander. This year in particular, Impact has seemed to reach a catch-22 situation where they can't grow if nobody watches them, but nobody watches them because they aren't growing bigger. I wonder if the problem is more Anthem's budget, or if the ticket sales are just too low for anything bigger. They're getting the talent and the quality wrestling, and the production is better than it's ever been, but it feels wrong to watch Jay White wrestle in dinky black box arenas.
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sticklefifer posted:That's about the time when they should start putting him in main events, yeah. I just hope he gets more excursions and working relationship spots like that. Alexander/Austin for the title would be fantastic if they keep up the momentum. Pretty sure a part of it is still the Dixie Carter era TNA stigma still haunting them. I mean gently caress, even Jerusalem isn't willing to give them another shot despite it being practically a different company, and they stuck with WWE for quite a while. Love ya J-Ru.
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Stone Punkbull 141 posted:Pretty sure a part of it is still the Dixie Carter era TNA stigma still haunting them. But yeah Ace is great, and Miguel is reminding me a lot of early Ricochet.
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sticklefifer posted:This year in particular, Impact has seemed to reach a catch-22 situation where they can't grow if nobody watches them, but nobody watches them because they aren't growing bigger. I wonder if the problem is more Anthem's budget, or if the ticket sales are just too low for anything bigger. They're getting the talent and the quality wrestling, and the production is better than it's ever been, but it feels wrong to watch Jay White wrestle in dinky black box arenas. The only way Impact Wrestling could support larger arenas would be if they were on a network with larger distribution. Unless one of Fox, Comcast, and/or Warner Bros. Discovery drop their current partner, they can really only sell to either Disney or Paramount, and Disney has never been involved with pro wrestling.
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