PREVIEW: Tonight’s Impact Wrestling episode looks to be a solid one, with Moose opening the show after his successful championship defense over W. Morrissey, as well as several entertaining matches. Some of tonight’s matches feature: Matt Cardona vs Jordynne Grace for The Digital Media Championship, Eddie Edwards explaining his actions at No Surrender, Deonna Purrazzo’s “Champ Champ Challenge”, and a main event six tag man tag match with Matt Taven, Mike Bennet, and Kenny King vs Chris Sabin, Willie Mack, and Rich Swann.
AVERAGE Moose comes out to the ring and talks about how he has proven that he is the greatest Impact World Champion. Moose says that when people come into the ring with him, their lives change, for the worse. Heath comes out and interrupts Moose. Heath talks about how Moose has not done anything about Team Honor No More. Moose then says he doesn’t care about Honor No More or Impact, and he says he doesn’t care about Heath or his kids. Heath attacks Moose and it leads to a brawl. The segment ends with Heath holding up the Impact World Championship.
AVERAGE Heath runs into Team Impact as they are looking to get some revenge on Team Honor No More. Scott then comes to confront Team Impact and tells them that Team Honor won and because of that, they are here to stay. Scott also informs Team Impact that Eddie Edwards will be at Impact tonight but no one is allowed to touch him. Scott then gives Rhyno a match with Eddie at Sacrifice.
AVERAGE Scott D’Amore appears backstage as Team Honor No More enters the building. Scott informs them what he talked about with Team Impact and asks them where Eddie was. Matt Taven tells him that he will be there. Moose comes up to them and warns Honor No More to not come to him or his championship. As they walk off, Scott confronts Moose about what he said about Impact. He then tells Moose that he will be going against Heath at Sacrifice.
AVERAGE Matt Cardona and Jordynne Grace: The opening match of Impact started off hot as Matt Cardona faced Jordynne Grace in a No DQ rematch for the Digital Media Championship. Matt wins the match by using the ropes to his advantage to retain his championship.
RESULT: Matt Cardona defeats Jordynne Grace via pinfall
Aaliyah Alexander WR Star Rating: -2.75 Stars.
AVERAGE The Influence appears to question Kaleb as The IInspiration comes up to them and talks about how they are excited for their title match at Sacrifice. Jessie then asks Kaleb if he will be there as Madison snaps at her. Things start to get heated and Cassie slaps Madison as things start to spiral out of control until Kaleb calms everything down. Madison challenges Cassie to a match, to which she accepts. The IInspiration then leave and tell Kaleb bye as they walk off.
AVERAGE Gia appears backstage with Jake Something and asks him about the loss in his tag match he had with Trey Miguel Before The Impact. Trey comes up to him and tries to console him about their loss to Ace Austin and Mike Bailey, but Jake gets angry at him and it causes Trey to get angry. Jake leaves before Trey can say more.
AVERAGE John Skyler and Bhupinder Gujjarr: Brian Myers join in on commentary for John Skyler and Bhupinder Gujjar’s match. The match itself was a solid match with Bhupinder Gujjar getting the victory.
RESULT: Bhupinder Gujjarr defeats John Skyler via pinfall
Aaliyah Alexander WR Star Rating: -2.75 Stars.
AVERAGE W. Morrisey comes out and looks to attack Brian, but John Skyler saves him before he can get hurt. Brian escapes as John gets piledrived through the announce table by W. Morrissey.
AVERAGE: Steve Maclin sits down and talks about Eddie Edwards and says that Eddie will answer to him next week.
AVERAGE Deonna Purrazzo and Lady Frost: Lady Frost answers the challenge of Deonna Purrazzo’s “Champ Champ Challenge.” Lady Frost goes for Deonna’s triple AAA Women’s championship. This was a good title match and Lady Frost gave it her all, but Deonna would get the win by making Lady Frost tap out. Gisele Shaw comes out to steal the spotlight from Lady Frost after her loss against Deonna Purrazzo.
RESULT: Deonna Purrazzo defeats Lady Frost via submission
Aaliyah Alexander WR Star Rating: -2.75 Stars.
AVERAGE Backstage, the Bullet Club appears, and Jay White talks about G.O.D, saying what he did to them was not personal, but just business. Violence By Design comes up to them and talk about how they are owed a shot for the tag team championships. G.O.D then enters and jumps Bullet Club and everyone begins to brawl. Bullet Club flees as G.O.D and Violence By Design exchange glances and walk away.
SQUASH Jonah and Zicky Dice: Jonah dominated the whole match and defeated Zicky Dice. After the match Jonah landed another splash to Zicky before walking off.
RESULT: Jonah defeats Zicky Dice via pinfall
AVERAGE Gail Kim stands by backstage as Jonah appears. Gail tells him that he can’t keep attacking his opponents after the match. Jonah then tells her to give him real opponents then. Gail then gives him a match with PCO at Sacrifice. As Jonah walks off, asks for a match with Jonah next week, which Gail accepts.
AVERAGE Gail sits down with Chelsea Green and Mickie James. Mickie asks Gail if Chelsea and her if they can face each other at Sacrifice. Tasha Steelz and Savannah Evans barge in Gail’s office. Tasha complains about Chelsea getting a shot as Gail decides next week that Chelsea and Tasha will go against each other. Whoever wins goes against Mickie for the Impact Women’s championship.
AVERAGE Team Honor No More and Team Impact: Team Honor No More wins against Team Impact in an exciting six man tag match.
RESULT: Team Honor No More defeats Team Impact via pinfall
Aaliyah Alexander WR Star Rating: -3.0 Stars.
AVERAGE: Maria introduces Eddie as he comes out to the ring. Scott D’Amore makes Impact members leave. Eddie then talks about how he felt when ROH took a hiatus, he felt betrayed, but it wasn’t the reason why he decided to join Honor No More. He then goes on to talk about how when Kenny was in Impact, how he disrespected Impact and how everyone failed, but he won against Kenny Omega in a six man tag match. Instead of getting rewarded for it, Josh Alexander gets a championship match while Eddie gets nothing. He then explains how Impact has turned on him. Alisha Edwards comes out and tries to figure out why Eddie did what he did She then asks Eddie why she was still his family. Eddie tells her it is up to her and leaves with Honor No More.
Overall, tonight’s episode of Impact lacked a little bit compared to last week. Still, it was a solid episode with some decent matches and segments. A positive thing from tonight’s episode was the main event match featuring Honor No More and Impact. The storyline between these groups keep getting better and better as the story continues to progress. Another positive thing from tonight, was the ending segment with Eddie standing in the ring with Honor No More as he explains his actions at No Surrender. A negative thing would be the lack of matches. It felt like there were a lot of promos and not really a lot of matches tonight. Regardless, tonight’s episode was pretty decent, but it could have been better.
Matches: .75/1 Stars
Show Structure: .75/1 Stars
Atmosphere: .75/1 Stars
Storytelling: .75/1 Stars
Production/Theme: .75/1 Stars
Overall Rating: 3.75/5 Stars
Photo Credit – Impact Wrestling
