Andrew’s IMPACT Results & Match Ratings: 9.16.2021

IMPACT’s go home episode before Victory Road! We’ve got a few title matches on the horizon, so let’s see how the rest of the show shakes out!

Violent By Design gives Rhino one more chance to prove his worth to the cause, Tenille and Madison have another episode of All About Me/Locker Room Talk…whatever they’re calling it. Plus the main event is a huge 5v5 with a lot of threads to Victory Road matches.

Let’s see where this all goes!

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Ratings:

• Rhino & Deaner w/VBD vs Black Taurus & Crazzy Steve: Steve wins via King Kill 33 – *
• TJP vs Petey Williams: Petey wins via Head and Leg Cradle – ** ¾
• John Skylar vs Laredo Kid: Skylar wins via School Boy – ** ¼
• Matthew Rehwoldt vs Trey Miguel: Trey wins via Hourglass – ***
• 10 Man Tag: Ace Austin, Madman Fulton, Brian Myers, Moose & Massive Cassidy vs Christian Cage, Sami Callihan, Eddie Edwards, Josh Alexander & Chris Sabin: Alexander wins via C4 Spike – *** ¼

Results:

Rhino & Deaner w/VBD vs Black Taurus & Crazzy Steve

Not much of a match really. Rhino and Taurus start things off, pretty quickly bring in the smaller guys; but Rhino ends up messing up. There’s a distraction, they wipe out Taurus, Rhino tries to grab Steve, Steve moves out of the way and Deaner hits Rhino. Then Deaner eats a King Kill 33 and Decay wins!

Eric Young verbally castrates Rhino, but Rhino can’t take it anymore. Young goes to walk away, Rhino grabs his arm, Rhino realizes what he did and Deaner and Doering attack. Rhino seems to be out, so that could mean that Heath is on his way back from his injury!

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TJP vs Petey Williams

Good back and forth X Division style match. Everything is punch and counter punch. TJP uses his quickness to get around Petey, Petey uses some savvy to take his own shots. We see a few signature attempts like Petey tried that Sharpshooter, but TJP got out of it. TJP looks for the Detonation Kick, Petey slides, TJP goes for La Magistral, but Petey sits out and counters the Magistral with a cradle of his own, and wins!

Steve Maclin hits the ring and beats up everyone.

IMPACTFlashback Moment: IMPACT! 7/4/2013 Austin Aries vs Chris Sabin, X Division Championship

There’s a few segments with the Good Brothers doing an interview, Willie Mack and Rich Swann beating on them and then Scott D’Amore making the title match for Victory Road!

John Skylar vs Laredo Kid

Skylar comes out first to complain that his BTI loss was a fluke and he still hinges on the fact he beat Cardona. The match is alright where Skylar works the ground game and Laredo tries to take to the outside with some Springboards and lucha maneuvers.

Generally it was a solid basic match, where Skylar has to go after the mask to distract Laredo Kid and force the School Boy win. The match was basic with a basic heel victory, but nothing offensive.

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Matthew Rehwoldt vs Trey Miguel

This was a surprisingly good match. I remember being live for Battlegrounds 2017 and saw Aiden English vs Ty Dillinger, and that showed me that Aiden could go a lot better than I was used to seeing on TV. This was more akin to that night.

Matthew was a step ahead for most of the match. Caught Trey with a Shotgun Kick, then transitions the Apron 619 into a Death Valley Driver. Every time Trey tried something, Matthew countered things pretty easily. Trey used his quickness to almost catch Matthew off guard, but most of the time Trey just got dumped.

After getting worked over, Matthew went for a Swanton Bomb, but missed. His one miscalculation gave Trey enough of an opening to hook in the Hourglass submission and force Matthew to tap.

Deonna attacks Trey after the match, which forces Mickie James to hit the ring and Mickie gets the best of Deonna. As Deonna and Matthew try to run, Mickie flies into the pile to send a message.

10 Man Tag: Ace Austin, Madman Fulton, Brian Myers, Moose & Massive Cassidy vs Christian Cage, Sami Callihan, Eddie Edwards, Josh Alexander & Chris Sabin

As per usual matches with so many participants is hard to keep track of. Eddie and Ace kicked things off which was nice to pull back on some of the ties from back when Ace was trying to bang Alisha Edwards. So IF Ace were to win, there would be some logical heat between them to move toward a title picture.

Aside from that we go into some sporadic but fun action with everyone getting in moments to shine. The heel team gets sparked when Moose hits an Okada style corner Dropkick on Eddie and that leads to Eddie getting beat on for a good portion of this match. Massive Cassidy comes in and actually screws things up for the bad guys. Eddie manages to catch him, they both crawl to the corners, Christian and Brian Myers come in and then things breakdown.

Signature spams, cool stuff, Josh Alexander actually lays out Massive Cassidy with a huge forearm, Eddie suplex Ace into a pile of humanity. So what we have left is Brian Myers and Christian, Myers tries to pick his spot and hit the Roster Cut, but Christian counters, tries the Killswitch but Myers pushes off. Christian hits his corner, Josh Alexander with the blind tag, Christian hits a Spear, then Alexander hits the C4 Spike.

Overall Score: 6.75/10

The main event does give us some big implications, because if Christian retains, then we could see a return of Option C. If Josh Alexander really wants to be the face of the company, this is a great step in that direction. Hopefully it plants some great seeds for Bound for Glory.

All that being said, we got some nice set ups to flesh out the rest of the Victory Road card. World Championship match, NO DQ, Tag Team Titles match, X Division classic. So if everything is set up the way it looks, we could see Alexander beat Sabin, Christian beat Ace and then an Option C. Which would lead me to really wanting to see Moose and the Massive one go for the tag titles.

Victory Road could actually be one hell of a show. We’ll find out in a few days!