SlamXVI pic. Eddie came out for this with a new theme song to fit his new gimmick and I was a big fan. It was a pretty standard hardcore match that did what it set out to do. He is by far and away the best commentator in the game right now. Tommy got the crowd going with a flaming table tease, before Edwards landed a low blow and hit a chair-assisted shining wizard for the victory.
Eddie Edwards looks for a dive but only eats a garbage can. After the match, the two men teased putting each other through the table, before eventually shaking hands. Dreamer then passed the kendo stick to Edwards, which commentary put over as a symbolic passing of the torch. Cage winning seemed like a formality from the opening bell and whilst Sydal put in an impressive showing, effectively working the size dynamic between the two men into his offence, it felt quite lethargic.
A little better than I expected, this was fine. Madison showed good fire, landing a couple of good near falls that made you think she had a slight chance, but the outcome never really felt in doubt.
Rayne was put in the coffin post-match, perhaps suggesting that she is on her way to the second Mae Young Classic. LAX did the whole entrance through the crowd thing to start, although the cameras seemed to miss most of it.
Still, they came out with war paint on and then it went all over the place. Santana and Ortiz, the young guns, dominated the early going before Homicide and Hernandez came back into it. You had Ortiz getting thrown into the crowd, Homicide rolling back the years with a cannonball senton through the ropes to a table on the outside and carrying a bottle of Drain-o in a throwback to his ROH days, LAX landing a Street Sweeper only for the ref to get yanked out and a border toss from Hernandez to Ortiz through another table.
In the end, the difference maker was interference from Konnan. After a balls to the wall 15 minute battle of wills that is likely the first match in a feud that could roll on for the rest of , it seemed fitting that the man at the heart of it all, K-Dog, had the final say. He distracted Homicide and threw a bag of tacks to Santana.
That match was just a bloody skirmish at the beginning of a longer, more brutal war between two sets of proud warriors. If that installment was a taster, bring me the rest of the meal. After beginning as a prolonged beating of Sami Callihan, this match morphed into something quite special.
Where elbows and forearms usually take centre stage in a strike exchange, these two traded spike shots in the middle of the ring.
Anyway, after Callihan kicked out of the Fear Factor through four chairs, Pentagon hit him with three superkicks, broke the arm and hit another Fear Factor piledriver to win. For the first time in a long time, this match felt like the culmination of something special. Could Moose, who has had a downright disappointing in-ring year up to now, deliver in the biggest spot of his career?
In the lead up to Slammiversary, Madison Rayne was seen feuding with newcomer, Tessa Blanchard meanwhile Knockouts Champion Su Yung was seen feuding with former champion, Allie but as Slammiversary was growing closer and closer the roles were reversed with Madison feuding with Su and Allie feuding with Tessa…So what gives? Apparently, in January of , it was announced that Madison Rayne would be a part of a female championship tournament for Ring of Honor and she was looking to leave Impact Wrestling for Ring Of Honor.
As a result of this, the company decided to put the former five-time Knockouts champion in a title match against Su Yung with the goal of putting over the Undead Bride but also to write off Madison in a spectacular fashion.
She would return to Impact in March where she signed a multi-year deal with the company and went on to compete in a number of matches before becoming the host of her own kayfabe talk show and colour commentator alongside real-life husband, Josh Matthews. At Slammiversary , the fans bared witness to a fight between two branches of the Latin American Xchange: The new version Santana and Ortiz with founder Konnan and the original version Homicide and Hernandez with Eddie Kingston, who had a history with Konnan and the group.
The Hair vs. Mask match between Sami Callihan and Pentagon Jr. This news shocked both fans and critics alike as towards the end of the company was looking at immediate shutdown following a disastrous merger between themselves and GFW, so to see the very same company who was close to joining WCW and the original ECW, pull itself out of this hellhole that they themselves created and produce a show like this and sell out the arena none the less was remarkable in every conceivable way.
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Which Slammiversary XVI match do you think will steal the show? Will it be Madison Rayne vs. Su Yung? How about Brian Cage vs. Matt Sydal? Please comment below and give us your thoughts! Next: Impact Wrestling: Slammiversary Vs.
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