3 Ups & 3 Downs From This Week's Impact Wrestling (Nov 8)

Bound For Glory 2018 is already a month old, but the rivalries featured on the show are even older. So why are some of them still in existence?

Sure, some of them could do with continuing, but the majority should be done and dusted. Do we need to see another match between Tessa Blanchard and Taya Valkyrie, just because Tessa wants to show everyone she can win without cheating? She's already proven that she can't, so there's no need to bother with it. Especially not with the most recent addition to the knockouts division.

This was Impact's last show in New York as they ship off to Las Vegas next week. What better way to leave the Melrose Ballroom than to again host a main event championship match? It's been a common trend on Impact programming these last few weeks. It's by no means a knock on Impact's booking as these bouts have been anything but a disappointment, but maybe don't have them basically every single week. Save them for the bigger episodes, like this one was.

The weeks are winding down towards Impact's next pay-per-view, Homecoming, on 6 January from their old stomping grounds in Tennessee. With no matches for that event currently announced, it's all or nothing for the roster to cement their spot on the history-making show. There's been plenty of highs and lows as we get closer and closer to the return to The Asylum. Let's get to it...