IMPACT Slammiversary 2020: Every Debuting And Returning Star's Grade One Year On

The 2020 Slammiversary pay-per-view was a success in every way.

It broke the company's social media records, trending at number one on Twitter throughout the evening, and the buyrate was reportedly the highest the company had seen in a long time. As great as it was, this wasn't down to the tremendous in-ring action offered by the pay-per-view.

Instead, the numerous promised surprises lived up to their expectation, making IMPACT Wrestling a legitimately must-see product.

Eric Young, Rich Swann, EC3, Heath, the Good Brothers, and the Motor City Machine Guns all showed up throughout the evening; Young, EC3, Heath, Doc Gallows, and Karl Anderson were coming in off of their WWE releases, Swann was returning from injury, and Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley were reuniting for the first time in a couple of years.

The six acts' work post-Slammiversary varied in levels of success, ranging from championship glory to ill-timed injury spells. In order to achieve the perfect grade for each, their overness, general presentation, positioning within the company, and quality of their overall character arc was also taken into account alongside title wins and marquee matches.

It's hard, really, to properly judge them given the lack of a live audience, but nonetheless, IMPACT did a great job with these guys at Slammiversary. The aftermath? It wasn't quite all there...

Grade: Incomplete

There simply is not another grade Heath could possibly be awarded. He wrestled just five matches for the company, the last of which saw the former 'One Man Band' suffer a series of injuries that's kept him out of action ever since.

Heath is yet to actually sign his IMPACT contract in storyline, earning said deal through Rhino's victory in last year's Call Your Shot gauntlet match. There, 'The Hottest Free Agent' was reportedly scheduled to win the twenty-person contest, earning those aforementioned injuries in a match that would either see Heath signed, or both he and Rhino ejected from the promotion.

The story there was fine. Despite this being a blatant ripoff of Heath's 2016 WWE arc, he delivered some solid work, notably a TNA World Heavyweight Championship challenge against Moose from the 4 August IMPACT episode and an unsanctioned match vs. Reno Scum from Victory Road.

Unfortunately, the timing of the former Heath Slater's injuries majorly derailed his career. He was just getting started in IMPACT, and looked destined to lift the World Tag Team Championships alongside 'The War Machine' via the Call Your Shot trophy. That his surgery went down on 1 March is a good sign. He should be back in the picture by the year's end.

Until then? There's no confirming Heath's success/failure in the company.