10 Best Impact Wrestling World Champions Of All Time
From the rough days of Impact to the better days, there have been some wonderful World Champions.
The Impact World Championship has gone through many phases in its history. The TNA World Heavyweight Championship, the GFW Global Championship, the Impact World Championship: no matter what you want to call it, the title remains the biggest prize on offer for the male members of the Impact Wrestling roster.
Sure, there have been some moments where a person shouldn't have won the title when they did. The best example of this is when Eric Young won the title in Impact's greatest effort of recreating the Daniel Bryan WrestleMania story (mere days after it initially occurred). The man now known as a SAnitY member was simply a transitional champion at the time.
These sorts of reigns aside, there have been some incredible champions throughout the current 12 year history of the title.
Whether the person had a lengthy reign or had multiple reigns, the fact remains the same - they did something great while their name was attached to the Impact World Championship. Having great matches while champion isn't the only thing that'll make your reign memorable. Being great on the mic is a necessity also, especially if you're going to be the face of the company.
But y'know, a combination of those two factors will take someone a long way...
10. Eddie Edwards
Throughout 2016, Eddie Edwards found himself a bit all over the place. He began the year as one half of the World Tag Team Champions then won the X Division Championship twice, before finding himself in the Grand Championship Tournament and ending the year as the World Champion. Talk about being busy!
His win over Bobby Lashley on the post-Bound For Glory episode of Impact really came out of nowhere. The Almighty One was the most dominant force in Impact at that stage, and had recently defeated EC3 to remain the champ at the aforementioned pay-per-view. He was allowed to choose his opponent for his next defence and picked Edwards, thinking he would be an easy man to defeat. Clearly, he was wrong.
The former American Wolf surprised everyone with his win. While his reign only lasted two months, it felt like something new for Impact. The few champions before him were all big names who were known all over the world. Edwards on the other hand, though not a nobody by any means, was not considered a big name alongside the likes of Drew Galloway (McIntyre) and Matt Hardy.
Thus, it felt like a breath of fresh air in Impact's main event scene.