5 Ways IMPACT Wrestling Is Outclassing The Competition Right Now

5. Creating New Stars

Kiera Hogan and Tasha Steelz went from just two other knockouts to the Knockouts Tag Team Champions in under a year.

Madman Fulton became actively enjoyable to watch alongside Ace Austin, having been deemed another WWE castoff upon his IMPACT debut.

Josh Alexander, while already a familiar name to diehard indie wrestling stans, has been catapulted to new heights as X Division Champion, being the face of that division as it undergoes a mass revamp.

Deaner, Jake Something, Rohit Raju, Chris Bey, Trey Miguel, Rachael Ellering, Decay, Havok, and countless others are now becoming more recognisable to promoters and fans alike - some were already approaching that level on their own - through association with IMPACT Wrestling.

The point here is that WWE could never do this with so many talents at once. On Raw alone, Angel Garza has considerably dropped down the card compared to where he stood this time last year. Keith Lee went from a dominating figure in NXT to being a nobody on the main roster. Ricochet, T-BAR, and the Viking Raiders all suffered the same fate.

While AEW have managed to achieve such a thing - to a certain extent, at least - they haven't done this with so many names at a time. Shawn Spears, for example, spent his early AEW days clawing for anything meaningful prior to becoming a Pinnacle member.

This applies to an abundance of his fellow roster members.