9 Ups & 4 Downs From This Week's Impact Wrestling (Aug 16)

Tessa Blanchard vs. Sami Callihan rivalry once again highlights an Impact show.

By Adam Morrison /

Impact Wrestling

Well, would you believe it? Another brilliant episode of Impact Wrestling has been written into the history books.

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While there are usually a handful of tedious moments each week - after all, not everything can be perfect in life - those moments are almost always outweighed by the wonderful segments of the show. Thus, they're easily forgotten about as we focus our attention on the positives.

This episode was main evented by an outstanding tag team match as Tessa Blanchard and Tommy Dreamer battled the oVe pairing of Sami Callihan and Dave Crist. Elsewhere, we also had a strong six man tag team match which saw The Rascalz take on Rob Van Dam, Rich Swann, and Willie Mack, Ace Austin continued to get under the skin of Eddie Edwards, Madison Rayne and Kiera Hogan were able to be on the same page for a lengthy time, and Fallah Bahh had a decent match with Moose.

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As we approach Bound For Glory on 20 October, it's shaping up to be a sensational card judging by some of the rivalries going on right now. We can only hope it stays that way when Impact roll into Illinois for that October weekend. Let's get to it...