10 Best IMPACT Wrestling Matches Of The Empty Arena Era

From one end of the professional wrestling spectrum to another, Sami Callihan and Eddie Edwards' Barbed Wire Massacre contest from January's Hard To Kill was as sublime a vicious encounter as it was a masterful showcase of Extreme Championship Wrestling.

It's helped, of course, that Tommy Dreamer works as a creative writer and producer for the company. There's no word on if the hardcore icon actually worked with the duo on the match, but regardless, having such a prolific ECW alum in a backstage role must help when crafting together such a callous gem.

As with Callihan's Last Man Standing outing with Trey Miguel at April's Rebellion pay-per-view, 'The Draw' dominated portions of the bout, as he always should in such a stipulation bout; a middle-rope Piledriver through a barbed wire board wasn't the match-ender. Legitimately stomach-churning material, and yet, it was instead a barbed wire-assisted Boston Knee Party that ended the inhumane encounter.

Your writer's only gripe with this is that, despite being billed as Callihan and Edwards' feud-ender, they did battle once more a few months later in an Under Siege qualifier. If you forget about that, though, this acted as a suitable culmination to one of the defining rivalries of this current era of IMPACT.