10 Reasons Why You Need To Watch IMPACT Wrestling Right Now

IMPACT Wrestling isn't a perfect promotion - but what is?

WWE has made a continuous glut of errors that drove its hardcore fanbase away, leaving only the casuals to enjoy the 38th Ricochet burial of the year. AEW, though typically a step above WWE, is not without their mistakes, having failed to cultivate a sustainable women's division in their five years of existence. NJPW is hardly what it once was, the cafeteria of stiff strikes and potent neck drops, because they insisted EVIL was the driving force that would get them out of their post-Elite slump. PWG used to be a hotbed for the next big things in pro wrestling, but is now the source of scrutiny amongst Wrestling Twitter, a fandom divided over whether there's a need for such glorified spot-fest promotions anymore.

IMPACT Wrestling is the constant butt of the joke amongst them all, though. Over a decade after the Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff-orchestrated drought ripped them of their identity and gobs of their key players departed, IMPACT has continued fighting, thriving throughout the pandemic-induced empty arena era rather than merely surviving.

They'll never be what they once were, but what's there instead is widely on a grander level - especially when it's literally on a grander level...

Indeed the most timely reason to give IMPACT a chunk of your time, Slammiversary is shaping up to be an honest coup de grace on the company's calendar.

Boasting a stacked card that contains two genuine dream matches and a cavalcade of assorted excellence further down the line, Slammiversary '23 has real potential, though the build hasn't been without egregious transgressions; Steve Maclin, for instance, should be entering as the World Champion. He's been a red-hot talent since his IMPACT arrival in 2021, bubbling on the verge of can't-miss perfection whose in-ring work has been outshone only by his vocal skills - but he doesn't need the World Championship.

That IMPACT has managed to give Maclin the World Championship stint his two-year stint desired while slowly building a different arc for him on their biggest/second-biggest card of the calendar is reason enough to illustrate IMPACT's carefully mapped-out planning for Slammiversary.

Slammiversary, recently, has had its esteemed lineage restored, with each pay-per-view dating back to 2018 being of significance to a degree, be it through a dream match factory or the promise of several WWE castoffs coming into the group - but Slammiversary 2023 is already esteemed purely on the basis of the prudent attention put forth by Scott D'Amore. There isn't a match - so far... - that you're questioning the legitimacy of, such is the style D'Amore operates under.