10 Reasons Why You Need To Watch IMPACT Wrestling Right Now

A strong string of exemplary pay-per-views is what separates the elite from the imbeciles and while IMPACT Wrestling's pay-per-view catalogue is a mixed bag of Last Rites matches, Reverse Battle Royals, and Fish Market Street Fights, the entire archive post-2017 is worth a gander.

With Scott D'Amore and Don Callis overseeing the creative output, TNA pay-per-view washouts became IMPACT pay-per-view spectacles. Redemption was the first major notch under the D'Amore and Callis leadership, an apropos title given it redeemed many viewers' perception of the then-throwaway promotion. It wasn't perfect - Eli Drake and Scott Steiner's World Tag Team Championships win was questionable at best - but its duds were overshadowed by the phenomenal work from the company's influx of fresh signings.

Rebellion 2023 was the latest example. Again, it wasn't a crystal show; the six-man tag between Santino Marella, Dirty Dango, and Joe Hendry, and The Design was a foolish anticlimax that spawned two spin-off feuds that turned out worse than the original. Between this mid-card fumble, however, was a spectacular Ultimate X match, a genuinely decent take on the Last Rites match that erased Sting and Abyss' disastrous war of attrition, and two meritorious World Championship clashes, the likes of which have become the norm.

Can WWE or AEW genuinely say they've had a strong pay-per-view line-up across five years?

At least one of the two absolutely can't. You decide which.