10 Reasons Why You Need To Watch IMPACT Wrestling Right Now
8. Everything Is Fresh - Mostly
To go back to Rebellion '23, its headline act was Deonna Purrazzo vs. Jordynne Grace, whose last IMPACT singles match was in 2020.
A difference of three years.
Between Purrazzo and Grace's Rebellion meeting (16 April) and their last clash at Emergence 2020 (25 August), Ricochet and Mustafa Ali collided nine times in WWE. None of them was a pay-per-view attraction, granted, but this is what WWE chose to put on its weekly programming almost two dozen times. The key to a successful pro wrestling product is freshness above all else. Two wrestlers can have mesmeric chemistry together, as Ricochet and Ali did, but the same match gets stale after its second or third occurrence.
That's the key to IMPACT's pay-per-view success-to-failure ratio. Rarely do they repeat a match within twelve months of its first airing, keeping their quarterly pay-per-views bright and inviting over the greyness that once darkened them. The group's monthly specials, designed for paying customers on IMPACT Plus and their YouTube membership Ultimate Insiders, fill the gaps, and while they do have repeat matches - Deonna and Jordynne wrestled a month after Rebellion at Under Siege - the trope remains limited.
The scarce usage of a WWE favourite allows for better character-building, championship-building matches and stories, both of which IMPACT excels at executing.