10 Reasons Why You Need To Watch IMPACT Wrestling Right Now
6. New Stars Are Constantly In Production
To build the stars of the future is to provide the audience with the safe knowledge that the company will remain in good hands ten, twenty, perhaps even thirty years from now, and although the then-TNA wasn't always in good hands creative and management-wise, its roster wasn't to be shunned.
In 2005, what many heralded as the peak of the company's success, they boasted a roster whose popularity was growing rapidly. They had AJ Styles before he truly became phenomenal. They had The Motor City Machine Guns before they became a household tag team. Eric Young; Robert Roode; James Storm; Jay Lethal; Samoa Joe; Christopher Daniels; Frankie Kazarian; Gail Kim; it's an eternal list of internal legends.
This remains the case in 2023. Steve Maclin went from an undiscovered WWE write-off to a World Champion who carried himself like a World Champion. Deonna Purrazzo turned from NXT goober constrained by the glass ceiling to an IMPACT pillar, icon, and certified Hall of Famer. Mike Bailey has continued to excel as a proficient striker whose work in the group has gone tremendously underappreciated. Gisele Shaw is a talent teetering on the verge of breaking out; a future Knockouts World Champion for sure.
Joe Hendry; Subculture; Alan Angels; The Rascalz; Tasha Steelz; Yuya Uemura; Kevin Knight; they've all got potential and they're all in the right place to realise it.