10 Reasons Why You Need To Watch IMPACT Wrestling Right Now
3. There's A Style For Everyone
Professional wrestling can be best described as a multifaceted performance art. Different styles of the sport will cater to different fans' expectations of what "great" professional wrestling is. You may like that Kenny Omega kneed the crap out of Will Ospreay, but Wrestling Twitter may disagree and say it wasn't as good as the melodramatic family warfare within The Bloodline and that's fine.
Like WWE and AEW, IMPACT Wrestling carries a varied art form that, retrospectively, is what makes each pay-per-view, monthly special, and weekly AXS TV broadcast feel so fresh.
The image above displays one of the mat-based wars between Jonathan Gresham and Mike Bailey. Though this image depicts more of an NJPW-esque struggle between two potent strikers, the match originally began as a technical trade-off, both men going hold-for-hold before, brilliantly, they understood that this didn't work and, thus, began to beat the p*ss out of each other.
Many won't like this style, though, and, again, that's fine. They might prefer a bloodthirsty and indeed bloodied Steve Maclin spiking PCO on cinderblocks. They might prefer more of a sports entertainment approach, and they'll find that from Trinity and Gisele Shaw's matches. They might prefer watching the X-Division guys be X-Division guys and should look no further than a Trey Miguel outing.
There are so many styles on offer in IMPACT Wrestling and each one is executed to the best of the company's ability.