10 Reasons You Need To Start Watching Impact Again

2. It's A More Mature Alternative

Of course, violence in professional wrestling isn’t always a good thing. Eddie Edwards getting bashed in the face full blast with a baseball bat was certainly not an ideal situation. However, if Impact wants to stand out from it’s much, much larger competition then they have to do some things different from them. As fans have rightfully pointed out, that is something they have always struggled with.

Since Impact can’t compete with WWE from a talent or production standpoint at this moment in time, they can offer up storylines and characters aimed at an older audience.

The most mature content you hear in WWE is what the crowd shouts at Roman Reigns on a weekly basis. Most of the dialogue wrestlers are written to speak is overly-scripted and filled with unbearable corporate speak. Besides Brock Lesnar, no wrestler in the promotion feels like an act that would appear in a Rated R film. Impact is able to take things a couple steps farther.

For just one example, Redemption saw the happy-go-lucky Eddie Edwards finally snap and beat Sami Callihan to a bloody pulp while his teammates pleaded for him to stop. It was a shocking visual, as it's not the type of thing you'd see on a national scene these days. For longtime fans who lament the end of the Attitude Era and the death of ECW, this throwback to a more adult take on wrestling could help fill their need for violence.