10 Ups & 3 Downs From This Week's Impact Wrestling (Aug 9)

6. Twice In One Week

Although this column has typically berated Taya Valkyrie during her reign with the Knockouts Championship by claiming she's been nothing more than a cowardly champion, this week gets an Up as her performance in a backstage segment was superb.

'Wera Loca' stormed out of management's office into the microphone of Jimmy Jacobs, with the former 'Zombie Princess' asking what just happened. The champion replied saying the powers that be wanted her to defend the Knockouts Championship against Havok... again. Taya had just defended the title a few days prior at Unbreakable but walked out of the match, angering management in the process.

Even though this could still be looked at as Taya being full of cowardice, it was certainly more enjoyable than some of her other antics in recent weeks.