10 Wrestlers Who No Sold Huge Losses
3. Austin Aries Pops Straight Back Up
There was a point when the sight of then-Impact World Champion Austin Aries suddenly darting right up off the canvas after being on the receiving end of a Starship-Pain-induced defeat would've been enough to thoroughly melt the Internet.
By the time the former WWE player bolted upright seconds after Johnny Impact's crowning moment at Bound for Glory 2018, however, most had chosen to entirely check out when it pertained to the whacky developments usually found going down within the promotion during this odd period.
Matters weren't exactly helped by Impact's reaction to Aries and Johnny's surreal Twitter feud either, with the Wrestling Observer later reporting that “management wasn’t happy" with their unapproved work on the social media platform due to it potentially contradicting their plans in the long-run.
It's still not exactly clear as to whether or not the promotion actually green-lit the abrupt exit post-defeat, too.
Despite Dave Meltzer feeling as though it would only be a matter of time before Aries showed up on the Impact scene again on the back of his contract expiring, further behind-the-scenes developments would result in "The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived" ultimately declining a new deal and ending his Impact career on one of the strangest beats of its era.