11 Ups & 10 Downs For Impact Wrestling In 2020

4. The North > The Young Bucks

A controversial header? Sure. A true header? Perhaps.

The North have been the defining tag team in Impact Wrestling since July 2019, where their record-shattering World Tag Team Championships reign began. Since then, Ethan Page and Josh Alexander have managed to keep the reinvention of doubles wrestling in the promotion alive in the aftermath of the LAX and Lucha Bros era. It was always going to be immensely difficult to follow in those footsteps, but somehow, 'All Ego' and 'The Walking Weapon' were able to do just that.

Their matches this year against The Rascalz, The World's Most Dangerous Tag Team, The Motor City Machine Guns, and The Good Brothers all offered something to the tag team wrestling legacy of the promotion. Both of their title losses to the Guns and The Good Brothers were excellent matches, the former of which actually main evented the post-Slammiversary edition of Impact Wrestling. That Scott D'Amore and Don Callis had the faith in those four to main event their weekly show was a testimony to how amazing those two tandems have been. Undoubtedly, the two greatest teams in Impact history.

To go back to before Slammiversary, though, The North were unable to travel to the tapings for a while due to the world issues, and were left to record their own content for slotting into the show. Their weird cinematic clashes with both The Smoes and The Creeps were passable, but their wild brawl at the Deaner Compound vs. Cody Deaner and Wheels was brilliant. Aside from Rebellion's Ken Shamrock vs. Sami Callihan match (to an extent), this was Impact's first foray into cinematic wrestling following WWE's exceptional Boneyard and Firefly Fun House bouts.

The North's 2020 has been equally as good as that of The Young Bucks.

There. It's been said.