5 Ups & 5 Downs From Impact Wrestling (26 Jan)
3. No Fire, No Flava
Kiera Hogan and Tasha Steelz celebrating their victory of the Knockouts Tag Team Championships was a marquee attraction for this week's episode, as it should have been. It marks a huge moment in the history of the knockouts division, and thus, they earned the platform to boast about their accomplishments.
The Fire N Flava Fest, though? This wasn't the place to do such a thing.
There was endless amounts of potential for this to work successfully, but instead, it felt as if the Knockouts Tag Team Championships, yet again, weren't being taken seriously. 'The Hottest Flame' and 'The Borica Badass' were ridiculed by their guests, who were left to feast on literally just bread and cheese (not even a cheese sandwich, just the components) and some cheap wine. Add in Havok and Nevaeh (dressed in Fallah Bahh's Stay Puft marshmallow costume) to wreck the festival, and you have a segment worthy of the drizzling sh*ts.
The worst thing is, is that this is what we should have expected from this. Of course someone was going to interrupt the celebration. It made sense for it to be Havok and Nevaeh at least, but could we not have at least had a reasonably enjoyable skit before they arrived? Hogan and Steelz looked worthless as a result of this. As they're the Knockouts Tag Team Champions, this should be the exact opposite.