6 Ups & 3 Downs From IMPACT Wrestling (2 Dec)

4. Rachael Steps Up

Throughout last night's broadcast, everyone from Chelsea Green to Alisha Edwards demanded their inclusion in Hard To Kill's knockouts Ultimate X match, but none demonstrated genuine worthiness of being included more than Rachael Ellering did.

Vs. Savannah Evans, Rachael utilised a different style than what she traditionally does. She put added emphasis on her strikes, in doing so justifying her position should she be added to the bout. Her rolling elbow was brutal, her STO impactful, her trio of running Sentons needlessly vicious. This was a much different Ellering to what we're used to, and it worked to such a great extent that, should she and Jordynne Grace disband in the future, she'll act as a considerably superlative heel addition for the knockouts division.

Rachael would execute a TKO on Savannah - granted, this could have been performed a tad cleaner - for the finish, having just forearmed the piss out of an intervening Tasha Steelz. That Ellering had previously charged into Evans' shoulder with a series of shoulder tackles, thus weakening her for the fireman's carry lift, was a subtly sublime touch.

This must be the version of Rachael that sticks around for the foreseeable future.