6 Ups & 4 Downs From IMPACT Wrestling (13 May)

3. Captain Callihan

This is typical IMPACT booking. A multi-man scramble is coming up at Under Siege this weekend, and so they must book a tag team match to accommodate the competitors involved. It worked, though.

Chris Sabin, Trey Miguel, and Matt Cardona vs. Sami Callihan, Chris Bey, and Moose is a match that’s never going to flop, but the booking of each individual helped this massively. Take the latter team, for example. It had Bey acting as the de facto lackey of the team as he took the brunt of the offence while also striking when it was right to do so, Moose as the power man of the squad, tossing people around with such ease, Callihan as the captain, picking up the fall over Sabin via Package Piledriver.

It was a solid match made only better by its combatants’ work ethic. Sabin and Cardona have never teamed together, yet they looked like multi-time World Tag Team Champions with the effort they were putting in together. Small details like this go a long way in establishing an act in the long run.

What’s so great about this is that we still don’t have a clear-cut winner for Under Siege to challenge Kenny Omega. If you can manage that in such a high-profile story, you’re doing something right.