6 Ups & 5 Downs From IMPACT Wrestling (29 April)

3. The Cockiest Of Scumbags

Sami Callihan and Eddie Edward’s Under Siege qualifier wasn’t about their match, but rather the aftermath and what it set up for the 15 May IMPACT Plus special.

They worked a standard match that included everything from the suicide dive of Eddie to the exploder suplex of Sami. There wasn’t really anything new on show which was a tad disappointing, until Callihan set Eddie up for his Piledriver, which is when Kenny Omega and The Good Brothers hit the ring, laying waste to both men.

That the Omega-led assault focused more on Sami rather than Eddie was interesting; Sami has been extremely vocal towards Don Callis about how the IMPACT World Championship belongs to him. He ate a Magic Killer as a result. FinJuice made the save for Eddie Edwards to set up their six-man tag vs. the Super Elite.

IMPACT’s treatment of Omega now that he’s champion is fantastic. Threatening to have him stripped of the title unless he physically appears on the show in-ring, only for him to run out in the very last minutes of the broadcast is exactly how you create this aura of him being above IMPACT as a company. He’s got the charisma and star-power to pull it off perfectly.