7 Ups & 5 Downs From IMPACT Slammiversary 2023 (Review)

4. A TV Match On A Pay-Per-View

Gisele Shaw works a great character. As 'The Quintessential Diva', she possesses the traits necessary for a successful modernistic take on an archaic character. She's a good worker, too, and Savannah Evans and Jai Vidal accentuate Shaw's positive traits perfectly; she's a finished project you could say.

But the character doesn't work on a pay-per-view product.

Wrestling Jody Threat, Courtney Rush, and Jessicka on the Countdown to Slammiversary pre-show, the match was one you'd expect to find on a weekly IMPACT broadcast, Before The IMPACT even, but not a prototypical opener playing out in front of a 1,000+ audience. There was little meaning or impact behind certain spots of the match that didn't flow well at all. The Shaw-led group dominated large chunks of the contest before Threat and The Death Dollz suddenly triggered the hit-all-our-finishers skill in what is unfortunately an atypical trait of such matches. It was trivial and disappointing.