7 Ups & 5 Downs From IMPACT Wrestling Homecoming 2021

6. The Right Path

Initially, the thought of a mixed tag team tournament bored your writer, as the match type has been deemed mundane through years of tiresome iterations promoted by WWE. For Homecoming, though, intergender wrestling was allowed, with Deonna Purrazzo vs. Hernandez being the first example. It's hardly a match your writer would ever pitch in a creative meeting, but they worked fine together, setting the tone for the rest of the tournament.

Props to IMPACT for this. Had they stuck with WWE's version of the match, the night would have been a tedious watch, but by allowing the men to fight the men and the women to fight the women, you're providing a series of mini-matches we'd otherwise never get to see.

This was never going to work in every match; Fallah Bahh refused to lay a finger on Rosemary in their opening round bout until the second half of the contest. Tommy Dreamer giving 'The Demon Assassin' a Piledriver in their match, however, brilliantly counteracted this. Where it worked, it was wonderful.

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