8 Ups & 5 Downs From Impact Wrestling Slammiversary 2020

5. The Reign Continues

While Sami Callihan and Ken Shamrock did seemingly get on the same page by the end of this match, it didn't do anything to bring an end to The North's record-shattering World Tag Team Championships reign, as Ethan Page and Josh Alexander have continued to dominate the tag team division in Impact.

The match followed a formula of the defending champs trapping whoever was the legal man in their corner and clubbing away on them, meaning each and every tag made by The World's Most Dangerous Tag Team meant something far more. Callihan and Shamrock's differing abilities in the ring made it more intriguing to watch them work together, as 'The Draw' tried to showboat wherever and whenever possible (most notably, his pre-piledriver thumbs up gesture), while the Hall of Famer insisted on wearing the champions down instead.

It wasn't until the end of the contest that the challengers showed any signs of major miscommunication, as 'The World's Most Dangerous Man' accidentally kicked Sami in the head, which then led to him landing hard at ringside off of a missed suicide dive. A double Neutralizer to Shamrock was the finishing blow as 'All Ego' and 'The Walking Weapon' marched out of Slammiversary with the titles intact, now looking ahead to defending against The Motor City Machine Guns on Tuesday.

The only real downside to this is that we don't really have any signs of what's next for Callihan and Shamrock. Are they still partners? Are they going back into a fierce rivalry with one another? All things considered, their tag team could be something that works out for the best, as we saw with the likes of Team Hell No and The Bar in years gone by. Props to Impact for not going down the obvious route of having The North lose their titles to a mismatched pairing.