9 Card Predictions For IMPACT Wrestling Slammiversary 2021

IMPACT Wrestling are more or less exactly two months away from their Slammiversary pay-per-view on Saturday, 17 July, and boy, have they got a lot to live up to.

Not only do they have to follow in the footsteps of their most recent pay-per-view Rebellion, which was the best pay-per-view of the Anthem Sports and Entertainment era don't @ your writer, but there's the small matter of having to go a step above last year's Slammiversary. The in-ring action on that card was great, but what made it exceptional was the amount of teases they, um, teased in the weeks preceding the event.

IMPACT teased the hell out of WWE's Black Wednesday releases, which made it all that more enjoyable when Eric Young, the Good Brothers, Heath, and EC3 all showed up, with Deonna Purrazzo and Brian Myers also coming in before and after Slammiversary, respectively. You need only look at the positioning of the majority of these stars in the ten months that have followed; Deonna is in the midst of her second Knockouts Championship run, for example.

That IMPACT are using the same promotional material to hype up this year's Slammiversary is a testament to their ongoing resurgence. They must back this up with some in-ring bangers, though.

Let's get to it...

This is, somehow, possible.

In case you've been living under a rock for the last year and a half, both the Susie and Susan characters have been portrayed by the far more recognisable Su Yung; cue the shock and horror. They've both been fine. Bringing back 'The Undead Bride' full-time, though, must be the way to go heading out of Slammiversary.

But how? This can't possibly happen! They're the same person!

That's true. But then explain how Su Yung laid out Susan at Hardcore Justice last month. IMPACT clearly had a plan to execute that perfectly without it being obvious that it was someone else under the makeup and guise of the former Knockouts Champion, so why wouldn't they take further advantage of this?

As much as your writer has thoroughly enjoyed the whole trust-me-I-am-Susan schtick, Su Yung must come back now. IMPACT dragged the Susie persona out far too long, and they're currently running the risk of suffering the same fate with the Susan persona. Therefore, having Yung finally dispose of the Susan character on 17 July is the perfect way to both write Susan off and bring Su Yung back.

Alternatively, it could be revealed at some point that someone else is in the costume of Su Yung here. Perhaps, you know, a returning Kylie Rae?