9 Ups & 4 Downs From IMPACT Wrestling (7 Oct)

2. More Of This Team

After Bound For Glory, Christian Cage and Josh Alexander would actually work well as a cohesive unit. They showed great effort opposite Ace Austin and Madman Fulton, working well together at various points, looking out for one another, and technically displayed a tremendous tag team finish at the match's culmination.

There are official tag teams that can't achieve all three of these key factors.

It helped, of course, that they were against Ace and Fulton. They too displayed some ingenious offence for two guys with vastly different in-ring styles, and yet, they've made it work superbly well. Their back suplex/slingshot roundhouse kick combination was a particular delight here. Even on their own, Christian and Josh were uniquely excellent; Josh's ankle lock counter for Austin's corner Trouble In Paradise was executed with no error, surprisingly.

He would then give Ace a Chaos Theory, leading him directly into a Killswitch for the three count. This was a superlative finish, as Ace rolled backwards to his feet to be in position for the Instant Classic's finisher. It worked so meticulously well. The uneasiness between Cage and Alexander was thankfully non-existent until the end, with a slightly tense celebration after the bell. They're at such an important part of the story that it now can't possibly be a terrible payoff.