9 Ups & 4 Downs From IMPACT Wrestling & NJPW Multiverse United (Review)

3. Forgetting The Current Product

When two glutted rosters are at your disposal, multi-person scrimmages will be plenteous throughout, but it led to IMPACT apparently forgetting their own babyface/heel positioning, indisputable in the eight-man tag team bout.

It pitted Eddie Edwards, Joe Hendry, Tom Lawlor, and JR Kratos against Callihan, PCO, Fred Rosser, and Alex Coughlin. Eddie, Lawlor, and Kratos are usually situated as heels, but Joe Hendry is not. He's an uber-babyface who can play a heel role faultlessly.

The other side was broadly fine, aside from Callihan, who was introduced as Sami Callihan with a restored 'Callihan Death Machine' identity that he's supposedly fluctuating away from in his evolving storyline with The Design. He's believed to be a tweener, but instead played an anti-hero.

Getting Joe Hendry and Callihan on the card was ostensibly a must for IMPACT; Joe is not only a current champion, but one of their emerging stars, while Callihan has been a face of the brand for almost six years. If they wanted to give them a payday logically, though, they strictly had to switch their team allegiances. Gaffes like this are why pro wrestling organisations appear inept.