9 Ups & 5 Downs From IMPACT Wrestling Against All Odds 2021

4. Just Five Scintillating Wrestlers

Ace Austin vs. Chris Bey vs. Rohit Raju vs. Petey Williams vs. Trey Miguel was hardly ever going to be a flop, was it? While initially following the multi-person trope of having two to three guys in at a time while the others were resting at ringside, it banged when it properly kicked off.

Trey and Petey’s dueling submissions while they forearmed each other was both tremendous and hilarious at the same time. Rohit’s mini-rampage was great, if a tad too long for a multi-man contest. Ace’s inventive repertoire remained a major highlight because there is just no way something like this should be conceivable; the same goes for Petey’s top-rope Canadian Destroyer to Austin.

That Madman Fulton prevented a winner from being crowned was never an argument, either. His absence was conspicuous, but when he rose from the bottom of the screen to send Miguel crashing off the turnbuckles, everything thereafter was blissful. Fulton was sublime in laying out the four guys not named Ace Austin.

Some good stuff here. Left without a contender heading towards Slammiversary, it’s always viable that the Ultimate X match makes a return on 17 July for Josh Alexander’s X Division Championship. Who's ever said no to that?

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