Everything You Need To Know About The IMPACT Wrestling Slammiversary Teases
Samoa Joe won't be there, but Daniel Bryan and Kazuchika Okada could be.
Slammiversary 2021. It's going to be huge.
How could it not be?
Aside from the inexplicably stellar card, the teases of recently-released former WWE stars debuting and/or returning to the IMPACT Zone is again taking center-stage. It's not just the likes of Mickie James and the IIconics who have been rumoured, though, as Japanese wrestling greatness is also on the teaser list, ranging all the way from Yujiro Takahashi to the Great Muta.
It's a bit of a lengthy list, with fifteen teases in total to get through. They can't all show up because this isn't late '90s WCW when literally everyone was a member of the nWo at some point. No, this is 2020s IMPACT Wrestling, an era where you're guaranteed an enchanting pay-per-view every quarter, even if no one is speaking about it.
The thing about these teases is that IMPACT haven't hammed them up as much as they did last year. Other than the two trailers the promotion has released, the only other tease up to this week had been Kiera Hogan finding a trash bag labelled 'Mickie'. This week's IMPACT broadcast brought teases for, again, Mickie, Chelsea Green, and the IIconics.
So, what's the chances of these teases showing up on 17 July?
Please note, these teases aren't being ranked in any form, but rather in a general order.
15. Samoa Joe
The tease: some old promotional footage of Samoa Joe was shown at the beginning of the original teaser trailer.
The likelihood of it happening: 0%
Samoa Joe literally can't appear at Slammiversary. He's re-signed with WWE since being shown in that trailer, currently serving as the enforcer to NXT general manager, William Regal.
There's not much else to say on the matter. Whether IMPACT got in touch with 'The Samoan Submission Machine' or not is unknown as of writing, but why wouldn't they? They got in touch with the likes of the Good Brothers last year within minutes of their own WWE release. Considering the history Joe has in IMPACT, they'd be foolish to not at least try and get him back in.
Nonetheless, it's a physical impossibility now. Maybe one day.