Impact Wrestling: Slammiverary 2017

It's Slammiversary TNA's version of Mania? And they're putting Borash and Josh Matthews in a match together? Yeah, that'll help sell tickets.

It's Slammiversary TNA's version of Mania? And they're putting Borash and Josh Matthews in a match together? Yeah, that'll help sell tickets.

No, their version of Mania is Bound For Glory, usually happens in October. Slammiversary is basically their anniversary show though.

Full card:

SLAMMIVERSARY XV

Impact Wrestling / GFW World Championship Unification
King Mo In Lashley's Corner, Dos Caras In El Patron's
- Bobby Lashley (c) vs. Alberto El Patron (c)

Impact Wrestling / GFW Women's Championship Unification
- Rosemary (c) vs. Sienna (c)

Impact Wrestling / GFW World Tag-Team Championship Unification
- LAX (c) vs. Naomichi Marufuji & Taiji Ishimori vs. El Hijo del Fantasma & Drago vs. Garza Jr. & Laredo Kid

X-Division Championship
Best 2 Out Of 3 Falls Match
- Sonjay Dutt (c) vs. Low Ki

Strap Match
- James Storm vs. Ethan Carter III (EC3)

Full Metal Mayhem
- Davey Richards & Angelina Love vs. Eddie Edwards & Alisha Edwards

Special Attraction Tag-Team Contest
- Scott Steiner & Josh Mathews vs. Joseph Park & Jeremy Borash

Special Attraction Tag-Team Contest
- Moose & DeAngelo Williams vs. Eli Drake & Christopher Adonis

Don't like the idea of a unification title match having special guests in the corner. That's basically advertising that there'll be some form of interference.

The main event might have been spoiled by TVGuide.com though.

Predictions!

SLAMMIVERSARY XV

Impact Wrestling / GFW World Championship Unification
King Mo In Lashley's Corner, Dos Caras In El Patron's
- Bobby Lashley (c) vs. Alberto El Patron (c)
Winner: El Patron via pinball

Impact Wrestling / GFW Women's Championship Unification
- Rosemary (c) vs. Sienna (c)
Sienna via submission

Impact Wrestling / GFW World Tag-Team Championship Unification
- LAX (c) vs. Naomichi Marufuji & Taiji Ishimori vs. El Hijo del Fantasma & Drago vs. Garza Jr. & Laredo Kid
LAX via Pinfall (Go Angel Ortiz! Used to train with him!)

X-Division Championship
Best 2 Out Of 3 Falls Match
- Sonjay Dutt (c) vs. Low Ki
Low Ki via pinfall

Strap Match
- James Storm vs. Ethan Carter III (EC3)
EC3 via dirty tactics

Full Metal Mayhem
- Davey Richards & Angelina Love vs. Eddie Edwards & Alisha Edwards
Davey & Angelina

Special Attraction Tag-Team Contest
- Scott Steiner & Josh Mathews vs. Joseph Park & Jeremy Borash
Park & Borash

Special Attraction Tag-Team Contest
- Moose & DeAngelo Williams vs. Eli Drake & Christopher Adonis
Drake & Adonis

Haven't watch it yet. I think I might watch it in the up coming days. Remember a year or two ago when they did a GFW invasion of TNA? To bad they couldn't have saved that until now, since they are actually changing the name of the company to GFW.

They day when they can book a PPV without matches having run-ins is the day I might start watching properly again. Ruins their PPV's when matches don't end cleanly half the time. Could deal with one now and again. More than one on one PPV? Fuck that. Although it was obvious with the main event. Sadly they made that way too obvious.

Tag Title match was the best match by far. Everything else was just medicure to me. They didn't go a good job of making it feel as special as it should with two companies merging.

Finally got to watching the show. It was a solid show all around.

Bobby Lashley (c) vs. Alberto El Patron (c) - Pretty good main event. Liked that both people had their own people in the corners. I liked it because it made the match seem like a big deal. Always nice to have a few special attractions. I have no problem with Patron winning, always have been a big fan of the dude in the ring.

Rosemary (c) vs. Sienna (c) - Wasn't that great. Sienna wins. Not much to say about this one.

LAX (c) vs. Naomichi Marufuji & Taiji Ishimori vs. El Hijo del Fantasma & Drago vs. Garza Jr. & Laredo Kid - This match was awesome. Just high intense action constantly. Was a really good opener. It was one of those matches that when it got going, I did not want it to end.

Sonjay Dutt (c) vs. Low Ki - Good match up here. Still don't like that Low Ki wrestles in a suit, but I can get over that I guess. Sonjay retains. Didn't think they would have him lose the belt this early anyways.

James Storm vs. Ethan Carter III (EC3) - I love EC3 man. Thought this was decent also. I liked the spot where EC3 got handcuffed into the turnbuckle and James Storm just whipped him over 20 times with the strap. That shit looked legit brutal. EC3 gets the win here. I would have been fine with it going either way as I am a fan of both.

Davey Richards & Angelina Love vs. Eddie Edwards & Alisha Edwards - I like the idea of a intergender Full Metal Mayhem match. But this wasn't anything amazing. All you really want to see is Edwards and Richards fight it out in this match.

Scott Steiner & Josh Mathews vs. Joseph Park & Jeremy Borash - This wasn't that great. But it never was going to be a masterpiece. I did get a few chuckles out of it. Was nice to see Shark Boy and James Mitchell back in the Impact Zone. Totally saw Park turning into Abyss, I think everyone did. Scott Steiner calling everyone a fatass hahaha, good times.

Moose & DeAngelo Williams vs. Eli Drake & Christopher Adonis - Moose is pretty over isn't he? This wasn't bad either. DeAngelo Williams is a pretty famous football player over here in the states for you Brits who don't know. For a dude who had so little training he seemed like a natural. He just seemed to catch on very quick and made very few mistakes. The only real mistake that was noticeable that he made was when he over shot the frog splash to put Drake through the table. I was pleasantly surprised with Williams' performance.

- Overall a nice solid showing from this company. They have tons of energy right now and look to be on the upswing. The production values of the show are better than they have been in years also. They look to be trying finally and its noticeable. It is said that they had to turn away a lot of fans at the door because the event was packed. More than they have had to in a long time. They are making noise right now. Hopefully the rebranding effort with GFW will prove to be the right decision. This show made me want to watch Impact weekly if anything else. Sometimes it is just fun to watch something other than the WWE.