SO Id like to take this opportunity to talk about how much I love impact lately, especially because of how it contrasts with the WWE.
The show is about Bobby Roode. Hes the champ and basically no one in kayfabe wants him to be. He lucked out of avictories over a lot of tough competitors, most notably Sting, Jeff Hardy, AJ, and James Storm.
The only people left on the roster he hasnt taken down are like Abyss, Angle, Jarrett, and ANderson but basically no full timers
Hogan as the GM is no Sting as GM but storywise it makes sense. Roode going over sting like that was a great rub. No in the ring persay but intellectually, he defeated Sting. However, his cheap wins and attitude have made him a lot of enemies, some rather formidable, with the two he wronged most, Sting and Storm, in the wings, ready to come back and give Roode his comeuppance
The shows, even when we are treated to Eric Young, are relatively filler free. We get maybe one or two big promosa night but nothing like what the E has been up to and theyve generally been good. Hogan makes a good vanilla face GM and Roode is basically Dolph ZIggler, the Miz, and Cody Rhodes best qualities rolled up in one. We get some backstage segments, but theyre always just right in terms of length, like Bully Ray(the Kardashians) and Joseph Park this week
They have longrunning angles (even if they dont make a ton of sense) and the shows recently have been structured for exact purposes. like this weeks impact was basically all about the World Title even if Roode didnt play a huge role. On top of that, they are doing all of this by relying on the talent and letting them do what they do best all for the overall purpose of establishing Roode as the real deal, and if they do things right, Storm will join him.
tl;dr:Its just the best wrestling out there right now. Id sooner miss a month of WWE than a single episode of Impact and I will be purchasing Slammiversary FO SHO at this rate.
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