Best and worst of Impact Wrestling - 25 January 2019
Last week's Impact was incredibly entertaining and left a lot for fans to be excited about tonight. Tonight's main event featured an Impact World Championship bout featuring Killer Kross and the champion Johnny Impact.
Aside from that, we got to see the company's up-and-coming team the Rascalz dominate in two matches, and AAA's Hijo del Vikingo challenged the company's X-Division Champion, Rich Swann. The latter was a great way to open a show that was full of...well...Total Nonstop Action. Well...almost.
Seriously, though, overall this week's show was great. Even if I had a few things to nitpick about, we continued to see why Impact has become can't miss television.
#1 Best: The opening match between Swann and Vikingo
Since the company's inception, Impact has always claimed to have the greatest and most diverse cruiserweight division in all of professional wrestling. Tonight's match helped prove that, as Impact opened this week's show with the X-Division Champion Rich Swann against Hijo del Vikingo, one of AAA's best and brightest stars.
Vikingo managed to hold the upper hand over Swann tonight. Considering the situation Swann is in, having to choose between two friends, Willie Mack and Sami Callihan, the champ seemed a little distracted, and Vikingo took advantage.
We saw some incredible aerial manoeuvres from Vikingo throughout the match and definitely had the crowd behind him. Swann, interestingly enough, opted to change his game up a bit, deciding to slow down the pace of the match and keep his opponent off his feet with various impressive submission manoeuvres.
It was a story of the distracted veteran taking on a young upstart looking to make his name with a huge victory, and it was a great way to open the show.
Swann eventually put Vikingo away with the 450 Splash from the second rope, and I really hope we get to see Hijo del Vikingo again.