{"id":47689,"date":"2017-09-10T11:38:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T16:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=47689"},"modified":"2017-09-10T11:38:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T16:38:36","slug":"gfw-impact-hits-misses-97-rosemarys-beatdown-drake-vs-sydal-lashley-triplemania-crazy-laurel-low-kis-promo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/09\/10\/gfw-impact-hits-misses-97-rosemarys-beatdown-drake-vs-sydal-lashley-triplemania-crazy-laurel-low-kis-promo\/","title":{"rendered":"GFW IMPACT HITS &#038; MISSES 9\/7: Rosemary&#8217;s beatdown, Drake vs. Sydal, Lashley at TripleMania, Crazy Laurel, Low Ki&#8217;s promo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3188782433\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><h3>HITS<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Low Ki\u2019s Promo:<\/strong> Low Ki getting in Johnny Impact\u2019s face and tearing him down was easily one of the highlights of the show. If he is able to bust something like that out whenever he&#8217;s given the mic, he could be (or could have been) a big player in the company. I\u2019m already nervous about Impact\u2019s potential as a top face (he just comes across as a natural heel), but it may be worth a shot to see if he\u2019s capable of carrying the load for a bit. Having these two go face-to-face felt edgier than just about anything offered up in WWE. However, even though Ki was fired up and entertaining, it also felt sadly pointless because he\u2019s already out of the company. Keep in mind, though, that he&#8217;s been in-and-out of the promotion so many times it&#8217;s impossible to rule out that he won&#8217;t be back before too long.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crazy Laurel:<\/strong> I\u2019ve been more of a fan of the Grado\/Joseph Park skits than most, but even I admit they had a very short shelf-life. A Van Ness\/Grado pairing wouldn\u2019t have worked in the long-term, so it was fun to see them already revert back to her old act. Sure, it may be too soon for some, but if they develop a running gag of her getting turned down with weddings, it could be a fun angle to come back to now and again. Hopefully, though, they actually let Laurel win a match or two this time around.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lashley at TripleMania:<\/strong> I feel this is one of the best videos Impact has ever produced. It had a very sports-like feel, it made GFW seem like a bigger deal, and everyone in the piece came off as believable and passionate about what they do. It\u2019s just a shame they didn\u2019t stop there&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>MISSES<\/h3>\n<p><strong>So. Many. Videos.:<\/strong> We had four matches on Impact, but three of them went down in the first hour. After a four minute Knockout\u2019s match, they went to an Eli Drake Vignette, then a Jim Cornette promo that featured LAX and Johnny Impact, then Grado and Laurel, then three TripleMania videos, then a Dezmond Xavier one, and Richard Justice was even given a promo somewhere in there. It was one of the strangest paced episodes of Impact I\u2019d ever seen and may have contributed to the show\u2019s dismal ratings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rosemary\u2019s Beatdown:<\/strong> For starters, it\u2019s cool to see Taya join Global Force, however, Rosemary was made to look completely ineffective once again. Ever since Slammiversary, she\u2019s lost all her momentum. Heels keep getting one-up on her and she hasn\u2019t picked up any big wins in ages. You can hear the crowd cheering for her, but the way she\u2019s been positioned that\u2019s doubtful to last long. Also, they kept hyping the Triple A footage, yet failed to capitalize on it by airing some sort of post-production interview with her. The only thing we saw of her on the show &#8220;live&#8221; was her getting beat up. So really, she didn\u2019t gain anything from all the online buzz.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Drake vs. Sydal:<\/strong> In no way should management think of giving up on Eli Drake right now, but his run as GFW Champion has left a lot to be desired. He was in a far too long 25 minute match last week, and this week he went 20 minutes&#8230;only for the match to end with a belt shot. Without the title at play, this could have easily been the second match on the show a month ago and it would have felt about the same.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Real Life Overshadows Again:<\/strong> For myself, it was impossible to get invested in this episode whatsoever. With news of Jeff Jarrett leaving the company, Impact once again had an aura of \u201cnothing matters.\u201d Even if GFW isn\u2019t sold, there\u2019s bound to be big creative changes in play once again. So if you enjoyed anything going on (Bobby Lashley\u2019s MMA stable, LAX, Eli Drake as champ), it may be gone soon. It was like Alberto El Patron\u2019s suspension overshadowing all of his segments on TV, only much worse. The company needs some good news quick (and no, the app doesn\u2019t cut it), as John Gaburick leading a creative team once again is one of the last things I want to see on a wrestling show in 2017.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>NOW CHECK OUT LAST WEEK&#8217;S COLUMN:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/09\/03\/gfw-impact-hits-misses-831-petey-williams-returns-american-top-team-johnny-nitro-james-storm-cornette-park\/\">GFW IMPACT HITS &amp; MISSES 8\/31: Petey Williams returns, American Top Team, Johnny Nitro, James Storm, Cornette, Park<\/a><\/p><div id=\"pwtor-2359389512\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-798883366\"><div id=\"pwtor-3542137407\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>HITS Low Ki\u2019s Promo: Low Ki getting in Johnny Impact\u2019s face and tearing him down was easily one of the highlights of the show. If he is able to bust something like that out whenever <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/09\/10\/gfw-impact-hits-misses-97-rosemarys-beatdown-drake-vs-sydal-lashley-triplemania-crazy-laurel-low-kis-promo\/\" title=\"GFW IMPACT HITS &#038; MISSES 9\/7: Rosemary&#8217;s beatdown, Drake vs. Sydal, Lashley at TripleMania, Crazy Laurel, Low Ki&#8217;s promo\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,52,28,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spotlightarticles","category-opnionandanalysis","category-specialists_hitsandmisses","category-specialists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2017\/07\/SydalMatt_WK3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47690,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47689\/revisions\/47690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}