{"id":55791,"date":"2018-02-23T14:25:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T20:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=55791"},"modified":"2018-02-23T14:27:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T20:27:31","slug":"impact-hits-misses-2-22-johnny-impact-vs-ec3-johnnys-obliviousness-babyface-act-trash-can-attack-grandma-jenny-trevor-lee-dork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/02\/23\/impact-hits-misses-2-22-johnny-impact-vs-ec3-johnnys-obliviousness-babyface-act-trash-can-attack-grandma-jenny-trevor-lee-dork\/","title":{"rendered":"IMPACT HITS &#038; MISSES 2\/22: Johnny Impact vs. EC3, Johnny&#8217;s obliviousness as a babyface act, Trash Can Attack, Grandma Jenny, Trevor Lee the Dork"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-460908636\" 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 id=\"gmail-docs-internal-guid-8b687ef5-c392-9adc-4202-66d74f57e96c\" dir=\"ltr\">HITS<\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The Main Event:<\/strong> An entertaining match. That\u2019s about all I have to say about it, I guess. Johnny Impact and EC III worked hard and delivered a couple of nice nearfalls. The problem is Carter is leaving the promotion, Impact stinks as a babyface (more below!), and Tyrus leaving his friend didn\u2019t mean anything since they just reunited last week. I would also much, MUCH rather have seen Impact (the promotion, not the stupid last name of a wrestler) have EC III put over someone else on the way out. Roll the dice and have Fallah Bahh or Desmond Xavier go over on him clean. Impact (the wrestler, not the poorly run promotion) didn\u2019t need the win to enhance his credibility. He also looked dumb for putting his No. 1 contendership on the line in the first place.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Cage\u2019s Squash:<\/strong> Another fun star vs. complete jobber match. Last week\u2019s was a little more smoothly, but I like the approach they\u2019re taking with Brian Cage. Honestly, give us MONTHS of these squashes before having him even move onto the regular midcard roster. It worked wonders for Braun Strowman, Nia Jax, and even that Ryback dude.<\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\">MISSES<\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Impact\u2019s Luggage:<\/strong> Johnny Impact is such a tool. He\u2019s completely oblivious to how dorky and conceited he comes across on TV. One of the first segments of the show had him arriving to the arena, being driven in by an employee on a golf car, and dragging his wheeled luggage alongside him. It. Looked. Stupid. He then hopped out of it like he was in an action film. This persona works fantastic as a heel in Lucha Underground. This does not work as a lead babyface on Impact. How can Don Callis and Scott D\u2019Amore look at that footage after it&#8217;s shot and go \u201cyeah! This guy is awesome!\u201d?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Tag Match:<\/strong> Trevor Lee shouldn\u2019t be pushed as a huge dork. Let\u2019s start out with that. Second, non-title matches are stupid. You\u2019re only giving us a match, so you can then give us the exact same match again. There\u2019s literally three teams in the entire company, meaning they can just book a title match because of that reason alone. Also, a miss goes to the announce team who tried to play up Lee as a modern day David Koresh. Not that I found the comparison offensive, but Lee\u2019s entire cult consists of ONE GUY.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Trash Can Attack!:<\/strong> Alberto Del Rio attacked Moose with a garbage can off the top rope. A plastic one. Moose sold it like he\u2019d been hit with a hammer. If I was Moose, I\u2019d be pissed off at Patron afterwards for making me sell that garbage. My Impact Livecast co-host Mike McMahon could hit me full blast with a plastic garbage can and I\u2019d be mildly annoyed, not knocked out cold.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Non-Impact Zone Matches:<\/strong> Much like SmackDown\u2019s sudden fetish of putting words on the screen when people talk, I hate these. The announcers have to pretend they don\u2019t know the finish to the match, when minutes at a time are edited out, revealing they\u2019re very much not \u201clive\u201d in any sense. You can never get into the flow of the fights, because they can fast-forward at any moment. They also look awful. I would love to chat with Callis and D\u2019Amore and ask them why they think putting terrible looking half matches on TV is a productive use of anyone\u2019s time.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Grandma Jenny:<\/strong> Did Impact go to the same talent agency where they hired Claire Lynch? Just kidding, Lynch played Olive Oil at Universal Studios. Grandma Jenny perhaps is Olive Oil\u2019s mom from the theme park? She didn\u2019t look like anyone\u2019s grandma. She couldn\u2019t act. And no babyface on the roster cared that TWO MEN WERE ABOUT TO BEAT UP AN INNOCENT OLDER WOMAN?!?!? Dumb. Not funny. Also, Jimmy Jacobs just isn\u2019t clicking yet in Impact. And all of this for the return of Abyss, a character they haven\u2019t treated as a serious threat in about eight years?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>OVE vs. Moose &amp; Edwards:<\/strong> The former tag team champs (and one of three actual tag teams in the company, as mentioned) lost cleanly to a makeshift tag team cleanly. So let\u2019s run through this angle. Chapter 1: OVE kidnaps Bobby Lashley for no reason. We have no idea what happened to him. Chapter 2: Lashley defeats the group\u2019s leader cleanly and Eddie Edwards saves him for no reason. Chapter 3: Lashley and Edwards win their tag match and the heels don\u2019t get their heat back. Sounds like the end of a really bad story.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-2826879575\" 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<h3>FINAL THOUGHTS<\/h3>\n<p>Welp, after last week\u2019s solid effort I\u2019m worried. I rated this a 5\/10 on the Livecast, but in retrospect I\u2019m going 4\/10. I just can\u2019t get into a show with terrible looking half-matches, bad comedy, potential stars treated as jokes and jobbers, and a mediocre commentary team.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>NOW CHECK OUT THE FULL TV REPORT:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/02\/11\/impact-hits-misses-2-1-sonjay-dutt-commentary-allies-admirer-x-division-disappointment-continues-raji-repackaging-press-conference\/\">MCMAHON\u2019S IMPACT WRESTLING REPORT (2\/22): ECIII vs. Impact for the No. 1 contendership, OVE vs. Edwards\/Lashley, El Patron vs. Moose<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3950714456\"><div id=\"pwtor-4220806460\"><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 The Main Event: An entertaining match. That\u2019s about all I have to say about it, I guess. Johnny Impact and EC III worked hard and delivered a couple of nice nearfalls. The problem is <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/02\/23\/impact-hits-misses-2-22-johnny-impact-vs-ec3-johnnys-obliviousness-babyface-act-trash-can-attack-grandma-jenny-trevor-lee-dork\/\" title=\"IMPACT HITS &#038; MISSES 2\/22: Johnny Impact vs. EC3, Johnny&#8217;s obliviousness as a babyface act, Trash Can Attack, Grandma Jenny, Trevor Lee the Dork\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5547,"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":[52,28,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opnionandanalysis","category-specialists_hitsandmisses","category-specialists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/MorrisonJohnGG_3x2_600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55791","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=55791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55794,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55791\/revisions\/55794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}