{"id":64001,"date":"2018-08-02T17:09:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T22:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=64001"},"modified":"2018-08-02T17:09:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T22:09:54","slug":"interview-highlights-jim-ross-talks-about-impact-wrestlings-slammiversary-the-announcing-of-josh-callis-knockouts-division-sami-vs-gallihan-aries-vs-moose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/08\/02\/interview-highlights-jim-ross-talks-about-impact-wrestlings-slammiversary-the-announcing-of-josh-callis-knockouts-division-sami-vs-gallihan-aries-vs-moose\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Highlights: Jim Ross talks about Impact Wrestling&#8217;s Slammiversary, the announcing of Josh &#038; Callis, Knockouts Division, Sami vs. Gallihan, Aries vs. Moose"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-177073424\" 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><div>\n<p>The following are highlights of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/show\/wkpwp\">Jim Ross Report podcast<\/a> during which he spoke about Impact Wrestling&#8217;s Slammiversary PPV event. Thanks to Himanshu for sending the following highlights.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>\u2022On giving the event a thumb ups:<\/strong> &#8220;So I&#8217;m watching the FITE app, I&#8217;m watching Slammiversary, Impact Wrestling&#8217;s effort from Toronto, their pay-per-view on Sunday was excellent. I really enjoyed the show. And look, it&#8217;s gonna have a different texture, it&#8217;s gonna have a different tone, a little different taste than a WWE pay-per-view or a Ring Of Honor pay-per-view. Everything&#8217;s gonna be a little different to their own taste, their own budgets, and what they can do or can&#8217;t do. I really enjoyed the show. My hats off to all the team there at Impact Wrestling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022On the Austin Aries vs. Moose main event:<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;I was really impressed with the efforts of Austin Aries. Not that he&#8217;s a secret, he&#8217;s been doing great things for a decade, but I had never watched a match at that level with an opponent like big Moose. That&#8217;s a tough challenge for a smaller guy, the smaller heel. When the fan favourite is the biggest dog in the fight, sometimes it poses a unique set of problems. Aries came through with flying colours, enhanced the image of big Moose, great main event.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022On Sami Callihan vs Pentagon Jr.:<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;I was not familiar with Pentagon Jr. I had seen highlights of stuff he&#8217;s done. Same for Sami Callihan. And man, they tore it down. And that was a real hardcore match. It probably wasn&#8217;t for the women and children as we tease about but damn, it was good. It was really good. Graphic, believable, emotional, compelling, good stuff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022On the Impact Wrestling announce team:<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;I thought that Josh Matthews and Don Callis had a lot of energy. They&#8217;re really trying hard to bring that energy, their passion and how dedicated they are to their brand, to the audience. I hope people recognize that. I hope people recognize the fact that you saw a card full of talents that gave everything they had on that night to make the show successful. Including the broadcasters, so good job fellas, good job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022On what Impact Wrestling needs to do to grow the company:<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;I think the key for this company is to keep building their core, make sure that they nurture and evolve their small nucleus of top guys. You can&#8217;t have 20 top guys. You don&#8217;t need 20 top guys in IMPACT Wrestling, it&#8217;s not gonna happen. Get four, six, maybe eight if you&#8217;re lucky, top guys and you keep that nucleus together, it provides opportunities that are endless. You&#8217;re only limited by your own creativity. And remember, Bill Watts told me one time, &#8216;There are no bad ideas. Just some ideas, mainly mine, are better.&#8217; That&#8217;s Cowboy for you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022On the Impact Wrestling Knockouts:\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;Kinda impressed with the in-ring persona of Su Yung. Got my attention! Pretty unique I thought. Pretty moving stuff. And I think Tessa Blanchard&#8217;s got a great future. She&#8217;s 23 years old. She&#8217;s still finding herself, she&#8217;s still developing her game, that&#8217;s good. So they&#8217;ve got a good young core, by and large, and they just gotta keep those guys and gals together, have a few additions, and maybe you get lucky with some of your young people and they move their game up a notch or two and go to the next level. 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