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BVV: TNA Impact recap with the build for Sacrifice

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With their next app special just around the corner, TNA Wrestling has some work to do putting a card together for this Friday’s Sacrifice.

I talk about that and more on this week’s Big Vinny V Show.

This past week’s TNA Impact had Mike Santana and Steve Maclin sitting down for a chat, a banged-up Moose continuing to work his way through The System, a meaningless tag match thrown together featuring four random dudes, and the usual idiotic booking from Santino Marella.

Elsewhere, there was the in-ring debut of Mr. Elegance; Mike Jackson still being great in 2026; Elayna Black wrestling both Jada Stone and her own gear; and Ryan Nemeth winning a match with his finish.

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BVV: A much improved episode of TNA Impact

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The TNA Impact reviews on the Big Vinny V Show are back for another week and it’s a good thing, too, because this was the best episode in the AMC era.

The main event saw Moose and Cedric Alexander tear things up in an Atlanta street fight, but the show was stolen by a trios match pitting Order 4 against Trey Miguel, Rich Swann & BDE. We also had two other fun matches with The Hardys vs. Sinner & Saint, and AJ Francis vs. Elijah.

Mind you, there was plenty of stupid stuff too: the Steve Maclin storyline got even dumber, Santino is a horrible GM, and there was a completely incomprehensible Rosemary segment.

We’ll take in the good, the bad, and the ugly on the new Big Vinny V Show!

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BVV: TNA Impact review with build to No Surrender

Posted on by Vincent Verhei

Heading into the first app special in the AMC era, TNA presented an episode of Impact last Thursday with some good wrestling, some baffling booking, and some insufferable backstage segments.

The good wrestling included Trey Miguel vs. Adam Brooks, Mustafa Ali and Jada Stone shining in a mixed tag team match, and a Knockouts trios match that featured how to work smarter, not harder.

The baffling booking included builds for a bunch of matches and programs that are apparently not going to be a part of No Surrender.

And the backstage segments included several minutes of TV time devoted to a guy who was fired last week and what looked like a deliberate attempt to make the babyface authority figure as unlikeable as possible.

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BVV: TNA Impact review with Indi Hartwell vs. Dani Luna dog collar match

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The main event of TNA Impact this past week saw Indi Hartwell face off against Dani Luna in a dog collar match. Was it violent? Yes. Was it dangerous? At times. Was it bloody? Absolutely, especially (well, entirely) on the part of Luna.

On this week’s Big Vinny V Show, let’s look at the match and what is likely to come next for the participants.

Elsewhere, Mike Santana announced when he will get his TNA World Championship rematch against Frankie Kazarian and why that date is so surprising; Lexis King battling Matt Cardona for the advantage in next week’s NXT vs. TNA WarGames-style steel cage match; Myla Grace & Harley Hudson taking on The Elegance Brand; a six-way match to determine the next challenger for Leon Slater’s X-Division Championship; and Sinner & Saint finally get a chance to just do a tag team wrestling match against The System.

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BVV free episode: The shocking fall of Mike Santana

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After a month off, TNA Wrestling returned to action last Thursday and immediately kneecapped their biggest hero.

Following an unadvertised match and after a gang of NXT benchwarmers invaded the show, Mike Santana shockingly dropped the TNA World Championship on their first live show after he won the title just a month prior.

Between a new episode of Impact and the Turning Point streaming special the next night, TNA’s world changed. What led to the angle? What might have inspired it? Did it work and where do they go from here?

It’s not all doom and gloom, though, as a recent WWE release reunited with some old friends and helped put on one of TNA’s best matches all year.

There’s a lot to cover on this special free edition of the Big Vinny V Show!

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BVV: TNA Impact recap with Nemeths vs. Hardys tag title match

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Tuesday means a new Big Vinny V Show and another TNA Impact recap.

The main event last Thursday saw Nic & Ryan Nemeth getting their TNA Tag Team title rematch against the Hardy Boys with Matt Cardona making a cameo appearance.

Elsewhere, Brian Myers battled Mustafa Ali as things heated up between The System and Order 4; Judas Icarus stealing the show in a very fun match against Eric Young; Victoria Crawford continuing to be crazy; the IInspiration teaming with Masha Slamovich against the By Elegance brand; Frankie Kazarian hosting the King’s Speech with the return of Mr. Anderson; Dani Luna squaring off against Indi Hartwell; Lei Ying Lee and Xia Brookside formally annoucing their tag team name; and Mike Santana destroying a jobber but then gets destroyed by an invader from NXT.

All this and more on the new Big Vinny V Show with me, Vince Verhei

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BVV: TNA Impact featured the best piledriver in years

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It’s time for a new Big Vinny V with a look back at last week’s TNA Impact.

The highlight wasn’t a match or a return or a promo. Rather, it was Eric Young piledriving Travis Williams during an angle that spelled the apparent end of the Northern Armory — one of the best executions of that move you’ll ever see.

The other one hour and 59 minutes were split between several masters, trying to build interest for the next episode, Victory Road in three weeks, and Bound For Glory in October.

To that end, we got Moose vs. AJ Francis; Joe Hendry not doing an advertised match with Eric Young; a Victoria Crawford segment that was even nuttier than you’d expect; an excellent four-way match featuring all three Rascalz and Jake Something; The Elegance Brand against the IInspiration in a pair of singles matches; and the Nemeth Brothers vs. The System.

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Big Vinny V: Recaps of TNA Impact, Forbidden Door & my EuroTrip

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It’s the return of the Big Vinny V Show and, boy howdy, is there a lot to talk about.

Vince Verhei starts, as always, with TNA Impact which wasn’t terribly newsworthy but featured a lot of fun matches including Mike Santana & Steve Maclin vs. Trick Williams & AJ Francis; Eric Young vs. Myron Reed; and the Hardy Boyz vs. Cedric Alexander & Leon Slater.

Then, it’s a better-late-than-never, in-person review of AEW’s Forbidden Door show from London. What was it like covering the show live from the stands, and why did I almost spend the night trapped in the bowels of the O2 Arena?

Finally, just because, we’ll review the best parts of my European vacation (my actual holiday, not the Chevy Chase classic).

All this and more on the latest Big Vinny V Show!

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Big Vinny V: TNA Impact review & NJPW G1 highlights

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The Big Vinny V Show returns with your host, Vince Verhei.

Last Thursday, TNA Impact continued its recent trend of focusing more on promotion and less on matches, although it did have an entertaining main event: Moose & Eddie Edwards against Trick Williams & AJ Francis with a new challenger emerging to face Williams for the TNA World title at Emergence.

Elsewhere, Leon Slater made the first defense of his X-Division title which should have been a much bigger deal than it turned out to be; Indi Hartwell & Dani Luna facing Jodi Threat & Arianna Grace in a match that made absolutely no sense going in and even less sense when it was over; The Nemeth Brothers facing the Rascalz in a disappointingly short match; and NXT Women’s Champion Jacy Jayne defending the TNA Knockouts title against former champion Masha Slamovich in another disappointingly short match.

Oh, and there were long promo segments featuring the Home Town Man, Mike Santana, and Sami Callihan.

Then, we head off to Osaka for two big recent matches in New Japan’s G1 Climax: Shingo Takagi vs. Shota Umino, and Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Konosuke Takeshita.

All this and more on a new Big Vinny V Show!

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BVV: Reviewing Shingo vs. Takeshita, TNA Impact

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Come join the fun on the latest Big Vinny V Show with Vince Verhei.

TNA Impact was the latest American TV wrestling show that had very little wrestling, so we also go back to Japan for the latest highlight from this summer’s NJPW G1 tournament.

But first, TNA must deal with the fallout from Slammiversary which means everyone is going to talk a lot—everyone, that is, except Joe Hendry and Mike Santana, the losers of the Slammiversary main event, who closed out Impact with a one-on-one match with no explanation of what the PPV loss means to them, or why they are fighting.

But, we did have Santino Marella and Masha Slamovich laying out a rematch against new Knockouts Champion Jacy Jayne; The System, suddenly babyfaces now, vowing to fight for TNA; Moose declaring his intentions to challenge Trick Williams for the TNA World title; Order 4 just hating everyone; Victoria Crawford starting some sort of issue with Dani Luna and Indi Hartwell; Leon Slater, the Hardys, and Steve Maclin talking about how great they are for a while; and Jayne talking about how great she is.

Oh, there were, like, three other matches, including the Major Edge Guys reuniting.

Then, it’s off to Tokyo where Shingo Takagi battled Konosuke Takeshita in a match that had more wrestling by itself than a full hour of Impact (or SmackDown, for that matter).

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BVV: Twice the Impact on the road to TNA Slammiversary

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It’s two, two, two reviews for the price of one on the Big Vinny V Show with Vince Verhei.

I cover two weeks of TNA Impact TV covering the build to Slammiversary, one of the company’s biggest shows of the year.

I start with the June 19th show which had a lot of bad wrestling capped off by a good main event — a Champions Challenge 10-man tag — with a mind-boggling finish.

Then, I jump into the June 26th episode where several Slammiversary matches were announced, a great build for Leon Slater and Mike Santana, and a not-so-great build for Joe Hendry and Ash by Elegance.

The common theme between both episodes: Trick Williams is the absolute man.

I’ll discuss that and more on an all-new Big Vinny V Show!

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BVV: A stupid & dumb TNA Impact with a great main event

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As a TV show, last Thursday’s TNA Impact was both stupid and dumb, but at least the main event was great. Vince Verhei talks about it all on this week’s Big Vinny V Show.

It turns out Nic Nemeth and Jeff Hardy still know what they’re doing out there, and they had a tremendous match to save the show.

But the show needed saving, because nothing here makes any sense any more. Santino Marella vs. Robert Stone sounds like an awful feud on paper and it’s significantly worse in real life; NXT’s Nikkita Lyons guest starred to do some embarrassing self-parody; and Cody Deaner got neverending promo segments to establish that he’s a bottom-of-the-roster guy at best.

Also, The Great Hands won a match they should have lost after losing a match they should have won; Xia Brookside is apparently turning heel, and Indi Hartwell is there too.

I will try to figure it out on the latest Big Vinny V Show.

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Big Vinny V: A bloody spectacle Sabu would have been proud of

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It’s Tuesday and it’s time for a new Big Vinny V Show recapping last Thursday’s TNA Impact, hosted by, yes, Vince Verhei.

The main event of last Thursday’s TNA Impact felt like a tribute to a fallen legend.

Yes, it aired a few days before Sabu passed away, but the Steve Maclin vs. Eric Young dog collar match was the bloody kind of spectacle he might have been proud of.

Elsewhere, Trick Williams continued to taunt Joe Hendry; tension continued to build between Rosemary and Xia Brookside; Fir$t Cla$$ tried to recruit Sami Callihan with predictable results; Maggie Lee got a makeover; The Great Hands once again look, well, great; Mustafa Ali and Trey Miguel stole the show; Indi Hartwell shines (really!) in a video package; Jeff Hardy’s past legal troubles rear their ugly head; and Victoria Crawford made her TNA debut, leading to the worst of all pro wrestling storylines: dueling authority figures.

Oh, and there’s a shoot goblin too. All this and more on the Big Vinny V Show!

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Big Vinny V Show: TNA finally reveals card for Unbreakable

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With just a week to spare, TNA Wrestling finally revealed the card for Unbreakable, their WrestleMania week streaming special from Las Vegas, on last Thursday’s episode of Impact.

The big news is that despite recent injury angles, both TNA World Champion Joe Hendry and TNA Tag Team Champions The Hardys will be in action. But with Unbreakable and Rebellion airing only ten days apart, Impact was focused less on great wrestling last Thursday and more on promoting those two shows. How did they do? I will break it down on the latest Big Vinny V Show!

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Big Vinny V: TNA Impact review with Joe Hendry injury & Ethan Page’s return

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TNA has brought back an old face to main event their next pay-per-view as former TNA Tag Team Champion and current WWE NXT star Ethan Page has returned to challenge TNA World Champion Joe Hendry at Rebellion.

I get into that on this week’s Big Vinny V Show.

At least, he will be if Hendry is able to compete as TNA announced he had suffered a shoulder injury after a show-opening brawl involving Frankie Kazarian and Elijah, an injury that seems awfully convenient for storyline purposes.

Also announced for Rebellion: Moose defending the X-Division title against some surprising names, and the Nemeths challenging the Hardys for the Tag Team titles. Oh, and we finally have something on the table for Unbreakable too.

We’ll get into the details on this TNA Impact review on the new Big Vinny V Show.

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