Hits & Misses

Opening Segment – HIT: Raw got off to a good start with Damian Priest and Finn Balor coming out to talk about The Judgment Day running Raw. The interruption from Cody Rhodes was predictable but […]

ROXANNE PEREZ vs. KIANA JAMES – DEVILS PLAYGROUND MATCH After a rock concert by “New Year’s Day”, playing their theme for NXT, “Vampyre”, we were brought into the devils playground to put an end to […]

IMPACT WRESTLING HITS AND MISSES OCTOBER 19, 2023 MEMPHIS, TENN. AT GRACELAND LIVE AIRED ON AXS TV BY JOHN LASLO, PWTORCH CONTRIBUTOR (1) “SPEEDBALL” MIKE BAILEY vs. SAMURAY DEL SOL – HIT This was a […]

Welcome back to another edition of my critically-complained AEW Collision Hits & Misses column, which is the only Hits & Misses column that is complained about by people who think mustard wrestling is a good […]

HITS Opening Segment: Minor Hit I give this a lesser Hit, based on the power of both Pau Heyman and L.A. Knight to control the crowd. To the naysayers, yes Knight flubbed a couple of […]

Ricky Starks & Big Bill vs ??? The reason there are question marks there is because it’s unclear who the new tag team champions are feuding with. They were part of a messy opening segment […]

HITS Tag Team Battle Royal: Hit The beginning was the typical ‘quick elimination’ of teams, but when it came down to the last few teams, it became more enjoyable. Los Lotharios (are they still called […]

I wasn’t sure how to approach this week’s episode of Dynamite after being so disappointed with the decision-making last week in regards to the Juice Robinson “quarters” angle. While I did not get the company […]

IMPACT WRESTLING HITS AND MISSES OCTOBER 12, 2023 MEMPHIS, TN AT GRACELAND LIVE AIRED ON AXS TV BY JOHN LASLO, PWTORCH CONTRIBUTOR (1) THE RASCALZ (Trey Miguel & Zachary Wentz)(c) vs. RICH SWANN & SAMI […]

HITS Opening Segment: Most of this segment was a Hit (the Miss coming later). I actually liked the John Cena acknowledgement of Roman’s rein and the line about earning a shot. I’m a huge fan […]

HITS Cody Rhodes Announcements: Minor Hit You knew that a Men’s Breakout Tournament would be coming, but I give the majority of the Hit to the return of The Dusty Classic, especially with it coming […]

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IMPACT HITS AND MISSES OCTOBER 5, 2023 MEMPHIS, TENN. AT GRACELAND LIVE AIRED ON AXS TV REPORT BY JOHN LASLO, PWTORCH CONTRIBUTOR (1) TASHA STEELZ vs. KILLER KELLY (w/Masha Slamovich) – HIT It was good […]

AEW COLLISION – HITS & MISSES OCTOBER 7, 2023 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH AIRED LIVE ON TNT BY DAVID BRYANT, PWTORCH CONTRIBUTOR Commentators: Nigel McGuiness, Ian Riccaboni, Jim Ross – Hey! Welcome to another edition […]

You hear it all the time. It’s all about the follow-up. Well, I thoroughly enjoyed WrestleDream on Sunday. The matches were memorable and the debut of Adam Copeland was one of those moments that had […]

Opening Segment – HIT: Raw got off to a hot start with the brawl between Shayna Baszler and Nia Jax which started before they could have their match. Raquel Rodriguez and Rhea Ripley also came […]

AEW COLLISION – HITS & MISSES SEPTEMBER 30, 2023 SEATTLE, WASH. AIRED LIVE ON TNT BY DAVID BRYANT, PWTORCH CONTRIBUTOR Commentators: Nigel McGuiness, Kevin Kelly – Hey! Welcome to another AEW Collision Hits & Misses […]

(1) CHRIS SABIN (c) vs. ALAN ANGELS — Impact Wrestling X Division Title match – HIT I was a bit surprised that this was starting off the night. It’s the only title defense of the […]

HITS Eddie Kingston vs. Katsuyori Shibata (ROH Title & NJPW Strong Openweight Title): I didn’t go into this thinking that Shibata had much of a chance of winning but the match was still very enjoyable […]

It’s hard to believe we are having our third “go-home” show in the past five weeks. This late summer/early fall schedule has been something I hope never happens again in this company. The burnout is […]

Opening Segment – HIT: Raw got off to a good start with Cody Rhodes coming out to talk about the Jey Uso situation. I’m still not sure he has actually explained why he brokered this […]