Title This: Impact Wresting Reaction 5-31

June 1, 2012

AJ Styles def. Daniels

What I Liked:

These guys are excellent together. Add the history, the skilled in ring wrestling, and the great character development and you get a classic bout between two stars. The aggression was there, which included Daniels tackling Styles into the guard rail. The inverted DDT looks painful every time, and the victory to Styles was the right booking call for this match. He is the one guy TNA has been leaning on, and he is finally getting an intriguing angle with many layers. After the match, I felt the attacks from Kaz and Angle sets up this tag team match perfectly. You need to invest your time and interest into Kurt, AJ, Kaz, and Daniels. This is a different way to book a tag team match, with more personal conflict. After the match, Daniels and Kaz began an audio recording they found with Dixie and AJ. Dixie runs out and tells them to stop the recording. Excellent work from someone who is not an enterainment minded female. She has a lot of flaws, but this is episodic television. Keep the angle going each week until the big payoff, if there is one. Developing storylines, great wrestling, and something that is different for this company. I cannot dislike much of this, or I will be a hippocrite.

Grade: A

Impact Grade: B-

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Aside from working with WrestleZone, Isenberg began his career in Broadcast Journalism interning at ESPN and worked with CBS Radio for three years. He has also had the opportunity to interview some of the best athletes and performers alive, including Andrew McCutchen, Ben Roethlisberger, Chris Jericho, Billy Gunn, Karl Anderson, Matt Hardy, Steven Strasburg and others.

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His life outside of his obsession with wrestling include being a savant for Seinfeld, NFL, NBA, MLB and many television shows. He also has an undying love for musicals, which includes many shows he was a part of in high school. Some of his favorite wrestling moments can be linked to such superstars as Edge, The Rock, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels and The Great Khali.