Chapter 1: What are the highlights from TNA iMPACT! this week?
What is up, everybody? You're listening to Busted Open After Dark. It's your girl, Denise Salcedo, and we got to talk some TNA Impact Wrestling.
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All right, well, let's get to it. You know, I was kind of debating how I wanted to go about today's show and where I want to start. And I think I should begin with the return of Willow, which is, again, the alter ego of Jeff Hart. And this is like deep lore, man. But this came after the match that we saw with Matt Hardy and Vincent.
And it's funny because I was... After Matt Hardy defeated Vincent, and even before the match even started, I was thinking to myself... I was thinking to myself, man, like prior to this, I started thinking... Wow, they have kept this storyline going for such a long time.
This feud, I don't even remember at this point how long it's been, but I feel like they have done everything possible between the Righteous and the Hardys. And it's funny because... Just when I was thinking about what more they can do, all of a sudden they added a whole other layer to this. And like, yeah, this is going to keep going forever, guys.
Like I'm convinced that the Righteous and the Hardys are going to be feuding all the way until the end of the year of 2030. All right, Andre, I know you're a big fan of what you saw today with the return of Willow. What was your reaction to that?
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Chapter 2: How does the return of Willow impact the storyline?
So it's deep lore, like you said, the TNA world title was redesigned into Jeff Hardy's alter ego Willow's face, that mask you saw? That was the faceplate of the TNA world title at one point, when Jeff Hardy was holding it. That's how far back it goes. then you've got Brother Nero now with, like, the whole broken characters together.
Now, I believe they had a little bit of kind of like a Willow kind of look when they were doing the final deletion between Matt and Jeff close to a decade ago, but we never really got to see it in full as the Hardys together, especially in this era of TNA. And now that they're on AMC, it's the first time that a lot of new viewers will get to see Broken Matt Hardy and or Willow himself.
OK, so as a fan, what do you want to see them do? What do you think are the logical next steps or things that they should do within this feud?
Oh, we're getting very cinematic now.
This is the entrance to... we are not seeing them in the ring, we'll be seeing them more doing deletion stuff, we've already seen them have a lot of vignettes outside the Hardy compound, now we'll get to see them battle inside the compound, we'll get to see some returning faces like Vanguard One, the, what was it, the dilapidated boat, and all these other characters from the Lake of Reincarnation come to life once again,
And it's going to be pretty much an AMC drama type episode when the two collide with the righteous and the hearties and whatever type of deletion they call it.
Yeah, no, I think that that when I go back and I watch all of those stuff, that's always the most exciting is to see who pops up, what wild ideas they have, who's going to come out of this lake of reincarnation. What crazy thing are they going to have? Are they going to have a kangaroo this time? Are they not going to have a kangaroo this time? It gets very, very creative.
And I think that given that this storyline has sort of felt like a slow burn.
i we need to like that's it like we need to put gas we need to press on the gas we need to hit it hard and we need to go right into all of this like i want to get into all the cinematic stuff already because i feel like within what we've seen within the scope of impact i feel like we've kind of seen just about it all and i kind of want to add a new uh
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Chapter 3: What are the future directions for the Righteous and the Hardys feud?
Oh, I was so locked into this. I thought this was awesome. And I hope that they keep using him here on the show. Like these are the kinds of people that I want to see on TNA that can really use this platform to to grow, to grow a lot more.
and the nice thing about star boy charlie here chas hall is he's in tna so he gets to build up as a new name apart from this huge wave of new talent that just flooded in to nxt because right now there's so many names you need to learn in nxt it's hard to catch up on but within the next two months You'll know every single one, what their mission is, and how they are going to progress forward.
Now with him, he's separate. He's in TNA. He's able to organically grow there along with like Mara Sade, Jada Stone, and a bunch of the other new talents that they're growing on in TNA like BDE. And now is the time that he gets to really shine. And a lot of that roster he's worked with already. So there's in-ring chemistry as is.
See, that's good. Now, you mentioned in-ring chemistry, and two of those people that had it, and I believe this was your match of the night, Andre, was Jada Stone versus Zaya Brookside. So there was a couple things that I liked in here. First of all, I enjoyed their chemistry, like you said earlier.
The chemistry was really good, but more so, I love that the last couple of months now, or however long Jada Stone's been with TNA, They did a really good job of making sure that she was on the show in a consistent basis. She got herself a couple wins here and there, all of that.
But I love that Zia Brookside beat her because right now we're obviously seeing Zia grow and become a heel and she betrayed Zia Lee and all of these things, right?
So for me, it felt good that she beat somebody that we actually see on the show that has actually gotten a little something on this show where she just didn't go out there and just beat a nobody that we never heard of or anything like that. No, I like that she beat somebody that mattered within the scope of TNA. And since this was your match of the night, why was it your match of the night?
Just simply, simply Xia Brookside's facial reactions through all this, because this is the first time we're really assessing Xia Brookside as a heel character because there's no sympathy to look at here. Lei Yingli is out of the picture, so we're totally just zoning in on Xia Brookside's character.
Now, her outfit as a heel, I get it, she went all black with it, I would have gone more, like, like, you know, call Orange Cassidy's friends, who does the denim, make a black one there, wear a crop top that just has, like, some motto on there that's just very, like, anti, just... you know, throw throw her off on a loop, maybe throw like one black streak on the blonde just to give that edge.
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Chapter 4: What did Denise think of the Mustafa Ali vs. Star Boy Charlie match?
Crazy. I'm going to start. I got to come up with a game.
Dan Housen in the Super Bowl ad.
You and I, we got to come up with a gimmick and we got to become millionaires. That's it. It's got to happen. We got to make it happen.
Make a new face paint design. That's where it starts.
I know. I'm going to get started right now. I'm going to go draw on my face and see what I come up with. But anyways, congratulations to Dan Housen on signing with Adventure Media. That is absolutely huge.
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