Sami Callihan nearly ended the career of Eddie Edwards with a baseball bat to the face. Since then, the hated rivals have waged war on numerous occasions before going their separate ways, only to come back to each other.
Tuesday, they wrote the latest chapter of their story in a main event that started with Edwards attacking Callihan on the floor before the match could officially start. Callihan targeted the knee of his opponent, who withstood the onslaught and rocked Sami with a headbutt heading into the break.
Back from the break, the brawl continued, still not officially entering the ring.
Blood trickling from his eye, Callihan brutalized Edwards, focusing on the previously injured eye of his most hated foe. Edwards fought back, but an ill-fated knee strike left the former world champion writhing in pain as he crashed into a steel chair.
The bell finally rang as the competitors made their way into the ring. The warriors unloaded on each other, exchanging fists and ignoring the warnings of the referee. Assaulted by the combatants one too many times, the official threw out the match, calling for the bell.
Edwards and Callihan continued fighting, no ring able to contain the hatred they have for each other.
Outside the ring, Edwards grabbed the bat that once threatened his career and inched closer to Callihan with it. The heel begged off, suddenly apologetic. Callihan produced a cell phone, and a video aired of Alisha Edwards trapped inside a steel structure backstage.
Eddie took off in search of his wife, only to be attacked by Ken Shamrock, who joined Callihan in a brutal, violent assault.
Callihan wrapped Edwards in barbed wire and blasted him with the bat. The heels taunted Alisha to end the show, claiming Edwards was responsible for his beating.
Result
No-contest
Grade
B
Analysis
A feud stays relevant and fresh only if those in charge of telling the story can escalate it and give fans a reason to care.
We got that here as Shamrock returned to the fold, as did Alisha. By intertwining them with Edwards and Callihan's feud, the company can enhance the story and create new threads for fans to track. The introduction of barbed wire, the baseball bat and the steel cage Alisha was trapped inside present a number of different options Impact can utilize to tell the next chapter.
Either way, fans should expect a match between Edwards and Callihan that exceeds the physicality and violence we have been accustomed to at this point.
Presumably at Hard to Kill.
The intensity here was exactly what you would want out of a main event of this stature, even if the match itself was limited to very little in-ring time. It worked and put an exclamation point on the show.
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