We're gonna kick off this thread with something quite rare... ***IMPACT Slammiversary Spoilers... Skip ahead to other bolded section if you don't want Slammiversary spoiled for you***

At 11 PM God's Time (that's Central time) Friday night, midnight Eastern time... the Good Brothers of Doc (not Luke anymore) Gallows & "Machine Gun" Karl Anderson made official what we all already knew... they had indeed signed a contract with IMPACT Wrestling

That was just the start of a long day of anticipation after IMPACT had perfectly taken advantage of the "Black Wednesday" April 15 releases by WWE... as all of their non-compete clauses with WWE had expired... and used it to promote the company's top show of the year, Slammiversary. I imagine Slammiversary will pop one of its biggest PPV buy numbers ever thanks to this tactic.

What it did lose was perhaps the biggest name of the bunch when Miro... aka Rusev... popped positive with COVID-19. He was heavily rumored to be the 4th guy in the IMPACT World Championship match, which IMPACT had to go ahead and change... and what a nice little bait & switch they pulled

So here's all that did transpire at Slammiversary

IMPACT's tag team division got a huge jolt right out of the gate... not just because we knew the Good Bros. are now in the company... but 1 of its most popular tag teams returned as Chris Sabin & Alex Shelley reformed the Motor City Machine Guns in the show's opening segment. tMCMGs will get a tag title match this Tuesday night on TV

The woman who was going to be the face of AEW's women's division... but walked out of the company almost literally the night before it got started... Smiley Kylie Rae became the #1 contender to the IMPACT Knockouts Championship

Heath Slater... who just 2 weeks ago was Claymored to hell by Drew McIntyre and then beat up by Dolph Ziggler... then went into the ring and cut a promo... beat up a nobody... reunited with Rhino backstage... and was then kicked out of the building by Scott D'Amore but then Rhino promised that Heath would be on the weekly show Tuesday

2 other former WWE people already on the IMPACT roster... Sami Callahan... who was known as Solomon Crowe from his time in NXT circa 2015...

and Ken Shamrock... who was known as being the special guest referee of the greatest double turn in wrestling history at Wrestlemania XIII... he's still jacked and could still kill me if he wanted to

"The Virtuosa" Deonna Purrazzo... yes another April 15 WWE casualty but since she was only on a NXT contract her non-compete ended after just 30 days so she's already been on IMPACT TV... won the IMPACT Knockouts Championship to end the long reign of Jordynne Grace

Then the main event... the mystery 4th man proved to be... former WWE Cruiserweight Champion Rich Swann who has already been in IMPACT for a while and was returning from injury. But Swann was just a red herring as Eric Young (the leader of the wonderful SAnitY group in NXT that never caught on up on the main roster) made his return to IMPACT and made the main event a 5-man elimination match for the vacant IMPACT Championship... a match won by Eddie Edwards

After the match ended... Edwards was assaulted... but here to make the save is the Good Brothers, Gallows & Anderson to stand tall as we leave the arena

But that wasn't the last surprise of the night... as Ethan Carter, III... EC3... was shown in the back and is now being promoted for this Tuesday night's episode.***End of IMPACT Slammiversary Spoilers***

IMPACT did a great job using circumstances to get eyes on their product... and now after a show that's been labeled a true success... it has some momentum finally heading into their weekly show on AXS TV... yes it's a real channel, G

Now for tonight's WWE The Horror Show at Extreme Rules card from the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Fla. (and a random swamp somewhere nearby). I'm sure TRC will be here shortly to assign points.

Wyatt Swamp Fight - Non-Title Match
WWE Universal Champion Braun Strowman vs. Bray Wyatt

WWE Championship Match - Stipulation TBA
Drew McIntyre (c) vs. Dolph Ziggler

Raw Women's Championship Match
Asuka (c) vs. Sasha Banks

Smackdown Women's Championship Match
Bayley (c) vs. Nikki Cross

Eye for an Eye Match
Seth Rollins vs. Rey Mysterio, Jr.

Tables Match for the Smackdown Tag Team Championship
New Day (c) vs. Cesaro & Shinsuke Nakamura

WWE United States Championship Match
Apollo Crews (c) vs. MVP

Kickoff Show Match
Kevin Owens vs. Buddy Murphy

The stipulation of the WWE Championship match may have been leaked by the WWE Graphics Department as a TLC match

Yes the way to win an Eye for an Eye match is the "literally" pluck your opponent's eye from out of its socket... CGI will be heavily involved in this match

This post was edited on 7/19/20 at 5:05 pm