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Tonight's iMPACT was advertised as the return of Open Fight Night, though it was just unaired matches from the last tapings mixed in with old matches. Matches aired: The System vs The Great Hands vs The Rascalz vs Sinner and Saint, Dani Luna vs. Jody Threat, Hardys vs Colons in an El Paso Street Fight from March, AJ Styles vs. Bobby Roode from May 2012, and Mike Santana vs. Cedric Alexander. Impact returns live next week for the first time since BFG.

Shane Taylor Promotions defend the trios against BEEF & Workhorsemen to open, pretty good match that ends with LFI interfering and Rush hitting Beef with the tag title to cost them the match. STP continue the attack after until Skyflight of Scorpio Sky & Top Flight make the save which leads directly into them against Daddy Magic & The Kingdom. Always good to see Taven & Bennett back on, plus it had been another few months since Scorpio Sky was in action. Skyflight win to set them up as the next trios title challengers against STP. Fun Archer & Hechicero squash of OXP & Orion. Marina Shafir & Wheeler Yuta mixed tag squash of Aaron Solo & Angelica Risk. Satnam Singh got his own music in a 2 minute squash of Gino Adonis. Welcome back Robyn Renegade! Looked great tagging with Taya in a loss to Yuka & Windsor. Deonna Purrazzo defeats Trish Adora in the Pure tournament. Good match, had enjoyed the build up. Guess this was a late addition to this episode with the rest of the show still from Daily's Place last month. They say the Women's Pure title tournament concludes at Final Battle next month, though I'm not sure how/if Aminata's injury may affect plans. Still got Yuka/Serena as the last first round match to go. It's also announced that Harley Cameron pinning Athena on Dynamite will earn her a ROH title shot in two weeks with the winner defending at Final Battle against a "top challenger that has been confirmed", and whoever becomes the first AEW National Champion will also defend at Final Battle. The Swirl of Blake Christian & Lee Johnson defeat Alex Zayne & Willie Mack in a nice longer match, great finishing stretch. Good solid main event as Komander goes the Proving Grounds time limit with Lee Moriarty to earn a Pure title shot ending a longer than usual as of late episode.

the final 2k25 DLC pack drops next week: Jesse Ventura, Paul Orndorff, Tito Santana, Junkyard Dog, & Sid Justice Huge pop that they actually put in Orndorff's super rare 1985 theme "I'm a Fighter" by Van Zant!

Paola/Santana is always pretty good. Coach/Daisy was fun. Really good pre-match promo from Coach. Finish wasn't quite perfectly executed, but I dug what they were going for. Good to see Tormenta back for an appearance. Solid main event from Holly/Penelope even if the finish was a little off. The apron suplex spot stood out from the commercials, crazy that this was apparently taped a long time ago. Nice post-match chaos to end the show and continue the feud.

A shame to see TayJay get left out, especially with Penelope forced out but gotta shoehorn statlander into everything ever. Love Nixon & Miranda together but they got fed to be destroyed, so I'm guessing that was a one and done for them being in Texas. Marina & Megan make an absolute killer powerhouse team.

it's only played out on ROH, but it started with Paul Walter Hauser earning QT's respect at Death Before Dishonor, then when Big Boom AJ got into it with the Callis Family last month and needed a partner, he turned to QT though there was hesitance because of their history. Last week, the Callis Family attacked QT in the back which led to a tag against QT/Aaron Solo with the post-match save seen in the video to officially cement the turn/team up this past week.

Correct, since BFG, the first week was "After the Glory" a BFG recap special, last week was "Fade to Black" a behind the scenes look at BFG, and this week was "A Very Hardy Halloween" which turned out to just be Matt and Jeff hosting a Best of the Hardy Compound stuff. They showed the original Final Deletion (still all time great), clipped Tag Team Apocalypto which was the one with Decay from "Total Nonstop Deletion" when they did a whole Impact from the Hardy Compound in December 2016, then the two recent Cinematics that weren't actual matches with the System and then with the Nemeths. Next week they say is the return of Open Fight Night which I guess will be a collection of unaired matches from previous recent tapings and then the following week finally returns to a new Live Impact.

the Outrunners & Dalton Castle open this week with a trios squash. Aleah James looked great against Billie Starkz. Billie gets the win with feet on the ropes. Don Callis on ROH with Rocky & Archer. Aaron Solo seems to work better as a babyface alongside QT rather than the ultra generic heel he's been for years. BIG Boom AJ makes the post-match save since he's turned them face, setting up Big Boom & QT vs Archer & Rocky at Full Gear. Moriarty over Alex Zayne in the Pure Rules proving grounds was pretty good. Solid trios match as Stori Denali & The Premier Athletes defeat Isla Dawn & Grizzled Young Vets. With Bandido/Dorada moved to Collision, we get a fun Dorada/Komander over Blake Christian/Lee Johnson main event instead. Sadly, nothing as special as last year's Halloween Ring of Horror with Abadon/Athena, which felt like the last true Honor Club exclusive epic on the weekly show.

It was them becoming a team rather than them being against one another. Since Penelope is injured, Megan said she'd find anyone else willing to step up for the tag tournament and then Marina showed up.

Taken a few weeks to get back into things since Wrestledream. Gutted for Penelope to be out of the tournament (and Blood & Guts if it happens). but Bayne & Marina feels like an epic team that wouldn't just lose, though I wouldn't wanna see TayJay out in the first round either. I feel there's still a little bit of unpredictability there, but my finals guess is Toni & Mina vs Skye & Julia and I assume the finals take place at Full Gear which is the week after the Blood & Guts show. Another good one from Moxley/Kyle, digging their little rivalry that has developed. 4 way tag had some good stuff in it and I really liked the main event 4 way. We all knew Joe was winning, but still had a couple great near falls from Lashley & Ricochet. The Bandido/Dorada rematch initially announced for this week's ROH got moved to Collision instead. The ending was very waiting around for something's obviously going to happen, but thought the eventual reveal was an excellent something different way of going about it. Absolutely loved the general callbacks of Schiavone in the Phantom mask 1990 style, and the Marshmallow man which ended up being Gino Medina as the local getting beat up. A lot of the time these Halloween type shows don't have enough Halloween, so this all ruled.

I've been checking in since Aries has been back in the mix. The previous show had Aries vs Paul London which was kind of short but cool to see a 'first time ever' match for two guys that had been around the same years but never wrestled until now. Aries/Mistico was indeed pretty awesome as more of a big time main event, thought they worked very well together for another first time matchup. Felt the result was more obvious after Volador won the previous match, but good stuff still.

This looks awesome as a venue, love the unique setting. Started out super hot with a great match from Ashley/Kandi. Ashley looked awesome here and I've always enjoyed a longer showcase for Kandi. Love to see the Dojo Defenders back together, I thought a bigger deal would've been made of Tara Strike's return since she was out for so long, but she looked great here along with Kara. I enjoyed the main event as Miami's Sweet Heat are always on fire, fun chaotic finish in the end. I liked each match going longer than the norm, so a 3 match show worked here.

Charlotte & Alexa are the best, hope their reign lasts as long as possible.

Thought this show exceeded expectations and turned out quite good. Opening tag was fun and got a lot of time. Agreed with Jacy/Tatum being the showstealer. Love both, so I hate to see Jacy lose but am thrilled to see Tatum win. Similar to how Jacy was, Tatum's been awesome for so long that it's great to see her finally get rewarded for it. I like Tatum & Izzi together, for however longer that may last. Disappointed to see the Hardys lose so soon, especially as the Broken Hardys losing their signature match, but thought the match was a blast and was the best Darkstate have looked, so it did well in the goal of putting them over. Long spot setups aside, the Hardys still taking wild bumps. Ethan/Wagner built into a very good one as well. Ethan excels in these types of matches. Wagner looked good and would've bought him going over. Would've preferred Zaria win for Sol, at least for one defense, especially at Halloween Havoc being the event around when she debuted last year. Didn't have much interest in the obvious main event, but the rest of the card was a good time.