iMPACT! Hard to Kill 2021

• Intergender Tag (Decay vs. Tenille Dashwood and Kaleb with a K): 3/7. Quite a good match, but the way it was sort of intergender and sort of not was very distracting. They seemed to be trying to pretend that it was purely coincidence that the two teams happened to tag out at almost the same time every time, but it was extremely obvious and weird.
• Old School Rules Six-Man Tag (Violent by Design vs. Cousin Jake, Rhino, and Tommy Dreamer): 4/7. "Old School Rules" I guess just means no-DQ, and 3-on-3 tags are almost never good. This one was OK. It had its moments.
• Knockouts Tag Team Championship (Fire N Flava vs. Havok and Nevaeh): 5/7. Good tag match, but the ending was a bit weird. The commentators were talking about something else, like as though the ending had caught them by surprise, so it fell a bit flat.
• Matt Cardona vs. Ace Austin: 3/7. Basically just a debut for Cardona.
• X Division Championship Triple Threat (Manik vs. Chris Bey vs. Rohit Raju): 5/7. Who is that mysterious masked man? There's just no way to know!
• Knockouts Championship (Deonna Purrazzo vs. Taya Valkyrie): 4/7. A bit slow. Felt more like a TV match.
• The Karate Man vs. Ethan Page: 6/7. I appreciate that they were trying something different, and I certainly didn't foresee it ending that way.
• Barbed Wire Massacre (Eddie Edwards vs. Sami Callihan): 2/7. They tried way too hard to convince us this was serious hardcore danger with the result that it ended up being pretty boring.
• Six-Man Tag (Kenny Omega and The Good Brothers vs. Rich Swann, Chris Sabin, and Moose): 3/7. Ordinarily I'd skip a Rich Swann match, but I wanted to watch Kenny and the Good Brothers. It was OK.

Overall rating: 4/7. Felt more like an extended TV episode than a PPV, especially compared to recent AEW and NXT episodes that have featured similarly gimmicky matches.

iMPACT! Genesis 2021

• Super X Cup Round 1 (Ace Austin vs. Suicide): 4/7. Ace Austin looks like Andy Samberg.
• Super X Cup Round 1 (Blake Christian vs. KC Navarro): 4/7. Blake Christian seems kind of boring.
• Super X Cup Round 1 (Cousin Jake vs. Daivari): 5/7. I've only just started watching so I'm still picking up the story, but I like Cousin Jake and I want to see what happens to him.
• Super X Cup Round 1 (Crazzy Steve vs. Tre Lamar): 4/7. Crazzy Steve is pretty much just the Joker, right? Like how Glacier is just Sub Zero.
• Super X Cup Semifinal (Ace Austin vs. Cousin Jake) 4/7. Kind of wanted Jake to win, but also Austin still looks like Andy Samberg, so...
• Super X Cup Semifinal (Blake Christian vs. Crazzy Steve) 3/7. Neither of these guys particularly appeal to me.
• Jordynne Grace vs. Jazz: 4/7. I like these two but this was just a friendly contest for no stakes so it's hard to care about.
• Super X Cup Final (Ace Austin vs. Blake Christian): 4/7. I feel like they should probably have had the final match on a different day. Maybe swap this out for a second women's match.
• I Quit Match (Willie Mack vs. Moose): 5/7. This was probably better than I'm giving it credit for; I just don't know these guys so I wasn't invested.

Overall rating: 4/7. Probably not the best one to start on because of the tournament taking up most of it, but it wasn't bad.