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.