LOLIMPACT History

As of September 21, 2017, Impact Wrestling settled on that name, no longer having anything to do with the Global Force Wrestling brand. There were fewer authority figures than earlier in the year and there was a lot more action. The show has received praise over time, but poor Impact Wrestling is still fighting to overcome its dark past.

## The end of 2017

* *Bound For Glory* 2017 saw the return of Alberto El Patron. Since Taya Valkyrie had some issues with traveling and had her match cancelled, Alberto was given plenty of time with a promo. He talked about being betrayed by backstabbers in the back in a very long segment where he repeated himself. The idea was to make Alberto a heel by turning against the promotion, but the crowd wanted to cheer him on, oddly enough. All that Paige-Alberto drama had blown over in Canada. Finally, Alberto teased putting Jeremy Borash through a table, and then he just didn't, leaving the crowd feeling completely flat at the end of the segment.
	+ The rest of the night had matches that were mostly poor outside of the opener. Taiji Ishimori vs. Tyson Dux could have been good, but it was given less than 5 minutes and the camera kept cutting to Laurel Van Ness being goofy in the crowd. By far, the worst worker of the night ended up being Pagano, who came over from AAA.
* This year's Thanksgiving episode had only 1 new match. The rest of the show had promos to hype up the big tag team match, past matches and moments from Thanksgiving episodes, and little segments to promote matches for upcoming episodes of *Impact*.

## 2020

* At the *Hard To Kill* PPV, Tessa Blanchard beat Sami Callihan to become Impact World Champion, despite multiple allegations having surfaced that she'd harrassed Nilka "La Rosa Negra" Solis backstage during a tour of Japan in 2017 by spitting in her face and calling her the n-word.
* On June 2020, after allegations of sexual assault, harassment and misconduct resurfaced from numerous victims, Joseph P. Ryan and Dave Crist had their Impact Wrestling contracts terminated.
* In that same month, known scumbag "Big" Michael Elgin was suspended indefinitely by Impact Wrestling upon further investigation on accounts of sexual assault resurfacing (including a cringeworthy interview on the *Kevin Steen Show* where Elgin admitted to having golden showers with a female victim without her consent). It was later reported on the dirtsheets that Elgin got in a fight in the last set of tapings he worked. The fight was with Sami Callihan over how their match should begin.
* In late June 2020, Tessa Blanchard had her contract with Impact Wrestling terminated and was stripped of the Impact World Championship when she went on a leave of absence during the coronavirus pandemic. She ended up missing multiple tapings and, despite being asked to, would not record and send promos back to Impact Wrestling to broadcast while she was on leave. Despite all this, Impact management tried to get her to return to drop the title belt, but neither side could come to an agreement. This then left Impact management with no other choice but to terminate Tessa and making her entire world championship run utterly pointless.
* On July, more info came out regarding Tessa's exit from Impact. Per the Wrestling Observer Newsletter: "They wanted her to at least come in and drop the title on the 7/18 show. We were told that she offered a big one-date price and whatever the number was, they turned it down and fired her."
* Oddly enough, Daga (who is in a relationship with Tessa) was still under contract and wanted to work with Impact. Unfortunately, this didn't happen and it was reported via dirtsheets on October 20 that Daga was granted his requested release.

## Related pages

* LOLTNA History
* LOLGFW History
* LOLWWE History
* LOLROH History
* LOLAEW History