Impact Wrestling Power Rankings: Allie Embraces The Darkness

4. Pentagon Jr. (Impact World Champion)

On the most recent episode of Impact Wrestling, Pentagon Jr. was nowhere to be found, and that’s OK. He doesn’t need to be on television every week in order to feel like a big deal as the world champ, but he does fall on the list, because the wrestlers ahead of him are just too good at delivering week-in and week-out.

In any case, whenever Pentagon Jr. is on television, he absolutely has to be at his best. Nobody should be upstaging the Impact World Champion, especially if he has a title match. Pentagon Jr. is one of the biggest stars in the world, and I hope his singles match with Aries for the title is an absolute banger. Impact needs huge matches on television to entice on-the-fence fans to follow the product more closely.

3. Matt Sydal (X Division Champion)

For my money, nobody on Impact, not even Petey Williams, can match Matt Sydal in terms of in-ring consistency. Every week, this dude is putting on match-of-the-night performances against a wide variety of opponents. His latest effort with El Hijo de Fantasma wasn’t quite a masterpiece, nor was it better than Williams’s match against Desmond Xavier, but it was pretty dang good.

I absolutely love how Sydal isn’t hitting the shooting star press, because his new finisher leaves the matches feeling almost flat at the end of it. That is by design. His methodical usage of submission holds, which are always applied smoothly and sensibly, has added new layers to his character, and Sydal has been one of the world’s best in the ring in 2018.