Impact Wrestling: Give Us Tessa Blanchard vs. Brian Cage Already

Impact Wrestling is home to two of the strongest independent wrestling performers in the game right now, their Impact Knockouts Champion Tessa Blanchard and their X-Division Champion Brian Cage. These two have gone head-to-head in a ring before, and it’s high time Impact brings this feud to your television screen.

Intergender wresting has been a live and thriving among the independent wrestling seen since seemingly the dawn of time, and while popular televised companies were interested in the undertaking in the Attitude Era days, a la Chyna, intergender wrestling hasn’t quite found its footing on television yet.

Meanwhile, over at Impact Wrestling, two of the biggest names in independent wrestling are making huge statements week in and week out, those two names being Tessa Blanchard, the Knockouts Champion, and Brian Cage, the X-Division Champion.

A particular detail some casual fans of the company may not know is that while they both have been taking names in their respective divisions, Blanchard and Cage have crossed each others paths before and had one of the best intergender matches I’ve ever seen at WrestleCircus.

The match of course saw Cage victorious, and the two friends have never been shy about asking the other for a rematch. This Thursday, October 18th at Bar Wrestling in Los Angeles, the two will get the rematch they’ve asked for.

Blanchard and Cage are certainly no strangers to intergender matches outside of that; Tessa’s faced the likes of Ricochet and David Starr to name a few, and Cage has been in the ring with current Impact Knockout Taya Valkyrie.

Their rapport and their dedication to working with one another in the ring has lead them to great heights and is bound to do so again when they face each other next.

That is why we’re approaching the perfect time to finally see Tessa Blanchard and Brian Cage go head-to-head in an Impact Wrestling ring.

Tessa is on top of the Knockouts division right now, even if she didn’t have the title to show for it. Brian Cage, while he still holds the X-Division Championship, only just suffered his first pinfall loss in Impact at the hands of Sami Callihan at Bound For Glory.

The phrase “the unstoppable force meets the immovable object” gets tossed around a lot in professional wrestling, and Impact is just lucky enough to have both parties on their roster, and they’ve both proven they’re ready, willing, and delighted to face each other in the ring as often as they can.

Impact has an opportunity to pioneer the resurgence of intergender wrestling on national television, beyond the lengths of say something like the Mixed Match Challenge, or something that features mostly intergender wrestling through mixed-tag matches. It could potentially see the start of a legitimate, prolonged feud between an intergender pair that would blow away audiences time after time.

So, Impact Wrestling, no pressure or anything, but we’re ready to see Tessa Blanchard vs. Brian Cage on your programming some time soon, and I’m inclined to believe they would never oppose it.