Impact thread for August 18, 2022 - Stacked 6-way Number 1 Contender match, Speedball vs. Bey, lucha four-way, more

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Wasn't ever pandemic show an empty arena match?
 

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Made me think they were gonna do a rematch where Moose won which never happened tho
 

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Deezy said:
Wasn't every pandemic show an empty arena match?
AEW started using wrestlers and as limited fans as possible as soon as they could
 

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Yes but AEW had people in its shows at the time which is the difference
So it wasn't awkward like Raw and Smackdown with no fans
 

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That show was all Impact purely empty arena and then the main event at daily with just the handful of noisemakers so I guess it was kind of a special occasion
 

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This crowd loves bandido lol
 

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oof Swann lucky he didn't land on his head from that Spanish Fly
 

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Deezy said:
So it wasn't awkward like Raw and Smackdown with no fans
Impact was honestly awkward for longer than WWE was, at least WWE had the thunderdome. Impact was set against silence until like January 2021 when they actually started piping in chants to improve the atmosphere
 

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I'm not a fan of springboard, or any diving cutters....the OG move was cool enough.
 

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It was basically like WWE's Thunderdome chants, the difference is WWE were pretending it wasn't like that
 

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And Impact never thought to robotically treat voices to get babyface chants for one of their talents who had never been a top babyface pre-pandemic