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wrestlingisfake · 7 years

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GFW Fake Rankings, 7/1

Sooo...Anthem bought TNA, renamed it Impact, brought in Jeff Jarrett from Global Force to run it, and now they’ve bought GFW so they can use that name instead. Let’s take stock of what they’ve got.

Men’s heavyweight singles division - babyfaces

Alberto El Patron (GFW global champion)

James Storm

Moose (Impact grand champion)

Mahabali Shera

Braxton Sutter

Joseph Park/Abyss

Men’s heavyweight singles division - heels

Bobby Lashley (TNA/Impact world champion)

Ethan Carter III

Chris Adonis

Eli Drake

Kongo Kong

Alberto and Lashley are set to unify their titles at Slammiversary on 7/2, and I guess now we know the TNA world title (which still says TNA on it) will be retired.

The other key programs lately have been EC3 vs. Storm, Moose vs. Adonis & Drake, and Sutter/Shera vs. Kong/KM. Joe Park is sort of feuding with Scott Steiner but I tend to assume Steiner isn’t sticking around and that Park will turn back into Abyss soon.

It’s worth mentioning that Matt Morgan and Magnus have dropped off the face of the earth. That’s especially ironic for Magnus, considering he was the biggest name Jarrett pulled from TNA to GFW, and the nominal face of GFW during it’s nominal existence outside of TNA.

Women’s division - babyfaces

Rosemary (TNA/Impact knockouts champion)

Allie

Alisha Edwards

Women’s division - heels

Sienna (GFW women’s champion)

Laurel Van Ness

Angelina Love

Rosemary vs. Sienna is also set for Slammiversary, so hopefully the knockouts title is retired and the entire “knockouts” branding goes with it. The company has a number of other women who’ve appeared on Impact in the last six months, but most of them haven’t been seen lately. Hopefully they’ll return in force after Slammiversary, and GFW can start the process of catching up to the progress in the WWE women’s division.

Men’s X division - babyfaces

Sonjay Dutt (TNA/Impact X champion)

Eddie Edwards

Matt Sydal

Andrew Everett

Suicide/Caleb Konley

Men’s X division - heels

Low Ki

Davey Richards

Trevor Lee

No surprise Dutt is on top of the division, given that he was part of Jarrett’s inner circle when GFW was trying to get off the ground. He held the GFW “nex*gen” title (which was essentially a knockoff of the X title) for a long time, but dropped it to Cody Rhodes a few months back. It doesn’t look like Cody’s coming back any time soon, so the X championship will probably be rebranded instead of replaced.

Men’s tag team division - babyfaces

Veterans of War - Wilcox & Mayweather

Garza Jr. & Laredo Kid

Men’s tag team division - heels

LAX - Ortiz & Santana (TNA/Impact & GFW tag team champions)

Mario Bokara & Falla Bahh

The tag division had to be completely rebuilt after the Hardys left TNA, and as it stands they still have a lot of work to do. LAX is technically an entire stable (including Konnan, Homicide, Diamante, Santana, and Ortiz), but only two of them have actually wrestled for Impact this year. They’ve already captured the tag titles from both brands, but as far as I know they haven’t been formally unified.

Unranked:

Adam Thornstowe

Ava Storie

Brandi Rhodes

Christina Von Eerie

Desmond Xavier

Diamante

Eddie Kingston

Gail Kim

Idris Abraham

Luster the Legend

Marshe Rockett

Magnus

Matt Morgan

MJ Jenkins

ODB

Rockstar Spud

Scott Steiner

Tyrus

No matches since February: Grado, Homicide, Madison Rayne, Robbie E

Inactive:

DJ Z (colon - rupture)

Bram (undisclosed injury)

It’ll be interesting to see what becomes Kingston, Spud, Tyrus, Grado, Robbie E, DJ Z, Bram, Brandi, and Rockett. All of them came to TNA when Dixie Carter was in charge and Jeff Jarrett was on the outs, and since Jeff’s been back in power they haven’t been given much to do.

Listed on the GFW roster, but committed to other promotions: Chris Sabin, Chuck Taylor, Colt Cabana, Davey Boy Smith Jr., Kevin Kross, KUSHIDA, Lance Archer/Lance Hoyt, Seiya Sanada, Shelton Benjamin, Takaaki Watanabe/EVIL, Trent Beretta

As of 6/30, these performers are still listed on http://globalforcewrestling.com/roster/ even though they clearly aren’t affiliated with Jarrett’s promotion anymore. Most of them were associated with GFW through its partnership with New Japan, which wasn’t very strong to begin with and couldn’t have survived GFW’s alignment with Impact and NOAH today. Shelton is technically a free agent, but he’s reportedly still trying to get back into WWE. I suppose Chuck and Colt aren’t so tied down that they couldn’t return to GFW (to the extent that anybody was ever really “in” GFW to begin with), but I’d think if they wanted to be on Impact, they’d already be there.

Listed on the GFW roster, but current status unknown: Ali Akbar/Ali Vaez, Bullet Babe, Cassidy Riley, Chase Stevens, Cliff Compton, Dustin Corino, Jamin Olivencia, Jigsaw, Jimmy Rave, Justin Corino, Luke Hawx, Lei’D Tapa, Omar Akbar/Khalil Gaspard, Phoenix Star, Virgil Flynn, Zokre

So the extensive database of global talent Jeff Jarrett touted in 2014 comes down to this: This is what’s left of the GFW roster that hasn’t yet shown up on Impact this year. It’s not actually clear if any of these people are still in contact with Jarrett, since Global Force hasn’t really run any shows in months.

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