Impact: Against All Odds 2022 Date & New Tapings Announced, Mike Bailey on X-Division, Taya Valkyrie

Impact Wrestling Announces Date for Against All Odds 2022 & Full Schedule for This June & July

Impact Wrestling recently announced their full schedule of events for this June and July.

The company announced that they will be holding a new set of Impact! television tapings on June 20th in Nashville, Tennessee, which is the day after their Slammiversary 2022 event in the same city.

It was also announced that this year’s Against All Odds event will be taking place on July 1st in Atlanta, Georgia and will be held as an Impact Plus special.

It was also announced that they will be holding two new sets of Impact! television tapings titled “Southern Hostility” on July 2nd in Atlanta and “Derby City Rumble” on July 15-16 in Louisville, Kentucky.

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“Speedball” Mike Bailey Comments on Impact’s X-Division Being Best Division in Wrestling

Steel Chair Magazine held a recent interview with “Speedball” Mike Bailey. One of the topics discussed included Bailey’s thoughts about Impact Wrestling’s X-Division being the best division currently in wrestling.

“I think it’s the best division in professional wrestling right now. The amount of talent that is competing for the X-Division Championship is above and beyond anything else in the world right now with the different styles, the amount of experience, the varying degrees, and the various backgrounds you’ve got. A lot of New Japan wrestlers right now are coming in and competing with X-Division guys. You have people with a Lucha Libre background and people with a real international background, as well as Alex Shelley. You’ve got people that have been in Impact Wrestling for years, like Chris Sabin and Rich Swann, who really bring that Impact X-Division style. The mix of it is perfect, and I think right now everyone in the division is doing a fantastic job representing what the X-Division has always been about, which is action-packed high-level matches unlike anything else you see on TV right now.”

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Taya Valkyrie Comments on Her WWE Career Being an Overall Disappointment

A recent episode of the Busted Open Radio podcast had Taya Valkyrie as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Valkyrie’s thoughts on her time in WWE being a disappointment despite it also checking off one of the goals that she had for her wrestling career.

“I really don’t know [what I could have done to turn my WWE run in a different direction]. I think John [Morrison] said it best when I was trying to be like, ‘I don’t understand,’ you know what I mean? He was just like, ‘You can’t make sense of something that makes no sense. It is what it is.’ I did everything I was supposed to do and beyond, tried to make everything work that I was handed, even if I sometimes didn’t agree on the creative or whatever it was. Got along with everybody, went to do my stuff every single day and it just didn’t work out and I blamed myself for a long time. I was just — and I didn’t even know what I was blaming myself for but I was just so disappointed that something I worked so hard for didn’t work out just like anybody would. But, it is what it is. I don’t know. It sucks, it was a really horrible experience honestly for me and very disappointing. But, at the end of the day, it was an experience. I accomplished something I had set out to do 12 years ago, something I had wanted to do since I was a kid and yeah, sometimes, it doesn’t work out. It sucks but, rather than — and I had my moments of being super upset at myself and very almost depressed and questioning my ability and all this kind of stuff so, but now I’m just kind of like, eh, it sucked and people ask me, ‘How do you feel about your experience?’ I go, ‘It sucked.’ It’s just kind of all I can say because I don’t — I now have moved on from that mentally and personally in my career and I just know that I have a very supportive group of people around me and all these different wrestlers that I’ve come to wrestle again and work with have been just so incredibly positive that I really feel like no matter what, I mean I was destined to do it. Was I destined to be successful there? Obviously not but also it gave me, you know, one more thing on my resume, one more thing I accomplished and now I’m just looking to find another mountain to climb.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com