Best and Worst of Impact Wrestling: LAX steals the show again, James Mitchell brings an old friend

Worst #2: The 30 Day Rule doesn't make sense

Taya Valkyrie's current plan points out a glaring issue with Impact's World Title scene

Recently, Taya Valkyrie has taken advantage of a classic rule that most wrestling companies have regarding their champions. Namely, titles only have to be defended once a month. If the champion can't keep up that end of the bargain, they must forfeit the championship.

Valkyrie plans on following this rule perfectly, only defending the belt once a month and no more. It's actually a great thing to focus on, and something we're happy to see when certain other companies fail to adhere to the rules that they themselves set in place.

Still, though I'm praising Impact for following through on this with Valkyrie, they're not exactly doing the same for the Impact World Championship. Brian Cage has been absent from TV since winning the belt back on April 28th at Rebellion. A back injury suffered at the event prevented him from competing for a while, missing two days of TV tapings.

It would've been a serious downer for Impact to pull the championship off of Cage right after he won it, and considering he plans on defending at Slammiversary, it didn't seem to be a major injury.

That being said...it's really a glaring inconsistency that's hard to ignore. TV wise, Cage has been absent for well over a month, meaning that, by their own rules, he should vacate the championship.

Though it hasn't been explained, in essence it's more of a nitpick than anything. Still, it would be nice to hear some reasoning behind this from Scott D'Amore or Don Callis. All it would take is someone saying that he's going to defend the title at Slammiversary, and they'd rather give him that chance than simply take the belt away from him.

Again, it's a small issue on what was yet another great episode of Impact, but what's the point of using certain rules if you end up writing yourself into a corner?