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

Impact continues to soar with great action from its top tag teams
Impact continues to soar with great action from its top tag teams

Best #3: The Tag Team Titles main event again

LAX and the Rascalz tore the house down
LAX and the Rascalz tore the house down

There are several teams around the globe that wrestling fans like to claim are the best in the world. The Young Bucks, the Revival, the Usos, the Guerrillas of Destiny just to name a few. However, if I were forced to pick one team to stand above the rest, it would be LAX.

As Santana listed earlier tonight, he and Ortiz have knocked off the who's who of great tag teams. From oVe to the Lucha Bros, the duo hasn't missed a beat, and their whole run with Impact has been nothing short of superb in-ring action.

So when it was revealed that they'd be putting their titles on the line against another fast paced high flying team in The Rascalz, it was hard not to let this match get overhyped.

These are the best teams in Impact Wrestling right now. That's saying something, considering the ever-growing list of talent that the company continues to bring in. The Rascalz and LAX are the most exciting wrestlers in the company, and putting them in a feud seemed like a no-brainer.

Tonight, we got a glimpse of what's to come. In a match that lasted close to twenty minutes, we saw Des and Wentz take Santana and Ortiz to their limits. LAX was off-put several times in the match by the pure speed of their challengers, trying to find them only to turn into a handspring knee strike or a springboard cutter.

We never got to see a real ending, though. Trey had been busy sipping on Ortiz's moonshine, and after a little back and forth, the drink ended up in the eyes of the referee. As Wentz spiked Santana with the cutter, Trey went up top for a meteora. Though he wasn't officially a part of the match, a second referee came in and declared the Rascalz the new champions.

Eventually, the decision was reversed, awarding LAX the win by disqualification. Still, it looked like things weren't over between the two teams, and we could be building towards something epic at, say...Slammiversary?

Time will tell, but with the Lucha Bros finally out of the tag team division, it looks like the Rascalz have stepped up as the next rivals of Santana and Ortiz. And that's something to get excited about.

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