This is a prime example of why the wrestling world needs Impact Wrestling. Might not do the numbers of your 3 letter companies but the wrestling is the most consistent out there.
This why I respect Impact Wrestling, A unique promotion with tons of exciting & classic matches; This is one of them‼️ Usually matches like this would be on a major ppv, Impact is different
I think this is like maybe, the third time ever. First was one hour impact, world title match, where the whole roster got involved. Between Angle, Christian and Rhino. 2nd was TJP hour match. Also, Lucha Underground did their all night long match, Puma vs Mundo.
I can only imagine what's going through Speedball's mind. Going from 5 years being banned from wrestling in the US to signing with Impact, crushing it in the independent scene, carrying the X-Division championship and division, to having a BANGER of a match for a world title? 2022 has been an incredible year for him. Hoping for much more success and an even better 2023 for him!
@@christianelvisrusso9975 he was banned from entering the United States because he attempted to enter the country without a work visa. I think he tried to get a visa through CZW. That took longer than expected but he already accepted a booking from EVOLVE.
Thank you Impact for this AMAZING quality match. The best match this company had this AJ Vs Daniels vs Joe, an absolute classic. This is the maximum prove that Josh Alexander has won his spot as the best world champion TNA/Impact has ever had 👏👏👏
This might be match of the year as far as Impact goes. Speedball is one of my favorite wrestlers in Impact today and this match exceeded my expectations by a long shot.
This is freakin incredible! What a match! I missed impact last night and I’m so glad they put it up so soon after it aired. Thanks a lot! I think honestly, people love matches like this.
Bro I just stumbled across this match I don't even watch impact..but you bro are tough mfer...those piledrivers were insane.. you wanna of the best workers I seen in along time...I'm a brand designer i would love to make speedball shirt
what a Match back and fourth speedball mike Bailey is know one of my favorite wrestlers in Tna he was that close of winning and josh alexander is a walking weapon machine and he retain 🏆 that was a awesome match of the year 🔥🔥🔥
During the over drive live chat, I asked if these 2 had ever faced off. Someone said that they had and I should check it out. Then these 2 go and absolutely surpass the match I watched. This is absolutely one of the best matches of 2022 and it's the best match from impact this year. Thank you for releasing the uncut version. This is amazing.
@Realistically Speaking there's still great wrestling happening though. Impact isn't the easiest thing to find. They have an audience that is die hard and with matches like this it's easy to see why. They didn't have to tape this entire match and put it on their social media but they did, this can help grow their audience.
Just like that, we have our Match of The Year candidate. Even Bailey's in-ring psychology with his deteriorating left knee deserves the praise; the fact that he sold the knee injury not just from Josh abusing it with strikes and holds, but also from the "botches" somehow made it so believable that every attempt by Josh to execute the Ankle Lock legit looked so painful and is full of suspense.
Unbelievable match! When I first saw this video and the hour long duration, I was extremely excited. 1-hour broadways are a lost art in wrestling, whereas they used to have them all the time during the NWA/WWWF days. I knew this one was going to be tough though since they call it Impact Wrestling because they don't present technical wrestling, so the traditional approach of draining the clock with holds goes out the window, so that plus the clash of styles of Alexander and Bailey I knew it would be great. Thank you guys for giving me reason to keep believing in Impact. I hope Meltzer gives this the rating it deserves.
Incredible - admittedly I haven't followed Impact for a long time and haven't seen much of the work of Alexander or Bailey but once I heard about an hour long match, I had to seek it out and check it out and gentlemen, you have delivered the best match I have watched this year. Thank you for a classic and I hope there's a round two in 2023
An instant classic bit then again it's Mike Bailey and Josh Alexander for Impact World Heavyweight Championship...how was this match not going to be a banger
A random 1 fall epitome of an Ironman match against 2 of rhe best in the world? Yeah instant classic and IMPACT financially sadly will always have their backs against the wall but they consistently put up outstanding content
This is one of the best matches I have ever seen this year Wow thank you impact and Josh Alexander and speedball Mike bailey this is just how the world championship deserves to be defended this match deserves everything it has earned
This match was fantastic. Both of these guys are incredible talents. Impact has been insanely underrated all year long. So many great bouts. I hope that Johnathan Gresham comes back early next year if he doesn't return to ROH.
It’d be amusing if this became an annual thing for Alexander. Last year, it was his famous IronMan Match against TJP. This year, he has this match against Bailey. Who will be Josh Alexander’s next 60-Minute Man in 2023?
Man. Two years In The Row Josh Alexander gave us Two Long AND awesome matches Last year in That 60 Minutes Iron Man Match againts TJP AND now This AWESOME Freaking MATCH With Speedball Mike Bailey.
Impact is arguably the most consistently well book and well-wrestled promotion in North America… yet it’s arguably the least seen of the major promotions. I’m praying Impact breaks out again in 2023, increases budget, production, etc
Impact used its low profile reputation as of late to their advantage to sneak up and provide a late shoo-in for MOTY just weeks out from the end of the year. Hats off to Alexander and Speedball
A Five 🌟 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Star classic, PPV Caliber match for free on UA-cam! Win win! Josh Alexander is a wrestling machine. Mike Bailey gives me Ricky Steamboat vibes!
Wwe fans & Aew fans were fighting as always & outta nowhere MIDPACT gave us a classic match to divert our minds for a bit,, Josh is phenomenal,,his matches are most of the times r classics,like the recent one with Kaz,,,
Tbf it don't matter what company it comes from a great match is a great match there's never any reason to give your full undying loyalty to a single wrestling promotion...if your a wrestling fan then just be a wrestling fan not a WWE or AEW or NJPW or etc exclusive fan all your doing with that is limiting your chance of appreciating quality wrestling content
Josh Alexander as proven time and time again that he is a proud champion. As for Mike Bailey, despite not being X Division champ, he does have lot of potential, and he will return to the mountain top one day. On a minor note, there is only one thing wrong with this match, not with the match itself, but from one pet peeve I got: 51:24: Nothing personal, but SERIOUSLY, Tom. Even though Josh did a Spinning Tombstone Piledriver (which was also done by both Justin Credible and Kazuchika Okada), you wouldn't bring yourself to call it a Tombstone. What's a matter, afraid to get sued by the Undertaker (who innovated that move, by the way) for saying it? Wrestling fans are smart. They know the difference between a regular Piledriver and a Tombstone Piledriver and what the Walking Weapon delivered wasn't a regular Piledriver. 59:10: THAT'S a regular Piledriver. A spiked version of it, but a regular Piledriver, nevertheless. Anyway, other than that, both the Walking Weapon and Speedball delivered a clinic. Hopefully the future will be bright for both wrestlers, especially Josh Alexander, who made a believer out of me.
Wow! What a match! You just cannot stop the Walking Weapon, I guess! Not even with a Speeding Ball of Fury! :p Wooooooo! Great effort, though! Speedball is soooooo amazing! My Wrestler of the Year, this year, for sure! 100%
what a transition from watching a Championship Unification that had a 60-Minute Time Limit but only went 3 Minutes and 10 seconds to a World Championship Match that had a 60-Minute Time Limit and went 59 Minutes and 52 seconds with only 8 seconds left on the clock
I feel if there was more time limit, Mike could have won, big respect, Ik Josh is hecking strong, but next time if they meet Josh your title gonna be in Bully or Mike's hands.
59 minutes match,,That means almost an iron man match??? Hollly 🚬 🚬 j definitely wanted 2 c a ppv match between these 2 tremendous wrestlers cause they'd have get more times in a ppv,, but a 59 Mims match in a weekly TV?? Woooow!! That's Christmas present for me
DEFINITELY the Match Of The Week, and no mistake; all that was missing was Bully Ray running in to pick the bones. (Yeah, he said he was not in the building; but you can't trust a bully.)
speedball is an amazingly talented competitor but i have to admit. this might be one of the few times ive EVER seen him sell an injury during AND after a match. he kinda no-sells injuries midmatch cuz i mean. i get it. his offense requires him to be quick and agile so hobbling around would definitely hinder that but thats why i enjoyed this match so much more. alexander (whom i havent really seen matches of before, im not too well versed in impact's roster cuz access TV isnt something i have) is someone i can definitely tell is deserving of that title even if his look is, well. goofy, but traditional...it grew on me throughout this match. kudos to both of them, and also kudos to the commentary team, as hard as it is to wrestle an ironman match, casting one is also not that easy.
This is a prime example of why the wrestling world needs Impact Wrestling. Might not do the numbers of your 3 letter companies but the wrestling is the most consistent out there.
In terms of pure wrestling, might have to go with NJPW (technically a 4 letter company😅)
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@@kristopherwilson506 Nah.
NJPW is also bigger than TNA😅
You rarely see an hour-long world title match on a weekly wrestling TV show but I must say this match was so outstanding.
This why I respect Impact Wrestling, A unique promotion with tons of exciting & classic matches; This is one of them‼️ Usually matches like this would be on a major ppv, Impact is different
I think this is like maybe, the third time ever. First was one hour impact, world title match, where the whole roster got involved. Between Angle, Christian and Rhino. 2nd was TJP hour match.
Also, Lucha Underground did their all night long match, Puma vs Mundo.
Hangman Page vs Bryan Danielson, which easily deserved the five star rating that it received.
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@@marcohavokkhaosHHH❤A a🎉5😊 🎉
Speedball and Josh put on an absolute banger, These guys are just unreal
60 minutes without commercial break
You are uploading the whole match just 24 hours after it took place?. THAT'S AWESOME, THANK YOU FOR THIS, I'M HYPED TO WATCH IT!.
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No como cierta empresa que sube sus luchas 18 meses después 😤
@@lalocampos2955 but I'm Billy...
@@ALANRAFAELTV64 IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOUR NAME IS!
@@TheRodGuy2007or AEW who upload days after nobody cares anymore
I can only imagine what's going through Speedball's mind. Going from 5 years being banned from wrestling in the US to signing with Impact, crushing it in the independent scene, carrying the X-Division championship and division, to having a BANGER of a match for a world title? 2022 has been an incredible year for him. Hoping for much more success and an even better 2023 for him!
Can you tell me why he was banned from wrestling in usa?
I want him to be future IMPACT World Champion after Steve Maclin in 2023
@@christianelvisrusso9975 he was banned from entering the United States because he attempted to enter the country without a work visa. I think he tried to get a visa through CZW. That took longer than expected but he already accepted a booking from EVOLVE.
@christianelvisrusso9975
Thank you Impact for this AMAZING quality match. The best match this company had this AJ Vs Daniels vs Joe, an absolute classic.
This is the maximum prove that Josh Alexander has won his spot as the best world champion TNA/Impact has ever had 👏👏👏
Wouldn't go that far but definitely a fine world champion
@realisticallyspeaking565 Actually he's one of the best.
Josh performs and performs and delivers everytime
Hats off to Mike Bailey
Both of these wrestlers show why impact deserves those flowers
This might be match of the year as far as Impact goes. Speedball is one of my favorite wrestlers in Impact today and this match exceeded my expectations by a long shot.
This is freakin incredible! What a match! I missed impact last night and I’m so glad they put it up so soon after it aired. Thanks a lot! I think honestly, people love matches like this.
That was the one of best matches I've watched all year. That was incredible. No quit in either of these two.
Match of the Year candidate without any doubt. Two of the best wrestlers of the world delivering one match for the ages
This match was so awesome! On of the best of 2022.
Thank you all so much for watching! This was absolutely brutal!
This was truly one of the best match i ever saw...thank you Mike, and thanks to Josh Alexander too.
Bro I just stumbled across this match I don't even watch impact..but you bro are tough mfer...those piledrivers were insane.. you wanna of the best workers I seen in along time...I'm a brand designer i would love to make speedball shirt
I have watched wrestling since the mid 90's and this was absolutely the best match I had ever seen live! Thank you for this
Pp
One of the best ever. Stay strong and well Mike. Wrestling needs you.
Incredible performance from both guys. Hats off to them.
Josh Alexander VS Mike Bailey is truly a serious candidate to Match of the Year in Pro Wrestling. Thank you IMPACT Wrestling!
Never fails to deliver, thank you IMPACT for this amazing amazing match... An advance holiday gift for the fans is what we just witnessed!!!
what a Match back and fourth speedball mike Bailey is know one of my favorite wrestlers in Tna he was that close of winning and josh alexander is a walking weapon machine and he retain 🏆 that was a awesome match of the year 🔥🔥🔥
@@QBryant14forth*, now*, close to* winning, retained*, an*
MATCH of the YEAR!!! I was on the edge of my seat the entire time!
This is match of the year these two guys put everything on the line this match is a banger
The match of the year in all of pro wrestling
During the over drive live chat, I asked if these 2 had ever faced off. Someone said that they had and I should check it out. Then these 2 go and absolutely surpass the match I watched. This is absolutely one of the best matches of 2022 and it's the best match from impact this year. Thank you for releasing the uncut version. This is amazing.
Amazing match, loved the aggression from Mike Bailey
Best promotion on tv right now. I can't thank iMPACT enough for giving us a true alternative to the big 2
This is an excellent example of why IMPACT is still relevant in 2022. Definitely match of the year candidate.
@Realistically Speaking there's still great wrestling happening though. Impact isn't the easiest thing to find. They have an audience that is die hard and with matches like this it's easy to see why. They didn't have to tape this entire match and put it on their social media but they did, this can help grow their audience.
This comment aged very well...
This has to be one of the best match of 2022
Just like that, we have our Match of The Year candidate. Even Bailey's in-ring psychology with his deteriorating left knee deserves the praise; the fact that he sold the knee injury not just from Josh abusing it with strikes and holds, but also from the "botches" somehow made it so believable that every attempt by Josh to execute the Ankle Lock legit looked so painful and is full of suspense.
Absolutely phenomenal match. Thank you for the early Christmas present.
I was not expecting josh to hit the styles clash it was so smooth
Unbelievable match! When I first saw this video and the hour long duration, I was extremely excited. 1-hour broadways are a lost art in wrestling, whereas they used to have them all the time during the NWA/WWWF days. I knew this one was going to be tough though since they call it Impact Wrestling because they don't present technical wrestling, so the traditional approach of draining the clock with holds goes out the window, so that plus the clash of styles of Alexander and Bailey I knew it would be great. Thank you guys for giving me reason to keep believing in Impact. I hope Meltzer gives this the rating it deserves.
Meltzer did not give this anywhere near what it deserved… guess you have to be Omega or the Bucks to get “5-star matches” (7 in Tokyo)…
It was great but also check out Josh Alexander vs tjp iron man match for the x division title
Incredible - admittedly I haven't followed Impact for a long time and haven't seen much of the work of Alexander or Bailey but once I heard about an hour long match, I had to seek it out and check it out and gentlemen, you have delivered the best match I have watched this year. Thank you for a classic and I hope there's a round two in 2023
An instant classic bit then again it's Mike Bailey and Josh Alexander for Impact World Heavyweight Championship...how was this match not going to be a banger
Great match and also shut out to the commentators. Way better than most current wrestling commentary teams.
A random 1 fall epitome of an Ironman match against 2 of rhe best in the world? Yeah instant classic and IMPACT financially sadly will always have their backs against the wall but they consistently put up outstanding content
Match Of The Year for the ENTIRE industry!
This is one of the best matches I have ever seen this year Wow thank you impact and Josh Alexander and speedball Mike bailey this is just how the world championship deserves to be defended this match deserves everything it has earned
This One Hour Classic Was Worth It
Josh Alexander And Mike Bailey
Absolutely Killed It In That Ring
Absolutely incredible! Josh and Mike are some of the best wrestlers around! Great ending too!
Tremenda lucha la de estos dos gladiadores.muy talentosos.
1:03:25 That handshake was perfectly timed with the music!!!
This is one of the best matches I've seen All year
This was a amazing match both wrestlers put on a wrestling clinic
nowadays, Impact deserves the TNT/TBS TV more than AEW
This match was fantastic. Both of these guys are incredible talents. Impact has been insanely underrated all year long. So many great bouts. I hope that Johnathan Gresham comes back early next year if he doesn't return to ROH.
this deserves way over a Million views. 15k is so underrated.
Match of the year
Not because no buildup just a match.
It’d be amusing if this became an annual thing for Alexander. Last year, it was his famous IronMan Match against TJP. This year, he has this match against Bailey. Who will be Josh Alexander’s next 60-Minute Man in 2023?
People who sleep on Impact really need to wake up. Matches like this are exactly why!
We can all agree that Josh Alexander carried Impact in 2022
Man. Two years In The Row Josh Alexander gave us Two Long AND awesome matches
Last year in That 60 Minutes Iron Man Match againts TJP AND now This AWESOME Freaking MATCH With Speedball Mike Bailey.
Even though speedball fails he got what it takes to become future word champion
Impact is arguably the most consistently well book and well-wrestled promotion in North America… yet it’s arguably the least seen of the major promotions.
I’m praying Impact breaks out again in 2023, increases budget, production, etc
Speedball is the most underrated and consistent wrestler in the world
Josh alexander is really the walking weapon
Thank you IMPACT Wrestling!
You have to respect guys that can wrestle for an hour that's alot of energy
Crazy. Also love Alexander’s gear
Impact used its low profile reputation as of late to their advantage to sneak up and provide a late shoo-in for MOTY just weeks out from the end of the year. Hats off to Alexander and Speedball
EXCELLENT / FANTASTIC MATCH of the year 2022. Thank you! SHALOM.
A Five 🌟 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Star classic, PPV Caliber match for free on UA-cam! Win win! Josh Alexander is a wrestling machine. Mike Bailey gives me Ricky Steamboat vibes!
Two of the best Canadians today
One of the best matches I've watched
This match along with Ospreay from BFG shows why Bailey is World Champion Material
Greatest match I've have ever seen
That’s the match of the year. Simple as that. What a contest!
Five Star Match
Wwe fans & Aew fans were fighting as always & outta nowhere MIDPACT gave us a classic match to divert our minds for a bit,, Josh is phenomenal,,his matches are most of the times r classics,like the recent one with Kaz,,,
Hasn’t been mid in a long while
@@freewillygoss their production quality is MIIID
Midpact? I dweeb it's more legit
Impact esta reviviendo 😮
Tbf it don't matter what company it comes from a great match is a great match there's never any reason to give your full undying loyalty to a single wrestling promotion...if your a wrestling fan then just be a wrestling fan not a WWE or AEW or NJPW or etc exclusive fan all your doing with that is limiting your chance of appreciating quality wrestling content
You know what this match was? Total Nonstop Action.
Absolutely lives up to the buzz, this was phenomenal
Better than any match AEW ever puts out (besides Dustin vs Cody) and a couple FTR matches
these 2 just put Impact back on the map
Great match, havent watched in years!
This was a classic last night impact the best
What a match Between the two this generational talents heads off Josh & mike.😵🖤
this was insane just incredible
Josh Alexander is the GOAT!
1:03:42 Alexader was right, Bailey was that close to win the "at this point" Impact World Championship
Josh Alexander as proven time and time again that he is a proud champion. As for Mike Bailey, despite not being X Division champ, he does have lot of potential, and he will return to the mountain top one day.
On a minor note, there is only one thing wrong with this match, not with the match itself, but from one pet peeve I got:
51:24: Nothing personal, but SERIOUSLY, Tom. Even though Josh did a Spinning Tombstone Piledriver (which was also done by both Justin Credible and Kazuchika Okada), you wouldn't bring yourself to call it a Tombstone. What's a matter, afraid to get sued by the Undertaker (who innovated that move, by the way) for saying it? Wrestling fans are smart. They know the difference between a regular Piledriver and a Tombstone Piledriver and what the Walking Weapon delivered wasn't a regular Piledriver.
59:10: THAT'S a regular Piledriver. A spiked version of it, but a regular Piledriver, nevertheless.
Anyway, other than that, both the Walking Weapon and Speedball delivered a clinic. Hopefully the future will be bright for both wrestlers, especially Josh Alexander, who made a believer out of me.
1 hour match!? Whooaaww this is Fantastic!
Great eyes for the ref in that spot.
Wow! What a match! You just cannot stop the Walking Weapon, I guess! Not even with a Speeding Ball of Fury! :p Wooooooo! Great effort, though! Speedball is soooooo amazing! My Wrestler of the Year, this year, for sure! 100%
In all honesty, there was just no way Alexander was gonna lose before HTK.
@@LOLMAN9538 no, this is true. But it's still a classic match & Speedball had a great year along with Josh, so all around, great stuff! 👍
Not only an incredible MOTY candidate match, but the two best commentators, calling the action.
what a transition
from watching a Championship Unification that had a 60-Minute Time Limit but only went 3 Minutes and 10 seconds to a World Championship Match that had a 60-Minute Time Limit and went 59 Minutes and 52 seconds with only 8 seconds left on the clock
Thankyou for this awesome incredible match. ❤️ Walking weapon 🔥🔥🔥
Match Of The Year! Hands down!
That was an awesome match Impact ! Keep them coming !
Will be doing a show on this match. Let’s just say Cagematch ranked this match #2 amongst TNA classics in the ring and I have a lot to say about it.
Been a while since I sat down and immersed myself in a full match. This was awesome
This match is the best ever both athletes are awesome
I feel if there was more time limit, Mike could have won, big respect, Ik Josh is hecking strong, but next time if they meet Josh your title gonna be in Bully or Mike's hands.
This match is unbelievable even Bailey will surely be world champion one day
Impact doing it like no other
What! A! Match! That's what great matches are all about
This was an AMAZING 💯 MATCH
59 minutes match,,That means almost an iron man match??? Hollly 🚬 🚬 j definitely wanted 2 c a ppv match between these 2 tremendous wrestlers cause they'd have get more times in a ppv,, but a 59 Mims match in a weekly TV?? Woooow!! That's Christmas present for me
Just watch at 23:46 the way speedball ask Josh with love to hit that kicks is 💕
I think you guys should put your weekly shows on UA-cam.
They do, in their exclusive membership.
That was a fantastic WRESTLING match. 👏
DEFINITELY the Match Of The Week, and no mistake; all that was missing was Bully Ray running in to pick the bones. (Yeah, he said he was not in the building; but you can't trust a bully.)
Match Of The Yeat period
speedball is an amazingly talented competitor but i have to admit. this might be one of the few times ive EVER seen him sell an injury during AND after a match. he kinda no-sells injuries midmatch cuz i mean. i get it. his offense requires him to be quick and agile so hobbling around would definitely hinder that but thats why i enjoyed this match so much more. alexander (whom i havent really seen matches of before, im not too well versed in impact's roster cuz access TV isnt something i have) is someone i can definitely tell is deserving of that title even if his look is, well. goofy, but traditional...it grew on me throughout this match. kudos to both of them, and also kudos to the commentary team, as hard as it is to wrestle an ironman match, casting one is also not that easy.