Impact announced recently that they are partnering with Twitch to launch an Impact Wrestling channel. Last week, The Barbed Wire Massacre III was advertised for upcoming Thursday’s show; however, the match between LAX and oVe will now play on twitch and is now deemed “too violent for television”. The match will happen at 10 pm, after Impact goes off the air on Pop TV.
Despite the advertisement, there was concern from Pop that the match was indeed too violent as indicated when Konnan tweeted the station was concerned about its violence. This indeed is disappointing news as the match will now have less eyes on it. The Twitch channel is however, a good thing for Impact. The gaming platform has been getting in the pro wrestling business more and more, airing of Triple A’s TripleMania last summer, and also Tommy Dreamer’s House of Hardcore shows.
Original programming for Impact will also air on Twitch, such as episodes of Xplosion, a video podcast using the “Live Audio Wrestling” name from Fight Network with Jeremy Borash talking wrestling, a weekly show hosted by Fox News’ Tyrus, and some of their house shows. Also, they will air old episodes of Impact. They mention “pay-per-view events in a second window” but it’s not clear what that means regarding their occasional PPVs.