Heading into Saturday night's Slammiversary pay-per-view, Impact Wrestling heavily promoted they would bring back a former WWE Champion. With a number of returns and debuts throughout the night, they certainly didn't let fans down in that regard.

The night started with the return of the Motor City Machine Guns. While not a recently released WWE tag team, that set the tone early, but also threw a wrench into some of the speculation as there were plenty of fans that felt the open challenge by the Rascalz would have been answered by former WWE stars. But, from there, the appearances came quickly and often.

Heath Slater returned in street clothes and sporting a free agent shirt. He issued an open challenge after saying, “They promised surprises,” Slater said. “Well surprise!” He took out Rohit Raju who interrupted his promo and ran into a former partner in Rhyno backstage before being kicked out because he was not tested to be on a closed set during a pandemic.

From there, Eric Young returned and made the Impact Wrestling Championship match a Fatal-Five-Way and the Good Brothers appeared to stand beside the winner of that match, Eddie Edwards. They had announced they would be at the show at midnight of the evening their WWE non-competes expired.

But, as the show was closing, perhaps the biggest surprise-not-surprise of the night was the video debut of EC3. He appeared on the screen as the show was going off the air. He threw a glass into the wall and stared blankly until his graphic cut him off and ended the show.

Was The Show An Overall Win?

Some fans will argue that this is just Impact bringing in a bunch of old WWE names and that won't do much since they're talents who couldn't "get over" on the biggest stage. Others will say this is a huge win for Impact and that WWE misused most, if not all of these talents. The reaction online seems to be more of the latter and that Impact did a good job booking and bringing these guys in.

The show wasn't without its issues. A mic problem, a crashed feed and more showed that there were issues with the production, all of which will bring on the critics. We're just glad there's a third company that added some big names and might be able to give these guys a platform.

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