Let’s take a look at the silver lining of these misfires and see just what the best matches were on the worst Impact pay-per-views.

While Impact Wrestling (formerly known as TNA) started off doing a weekly pay-per-view broadcast in the place of a “free” TV show, eventually they conformed to the standard pro wrestling model in 2004, delivering monthly PPVs — and sometimes even more. While some fans tend to overstate the badness of Impact for easy meme value, there’s no question that the company has produced some poorly received pay-per-views over the years.

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But rather than simply dwell on the bad, let’s take a look at the silver lining of these misfires and see just what the best matches were on the worst Impact pay-per-views.

In 2010, Impact’s Hard Justice pay-per-view was renamed Hardcore Justice, as the event functioned as an ECW reunion show. The 2011 follow-up, besides being a weak effort, is a total misnomer, as none of the matches are contested under any sort of hardcore or No DQ rules. The closest thing to a hardcore moment is a table spot that happens in the best match of the evening, with AJ Styles, Christopher Daniels, and Frankie Kazarian of Fortune taking on the Immortal faction’s Abyss, Scott Steiner, and Gunner. While it’s nowhere near a classic, it proved to be a fun six-man tag between the feuding stables.

There’s a lot about Impact that makes it a successor to WCW, and one of those things is its cruiserweight-style X Division being a highlight of many cards. True to the tradition, the best match on the lackluster Against All Odds 2009 was the opening bout, with Alex Shelley defending the X Division Title against Eric Young. As to be expected, the result is a solid 13-minute opener with a lot of great high-flying moves, with Shelley eventually retaining the belt against Young.

Impact’s fifth-ever pay-per-view after ditching the weekly PPV format, Destination X features such misfires as the debut of the much-hyped but ultimately disappointing Trytan, an overbooked main event bout between Jeff Jarrett and Diamond Dallas Page, and Ron and Don Harris wrestling. But, true to the name of the show, the big X Division match did not disappoint.

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The bout saw AJ Styles defending the X Division title in a variation of the Ultimate X match called the Ultimate X Challenge, which had two elimination rounds before the final two competitors actually took part in the Ultimate X portion of the thing. While it sounded complicated, it thrilled in execution.

In 2013, Impact started producing regular one-off pay-per-views called One Night Only, with each show having a specific theme, including the female-focused Knockouts Knockdown. While many of these ONO shows aren’t essential viewing, the 2016 Knockouts Knockdown outing was particularly weak, with Rebel vs. original Knockout Shelly Martinez in the running for being one of Impact’s worst matches ever. But there are some good matches on the card, including Leva Bates taking on Jade (a.k.a. Mia Yim) in a well-wrestled, near-10-minute effort.

The second of Impact’s One Night Only series (following X-Travaganza a month prior) was Joker’s Wild, a take on WCW’s old Lethal Lottery tag team tournament, wherein tag teams are randomly determined and the winning teams all take part in a battle royal to win $100,000. While the show was met with lukewarm reception, the standout match here had a nice lineup of performers, with Samoa Joe and Christopher Daniels beating Rob Van Dam and Chavo Guerrero in front of an excited Impact Zone.

An underwhelming show that boasts a main event between Jeff Hardy and Matt Morgan, the 2010 edition of Turning Point also offered what would be the last televised match of Team 3D (a.k.a. The Dudley Boyz) for three years. Bully Ray and Devon wanted to go out on a high note, so their retirement bout as a tag team was an impressive challenge against Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin for the tag team title. This 17-minute effort proved to be massively entertaining, with the Motor City Machine Guns ultimately retaining their championship.

The second Knockouts Knockdown after the inaugural 2013 outing, the 2014 edition of this One Night Only staple proved to disappoint, with a gauntlet battle royal lacking in excitement and a maligned match between ODB and non-Knockout Rockstar Spud.

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However, there were some good matches on this card, including a bout where newcomer and soon-to-be Knockouts Champion Jessicka Havok took on Impact veteran and Beautiful People member Madison Rayne. Rayne would get the win over the less-experienced Havok, but it was a well-put-together effort rather than a simple squash.

The 2011 edition of Victory Road is infamous thanks to the main event in which Jeff Hardy came to the ring visibly intoxicated, forcing opponent (and World Champion) Sting to quickly end the match lest anybody get hurt for real. Despite that disaster, there are actually some strong matches on the card, the best of which ironically featuring Jeff’s brother. Backed by Ric Flair, Matt Hardy took on Flair’s former protege AJ Styles in a 16-minute effort that ended with Styles winning via Spiral Tap finisher.

A lopsided show, 2009’s Destination X features a reviled first half, with weak matches and a maligned segment devoted to the “One Night With ODB” contest where people sent in videos to win a night with ODB but the contest was really meant to introduce Cody Deaner. The second half fared way better, with the obvious standout being a five-man Ultimate X match, with Alex Shelley defending the belt. Loaded with clever, high-risk spots, Suicide (as portrayed by Christopher Daniels) ends up emerging as the new X Division Champion.

While Victory Road 2011 is marred by the Jeff Hardy main event incident, the 2009 edition is considered to be of a consistently low quality. The nadir of the show, of course, is Jenna Morasca vs. Sharmell, a match so legendarily bad that it’s considered one of the worst bouts a major promotion ever put on. The best match on Victory Road 2009, however, features Matt Morgan trying to impress Main Event Mafia by beating up Christopher Daniels, and ultimately winning by taking advantage of Daniels’ injured leg. It’s a totally competent match — the kind that fans damn with faint praise by describing it as a decent TV match — which is the nicest thing one can say about this particular pay-per-view.

Danny Djeljosevic is a writer based in San Diego, CA. His last name is slightly easier to pronounce than it looks.