As Impact Wrestling looks toward the future, it turns to a past champion in Eddie Edwards to serve as the present face of the company.
Edwards won Impact’s vacant world title at the Slammiversary pay-per-view on July 18. He was the last one standing in a five-way elimination match that included Rich Swann, the newly returned Eric Young, Trey and one of wrestling’s brightest rising stars, Ace Austin. The decision was made among Impact’s power brokers that there would be no better representative, especially with an influx of new talent in the company, than Edwards, the 19-year wrestling vet from Peabody, Mass.