5 Indie Wrestlers that Impact Wrestling should sign

While All Elite Wrestling, Ring of Honor and WWE have been filling the wrestling quota for many over the past 6 months, Impact is quietly putting on an incredible product, and right now, they're just as good as any of those other promotions.

Slammiversary XVII was a great show, and they've got some fantastic talents on their roster, but to compete on a bigger level, they need some more names, and there's plenty of great indie wrestlers looking for that stage.

While their roster is great in every way, adding more depth and variety would help them stand out further, and would only help to improve Impact's great product. While a lot of these performers are likely looking at ROH, AEW or WWE, Impact has been great lately, and given this, the following are 5 performers that we'd love to see take a different route, and head to Impact Wrestling.

#5 Chris Brookes

While wrestling moves are great, it's the stories and the characters that truly make it stand out, and there are few more entertaining and creative wrestlers on the indies than Chris Brookes. The Calamari Catch King has been a tag team wrestler for a number of years now, but he's now on his own, and while honing his craft in DDT Pro, he'll keep getting better, and he deserves a big-time shot.

While AEW, ROH or WWE would be lucky to gain the services of the British star, Impact is the best place for him now, as they'd allow him to work with his character and give him some great creative freedom.

It's unknown how Brookes wants his current career to go, but it's unlikely he wants to leave the UK full time, so Impact would be wise to chase Brookes as a future main event player.

#4 Brian Pillman Jr.

Plenty of second-generation stars have failed in wrestling, but given the 'it factor' that Brian Pillman Jr. possesses, he's on the verge of becoming a huge star in his own right. Pillman has a very unique look, and he's got all of the personality that his father possessed, and as he gains more experience, he'll become a big-time star, but he's still got to improve his game in many areas.

He's connected to AEW, as he competed in the Casino Battle Royale at Double or Nothing, but he is far away from becoming a developed star of his own, and honing his craft in Impact makes sense first. With freedom and plenty of potential new opponents, he could have a great run in Impact before moving onto AEW or WWE, and they should be pursuing him quite heavily, as he's got main event player written all over him.

#3 Kimber Lee

Impact's Women's Division has always been one of its strengths (as evidenced by Slammiversary), but adding a veteran like Kimber Lee makes perfect sense. Lee has been with WWE in the past, and that speaks to her potential, but given the freedom that Impact would provide her over that company, she'd excel with all those opponents.

Lee has the ability to work many different styles, and with Jessicka Havok, Taya, Tessa, Su Yung, Rosemary and so much talent, she'd fit right in, and add another layer to the women's division. Kimber has so much talent, so it's confusing as to why she hasn't yet made it big, but if the company got behind her, she could easily be the fact of a division, alongside all the other talent Impact has.

Since leaving WWE, she hasn't shown an interest in another big company, but Impact is doing great work, and if they give her the chance, she'll go on a star-making run that we've all been expecting.

#2 Aussie Open

Tag team wrestling has always been a strength of Impact, and with 3 top tier teams operating there right now, they could always use an infusion of more talent, and a team waiting to break out is Aussie Open.

The duo of Kyle Fletcher and Mark Davis have been dominating the UK scene for the past year, and given their likability and talent inside the ropes, they'd blend perfectly into Impact's roster.

The two are still young as a team, and improving every time they step in the ring, and if their run in Progress, wXw and RevPro is anything to go by, they are one of the best teams in the entire world. This seems like a no-brainer, as they'll be the target of a big-time bidding war in the near future, so Impact should get in early and bring them in to face The Rascalz, LAX and all of their top teams.

#1 Filthy Tom Lawlor

The universe of wrestling and MMA has been intertwined for years now, and following Matt Riddle, several performers have made the change, and one big-time standout is 'Filthy' Tom Lawlor.

Lawlor may not be the in-ring performer that Riddle is, but he's certainly a great character in MLW, and if he gets a shot on a bigger stage, he'll be a main-event player straight away.

Just a few years into his indie wrestling career, Lawlor has had so many great matches, and if he continues to work, he could one day be one of the world's best performers.

He definitely needs to improve several phases of his game, and the step up to Impact and opponents like Brian Cage, Michael Elgin, Moose, Johnny Impact, Sami Callihan and others will help in that, so they should do anything they can to bring him in in 2019.

Who do you think are some Independent Stars that Impact Wrestling needs to sign? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.

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