10 Things We Learned From Dark Side Of The Ring: TNA (Part 3)

10. The Roster’s Reaction To Dixie’s Speech

Shortly before Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff walked through TNA’s doors, Dixie Carter held a meeting with talent and pretty much said they could “find another place to work” if they didn’t like where the company was heading. This...interesting way of handling an uncertain creative future went down like a lead balloon.

Awesome Kong noted on 'Dark Side' that the wrestlers hated what Carter had to say, because “we’ve been working our asses off for you, and we’re not asking for anything we have not earned - and you want to reprimand us for that”. It's true that approaching things this way seemed despotic from Dixie at the time, and it looks even worse in hindsight.

D’Lo Brown, who was working backstage in the promotion at the time, said you could practically feel respect evaporating out of the room, and Jeff Jarrett says it was all about “her ego”. Dixie took an absolute verbal kicking during the first 2 parts of VICE's look at TNA, and things were no different during the third episode.

Pause the documentary at the right moment and you'll be treated to some seriously ticked off looking pro wrestlers. The likes of AJ Styles, Victoria/Tara, Christopher Daniels, Rhyno and Bobby Roode (amongst others) can all be seen looking baffled as their boss pretty much tells them 'like it or lump it'.

Kong spoke up for all of her peers by saying that it was insulting of Dixie to go about things so clumsily after all the graft they'd put in to make TNA appealing to guys like Hogan in the first place.