10 Things WWE Can Do With TNA

10. Acknowledge History

There are currently more former TNA World Heavyweight Champions on WWE’s roster than TNA. WWE have seven, while TNA have just six, including Drew Galloway, Lashley, and the Hardy brothers: four wrestlers who made their names in WWE in the first place.

AJ Styles, the most important wrestler in TNA history, is the current WWE World Heavyweight Champion. Samoa Joe had a run as NXT Champion and is currently deeply entrenched in a quest to wrest it back from Shinsuke Nakamura’s control. Bobby Roode, Austin Aries, and Eric Young, meanwhile, are all playing prominent roles at Full Sail University, and are regular highlights every Wednesday night.

WWE’s roster is stuffed with ex-TNA talent at the moment, but you won’t ever hear those initials read on-air. These men made themselves stars in TNA, and while guys like Joe and Aries got their starts on the indies, they wouldn’t be as popular as they are today if not for TNA. WWE will casually acknowledge Styles’ tremendous NJPW run, but not the TNA spell that shot him to national prominence in the first place.

Why? Because TNA are technically still a competitor, even if they’ll never get close to challenging WWE for ratings. Acquiring the brand would finally let WWE acknowledge the work that brought these men to the company in the first place, and curb the revisionist history that sets in any time one of these former TNA workers rises through the ranks.