10 Times TNA Went Way Too Far
8. The Worst Gimmick Matches In The World
Terrible, terrible gimmicked matches arent endemic to TNA, but theyre the reigning, defending champions of badly thought out, dull gimmick matches. Feast Or Fired and its womens equivalent of the Locked Box Challenge are just overbooked versions of Money In The Bank. Feast Or Fired gives four men winning briefcases, but one of them contains a pink slip and results in the winner being fired. Why a promotion would book a match where one of its supposedly valued performers would be sacked for winning is beyond anyone. The one-off Locked Box Challenge was actually worse: adding a weird elimination aspect to the action, one of the boxes contained the Knockouts title itself, while another contained a title shot, a third contained Knockouts champion Taras pet spider Poison, which had been stolen from her and the fourth had a contractual obligation to strip in the middle of the ring. Tara opened the box and got her spider back, but suddenly realised that this meant that, despite winning the match, shed lost her title without being pinned. Meanwhile the idea that a legally binding contract would be used to force a female talent whod just won a match - to take her clothes off on television is just creepy as all hell and why would anyone else get excited about winning someone elses tarantula?