7 Ways TNA Can Save Its Sinking Skip

By John Bills /

5. Make The X-Division Special Once Again

Ask anyone from the mid to latter part of this century's first decade why they got into TNA Wrestling and the answer is likely to be the X Division. TNA tapped into something special with its cruiserweights (and some not so cruiserweights), to create arguably the most exciting title division in professional wrestling at the time. Of course, this led to the Samoa Joe/AJ Styles/Christopher Daniels feud over the title, the pinnacle of TNA for many. What happened? Hogan and Bischoff came in, and the X Division was relegated to curtain jerking and irrelevance. Now the division is reserved only for generic cruiserweight action, spots after spots after spots with little in the way of psychology. This misses the point of what made the division so spectacular in the first place. It wasn't just matches full of flips and flops, but it was a collection of diverse and exciting workers whose styles meshed beautifully. As well as Joe, Daniels and Styles you had men like Frankie Kazarian, Petey Williams, Low Ki, Chris Sabin and more, revolutionising mainstream professional wrestling. TNA must return to what brought it to the dance in the first place.