TNA's 10 Most Costly Mistakes
5. Pushing Jarrett As The Top Star
Before Hulk Hogan joined TNA in 2010, they paid him a lot of money in 2004 to shoot an angle with Jeff Jarrett. Randy Savage came in, and the plan was for him to wrestle Jarrett in the main event of a pay-per-view. Scott Hall, Sting, Kevin Nash, Diamond Dallas Page and Christian all had their big showdowns with Jarrett, instead of wrestling younger talent they could have given a rub to.
Jarrett booking himself as the center of the TNA universe was a glaring mistake to everyone watching the show except to him, and perhaps a few of his closest cronies behind-the-scenes. He was in power, and pushed himself as the most powerful man in the company. It’s one of the most dumbfounding, recurring tragedies in wrestling.
It didn’t matter when Jarrett was beaten, because he’d still end up with the biggest storylines, and he’d still get the most mic time and he would still get his title back. The only reason he was ever cast aside is because of a scandal with Kurt and Karen Angle.
Had Jarrett not sucked up all the oxygen in the room years earlier, other hungrier, fresher, more charismatic wrestler could have thrived in his place. But the story of Impact in those first few years was always how could they get Jeff Jarrett over as one of the biggest stars in the wrestling world. It was an impossible task.