TNA's 10 Most Costly Mistakes
4. Giving Up On The X Division
The early years of TNA were filled with really sleazy material, terrible characters, and as just mentioned, Jeff Jarrett overload. But for fans who did order their weekly shows, they could tell their friends they were missing out on something special with the X Division.
Not since the peak of the Cruserweight Division on Nitro had we seen such incredible action from smaller wrestlers. In WWE they were a joke, but in TNA they were stealing the show. Amazing Red, Jerry Lynn, Low Ki, Christopher Daniels and A.J. Styles created a buzz for the small promotion, and all TNA had to do was keep on building off of what they had created.
Somewhere around 2006/2007, the company established their popular division as opening match fodder, filled with interchangeable wrestlers in car crash matches with little to no storyline support. Again and again the company would pay lip service to the X Division, and how it was the life blood of TNA, but they never treated it seriously again.
For minimal cost, they could have filled their roster with a ton of greatathletes and delivered a style of wrestling you couldn’t find in WWE. But TNA absolutely dropped the ball, and instead continued to mimic their larger competitor to diminishing results.