WWE And TNA: 7 Worst Moments Of The Week (July 20)

By Andrew Soucek /

5. TNA€™s Identity Crisis

Last week I wrote about TNA hauling out Tommy Dreamer and Bully Ray for a big storyline makes the company seem dated. This week€™s Impact made it appear that TNA was proudly embracing that fact. Impact opened up inside of the Manhattan Center (where Raw debuted in 1993), with Taz cutting a promo about the TNA roster. He said the look he sees in the wrestler€™s eyes in the locker room reminds him of the days he was in ECW, and how his current company is about to turn a corner. The crowd went crazy chanting €œE-C-W€. That shouldn€™t be the letters Dixie Carter was hoping to hear. Then the first actual wrestlers of the night came out: Bully Ray and Tommy Dreamer. Two guys that are still playing off their ECW tenure! Shouldn€™t the first wrestlers that TNA brought out have been some of the upcoming stars that Taz was referring to? Shouldn€™t TNA aspire to have the crowds chant €œT-N-A€ instead of a dead company that is owned by their far more successful rival? Well, considering that this appears to be the 35th reboot of the company, we won€™t have to wait too long for the next one, which hopefully will be inspired from something that at least happened after 2002.