10 Best Ever TNA Knockouts

2. Awesome Kong

TNA blew it big time with Awesome Kong.

The company has always struggled to find its own identity, and something that would set them apart from WWE. They had it with their Knockouts Division, and especially with Kong.

The women in TNA were far more athletic and exciting to watch than the Divas division. They were often drawing the highest ratings on Impact, and the talent came at a fraction of the cost as the WCW and WWE has-beens on the roster. Instead of TNA giving the women raises to keep them all around, and featuring them more on TV, they let most of them leave. Not long after, the ratings began to sink.

Kong was someone that should have been built around as one of the anchors of the Knockouts Division. To give TNA some credit first, they pushed her effectively for a while as unbeatable. She was absolutely dominant, easily destroying most of the women in the company, but was turned face in an ill-advised move.

Her downfall was due to a man named Bubba The Love Sponge, one of Hogan’s favourite cronies (and the man who later recorded his sex tape). She had an altercation with Bubba backstage, and the company sent her home. She was soon released. Her 2015 return was sadly forgettable as her aura was gone, and her in-ring skills had greatly diminished due to injuries.

Still, TNA has rarely done a better job pushing anyone as they did with Kong her first year in the company.