10 Cringeworthy Worked Shoots In Wrestling History

Before the days of Impact and its titular Zone, TNA was a startup promotion running weekly PPVs out of Nashville in the "TNA Asylum."

Vince Russo was the head booker and chief onscreen antagonist. The early storylines were... well, Vince Russo's self-insert fan fiction. All the major players had something to say about him, and all the themes centered around "pro wrestling" vs. "sports entertainment" and how "everything was a shoot."

In a truly baffling segment, Tony Schiavone, bloated and donning jeans and a Hawaiian t-shirt, interrupted an in-ring promo by Paul Bearer (which, of course, was about Vince Russo), and sounded off on his ex-colleague Mike Tenay (TNA's play-by-play announcer). The two had an argument in-ring that was met to the utter boredom of the crowd. You could audibly hear people shout "we want wrestling" and "boring." There were even signs spotted that said "The Total Nonstop Action Has Stopped" and "Who Cares?"

Bear in mind: this was not even a year into TNA's existence. The TNA Asylum were already fed up with Russo's nonsense, but he pushed on. The segment ended with Russo coming to save Tony from the mean old nasty Tenay, joining Vince's "Sports Entertainment Xtreme" faction.

I'm just joking, of course; Schiavone soon left TNA and the wrestling business as a whole, rendering the entire segment pointless.