In days past, a wrestler could proudly proclaim they were the World Championship Wrestling Heavyweight Champion or the World Wrestling Federation Champion, these days wrestlers must be content with saying they are the Total Nonstop Action Champion of the world! What in the hell is that? Total Nonstop Action? That could be anything, and doesnt even contain the world wrestling or anything thats remotely related to wrestling like ring. To this day, try telling someone that you watch TNA wrestling. Youll probably get a funny look if theyre not familiar with the product. In fact, theyll probably just think youre a pervert who's was watching naked women wrestle in pudding. You see, TNA sounds like T and A as in tits and ass. Its a horrifyingly sexist name for a multi-million dollar company. Its cheap, and was already badly dated in 2002 when the company was formed. Hell, WWE had T and A with Test and Albert a couple years earlier and that was already a cheap and tired pun on the same naming device. Of course, WWE sounds goofy, but TNA sounds idiotic. It was a name that should have been done away with long ago. At the bare minimum when Impact was rebranded as wrestling matters (which we all know was false anyway) it should have changed to Impact Championship Wrestling, or something of that ilk. Hulk Hogan apparently hated the name and wanted it changed. Maybe thats why he wasnt so keen on promoting the company while he was there. Maybe its part of the reason why people dont even want to watch the show. If the company does manage to survive past October, they should seriously consider getting a new name. There is no equity in the letters T-N-A." Its three letters that represent terrible storylines, lost opportunities and tens of millions of lost dollars.
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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