10 Fatal Errors That TNA Has Made

7. Planet Jarrett

With TNA being pretty lousy the last couple years, some fans look back upon the first few years fondly. However, there were plenty of terrible gimmicks in that era (The Johnsons, Cheex, X), and the main event was being held hostage by Jeff Jarrett. Sure, Jarrett was a solid mid-carder in the WWF who probably deserved better, but he also wasn€™t main event material as we saw in WCW. Jarrett reached the top during the dying days of that company, which meant that he was one of the faces of a failed product. He absolutely should have had a role in TNA in the early days, but he was overbooked to the point of absurdity. Over in WWE at the time Triple H was hogging up the spotlight. TNA had Jarrett. There was just no escaping the good, but not great, backstage power broker, heel wrestler who was overbearing and over-pushed. From 2002 to 2006, Jarrett held the title six times! This makes him third all time for the most runs with the NWA World Heavyweight belt. This puts him directly behind the much more famous and bigger money-makers Ric Flair and Harley Race. Must be nice to book your own company. Any time someone with name value from the WWF or WCW came over to TNA they would either team up with Jarrett or fight him. Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Diamond Dallas Page, Raven and Sting all became involved with him as soon as they signed up. This prevented them from working with younger talent and putting them over. It also made it look like we were watching a mid-card WCW match from 2000. When you€™re in charge, you get to call the shots. But we€™ve seen how virtually every single time in wrestling history that when real life bosses become on-air figures they abuse the amount of power they are given. TNA was no exception, and suffered greatly from it during its important growing years.