10 Huge Mistakes TNA Copied From WCW

9. Oversaturating Your Best Stable

There's no question that the new World order changed the face of pro wrestling in the mi- to-late 1990's, with Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash shaking up the industry. However, they would add more and more people to the group over time, diluting the concept to the point that it became a shell of it's former self. The group served as a good lesson for for other companies to avoid in the future; you can have too much of a good thing...or too many members of one stable, anyway! Fast forward to 2010 and TNA scored a real coup as they'd signed the biggest star in wrestling from 2009, Jeff Hardy. Hardy was immensely popular, the company's biggest babyface. So, at Bound For Glory 2010, Hardy turned heel and joined Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff to form Immortal, a kind of modern day nWo. Only Hogan and Bischoff were there but much older and couldn't get physically involved to the extent they had been able to fifteen years earlier. The Hardy turn was an attempt to create Bash At The Beach 1996 all over again. To give WCW their credit, it took months for the nWo concept to get diluted and years for it to become unsalvageable. To TNA's discredit, the first episode of Impact following Bound For Glory saw Immortal gain NINE new members. They merged with Ric Flair's Fortune stable and Jeff Jarrett and Abyss became part of the team. In the space of five days, TNA managed to dilute their nWo like faction and Hardy's heel turn has become widely forgotten.
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