10 Precise Moments Kayfabe Ended

2. Dixie Carter's State Of The Roster Address

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Much like LOLWCW, LOLTNA also never held itself to tradition under Vince Russo's preferred philosophy.

But Dixie Carter infamously exposed everything - the pretence, the integrity of the roster, everything - in a phenomenally counterproductive 2009 'State of the Roster Address'. It was, of course, an idiotic thing to do in itself - watching a group of subservient, browbeaten combat athletes, heels and faces sitting together amicably was beyond the point of all of this - but the verbal tirade was very much off-target. TNA management was always the problem; the hard-working, very talented roster toiled amid asinine, sh*t-show booking.

"When you're questioning things in this company, you're questioning me," Carter said. "And I cannot allow that to happen," Carter followed up, the same Dixie Carter who inherited a sh*tload of money and lost almost as much because she was utterly unqualified to run a profitable pro wrestling company that wasn't considered an abject joke, and was only considered good in spite of itself on account of the talent she saw fit to bury.

"It's time for us to swing for the fences, it really is," she continued, as if it any of it was their fault.

"Stop drawing dicks on your face, Joe! It's time to get serious, come on."

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