10 Things We Learned From Dark Side Of The Ring: TNA (Part 3)
5. The Love Triangle Gets A Ton Of Praise
Jeff Jarrett wasn’t exactly thrilled when Russo called him up and told him that Dixie had “already signed off” on his love triangle storyline with Kurt Angle and Karen before he'd known about it, but he went along for the ride anyway. Awesome Kong said to VICE that she had “mad respect” for how everyone “put their differences aside” to try and give TNA a jolt when it badly needed one mid-Hogan and Bischoff mess. Then, D’Lo called it one of the greatest stories the company ever produced.
When analysing why it didn't turn the ship around, Karen said: “The downfall is that people believed it - they thought it was real”. Hmm, that might not be why TNA Impact didn't start whipping Raw in the ratings, Karen. Fans buying into your story is a good thing, not something that causes them to quit watching the show every week.
The irony of how things panned out wasn’t lost on Jarrett. He pointed out that Carter moved mountains to send him home around 12 months before giving his love triangle storyline with Kurt and Karen her personal green light. In essence, it was “Dixie’s power play”. On that, Jeff said she had no compassion for Angle’s personal plight; Dixie was only concerned with “putting herself in power”.
Man, Carter continued to take an absolute beating throughout this episode. You'd think she was the devil herself to hear all of this. Last week, Jeff called her "evil", and the hits just kept on coming in part 3. Speaking of which...