10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About TNA
5. WWE Have Never Matched The X Division
The X Division has always been TNA's unique selling point. Fast, athletic, and exciting, it offered a breathless style of wrestling sorely lacking in the post-WCW/ECW mainstream landscape, with performers like AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels regularly stealing the show from whatever bigger names occupied the main event slots at the time.
WWE, meanwhile, have a long history of failure when it comes to promoting similar niche divisions. Their original Light Heavyweight scene was a joke. They absorbed WCW's Cruiserweights prior to the invasion, but while there were a few fleeting periods when the division was treated with the deserved respect, it was usually an afterthought. Hornswoggle was the last man to hold the belt prior to its 2016 revival, for crying out loud.
Even today, WWE's CW division is no more than Raw Lite, with the multi-talented roster severely restricted in what they're allowed to do between the ropes. Granted, promoting the Cruisers has never been top of their priority list, but the fact that TNA have continually outshone WWE in this department, even during their many creative nadirs, must be the source of significant shame.