10 Times TNA Went Way Too Far
Who writes this stuff, and how can we get them to stop?
For the most part, the story of professional wrestling in the United States in the last twenty years is the story of the abandonment of almost every single scintilla of traditional pro wrestling storytelling logic in favour of empty spectacle, ridiculous gimmicks, controversial antics, and crash TV theatrics. When it worked, it saw the formation of the NWO and rang in the Attitude Era; witnessed the second summer of Punk and the formation of the YES movement. When it didnt well, there was pretty much everything else, the stuff thats made WCW, the WWF/E and more recently TNA a laughing stock amongst wrestling fans. Wrestling legend Larry Zybysko once said of TNA president Dixie Carter that she knows nothing about the wrestling psychology part and at the same time she doesnt know who to trust. She doesnt know if Jeff Jarrett knows what hes doing, she doesnt know if Russo knows what hes doing, she doesnt know if Dusty knows what hes doing. So these people are just kind of taking guesses and whoever gives them the best line of bullsh*t gets a chance at running the thing for a while. Thats an hilarious way to run a company but, just as the hapless bookers behind WCW and WWE have discovered over the years, theres a price to pay for employing self-promoting chancers like Eric Bischoff or Vince Russo to constantly chase the edgiest, most engaging stories without any clear idea of what on earth youre doing. In only thirteen years of operation, TNA have committed more crimes against television than companies with three times that kind of history. Crimes likes these