10 Times TNA Went Way Too Far
9. Fun With Dick And Rod
In the first weeks of TNAs operation, the NWA-affiliated promotion was just finding its feet, and about to begin operating under the weekly pay-per-view model of business. Perhaps thats why Mike and Todd Shane, two independent wrestlers that happened to be the NWA tag team champions when TNA promoted its first ever event, were massive penises in their debut for the company. No, thats not a metaphor or a description of some bad attitude backstage. Renamed Richard and Roderick Johnson (Dick and Rod), the poor fellas were dressed in weirdly bulging pink latex to make them look like anthropomorphic male genitalia. Did we mention that these were the NWA tag team champions? The poor Shane boys probably believed that appearing on even pay-per-view television would lead to national exposure, but this cant have been what they had in mind. No one knows what Jeff and Jerry Jarrett had in mind. No ones entirely sure how they managed to get a second pay-per-view set up after this. The twins left TNA about a week after their debut against lucha libre legend Psicosis and a young, rubbish James Storm, and left the tag team titles behind too TNA had exclusive rights to the NWA championship array. The Shane boys would later find a few months work in the WWE as the Gymini, tag team enforcers for Simon Nova Deans midcard fitness guru gimmick. Terrible gimmick, but at least they werent made to look like a pair of pr*cks.