10 Times TNA Went Way Too Far
8. The Worst Gimmick Matches In The World
Terrible, terrible gimmicked matches arent endemic to TNA, but theyre the reigning, defending champions of badly thought out, dull gimmick matches. Feast Or Fired and its womens equivalent of the Locked Box Challenge are just overbooked versions of Money In The Bank. Feast Or Fired gives four men winning briefcases, but one of them contains a pink slip and results in the winner being fired. Why a promotion would book a match where one of its supposedly valued performers would be sacked for winning is beyond anyone. The one-off Locked Box Challenge was actually worse: adding a weird elimination aspect to the action, one of the boxes contained the Knockouts title itself, while another contained a title shot, a third contained Knockouts champion Taras pet spider Poison, which had been stolen from her and the fourth had a contractual obligation to strip in the middle of the ring. Tara opened the box and got her spider back, but suddenly realised that this meant that, despite winning the match, shed lost her title without being pinned. Meanwhile the idea that a legally binding contract would be used to force a female talent whod just won a match - to take her clothes off on television is just creepy as all hell and why would anyone else get excited about winning someone elses tarantula? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi9KP6aQmW4 The Reverse Battle Royal, where wrestlers wage pointless war on one another to get into the ring, is actually stupider than it sounds. Cuffed In The Cage involved several tag teams competing in a steel cage elimination match where the losing team is cuffed to the inside of the cage. The S&M (Sadistic Madness) affair from way back when proves that its not just modern TNA that sucks this badly its a four-on-four where no pinfall or submission will count until all eight men are bleeding. And then theres the daddy of them all: the King Of The Mountain match. Five men compete for the world title, and a pinfall or submission makes the pinning man eligible to win, while the pinned man gets to spend two minutes in a time out cage until he can rejoin the action (whereby you get to fight or collude with any other pinned man who might also be languishing in there). Once youre eligible to win, you run to a roving referee and grab the belt from them, using the ladders to try and hang the belt above the ring. When the belt is in play, any eligible wrestler may try to hang it. If you drop the belt, and no one else eligible immediately grabs it, the belt is returned to the roving referee and you carry on. If that actually makes sense to you, then you probably need a blood test to confirm whether youre actually a Jarrett.