10 TNA Matches You Totally Forgot (That WWE Should Now Book)
Crossing the line again.
As Total Nonstop Action at long last conclusively disappears from view, it will leave behind mixed feelings from fans and critics alike thanks to a decade and a half of schizophrenic action featuring a laundry list of past, present and future talent that stopped off along the way.
The TNA name was considered stained enough for company bosses to attempt a wholesale rebrand several years earlier, but the 'Impact Wrestling' tag was already too ingrained with the company's weekly telecast, and instead just muddied the waters from an identification standpoint.
Parent company Anthem Entertainment's recent acquisition of Global Force Wrestling came with the decision to push ahead with GFW as the new front-of-house, finally closing the book on one failed company Jeff Jarrett started to push ahead with another.
WWE has unsurprisingly been a benefactor of TNA's tumultuous final straight, picking up several key performers in the last few years that had spent prime spells working the reduced Orlando schedule and achieving a modicum of fame with wrestling fans thanks to the half-decent audience Impact had once established.
Subsequently, Vince McMahon's organisation now has the opportunity to repurpose several lost Impact Zone classics into brand new battles for the substantially broader WWE audience. What's old is new again, or at very least, new-looking.
10. Jeff Hardy Vs Manik (TJ Perkins)
A routine clash between the 'Charismatic Enigma' and the anthropomorphised video game character on a September 2013 edition of TNA Impact saw Hardy pick up a win against the X-Division Champion in a non-title match designed to further Manik's feud with Chris Sabin and forge a brief union between the two fliers.
Underneath the mask stood former Cruiserweight Champion TJ Perkins, who now resides predominantly on 205 Live having struggled to find a foothold ironically as a retro game enthusiast despite being the chosen one to hold the re-introduced strap in September 2016.
Lost in the lightweight shuffle as a heel underneath dominant Champion Neville, Perkins and Hardy's return contest would offer the former titleholder an opportunity to remind fans why he was selected to carry the division in the first place.
Both Hardy Boyz have had no issue taking their lumps since their shocking reappearance at WrestleMania 33, and defeat to Perkins would be a welcome use of Jeff's talent and stature as a former (and potentially future) WWE Champion whilst his midcard tag team placement still allows for such a decision.