10 Ways TNA Totally Screwed Themselves Over

This could have all been avoided if not for the Carter family’s stubbornness. TNA has flirted with oblivion for years, but just when it looks like they’re about to vanish forever, they come up with some emergency funding and string the promotion’s miserable existence along for another few months.

TMA hemorrhages money like nobody’s business, and their funding usually comes from Dixie’s parents. Bob and Janice Carter’s constant drip of cash has saved their daughter’s wrestling vanity project’s short-term future on countless occasions, but it has done little to improve their fortunes. The cash injections help TNA fund their tapings, but that’s it: they do nothing to aid the company’s escalating debt, nor pay their employees on time.

Late pay remains an issue in TNA, and it’s believed that Bobby Roode, Eric Young, and countless others left the company for this specific reason. In constantly providing TNA with just enough money to get by, the Carters are only dealing further damage to the brand’s reputation, but digging themselves a deeper financial hole.

The Carters still hold a 70% stake in TNA, and it’s their stubbornness to compromise on value that has prevented the company’s sale. A number of parties have shown interest in purchasing TNA over the years, with Billy Corgan being the latest, but the Carters just won’t let go. TNA cannot thrive under their leadership, and until they stop prolonging the inevitable, the brand will remain hopeless.