10 Ways TNA Totally Screwed Themselves Over

4. Reliance On Ageing Stars

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TNA’s tendency to push old, worn-down wrestlers over more exciting younger talents has been a constant source of frustration since the company’s inception. Instead of building their own stars, the company have leaned heavily on those who had established their reputations elsewhere, and whose best days were far behind them. The results not only crippled interest in TNA’s product and frustrated the fanbase, but cost the company some of their most talented workers.

Booker T, Scott Steiner, Rob Van Dam, Kevin Nash, and countless others received monster pushes after walking into the company. TNA fans were forced to sit through these guys’ half-baked performances for years, while the likes of Samoa Joe and Austin Aries propped-up the midcard. Instead of existing to put the younger guys over, the veterans hogged the spotlight to nobody’s benefit but their own.

To TNA’s credit, they’ve tried to reverse this policy by cutting most of their ageing duds and building stars like EC3 and Drew Galloway in their place. Had TNA done this in the first place instead of trying to buy success with the Kevin Nashes of the world, they may have succeeded in their original goal of becoming a true alternative, and may not be in this terrible mess.

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