10 Weapon Fails That Totally Ruined Wrestling Matches
3. The Blind Literally Lead The Blind In TNA
The debate about where the lapsed (or, shudder, "casual") fans went will rage on Twitter forever irrespective of who owns the hell-mouth of an app.
They either fell out of love with the WWF's attitude-heavy approach when they ceased being dumbass hormonal teenagers, fell out of love with WWE when Triple H worked inertia heat spots for three consecutive f*cking years, or - and this really doesn't get discussed enough - they gave WWE's distant rival TNA a shot, watched it fall apart in front of their eyes, and decided to simply play more games, scratch their b*llocks, scream into a void or do literally anything else with their valuable time.
"Fall apart" here isn't used here as a metaphorical description. The Blindfold match between James Storm and Chris Harris at Lockdown 2007 literally fell apart in that the black sacks used to obscure their vision kept falling off their faces.
Less a weapon and more of a prop, yes, the match was still totally ruined. Almost every time the two former blood brothers located one another and unloaded with haymakers, the referee had to intervene to put the sacks back on their heads. The literal antithesis of Total Non-Stop Action, every time action was even threatened, the ref put a stop to it.
AEW does well to get the numbers it does because the 2000s did a right f*cking number on the industry itself.