10 Worrying Signs From TNA Impact Wrestling's Reboot Episode

Throughout the show, Impact’s talking heads spent a great deal of time emphasising how horrendous TNA’s former management teams were. The narrative was simple: Dixie & co., messed up, but we’re going to try and make it right. It sounds innocuous enough, and the characters in-question certainly sounded confident in Impact’s ability to turn a corner but unfortunately, the show they produced did nothing to justify their lofty claims.

You can’t rip into a past regime if you don’t have a leg to stand on. Last week’s Impact was significantly worse than the so-so television TNA was producing towards the end of Dixie’s tenureship, and this made Dutch Mantell, Bruce Prichard, and everyone else look like fools. Carter was horrendous for the company, sure, but if Anthem’s guys can’t prove that their alternative to her product is superior, they’re in no position to criticise her regime.

The irony of this whole situation is that TNA were on the verge of going bust under the Jarrett family’s initial leadership in 2002, yet Impact now expect fans to accept Jeff as their lord and savior. Nobody holds more responsibility for TNA’s demise than Dixie Carter, but there’s no evidence to suggest that Impact’s current creative leaders are going to be any better, and on the back of such an egregiously bad television show, it comes off as hypocritical.