5 Reasons I Chose To Watch WWE SummerSlam 91 Instead Of TNA Slammiversary 2016

1. A Lack Of Faith In TNA

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Once you get past the plethora of LOL TNA jibes, fingers being pointed at past booking stupidity and the crazy world of Dixie Carter, this is the saddest yet most pertinent point one makes with regards to TNA. No true wrestling fan wishes to see a company fail, as each company that goes out of business represents one less place that wrestlers can earn a living, and one less place for wrestling fans to get their wrestling fix.

Despite this, TNA has pissed away so much faith from the wrestling audience that it has become more and more difficult to invest in the company (no, that isn't a financial investment joke) as a fan. When Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff came into the company along with the mass of irrelevant 'legends', there were still things that kept fans tuning in.

Whether it was AJ Styles, Chris Daniels, Samoa Joe, Beer Money or whoever, there was always something to even out the Nasty Boys and Orlando Jordan.

Years of preposterous booking and rumours of ill-treatment towards the performers has pretty much led to TNA getting a vote of no-confidence. In truth, there is a lot to enjoy about the company right now. Drew Galloway is getting the chance to sit at the top of a wrestling company, ECIII and Mike Bennett have put together a great little feud and even Al Snow has seen something of a character resurgence lately.

Still, there are only so many full-time chances a company gets. Each show seems to come along with a 'just tune in, you might be surprised', and a fan can only be disappointed so many times. My personal interest in TNA has gone from excited curiosity watching AJ Styles in 2004, to excited fandom as Kurt Angle arrived in 2006, to actively telling WWE fans to watch the product in 2009, all the way to what amounts as sheer apathy in 2016.

That is the main reason I would choose to watch a 1991 WWF show over a 2016 TNA show.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.