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5. Meet The New TNA/GFW/Impact/Whatever, Same As The Old Meet The New TNA/GFW/Impact/Whatever

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TNA was bad even when it was good.

GFW's Slammiversary was good. Exceptional, in places. The Fatal 4-Way Tag Team opener was a chaotic spot fest fully deserving of the "This is awesome!" chants. It was the best PPV opener promoted anywhere all year. A comedy match (more on that imminently) was something completely different yet equally entertaining. Nothing outstayed its welcome...

...and whatever the company is calling itself these days still managed to balls up the selling point of the PPV by spoiling the main event with a description for the following Impact Wrestling episode. "Alberto El Patron will hold a celebration in the ring," it read. Now, unless GFW were going for a retread of the infamous Edge and Lita angle of 2006 - and that isn't a facetious suggestion, since TNA has a long history of imitating WWE - this could only mean El Patron was going to unify the GFW and Impact Wrestling World Titles. It seems it doesn't matter that Dixie Carter and Vince Russo are no longer in charge. GFW is forever cursed with hilarious ineptitude.

National Wrestling Alliance: Total Nonstop Action. Total Nonstop Action. Impact Wrestling. Global Force Wrestling. None of these name changes matter, ultimately; it will always be known as LOLTNA.

They even flew an actual owl into what is likely to be renamed the Global Zone just as they changed the logo from that of an owl.

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