7 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (March 17)
3. Sorcery Is Real
It must be.
TNA has changed management companies, switched up its roster of headline talent and even changed its name - and yet, the curse of absolute ineptitude pervades it at every last turn. It was thought that the return of vaunted wrestling mind Dutch Mantell to the creative fold might usher in a new era of respectability to the rebranded Impact Wrestling, but the company, even without Dixie Carter haunting it, is seemingly cursed.
The belated hire of Alberto El Patron, a man who for a second time has reinvigorated himself on the independent circuit following his exit from WWE, was a sound one. But Impact Wrestling ballsed up his debut before he even stepped through the curtain. It was only marginally less disastrous than Rob Van Dam's 2010 debut, in which he blindsided Sting - as a babyface - and proceeded to get his clock cleaned with a baseball bat for about five minutes.
When Alberto El Patron emerged to make his entrance at the March 2 TV tapings he was met with a massive pop - but his entrance had to be reshot because some dimwitted tech staffer incorrectly cited his name as Alberto De Patron on his tron graphic.
You'd think the company could have just edited the audio from the original entrance into the footage of his corrected, naturally more muted second appearance - but Impact Wrestling is cursed, after all. Or utterly incompetent, one of the two.