When TNA first started in 2002, the best part of the company was the X-Division. Thanks to the talent of guys like AJ Styles, Jerry Lynn and Christopher Daniels in those early shows, the X-Division is what made TNA cool. They were smaller wrestlers that got people's attention because they were doing high flying moves, given a lot of time to have matches and were a nice alternative to the plodding wrestlers that we were used to. The X-Division was successful because they bragged about how it wasn't about weight limits. It was about no limits. That's the kind of cool thing that TNA needed more to do because it gave them an identity. They had so many wrestlers on the roster that made their names because of the X-Division and the unique Ultimate X match. A few years ago, TNA said there was a weight limit for the X-Division so they were contradicting what the whole thing was about anymore. That was probably an Eric Bischoff/Hulk Hogan decision since they really didn't care much about TNA history or what made things work in the past. Basically they made it the same as the old WCW Cruiserweight division. Earlier this year, TNA brought back the "no limits" thing and put the title on Samoa Joe, who is a 270 pounder. The last match on Spike TV was actually an X-Division title match with Low Ki winning it. By that point, though, things have fallen so far that the appeal of the X-Division is gone.
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