7 Things We'll Miss About TNA

4. A Mainstream Diet-WWE

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There is a lot of professional wrestling in the world in 2016, and sometimes I think we don't realise how lucky we are. You want over-the-top insane story and all-action? Try Lucha Underground. You want athletic wrestlers hitting move after move after move until someone gets piledriven on the apron and kicks out at one? Try PWG.

Want what looks like the wrestling you know and love albeit with more moves? ROH might be for you. Maybe you're looking for fighting ants, ice creams, and Norse gods? If you are, may I point you in the direction of CHIKARA. Want professional wrestling as it probably should be done? New Japan Pro Wrestling my friend.

With all of this variety and the sheer abundance of pro wrestling, there is something comforting about TNA's place within it all. Sure, they suffer from something of an identity crisis, but their identity is that crisis. TNA offer mainstream wrestling that isn't quite as well done as WWE, and this is necessary.

Sometimes you just want get tired of listening to Tool, Deftones et al, and you just want to throw on Limp Bizkit. That is what TNA is.

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