8 Great Ideas TNA Gave Up On

2. Knockouts Tag Titles

TNA largely gave up on the Knockout’s division years around 2010, and in 2013 they gave up on their Knockouts Tag Titles completely.

In 2009, there were a lot of talented women on the TNA roster. But with only one title to fight over, there wasn’t a lot for most of them to do. So a tournament was created to crown the first ever Knockouts Tag Team Champions. What made the idea so good was that it further established Impact as THE place to be to watch women’s wrestling.

Sarita and Taylor Wilde were the first champions, before dropping the belts to Awesome Kong and Hamada, which was the first episode of Impact that Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff appeared on. It was also the beginning of the end of the titles. Kong was let go because of a backstage argument with Hogan’s crony Bubba The Love Sponge and the titles were vacated.

The Knockouts Titles quickly became irrelevant. Other top women began leaving, and the titles changed hands eight times over the next two years before Eric Young and ODB won them, turning them completely into joke titles. Nearly 500 days later they re-appeared, only so they could be retired.