8 Great Ideas TNA Gave Up On

1. A Ranking System

Wrestling is weird in many ways. But one of the biggest wasys is that they present it like an actual sport, but have no win/loss records to speak of, so we have no idea how good any particular wrestling is actually doing. We simply don't know why people are awarded title shots for the most part. It’s just a thing that happens, and we have to go along with it.

Four months into the Hogan/Bischoff era, they wanted to shake things up by establishing a ranking system. While TNA didn’t go fully on-board by keeping track of every win for every wrestler, they let us know who the top 10 contenders for the Heavyweight title were.

This let fans know who was inline for a title shot, as well as giving every match the contenders were in more importance. A win meant they were one step closer to a shot at the gold, while a loss meant someone else could take their place.

The criteria was a mix of win/loss, fan voting and a Championship Committee having “influence.” It was a cool idea, and something that made them feel more realistic, and gave them a way to establish title opportunities that WWE didn’t have.

However, it all came apart quickly when fans voted for who they wanted, which was Desmond Wolfe. He was clearly not who the company had in mind, so they reluctantly gave him his match and he lost to Rob Van Dam in a matter of minutes. He blew past guys like Mr. Anderson and Jeff Hardy, despite having a fraction of the push they enjoyed.

Either TNA thought it was too much work to keep up with the idea, or didn’t want fans to have any more involvement, so they scrapped the entire concept. So basically, it was either laziness or pettiness on their part that saw the concept go away.