8 Innovations TNA/Impact Brought To American Wrestling

For 114 events, Impact Wrestling promoted weekly pay-per-views. This was unheard of. Traditionally, a company would hold pay-per-views once a month at least, let alone once a week. Doing so from the offset, however, immediately made people talk about this new promotion.

What's surprising in a way is that even following the launch of the company's new weekly show on FSN in June 2004, the weekly pay-per-views continued. This gave fans three ways to catch Impact action each week, alongside secondary show Xplosion. This was crucial if they had any chance of competing with WWE's outrageous amount of content released on a weekly basis.

All taking place at the Tenessee State Fairgrounds in Nashville, dubbed the Impact Asylum (their home arena before the Impact Zone), the weekly pay-per-views played host to some of the company's most important matches; the crowning of the inaugural X Division Champion, the first NWA World Heavyweight and World Tag Team Champions under the NWA/TNA banner, the first-ever King of the Mountain Match.

Considering Impact were the first promotion to attempt to provide genuine competition to WWE following the closure of both World Championship Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling, they desperately needed to do something massive. Weekly pay-per-views were just the thing they needed to survive in the land of the giants.