8 Most Valuable Assets WWE Could Take From A Deal With Impact Wrestling
2. ALL The Footage
Not all of Impact Wrestling's complex past is really worth watching again, but then WWE once put live dogs between a steel cage and a Hell In A Cell and left it there to be watched forever on their own Network, so quality shouldn't really be a gauge for gobbling up the Global Wrestling Network.
WWE have already taken particular bits to augment various Network vehicles, but there's far more fun to be had by offering the vast archive as a tucked-away option next to WCW, ECW et al.
If anything, the carefully archived content protects, preserves and promotes the legacy of Impact Wrestling as much more than it actually was. ECW creatively helped dig wrestling out of its mid-1990s nadir, whilst WCW furnished the fanbase with two separate golden generations before WWE's grit won a war.
There's less of that to be found amongst some of TNA's turkeys, but the back catalogue isn't without pure pro wrestling beauty. AJ Styles became 'Phenomenal' on weekly pay-per-views in 2002, had match-of-the-year candidates with Samoa Joe, Kurt Angle, Christopher Daniels and countless others years later, whilst occasional moments of clumsy and clueless comedy made some banter booking better than it otherwise would have been.