9 Exact Moments TNA Booking Stopped Making Sense

There's a dark hilarity to the opening moments of TNA's on-air history, and only some of that can be credited to some shenanigans that took place before the cameras rolled.

Ahead of the very first NWA-TNA Weekly pay-per-view on June 19th 2002, the ring broke in the dark match, resulting in the show being completely restructured to make time for the Nonstop Action to actually get started. Not ideal, but forgivable to an extent. On commentary, Mike Tenay played credible host as various NWA legends were trotted out to kill the necessary time, though his words were undone by edgelord loser Ed Ferrara being more excited by "T&A", sarcastically asking if the likes of Harley Race and Dory Funk Jr were going to wrestle on the show and denying the existence of the Wrestling Observer. The fans played along more than Ferrara, popping big for Ricky Steamboat in particular, and the announcement that he'd be the referee for the match between the finalists in the first ever "Gauntlet For The Gold" (a Royal Rumble that ends with a pin). 

Naturally, the first full-timer on the stage was Jeff Jarrett, who interrupted 'The Dragon' to layout the stipulation then call it the "biggest bunch of crap" and a "stupid battle royal". Fellow title favourite (and eventual first winner) Ken Shamrock emerges next, but not to shout down the stipulation! He agrees, saying it "sucks"

Scott Hall is next out, mirroring his historic Nitro walk through the crowd to...agree with both of them! It's one of the weirdest way to promote a main event, and worst still - they were telling paying customers. The original business model was doomed to fail even in the best case scenario, but dogging the headline attraction expedited the reality to a comical degree.