9 Things To Expect With TNA's New Ownership

7. A Potential Jim Herd Situation

Professional wrestling is not an easy business to run. You have to really understand the history of the business, and what has and hasn’t worked in the past. You can't just pick who "looks" the most like a wrestler and build around them. Will the new management team of TNA know that?

Jim Herd was a guy that rose to the top of WCW in the late ‘80s. He had no experience in the wrestling business to that point, as he was a TV station manager (and Pizza Hut manager) before that. His lack of knowledge was apparent immediately. He had awful ideas, like creating a tag team that couldn’t be pinned because of their hunchbacks...called The Hunchbacks (that thankfully never came to fruition). He created The Ding Dongs, which were two guys whose entire act was that they had annoying bells stitched onto their outfits. He wanted Ric Flair, possibly the greatest wrestler of all-time, to turn into “Spartacus.”

Now to people that “get” wrestling those are all completely absurd ideas. But talk to a random person who is only vaguely familiar with the sport, and they may not sound half-bad. After all, how do you differentiate good wrestling weirdness to the bad kind?

Jason Brown, who is the CEO of Anthem, will soon be taking over TNA. But what does he know about wrestling? He has no prior experience booking or writing for any company. He doesn’t seem to have any sort of podcast or blog about wrestling. We don’t know what he knows, which could be a big problem. He likely knows real fighting, but will that have any sort of success in transferring over to the world of sports entertainment? We'll find out soon.