9 Ways Impact Wrestling Can Successfully Rebrand

7. Lose The Six-Sided Ring

The six-sided ring also needs to go. The structure seems to be unpopular with the wrestlers themselves, which is reason enough to get rid of it. The six-sided ring is another hallmark of TNA, and the company needs to remove every vestige of that promotion in order to move forward.

Professional wrestling should take place in a traditional wrestling ring. They don’t call it the ‘squared circle’ without good reason after all. A promotion can differentiate itself aesthetically through colour and production, but using a different shaped ring is often enough to immediately turn viewers away.

If Impact is to move forward, the six-sided ring needs to be left in the past. Like a pub quiz, you can always evolve the content but the structures really need to stay the same. The six-sided ring should never have been brought back in 2014, and it does not need to be used moving forward.