The WORST Wrestling Moment Every Year (1989 - 2025)
19. 2007 | Donald Trump Vs. Rosie O’Donnell
Total Non-Stop Action was not in an amazing place in January 2007.
The recent streak of pay-per-views ranged from passable to good. TNA boasted star power, and while Kurt Angle and Christian Cage were producing strong work, the saviour narrative had taken a hit. They weren’t difference-makers.
The TV was mostly rushed and awful, and that idiot BG ‘Road Dogg’ James was begging WWE to notice him as part of his pathetic “never fancied her anyway” Voodoo Kin Mafia parody. As if Road Dogg wouldn’t have returned to WWE if they attached $100 to some strings on a car. TNA was not a viable alternative. It had its audience, but it was never hot and never cool.
WWE fans still chanted “TNA!” when confronted by the atrocity that was the parody match between Donald Trump and Rosie O’Donnell. They’d have rather watched Road Dogg, nine years removed from his prime and projecting a tragic midlife crisis, than this awful attempt to capitalise on the talk show feud over which America became fixated at a time that feels almost quaint now.
The match was secondary to the real purpose of the segment: an excuse for Vince McMahon to be awful about a woman whose political views and sexuality he could not sanction, and whose figure disgusted him.
You had to watch this because WCW ran itself out of business, and Vince, with no competition and an unchecked ego allowed to validate itself as a result of the victory, could do whatever he pleased. Everybody culpable for WCW’s death should never be forgiven.
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