It appears going live on the road has also taken a toll on the company, as many wrestlers have been let go, including veterans and promising young talents.
Despite all the excitement and the ever-changing atmosphere, TNA is clearly not where it should be. Instead, the company has its back against the wall, looking to find some momentum in its lackluster product. With Hogan no longer currently with the company and Bischoff's status up in the air, TNA has another opportunity to change the wrongs to the rights. This includes going back to the basics and focusing on its young and fresh talents that are waiting for their next big break, changing its traditional four-sided ring to six sides and allowing more television time for its highly talented X and Knockouts divisions.
And since it is worth more, after a wrestler hits his finisher, then why wouldn't he automatically go for a submission on his downed opponent to pick up those extra points? Right now, if you're watching Impact and you're not into Aces and 8's or the Bound for Glory series, then there isn't much for you. The Millionaire's Club. After the two joined TNA, the shows then centered on another gigantic faction war with Immortal.
Is this all sounding too familiar? Hogan may be the biggest name in the history of the business, but his wrestling days are well over. Yes, he may have one or two matches left in the tank, but it's not worth the time devoted to him. He opens Impact, he closes Impact, he gets involved in nearly every storyline.
There's no satisfactory payoff, and there never will be because Hogan can't fight the people he's feuding with. Sure, Hogan and Bischoff don't actually sit down and write Impact, but they sure have the power to veto anything that airs.
It's hard to know where to begin to critique the current booking, but let's try anyway. Here's what we have:. Speaking of the Mafia, apparently we're supposed to forget that Sting was kicked out of the original heel group. Now they're a group of babyfaces and he's the leader.
That's some quality writing! To top if all off, Brooke Hogan was inexplicably named the head of the Knockouts division. You have to wonder if the company exists solely to star the Hogan family. When you used to compare TNA to the WWE, there were basically three things that the TNA faithful could boast about: he tag-team division, he Knockouts division and longer, more athletic matches.
No longer can those be bragging points. Now, there's hardly any division to speak of. The company used to take great pride in the X-Division, but it's hardly a focus anymore.
Most importantly, TNA was badly beaten in the ratings war and forever stained with the taint of being an inferior product in comparison to WWE. Hulk Hogan left TNA in and the company was in a more precarious position than ever before, mirroring the end of WCW as the roster was unhappy and finances were bleeding.
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Team Flair match at Lockdown in Anderson featured the same ending, with Hogan turning heel and standing tall with the newly formed Immortal faction. The year was full of odd Hogan-related nonsense. He took kayfabe ownership of TNA, feuded with Sting a bunch, but eventually lost his ownership in a match against Sting at Bound for Glory. Eventually, Sting would find himself as an authority figure and ask a now-babyface Hogan to take back the TNA management reins, negating months of story.
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