I miss TNA Wrestling. Since day one of the company, the promotion tried to capture the old-WCW & ECW fans that couldn’t get into the WWE product and had nothing to watch. TNA was much more than just an alternative, but wrestling fullfillment. What started as a promotion just for Jeff Jarrett to get over and bury his own roster made a life on its own. TNA Wrestling would very well be the last Attitude era style promotion that we all knew an love. Wrestling nowadays don’t care much for storylines, personalities, gimmick matches, high stipulations, or creativity anymore.Despite the many dumb decisions booked by Vince Russo, TNA was the last time I felt that wrestling did exactly that and be as creative. Just look at how excellent their tag team division was, the smaller wrestlers that they managed to make stars out of, and the X Division dammit. So many promotions like WCW & WWE has a cruiserweight division and doesn’t know what to do with them. Many smaller guys who wrestled in the X Division made an impression and dare I say it… an impact. Popular names like AJ Styles, Christopher Daniels, Samoa Joe, Chris Sabin, Jay Lethal, Alex Shelly, Frankie Kazarian were all new faces that challenged the privilaged ex-WWE starts that got to the TNA roster. At the same time, familiar faces like Sting, Kurt Angle, Christian Cage, Scott Stiener, and Bobby Lashley were great starts that dropped the ball with and TNA utilized properly. I see Total Nonstop Action as the perfect chance to have dream matches that WWE would never have the brain cells to book themselves. Today, TNA Wrestling (or Impact Wrestling) is a laughing stock now thanks to the damage done by Hogan & Bischoff that turned the product into WCW 2.0. But before TNA lost all credibility, from 2004 – 2009, this was the shit! Marks who only expect workrates (like your Dave Meltzer) would never understand what it’s truly like to just have fun. Since WWE stopped the Attitude era, this was the closest thing we were ever going to get to Attitude and ECW. High flying, over the top storylines, stakes that actually mattered, crazy situations, character for the last time felt bigger than life, and spots & segments that us with such an impression is all we ask for in wrestling. No longer do we see promotions that made winning and losing actually matter because in TNA, it was everything. As Impact Wrestling and the rest of the wrestling industry focused too much on workrates rather than storylines and characters, it just made TNA Wrestling from 2004 – 2009 age better. When picking ten of TNA’s best shows, these picks are proof of all that was great about the promotion.
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