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The Day TNA Wrestling Died
at one point in time people really
thought that TNA could compete with WV
the same level WCW could in its prime
they had a very stacked roster featuring
some massive names such as the likes of
sting and Kurt Angle and TNA also helped
to build some amazing stars who we now
see Tinley dubbed every such as AJ
Styles ec3 and Bobby Roode at one point
CM Punk was even in TNA before he went
off to become one of the biggest stars
in WV history so where did it all go
wrong with a roster as stacked as theirs
they should have been Bound for Glory
pun intended
welcome to the day TNA Wrestling died
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welcome to part one of potentially three
or maybe a little three-part series
depending on how well this video goes
down in my series where I look at TNA
through a time line and talk about where
it all went wrong for them now there is
no definitive day that T and they died I
mean after all they're still running
operations as a company but the day I'm
selecting for this video is a day that I
believe serves as a catalyst and led to
a downward spiral for TNA making TNA
lose all its popularity and putting it
kind of in the place and it's in now in
terms of how many viewers it has let's
begin Total Nonstop action was founded
by Jeff and Jerry Jarrah in 2002 the
promotion was initially known as NWA
Total Nonstop action as it was
associated with the National Wrestling
Alliance aka the NWA not to be confused
with the rap group they look to fill the
void left by the death of WCW and create
a potential competitor but WWE and while
they never only got onto WB's level for
a good time they put on some great shows
got many stars over and attracted a very
loyal and large fanbase and that's the
important word loyal between 2002 and
2006 I would argue was their glory is
between this time TNA had a likes of AJ
Styles sting Kurt Angle Christian
Christopher Daniels Bobby Roode the
Dudley's Samoa Joe and Austin Aries all
of which were big stars in TNA and
between 2006 and 2010 they were an
established company and known largely
across the wrestling fan base here's the
thing though I should mention that while
TNA were popular and the second biggest
wrestling company they were not perfect
in fact they were far from perfect there
were a lot of bad moments and angles but
the only thing is that these angles
weren't bad enough to put the company on
a downward spiral that ultimately make
it to lose its popularity entirely like
the moment I'm going to be discussing in
today's video and that is largely down
to TNA's fan base being very loyal
putting up with a lot because believe me
they put up with a lot upon TNA is
launched in 2002 infamous wrestling
creator writer Vince Russo was silenced
a promotion assigned the guy that played
a part in killing WCW was a weird move
from TNA but it's actually gonna be a
theme of I'm going to be talking about
in this video
he stayed between 2002 and 2004 where he
was an on-screen character and report
came out that behind the scenes there
was a creative power struggle over the
direction of TNA which led to him
leaving following Victory Road 2004
however Vince will return as a writer 14
a creative team in 2006 2012 during
which time many dumb things happened
including but not limited to the reverse
battle royal and the electric steel cage
match remember those during this time it
became a regular for the fans to chant
and fire brew so whenever a bad booking
decision or terrible angle was happening
Vince had become the creative creative
in July 2009 which was ironically the
same month that Kevin Nash beat
AJ Styles at Victory Road to win a title
what a coincidence
it was also this same event that saw
Shawn Mel take on survivor contestant
Jenna Morasca
in a match that was labeled by Bryan
Alvarez or the Wrestling Observer
Newsletter as the worst women's
wrestling match of all time and there
was also the match that birthed this
famous sound clip that you hear in the
butcher mania intro - five stars by this
point TNA was really starting to
replicate WCW they had the same head
writer or four match stipulations and
relying on stars of the past and pulling
them over newer talents fans were
starting to get sick and the only way
for it to change was for Sora in a high
position to come in and change TNA and
what I got instead was people come in a
high position and reinforce everything I
just mentioned on October 27 2009 it was
announced that Hulk Hogan had joined TNA
on a full-time basis also joining him
was Eric Bischoff the signing was
reported worldwide with bleach report
calling the new
Pease a very weird story Eric bishop and
Hogan were both made on-screen
characters while also working backstage
Eric Bischoff would work as an executive
producer and Hogan's role was revealed
by Dixie Carter in interview in the UK
Sun or she said quote he is involved
with everything from looking at the
talent to how we shoot the show yes
that's right that is how much
involvement he had he was working with
the cameras the signing of Hulk Hogan
and Eric Bischoff was announced on
October 27th a press conference in
Madison Square Garden Dixie Carter
stated our goal is to become the world's
biggest professional wrestling company
hope defines professional wrestling and
we look forward to partnering with him
in a variety of ways as we continue to
grow TNA globally Hulk Hogan Eric
Bischoff and Vince Russo three key
figures in killing WCW were now all
working together again and trying to
work out a way to become the biggest
wrestling company in the world
oh god this is doomed from the start
Hulk Hogan made an appearance on the
finale of The Ultimate Fighter
heavyweights on Spike TV aka the same
Network TNA was airing on hoping would
announce that impact would be airing on
January 4th for a special three-hour
episode now this may seem insignificant
but the reason why I mentioned this and
why this is significant and a big
announcement is because Jerry fourth was
a Monday aka the day that Monday Night
Raw the most popular wrestling show as
during this time TNA ed the impact TV
show on Thursday and this one night only
moved to Monday nights and created one
night only ratings battle between TNA
Impact and Monday Night Raw the
similarities can be seen from a mile
away Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff two
key figures in WCW have come in and
immediately announced a Monday show oh
my god this was the beginning of the end
and one thing that you might be
wondering is how Vince Russo was going
to work with Hogan and Bischoff as it's
widely recorded that Vince Russo had
major problems with Hogan and Bischoff
during WCW including an incident we saw
Russo cut a shoe promo and Hogan and
Hogan threatened to sue for defamation
of character
however despite his concerns of Vince
Russo states that the three men on a
January 4th episode met up and settled
their differences an interesting note is
that it seemed as though WWE were
actually treating the show as
competition they countered TNA's
announcement of the show by announcing
that Bret Hart would be appearing on Raw
on January 4th the first time since the
Montreal Screwjob Dixie Carter would
then go on to state that while spike was
not expecting intact to beat role in the
ratings it would be considered success
if they managed to at least maintain
their usual Thursday night impact rating
which when you hear this quote kind of
makes you wonder why they put the show
on that day in the first place that's a
complete lie
January 4th came round and TNA pulled
out all the stops for this episode of
impact with three championship matches
and many returns and debuts the results
of the show are as followed Alex Shelley
Chris Sabin consequences Creed aka
Xavier woods homicide Jay Lethal Kyoshi
suicide an amazing read compete and they
steal asylum match that ended in no
contest for an interesting reason are
mentioned in just a second
ODB defeated Tara aka Victoria to become
the new knockouts champion awesome Kong
and Hamada defeated Sarita and Taylor
wild to become the new TNA Knockouts tie
team champions Hernandez and Matt Morgan
defeated Raven and Stevie Richards
D'Angelo dinero defeated abyss and AJ
Styles defeated Kurt Angle to retain the
TNA World Heavyweight Championship
the show also featured the returns of
Scott Hall Sean Waltman sting Jeff
Jarrett and Jeff Hardy who had only
recently left it w e-- and you might
remember came out and just chilled on
top of the cage during the Steeler
silent match which is why the match
ended in a no contest by the way so
imagine that we also saw the debuts of
Ric Flair Val Venis the nasty boys and
Orlando Jordan and with all these debuts
and returns and just sting Ric Flair and
Jeff Hardy alone TNA might actually have
been able to compete with w/e however
the ratings came back and Monday Night
Raw go an average of 5.6 and TNA go an
average of two point two despite losing
the battle twe this set a rating for
impact a ratings record for impact and
gave confidence to spike executives and
TNA higher-ups which would cause
something crazy to happen on March 8
2010 and TNA Impact officially moved to
Monday nights
competing directly with Monday Night Raw
in an interview with Bob the Love Sponge
Eric Bischoff said that he felt history
was repeating itself in regards to him
competing against McMahon for ratings
once again this move was doomed from a
star and just was never going to work
they were more than doubled in the
ratings on an episode that feeds and
Jeff Hardy and sting returning as well
as Ric Flair debuting if they're more
than doubled and that it was only
downhill from there on the 8th of March
episode impact drew a 0.98 competitor
Ross 3.4 on March 15 impact jury 0.8 for
competitive draws 3 point 7 1 March 22nd
raw 13.2 to 0.8 6 March 3 ninth
raw 13.7 to 0.62 fit of April raw 1 3.15
to 0.98 for 12 raw 1 3.24 to 0.8 April
19th row 1 3.05 to 0.95 April 28th Row 1
3.3 to 0.5 May 3rd
one 3.05 20.8 May 10th nope just
kidding' the May 3rd episode was the
final episode of Monday night impact it
ended after less than two months and
just 10 episodes it was a complete
failure
they were doubled and tripled many many
times during this ratings war and came
nowhere near to beating raw in the
ratings the big problems with these
shows is that Bischoff and Hogan were
on-screen characters and were the main
parts of each show's fans were longing
for new younger stars to be built rather
than just relying on former WI guys and
wrestling legends like they had just
seen AG Stars losing to Kevin Nash and
the last thing needed was Bischoff and
Hogan on-screen as major characters
Hogan and Bischoff also used their high
positions to put their untalented bland
family members on TV gareb issue of eric
bischoff son was given lots of TV time
and even joined the TNA's awful attempt
at a coup NWO style faction in aces &
eights and Brooke Hogan Hulk Hogan's
daughter got far too much TV time and
honestly the less said about that the
better
the day I believe that served as a
catalyst TNA's downward spiral and
popularity
it's October 27 2009 the day Hogan and
Bischoff were announced for TNA if you
want to compete with dota re the last
thing you want to be doing is hire two
people in high positions who were key to
another company losing a war word wre
it's the point of liquidation to work
with another guy who is a key figure
another company losing a war with double
agree to the point of liquidation of the
company it was always gonna fail but the
thing is TNA president Dixie Carter was
never gonna know that because she knew
nothing about wrestling anyway guys
that's gonna do it for this video if you
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about another day that really screwed up
TNA I have two more parts prepared and
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