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TNA
Good: a place to see old stars like Sting and Angle relive their glory days, slightly better treatment of the female wrestlers though the only real decent star they have is Gail Kim, Austin Aries, they seem to have gone one step better than WWE with regards to the foreign markets e.g. Actually going to broadcast live impact and a proper ppv from the uk imminently as opposed to some cheap knockoff uk only ppv. The uk fans are getting the real deal. Wwe though doing smack down and raw in the uk the quality of the shows are horrendous. TNA in that respect try to roll out the big guns by sending all their stars over with the exception of Jeff hardy who due to previous convictions is barred from entering the uk. Their fan interaction events are quite well organised and much cheaper and easier to participate in than wwe's but that's for obvious reasons I.e. Wwe being more popular.
Bad: pretty much everything else, the quality of the shows are crap be it the Ppvs or tv shows, the fact they don't show any of the shows live on uk tv shows they are still behind in some respects, their roster except for one or two wrestlers is terrible and the only reason they are still in existence is because of the likes of AA, Sting, Angle and the fact they managed to keep Hogan and AJ Styles for as long as they did. The current TNA reminds me of the WCW Russo years which was ultimately worse than cancer though still a step up from Russo WCW. Dixie Carter is like a headless chicken, she knows nothing about the wrestling business or even then, how to run a business effectively and losing Hogan, Jarret and AJ Styles from the company was a huge blow, even RVD. The fact the likes of RVD, Foley and even old man Ric Flair would go back to WWE just shows how bad TNA is. There is no atmosphere at the shows other than the uk events. Perhaps this is due to the fact they spent far too long in Universal and were therefore attracting casual fans rather than genuine fans. If TNA wanted to make a decent profit rather than going on the road in the US or saying at universal, maybe just jump ship and decamp in the UK for a while? No doubt they would sell out arenas across the country despite it's small size but rather have small sold out arenas full of die hard passionate fans than the crapheads you see week in week out on Impact.
As I said before the quality of the show, the story lines, the rosters, the commentary, I mean Mike Tenay how is he still working I this business? He was worse than Schavione but at least he worked in the WWE albeit for five minutes. Honestly if it wasn't for TNA or maybe ROH being in existence, would this man even have a job?
All in all TNA is just crap but more so because of how Carter is running it into the ground. I'd hate to see it get sold to the WWE because then WWE will get even worse by buying out the competition. They need to be run by people who know and love wrestling. Sure it will never top the WWE but nothing wrong being a solid alternative but at the moment it isn't even that. It feels cheap like being served fake lobster meat on plastic plates with plastic cutlery.
Tbh wrestling has never been the same since WCW went out of business. The last decent match in either company in my opinion was Rock v Hogan at wrestlemania 18. By decent I mean a truly memorable iconic match that nobody who attended or watched the vent would ever forget and the fact I'm talking about it some 12 years later and that rock and hogan would mention the tenth anniversary of the match on their twitter accounts goes to show how great it was. There have been some good matches since then but nothing quite on that level.
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