no, people like you are dragging wrestling down with this mindset.
you say nothing about the WWE, which is the most known league and has been throwing any ole bullchit out there for nearly 20 years now.
then you want a company to be a strong #2. SMH. how about wanting a new company to come out and be a strong #1 instead??? why do you want them to settle for #2?? you really dont care about another company prospering, which is the real reason you have it in for TNA. keep it real with the game.
It's the thought process of a disgruntled WWE mark who thinks that the quality of WWE's product is predicated on what other companies were doing. That's why these guys act like TNA raped their mothers because TNA didn't provide an existential threat to WWE that made WWE put out a better product so now TNA's entire existence is meaningless. It's not WWE's fault that they've turned away viewers for 2 decades despite monopolising the best talents and having most of the greatest American wrestling minds of the last 5 decades on the payroll its TNA's fault that they didn't light the fire under Vince.
It's also why if you pay attention a noticeable contingent of AEW fans on the internet are going to turn on the company in a few years when the new car smell completely fades and they come to terms with the fact that the guys at AEW are just booking shyt for their own amusement and WWE still stinks.
Idk about that. TNA had a great 5 year stretch as a legit alternative to WWE with legit stars and new stars that would go on to be big names in wrestling, and a Viacom TV contract. ROH, while extremely influential, didn't come close to having the commercial success that TNA did. Yeah, TNA/Impact has fukked up a lot but they had a lot of bright spots too.
Not just that TNA introduced a lot of those talents to an international audience, literally showed the entire world that there was wrestling outside of WWE and you didn't have to be part of the wrestling goldfish bowl to see it. You can be in India and stumble on AJ Styles and see him for the first time, you could have been channel surfing in South Africa, seen Elix Skipper walking the top of the cage like
"what the hell is he doing" and then popped like
when he pulled off that Frankensteiner. You can't do that yet with AEW, New Japan has never had that reach. TNA gave people moments, entertained millions across the world and gave a lot of guys opportunities that they didn't get before or since their times in TNA, but we're supposed to throw all of that out because loltna it's 2020, the company is 18 years old and supposed adults still can't put shyt in perspective.
TNA also made it viable for TNT to take a chance on AEW, their run on Spike literally provided data for the viability of non-WWE wrestling in a post-WCW world a decade of viewership numbers, ratings, demographic data, the effect on existing advertisers and potential advertisers. Unless people here are stupid enough to think that all it took for AEW to get a deal was 20 year old WCW nostalgia, one All-in event and Tony reminding them how rich his dad is every 2 minutes.
ROH as you bring up is also interesting because they've had numerous chances to pass TNA by that they failed to take. It's not TNA's fault ROH's first owner was a pedo who cost the company access to great talent and had to sell it to a guy who didn't have deep pockets like that. It's not TNA's fault Sinclair had no interest in pumping money in ROH. It's not TNA's fault that ROH abandoned any pretense of creating new stars just so they dikkride New Japan's booking, it's not TNA's fault MAGA ass Sinclair fukked up the Tribune deal (despite the FCC bending over to help them) that would have not only given them TV stations in markets like LA, Chicago and Philadelphia but it would have given them control of WGN too. ROH could be airing weekly on a national cable network
and syndication right now if it wasn't for Sinclair's idiocy but TNA taking up space is what held them back from being a strong #2.
any black talent that welcomed her in.
