In my book, TNA is definitely the worst promotion in history, at least as far as having all the tools to be a very good wrestling program and finding new and innovative ways to completely screw up. I was there at the beginning when they first started weekly PPVs and bought the first 2 or 3 hoping they would live up to everything they'd been hyping themselves on the internet, like you know, being non-stop action and being an alternative to the very stale WWE at the time. Unfortunately, for every good match on the show you got tons of garbage going on around it.
I mean the first match they ever had gave you hope for the promotion with a nice 6 man tag between Sonny Siaki, Jimmy Yang, & Jorge Estrada vs. AJ Styles, Jerry Lynn, & Low Ki which made you think "oh man this is going to be full of nice fast paced wrestling" but then they follow it up with a lame midget match. I mean, I'm not down on midget wrestling as a whole mind you, I've seen some good mini's matches from Mexico but that was not what TNA was offering. Maybe they should have if they really wanted to be an "alternative" which the more you watched the more you realized that was just a bullshit marketing term when they trotted out the Johnsons.
The next week was more of the same with one match that made you want to believe that TNA was going to be good with four way for the X-Division title but a whole slew of crap like Cheekz and a lingerie battle royal that made you really start to lose hope that TNA was going to be worth the $10 a week. I ordered a few more after week 2, but looking at results I can't even remember which ones. There was just nothing that stood out to me anymore outside of whatever Low-Ki and AJ Styles were doing. And I just wasn't going to pay 10 bucks a week to see one POSSIBLY two good matches and about an hour and a half of other stuff I couldn't care about.
And pretty much, that model of giving you maybe one thing a show to get interested in and a whooole bunch of crap hasn't really changed. I mean the announce team sucked terribly for a long time, but I will at least give them credit for freshening it up a little with Don West being heel now. But they've done so much to kill any home grown guy that started to get over, whether that be never pulling the trigger on Monty Brown, or making Samoa Joe go from the hottest guy they had to a whiny loser to...whatever he is now. TNA has had the tools to put on a great wrestling show pretty much from the beginning but has been nothing but a disappointing failure. TNA would have to suddenly become really awesome for a looong stretch of time to take away their distinction as the worst promotion ever in my book. And personally I think that will never ever happen after their 8 year track record of suck.
