Lack of Continuity TNA’s Biggest Problem

Only an idea would ever argue that TNA’s in-ring product isn’t in the same league as the WWE, so why is TNA consistently been the number two wrestling promotion for a decade?

Well, besides the obvious reasons of a lack of development, fan base loyalty and better -written storylines, TNA, for essentially it’s entire run, has been consistently inconsistent.

There have been few companies that have run through so many factions, ever. It feels like every year the company finds a way to turn lemons into well, a bigger collection of lemons. And the few times they have hit the mark, take Fourtune as a perfect instance of this, they disband and it’s all over. For TNA to ever succeed, they have to have more faith in their core stars and less in shoddy writers and former performers that can’t book.

Simply put, they just need more patience period. But more than anything else, a nice dab of purposeful and simple, logical and consistent booking would serve them well. more than they could ever imagine.

Even more proof of this is on the show right now. You have a TV Champion in Abyss and and X-Division Champion in Chris Sabin, that can go weeks without appearing on the show. Kind of sad when two of the best workers on the company have to be squeezed in, don’t you think? What happened to the TV title being defended every week? What happened to the X-Division being a staple of the company? The best part of Impact used to be those wild 15-minute X-Division matches. Now, it’s usually the Knockouts.

And speaking of TNA’s daring damsels, what happened to the Knockouts Tag Team Titles? Basically defunct for a year now, TNA creates titles more than a hyper kid makes wrestlers in WWE 13. With barely an legacy already, TNA has to push the importance of those titles every show and if they were smart, they’d defend them with far more regularity than the WWE does theirs.

There’s nothing sexier than a title match on free TV and TNA could learn the easy way that giving fans something to run to the TV for, that doesn’t involve promo may be their way to truly make a mark on the business.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 13821 Articles
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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