The Story OF TNA

TNA! TNA! TNA! TNA! The fans in the Impact zone once cheered, it’s now GFW (Global Force Wrestling), but even many name changes and a defiant owl will never kill Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. This Is the Story of TNA

Its 2001 and the WWF (WWE)  has bought out its competition World Championship Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling and is the only top major global promotion ,what would all those wrestlers who didn’t get picked up by the WWF do? Go to the Indies? Retire? No well the indies was an option for most but this was the situation that the Jarrett’s Jeff, and Jerry had at the time while on a fishing trip with some friends was talking wrestling and thought “we should create a promotion to compete with the WWF” and that’s what they did, and TNA was born, well it wasn’t called TNA off the bat it was called NWA-TNA National Wrestling Alliance – Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and when was   the first show of this renegade promotion?  June 19^th 2002 in Huntsville,Alabama in The Von Braun Civic Center . The first ever show crowned a NWA-TNA Champion and he was? Ken Shammrock a former UFC competior. They had their fist two shows there but then moved to the Tennesee State Fairground arena in Nashville,Tennesee

TNA was originally a weekly pay per view show and that format was fine but eventually they moved to a monthly pay per view show and a weekly tv show the first weekly show was called Explosion it eventually became the recap show for another weekly televison show put out by the company.

In May  of 2004 TNA aired its first episode of Impact and it was aired on Fox Sports and used the FOX box as a announcers table and the ring was something never seen before in American Pro Wrestling A 6 sided Ring,yep a six sided ring,instead of being sports entertainment like the WWE it was more focused on the matches. Impact is still going to this day but as GFW Impact. With the switch to cable television, TNA discontinued their weekly pay-per-view shows in favor of a monthly 3-hour pay-per-view format as previously used by WCW and Extreme Championship Wrestling and as currently used by WWE. In November 2004, TNA held the first of these pay-per-views, Victory Road, beginning the pattern of pay-per-view shows that continued until 2013. The television contract with Fox Sports expired in May 2005 and was not renegotiated, leaving TNA without television exposure. This prompted TNA to air Impact! Via webcasts – originally made available via BitTorrent and eventually via RealPlayer – and on Urban America Television replacing Xplosion. During this time, TNA continued pursuing a profitable television deal for regular broadcasting would later secure a deal with Spike TV and aired its first episode on October 1, 2005 and continued till 2014 In October 2006, TNA began holding select pay-per-views outside of its central filming location, the Impact Zone in Orlando, Florida, with Bound for Glory. In April 2006, TNA began a partnership with YouTube, under which TNA supplied YouTube with exclusive video-content in exchange for hosting, leading to the production of internet shows. In January 2007, TNA's mobile-content deal with New Motion, Inc. led to the introduction of TNA Mobile and mobile fan-voting TNA also launched "TNA U TV"; podcasts aired through YouTube to help promote the company.^[27] Impact! Expanded to a two-hour format on October 4, 2007.

In 2009 Dixie Carter and Panda Energy Took over the company and introduced Hulk Hogan to the company.

On January 4^th 2010 the 21^st anniversary of the finger poke of doom Impact went to Mondays to compete with WWE’S Monday Night RAW, but later went back to the Thursday format.

This is where the glory days of TNA stops from then on TNA made one mistake after another and the departures began, the major ones being in 2014 Hulk Hogan left the company to return to WWE for WrestleMania 30. But before that AJ Styles left the company due to a contract disagreement and went to New Japan and he is now WWEs United States champion. Then in 2014 Spike ended their 9 year deal with the company. But TNA did find another TV provider in Destination America but that only lasted a year, but then they moved to POP fka TV Guide Network.  In January Of 2015 Sting quit the company and in November of that same year Sting Debuted in WWE after 15 years of not wanting to join the company, also James Storm left and went to NXT but he did come back, and the Dudley boys or in TNA as Team 3D left to Return to WWE. In 2016 there’s a lot of them, Bobby Rhoode left and went to NXT,MVP left the Company, Low Ki left, and Kurt Angle left and retired among others.

But there was an angle that saved TNA, three words BROKEN MATT HARDY. People started tuning in to TNA because of the BROKEN Gimmick and a certain Savior of the Masses Debuted in TNA. In Late 2016 TNA was broke but a man named Billy Corrigan saved the company, but it didn’t last long in 3 weeks Billy Corrigan left the company and sued TNA. In 2017 Dixie Carter Sold TNA to a group of investors called Anthem Sports, led by the founder Jeff Jarrett and Ed Nordholm while gaining a small part of TNA. In 2017 Wrestlers such as Drew Galloway, Mike Bennett and his Wife Maria Kanellis-Bennett left the company  and in an ignorant move The Hardy Boys left the company with the TNA World Tag Team titles because of a contract dispute, but TNA kept the Hardy’s BROKEN gimmick that had saved TNA but the Hardy’s argued that the gimmick was theirs. In June of 2017 Impact had announced a merger with GFW but then late June TNA rebranded as GFW taking the name and rebranded the titles as GFW titles

In early September of 2017 Jeff Jarrett had left The company after an incident at AAA’S Triplemania XV were GFW collaborated with them were a match between AAA’S Sexy Star Broke GFWs Rosemary’s arm,also rumors ran where Anthem was looking to Sell the company.

Opinion Time

TNA would never be as big as WWE but they tried.

If Dixie Carter never ran the company TNA would be as great as WWE.

TNA should’ve never let the big talent they had go.

TNA  will always be the little promotion that could.