I've been rewatching a lot of 80's and early 90's NWA/WCW/Mid Atlantic/whatever you what to call it. TBS wrestling. And it just exemplifies how bad TNA is.
What is most striking, is how much different it was than the Hulkamania-era WWF it was competing with. On TBS, you had "belt chasing" storylines, gang warfare with Horseman against the world, and Jim Ross selling it all like legitimate athletic competition. People fawn over WWE JR, but i've always felt his best work was for WCW, SMW, and Watts. He really helped make the product feel like something completely different than the more popular WWF.
The WWF, in contrast, gave you larger than life cartoonish (not meant in a negative way for the purpose of this comparison) monsters, with crazier storylines, and bigger and better production. It wasnt about "belt chasing", it was always about good vs. evil.
In those days, I enjoyed both. It was easy to watch TBS at 9:05 Saturday morning, and see Dusty Rhodes, Ric Flair, The Road Warriors, Barry Whidham, etc etc, do "serious" wrasslin', then turn on WWF Superstars & Wrestling Challenge at 12, and sink my teeth into Jake The Snake Roberts, The Islanders, and The Killer Bees. Because each brought something different to the table. If one was a cheap carbon copy of the other, why watch?
Watching a Clash Of The Champions felt awesome after watching a Survivor Series, and vice versa. Different flavors. When you were tired of Brad Armstrong vs. Tim Horner, you could watch Brutus Beefcake cutting off a jobbers hair.
TNA offers nothing different, nothing unique, and no reason to want to watch. Why they continue to do WWE-lite is a mystery. They have used up all of their mulligans and "restarts", nobody cares, and I dont think anybody ever will.
So yeah, lets push creepy Matt Hardy, WWE bum for life. Because as you know, anybody from the WWE is a far bigger star than anybody we have. Keep up the good work.