TNA has to be one of the most interesting wrestling promotions in history, because they've been going since 2002, and you could quite literally make the argument right now. They are bigger than ever. They just don't go away. They're like muffs.

So the name alone should of course far more controversy than it did, especially today. You can go and Google that. But given it has been around for so long, there are so many misconceptions about total non-stop action. So I am Simon Miller, welcome to What Culture Wrestling, and I thought we should take eight of them and dive right in and finally settle things for good. Number eight, the Hulk Hogan era was the worst of all the eras. Now I'm not going to debate you that when Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff did walk through the TNA doors, the quality didn't head towards the floor. I mean, one, they just brought in all their friends, two, they essentially pushed the TNA original guys to one side, and they decided to compete with WWE by going head to head on Monday nights. It's like, what the flub are you doing? We were 10 years removed from the money like wars. Just leave it.

It really did strip away anything that was unique about the promotion, and we even tried to

get an NWO storyline going again, which nobody wanted and talking about the angles.

They were so damn bizarre.

If you have never seen the skit between Hulk Hogan and Abyss, you will not believe it.

Hulk Hogan gives him his Hall of Fame ring and then kind of pretends, and Abyss, you will not believe it. Hulk Hogan gives him his

Hall of Fame ring and then kind of pretends, hey Abyss, you can now be the Green Lantern.

What's even more crazy is that it actually worked. Abyss had powers.

And the truth is, it actually got even worse when these two did leave.

For because 2013 onwards, TNA just had no identity, had no personality, because they were dealing with the fallout of Hulk Cogan and Eric Bischoff. I mean, you could watch weeks and weeks and weeks of TV, and it felt like nothing was happening. It also meant there was nobody to steady the ship, and TNA desperately searched for a new direction, and then Spike TV, their network turned around and said, ha ha, we don't want want you anymore, kicked them off, which meant they bounce from here, there and everywhere. Once again, if you were a regular viewer, it was actually hard to find what flipping channel they were on. So it meant that it was a challenge to even watch the thing, and after a while, all of these stars that had helped build TNA, decided, man, I don't want to be here anymore, and

they left for other promotions. I mean, TNA even low-balled AJ Stars in 2016, which is when he went to

New Japan and became a bigger sensation than he already was. It really is another reason why we have

to celebrate TNA's existence today even more, because they went through a right barren patch,

and almost every single week people

going uh-uh-oh they're going to die and yet they never did number seven the women were always

treated as stars now you cannot take away from what tNA has done with its knockouts division

and you can go back way before anybody else was doing a revolution and yes they were shining a spotlight

on their female talent saying

this knockout division women's championship means something if you want to say anything stupid

you can leave there's the door they always had a roster that could absolutely go and could compare

with anybody but let's not also pretend you didn't have the likes of angelina love of manor

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