Dishonorable Mention: Giving 6-figure contracts & payoffs to reality show personalities such as Johnny Fairplay, J-Woww & Jenna Morasca while full-time roster members are being so underpaid that they are living on foodstamps & working a 2nd job at Sunglass Hut.
@@itachi-kun7736 No, no and no! Once Jeff Jarrett was out of the picture, Dixie Carter WAS the main problem with TNA, other than Panda energy's unwillingness to commit much more than their initial investment (I can't say I blame them in hindsight to be honest.)It wouldn't have mattered much with the incompetents running TNA, most notably the boss lady herself. It was only years after I was done with them, did I learn that her "Momma Dixie" image, that she worked tirelessly to paint in terms of PR was fake. She was a petty tyrant, she treated the TNA "original" talent like shit, particularly the KO's, was condescending and conceited, and obsessed with being a TV star, and didn't want anyone questioning her lack of knowledge in terms of wrestling. I also learned that it was Dixie who killed the idea of more intimate fan feedback access to TNA offices, when it had been a proposed PR selling point for TNA shortly before. This was done, because she was furious about some of the negative feedback, like the "fire Russo" sentiment that was going around at the time. She didn't want to hear about any negative at all.
Trying to restart the Monday Night Wars was one of the dumbest moves in wrestling history. WCW had the tv-deal and backing to go toe-to-toe with WWE, TNA didn't. Ratings were up before that fiasco, never got back to that level even after returning to their old night with their tails
But that was a fun experiment it did prove that only 20% of WWE viewers watched both WWE and Impact so it was a waste of time chasing after them. It’s was also sad to see how divided the wrestling viewers were 10yrs ago as compared to tv shows of the same genre.
Tbh tna had quite a roster: kurt angle, jeff hardy, RVD, samoa joe, sting, ric flair, kevin nash, aj styles, mick foley, Dudleys and even Hulk frikkin Hogan. I'd say give it a shot as well. I think they shouldve booked a Hulk Hogan ring return as main selling point on their first legit monday night show. But instead they had some weird Sting vs rvd action with rvds surprise show up completely overshadowed by Hulk and Bischoff. I mean tbh the stars on raw werent that much better, yeah cena and trips (as only two as Sheamus was a frikkin main eventer then) but Angle, rvd and sting should be able to compete with that if booked well. Maybe the real mistake was competing in mania season, if they just waited till 3 weeks after mania
Not true about their TV viewership. From September 2009 - January 2010 TNA averaged 1.3M viewers or close to it weekly. Monday obviously didn’t work. They returned to their old night and shit was down for a bit in total viewers slightly where they were doing around 1.2M for a couple months following returning to their old night. But then their viewers as a whole grew from closing quarter of 2009 where they were consistently doing 1.4M+ by the end of 2010 which was a bit above the average viewers of 2009 year end and in 2011 they more often than not did 1.6M+ viewers. The narrative that they lost their audience just isn’t true - total viewers returned and rose above what it was doing prior to Monday move. The rating nunber itself declined because their potential audience got bigger but their viewers didn’t grow substantially. But as for actual viewer nunber trying Mondays didn’t kill it at all. Spike saw it plateau and wanted to try to get some growth - it just didn’t work to a level they’d have wanted.
If wasnt for investors pumping money in it would be gone as it doesnt make more than it spends. Its truly truly awful and looks like backyard wrestling filmed on a phone!
@@juliusvillalon6816 A comeback? To what? They have never been in any way a competitor to the WWE and failed miserably when they tried to be. They've had years at the game with amazing talent (sometimes) and AEW has walked in and became No2 in a very short time. So how exactly are they going to become a genuine competitor? Pumping money like Turner didnt work for WCW in the long run and its 20 years later with a very different wrestling world and audience 🤷🏽♂️
@@tarync6539 they are interesting again and they have the AEW partnership going on so I say they are doing a comeback maybe not major but they are getting there
At least after the table incident, Dixie at least got off of TV with only a few sporadic appearances and stopped playing Vince-knock off the next time she appeared (though that still did not change the fact that she was a bad business owner). Steph on the other hand still played a character that was one of the biggest examples of "Go-Away Heat" up until Wrestlemania 34 (when she finally lost after a few years of being an intolerable jerk and also finally got off of television aside from a few appearances).
The sad part is it’s almost impossible for Impact to reach such levels ever again. They’ve got the best women’s division in the world and they’re on twitch every week.
Logan Jeffery andrew I really do miss TNA but I agree it’s almost impossible for redeem themselves without some crazy person ploughing loads of money in. The tape library is really their only valuable asset
You mentioned Jesse Sorensen, there was also the whole deal with Daffney where she did that run in on that Monster's Ball with Abyss and Abyss threw her through a table outside the ring and she broke her arm, she told Daffney that she would be taken care of, she was not. Also Sorensen did recover, and he's still wrestling now.
indyalmighty Your selling for my hard slap👋🏾 (& your 11 people that like your comment).... Mega brilliant. I can’t believe you love that garbage segment.
Don’t forget letting Paul Heyman slip thru here fingers. Paul actually went to Her house and laid out a plan but she didn’t get what he was trying to do
So trash that to this day he still works for wwe and they never let him go since he got signed, because they know his value to professional wrestling. But sure, he is trash.
@@BadselS bro that might have been the character Paul E. had played to be heel. Dude used to run ECW, one of its golden years, and is good on the mic that they pair him up with Lesnar to make up for Lesnar's poor mic skill. In conclusion, he knows what he is doing.
Nick Aldis (Magnus) has indeed done a great job in reviving his career with the NWA. One of the reasons he went with NWA is that he felt that could Soar or Crash on his own merit. He did very well.
Wrong. I had never even heard of TNA before Hogan signed, and had not watched wrestling since 2006/2007. I came back to wrestling when Hogan signed (As did many other people)
Dixie didnt pay her bills for the company hogan and eric try to keep it running it go back to what i said she want to go head up with wwe that when it died
@TheVolourn ratings drop idk what u was looking at i asumme u a hogan fan so i understand why u saying this but ummmm they couldnt book for shit i can honestly say russo did a better job than that
TNA did have the Best Knockouts Traci, Gail Kim, ODB, Angelina Love, Velvet Sky, Brooke Tessmacher, Mickie James, Christy Hemme, Madison Rayne, ODB, Jacqueline, Awesome Kong, Roxxi, Taylor Wilde, Sarita and of course, my girl Tara (VICTORIA from WWE) However, Dixie Carter messed it all up, not to mention, she didn't give Tara a decent title run It's no wonder why so many wrestlers hated her including Angelina Love, Velvet Sky, Awesome Kong and even Tara herself as well as AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, Konnan and Scott Steiner
Viacom paid for most of the highest paid talent like Hogan, Bischoff and Sting. That didn't come out of TNA's bottom line. They had such a sweetheart deal with Viacom, it's amazing they managed to fuck it up. You are right in that Russo was the ultimate cause for the decline, in more ways than one.
Unless that company is WWE. Vince McMahon might not have the best track for creative decisions but he's not stupid enough to trust those crooks with his financial decisions. It's like Cornette has been saying for years and years, Vince McMahon will outlast everybody because Vince always makes sure the actual business side runs as a well oiled machine.
Agreed! All they wanted to know, is how much money was in it for them. Dixie paid them what they wanted, and took money out of the Wrestlers pockets to do it, if I'm understanding this whole scenario right.
Claire Lynch was the moment I COMPLETELY gave up on TNA. It's been years and I haven't watched a single second of Impact. She was so hard to look at and hard to listen to. She was like the living embodiment of everything that was cringey about TNA.
Thanks for bringing up the Billy Corgan thing. Another shitty thing about that blow up, is that Billy Corgan had wrestling experience. He founded "Resistance Pro" back in the day. Him and his knowledge of running a pro wrestling fed would have been huge for TNA back then compared to the zero experienced Dixie Carter had prior to buying TNA with her Dad's money.
What's your point? What wrestling experience did Billy Corgan have when he founded Resistance Pro? Everyone started out with zero experience in the business at some point. Billy had experience in the entertainment business, as did Dixie when she got into wrestling. When the Carters took over TNA in 2002, it was a dead company with a failed business model. They didn't just buy a well-performing company, they took it over from the scratch and built it into a well-known brand.
If you haven't done one already, I'd love to see a video done on every time TNA blatantly ripped off a WWE or WCW storyline. Seeing Dixie's heel authority figure reminds me of how she was literally trying to emulate Stephanie McMahon. Or how Aces and Eights was literally the NWO and AJ was portraying the same role Sting did way back when. At the top of the list would have to be how they copied the Daniel Bryan phenomenon but tried to use Eric Young.
Thank you, the on-screen talent meeting was such a big turn off for so many people and yet most people don't even mention it when talking about the failures of TNA.
What kills me about this woman is that she blamed Dutch Mantell for putting plants in the audience to scream fire Russo. Rather than accept what was going on she blamed someone else.
I remember when Hogan joined and one of the first matches (maybe the first) was Nasty Boys. Knobb's knees were creaking like a rocking chair on a stoop. It was like watching one of those "aerobics for the elderly" videos.
A lot of Wrestling mistake usually tend to involve Russo. There's a definite reason why Cornette wants to piss on his grave when Russo starts pushing up daisies.
He was out to destroy what TNA wanted to do, right from the get-go! What, with his Sports Entertainment Extreme (S. E. X. Idea), he really put the kaibash on things, until the Powers-that-be realized just what he was up to. Vince Russo is one of the top worst people to ever trust a Wrestling Organization with!
To help understand how bad the move from Spike to Destination America was, Destination America on Dish was ONLY on the Top 250 channel package, the second most expensive channel pack. TNA fans who were on Dish were truly SOL at that time. And the ride doesn't even end there.
It was even worse in Germany. At some point they were on Eurosport. But they lost that contract and the last thing I saw from TNA was Eric Young winning a Bikini Contest against knockouts while wearing Spongebob shorts. The commentator's reaction to that was "better make sure to watch which promotion you sign to your network, or you get bs like this" They returned for a brief period of time during the aces and eights storyline, but that was on a small channel and at a timeslot somewhere around midnight, so I didn't really bother following that.
They should've never changed the six sided rings for me that was one of the best parts of the show cause when you got the big tag matches it was awesome cause they could twice as many teams.
@@HarmonySword No, Vince did it better. Unfortunately, being a woman in today's hypersensitive era means that male wrestlers cannot touch her to exact retribution. The reason why the Austin vs McMahon feud worked so well was precisely cause fans got to see Mr McMahon get his comeuppance for blatant misdeeds. Stephanie is a fantastic heel, I will give her that, but her getting away with slapping men with no way for them to get back at her is one of the reasons fans tuned out of the whole Authority angle. Even when she got thrown around, it was always circumstantial, like when she went through a table after she got bumped by her husband, who in turn, was selling a Spear from Roman Reigns. I don't like Vince as a person, but you have to give him props for taking all the bumps and hits just to put his guys over, primarily Austin.
Being on screen was Dixie's problem. She should have just been involved with running the company and thats it, never on screen, never mentioned and help guide the direction.
[1] Jeff & Jerry Jarrett owned and operated TNA Wrestling from 2002 to early 2012 and [2] Anthem Sports and Entertainment owned and operated TNA Wrestling from 2017 to present, remanded Impact Wrestling in 2017 (to be renamed back to TNA Wrestling in January 2024) were the best years. The Dixie Carter owned and operated TNA Wrestling from 2012 to late 2016 was the worst years, which the promotion took years to recover from.
The only reason I started watching TNA was the women’s division. TNA had the best women’s division in pro wrestling and no other women’s division hasn’t come close to them in talent and in matches. I applaud all the women in TNA and they should be extremely proud of what they did. ODB, Gayle Kim, The Beautiful People, Awesome Kong, and the list goes on and on. Thank you for making women’s wrestling great and worth watching!
As a huge fan of Victoria & Gail Kim & am happy they got their deserved recognition in TNA, the current group of women in WWE is the best that any major North American promotion has had. Asuka, the Four Horsewomen, Io Shirai, Rhea Ripley, Shayna Baszler, Lacey Evans, Bianca Belair, Alexa Bliss...even a comedy women's team like The Iiconics are good in the ring. TNA was showing better womens work in the late 00s-early 10s while WWE was still mostly stuck on model divas, but WWE womens roster today is unreal good.
@@ronaldshank7589 lol go away clown you don't know her! And you are still talking about years later in such a manner? It's funny you people will find any narrative that fits your whining. First it was Dixie was too nice then it was she's a scumbag with no heart?
The picture of Dixie with her eyes going in the opposite direction is a great way of knowing how smart she looks is about the same with some of her thinking
I’ll never believe the Spike hated Russo thing, doesn’t even make sense. The ratings were good. Plus Russo wasn’t even head writer he was just consulting from his home. The whole claim it cost them their Spike deal started from Cornette who’s hardly impartial.
They could have gave her better moments as a heel. I feel like one moment they missed out on was Dixie Carter begging Hogan to stay. When she was begging she should have hit Hogan with a low blow then fire him. But she was left being lame as a heel.
Yeah, she made herself look incredibly stupid, holding on to his leg & begging him. Meanwhile, that ends up really being his final appearance for the company!
What about hiring every WWE reject to come in and replace an awesome TNA star? Chavo ruining LAX, Sean Daivari ruining the X division... We got the lazy versions of RVD taking the world title from AJ Styles. The Lazy Christian title run. MVP was trash. TNA went from the new face of professional wrestling to the place where WWE guys went on vacation. Higher profile names doing boring TV.
I’d agree with all of that except Christian, I think he was one of the few people (arguably also Ken Anderson, although that’s a mixed bag) that did better in TNA than WWE and was booked better
@@Dazz3rz450 It wasn't so much that I disliked the work he put in but it was obvious we got the lazy Christian. Of course, TNA put the belt on him immediately, which made the established TNA roster look weak. Even though they were way better.
@@Dazz3rz450 To be fair, Angle gave so much more to TNA that they/Dixie deserved...... Once he'd healed up and got his life together; he could have easily left, got paid more and gone straight back into the WWE as a top guy but he didn't.... He stayed.
Not resigning styles, Hiring Hogan, getting rid of the six sides, being on tv to much, oh hiring Flair as well. Also some of the story lines were really bad during this time. There were so many things that went wrong.
Another amazing video MarkyD! Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I was ROTFL at all of Dixie's dumbass decisions!! The biggest being getting them kicked off of Spike!! I even got my lil bro to watch this with me, & he hated TNA, back in the day.
Well, he hasn't watched anymore, since that one. Idk, I've never been able to figure my brother out. Despite all the shitty decisions Dixie made, those were the golden years of TNA/IMPACT, & i actually look back on those years with fondness. My little bro nowadays, hates IMPACT, hates AEW, & hates current WWE. Meanwhile, watching MarkyD's videos made me a fan of IMPACT again, & i have been watching again & enjoying the product.
For me I was a fan of TNA from the start and all the way up till Hogan and Bischoff entered. Only thing that was decent with them was Jeff Hardy's heel turn till he screwed up at Victory Road against Sting. I tried to watch TNA but it definitely wasn't the same. I was done after AJ Styles left.
I knew she was clueless, but I didn't know about how badly she treated Jesse Sorenson. That's straight up scummy. Billy Corgan saved TNA, but Dixie screwed him. That meeting where she berated the talent was horrible. She looked sooo unlikable. Not mentioned on the list was how she screwed over Daffney after she suffered a career-ending injury in TNA
I’m no Russo fan but even the dirt sheet writers who hate him have said Russo had nothing to do with spike. Bischoff was executive producer and very friendly with spike executives and on his way out the door he did all kind of damage between them and spike.
WWE starting to look like...this? I don't really know what to call this time in TNA/IMPACT. On a side note: Did you know TNA once had Okada (yes that Okada) and did nothing? Well now you know.
The thing is, without Dixie Carter TNA would have went to bankruptcy in the fall of 2002 just a view months after they launched their first show. After her takeover in 2003 they had big success for many years. So even if she had make damages to her company, she could only do that to a thing, that without her would never have existed. So whats the matter about that? Who cares? I wouldn't call it damages. She tried to play the big game in pro wrestling. To be the niche product in the shadows of WWE was not her ambition. So she tried a lot of things to get to the WWE level at someday. In the end it didn't work out. But she knew that risk. And she could afford it. What I give her credit for: every employee who did long work in TNA got a new job elsewhere. She took care about that. And she found a new investor for the company who can now run the niche product.
The Jarretts had a really crappy business concept with the weekly PPVs. In addition, they let been duped themselves by a single man who sent them bogus PPV numbers. Clearly there weren't many investors who were interested in this business. A few years ago I read Jerry Jarrett's book about TNA's first year. As far as I can remember, there was only one other potential investor at that time. But there was only one loose conversation. It quickly became clear that Panda Energy was the right choice for the Jarretts. After the purchase, the weekly PPVs ran for another year and then the first TV deal came in with Fox Sports. Another year later the Carters brought in the Spike TV deal. Dixie had that outsider view on wrestling and gave so many crazy ideas a chance that would never have been realized if only wrestling minds had thought about it. E.g. Lockdown was actually just a joke from Dusty Rhodes, who said for fun that you could do every match in a cage. Nobody in the room took that seriously. But Dixie said let's do this. And the Lockdown PPV became a huge success for TNA.
Dishonorable Mention: Giving 6-figure contracts & payoffs to reality show personalities such as Johnny Fairplay, J-Woww & Jenna Morasca while full-time roster members are being so underpaid that they are living on foodstamps & working a 2nd job at Sunglass Hut.
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Dixieland bro🤟😌🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟
She was probably hoping they would advertise at their day jobs
None of them got 6 figures, and Johnny Fairplay was supposed to have a long term role.
@@deadpilled2942 Still stupid
And that person working at sunglasses hut was one of their champions.
"Dixie Carter couldn't even run a lemonade stand, let alone a wrestling company!"
-Robert "Bobby" Roode
Was this said in a shoot or in kayfabe?
Either way, Roode was not wrong.
@@zemox2534 only problem with her is that she trust the wrong people
@@itachi-kun7736 No, no and no! Once Jeff Jarrett was out of the picture, Dixie Carter WAS the main problem with TNA, other than Panda energy's unwillingness to commit much more than their initial investment (I can't say I blame them in hindsight to be honest.)It wouldn't have mattered much with the incompetents running TNA, most notably the boss lady herself. It was only years after I was done with them, did I learn that her "Momma Dixie" image, that she worked tirelessly to paint in terms of PR was fake. She was a petty tyrant, she treated the TNA "original" talent like shit, particularly the KO's, was condescending and conceited, and obsessed with being a TV star, and didn't want anyone questioning her lack of knowledge in terms of wrestling. I also learned that it was Dixie who killed the idea of more intimate fan feedback access to TNA offices, when it had been a proposed PR selling point for TNA shortly before. This was done, because she was furious about some of the negative feedback, like the "fire Russo" sentiment that was going around at the time. She didn't want to hear about any negative at all.
@@TNAROHfan yep Dixie was horrible in all ways. Bad on tv and horrible behind the scenes. Just no.
Trying to restart the Monday Night Wars was one of the dumbest moves in wrestling history. WCW had the tv-deal and backing to go toe-to-toe with WWE, TNA didn't. Ratings were up before that fiasco, never got back to that level even after returning to their old night with their tails
But that was a fun experiment it did prove that only 20% of WWE viewers watched both WWE and Impact so it was a waste of time chasing after them. It’s was also sad to see how divided the wrestling viewers were 10yrs ago as compared to tv shows of the same genre.
shows bichoof had no idea what he was doing either
Tbh tna had quite a roster: kurt angle, jeff hardy, RVD, samoa joe, sting, ric flair, kevin nash, aj styles, mick foley, Dudleys and even Hulk frikkin Hogan. I'd say give it a shot as well. I think they shouldve booked a Hulk Hogan ring return as main selling point on their first legit monday night show. But instead they had some weird Sting vs rvd action with rvds surprise show up completely overshadowed by Hulk and Bischoff. I mean tbh the stars on raw werent that much better, yeah cena and trips (as only two as Sheamus was a frikkin main eventer then) but Angle, rvd and sting should be able to compete with that if booked well. Maybe the real mistake was competing in mania season, if they just waited till 3 weeks after mania
Worst idea. Had to be from Hogan and Bishoff [>
Not true about their TV viewership. From September 2009 - January 2010 TNA averaged 1.3M viewers or close to it weekly. Monday obviously didn’t work. They returned to their old night and shit was down for a bit in total viewers slightly where they were doing around 1.2M for a couple months following returning to their old night. But then their viewers as a whole grew from closing quarter of 2009 where they were consistently doing 1.4M+ by the end of 2010 which was a bit above the average viewers of 2009 year end and in 2011 they more often than not did 1.6M+ viewers. The narrative that they lost their audience just isn’t true - total viewers returned and rose above what it was doing prior to Monday move. The rating nunber itself declined because their potential audience got bigger but their viewers didn’t grow substantially. But as for actual viewer nunber trying Mondays didn’t kill it at all. Spike saw it plateau and wanted to try to get some growth - it just didn’t work to a level they’d have wanted.
The fact that TNA is still alive as Impact is a miracle...
If wasnt for investors pumping money in it would be gone as it doesnt make more than it spends. Its truly truly awful and looks like backyard wrestling filmed on a phone!
They are making a comeback bro just wait
@@juliusvillalon6816 A comeback? To what? They have never been in any way a competitor to the WWE and failed miserably when they tried to be.
They've had years at the game with amazing talent (sometimes) and AEW has walked in and became No2 in a very short time. So how exactly are they going to become a genuine competitor? Pumping money like Turner didnt work for WCW in the long run and its 20 years later with a very different wrestling world and audience 🤷🏽♂️
@@tarync6539 they are interesting again and they have the AEW partnership going on so I say they are doing a comeback maybe not major but they are getting there
@@juliusvillalon6816 I suppose we'll just have to wait and see 👍
I’m amazed no one started throwing bottles at Dixie like the fans did towards Jeff Jarrett.
Dixie Carter was soo bad she made Stephanie McMahon look tolerable on TV
And THAT'S saying something.
At least after the table incident, Dixie at least got off of TV with only a few sporadic appearances and stopped playing Vince-knock off the next time she appeared (though that still did not change the fact that she was a bad business owner). Steph on the other hand still played a character that was one of the biggest examples of "Go-Away Heat" up until Wrestlemania 34 (when she finally lost after a few years of being an intolerable jerk and also finally got off of television aside from a few appearances).
Tna/Impact died years ago
Or Vicky Guerrero
@@jeffwalraven4504 So you think Dixie was worse than Vicky Guerrero? lol you people are crazy as hell!
When people already hate you, "becoming a heel" in storyline becomes completely insufferable.
To be fair, as long as you're a good performer, you can spin it into gold. Unfortunately, Dixie Carter isn't a good performer.
The sad part is it’s almost impossible for Impact to reach such levels ever again. They’ve got the best women’s division in the world and they’re on twitch every week.
Logan Jeffery andrew I really do miss TNA but I agree it’s almost impossible for redeem themselves without some crazy person ploughing loads of money in. The tape library is really their only valuable asset
Short of aew absorbing them theyll never get there
They own Axs tv which is in 52 million homes.
I have to respectfully disagree with you about Impact having the best women's division. In my honest opinion, that title goes to NXT.
@@corwinbrown2643 Is it? As has low ratings.
You mentioned Jesse Sorensen, there was also the whole deal with Daffney where she did that run in on that Monster's Ball with Abyss and Abyss threw her through a table outside the ring and she broke her arm, she told Daffney that she would be taken care of, she was not. Also Sorensen did recover, and he's still wrestling now.
I know he recovered but I can’t find anything to say he’s still wrestling anywhere, are you sure that he is?
Daffney suffered a brutal concussion from Rosie Lottalove and that was the end of both of their careers.
@@Markyd123 he's had 3 matches on AEW Dark last year
Beckonor: Didn't Rosie Lottaluv go on to be signed by (and then released from) NXT as Sage Beckett no long after?🤔🎤🤼♀️B.W.
AJ Styles selling for Dixie's husband. Brilliant
Surge was the true star of TNA
•Uuudd • Are you high👀
indyalmighty Your selling for my hard slap👋🏾 (& your 11 people that like your comment).... Mega brilliant. I can’t believe you love that garbage segment.
@@hurricaneparro2464 i think the sarcasm was missed.
the Phenomenal One was "a depressed Emo."
Don’t forget letting Paul Heyman slip thru here fingers. Paul actually went to Her house and laid out a plan but she didn’t get what he was trying to do
Lol heyman is trash
So trash that to this day he still works for wwe and they never let him go since he got signed, because they know his value to professional wrestling.
But sure, he is trash.
@@themiz3321 he is a clinical liar
@@BadselS bro that might have been the character Paul E. had played to be heel. Dude used to run ECW, one of its golden years, and is good on the mic that they pair him up with Lesnar to make up for Lesnar's poor mic skill.
In conclusion, he knows what he is doing.
@@SuperPEACEMAKER786 no he's not he ran ECW he knows that he's smart
Styles said in an interview that a major issue with Dixie is she's a mark, and her time with Hogan shows that, as well as many others such as Nash.
Nick Aldis (Magnus) has indeed done a great job in reviving his career with the NWA. One of the reasons he went with NWA is that he felt that could Soar or Crash on his own merit. He did very well.
Besides, if Aldis did go to WWE, there's a chance he'd be booked as Stuffy Evil Brit V.3.
Yeah, not to mention that the guy has a freaking 1,000 day reign as NWA champion.
4:00 Abyss vs Hogan
5:08 Clayre Lynch
6:01 Dixie begs Hogan to stay
7:05 2015 Email vs Destination America 7:50
8:23 Jessie Saurensen
9:26 Billy Corgan
11:08 Hiring Hogan & Bischoff
13:05
14:23 Vince Russo
The way she treated AJ was disgraceful.
At least he’s the current raw tag team champion with omos
@@rubenskywalkerredlanternda5620 And a former two time WWE champion and one of the reigns was 300 plus days
@@xxx_monte6714 you’re not wrong
"Who needs AJ when you can have the Hulkster as the face of your company?"
-Dixie Carter
@@xxx_monte6714 don’t forget is a former United States Champion and intercontinental champion
The moment she hire Hogan for nostalgia...TNA WENT ON LIFE SUPPORT EASYYY BUT ME BEING A FANBOY I DEALT WITH IT
Another mistake Dixie Carter made was making Jeff Hardy Tna Champion!
Wrong. I had never even heard of TNA before Hogan signed, and had not watched wrestling since 2006/2007. I came back to wrestling when Hogan signed (As did many other people)
Dixie didnt pay her bills for the company hogan and eric try to keep it running it go back to what i said she want to go head up with wwe that when it died
@@eddykaye8618 And they left just as fast. So your point being?
@TheVolourn ratings drop idk what u was looking at i asumme u a hogan fan so i understand why u saying this but ummmm they couldnt book for shit i can honestly say russo did a better job than that
What happen with Jesse Sorensen makes me sick.
How can she even sleep @ night, after doing that to him?
Jesse Sorensen Was An Hard Worker Too
That is actually extreme fuck up
I remember all that except her doing him dirty like that. Sick shit
Dixie Carter also screwed over Daffney as well when she got injured as well.
I’m happy that the Dixie Carter era of TNA is over and done with.
We should start a movement to help them back to fame.
Dixie era had stars what does current era Impact have?
@@vicentenavarro1190 Not a star.
@@sos9919 lol yeah stars from the 80's and midcarders from the attitude era,meanwhile she ran off the og stars that made the company
@@sos9919 ...Is RVD, Rhino, & Ken Shamrock not stars...?!
If you look up the word "incompetent" in the dictionary, you'll find a picture of Dixie Carter next to it...
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You won't cos they fucked up and put the wrong picture there instead.
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yes 10 years gone down in the tube incompetent ec 3 could been the new face of tna sad
...and if you don't see her picture next to that word, it should be there!
Stil L has more money then u lol losers
TNA did have the Best Knockouts
Traci, Gail Kim, ODB, Angelina Love, Velvet Sky, Brooke Tessmacher, Mickie James, Christy Hemme, Madison Rayne, ODB, Jacqueline, Awesome Kong, Roxxi, Taylor Wilde, Sarita and of course, my girl Tara (VICTORIA from WWE)
However, Dixie Carter messed it all up, not to mention, she didn't give Tara a decent title run
It's no wonder why so many wrestlers hated her including Angelina Love, Velvet Sky, Awesome Kong and even Tara herself as well as AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, Konnan and Scott Steiner
Viacom paid for most of the highest paid talent like Hogan, Bischoff and Sting. That didn't come out of TNA's bottom line. They had such a sweetheart deal with Viacom, it's amazing they managed to fuck it up. You are right in that Russo was the ultimate cause for the decline, in more ways than one.
hey yo and he will deny it and blame someone else like he always does smh.
@Bischoff Rulz da pope was also pretty over. I loved that guy, he was so charismatic. But no lets bury him over frikkin desmond wolfe
Hogan, Russo and bischoff the three points of death of any company.
The Bermuda triangle of professional wrestling.
The product and company is set to disappear into oblivion
Unless that company is WWE. Vince McMahon might not have the best track for creative decisions but he's not stupid enough to trust those crooks with his financial decisions. It's like Cornette has been saying for years and years, Vince McMahon will outlast everybody because Vince always makes sure the actual business side runs as a well oiled machine.
Agreed! All they wanted to know, is how much money was in it for them. Dixie paid them what they wanted, and took money out of the Wrestlers pockets to do it, if I'm understanding this whole scenario right.
holy wcw batman lol
@Nemo Pouncey Oh, no..... here we go again! When did this happen?
Dixie turned me against her own product the same way McMahon has with his the last 5 years.
2016 SD was good tho..
Yeah in a way wwe has become the new tna I saw that happening in 2013
Arka Nandi I loved SD at that time and yet what did they do? Alienated us and made us feel stupid for caring
we big money big talent but Jim Ross said we are not trying to be like wwe we doing aew dixie should take notes
Arka Nandi it was a small moment of hope
Claire Lynch was the moment I COMPLETELY gave up on TNA. It's been years and I haven't watched a single second of Impact. She was so hard to look at and hard to listen to. She was like the living embodiment of everything that was cringey about TNA.
This angle made AJ look bad because it was common knowledge that he was married with kids.
Thanks for bringing up the Billy Corgan thing. Another shitty thing about that blow up, is that Billy Corgan had wrestling experience. He founded "Resistance Pro" back in the day. Him and his knowledge of running a pro wrestling fed would have been huge for TNA back then compared to the zero experienced Dixie Carter had prior to buying TNA with her Dad's money.
What's your point? What wrestling experience did Billy Corgan have when he founded Resistance Pro? Everyone started out with zero experience in the business at some point. Billy had experience in the entertainment business, as did Dixie when she got into wrestling. When the Carters took over TNA in 2002, it was a dead company with a failed business model. They didn't just buy a well-performing company, they took it over from the scratch and built it into a well-known brand.
If you haven't done one already, I'd love to see a video done on every time TNA blatantly ripped off a WWE or WCW storyline. Seeing Dixie's heel authority figure reminds me of how she was literally trying to emulate Stephanie McMahon. Or how Aces and Eights was literally the NWO and AJ was portraying the same role Sting did way back when. At the top of the list would have to be how they copied the Daniel Bryan phenomenon but tried to use Eric Young.
Steve McCord And AJ leaving with the title back in 2013
James Mitchell as Abyss’ father.
Thank you, the on-screen talent meeting was such a big turn off for so many people and yet most people don't even mention it when talking about the failures of TNA.
What kills me about this woman is that she blamed Dutch Mantell for putting plants in the audience to scream fire Russo. Rather than accept what was going on she blamed someone else.
Jim Cornette liked what was number 1
He threw Jim under the bus a few minutes earlier!
@@jeffreyriley8742 it's true tho. And even Jim himself admits it when he talks about TNA.
She was the main ride in Dixie land
@Lord Belial same
No thanks! I'll pass on that ride!
But there was no attendance.
All aboard the Dixie train
I would have got on that ride
I'm enjoying this channel. The nostalgia of watching TNA in those days!
I remember when Hogan joined and one of the first matches (maybe the first) was Nasty Boys. Knobb's knees were creaking like a rocking chair on a stoop. It was like watching one of those "aerobics for the elderly" videos.
TNA never paid Hogan and Bischoff's "big money contracts". They had separate Spike TV contracts.
Yes idk how people always get that wrong I think it's just a biase against Hogan
It didn't surprise me Russo was number one. It was so huge of a mistake.
Me either
That number four is fuck up
A lot of Wrestling mistake usually tend to involve Russo.
There's a definite reason why Cornette wants to piss on his grave when Russo starts pushing up daisies.
He was out to destroy what TNA wanted to do, right from the get-go! What, with his Sports Entertainment Extreme (S. E. X. Idea), he really put the kaibash on things, until the Powers-that-be realized just what he was up to. Vince Russo is one of the top worst people to ever trust a Wrestling Organization with!
1-10. Letting Dixie run TNA 😁
Under Dixie TNA went from a indy company to the number two wrestling company in the world, so she had to something right!
@@corwinbrown2643 they got to "number 2" on name power and lack of competition alone. They had all the best guys that weren't signed to wwf.
@@chrismorgan8330 lol lack of competition because they were the only one that figured out how to make it.
Dixie Carter is one of the biggest fools in pro wrestling history.
She a fool, but at least I got to get with that fool. Bad as owner.
11) Having her husband punch out AJ out of anger at the idea that AJ wanted to clap her cheeks. 😂
To help understand how bad the move from Spike to Destination America was, Destination America on Dish was ONLY on the Top 250 channel package, the second most expensive channel pack. TNA fans who were on Dish were truly SOL at that time. And the ride doesn't even end there.
It was even worse in Germany. At some point they were on Eurosport. But they lost that contract and the last thing I saw from TNA was Eric Young winning a Bikini Contest against knockouts while wearing Spongebob shorts. The commentator's reaction to that was "better make sure to watch which promotion you sign to your network, or you get bs like this"
They returned for a brief period of time during the aces and eights storyline, but that was on a small channel and at a timeslot somewhere around midnight, so I didn't really bother following that.
Not the topic specifically, but if Dixie was gonna lose AJ Styles, I'm glad WWE didn't shit all over him like they did so many TNA talents.
Let's just call it for what it is... As an on-screen heel character, Dixie was just trying to be Stephanie McMahon 2.0.
The Virgin Dixie Carter vs The Chad Vince Mcmahon.
or The Billion Dollar Boss, Stephanie McMahon.
Strange in Hogan's quote there is no use of the word "brother!"
They should've never changed the six sided rings for me that was one of the best parts of the show cause when you got the big tag matches it was awesome cause they could twice as many teams.
If people really want to go the heel authority figure they should look into how Vince McMahon did it.
Or Bischoff
"If anyone's gonna destroy what I created, it's gonna be me!"
or Stephanie McMahon
Bischoff did it first fam
@@HarmonySword No, Vince did it better. Unfortunately, being a woman in today's hypersensitive era means that male wrestlers cannot touch her to exact retribution. The reason why the Austin vs McMahon feud worked so well was precisely cause fans got to see Mr McMahon get his comeuppance for blatant misdeeds. Stephanie is a fantastic heel, I will give her that, but her getting away with slapping men with no way for them to get back at her is one of the reasons fans tuned out of the whole Authority angle. Even when she got thrown around, it was always circumstantial, like when she went through a table after she got bumped by her husband, who in turn, was selling a Spear from Roman Reigns. I don't like Vince as a person, but you have to give him props for taking all the bumps and hits just to put his guys over, primarily Austin.
Being on screen was Dixie's problem.
She should have just been involved with running the company and thats it, never on screen, never mentioned and help guide the direction.
Hawk always has his meaty fingers in something
See what happens when Dixie's daddy buys her a rasslin' company? She misuses the wrestlers like toys.
Khan
1) - Hiring Hogan, Bischoff & Russo.
Russo gets his own spot above the other two.
That was badass when A.J. Styles added the Calf Crusher
When Billy Corgan put on the shades he looked like a middle aged version of Pitbull (the rapper/singer)
Hiring Hulk Hogan brother !!!!
I know I stopped watching when Hogan and Eric Jackoff became the center of every show. Great list,btw.
she's the worst wrestling promoter ever...and that's covering a lot of ground
"Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkin.
Homer Simpson, Smiley Politely. "
What a carny, she was born to be in the wrestling business. What she did with the Jesse guy is devious as hell, I'd sue her ten times over.
You know why I really like this channel. It gives me so much recap of a time that I didn't watch Tna
tna has been going out of business for like 15 years lmao
dude shut up tna is the hottest thing in pro wrestling rn
[1] Jeff & Jerry Jarrett owned and operated TNA Wrestling from 2002 to early 2012 and [2] Anthem Sports and Entertainment owned and operated TNA Wrestling from 2017 to present, remanded Impact Wrestling in 2017 (to be renamed back to TNA Wrestling in January 2024) were the best years.
The Dixie Carter owned and operated TNA Wrestling from 2012 to late 2016 was the worst years, which the promotion took years to recover from.
The only reason I started watching TNA was the women’s division. TNA had the best women’s division in pro wrestling and no other women’s division hasn’t come close to them in talent and in matches. I applaud all the women in TNA and they should be extremely proud of what they did. ODB, Gayle Kim, The Beautiful People, Awesome Kong, and the list goes on and on. Thank you for making women’s wrestling great and worth watching!
As a huge fan of Victoria & Gail Kim & am happy they got their deserved recognition in TNA, the current group of women in WWE is the best that any major North American promotion has had. Asuka, the Four Horsewomen, Io Shirai, Rhea Ripley, Shayna Baszler, Lacey Evans, Bianca Belair, Alexa Bliss...even a comedy women's team like The Iiconics are good in the ring. TNA was showing better womens work in the late 00s-early 10s while WWE was still mostly stuck on model divas, but WWE womens roster today is unreal good.
The mistaken email has me CRYINGG LMAO
The best moment of dixie carter was when bully ray put her right onto a table.
0:57 That sad trombone sound 🤣
Dixie is hot as Hell 🌹
“Well shut up or I’ll smack you one” 😂😂
I never watched TNA, but I always found Dixie Carter very attractive.
agreed
Me too
Maybe on the outside, but not on the inside! That woman is the human representation of a Snake!!!
@@ronaldshank7589 lol go away clown you don't know her! And you are still talking about years later in such a manner? It's funny you people will find any narrative that fits your whining. First it was Dixie was too nice then it was she's a scumbag with no heart?
@@corwinbrown2643 bruh if you gonna simp than find someone better to simp for,here you dropped this L
The picture of Dixie with her eyes going in the opposite direction is a great way of knowing how smart she looks is about the same with some of her thinking
This makes you appreciate Stephanie McMahon even more
steph is genuinely a nice person irl did you see her on celebrity undercover boss lol
I wish Jesse Sorenson would've talked to a competent attorney. The threat of a lawsuit could've got him alot
I’ll never believe the Spike hated Russo thing, doesn’t even make sense. The ratings were good. Plus Russo wasn’t even head writer he was just consulting from his home. The whole claim it cost them their Spike deal started from Cornette who’s hardly impartial.
THIS. Cornette cannot and should not be taken seriously from a creative or business standpoint.
She tried to get more money out of Spike they said no. Then she tried to get the original deal, they pulled the plug
Also one other thing, Bischoff leaving, because Spike were high on Eric and him leaving wasn't good for the deal.
@@deathtowrestling2518 Your name says it all as a Russo mark.
They could have gave her better moments as a heel. I feel like one moment they missed out on was Dixie Carter begging Hogan to stay. When she was begging she should have hit Hogan with a low blow then fire him. But she was left being lame as a heel.
I don't think that would work for Hogan brother....
Yeah, she made herself look incredibly stupid, holding on to his leg & begging him. Meanwhile, that ends up really being his final appearance for the company!
I don't think any wrestling company should do business with Dixie Carter again she just sucks at it
Not giving the TNA Heavyweight champion to wrestlers who long deserved it like Christopher Daniels, Kazarian, Jay lethal Homicide, Low Ki and Abyss
Dixie deserves a dunce cap
TNA died when Hogan & Bischoff came in and they’ve never been able to recover fully since.
And Dixie buried it.
Should have mentioned her firing Jim Cornette and Dutch Mantell as one of her biggest mistakes
"Shut Up or I'll Smack You One !" - a great catchphrase, for a t-shirt (merch) idea, imo...
Man your videos are amazing!!
Is it true Kevin Nash used to ride the Dixie Train?
What about hiring every WWE reject to come in and replace an awesome TNA star? Chavo ruining LAX, Sean Daivari ruining the X division... We got the lazy versions of RVD taking the world title from AJ Styles. The Lazy Christian title run. MVP was trash.
TNA went from the new face of professional wrestling to the place where WWE guys went on vacation. Higher profile names doing boring TV.
I’d agree with all of that except Christian, I think he was one of the few people (arguably also Ken Anderson, although that’s a mixed bag) that did better in TNA than WWE and was booked better
@@Dazz3rz450 true dat.😗👍👍👍👍👍
I just couldn't see christian as champ during that time maybe I need to look back on his matches then but I just always seen him as a mid-carder
@@Dazz3rz450 It wasn't so much that I disliked the work he put in but it was obvious we got the lazy Christian. Of course, TNA put the belt on him immediately, which made the established TNA roster look weak. Even though they were way better.
@@Dazz3rz450 To be fair, Angle gave so much more to TNA that they/Dixie deserved...... Once he'd healed up and got his life together; he could have easily left, got paid more and gone straight back into the WWE as a top guy but he didn't.... He stayed.
Not resigning styles, Hiring Hogan, getting rid of the six sides, being on tv to much, oh hiring Flair as well. Also some of the story lines were really bad during this time. There were so many things that went wrong.
KRthehomie agree with all of that apart from Flair, I think he added positively to the show.
The Perc Angle days.
AJ styles won the world title in my hometown of San Diego
Another amazing video MarkyD! Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I was ROTFL at all of Dixie's dumbass decisions!! The biggest being getting them kicked off of Spike!! I even got my lil bro to watch this with me, & he hated TNA, back in the day.
Well i fail to see how it would be hard to get your brother to watch a video about TNA's short comings if he hated it.
Well, he hasn't watched anymore, since that one. Idk, I've never been able to figure my brother out. Despite all the shitty decisions Dixie made, those were the golden years of TNA/IMPACT, & i actually look back on those years with fondness. My little bro nowadays, hates IMPACT, hates AEW, & hates current WWE. Meanwhile, watching MarkyD's videos made me a fan of IMPACT again, & i have been watching again & enjoying the product.
This...is truly uncomfortable to watch. Dixie, I hope you're proud of yourself, because we're not!
Damn you people are still butthurt!
For me I was a fan of TNA from the start and all the way up till Hogan and Bischoff entered. Only thing that was decent with them was Jeff Hardy's heel turn till he screwed up at Victory Road against Sting. I tried to watch TNA but it definitely wasn't the same. I was done after AJ Styles left.
I knew she was clueless, but I didn't know about how badly she treated Jesse Sorenson. That's straight up scummy. Billy Corgan saved TNA, but Dixie screwed him. That meeting where she berated the talent was horrible. She looked sooo unlikable. Not mentioned on the list was how she screwed over Daffney after she suffered a career-ending injury in TNA
Actually spike paid Hogan, bischoff and stings contracts
I’m no Russo fan but even the dirt sheet writers who hate him have said Russo had nothing to do with spike. Bischoff was executive producer and very friendly with spike executives and on his way out the door he did all kind of damage between them and spike.
Tony khan is next.
LOL in your dreams
fun fact Dixie and EC3 are related I think Dixie is his Aunt
Fun fact he says that in the video
Great video as usual!!... love y’a :)
Thanks brother
How many times must it be said?! Jeff Jarrett is not a main event guy!
I hate to say it but I really enjoyed Dixieland lol I thought Spud and EC3 shined during it
Too bad that's one of the few things that shined
@@num1Jaysta true
@@num1Jaysta Entertainment is subject. And Dixie shined!
WWE starting to look like...this? I don't really know what to call this time in TNA/IMPACT.
On a side note: Did you know TNA once had Okada (yes that Okada) and did nothing? Well now you know.
Only good thing about Dixie is she's hot. But, what do I know, I'm a towel.
@TheBestFighter I don't recall stuttering. But, I'm really high right now on last year's Halloween special, since the pandemic special is tainted.
Towelie you like that mustache
Depends, how high were you when you said that?
Stephie is hotter.
@@luisalbertoarenasaraya4579 hell yeah she is!
Love your content bro thx keep up the hard work I know it’s a hell of job to do
On the other side we have Vince challenging GOD to a match...
The thing is, without Dixie Carter TNA would have went to bankruptcy in the fall of 2002 just a view months after they launched their first show. After her takeover in 2003 they had big success for many years. So even if she had make damages to her company, she could only do that to a thing, that without her would never have existed. So whats the matter about that? Who cares? I wouldn't call it damages. She tried to play the big game in pro wrestling. To be the niche product in the shadows of WWE was not her ambition. So she tried a lot of things to get to the WWE level at someday. In the end it didn't work out. But she knew that risk. And she could afford it. What I give her credit for: every employee who did long work in TNA got a new job elsewhere. She took care about that. And she found a new investor for the company who can now run the niche product.
The Jarretts had a really crappy business concept with the weekly PPVs. In addition, they let been duped themselves by a single man who sent them bogus PPV numbers. Clearly there weren't many investors who were interested in this business. A few years ago I read Jerry Jarrett's book about TNA's first year. As far as I can remember, there was only one other potential investor at that time. But there was only one loose conversation. It quickly became clear that Panda Energy was the right choice for the Jarretts. After the purchase, the weekly PPVs ran for another year and then the first TV deal came in with Fox Sports. Another year later the Carters brought in the Spike TV deal. Dixie had that outsider view on wrestling and gave so many crazy ideas a chance that would never have been realized if only wrestling minds had thought about it. E.g. Lockdown was actually just a joke from Dusty Rhodes, who said for fun that you could do every match in a cage. Nobody in the room took that seriously. But Dixie said let's do this. And the Lockdown PPV became a huge success for TNA.
I'm 🙏 Tony Khan learns from other people's mistakes he has a great chance to make aew a great company