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{{quote|''"God, this was horrible! This show didn't have a single match above two-and-a-half stars. It had one match<ref>Jenna Morasca vs. Sharmell</ref> that I gave '''[[Broke the Rating Scale|minus-five stars]]'''!"''|'''Bryan Alvarez''', on ''Victory Road '09''}}
Total Nonstop Action ([[TNA]]) may be somewhat more hardcore than [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]], but it certainly shares its propensity for idiotic ideas.
'''''Important Note #1''''': If something bad was an isolated incident or simply stupid, it was probably a [[Wall Banger/Professional Wrestling|Wall Banger]]. Merely being offensive in its subject matter is not enough to justify a work as So Bad It's Horrible. Hard as it is to imagine at times, there's a market for all types of deviancy (no matter how small a niche it is). It has to ''fail to appeal even to that niche'' to qualify as this. To qualify as So Bad It's Horrible ''here'', it should have actually damaged the business in some way — i.e., hurt a wrestler's drawing value and offended real-life fans to the point that they quit watching.
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* ''Victory Road 2009'', regarded by many as one of the worst wrestling PPVs in years, and easily the worst PPV of 2009. Utterly predictable, especially after a couple of mind-numbingly moronic backstage segments that made it PAINFULLY CLEAR the Main Event Mafia was going to win every match, poorly booked, sub-par matches boring and uneventful even by TNA standards...but what sends this show into Horrible territory is the Sharmell vs. [[Survivor|Jenna Morasca]] "[https://web.archive.org/web/20091208160837/http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9xed1_sharmell-vs-jenna-morasca-victory-r_sport match]", a bout between two women who are absolutely not wrestlers that goes on for nearly 10 excruciating minutes. The reaction from the audience says it all.
* [[Samoa Joe]]'s 2009 [[Face Heel Turn]]. Joe changed his persona from a badass Samoan Submission Machine with an Elvis haircut to a [[Wild Samoan|tribal Samoan monster]] with a penis-like tattoo on his forehead, infuriating countless fans. Fortunately, he still remained a face and was taking out the members of the Main Event Mafia (led by [[Kurt Angle]]) one by one. A lot of people hated the Main Event Mafia because it was the umpteenth clone of the nWo stable with no new twist, and most fans would like to see that angle permanently retired. That wasn't what set people over the edge, though — after Joe took out every single member of the MEM, he fought [[Kurt Angle]] in the King of the Mountain match (easily one of the worst "[[Insistent Terminology|concept matches]]" of all time) and threw the match away so Kurt could win. This was done with ''[[Shocking Swerve|no foreshadowing whatsoever!]] '''[[Shocking Swerve|And the fans were pissed!]]'''''
* TNA made the [[Sarcasm Mode|brilliant decision]] to reenact the [[Monday Night Wars]] in the first half of 2010, despite the fact that they have consistently struggled to gain a fifth of the ratings [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] gets on its worst days. This in itself was merely a poor business decision, but the angles that were run at the time were easily the worst angles in years, including the [[Badass Decay]] of Abyss reaching its low point, [[Depraved Bisexual|Orlando Jordan's bisexuality becoming an angle]], Ric Flair and Hogan's WWE Hall of Fame rings becoming [[Plot Tumor|more valuable that the actual TNA Championship]], Bubba the Love Sponge being there at all, Tag Team Championship reigns so bad they've made the title worthless, and the recreation of the nWo even though everyone involved is over the hill. Within six months, TNA had to switch back to Thursday nights, and actually lost viewers in the long run due to this decision.
** Bubba's stint in TNA is regarded by many as ''the'' low point in TNA's history. His antics, including making disparaging remarks about the earthquakes in Haiti and subsequent harassment of ex-TNA Knockout Awesome Kong (who beat him up after hearing this statement), eventually led to both of them being fired from the company.
* In 2010, for the second year in a row, TNA held the title of "Worst PPV of the Year", and in this case possibly one of the worst of all time, with the first ''Hardcore Justice'' PPV. Despite being an [[ECW]] throwback, most of the old ECW stars had to [[Writing Around Trademarks|change their names in order to avoid copyright infringement]], and since WWE owns the ECW video library ''none'' of the old ECW footage could be shown, leaving many watching the show [[Continuity Lock Out|hopelessly confused]] with no clue why anyone was doing anything. Only two matches had been announced prior to the PPV (and one of those had to be changed over the weekend because of an injury). Most of the wrestlers appearing for the show were desperately out of shape, almost all of them were pushing or just under 40, and almost none of the cruiserweights showed up, leaving the card to be filled with past-their-prime hardcore brawlers. And the mastermind behind the booking? It wasn't Paul Heyman (who feels that [[You Are Not Ready|TNA isn't ready for him]]) — it was Tommy Dreamer.
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