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The website [[Wrestlecrap]] was created to chronicle [[Professional Wrestling]]'s wall bangers; it's since become so popular that the word "wrestlecrap" has become a slang word for such things in many fan circles.
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== Other Works ==
=== [[WCW]] ===▼
▲== [[WCW]] ==
* WCW actually deserves to be mentioned here, just in and of itself, because of the way it was run in the end. Wrestlers were literally punished for becoming popular. If the fans took a liking to someone, said wrestler would be buried. [[Ric Flair]] in particular was always humiliated in front of his home town fans in Charlotte. There was no backstage discipline - Scott Steiner became notorious for threatening and attacking coworkers, and was never punished in the slightest (in fact, it was during this time he became the champ and had the biggest push of his career). Main eventers [[Heel Face Revolving Door|turned Face and Heel with such rapidity]] that no one knew who was on what side. Every night was a new [[Shocking Swerve]] that everyone except the [[Genre Blind]] faces could have seen coming even if they ''hadn't'' done the exact same thing the previous four weeks. By the time they finally made some positive changes, it was too late - they'd lost 90% of their audience and got their television deal canceled.
** They did once punish Scott Steiner for shooting on Ric Flair and Eric Bicshoff on live television, even mentioning how they fired [[Steve Austin]]. His punishment? Suspension ''with'' pay.
* The moment when ''[[RoboCop]]'' came on a WCW PPV to save wrestler [http://youtube.com/watch?v=rGUJYLDgR8k Sting from The Four Horsemen]. "Woohoo, what strength by Robocop" indeed.
* One of the biggest wrestling wallbangers of all time was the [[Finger-Poke of Doom]]. WCW had an incredibly hot feud between [[Goldberg]] and [[Kevin Nash]]. Goldberg was at the very end of a 150+ streak of victories. Nash was leading "[[New World Order|The Wolfpac]]", a group of rebellious [[Anti-Hero]] [[Face|babyfaces]]. (Opinions on Nash frequently cause the Wolfpac's popularity to be drastically understated in the retelling). Well, Nash beats Goldberg with the help of a taser on Pay Per View. The next night, he ends up defending against Hulk Hogan. He was supposed to defend against Goldberg, but in a sub-angle that's something of a [[
** In a wallbanger within a wallbanger, Miss Elizabeth was originally supposed to accuse Goldberg of rape. Goldberg vetoed this. He's lucky he had the stroke to do so.
*** After Goldberg was detained by the police and subsequently released, the storyline then became if he could get back to the arena on time. Normally this wouldn't be a wallbanger, except outside shots established the police station as being ''right across the street'' from the arena! ''And'' he arrived in a car!
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** During this time, Sid Vicious returned to WCW as Macho Man's bodyguard. The same Macho Man who trapped Nash in the limo in the first place. The logical conclusion that viewers got when this happened was that Sid was the Hummer driver. Savage would [[Red Herring|deny this immediately]], and the mystery dragged on for months with no conclusion.
*** It should be noted that WCW finally did reveal the driver of the Hummer as Eric Bischoff on the same episode as the April 10, 2000 [[Continuity Reboot|reboot episode]], when Bischoff did the same to [[Hulk Hogan]]. While many appreciated the [[Continuity Nod]] and the resolution of the angle, it was rather pointless in that this led to nothing between Nash and Bischoff specifically (they were in opposite stables, the Millionaire's Club and New Blood respectively, but they were feuding with different members at the time), not to mention Savage would only make one more appearance in WCW. That's not even getting into the silliness of resolving a pre-existing angle on a show in which all existing storylines are being abolished and the company is starting anew. Most people don't even remember the Hummer driver was actually revealed on this show.
* This page needs more [[
** Having learned nothing from Chucky, WCW did almost the same thing to promote the HBO series ''[[Arliss]]''. In this case, they had Robert Wuhl come out, ''in character as Arliss'', and commentate an entire match between Randy Savage and Billy Kidman. To make it worse, Arliss spent the entire match burying both Savage, Kidman, WCW, and pro wrestling in general to talk up Dennis Rodman, who was doing one of his WCW stints. After Rodman showed up and interfered in the match, Arliss gets into the ring and cuts the same "wrestling is worthless and stupid" promo that he'd been doing on commentary. The only defense for this is that it was probably [[Executive Meddling|mandated by TNN executives]].
* WCW's treatment of Psychosis when he lost his mask was wallbanger worthy. First, Psychosis - as a [[Heel]] - was feuding with the Filthy Animals ([[Face]]) stable. Then Billy Kidman and the others tried to [[What the Hell, Hero?|forcibly unmask him]]. Psychosis proceeds to lose a hair vs mask match against Kidman. Now, the bookers apparently promised Psychosis a title reign for agreeing to lose his mask. That title reign came after previous champion [[Gorgeous George|Lenny Lane]] got [[Real Life Writes the Plot|pulled off television because GLAAD threatened to sue WCW over the character (which, in a DarthWiki/WallBanger moment of its own, admittedly the depiction was getting blatantly homophobic)]]. Lane had been scheduled to drop the title to Disco Inferno. Psychosis dropped the title instead of Lane. In other words, his reward for unmasking was to lose a title he never won.
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* The feud between Disco Inferno and Ernest "The Cat" Miller, based on the two of them being wrestlers who dance. All leading up to a match at Bash at the Beach in which the loser would no longer be allowed to dance. However, someone in the back realized that whoever lost the match would basically end up losing his gimmick, so the stipulation was axed. This would've been fine if they haven't realized it ''just before the match''. Thus, this feud was reduced into a [[Shaggy Dog Story]].
=== [[TNA]] ===
* Not quite long (or bad) enough for Wrestling's [[So Bad It's Horrible/Professional Wrestling|So Bad It's Horrible]] section: The demi-feud between [[Samoa Joe]] and Kevin Nash. Nash - in his role as Joe's slightly scuzzy [[Obi Wan]] - told Joe that you have to [[Genius Bruiser|fight with your brain as well as your brawn]]. Sage advice, coming from anyone other than Nash, who at 7 feet tall and nearly 300 pounds has never fought - much less won - a match where his style was anything other than "brawl brawl, Big Foot, Power Bomb." Not to mention his "mind games" have never come into play anywhere other than backstage politics. He compounded his comedy of errors by showing Joe "how to do things right" by challenging Booker T... and proceeding to wrestle the stereotypical "throw the smaller guy around" big-man's style. It's one thing to have one character bold-face lie about his accomplishments, but it's another to have that character go out and prove the lie a lie in the ring. Doing it all within an hour and ''then'' expecting the audience to take it at face value? '''{{[[[Face Palm]] headdesk}}]'''
* The three-hour TNA Impact featuring Hulk Hogan's debut was a bit of a mixed bag, with some truly great moments (example: AJ Styles vs. [[Kurt Angle]]). At one point, Jeff Jarrett got on the mic and began a spiel about how TNA was doing well, and mentioning the great young talent, which was then cut off by Hulk Hogan, who ranted about Jarrett having a huge ego and how he always attempted to put himself over while keeping newer wrestlers down, ''without any irony whatsoever''. There is some justification for calling Jarrett out on this, but compared to ''Hogan''?
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* Also, why send Hulk Hogan to announce the removal the Six-Sided Ring from TNA and make it into a four-sided ring at Genesis? Without informing the wrestlers and many of the production staff beforehand? The Six-Sided Ring was the trademark of TNA and what made it stand out against other companies. "WE WANT SIX-SIDES" indeed. Now, we can argue all day about whether the six-sided ring was gimmickry to begin with, but for years the wrestlers and production staff had perfected their craft with the six-sided ring and to switch up the work environment of an already dangerous profession for the sake of a [[Shocking Swerve]] is unbelievably bush league.
* One episode of iMPACT! featured Eric Bischoff firing Bobby Lashley, who was hired before Bischoff was hired (remember this, it's important). He had also fired Mick Foley the week before, though Hogan sort of reinstated him. Later on ''in the exact same show'', Bischoff finds Ric Flair and AJ Styles preparing to go on a long vacation, essentially leaving TNA without its world champion for a month. Bisch essentially cancels this vacation, after saying that it's too bad he ''can't'' fire Ric Flair because he ''signed his contract before Hogan and Bischoff did''. Give this about 30 seconds thought. Now start wallbanging.
* TNA closed out Destination X 2010 with one hell of a [[
** It's also a wallbanger in the sense that AJ weighs no more than your standard X-Division wrestler, and Abyss has slammed them hundreds of times in his tenure in TNA, yet the ring never broke before. Generally when promotions have the ring break, it's occasions in which one [[The Giant|giant wrestler]] does a huge power move to another giant wrestler to sell the impact and power of the wrestlers and their spot (see Brock Lesnar vs. The Big Show; where Lesnar ''superplexed'' Show, collapsing the ring). So, instead of the end of Destination X coming off as an unforgettable moment, some [[Smart Mark|Smart Marks]] [[Narm|laughed at the fact that TNA must be hit very hard by the recession and had to cut back on simple maintenance]].
** You've probably read the above statements and asked yourself, "Surely they at least tried to make this spot look legit by having Abyss jump off the top rope/turnbuckle with A.J. right?" Nope. The chokeslam that The Hurricane gave to The Rock back in '03 had more impact.
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5GPmeVVAAg This video] adds a lot of [[Narm Charm]] to the segment though.
** A similar situation occurred in the then-WWF when [[The Undertaker]] fought [[The Big Show]] for the world title. The match ended when Show chokeslammed 'Taker through the ring in very similar fashion. The ref stopped the match and The Undertaker retained the title. And even later was the Big Show vs. JBL in a steel cage match with the ring broke again via chokeslam, but there was an official conclusion that JBL won when he crawled his way out to touch the outside floor. Theoretically, it could be that since the ring is no longer properly functional with a big hole in it, the match is stopped and the belt is retained by the champ. Does this explain away why of all the times for Abyss to be able to slam a guy through, it was A.J. Styles? No. Not in the slightest.
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* Kurt Angle talked about how he'd rather wrestle in front of a few thousand fans who were passionate about what was happening in the ring instead of tens of thousands of fans sitting on their hands. A usual jab at the WWE, except [[Insult Backfire|it's also acknowledging the fact that the WWE is lightyears ahead of TNA in terms of actually making money]]. So in short, in this promo Angle admits that TNA can't compete with the WWE. This isn't even the first time TNA has brought that fact up.
** What really makes Angle's point moot is the fact that, aside from WWE making five times more than TNA on its worst days, a lot of the people in the Impact Zone are tourists who just sort of wandered in, not knowing what it was until they got there.
* Abyss taking up a new trademark weapon - a 2x4 with ''nails stuck through it''. This leads to ''another'' [[
** Then there's Hulk Hogan, near the point of [[Despair Event Horizon]], saying he's "never seen something so brutal". With anyone else, this would be justifiable. But this is the guy who founded the nWo, and intentionally drove a Big Rig into an ambulance which contained The Rock, who was already strapped to a stretcher following the nWo's earlier assault.
*** And then there's the fact that TNA management officially blame Ric Flair for Van Dam's injuries, ''and then make absolutely no attempt to punish him''. At least Dixie made an attempt to suspend him, before Hogan vetoed that.
*** Now, as stated earlier, RVD was the World Champion and thus had to be stripped of the title because he couldn't defend it. So TNA sets up a tournament to decide a new champion at Bound for Glory. Van Dam is booked in a return match at Bound for Glory against Abyss. So, not only did TNA needlessly vacate the World title, but the champion was determined the same night RVD returned, rendering the whole thing pointless! After, one must factor in the extent of Van Dam's kayfabe injuries, and then you realize that three months is not a reasonable time frame to be returning to the ring at all.
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** Perhaps TNA's crowning moment of stupidity - Samoa Joe was kidnapped from in the Impact Zone parking lot by ninjas<ref>insert relevant ''[[Bad Dudes]]'' joke here</ref> in a panel van, in front of witnesses ''and television cameras''. A week later, the kidnapping only received a passing mention during a filler match and Taz noted he tried Joe's home & cell phones, but got no answer, as if he expected the ninjas who kidnapped Joe to just let him go. It took another week for the idea of calling the police to report the ''kidnapping of a 300 pound Samoan from the TNA parking lot by ninjas'' in a panel van in front of television cameras to even be considered. Not that the police were ever actually called. Eventually, a grainy video of Joe aired on Impact, before Joe eventually returned with no mention of where he had been, how he escaped his kidnappers or ''why he was kidnapped in the first place''. Unsurprisingly, the angle was quickly forgotten and never mentioned again. Probably for the best.
*** Hey, one good thing came out of it - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHAnESNhwd8 one of Spoony's greatest rants.]
** Robbie E was awarded a rematch against Kazarian for the X-Division Championship after failing to win it at 2011's "Against All Odds". Frankie retains after Cookie interferes which causes Traci to come to her husband's aid. As Kazarian holds Traci back on the ramp Cookie can be heard off-camera ordering Robbie to "GET MY BELT!" that was laying inside the ring before they cut to a backstage segment. You'd think they were teasing a Kazarian & Traci vs. Cookie & Robbie E program/match sometime in the near-future right? Well in a preview clip for the next episode of Impact Robbie & Cookie are shown going on-and-on about the arrival of former "Jersey Shore" cast member what's-her-face with no mention of what happened earlier in the evening or the X-Division Title anywhere in sight. Cue the next episode of Impact and Robbie, Cookie and the Jersey Shore "star" start a feud with...The Beautiful People? So in the span of an hour Cookie goes from obsessing over a title to worrying about impressing a reality show reject. Oh, and the feud only lasted 2 weeks.
* On the other side of the spectrum sometimes they'll break up a group/team/start a rivalry OUT-OF-FREAKING-NOWHERE.
** Former T.N.A. tag-team Generation Me (they left the company shortly after 2011's "Destination X") showed no signs of animosity towards each other. That is until 2011's "Victory Road." After a promo in which Max told Jeremy that he should let him win The Ultimate X Match & the title because it was his birthday and the 2 coming to blows during the match (Kazarian retained anyway) they were at each others' throats...for about 3 months. Then they reconciled off-camera "for the good of the X-Division."
* Another off-shoot of this is when people turn heel in favor of whoever the [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]] is at the time and the in-character "logic" behind it looks less like logic and more like stupidity.
** The recent nadir of this is [[Kurt Angle]]'s latest heel turn in league with [[Hulk Hogan]]. The guy used a steel chair to take the World Heavyweight title from Sting at ''Hardcore Justice'', despite vowing on the last Impact before the show that he wanted to beat Sting clean to complete his career. His explanation? Hogan told him that Dixie Carter, who Sting's trying to get the company back for, feigned ignorance and turned a blind eye while knowing all along about Jeff Jarrett and Karen's affair back in 2008. Hogan, the guy who's screwed Kurt out of the world title numerous times since coming to TNA, and whose Immortal group has found itself on Angle's bad side at so many turns. Dixie Carter, the woman who suspended Jeff upon finding out about the affair and ''on-air'' told Jeff that he had to humble himself and apologize to Kurt when he wanted to come back. Jeff and Karen Jarrett, ''who have been part of Hogan and Bischoff's Immortal conspiracy almost since it started''. Angle's reasoning here pretty much makes '''NO''' sense whatsoever.
** This coming after Scott Steiner, who came back as part of the [[Ironic Echo]] "anti-Them!" plot that culminated in Fortune's [[Conspiracy Redemption]] [[Heel Face Turn]], suddenly being tag team partners with Jarrett one time, then feuding with Bully Ray, then joining Immortal, all of it seemingly with no logical explanation. And one need not speak of Mr. Anderson's incoherent booking since his return from concussion in 2011. The guy has had two world title reigns that have lasted about three months total, neither of which contained a successful pay-per-view defense. In that time, he's gone from a [[Determinator]] on the level of [[John Cena]], to a self-obsessed whiner constantly asking where's his frickin' rematch, to a disrespectful [[
** Ironically, Kurt Angle has been TNA's [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]] in the past and has had at least two turns in his favor from this time that have made equally bad sense. Such as Tomko in 2008 turning on friends left and right for Angle based on strength in numbers and promises of superstardom, despite the friends in question being as responsible as anyone for his successes up to that point. And Samoa Joe at 2009's ''Slammiversary'' turning on his friends and defecting to the Main Event Mafia's side for money and tutelage, despite his years' worth of beef with every member of the Mafia and the fact that he had the ultimate opportunity to become World Heavyweight Champion by reneging on the deal on top of a ladder.
* In 2008 & 2009, Eric Young underwent a huge amount of [[Character Development]] that saw him go from [[Comic Relief]] to the leader of the "World Elite". In 2010, he wound up regressing back to his [[Comic Relief]] role... after falling from the top rope to the outside of the ring & hitting his head. Now, think about this - the [[Chris Benoit]] murder-suicide is suspected to have happened because of the damage multiple concussions did to his brain. And TNA had one of their characters suffer a major concussion in a storyline, ''[[It Got Worse|and then continue wrestling]]'', purely so they could have a [[Comic Relief]] character, who's [[Your Mileage May Vary|comedy]] is essentially due to him being [[Too Dumb to Live]].
** He then dug through the trash and found the T.N.A. heavyweight belt that Immortal discarded and now thinks of himself as a champion thanks to encouragement from Brian "I flunked out of Jedi School" Kendrick.
** On an episode of ''[[B-Show|Xplosion]]'' where he took on Brutus Magnus, none of their history together as members of World Elite is referenced. Then again, this may fall under the [[Three Month Rule]]. But it's really jarring that Brutus didn't even mention in his pre-match interview that was he taking on his former stable mate let alone ''the leader'' of said stable.
* A more recent one that caused blood to paint many walls at is the sudden signing away of all rights of TNA by Dixie Carter. Taking away that we as the audience are supposed to believe Dixie is an intelligent businesswoman. She signed a contract without looking at it, and that's not the worse aspect. It is when Dixie's lawyer state that she signed the contract under false pretenses and could form a very legit court case, but somehow is ignored. In the same way a man was BRANDED WITH IRON!!
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** Honestly, as the [[The Spoony Experiment|Spoony One]] puts it it was surreal. This troper had for a while defended TNA on it's past mistakes but that speech, the implications and the potential damage Hogan has done to the wrestling business as a whole. Whoa boy.
** [[Hilarious in Hindsight|Cut to March of next year]] and the man who Hogan's been hyping as TNA's big draw, Jeff Hardy fucks up big time at a PPV main event and is sent home indefinitely. His replacement in Immortal? Bully Ray formerly of Team 3D.
* Teasing the reunion of the Main Event Mafia ''before three of the five members have signed contracts'' in another "They are coming" angle. It wasn't even subtle either, as Crimson outright stated that "They" [[Arc Words|had made him an offer he couldn't refuse]], which was followed by [[Scott Steiner]] returning to TNA and saving [[Kurt Angle]]... Whilst (Otherwise uncharacteristically) wearing a suit. Now, how badly did this backfire? Kevin Nash & Booker T returned to the WWE in the [[Royal Rumble]] ''three days'' after the episode setting up the reunion of the group, [[Sting (music)|Sting]] is expected to sign with the WWE (And may have already done so, judging from a teaser that aired during the Raw following the Rumble), and TNA hastily had to turn Fourtune face ''with absolutely no foreshadowing'' in order to save the angle.
** On top of that, we also have Dixie Carter denying that TNA were planning to reunite the group. Now, ''despite it being very obvious that they were'', any believability of this statement was immediately shot to shit during the following Impact, with Eric Bischoff making snide remarks about Booker & Nash.
*** On the plus side, Fortune's finally face! Is it still stupid? Yes, but then again this is TNA, everything's stupid!
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**** Speaking of that, let's just say letting Jeff Hardy go to the ring to wrestle, in such a condition that the referee ''immediately'' signaled to the back that something was wrong & Sting had to forcibly pin Jeff to the mat so that Jeff wouldn't injure himself or Sting. I'm not talking about the actual match, I'm talking about ''the fact that TNA actually let Jeff go out to the ring completely out of his mind on drugs''.
* The first “Bound For Glory Series” in 2011. Woo boy:
** Most of the matches took place at house shows and the few that were shown on T.V. weren’t treated as if they meant anything (including a 4-way Ladder Match that barely lasted 5-minutes which was only announced earlier in the show).
** Some of the competitors in the top five (mainly Gunner & Crimson) were rarely seen on T.V.
** Crimson at one point sat atop the leader boards but was unable to continue due to an injury suffered at the hands of Samoa Joe, who finished the contest with -10 pts. Think about that for a minute.
** The finals were supposed to take place at “No Surrender” in a 4-way bout. At some point it became 2 singles contest because…it did?
** At “No Surrender” James Storm took on Bully Ray and appeared to win the match with an arm-bar submission. However the referee actually disqualified Storm after he accidentally spit beer in his eyes (Ray had spit beer in James’s eyes earlier in the bout behind the ref.’s back). This put him ahead of Gunner & Roode who SOMEHOW were tied for 3rd place. This meant that the winner of that match had to win by submission. Otherwise Ray would get the main event spot at “Bound For Glory.” Why the two matches couldn’t just be to determine who’d go to the finals is best left in the minds of T.N.A. Booking Committee.
** A few days before B.F.G. Hulk Hogan does a radio interview in which he declares that Robert Roode wasn’t ready to become world champion and would make a better heel, James Storm was easier for a lot of people to identify with because he liked beer and Nascar and that Jeff was the future of the company (the same Jeff Hardy that embarrassed himself and the company earlier that year). Cue B.F.G. and Angle…retains? Gee what a surprise. Then on the next Impact Storm goads Angle into a title match and after 3-minutes wins the belt! *gasp* His fellow Fortune members congratulate him and Roode appears to be genuinely happy for him. He even calls him "brother" and tells him that he deserves the title. 2 weeks later when they meet for the championship Bobby does a complete 180 and smashes Storm’s beer bottle over his head to beat him for the strap. He even put his right foot on James's chest as he posed with the title. So in the span of 3 weeks Roode goes from being pushed to the moon to failing to win on the biggest stage of the year, Storm comes out-of-leftfield to ascend to the top of the mountain and Roode betrays his friends to become the heavyweight champion with no foreshadowing whatever and turns heel. Man with Hogan's cognitive abilities he should buy himself some lottery tickets. His money woes will be gone in no time.
* Showing that they're truly an equal-opportunity employer they've also managed to mistreat/mismanage the women just as badly as the men
** After the country of Haiti was devastated by earthquakes [[Dumbass DJ|Bubba the Love Sponge]] went on a spiel about the U.S. constantly helping other countries. This culminated in him screaming "Fuck Haiti!" TNA was doing a charity benefit for Haiti at the time. While this received zero response from any of the higher-ups it did garner one from [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Awesome Kong]] who kicked Bubba's ass backstage for his disrespect to the numerous lives lost or ruined. After serious outcry and Kong's lesson in respect, he made one of the slimiest, most bullshit apologies ever where he basically said in no uncertain terms that he was apologizing but wasn't the least bit sorry that he had insulted a country that just got devastated by the worst natural disaster in recorded history. And THEN, Hogan came onto Bubba's radio show, stated he was completely on Bubba's side, and joked that Kong was PMS-ing when she attacked Bubba. Kong would later ask for release from the company.
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***** That's not always their intention though. Viscera had continued gaining weight after his return to the WWE.
*** The Raisha Saeed situation was almost rectified, but TNA screwed that up too. Melissa started wrestling under the name Alissa Flash, and Awesome Kong powerbombed her off the Impact stage and through a large pile of stuff to remove the character from storylines. Unfortunately, they then barely used Alissa, and then only as a jobber...and then she was gone. Either she got released or just quit - she was so rarely used it's unlikely any of the casual fans even noticed, and TNA never even officially announced it.
** The Madison Rayne/Roxxi match at Slammiversary. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131012092045/http://www.diva-dirt.com/2010/06/14/slammiversary-in-review-june-13th-2010-a-miscarriage-of-justice-doesnt-even-begin-to-describe-this/ Miscarriage of justice doesn't begin to describe it].
** After "retiring" Tara and Roxxi, the reigning champion Madison Rayne was to face Angelina Love at Victory Road 2010 and made Angelina put her career on the line. Angelina then added a stipulation that if Velvet Sky or Lacey Von Erich interfered the belt would change hands. They usually do this to prevent screwy finishes but onto the match anyway. It was decent enough...until a strange biker chick in black leather drove into the arena and attacked Angelina, causing a DQ finish, making Angelina the new Knockouts Champion. It was eventually confirmed that the woman in black was Tara and the following Impact showing clearly stated it wasn't Lacey or Velvet and the belt was given back to Rayne.
** On the 4/5/10 edition of Impact, the TNA Knockouts were featured in a "Lockbox" match which consisted of an elimination-style match which once a fall has been made (regardless of who wins or loses) both competitors involved are eliminated. The winners of those four falls received a key of their choice that would open one of the four locked boxes. Sounds simple enough, but what's in those boxes? One was an open contract to wrestle anyone at any time. Another contained <s>Victoria's</s> Tara's stolen pet spider "Poison." The third box contained a decree that the Knockout receiving this must go to the ring and strip down to her bra and panties. The final box contained the Knockouts Championship belt! You heard right...the box contained not a title shot for the championship, but the belt itself, meaning that not only could then-champion Tara lose her title without being pinned, but could still lose it ''even after winning the match''! And that's ''exactly'' what happened! She may have gotten Poison back, but she ended up losing her title to Angelina Love. For those who hate the idea of triple threat matches where the champion can lose the title without being pinned, this Lockbox match is even worse. Much worse, considering this this was also the main event of that night's show.
*** The segment in which the reveals of the Lockboxes did not help matters. Tara's rival Daffney got the Striptease decree and thus had to reluctantly strip in the middle of the ring. After much hesitation, she starts pulling off the straps to her gear only for [[Dumb Blonde|Lacey von Erich]] to attack her and take her place, just because she wanted the Striptease contract for whatever reason. As she's dancing in the ring, Tara and Angelina start brawling over the Knockouts title. [[Kudzu Plot|As all of this is happening,]] Velvet Sky cashes in her contract for a Leather and Lace match with the new champ, Angelina Love...a ''non-title'' match, even though Velvet could add any stipulations she wants. And what the hell was the "Leather and Lace" match supposed to be, anyway?
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** TNA brought in "JWoww" of ''[[Jersey Shore]]'' fame for a one-night deal worth $15,000 to work an angle with the newly-debuted Shore (Based on ''Jersey Shore'', for those who don't know). Now read [http://www.cagesideseats.com/2010/9/29/1719902/an-examination-of-tnas-appalling-treatment-of-talent this article]. The problem with this speaks for itself.
*** The cost of bringing JWoww into TNA would not be so bad if she could potentially draw viewers to TNA. The problem with this investment is that ''Jersey Shore's'' first run airing occurs on Thursday at 9PM. Does that start time seem familiar? It should, because it means that '''IMPACT runs at the same time as ''Jersey Shore''''', therefore there is no chance of TNA growing their fanbase as a result!
* While not storyline related the various ways that the production crew finds to screw up should be noted:
** An occasional bad camera angle is...well...bad enough. However T.N.A. found a way to "improve" upon that. Often times they'll alternate between zooming-in as a wrestler hits the mat and switching camera angles and zooming-out after someone gets slammed. One particularly jarring sequence occurred at "No Surrender 2009" when Christopher Daniels hit a split-legged moonsault on Samoa Joe outside the ring. The picture zoomed-in, then out...then in-and-out again.
** About a minute into an Impact match between Douglas Williams & Hernandez someone in the truck decided that Sarita walking around was much more interesting so they cut to her (this had nothing to do with match's quality mind you). She takes this opportunity to taunt Velvet Sky...who was backstage. 20-seconds later Velvet comes out and starts fighting with Sarita and Rosita. Eventually Angelina Love would hit the ringside area to help Sky. For the following minute they alternated between showing the four women brawling and the actual match (focusing more on the women pretending to hit each other) before finally settling on the in-ring action because, you know, that might be important. Williams takes a Border Toss and lands on the back of his neck before being pinned (the resulting injury would sideline him for a few weeks). T.L.D.R.-What could have been Williams's last match (which barely lasted 3-minutes) mostly took place off-screen so they could continue the Sky/Sarita feud that would eventually crash-and-burn.
** Sometimes when another wrestler is sitting at the announcers' table they'll use a dual-screen to show the match in-progress and the people at the table just talking because that's really important. More often-than-not the window showing the wrestlers actually wrestling is smaller.
* [[Shop TNA]] letting these pieces of merchandise on their online store is actually pretty damn amusing.
** [http://nodq.com/images/rdv.jpg Here's] the latest "RDV" T-shirt.
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*** At first, the spelling error wasn't obvious, but didn't seem like any less of a wall banger at the fact that '''there are Eric Bischoff greeting cards.'''
=== Independent/Other ===
* A universal wrestling wallbanger that happens almost weekly...some cute little face of some kind is hanging around in the ring, when all of a sudden, a menacing huge villain comes walking down the ramp. NEVER does the imperiled face simply turn and escape THROUGH the audience, even though there's gotta be at least 50 different exits they could race through before the evil bastard can get to them. They usually just stand there and make scared faces. Someone will grow some [[Genre Savvy]] someday...
** Well, the Nexus has been escaping through the crowd, so someone's paying attention.
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