TNA Losing Faith in Founder Jeff Jarrett: Will This Be the End of TNA?

For a while now, many people here on B/R, and all wrestling fans across the planet have been hating on TNA Wrestling. And why not? They have not lived up to expectations to many.

They have some of the best wrestlers on the planet, yet they are never able to do well with them. The matches are ok, but the storylines are not. Also there are so many people we want to see go against each other, yet they never put them together in a match.

TNA moved to Spike TV around 2005 and acquired new fans. I mean you had another wrestling company besides the WWE. And it was time to see someone rival them. But we never saw them compete.

There were two or three matches that were seriously good, but nothing to say "Oh my God, we need to watch TNA!!"

And the real reason why is because of one man too many, Jeff Jarrett. The founder of TNA is in charge of booking matches; like Vince McMahon, he finalizes many of the storylines too.

But the problem is that they have to get ratings, yet they older stars are getting boring to the fans. Guys like Kurt Angle are good wrestlers, but we see them so much, that it is getting old.

I mean you have all these young wrestlers, and you are using them in mid-card matches at best. Guys like Jay Lethal, Consequences Creed, Eric Young, The Motor City Machine Guns, and others.

I like the AJ Styles/Booker T idea, but that is the first I can say I am starting to love. And that is because Styles is in it. He could be in TNA for another 10 years easily. But a guy like Booker, Sting, and Nash have maybe three years at best, even part-time.

People behind the scenes, especially wrestlers, are complaining about the booking Jarrett does. Of course Dixie Carter is behind him, but still is one complaining about some of the booking.

She stays off camera as much as possible, and had the idea to have Jarrett be more of a Vince McMahon type role. Wrestle every once in a while, and be involved in a lot of the stuff in TNA.

He would be on camera a lot, but more of a matchmaker instead. Not wrestling is good for Jarrett, and he agreed with Carter on that idea of course.

But that is the last idea he has really taken to heart. The problem is that he thinks he knows the ins and outs of wrestling. He really does not so much.

He knows the on screen and wrestling side of the business. He even helped out with storylines he had in his WCW/WWF days. But all the booking and big time storylines for other wrestlers are not good.

All the good storylines we have seen are from Vince Russo, who keeps being blamed for the bad writing and storylines in TNA. He is not the one in charge, and all the ideas go through Jarrett and Carter.

Also, there are many other writers there who are more Jarrett puppets than anything.

According to PWtorch.com:

"He has his share of defenders, particularly among those he hired or had a hand in hiring, but the locker room is frustrated with the booking. However, the bigger story is that there is a split amongst the TNA office staff.

"Those who came in as part of Panda Energy when Dixie Carter bought in and don’t have ties to Jarrett are growing skeptical of his performance."

Even the company thinks Russo is not behind the bad ideas, it is all Jarrett. And if the locker room is against you, then nothing will work.

I remember back when I interviewed former WCW announcer Scott Hudson. He mentioned that back in WCW, guys would turn down storylines and not show up if they didn't want to.

It was because of the inmates running the asylum. And if they were going to be successful, they had to have a leader. I feel Jarrett is not the leader they need. A former pro-wrestler making a wrestling company is a good idea.

It even has fans supporting it, just because it is something different and a pro wrestler started it. But there comes a time when something doesn't work out. TNA Wrestling has all the tools, but is not working out well.

They seem to be where older WWE stars go to die. It is not that they haven't tried of course. But when the locker room refuses to do angles, you have a problem no matter how good the wrestlers are.

Just like in WCW, they had all the talent in the world. Sting, Ric Flair, Goldberg, to name a few. But they went down because of a lack of storyline power not just because they were sold.

Hudson mentioned to me that the NWO was not the problem, as the Main Event Mafia are not the problem in TNA. They had storylines after that. Goldberg's winning streak was one of the biggest things in wrestling at that point.

He ends up losing, and then WCW could not rebound from him losing. All storylines were done at that point and there was nowhere to go. And guess who was the guy who came up with the idea, TNA commentator Mike Tenay.

Hmmm....makes you think. Tenay is now in TNA, so maybe he is the bad luck charm. So look at the turn of events now. There is no win streak going on in TNA, so no worries there.

But after the whole Main Event Mafia angle, I think that when the Angle/Jarrett storyline ends that could be the dagger. Then we will see another wrestling company bought up by Vince with pocket change.