TNA Wrestling: Hopefully Bischoff vs. Bischoff Does Not Become Flair vs. Flair

While watching Impact wrestling on Thursday night, I couldn't help but think that the past continually comes back to haunt the present in TNA.

Jeff Hardy gets another chance, much in the same vein as Scott Hall did many times over in WCW. My thoughts, though, lead me to believe that maybe Hardy will clean his act up this time and truly embrace the opportunity he is being given.

Now we come to the most ridiculous of angles, mainly because we have seen it before with some of the same players. Bear with me if you are too young to remember or if you had forgotten.

When WCW was in its final stages of death, the company decided to pit David Flair against Ric Flair. And guess what? Vince Russo and Eric Bischoff were behind it as well.

I do not know how much of Russo's influence was in this, but I can say the new angle of Bischoff vs. Bischoff was probably drummed up by Eric and Ric Flair and probably from other sources familiar with the scene back in the 1990s.

I still have a really hard time seeing those two work together.

The Flair vs. Flair angle as awful. Young David did segments about how Ric was never there for him when he was young (which is true) and had the Horsemen help Ric win matches (which they did) and David even held the United States Title (which really sucked).

The only cool thing about it was David was hanging out (I think dating) either Torrie Wilson or Stacy Keibler at the time.

The new Bischoff vs. Bischoff (Eric vs. son Garrett) angle is being infused with a little Ric Flair and looks awful. Make it stop.

They are trying to show another fan-supported lift for the company. What better way than to have family matters exposed on the air? But this is not the WWE, and trust me when I say the Bischoffs are not the McMahons.

Even Dusty and Dustin Rhodes had better drama than this.

Wrestling is a mean business. All wrestlers with families have talked about the sacrifice and the loss of time with loved ones. It's what they do. But to see another Eric Bischoff-driven angle like this makes me sick.

The wrestling past is pretty good at helping to lay down the foundation of the future. But in this case, it just does not work. There are too many things going on in TNA that the creative team needs to focus on. Having daddy and son wrestle just does not make sense.

The Flairs were not good for reality television. The Bischoffs are not, either. Let the lessons of the past allow the new creative sides of the company to realize this before there is another red flag that goes up on this company and professional wrestling.

Just understand, this angle just does not work.