History Trivia / TNA

** Several well-known indy stars were tried out and/or were offered contracts over the years, but declined and/or signed elsewhere. The most prominent of these stars are [[Wrestling/SethRollins Tyler Black]] and [[Wrestling/DeanAmbrose Jon Moxley]].

** Teddy Hart was blackballed from TNA in 2004 for having a fight with Wrestling/CMPunk at a local restaurant. This happened because earlier that month was the four-way tag team cage match in ROH in which Teddy endangered many of his coworkers by doing insane high-flying moves off the top of the cage after the match was over. This caused the entire ROH locker room to unite against him and throw him out. It was believed that Punk was blackballed for this as well, only for him to clarify that he left because "creative had nothing for him", and out of protest to TNA pulling out many of its wrestlers from ROH due to the RF video scandal.

* CreatorBacklash: Jerry Jarrett absolutely HATES what the promotion he co-founded turned into. (On that topic, he's not too enthralled with [[Wrestling/JeffJarrett his other creation/co-founder]] either, though they finally ironed things out in recent months.)

** Teddy Hart was blackballed from TNA in 2003 for having a fight with Wrestling/CMPunk at a local restaurant. This happened because earlier that month was the four-way tag team cage match in ROH in which Teddy endangered many of his coworkers by doing insane high-flying moves off the top of the cage after the match was over. This caused the entire ROH locker room to unite against him and throw him out. It was believed that Punk was blackballed for this as well, only for him to clarify that he left because "creative had nothing for him", and out of protest to TNA pulling out many of its wrestlers from ROH due to the RF video scandal.

** Teddy Hart was blackballed from TNA in 2003 for having a fight with Wrestling/CMPunk at a local restaurant. This happened because earlier that month was the four-way tag team cage match in ROH in which Teddy endangered many of his coworkers by doing insane high-flying moves off the top of the cage after the match was over. This caused entire ROH locker room to unite against him and throw him out. It was believed that Punk was blackballed for this as well, only for him to clarify that he left because "creative had nothing for him", and out of protest to TNA pulling out many of its wrestlers from ROH due to the RF Video scandal.

* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: TNA released Angelina Love in September 2009 after she found herself facing deportation due to not having a legal work visa. Eventually, everything was resolved.

* CreatorBacklash: Jerry Jarrett absolutely HATES what the promotion he co-founded turned into. (On that topic, he's not too enthralled with [[Wrestling/JeffJarrett his other creation]] either.)

** TNA has also been on the receiving end of this kind of meddling, such as Spike TV's insistence of using Impact to promote Bellator or Lucha Underground's insistence they cut Hernandez out of their shows.

* RecycledScript: An angle features a frustrated Ken Anderson joining a stable where Bully Ray is either field general or outright leader. It starts off great for him but eventually he hits a couple snags and Bully Ray begins to question and antagonize him. Inevitably the tension leads to him being betrayed and forcibly kicked out of the group, with Bully directing traffic. Finally, after a short time away, [[TheDogBitesBack Ken comes back primed for vengeance and whoops him some Bully ass]]. This occurred with both Immortal in 2011 and Wrestling/AcesAndEights in 2013…the latter resulting in [[Awesome/{{TNA}} the end of the stable at the hands of Anderson]].

** TNA has also been on the receiving end of this kind of meddling, such as Spike TV's insistence of using Impact to promote Bellator or Lucha Undergrounds insistence they cut Hernandez out of their shows.

** TNA has also been on the receiving end of this kind of meddling, such as Spike TV's insistence of using Impact to promote Bellator.

** The return of the Main Event Mafia was cancelled when Kevin Nash, and Wrestling/BookerT instead made a deal with Wrestling/{{WWE}} to return there, forcing TNA to change who "they" where just before the reveal.
** Wrestling/PaulHeyman was invited to join Russo in Creative, but one of Paul's stipulations was, sensibly, the immediate removal of Russo, Hogan, Nash and their ilk before a repeat of the [=WCW=] debacle occurred. This proved impossible as Heyman had no clout to demand such a thing, and Dixie made it clear she would remain loyal to them come hell or highwater.

** TNA is known to interfere with the booking of promotions that use "its" talent or talent it wants to have. "Its" being in parenthesis because TNA wrestlers are supposed to be independently contracted, allowing them to work where they want and other people to do what they want with them, so long as the wrestlers themselves agree. Some standout examples include insistence Amazing Kong not lose the NWA Women's world title clean and insistence that the Motor (or rather, Murder) City Machine Guns could not lose to the Ring Of Honor Tag Team Champions The Kings Of Wrestling. In the former case, Wrestling/MsChif won the title by count out (which is supposed to be impossible) and in the latter the Briscoes ran out and caused a disqualification (which used to be grounds for ''firing'' per the {{code of honor}}, a code which is now all but useless because of stuff like this).

* CreatorBacklash: Jerry Jarrett absolutely HATES what the promotion he co-founded turned into. (On that topic, he's not too enthralled with [[JeffJarrett his other creation]] either.)

** TNA is known to interfere with the booking of promotions that use "its" talent or talent it wants to have. "Its" being in parenthesis because TNA wrestlers are supposed to be independently contracted, allowing them to work where they want and other people to do what they want with them, so long as the wrestlers themselves agree. Some standout examples include insistence Amazing Kong not lose the NWA Women's world championship clean and insistence that the Motor (or rather, Murder) City Machine Guns could not lose to the Ring Of Honor Tag Team Champions The Kings Of Wrestling. In the former case, Wrestling/MsChif won the title by count out (which is supposed to be impossible) and in the latter the Briscoes ran out and caused a disqualification (which used to be grounds for ''firing'' per the code of honor, a code which is now all but useless because of stuff like this).

* NoExportForYou and ScrewedByTheNetwork: Averted. In the UK, TNA aired on a channel called Bravo. It was taken over by Sky, who closed it down. As Sky already airs WWE, it was assumed that TNA would be dropped, but Sky put it on [[NetworkDecay game show channel Challenge]] instead, which at the same time got launched on Freeview to replace Channel One, thereby increasing TNA's audience instead of removing it!

** Rashad Cameron's "Mr 360" is a repurposed version of Jerrelle Clark's "Mr 630".

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Shortly before his death, Wrestling/CurtHennig was planned to defeat Wrestling/JeffJarrett for the World Heavyweight Championship.
** The return of the Main Event Mafia was cancelled when Kevin Nash, and Wrestling/BookerT instead made a deal with Wrestling/{{WWE}} to return there, forcing TNA to change who "they" where just before the reveal.

* WriteWhoYouKnow[=/=]RealitySubtext: A rather unfortunate example with Dixie Carter due to the fact it's based on her current heel character as of late 2013-early 2014. Yet they seem to have been true about her in real life [[http://www.cagesideseats.com/2010/9/29/1719902/an-examination-of-tnas-appalling-treatment-of-talent for]] [[http://www.cagesideseats.com/2011/7/12/2272422/nightmares-in-nashville a]] [[http://www.cagesideseats.com/2011/5/18/2177424/a-closer-look-at-tna-president-dixie-carter long]] [[http://www.cagesideseats.com/2013/8/22/4649094/jesse-sorensen-claims-tna-refused-to-pay-for-his-medical-bills-from-a time]] [[http://www.cagesideseats.com/2012/9/27/3414744/the-indie-corner-impacts-abuse-of-the-term-independent-contractor now]].

* CreatorBacklash: Jerry Jarrett absolutely HATES what the promotion he once part-owned turned into.

* ExecutiveMeddling: TNA is known to interfere with the booking of promotions that use "its" talent or talent it wants to have. "Its" being in parenthesis because TNA wrestlers are supposed to be independently contracted, allowing them to work where they want and other people to do what they want with them, so long as the wrestlers themselves agree. Some standout examples include insistence Amazing Kong not lose the NWA Women's world championship clean and insistence that the Motor (or rather, Murder) City Machine Guns could not lose to the Ring Of Honor Tag Team Champions The Kings Of Wrestling. In the former case, Wrestling/MsChif won the title by count out (which is supposed to be impossible) and in the latter the Briscoes ran out and caused a disqualification (which used to be grounds for ''firing'' per the code of honor, a code which is now all but useless because of stuff like this).

** According to Wrestling/VinceRusso, the promotion was planned to be more adult oriented during its early NWA years.

* WriteWhoYouKnow[=/=]RealitySubtext: A rather unfortunate example. Most of these tropes are villainous, and based on Dixie Carter's current heel character as of late 2013-early 2014. Yet they seem to have been true about her in real life [[http://www.cagesideseats.com/2010/9/29/1719902/an-examination-of-tnas-appalling-treatment-of-talent for]] [[http://www.cagesideseats.com/2011/7/12/2272422/nightmares-in-nashville a]] [[http://www.cagesideseats.com/2011/5/18/2177424/a-closer-look-at-tna-president-dixie-carter long]] [[http://www.cagesideseats.com/2013/8/22/4649094/jesse-sorensen-claims-tna-refused-to-pay-for-his-medical-bills-from-a time]] [[http://www.cagesideseats.com/2012/9/27/3414744/the-indie-corner-impacts-abuse-of-the-term-independent-contractor now]].

* WordOfGod: Is it the show or the entire company that's been rebranded to "IMPACT WRESTLING"? According to Dixie Carter, it's just the show.

** The return of the Main Event Mafia was cancelled when Kevin Nash, and Wrestling/BookerT instead made a deal with Wrestling/{{WWE}} to return there, forcing TNA to change who "they" where just before the reveal.

** The return of the Main Event Mafia was cancelled when Kevin Nash, and Wrestling/BookerT instead made a deal with the Wrestling/{{WWE}} to return there, forcing TNA to change who "they" where just before the reveal.

* FanCommunityNickname: In the same way that [[strike:Cheff]] Jeff Hardy fans are called the Creatures of the Night, D'Angelo Dinero calls his fans the Congregation.