Let’s be 100% honest for a second: TNA is in a bad spot right now. Steve Maclin leaves the company in an NSFW fashion and Myla Grace followed suit. Suddenly, things are looking extra murky for the promotion, leaving some fans wondering what the future holds.
That could mean WWE pulls the trigger and buys them out. They hold a TKO-friendly deal that has their wrestlers jump over to their promotions (and the opposite rings true). Furthermore, that could see some prominent names like Nic Nemeth and the Hardy Boyz return to WWE television.
However, that’s something that TNA Wrestling would prefer not to do. Instead, let’s look at what the promotion can do to get back in the good graces of the wrestling community—and for themselves.
TNA must let its wrestlers loose on other promotions
TNA President Carlos Silva stopped his own wrestlers from doing cross-promotional matches. That included rival promotions such as AEW, leaving their wrestlers to miss out on events such as “Forbidden Door.”
Of course, Silva stated that this was due to “partner conflicts.” If you’re wondering what he’s referring to, look no further than the WWE, which has a strategic partnership with the smaller promotion.
The simple solution? Don’t get too involved in such decisions and let your wrestlers go to other programs for cross-promotion. Remember, you need as much exposure as you can get when you’re smaller. Therefore, extending olive branches to as many businesses as possible helps here.
Treat your wrestlers better in more ways than one
Recently released Tessa Blanchard comes to mind here. When she joined the promotion, she was embroiled in a racism controversy that saw the brand make “I Hate Tessa” t-shirts and merchandise. Make what you will of her past mistakes. But what does it say when you mock her in such a way?
You treat people as less than human and that’s not a good look for a smaller brand. Whether that incident correlates with her request for a release remains to be seen. However, it still rings true even with their checkered pasts.
That’s not even mentioning her other work with CMLL, which goes back to not being so controlling. If TNA can’t get out of its own way on these two steps, what makes anyone think that it’ll have a fruitful future?
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