TNA To Crown New World Champion

TNA seems to always have issues. They have issues with their network. They have issues with their event schedule. They have issues with their roster. I am not even going to get too far into the mess that has led to this situation now.

Matt Hardy won the TNA World Championship at Bound For Glory last Sunday. He then vacated it. It seems TNA did not immediately have any new taping dates to follow through with the storylines they were developing. Instead, they are just going to air matches that were taped weeks ago. But under what context? Just random filler matches? No, these matches are part of a tournament to crown a new World Champion.

I like what they are doing. You can criticize them for getting themselves in this kind of situation, but they have created a storyline out of their troubles. And it isn't like they are unethically exploiting the situation to do something many fans might be turned off of. They are running a tournament to find a new Champion.

Another thing I like, the women are also involved in this. They have their own bracket. I do not expect to ever see a woman win a World title in TNA, but the fact that they are including them in the tournament is a nice move. They could have just kept the tournament to the men's matches and have the KO matches as filler.

A few weeks ago, I gave the WWE credit for how they handled Nikki Bella breaking a record. They made an angle out of it. They made steps to at least create some suspense out of what was going on. I said TNA should have handled Taryn Terrell breaking a record a lot better. I am not someone that blindly bashes TNA. Let me turn things around now for a moment.

TNA just took what were essentially meaningless matches and gave them a meaning. Look at how the WWE has handled the diva division the last few months. Is there some kind of revolution going on? Really? Most of it has been a lot of meaningless filler matches. There will be a lot of fans interested in these matches because they care about match quality and want to see how these women do. But for a lot of other fans, however, what should interest them about these matches? Three new divas that have not gotten any proper development on the main roster? Lack of a real storyline? The WWE should have made these matches worth more. I said that before and pointed out what TNA has done in the past as a way the WWE could have made these matches worth more. And TNA is doing what I had in mind right now. Why not have some kind of points-based tournament? That is how you get these meaningless matches to actually matter.

Yes, I have to give credit to TNA here. There are times when sports teams face great adversity, both on and off the field. Commentators, analysts, and fans all bring it up. Can the team work through the circus and the drama? TNA has shot itself in the foot multiple times, but I think the company took a bad situation and have handled it in a positive way. I am not saying it will work out marvelously for them, but I like what they have set up.