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I was compelled to write this after Thursday's edition of TNA iMPACT.  Every time I watch TNA, I am stunned by how a promotion with such huge names can fail so epically.  Kurt Angle, Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, Scott Steiner, Jeff Hardy, Sting, all working in collaboration to produce the worst 2 hours of television you can find.

In all seriousness, though, it does blow my mind how TNA is able to butch pro wrestling like they do.  They curse way to much, for one.  Don't take that as me saying I like PG WWE, I don't, but TNA is going out of their way to be extra vulgar to attract the fans, and it's not working for me.  Language every now and again adds to a storyline, but TNA is just taking it too far.

Blood... it's used way to often in TNA.  Again, I'm not saying I like WWE PG, but blood was used on occasion, to add to a match that ad weeks, or months, of build-up.  People blade in TNA like crazy.  Blood is needed in pro wrestling, and I cannot disagree more with WWE banning it, but TNA uses it too much.

Promos.  In TNA, they have handheld cameras follow wrestlers backstage, who either walk and talk into the camera, like a documentary, or the cameras catch the action through a crack in the wall, or an open door.  It just looks stupid.  WWE is guilty of using whacky camera angles at time, but most of the time, even if backstage, the camera will be at a point-blank position, implying that the wrestlers know they are being filmed, whereas in TNA, it's like we're supposed to believe we're evesdropping on Hulk Hogan's top-secret call.  And by the way, how obvious was it that Hulk Hogan was not calling anyone?  I am by no means saying that he has to really be on the phone, on that level it is acting, but while he was talking, he must've accidentally hit a button on his iPhone, and the screen lit up bringing up the unlock screen, then when he didn't unlock it because he was "making a call", it went back into sleep.  Little things like that, just bug me, I mean, even though it's not real, you should go to lengths to make it seem real.  You wouldn't see something like that on a fiction show, or sitcom, so why does TNA settle for it?

In their defense, yes, there have been good episodes of iMPACT, but consistency is key.  One week you see something and think "Wow, that was good booking" and the next week they are ripping off WWE.