TNA president Dixie Carter is getting some heat for the way the Impact Wrestling product is being handled and for the overall morale of the company being really low at this point. TNA's TV contract with Spike TV expires in October and many officials are worried that the deal may not be renewed. Without Spike TV, could TNA go out of business? That remains to be seen.
According to WrestlingHeadlines.com, reports indicate that Dixie Carter recently had a meeting with TNA employees in Nashville. When she asked why people were so down, the overall response is rumored to be that all of the recent cutbacks TNA has made is what has driven morale so low.
Some people in the room with Dixie Carter also gave the feeling that TNA creative member "Big" John Gaburick is in over his head doing the bulk of the creative work that he never really had a hand in when he was part of the WWE fold.
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Meanwhile, the report goes on to indicate that another concern of TNA employees is that Dixie Carter recently had meetings in Nashville with Janice Carter and Panda Energy officials, and usually the officials from the parent company stay in Texas.
My take on all of this is that for far too long, TNA hasn't decided who they want to really be as a company. For the first few years, they were presented as an alternative to WWE and featured a lot of young original talent. They even had a six-sided ring to differentiate themselves from WWE in the overall presentation of the product, and that was something that helped them stood out.
However, when bringing in Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff in 2010, TNA tried to go the high-priced talent route while also removing the six-sided ring, and to say the entire Hogan-Bischoff era in TNA backfired on Dixie Carter is an understatement.
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While I am not sure if TNA can dig out from their current issues, I would like to see them try by going back to their roots. It would also help if promos like this are never seen on Impact Wrestling broadcasts ever again:
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