TNA needs to learn from WCW

TNA is awful right now.  It is just undeniable.  What is more worrisome is that they do not appear to be learning from the downfall of WCW.  They brought over Bishoff and then Hogan and then Ed Ferrera and Vince Russo.  But, after Styles lost to Magnus this past week, I fear they missed the most important lesson of all: they are not putting over TNA.

The reason WCW failed in the end was because they failed to create WCW fans.  They had red hot gold with the NWO vs. WCW angle.  But then the angle never came to completion.  The whole point of an invasion angle is to put over one company, in this case WCW.  Yet, NWO beat WCW over and over again.  Sure WCW has to lose some to build drama.  So no big deal that they lose the War Games match.  Drama.  But when it had been going for a year Sting finally faced off against Hogan and what happened?  Clear Hogan victory.  A slap in the face of all WCW fans who had been pulling for their company and spent years hating Hogan and cheering on Sting.  Flair was buried.  Sting turned and became NWO as did Lugar.  As did Scott Steiner.  WCW never got a clear win.  NWO never went away.  Invasions cannot last forever.  Someone wins and takes over or loses and goes away.  Since that never happened, WCW fans quit.  The base abandoned them.  They were insulted and ignored, so why watch.  Those who were left were not WCW fans, but NWO or even WWE fans.  So when WWE got good again, they went back.  When NWO cooled because it had been around forever, people left.

TNA is making the same mistake.  AJ Styles represents TNA.  He has been their from the beginning.  TNA fans love AJ Styles.  Dixie Carter, for better or worse, is the NWO of this angle.  She is actively against the company from giving her own relative a push to hand picking champs.  Then the big moment comes: Styles vs. Magnus (Carter's representative) for a title unification and what happens?  TNA loses because Styles lost.  TNA just barely survived the Aces and Eights thing, but they did win.  Now it is just as bad.  Styles lying on the ground while Carter and Magnus are above him was not a good sign.  TNA is what has to be put over.  It doesn't look like that is going to happen.