You Can Take the TNA Letters Away from Impact, but You Can Never Remove the TNA Completely

el Patron should never have been allowed to go off about his allegations as a story trope
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Impact Wrestling ran Bound for Glory last night, which is the company's biggest show of the year. The promotion has been making waves lately for signing new talent and letting all of its referees go, and I'd like to say that maybe it was a sign that the company was turning some kind of corner. However, the company proved that no matter how far it distances itself from the "TNA" abbreviation, the spirit of ineptitude and grossness that pervaded it will never leave, as it either allowed Alberto el Patron to do a freeform worked shoot skirting responsibility for the domestic violence allegations against him or outright made it a part of the script.

You can find the video at Pro Wrestling Sheet, but please be forewarned. It contains a video of someone accused of domestic violence using those allegations as a storyline prop to show how he was "screwed" by the company acting on it. It's not only disrespectful to any alleged victims in this case, it's grossly triggering to any domestic violence survivors who tuned in last night. In the absolute best case scenario, it's tone-deaf. I tend to think it skews more to actual violence, especially since he essentially used his children as de facto shields.

This act from the folks in charge at Impact is just another sign that the more things change, the more they stay the same with this wretched outfit of human slime. Ed Nordholm John Gaburick, and the creative staff ought to be ashamed of themselves, but hey, I guess if you're going to misuse the legal system to keep Matt and Jeff Hardy from taking their intellectual property wherever they want to take it, you might as well go all the way and not only hire alleged domestic abusers like Sami Callihan, who debuted on the show last night, but allow the current alleged abusers to treat their accusations like they're stealing from Wal-Mart.

It's a shame in the end because the company still hires good wrestlers and has a timeslot, albeit an ever-shrinking one in viewership. However, the amount of goodwill it takes on continues to be swallowed up by all the bullshit that stems mainly from whoever's running it at the time. Impact could sign Bryan Danielson, Rey Mysterio, ACH, Nicole Matthews, and every unsigned wrestler or impending free agent, and shit like this el Patron promo last night will keep me away. I'm not the only one either.