Professional wrestling Legend Jeff Jarrett who is a former six times WWE Intercontinental Champion recently talked about TNA moving the Impact wrestling to Monday to compete with WWE Monday Night RAW and how it went on.
TNA was a professional wrestling founded by Jeff Jarrett in 2002 and it was the biggest rival of WWE back in the time. After the death of WCW, some of the wrestlers from the promotion were signed by WWE but most of them went to the newly founded promotion TNA.
Jeff Jarrett On Impact Moving To Monday Nights To Compete With RAW
Fans love to call the show a resurrected version of WCW as slowly it was trying to do everything that WCW did, even the mistakes. One of the biggest mistakes that fans consider is hiring Vince Russo, the same mistake WCW made and a lot of fans believe this mistake destroyed WCW.
But TNA had an amazing time with some of the biggest names in the world of professional wrestling. Restless like Kurt Angle, Booker T, Sting, even the nWo preferred over WWE. It could have been a huge show. But one of the biggest mistakes they made that destroyed the competition was moving to Mondays, to compete with Monday night RAW and it failed drastically.
Jeff Jarrett who is a former six times WWE Intercontinental Champion recently spoke on his My World podcast where he talked about TNA moving the Impact wrestling to Monday to compete with WWE Monday Night RAW and how it went on. He said;
“I never, literally never wanted it. The progression of (Impact Wrestling TV up to that point), Saturday night off prime, Thursday night off prime, Thursday night one hour, I wanted that 2 hour.
“The next progression I wanted was another hour anywhere during the week. UFC was their (Spike) priority. Spike wanted to be, I would say (at that time), a male network.
“You could only have so much UFC. You could have different kinds of car programs and male dominated car programs. I certainly didn’t want to go Monday nights at all. It made no sense.”