10 Impact Wrestling decisions that they still regret

#7 Brooke Hogan as an authority figure

Brooke Hogan had no business in an on-air authority role.

In 2009, Hulk Hogan came on board with Impact Wrestling as both a behind the scenes power breaker and on-air personality. You can debate whether that, in and of itself was a bad decision. Hogan was still arguably the most famous wrestling personality in the world, so it’s understandable why the company would gamble on signing him. It’s debatable whether the results were just disappointing, or outright catastrophic to the company.

There’s very little debating over the choice to position Hogan’s daughter, Brooke, as the on-air authority figure over the Knockouts (women’s) division. Brooke had literally no credentials for the role besides being her father’s daughter. She’d never wrestled herself, had no business credentials and wasn’t even a good talker to justify becoming a mouthpiece for the division.

While the merits of Hulk’s work with the company are subject to opinion, there’s really no argument at all that it was a good decision to position Brooke this way. It’s a move that actively detracted from a once successful part of the Impact Wrestling product, and that the company mercifully put to an end after a few painful months.