Vince Russo's 5 dumbest ideas

5: Reverse Battle Royal

The rules for the Reverse Battle Royal.

When we start off our list with an idea as bad as the Reverse Battle Royal, you know that this list is going to have at least a couple of absolute stinkers.

The TNA Reverse Battle Royal was the first stage in the Fight For The Right tournament that was held in 2006 and 2007. Although it was never confirmed that Russo was TNA’s chief writer during this point, he is definitely the brains behind this doozy of an idea. 16 wrestlers started off outside the ring with the first 8 to get into the ring moving onto the next round. After that, the 8 wrestlers inside the ring had a regular battle royal till two wrestlers were left standing in the ring. The final two would have a match between them to decide the winner. There was also a complicated seeding system involved that had an effect on the tournament that’s too complicated for me to bother getting into.

The logic of wrestlers fighting each other to get into the ring was just dumb. There were points where wrestlers just stood there because no one was working with them but they couldn’t get into the ring. It just left the wrestlers looking like they didn’t have a clue. It’s alarming to think that TNA liked the original event in 2006 enough to try it again the following year.