TNA showing "unprecedented concern" over concussion issues? What a joke that is.

Um...what? Let's consider the facts: Despite the findings of Chris Nowinki and the Sports Legacy Institute being being well-known for years, TNA did absolutely nothing. WWE and ROH both took measures to protect their wrestlers, which included both groups pulling  wrestlers from cards after suffering concussions and (in WWE's case) creating a program, ironically entitled "Impact" designed to better protect their wrestlers from concussions  and the often devastating after-affects of such head injuries. Almost all major sports, including the extremely reluctant NFL eventually caught on and applied some sort of safeguard measures to protect their performers. TNA did not. Indeed, not only have TNA ignored the studies, they've often done storylines and angles seemingly to spite them. Notably the infamous Rob Terry chairshot  from the April 5th Impact this year, and a recent "comedy" angle in which Eric Young, explained to be suffering from post-concussion syndrome, got confused about his sexuality, wandered around, and started acting a very strange manner. Yes, as recently as TWO MONTHS ago, the writing team were trying to get laughs out of post-concussion syndrome.

Furthermore, as mentioned by KJH, here TNA didn't even handle Anderson's most recent concussion right, despite now taking all the credit  for their "unprecedented"  concern for talent over this issue. As Anderson noted in a recent interview with Fanhouse:

"I took a week off and I got back in the wrestling ring and I was having a match with AJ Styles and I forgot everything that we had talked about in the locker room. It was one of the scariest things. I literally couldn't remember anything and I couldn't think. I'm usually pretty good on my feet and I couldn't think of anything to do. It was kind of a scary situation and I went back to the locker room and I told (agent) D'Lo (Brown) about it and he said 'you're going home tomorrow. "

That it even got to that point - Anderson could barely remember anything as soon as he was in the ring, is incredibly damning of TNA. And, not for the first time , brown-noser Anderson, in a bid to score points with his employeers no doubt, has only succeeded in making the company he works for look far, far worse.

Not to mention if TNA really wanted to ensure the safety of their wrestlers, especially after suffering concussions, surely they would pay for guys to go to the hospital after shows, right? Instead of creating an environment where, as mentioned on these pages, wrestlers will refuse medical help because they cannot afford it. But then again, it seems Dixie Carter and company have decided that acquiring the services of JWOWW (all I know about her is she's the woman on that Jersey Shore show who's not Snookie), Jenna Morasca (I think we can all agree, not the American version of Manami Toyota) and Pacman Jones (whose best moment in TNA actually came backstage when he told off Jeff Jarrett and ordered him to get Ron Killings a nicer hotel room)  is a bigger financial  priority than the safety of their own wrestlers. Wow. Not that's unprecedented.

Mr Anderson seems like a nice enough guy and, by all accounts, he was well-liked in WWE (it was his sloppy in-ring work and big mouth in interviews that got him fired from WWE.) In TNA his anti-authority, foul-mouthed  face character was on its way to getting over huge with fans before this concussion temporarily derailed his momentum. Despite what even some of his fiercest critics say, the man has potential.  But the sooner he stops embarrassing himself with this ridiculous and transparent toadying the better off he, and the rest of us who cringe having to listen to this guy, will be. Newsflash, Ken: you're a former WWE star. You're already guaranteed a huge push in TNA, no matter what.