Wrestling companies make merchandise. It’s usually pretty bad, but sometimes, it’s terrible. Welcome to The Merch Table.

Every week, @TomBlargh will look at some of the awful merch that someone expects you to buy. Up this week: TNA AUCTIONS SPECIAL.

So hey, it turns out that I might be addicted to writing about wrestling auctions. Either that or I’ve completely run out of ideas and I just can’t help but run back to the auctions well.

Really though, it’d be rude to cover WWE and ignore TNA, since their auction site has been around longer and features just as much crap. Granted, it doesn’t get quite the same amount of attention (so don’t expect any $2,000 ladder rungs or $1,000 hoodies), but that doesn’t mean we should love them any less! LET’S GET STARTED.

Monitor smashed by Bobby Roode

OFF TO A ROUGH START. TNA, this is not a collectable. This is junk. Look how they describe it:

“Please note this is an actual monitor that has been smashed. It is not functioning in any way and does have broken glass.”

OH, NON-FUNCTIONING? BROKEN GLASS? WELL, THIS CERTAINLY SEEMS LIKE SOMETHING I SHOULD PAY MONEY FOR. Seriously, there is absolutely nothing you can do to display this without looking like a hoarder, though somebody still paid $122.51 for it. The accompanying picture of Roode raging against the machine (literally) is pretty great though:

Look at Borash looking on disdainfully. THERE’S STARVING KIDS IN AFRICA WHO COULD HAVE USED THAT MONITOR, BOBBY. Continue reading →