Today wrestling fans seems to enjoy the stories that go on behind-the-scenes just as much as the wrestling matches they see inside the ring. 

Many interesting road and backstage stories have been mentioned about various companies like WCW, ECW and of course the WWF/E but, you rarely hear any TNA Wrestling stories that don’t usually paint the company in a negative night.

Well considering that this company has been around for over 20 years it’s unsurprising that there are bound be dozens of stories flying around and this list contains some of those wild and unbelievable stories that will intrigue you, make you laugh or shock you at how something like this as able to happen.

#5. Don’t Drink My Beer!

Cowboy James Storm is best known in TNA for his work with tag teams like America’s Most Wanted and Beer Money, but what a lot of fans may not know about Storm is that he’s an amazing prankster and this moment here is prime example of that.

During a match on Xplosion, James Storm and Bobby Roode were set to take on the team of Eric Young and Orlando Jordan when during a point in the match, EY reportedly drank some of James Storm’s beer.

Now some context, during an sit-down interview with fellow NWA star, Nick Aldis aka Magnus, Storm talks about how he and Bobby would wrestle Young and Jordan in a series of matches on house shows where Eric would do a spot where he would grab Storm’s beer, be told by both members of Beer Money to not drink the beer but he would drink it anyway and Storm would chase him all around the ring…well this time was different.

Before coming out for their match on Xplosion, Storm took it upon himself to empty his beer out the bottle and replace with Jagermeister; For those who don’t know Jagermeister is a beverage that has 56 herbs and spices in it, not to mention that it’s also a digestif meaning it’s suppose to help you digest food after eating a meal.

So went it came time for the matchup, EY decided to grab Storm’s beer as per usual; Storm and Roode desperately tell EY not to drink the beer but Eric Young, who was smiling and completely unaware of Storm’s trick decides to drink from the bottle and reportedly made a face that looked as if EY was going to puke with Jager dripping off of his beard.

When it comes to Eric Young’s predicament at that moment, the cowboy says it best: “Sorry About Your Damn Luck” . 

#4. Getting Busted

The name Garza is probably best known to modern wrestling fans today thanks to the work of former Impact Wrestling and current WWE star, Angel Garza aka Garza Jr. However, before Angel was out wrestling in matches and ripping his pants off to the delight of all the female fans in attendance, his father Hector was out making a name for himself inside the squared circle.

Hector Garza wrestled in TNA in 2004 where he was seen wrestling in a number of matches including that year’s X-Cup tournament and the very first official pay-per-view in company history, Victory Road 2004. But like a lot of wrestlers before and after him, Garza had to rely on the usage of drugs during his career and it was due to these drugs that ended up costing Hector in a big way.

In 2005, Hector was scheduled to face off against Scott Hall at the Final Resolution pay-per-view until he was arrested at a Houston Airport for being in possession of drugs like Primobolan and Deca-Durabolin which was legal in Mexico but were illegal in the United States.

This led to Jeff Hardy facing Scott Hall as Garza’s replacement meanwhile Hector would be forced to spend 15 days in jail after pleading guilty of possession and was deported back to Mexico with him being unable to work in the U.S. for 5 years following the incident. 

#3. The Pizza Incident

According to Nick Aldis and James Storm who were retelling this story, there was a time when a contestant for TNA’s Gut Check apparently saw that the catering department had just brought out boxes of hot and delicious pizzas and this wrestler decided to take one of these boxes which he would presumably eat for a later time.

When word of this was made public to some in the TNA locker room, many saw this as a sign of disrespect as the guy wasn’t even on the roster yet and he just taking something without permission.

In order to get back at this person, Austin Aries being the slick S.O.B that he is decided to take the box out and gave everyone in the locker room a slice of the pizza; Aries then wrote a letter that said something about having respect for the locker room, put the letter in the box and then put the box back.

When this wrestler came back to the locker room, he was furious because he didn’t get the contract during his Gut Check segment and soon decided to go and eat the pizza, but instead of piping hot pizza what he got was an empty box and letter on why you shouldn’t disrespect the locker room curiosity of “The Greatest Man To Ever Live”; At which point, the wrestler left both in frustration and on an empty stomach.

It’s unclear who this wrestler was but considering that Magnus/Aldis said that this person was male, had a bodybuilder physic and he was refused a contract during his time at Gut Check, it probably easy to figure out who there were referring to if you know your history about TNA’s Gut Check.   

#2. Hit and Run

When he wasn’t pranking his fellow wrestlers with Jager, James Storm found time to scare the crap out of a former ECW and TNA world champion.

One night Storm, Billy Gunn and Rhino were traveling to Tennessee in order to take part in a number of TNA shows that were running in the area, that is until they got pulled over by a policeman who had asked for license and registration.

Rhino, who was driving the car didn’t know where the registration was because this was Storm’s car and Storm was allegedly acting as if he was under the influence because he was throwing French Fries inside the car.

The officer then began to ask a few questions with one of them being if Storm had been drinking, to which Rhino said no but Storm replied seconds later saying that he was actually on steroids.

Startled by this news, the officer pulls Rhino from the vehicle and tells ‘The War Machine’ to take a breathalyzer test; Storm, not content with the fact that he “admitted to taking steroids” decided to pull out a bullet casing from his vehicle and put it in front of the window where he then told the officer that he (Rhino) has got a gun on him, which as can you imagine, made the situation go from bad to worst.

Rhino was then taken to the police car to get handcuffed and where he believed that he was be going to jail, however unbeknownst to the officer the cowboy came from behind and attacked him.

At this point, Rhino had one of his hands handcuffed and asked Storm what did he just do, only for the former tag team champion to say: “Dude let’s get out of here. We’ll rip the camera out of his car and they never know it was us”. 

Rhino responded with a simple “FU, I’m leaving” and proceeded to run into the woods as fast as possible only for Storm to catch up to Rhino and tell him that this whole thing was a prank and that the officer that he had hit was actually his brother, who looked nothing like him. 

Both Gunn and Rhino went on to admit that they thought that Storm had gone completely crazy and Rhino was going to the nearest house to phone the police. 

#1. The Big Bad Heat Magnet

During a show in Zurich Germany, a six-man tag team match between Kurt Angle, Booker T and Scott Steiner vs. Hernandez and Beer Money was set to take place, however before the match could even happen Big Poppa Pump decided to get himself some heat with the fans by cutting promo on them and even going so far as to wipe his ass with their flag.

According to Nick Aldis who was backstage with Shawn Davari when this all happened, he mentions that Steiner had asked him earlier if he did something to their flag do you think the crowd would get heat? Aldis responded by saying: “If someone did something to the American flag, would that get heat?”

I should also mention that Magnus or Nick Aldis was British and they were in Zurich Germany where their flag is the Swish flag, so why Steiner decided to ask Aldis this question is completely unknown.

Anyhow, Steiner does the act as previously mentioned and the fans we not pleased with Scott’s actions towards their flag but what makes this even worse is that apparently a good portion of fans had glass bottles with them and the heat Steiner got was so bad that it looked like the fans were going to hurl their bottles both into the ring and at Steiner himself.

Booker T along with his wife Sharmell were making there way to the ring when they noticed that things were going wrong following the whole flag incident and they decide to rush back into the backstage area and Booker refused to wrestle in the match and allegedly left.

Realizing that they needed a new person to take Booker’s spot in the match, referee Earl Hebner went to the back to look for someone to take part in the match and the two Earl saw were Aldis who was wearing sweating pants and no shoes and Davari who was wearing slacks and dress shoes.

Hebner in his haste decided to pick Davari to take Booker’s spot and allegedly the match when on without a hitch. Not sure who won that bout but I can only hope the babyfaces did because if Steiner had won the crowd could of possibly gone into full on riot mode.

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