Oh man, digging through the Gooker awards and man, some of these are doozies.
Hogan Arrives in TNA: 2003 was a rough year for TNA, really still trying to gain some traction and I can see the logic of trying to get Hulk Hogan signed on to draw ratings for Impact on Spike. But by this point, Hogan was a shadow of the shadow of his former self and his feud with John Cena, who was just not ready for that kind of push, lead to terrible matches and damaged both of their drawing powers. It's no surprise Hogan retired after this and became a VH1 reality "star"
Jonny Fairplay: And speaking of reality "stars", does anyone else remember when Jonny Fairplay made it to the Impact Zone in 2004? Best I can still say about that was the ICP beating the crap out of him on an episode. That was fun to watch, but the rest of his run was abysmal and they dragged Randy Orton into the thing when Orton really didn't need that hurting his upper midcard push.
Trytan the Terminator: And the TNA hits just keep coming. In a move of stalling out another upcoming star's career, this year it was Monty Brown with his feud against Trytan, a terrible wrestler with a crap Terminator gimmick, putting Brown on ice for most of 2005 afterward. The guy sucked in the ring and sucked on the mic. It's good that like Orton and Cena, the Alpha Male was able to recover and get a run with the TV title.
The Orlando Screwjob: The 2006 Gooker winner gives TNA another turkey with a terrible recreation of the Screwjob where Jarrett reclaimed the TNA World title by putting a figure-four on Eric Young and Eric feigned outrage. No one really understood the need for this almost ten years later and it killed EY's momentum (noticing a pattern?)
Pacman Jones: I know people thought 2007 should've been the Dylan Diamond TNA Commissioner run, but I thought he was an entertaining heel authority. A fast-talking, obnoxious little bastard that you wanted to see punted across the Impact Zone. Him feuding with Eric the Midget from the Howard Sten show was terrible, but it still didn't match bringing in Tennessee Titan Adam Jones during his suspension from football to work as a manager for Truth and Consequences. Thankfully, they were already tag champs and were a hot commodity for TNA, so they weren't hurt that badly by this.
(Career) Suicide: To hype the TNA video game, the brilliant idea was decided upon to make Suicide, an in-game character, into a real wrestler (portrayed by Frankie Kazarian.) It was cool that his feud on TV matched the ingame storyline, but it still didn't make much sense and didn't push sales for the game. I'm glad they canned this gimmick after the copy of the game's storyline wrapped up and they unmasked Kaz.
I don't think WCW's held the Gooker since back in 2002. I'll need to double-check, though.