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Post by Epic Z on Aug 4, 2013 0:41:57 GMT -5
That would suck for TNA. Jeff Hardy sells the most merch, if Jeff turns heel they would be in a even worst financial state. For the sake of TNA and there money Jeff needs to stay face. Well, I agree. Maybe he should be heel in a different company then... If he every did return to WWE as a heel it wouldn't work. WWE isn't cutting edge enough for a heel Jeff Hardy. If he was the same heel Anti Christ of wrestling Jeff Hardy that we saw he's not PG enough. WWE wouldn't let him smoke a cigarette during his entrance etc.
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Post by JWC on Aug 4, 2013 0:45:48 GMT -5
Well, I agree. Maybe he should be heel in a different company then... If he every did return to WWE as a heel it wouldn't work. WWE isn't cutting edge enough for a heel Jeff Hardy. If he was the same heel Anti Christ of wrestling Jeff Hardy that we saw he's not PG enough. WWE wouldn't let him smoke a cigarette during his entrance etc. Things can always change.
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Post by Epic Z on Aug 4, 2013 0:46:48 GMT -5
Well, I agree. Maybe he should be heel in a different company then... As much as I want him back in WWE, I don't think it's happening any time soon. I think he likes his TNA schedule so he can spend time with his wife and daughter. Yeah as much as I also want to see Jeff Hardy back to WWE, I also hope he stays in TNA. I'm happy for Jeff that he's healthy, has a lighter schedule, can spend time with his wife and daughter and most of all happy. Overall I'm just very happy for Jeff that he's finally at where he wants to be at his life and is happy with everything.
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Post by JWC on Aug 4, 2013 0:54:25 GMT -5
As much as I want him back in WWE, I don't think it's happening any time soon. I think he likes his TNA schedule so he can spend time with his wife and daughter. Yeah as much as I also want to see Jeff Hardy back to WWE, I also hope he stays in TNA. I'm happy for Jeff that he's healthy, has a lighter schedule, can spend time with his wife and daughter and most of all happy. Overall I'm just very happy for Jeff that he's finally at where he wants to be at his life and is happy with everything. He did the WWE schedule for years. The only reason he don't go back to wwe is because he cant get away with stuff and use his horrible music for his theme.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2013 0:57:10 GMT -5
I didn't think it could get worse than the Immortal crap, but it has. I really want TNA to succeed, but it's like someone is paying Dixie to just put out a terrible product.
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Post by Epic Z on Aug 4, 2013 0:59:33 GMT -5
Yeah as much as I also want to see Jeff Hardy back to WWE, I also hope he stays in TNA. I'm happy for Jeff that he's healthy, has a lighter schedule, can spend time with his wife and daughter and most of all happy. Overall I'm just very happy for Jeff that he's finally at where he wants to be at his life and is happy with everything. He did the WWE schedule for years. The only reason he don't go back to wwe is because he cant get away with stuff and use his horrible music for his theme. Jeff Hardy can't get away with stuff in TNA either. Also its just your opinion that he has horrible music but I personally love it. Its just ones taste in music. The real reason Jeff is staying in TNA is because: Lighter Schedule Wants time to spend with his daughter and wife More Happy Is in alot of pain when he's in WWE because of the schedule and doesnt want to be forced to take painkillers Healthy TNA's more free and doesn't care if he paints his face and they let Jeff Hardy be Jeff Hardy. I'm happy for Jeff that he's at where he wants to be in his life and if y'all are such a big you should be happy to.
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Post by JWC on Aug 4, 2013 1:02:04 GMT -5
He did the WWE schedule for years. The only reason he don't go back to wwe is because he cant get away with stuff and use his horrible music for his theme. Jeff Hardy can't get away with stuff in TNA either. Also its just your opinion that he has horrible music but I personally love it. Its just ones taste in music. The real reason Jeff is staying in TNA is because: Lighter Schedule Wants time to spend with his daughter and wife More Happy Is in alot of pain when he's in WWE because of the schedule and doesnt want to be forced to take painkillers Healthy TNA's more free and doesn't care if he paints his face and they let Jeff Hardy be Jeff Hardy. I'm happy for Jeff that he's at where he wants to be in his life and if y'all are such a big you should be happy to. For the record, I actually really liked his "another me" theme. Fit his heel gimmick awesomely. And I ultimately just want him back in wwe for a mattel figure.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2013 1:11:30 GMT -5
Yeah as much as I also want to see Jeff Hardy back to WWE, I also hope he stays in TNA. I'm happy for Jeff that he's healthy, has a lighter schedule, can spend time with his wife and daughter and most of all happy. Overall I'm just very happy for Jeff that he's finally at where he wants to be at his life and is happy with everything. He did the WWE schedule for years. The only reason he don't go back to wwe is because he cant get away with stuff and use his horrible music for his theme. Another Me is awesome and Modest is catchy.
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Post by k5 on Aug 5, 2013 9:41:42 GMT -5
if this isn't a rough point, i don't know what could be.
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Post by Mr. PerpetuaLynch Motion on Aug 5, 2013 13:15:32 GMT -5
He did the WWE schedule for years. The only reason he don't go back to wwe is because he cant get away with stuff and use his horrible music for his theme. Jeff Hardy can't get away with stuff in TNA either. Also its just your opinion that he has horrible music but I personally love it. Its just ones taste in music. The real reason Jeff is staying in TNA is because: Lighter Schedule Wants time to spend with his daughter and wife More Happy Is in alot of pain when he's in WWE because of the schedule and doesnt want to be forced to take painkillers Healthy TNA's more free and doesn't care if he paints his face and they let Jeff Hardy be Jeff Hardy. I'm happy for Jeff that he's at where he wants to be in his life and if y'all are such a big you should be happy to. *Looks at the guy in your sig* I don't know if you noticed this or not but the WWE is handing out part-time schedules to people like they're candy. The WWE was letting Jeff Hardy be Jeff Hardy too, I don't know what you're on about. Someone in this thread just said that Jeff should turn heel but someone else said that won't happen because he's making TNA too much money... what if Jeff wants to be heel? That doesn't sound like them letting Jeff Hardy be Jeff Hardy
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Post by Epic Z on Aug 6, 2013 0:05:46 GMT -5
Jeff Hardy can't get away with stuff in TNA either. Also its just your opinion that he has horrible music but I personally love it. Its just ones taste in music. The real reason Jeff is staying in TNA is because: Lighter Schedule Wants time to spend with his daughter and wife More Happy Is in alot of pain when he's in WWE because of the schedule and doesnt want to be forced to take painkillers Healthy TNA's more free and doesn't care if he paints his face and they let Jeff Hardy be Jeff Hardy. I'm happy for Jeff that he's at where he wants to be in his life and if y'all are such a big you should be happy to. *Looks at the guy in your sig* I don't know if you noticed this or not but the WWE is handing out part-time schedules to people like they're candy. The WWE was letting Jeff Hardy be Jeff Hardy too, I don't know what you're on about. Someone in this thread just said that Jeff should turn heel but someone else said that won't happen because he's making TNA too much money... what if Jeff wants to be heel? That doesn't sound like them letting Jeff Hardy be Jeff Hardy *Looks at your sig* You seem to be a hardy hater . Only kidding but Matt's honestly not even that fat. People exaggerate about his weight. But Jeff said that TNA is way less strict with TNA letting him be himself then WWE is. Also who knows if WWE would hand out a part time contract to Jeff? You don't know what happens behind closed doors.
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Post by Mr. PerpetuaLynch Motion on Aug 6, 2013 1:58:48 GMT -5
*Looks at the guy in your sig* I don't know if you noticed this or not but the WWE is handing out part-time schedules to people like they're candy. The WWE was letting Jeff Hardy be Jeff Hardy too, I don't know what you're on about. Someone in this thread just said that Jeff should turn heel but someone else said that won't happen because he's making TNA too much money... what if Jeff wants to be heel? That doesn't sound like them letting Jeff Hardy be Jeff Hardy *Looks at your sig* You seem to be a hardy hater . Only kidding but Matt's honestly not even that fat. People exaggerate about his weight. But Jeff said that TNA is way less strict with TNA letting him be himself then WWE is. Also who knows if WWE would hand out a part time contract to Jeff? You don't know what happens behind closed doors. Lol not a Hardy hater, that sig is atleast a year old. I actually like what Matt is doing in ROH I'm just too lazy to change the sig... plus it was hilarious when I made it. I don't know what happens behind closed doors anymore than you do. I am fairly certain that given how popular Jeff has always been that the WWE would be more than willing to give him a part time contract if it means lining McMahon's wallet with a bit more money.
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Post by Daniel F'n Bryan on Aug 6, 2013 3:55:19 GMT -5
Had Bully kept the title and AJ been tearing his way through the BFG series right now TNA's product would be alot better IMO. But TNA makes crapty booking decisions and botched an angle that the blueprint was written for over 15 years ago.
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Post by WCWA Online on Aug 6, 2013 7:42:31 GMT -5
I'm going to preface this by saying, I genuinely do not like TNA. I've been calling for their death for several years because I'm past the point where I want them to succeed and be a genuine "number 2", an alternate for WWE. They've proven in my opinion that they cannot handle that and that the management team is clearly not financially responsible enough for that and that their booking and writing team has no idea what to do in that scenario. Add in things like the Jesse Sorenson thing.. That shouldn't happen in ANY company. My cousin got hurt yesterday at McDonalds. She was working drive thru and some cups got stuck in the coke machine. She tried to quickly get them free before it jammed the machine and her hand got caught between two moving parts. It effectively crushed her palm. McDonalds, the company that people like to crap on all the time as the "worst job ever, I could never do that" paid for her medical bills 100% without question, her pain medicine, and has given her the week off with pay. But TNA, the "number two wrestling company in the world", on Spike TV every week and Pay Per Views when they actually bother to air them.. Can't manage to do that for their employees. To pay for their on the job injuries..
To answer the original question, this is not the worst point since the Hogan era. This is the worst point in TNA's history. They're working WILDLY out of their budget and are losing their pants week to week. In the early days, 2002, 2003.. I'm sure they weren't making the gates from live shows that they are now.. But their roster also only cost them a fraction of what it is now. They didn't have Jeff Hardy, Kurt Angle, The Dudleys, etc. on the roster. High paid, name talent.. They didn't have Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff working in the creative side and I can ensure you, despite their overall failure of a performance, Bischoff and Hogan are not working cheap or free. They didn't have the expenses of a weekly television show on the road with a giant screen entrance, HD lights, etc.. Their entrance way in the Asylum was strippers in cages.
So even if they're making money at the moment and it's debatable if they even are, they're losing money by the truckload. They're losing money like it's going out of style. And business wise.. they're making completely insane and irrational decisions. Fire the guy who is your company's martyr, who got crippled on your TV show.. Film, edit, and promote a Pay Per View event and then at the last minute, don't air it and don't really say anything to anyone publicly as to where this PPV event went. Bringing in guys left and right who are not trained wrestlers because they have name value? I don't care if Viacom or Spike or Bellator or Vince McMahon himself is paying Rampage, Tito, & King Mo.. It doesn't make sense to use them on the show. I'm SURE it's costing TNA to use them, too. Travel expenses, hotel accommodation, and likely paychecks.. and what do these guys lend to the show? What has King Mo truly done on Impact? How many matches has Rampage wrestled? Despite being natural athletes, these guys are not trained wrestlers. This isn't like Brock Lesnar, where you can seamlessly insert him into a wrestling show. Brock is a former WWE champion and one of arguably the greatest wrestlers of all time. Rampage and Tito are lifelong wrestling FANS and Mo isn't even really that. Proper wrestling training takes about a year, two nights a week. It can be rushed. Inferior trainers will take less time and courses like The Monster Factory used to churn out wrestlers in just a few months with full time, four or five days a week training.. But King Mo, Rampage, and Tito aren't going to be dedicated to that. King Mo is training MMA full time. He just won the Bellator tournament. He's got a big money title fight in Bellator. It makes NO sense for him to risk his body as a pro wrestler. Tito Ortiz and Rampage Jackson are set for a PPV fight, likely their last marquee fights each.. Why would they risk that to train for wrestling, or to let, lets say AJ Styles, pick them up and slam them?
The ratings chart is the most interesting to me. The fact that at the very highest rating point for 2013, it's not even at the very lowest point of 2011. And 2011 was not by any means "a good time" for TNA. It was the fallout of the "WE'RE GOING LIVE ON MONDAY NIGHTS, BROTHER!" failure and the growing pains period of Hogan/Bischoff. So to see that 2013 can't even hit 2011's worst day on it's best day should be a wake up call to Dixie Carter, Hulk Hogan, Eric Bischoff.. whoever is running the company these days that they need to significantly restructure the company. That the things they are doing are not working at all. Aces & Eights needs to go, get rid of Taz from the commentary booth, get rid of Tenay, change your camera angles.. Change everything that isn't working. But to do that, they have to know what isn't working and it's very clear that the people running TNA have absolutely no idea what isn't working and what's causing them to fail. The #AskDixie hashtag should point that out. That Dixie, in his oblivious bubble state, thought that opening a Q&A session on Twitter would yield positive results and rather than trying to stop the hurricane of hate that flowed her way.. She simply ignored it.. That's the TNA mindset. If you just don't pay attention to a problem, it'll stop being a problem. Business does not work that way.
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Unfortunately Eric Bischoff very clearly has not learned that irrational and inconsistent booking, super heel stables with tons of jobbers no one cares about running gang attacks for FAR too long, aging stars from the competition, hot shot television booking at the expense of your Pay Per Views, attracting "real athletes" at the expense of your talent (both from a financial perspective and for television time) and the other blunders of WCW are what caused WCW to go out of business. I genuinely wonder if Dixie Carter has sat down and read The Death of WCW. If she hasn't, she's stupider than I previously thought and I previously thought she's pretty stupid. If she has read it and is simply ignoring the fact that she's now the idiotic money mark pouring gas into the flaming car driven by Eric Bischoff, instead of Ted Turner, then she is quite possibly the worst business person in the world. If she is truly the ostrich with head in sand that she comes off as constantly, she needs to open her eyes, listen to people on the outside and on the inside who have lived through this sort of thing and have watched empires collapse previously and realize that everything she's doing is simply losing money and creating a bad reputation. At this point, I don't think the TNA brand name is even salvageable. There's just too many bad feelings and thoughts associated with the brand and the brand is too badly damaged at this point to ever be a marketable household brand name. I think this is why they changed the show name from TNA Impact to Impact Wrestling, but unfortunately with their distancing from TNA, they didn't change anything and actually made the problems worse.
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Post by punksnotdead on Aug 6, 2013 11:44:07 GMT -5
I'm going to preface this by saying, I genuinely do not like TNA. I've been calling for their death for several years because I'm past the point where I want them to succeed and be a genuine "number 2", an alternate for WWE. They've proven in my opinion that they cannot handle that and that the management team is clearly not financially responsible enough for that and that their booking and writing team has no idea what to do in that scenario. Add in things like the Jesse Sorenson thing.. That shouldn't happen in ANY company. My cousin got hurt yesterday at McDonalds. She was working drive thru and some cups got stuck in the coke machine. She tried to quickly get them free before it jammed the machine and her hand got caught between two moving parts. It effectively crushed her palm. McDonalds, the company that people like to crap on all the time as the "worst job ever, I could never do that" paid for her medical bills 100% without question, her pain medicine, and has given her the week off with pay. But TNA, the "number two wrestling company in the world", on Spike TV every week and Pay Per Views when they actually bother to air them.. Can't manage to do that for their employees. To pay for their on the job injuries.. Yeah... - Sorensen was originally on a pay per appearance contract with TNA - Sorensen was then given a monthly guarantee at the time of his injury - Sorensen's surgery and medical bills were paid for by TNA and they paid for his mother to travel and be with him during the recovery period - Sorensen was paid during his recovery period without being asked to do any work - Sorensen was given an "office" job and paid more than anyone in that role would make (he was grossly under qualified for the position as well unless he has a business or marketing degree I don't know about) - At the time of his termination, Sorensen was working a handful of days per month. So a few days a month in a position that is normally held by a full time employee working 5 days a week, all year round. Still making more money than a person in that position normally would - Sorensen is physically recovered and capable of doing just about anything he wants (gym, run, softball, live life) but isn't medically cleared to wrestle because of the physical beating bumping and being in the ring could potentially have on his neck - Sorensen was actively pushing TNA to let him take Indy dates while he was working his office job. TNA would not allow him to do so, or work TNA matches, until he was medically cleared to compete (obviously since they would be liable) and they wanted him to focus on production until that time - Sorensen is currently taking bookings against doctors wishes. Something TNA doesn't agree with because of the impact it could have on his own personal safety - Everyone in TNA was/is under review. This is a completely normal business practice. It's unfortunate because often good people lose their jobs, but it's not really that unusual - Also, and this is just a personal note, I wouldn't go around comparing an S&P 500 Corp worth billions of dollars like McDonald's, to a privately owned company who, in your own words, might not even be turning a profit If Dixie did tell Sorensen he would have a job forever, that was a mistake. However, I'm a little confused if she did say that or not because Sorensen seemingly recanted on a lot of the internet comments that came out at the time of his release. If this did happen though, that's the only real problem I have with Dixie in that entire situation. Aside from that, I agree with what you are saying in regards to Hogan and Bischoff. I've said this every year since they've been around. They've shown that not only have they failed to improve the product, but they've been a detriment to it financially. So I will never argue with anyone calling for them to take a walk. They need to take their atrocious children with them as well. I also agree, that Dixie is in a position where she has no idea what the 2013 wrestling fan wants. She trusted Hogan and Bischoff with knowing that element of the business, and unfortunately she trusted the wrong guys. It's funny that she didn't want to bring Heyman in because he wasn't going to keep around a lot of the older veterans who he didn't feel were a benefit to the show, and now she's making cuts across the board. Had she had those guts 3 years ago, she never would have landed in this position. I've stated, and will continue to say, that I don't have a ton of issue with the cross promotion with the MMA fighters. I do however have a problem with the MEM and the Aces & 8's, neither of which need to be on the show imo. The MEM was terrible in WCW when they were the Millionaire's Club, terrible in TNA in 2008 and even worse now. Aces & 8's was entertaining to me for a couple of months, but the story moved along at a snails pace, failed to deliver with resinating shock value, and should have ended months ago. I actually think Bully losing to Sabin was a great payoff. Bully has said everything he could have possibly said as champion, he's not Bobby Roode. We know who he is, we are bored with his stable, and we could really give a rats ass who his Vice President is at the present moment. So having to wait 3 more months to finally see the AJ thing payoff would have been painful and we all would have pissed and moaned through all of it. Not to mention, AJ Styles isn't even really a face right now. He's not saying anything that has the crowd behind him. Yeah he gets cheered because he's AJ, but as it stands, Hardy or Aries beating Bully would be a bigger payoff than AJ imo. In terms of the ratings, WWE has dropped their yearly average every year as well since like 09. So the interest in pro wrestling in general has declined across the board because of the saturation of other things to watch. That, and wrestling is back to not being socially acceptable again. TNA should definitely have more of the WWE viewership though imo. They have an incredible talent pool that if they were being showcased correctly, could easily pull from WWE's audience pool. Although, Bobby Roode had the best World Title run in recent memory and I don't think it created that many people to jump over and watch. Fans just have a negative preconceived notion of what TNA is, or mostly has become. You can't have such a negative mindset going into something and give it a fair shake. It's not good right now, so now isn't the time to flip over and judge it, but if they do rebound, I think they'll run into the same issue. In terms of spending versus revenue, that's a big problem for TNA if I were to guess, as you mentioned. So until that changes, until there is a creative shake up, and until someone who gets in there with a clear idea of where the company is going, this is the product we are going to get. Through all that negative though, I still enjoy parts of the show, otherwise I just wouldn't watch. I love the BFG series and the matches we've gotten out of that so far, and I think Sabin as champion is a fresh awesome change. So for me, the show is in large part how it's been throughout various periods of the last 3 years. Some parts are bad, some parts are good, but at the end of the day I enjoy enough to keep watching. Also, I think Immortal and most of 2010 was worse than anything going on right now. Maybe that's just me though. I think people, in general, are reading way too much into these releases and cuts though. That's just normal business practice as far as I'm concerned and not something we can really evaluate unless we know financial details, which we will never know.
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Post by P@ul on Aug 6, 2013 12:18:48 GMT -5
To answer the original question, this is not the worst point since the Hogan era. This is the worst point in TNA's history. They're working WILDLY out of their budget and are losing their pants week to week. In the early days, 2002, 2003.. I'm sure they weren't making the gates from live shows that they are now.. But their roster also only cost them a fraction of what it is now. They didn't have Jeff Hardy, Kurt Angle, The Dudleys, etc. on the roster. High paid, name talent.. They didn't have Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff working in the creative side and I can ensure you, despite their overall failure of a performance, Bischoff and Hogan are not working cheap or free. They didn't have the expenses of a weekly television show on the road with a giant screen entrance, HD lights, etc.. Their entrance way in the Asylum was strippers in cages. So even if they're making money at the moment and it's debatable if they even are, they're losing money by the truckload. They're losing money like it's going out of style. And business wise.. they're making completely insane and irrational decisions. Fire the guy who is your company's martyr, who got crippled on your TV show.. Film, edit, and promote a Pay Per View event and then at the last minute, don't air it and don't really say anything to anyone publicly as to where this PPV event went. Bringing in guys left and right who are not trained wrestlers because they have name value? I don't care if Viacom or Spike or Bellator or Vince McMahon himself is paying Rampage, Tito, & King Mo.. It doesn't make sense to use them on the show. I'm SURE it's costing TNA to use them, too. Travel expenses, hotel accommodation, and likely paychecks.. and what do these guys lend to the show? What has King Mo truly done on Impact? How many matches has Rampage wrestled? Despite being natural athletes, these guys are not trained wrestlers. This isn't like Brock Lesnar, where you can seamlessly insert him into a wrestling show. Brock is a former WWE champion and one of arguably the greatest wrestlers of all time. Rampage and Tito are lifelong wrestling FANS and Mo isn't even really that. Proper wrestling training takes about a year, two nights a week. It can be rushed. Inferior trainers will take less time and courses like The Monster Factory used to churn out wrestlers in just a few months with full time, four or five days a week training.. But King Mo, Rampage, and Tito aren't going to be dedicated to that. King Mo is training MMA full time. He just won the Bellator tournament. He's got a big money title fight in Bellator. It makes NO sense for him to risk his body as a pro wrestler. Tito Ortiz and Rampage Jackson are set for a PPV fight, likely their last marquee fights each.. Why would they risk that to train for wrestling, or to let, lets say AJ Styles, pick them up and slam them? The ratings chart is the most interesting to me. The fact that at the very highest rating point for 2013, it's not even at the very lowest point of 2011. And 2011 was not by any means "a good time" for TNA. It was the fallout of the "WE'RE GOING LIVE ON MONDAY NIGHTS, BROTHER!" failure and the growing pains period of Hogan/Bischoff. So to see that 2013 can't even hit 2011's worst day on it's best day should be a wake up call to Dixie Carter, Hulk Hogan, Eric Bischoff.. whoever is running the company these days that they need to significantly restructure the company. That the things they are doing are not working at all. Aces & Eights needs to go, get rid of Taz from the commentary booth, get rid of Tenay, change your camera angles.. Change everything that isn't working. But to do that, they have to know what isn't working and it's very clear that the people running TNA have absolutely no idea what isn't working and what's causing them to fail. The #AskDixie hashtag should point that out. That Dixie, in his oblivious bubble state, thought that opening a Q&A session on Twitter would yield positive results and rather than trying to stop the hurricane of hate that flowed her way.. She simply ignored it.. That's the TNA mindset. If you just don't pay attention to a problem, it'll stop being a problem. Business does not work that way. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Unfortunately Eric Bischoff very clearly has not learned that irrational and inconsistent booking, super heel stables with tons of jobbers no one cares about running gang attacks for FAR too long, aging stars from the competition, hot shot television booking at the expense of your Pay Per Views, attracting "real athletes" at the expense of your talent (both from a financial perspective and for television time) and the other blunders of WCW are what caused WCW to go out of business. I genuinely wonder if Dixie Carter has sat down and read The Death of WCW. If she hasn't, she's stupider than I previously thought and I previously thought she's pretty stupid. If she has read it and is simply ignoring the fact that she's now the idiotic money mark pouring gas into the flaming car driven by Eric Bischoff, instead of Ted Turner, then she is quite possibly the worst business person in the world. If she is truly the ostrich with head in sand that she comes off as constantly, she needs to open her eyes, listen to people on the outside and on the inside who have lived through this sort of thing and have watched empires collapse previously and realize that everything she's doing is simply losing money and creating a bad reputation. At this point, I don't think the TNA brand name is even salvageable. There's just too many bad feelings and thoughts associated with the brand and the brand is too badly damaged at this point to ever be a marketable household brand name. I think this is why they changed the show name from TNA Impact to Impact Wrestling, but unfortunately with their distancing from TNA, they didn't change anything and actually made the problems worse.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2013 11:06:45 GMT -5
I might be a little biased because I have been watching WWE's boring Cenathon and gave up on TNA when Hogan came back but now that I am watching it I like it. I also have been watching just the PPVs which spares me from most of the awful story lines and promos.
Robert Roode is gold but I don't understand why they would break up Beer Money just to pair the both of them with someone else... Bully Ray (I hate typing that) does make me hate him with his gimmick but I don't think he should be champion at this time. Sabin is gold but gietting burried Manik....ugh why change his name.
At the end of the day I don't know why they do some of the crap they do but WWE is the same way. I think TNA is much better than 2010 and the matches are great.
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