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Post by King Silva on Sept 30, 2008 18:43:28 GMT -5
According to a fan in attendance, TNA drew approximately 500 fans to last Saturday's house show at the BankUnited Center, which is the 8,000-seat multi-purpose arena on the campus of the University of Miami. TNA didn't fare too much better the next day at the Lakeland Civic Center in Lakeland, Florida as the show drew approximately 600 fans in a 10,000 seat venue. Both shows featured Samoa Joe vs. Booker T in the main event.
That really sucks for them.
It would be cool to be at a live event where there are not that many people though.
TNA shouldn't make samoe joe face booker t!
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Post by Sleeping Like An Angel on Sept 30, 2008 18:45:11 GMT -5
That is a pile of crap. I was at the BankUnited Center show. They had 2,000+ fans.
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Post by slappy on Sept 30, 2008 18:52:16 GMT -5
Did you count? Because you can see 500 and think it's 2,000.
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Post by CBT on Sept 30, 2008 18:53:53 GMT -5
Why do shows in Florida, when they do free TV ones that matter. Hell even PPVs can be attended if you plan out right.
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Post by Sleeping Like An Angel on Sept 30, 2008 18:58:00 GMT -5
Did you count? Because you can see 500 and think it's 2,000. No way it was 500. That show was packed. |
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Post by slappy on Sept 30, 2008 19:06:26 GMT -5
Did you count? Because you can see 500 and think it's 2,000. No way it was 500. That show was packed. Obviously it wasn't packed. Even if it was 2,000, which I doubt, that's still 1/4 of the arena. |
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Post by Retaliation on Sept 30, 2008 19:09:22 GMT -5
Obviously a TNA mark will say different.
It shows how fast TNA is gonna fall downhill.
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Post by tnafan4life on Sept 30, 2008 19:15:22 GMT -5
Obviously a TNA mark will say different. It shows how fast TNA is gonna fall downhill. Oh yeah, because they don't draw in certian locations but sell out the UK, New York, draw 6,000 in MA, around 5500 in MO so now they're going down hill. Also, this has been posted I think. It's not like they're gonna draw "WWE numbers" - it wouldn't seem like a "huge loss" if they wasn't in these big venues. |
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Post by Matt on Sept 30, 2008 20:48:16 GMT -5
This was already reported :/
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2008 21:23:26 GMT -5
Obviously a TNA mark will say different. It shows how fast TNA is gonna fall downhill. TNA is not falling downhill at all, they have just reached a road block. Things right now are going great for TNA, just one bad attendance in one city doesn't mean the company will go out of business. TNA has great star power, and has great wrestling. They just need to use it carefully, and they need to fire Russo and Mantel! |
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Post by King Silva on Sept 30, 2008 22:08:15 GMT -5
I didn't know that it was already posted..
It must not have been on the top page because I checked.
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Post by spawnsyxx9 on Sept 30, 2008 23:48:14 GMT -5
It's in my post dude.
it's the + more news part of my subject header
it's all good
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Post by mrchase on Oct 1, 2008 6:11:36 GMT -5
Obviously a TNA mark will say different. It shows how fast TNA is gonna fall downhill. TNA is not falling downhill at all, they have just reached a road block. Things right now are going great for TNA, just one bad attendance in one city doesn't mean the company will go out of business. TNA has great star power, and has great wrestling. They just need to use it carefully, and they need to fire Russo and Mantel! just one problem it has not just been one bad attendance in one city. TNA has had a bunch of bad attendence in other cities with their house shows . go look it up. it is fact . TNA mostly does only 500 at house shows except in places like st louis, UK,& New York. |
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Post by Matthew Stovell on Oct 1, 2008 6:50:50 GMT -5
the reason the UK shows sold out is because it was the first ever time. of course they're gonna sell a lot of tickets, because the novelty of being there for the first time. WWE do the twice a year UK shows because it's increased revenue for them. why settle for a half full arena somewhere in the states, when they'll sellout big arenas in a different country
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Post by warmachine76 on Oct 1, 2008 9:12:01 GMT -5
I have seen so many conflicting reports about this event it isn't even funny. As time goes i'm seeing more and more reports from people who claim to have been at the show saying they drew way more than 500 people. Who are we supposed to believe?
TNA is just testing new markets which is smart. Wrestling is a WWE dominated industry now. You have to test the waters to find out if you can swim there or not. To see where you can increase your exposure. TNA has done pretty well in the Boston and New York markets to date and we have no clue about California yet.
In my opinion it seems that it has become way too popular to smear TNA for everything they do. Almost like it is intentional. The thing is it isn't hurting TNA. True the ratings have not gone up but they are maintaining the rating they have, still making money, and venturing further and further away from the home base. Those are all positive things. When TNA stops running house shows and ppv's in new locations is when you know there is a problem. That would mean they are hurting financially. That isn't the case though.
It takes a long time to make a company successful in any business. It doesn't happen overnight. TNA is still a very young company and hasn't even begun to reach their potential. People seem to think that they should be trading punches with WWE already or something. It took WCW almost seven years before they really started to compete with WWE. Before that time they were very similar to TNA. Does anyone remember WCW before Monday Nitro? I sure do. I watched WCW Saturday Night and Sunday Night religiously. I still miss hearing Dusty welcome me to the "Mother Ship".
WCW slowly built itself up the same way TNA is doing now. When the time is right they will strike the same way WCW did. That is the time when we should start talking about TNA making it or not. Right now it all seems a little pointless. We are not dealing with like products. WWE and TNA are nowhere near competing and TNA is smart for not trying to do so. They would fail miserably. TNA does the right thing by swimming behind the Great White Shark not head on in to it.
All I can say is haters keep hating and fans keep being fans. In the end one of you will be rewarded. Either way "wrestling fans" need to support TNA even if you don't agree with everything or anything they do. The best way to achieve great entertainment in wrestling is through competition. WWE has not had any competition since WCW died and it shows in the product today. It shouldn't be about putting one or the other out of business in the wrestling industry. It should be about pushing one another.
WCW/Ted Turner made the mistake of trying to put Vince out of business. I don't believe that is Jeff and Dixie's plan at all. All they want to do is run a successful alternative to WWE. Whether you agree or not that is what they are doing.
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Post by alcoholhole on Oct 1, 2008 15:37:09 GMT -5
the reason the UK shows sold out is because it was the first ever time. of course they're gonna sell a lot of tickets, because the novelty of being there for the first time. WWE do the twice a year UK shows because it's increased revenue for them. why settle for a half full arena somewhere in the states, when they'll sellout big arenas in a different country Let's see how the January tour goes.  |
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