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Post by JC Motors on Oct 30, 2013 21:23:47 GMT -5
I'd fire Stong Fire Dixie Carter Fire Earl Hebner Take the license from Jakks and give it to Hasbro Go back to six sided ring Fire Bully Ray Fire Dale Oliver Pay everyone Tree Fiddy
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Post by JC Motors on Oct 30, 2013 21:30:23 GMT -5
I'd also Have Stong vs Topless Mick Foley in an evening gown match
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Post by Justin on Oct 30, 2013 21:53:18 GMT -5
I'd fire Stong Fire Dixie Carter Fire Earl Hebner Take the license from Jakks and give it to Hasbro Go back to six sided ring Fire Bully Ray Fire Dale Oliver Pay everyone Tree Fiddy That's awesome that you would give the x division a pay raise!!
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Post by T R W on Oct 30, 2013 22:05:19 GMT -5
The main thing I would do that I haven't seen people mention is have an offseason. For 3 months we would be off air and the last ppv would essentially be our Super Bowl. This would give guys time to heal physically and mentally and spend time with their families. Not to mention keep things fresh and interesting for the fans. I think this would also attract talent.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2013 22:29:35 GMT -5
Can I get a refund?
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Post by slappy on Oct 30, 2013 22:32:22 GMT -5
1. Determine where the hottest market is and ask Spike for the money to build a small venue.
2. 1 hour shows every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
3. Replace Tenay with Todd Keneley. Replace Taz with a rotating group of wrestlers. That way the announce team is manned by one person (the voice of the show) and we get a fresh color commentator. They can be current TNA wrestlers or other guys that could be brought in.
4. Build up the KO division to make it the greatest women's division to ever appear on television. Make it so women from around the world dream of becoming a KO and winning that title. Let them go all out and be the best.
5. Hire Kevin Sullivan to be the new booker.
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Post by King Bálor (CM)™ on Oct 30, 2013 22:35:10 GMT -5
The main thing I would do that I haven't seen people mention is have an offseason. For 3 months we would be off air and the last ppv would essentially be our Super Bowl. This would give guys time to heal physically and mentally and spend time with their families. Not to mention keep things fresh and interesting for the fans. I think this would also attract talent. Do you really think TNA needs an offseason? WWE...yes. But TNA works so many limited dates as is. The schedule is cake.
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Post by T R W on Oct 31, 2013 7:14:05 GMT -5
The main thing I would do that I haven't seen people mention is have an offseason. For 3 months we would be off air and the last ppv would essentially be our Super Bowl. This would give guys time to heal physically and mentally and spend time with their families. Not to mention keep things fresh and interesting for the fans. I think this would also attract talent. Do you really think TNA needs an offseason? WWE...yes. But TNA works so many limited dates as is. The schedule is cake. Yeah I do. If for no other reason than to give the fans a break from it and something to anticipate. Leaving people wanting is underutilized in wrestling.
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Post by 👑🇵🇭⭐️ on Oct 31, 2013 10:04:52 GMT -5
TNA = WWE Impact = Raw Xplosion = Smackdown
See where I’m going with this??
If I were the new owner of Total Non-stop Action, first thing I would do is create the Brand Extension. Next thing I would do is have Abyss come out and reactivate the Television Championship. I might even rename it back to the Legends or Global Championship. Then I would hold a tournament to crown new TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champions. I’d also bring back the 6 sided ring.
Impact – Monday 9 – 11 (live). TNA World Champion TNA World Tag Team Champions Knockouts Champion
Xplosion – Friday 8 – 10 (taped on Tuesdays) Leg-Glo-Vision Champion X-Division Champion Knockouts Tag Team Champion
I think direct competition with the WWE will work out better for TNA. Honestly, I think TNA would get better ratings from the members of the WWE Universe switching channels during commercials during Raw and Smackdown than they would on any given Thursday night. Okay, that was supposed to be a joke.
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Post by JC Motors on Oct 31, 2013 10:57:25 GMT -5
You could just sell it to WWE
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2013 10:58:48 GMT -5
You could just sell it to WWE They said they'd only give me $10
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Post by JC Motors on Oct 31, 2013 11:01:05 GMT -5
You could just sell it to WWE They said they'd only give me $10 Sell it to Ted Turner
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Post by King Bálor (CM)™ on Oct 31, 2013 17:08:17 GMT -5
Do you really think TNA needs an offseason? WWE...yes. But TNA works so many limited dates as is. The schedule is cake. Yeah I do. If for no other reason than to give the fans a break from it and something to anticipate. Leaving people wanting is underutilized in wrestling. I agree it makes the heart grow fonder...sometimes. But people's attention spans are bad. When you are trying to develop your company, an offseason could cause the complete failure for your company. Because when you come back, those fans have found something else they are interested in and might not come back with you. Its not like WWE. This could be catastrophic for their company. Not to mention they need whatever revenue streams they can get and its not just attendance, ratings they lose...they also lose advertising and a decrease in merchandising.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2013 18:58:03 GMT -5
1. Advertise. A few years ago when TNA was in Toronto (I believe), they didn't advertise to the area. At all. Unless you watched Impact, or went on TNA's website, you would have no clue TNA was in town. If TNA can advertise successfully to local areas they have shows in AND start advertising nationally; then they'd be able to be more well known than they are now. 2. Fire unneeded talent, hire young and fresh talent. Sting and Kurt Angle are legends in pro wrestling, but after all the years they've spent in TNA; they've done basically everything they can do for the company. So why keep them under contract if they're reaching the age where slowing down is a possibility? If there's a demand from new fans coming in from improved advertising to keep them in TNA, have them wrestle a few times a year but keep them off TV when they aren't building to a match. Fire some other talent that either don't bring anything to their position (I'm looking at you Taz, you and your sh*t commentary), or wrestlers who have gotten stale (imo I'd say Chavo, Wes, Garrett, Gunner, Hernandez) and replace them with unsigned talent from the indies (Willie Mack, Monster Mafia, Super Smash Bros, etc) to help add to each respective division. 3. Make sure that they don't insult the fan's intelligence/Don't do stupid sh*t the WWE does. WWE and TNA have done this A LOT. They show something on Raw/Smackdown/Impact that obviously insults the fan's intelligence. From what I've seen out of both companies as of late, WWE does this a lot more than TNA does. Fans hate it, so don't do it. It may be a small thing, but in the long run it gives TNA the feeling that it's less of a "we're a big company and we're smarter than the viewer so we have to explain things out for you" and more of a "we're a wrestling company that's rising through the ranks. Wanna join the ride? Great.". Also never do countless recaps. recaps. 4. Move to somewhere besides Orlando. Go somewhere where there is a large number of wrestling fans, and if an area like NJ/NY/Philly is chosen, then I'd have an idea of doing one live Impact per week, but keep the arena design simple yet effective so it's easily transportable once per week. 5. Release EC3's theme song. I ing want it.
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Post by "Living Legend" Duttanized on Oct 31, 2013 19:33:25 GMT -5
1) Make the IMPACT Zone unique.
I'd hesitate to bring the six-sided ring back just because it was stiffer than their current ring and although it was unique, it gave a lot of wrestlers problems as they had to retrain their bodies to accustom to the six-sides. To make it unique I'd stray away from the glitzy staging that WWE uses and go back to the tunnel that they used to have with maybe one big LED screen on top, laser lights and some other lighting to make everyones entrance unique.
2) Change to a six PPV model.
Four just seems like way too few for me tbh. TNA hasn't done a great job building for them so might as well increase to six and give out high quality matches with enough time to shine.
3) Change the production.
I think TNA would largely benefit from this. They should move more into the direction of UFC/Bellator with the way that they make the pre-fight videos, which if anyone has watched them they're spectacular.
4) Hire a new marketing team.
It's time for TNA to ramp up their marketing a whole lot. They need to get the word out there about who their stars are and when they're coming to town. They need to build street teams and hire publicists around the world so when they go tour there it's a worthwhile venture.
5) Push Spike for more.
Spike needs to give TNA more of a chance to succeed. Adding a third hour to their free-per-view shows as well as doing live every week will help TNA a lot. Also, adding some sort of countdown shows on Friday or Saturday nights to allow TNA to build the pay-per-view to get more buys would be great too. Finally, a second show based around X-Division and Knockout action would be an amazing addition.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2013 19:50:07 GMT -5
My main thing is we go to a six sided ring and stop hiring washed up wwe talent and be more like roh
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2013 22:36:59 GMT -5
Here's what I'd do. I'm assuming I now have Dixie's job? Well first, I'd Kenny Powers her ass. "You're in out, I'm in in! Now get the out of my chair!" For starters, I'd get rid of any unnecessary costs. Even as a childhood Sting fan, I see no reason for him to be kept around. I imagine he's making a ton of money. Maybe bring him back for a match every now and then, but that's it. Then I'd move off the road. It would save the company a ton of money. Either go back to the Impact Zone, or a new location. Vegas maybe? Next I would try to work out a working agreement with ROH and PWG in order to exchange talent. TNA stars can compete on their shows, and their stars can compete on TNA shows. I would agree to TNA taking 30% of all sales on dvd's and ppv's, if their stars are used on the show. And vice versa. This would open up TNA to a much larger talent pool. Lots of young, fresh faces. I would make the X Division what it used to be. Just think of all the talent. Davey Richards, Eddie Edwards, Roderick Strong, Ricochet, etc... Then I would vacate all the titles. Make a fresh start. Have the first episode of Impact crown a new X Division Champion with a small tournament of 8 guys. I wouldn't do so many ppv's. Maybe 4-5 a year. Space them out. One in January. One in April. One in July. One in September. One in December. I would then hire Jim Cornette to run creative. The guy is very smart and knows how to book guys. Fire Taz. Hire Jim Ross. Make the announce team Jim Ross and Mike Tenay. Or fire Tenay too. And bring back Todd Kenely(or however you spell it).
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Post by Falconsinclair on Nov 1, 2013 5:46:29 GMT -5
The main thing I would do that I haven't seen people mention is have an offseason. For 3 months we would be off air and the last ppv would essentially be our Super Bowl. This would give guys time to heal physically and mentally and spend time with their families. Not to mention keep things fresh and interesting for the fans. I think this would also attract talent. I like this idea. If I was to buy TNA the first thing I would do is shut down immediately for a couple of months. Make people think the company is completely dead and buried. I would even have the Website go "dark" for a few weeks. Chikara is currently doing this and it has helped spark interest in the wrestling community. Unlike Chikara I would allow the talent I was keeping to appear on "Reunion" shows across the country. The only thing that I wouldn't do is allow the champions to appear on these shows. They would be more than welcome to appear elsewhere and defend the belts during the downtime. A month before coming back the website would go live again with a brand new scheme completely erasing all references to TNA. I would come back as Impact Wrestling and run the promotion from a state of the art facility in the Northeast (either Philly or NYC). The reason for the downtime would be to build the facility. The first show back would be a PPV called "From the Ashes" or "Regenesis" I would come back with a vengeance and sign a lot of the top indy talent, while still using guys like AJ Styles, Christopher Daniels, Samoa Joe & Kazarian to help build up the new talent. Kurt Angle & Jeff Hardy would only be used to put over the rising stars. I wouldn't give either one another title match. I would also sign more legit tag teams to build up that division. From the new venue I would run live every Thursday with a 3 hour "Taping" the first hour would feature matches taped exclusively for the youtube channel, and I would turn the Television Championship into the Internet Championship and have it defended at least twice a week on Youtube. I would also commission new belts for all the divisions and have TNA removed from them entirely. I would also make sure that the World Championship could actually be worn by just about anyone on the roster. By using YouTube views (which is where I would primarily debut new talet) I would using the view counter to see who was generating more of a following and I would have creative push them in the opening matches of the new Television show. I would also want creative to book angles for all aspects of the show. And with the help of the talent push feuds and matches the talent want to work. Another of my first business ventures would be to approach all the major Women Promotions for cross promotion and I would promote their championships on my show, eventually having their champions face off in a tournament to face and defeat the current Knockout's Champion. From that point I would drop the name "Knockouts" (sounds like TNA was trying to rip off WWE's Diva's without being blatant about it) and crown the winner the World Women Champion and I would allow all the promotions to book the champion on their shows to add legitimacy to the title. While I would run 52-60 live television & PPV events a year. 52 Live Impact Wrestlings, 3 North American PPV's, 2 UK PPV's 1 PPV that is takes place in the US one year and the UK the next and finally 2 Television Specials (Similar to the old Clash of the Champions). My PPV/Clash Schedule would look something like this: January: TV Supercard Feburary: No Surrender - UK March: Lockdown - US May: Turning Point - US July: Destination X - US/UK September: TV Supercard October: Bound for Glory - US November: Sacrifice - UK I would also give wrestlers the option of up to two months off per year to start with more "vacation time" coming as the longer they are with the company. So in other words most wrestlers would be required to appear on 50 of the 60 shows to start and slowly more time off would be offered as they prove they are loyal to the company. This would give talents scouts (which I would add to the front office) more incentive to try and bring in new and exciting talent. Slowly over time I would add a house show circuit working up from 1-2 shows a month to now more than 8-10. As House shows are added contracts would be restructured to start and end dates. ie: Kurt Angle would be contracted to work all dates from February 1st - August 31st & October 1st to December 31st of a calender year. This would cover all Television and Houseshow commitments. I would also adopt WWE's Wellness Policy and make sure that all wrestlers were covered by insurance in case of a major injury (ie. Daffney & Jessie Sorenson). All wrestlers would have minimum contract with bonuses for merchandise sales and PPV revenue sharing. I would also allow talent to work any dates that I wasn't running, as this would also help to greatly expand the scouting department I plan on building. Contracts payments would be paid out weekly over the entire year. That way while I guy or gal was on their downtime they would still be paid. Finally I would also include a travel allowance for all talent, basically making sure the company if paying for at least 20% to all of the talents travel expenses. As for a booking committee I would bring in guys like Raven, Tommy Dreamer, Jim Cornette and if I could get either one Jim Ross or Paul Heyman. If not I would probably approach someone like Edge or Lance Storm to see if they were interested in a backstage role. Finally I would have Sting working backstage in some capacity, either running the training camps or working on the booking committee. I would also allow him to work for the WWE while contracted with me if he so desired. (As a fan I would love for him to have his Mania Moment) I would also approach Vince with idea of running a joint show for charity (Susan G Kolman or Sick Kids), which would be have a main event of the Impact Champion v WWE Champion (Dusty finish of course), this show would see all proceeds go the charity and I think the outside press alone would be worth any expenses the show would generate. The rest of this joint show would only see the odd WWE v Impact match while most of the focus would be on advancing any storylines both promotions have going on heading into the show. If Vince was dead set against this idea I would still go ahead and do it, just with any other promotion that wanted the exposure. Like I said early the publicity alone would be well worth the expense. Finally I would approach Spike about eventually changing nights. (I would use the TV supershows to research which day garners the most interest) I have never felt that Thursday was a great nigh for wrestling. More then likely I would push for a live Saturday night show.
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Post by Falconsinclair on Nov 2, 2013 5:29:26 GMT -5
updated my previous thread if anyone is interested
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2013 6:49:58 GMT -5
#1 - Fire & Hire
-I would fire all creative teams and hire good creative ones who know how to give us good story lines. -I would fire useless talent that is wasting space so that we can hire some new ones.
#2 - Change
-I would change TNA make to just TNA wrestling not Impact wrestling. -I would also give them what made them different the six sided ring!
#3 - Bring back PPV's
-I would bring back their monthly PPV's
#4 - Knockouts
-Their the main reason I ever watched I would rehire or hire the following:
Angelina Love Madison Rayne Sarita Serena Deeb MsChief Lufisto Alissa Flash Melina Jillian Mickie James Tara Winter Awesome Kong (maybe) Ivelisse Velez Mia Yim Taeler Hendrix
Call up: The Blossom Twins
Bring back the Knockouts Tag Team Tiles!!
#5 - Advertising
-They need to do their hardest and best to advertise!!!!!
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