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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2013 8:53:55 GMT -5
1) Bring back the old slogan of "Where Wrestling Matters" and really mean it. 2) Drop the name Impact Wrestling and simply call it TNA 3) Bring in Raven as a writer/producer 4) Develop a working relationship with AAA and NOAH that works out for all three companies. What that basically would mean is wrestlers would go over to the other company for three months out of the year as a way to peak new interest from the fans. For example, AJ Styles would go to AAA, La Parka would go to NOAH, and Takayama would come to TNA. 5) Bring back the 6 sided ring. 6) Cut the fat. Release guys like Garrett Bischoff, King Mo, Rampage, Tito Ortiz, Rob Terry, and Jessie Godderz. 7) Get Xplosion onto Spike TV for a weekly hour long show to build up new talent. 8) Bring in Jeff Jarrett as the on screen GM. 9) Re-build the X-Division, Knockouts Division, and Tag-Team Division. 10) Capitalize on the popularity of Jeff Hardy and put him front and center at autograph signings, radio appearances, and as a focal point in magazine adverts. 11) Put into the contracts that TNA talent have to appear at x amount of house shows a year. That way guys like Sting will be at atleast 10-15 house shows a year to help put butts in the seats. 12) Start running smaller venues. No more WWE sized venues until numbers improve. Start running shows in ECW sized venues. 13) Move the company up north. If Impact isn't staying on the road then keeping it in a packed venue in New York or Philly ever week would do wonders. The crowd would look better on TV because there would be wrestling fans there and not Universal Studio tourists. 14) Actually make the TV title a championship for middle-card talent and not use it as a joke. 15) And finally, bring in top indie talents that fans know and bring in old talent that were released during the Hogan/Bischoff regime.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2013 4:55:43 GMT -5
1. Go Six Sided ring 2. Bring matches back like Elevation X and King of the Mountain 3. Get rid of TNA television title (never defended) 4. Sign for wrestlers for X Division 5. Sign new stars like R-Truth former NWA champion while at TNA:NWA, Christian, one of TNA's finest, Kevin Steen, most people know who he is and finally Tomko bring back the alliance.
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Post by Epic Z on Dec 23, 2013 14:26:04 GMT -5
1. Go back to TNA and get rid of "impact wrestling" 2. Go to the north east and have most shows in Philly. If they want a big arena they can go to the liacorus center if they want something smaller they can run the National guard armory or even the old ECW arena that re opens this Saturday. 3. Go back to the Six Sided ring 4. Bring back the old X division that we all knew and loved. 5. Bring in Paul Heyman
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Post by BoJack Hogan on Dec 28, 2013 21:57:16 GMT -5
The first thing to do would be to change the corporate philosophy immediately. I wouldn't even try to compete with WWE. There would not be a constant worry of guys jumping ship since the business is down and WWE has their own feeder system. Now, if the business made another upswing then I would have to re-evaluate all of this, but since its a down period I wouldn't be all that worried about the WWE at all. We know we can't compete. Sooo, what would I do?
1: Bring back AJ Styles, give him a good deal. He truly is TNA, and they bungled that so badly that now he is gone. If this is a storyline...it would be ingenious if anyone actually cared about TNA the way that people cared about WWE during the Summer of Punk. If this is not a storyline, this is easily the biggest mistake TNA has ever made and possibly the biggest mistake they could ever make. He connects the old fans to TNA and dazzles new fans with his athleticism. Without AJ, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if some of the fans that were there from day 1 got pissed and left. TAKE CARE OF AJ STYLES!!
2: Eliminate any people on the roster that prevent everyone from making a living wage. I remember a time when Taylor Wilde was KO's champ and working at a Sunglass Hut. If there is a belt on someone, I am going with them at least for awhile, so I will make sure they are at least making a living. MMAists, all fired. Taz, fired. Spud, fired. Anyone who I have to say "they are still employed?" will be fired. Hernandez, gone. I would fire EY for sure. Garrett, gone. Wes Brisco, gone. I would have actually tried to find a way to keep Hogan around as a once a month or once every few weeks special attraction if it was at all possible, but I am all but certain that he would never go for any deal I offered him. I would probably get rid of a larger portion of the roster than most as I would want to focus on a few select guys and keep them under contract. Keep a few of the lower guys around, but for the most part rotate low-cost guys in for quick paydays, especially if they aren't integral to any storylines or if I don't see a future in them. Anyone can win or lose a random match on a random week of television. No need to keep them under contract if they don't relate to the big picture.
3: Hire someone who really knows wrestling as a booker. I would hire Raven in a heartbeat. I would choose Heyman, but he is with WWE. I would choose Raven for now, maybe rotate the bookers after a 3-6 month period. Bring in Cornette after Raven's period, rotate someone else in after Cronette is burned out. Maintain positive relations with these guys, they know their $#!t. If Gary Hart were still alive I would have brought him in too. One guy, no writing team, one guy who knows wrestling. Eric Bischoff, Vince Russo, and Jerry Jarrett need not apply. Also, STOP COPYING THE WWE!!!!
4:Work on securing additional funding streams. Beyond that, find a way to secure more capital to pay talent. If I had to scale back on production, I would. The show doesn't have to look like Raw, nor should it. ECW was successful because they accentuated the positives and hid the negatives. Eliminate some of the frills. Selling advertising time or space would also be an option. Ideally I would choose companies that aren't just fly by night if possible. I would rather be attached to...say...I don't know...Ortega Taco Shells, or even local supermarkets rather than some fly by night car insurance company. I would have to look at the logistics, as I am not a businessman, but there are certainly options available. WWE sells the sizzle, I would sell the steak.
5:Fire Jakks, their figures are garbage and they don't sell.
Just kidding, although they aren't contributing anything at all. Seriously I would try to make the product look more legitimate. Eliminating some of the crazy fireworks and lights might help, but enough of those horrible Peeping Tom backstage segments. Interviews are given by a man in a suit, talk of competition, fewer in ring segments, try to prevent physical interaction between guys before their match, no more crazy heel authority figures. One person would serve as the authority figure. He never gets physically involved and never shows favoritism. Cornette would work. Title reigns would last considerably longer, I would try to make the big PPV Impacts take place on a different day or time like Clashes, an effort to make things more special. Yes, it sounds more like the 80's, but what we have today is like a circus.
None of this may work, I don't know, but these are the quick ideas that came to mind. Its what I would at least look into if I were in such a position.
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Post by Wato Stan Account on Dec 29, 2013 13:02:54 GMT -5
1. Keep it as Impact Wrestling and toss out TNA, that name was chosen for the double entendre and it's as stupid as it was when it started.
2. Hire a new office staff: including graphic/merchandising/web design, accountant, etc; but keep it simple and as small as possible. I'm still not sure how TNA's graphic department is so terrible, a good graphic designer is actually fairly easy to come by.
3. Slash the roster, find new and more interesting talent. Possibly make working deals with Mexican and Japanese companies to get their talent seen. I don't see the need for Sting, great in his time but not necessary to rebuild a company.
4. Cut production. It raises costs to have a giant stage with lights and all that. Make use of simple but effective lighting/projection to make the show work. You don't need massive light and video systems if you can't really afford them or they aren't necessary.
5. Hire a writer/booker who can find a good balance between entertainment and wrestling, Court Bauer or Dave Lagana come to mind. As much as I'd like to say "keep it on wrestling", I don't think until crowds are retrained into that will they care to watch.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2013 14:04:31 GMT -5
So the OP wants to take steps backward and run TNA as the glorified independent promotion that it once was?
I might post later my well thought out plans. Would need to set it out, first.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2013 16:58:39 GMT -5
Nothing too big from me.
1. Rebuild the Knockouts division.
2. Use the talent better. I wouldn't have some people not on for months, just because. I would want everyone to be doing something. Mr. Anderson is a pretty big star to not be on every week.
3. Push more original talent instead of Hardy & Angle.
4. Fix the commentators. I like Tenay and Taz, but their commentary does not build any excitement for the matches. They act like they know everything that's going to happen so they aren't surprised by it. I remember Tenay's response when we first heard Taz's music, he couldn't have cared less.
5. If money wasn't an issue, go live every week.
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Post by havoc7179 on Dec 29, 2013 23:20:33 GMT -5
1. Work with what you have. - Do you know what hurt WCW near the end? Lack of consistency. One week, we had Russo and Ferrera. Then, Russo. Then Russo and Bischoff. During some runs, the belts were vacated, awarded, or restarted. Restarts kill momentum. Keep going forward. Be consistent
2. Rebuild the X-Division... - As the X-Division. Not as the Cruiserweight Division. At some point in time, before Bischoff and Hogan, the X-Division became a spot fest. The peak X-Division saw classic matches between Daniels, Styles, Joe, and Lynn. When TGMTEL took the belt and held it for a year, there were bits and pieces of the X-Division returning as the matches told stories. They weren't about high spot after high spot. Make the X-Division the division where wrestling matters. We should see Malenko v. Mysterio Jr., Joe v. Daniels, Joe v. Aries, Joe v. Styles type of matches here. Not backyard wrestling high spot fests. Make it THE division. Elevate it beyond the world title.
3. Stop trying to be WWE - What helped WCW hold its on prior to the nWo days and Hogan days, was tag team wrestling. It set itself apart from WCW. Had a different style of wrestling. Every Indy wrestler who wants to come to WWE is told they have to change wrestling styles and adapt to WWE. Why not have your own style in TNA? How do you do that? Full on technical wrestling matches. The Cesaro/Regal match in the WWE board is getting a bunch of posts about people saying its a classic match. Fans are yearning for this style of wrestling. Do it on a regular basis. Have 2-5 minute promos. You want to be in sports entertainment? Well, I believe that means you need to showcase an actual sport, and not a 30 minute diatribe.
4. Make wins matter - Want to elevate your title? Make winning matter. Implement a Win/Loss system. A wrestler that routinely loses isn't going to be placed in a Feast or Fired match to then cash in on a title shot. Have someone who wrestled in one month with a 4-0 TV record, wrestle for the TV title. Have someone who has won every match in the past 3 months get the X-Division shot. Etc.
5. Don't stall on a push/Don't force a push - Ziggler, Bryan, and Fandango suffered from WWE not wanting to give the fans what they want. While you should not pander to the IWC or wrestling fans, don't deny them their opinions and support. If they go nuts over Sharkboy or Curryman or Rockstar Spud or Gunner, highlight them. Don't force things though. No one cared about Crimson's streak; so don't make it the main focus. If you have an unbeaten streak going, do something to make them less one dimensional. Have them with a gimmick to get over. Don't keep shoving the same thing if it isn't working. Let the lack of storyline develop and conclude, but also migrate them into a new story to try and get the story over.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2013 7:32:28 GMT -5
Well that'd be a waste of 50 cents
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Post by BulletV1 on Dec 30, 2013 8:19:47 GMT -5
I'd call Vince McMahon and try get him to buy the company at not take too big of a hit on it. So I could get off a sinking ship.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2013 14:17:38 GMT -5
Well that'd be a waste of 50 cents DID NOT SEE THAT JOKE COMING!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2013 21:38:28 GMT -5
Well that'd be a waste of 50 cents DID NOT SEE THAT JOKE COMING!
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Post by Nivro™ on Dec 30, 2013 21:44:33 GMT -5
1)Fire all the Indy schmucks 2)Hire what old codgers they dont already have 3)Leave Spike & join TV Land (with the rest of the old codgers) 4)Make it a 1hr Legends show a week that goes from town to town and wrestles in Armories. 5)Sign a figure contract with Hasbro & create a Legends line so people can complete their old WWF Hasbro line.
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Post by greenjack1992 on Dec 30, 2013 22:13:45 GMT -5
Great thread.
#1 - NEW IMAGE:
This would include scrapping the TNA moniker all together and just calling the company Impact Wrestling. Total Non-stop Action is a TERRIBLE name.
It would also include a change from Blue and Black (terribly corporate colours) back to Red and Black and the ring having six sides again.
It would also include the following changes to the roster:
FIRED: Abyss/Joe Park Jay Bradley Sam Shaw Garrett Bischoff Taz Mike Tenay
HIRED: Alex Shelley Charlie Haas Shelton Benjamin Generation Me / Young Bucks Beth Phoenix Mickie James Tara / Victoria Melina Alissa Flash Awesome Kong Daffney Doug Williams MVP / Antonio Banks Homicide Matt Sydal / Evan Bourne Joey Ryan Matt Morgan Sheikh Abdul Bashir / Davari Jay Lethal John Morrison Low-Ki / Senshi Michael Bennett Maria Paul London The Pope Petey Williams Shelton Benjamin Sonjay Dutt Chris Hero Monty Brown Ken Shamrock
Commentary team: Matt Striker & Raven (Raven would also be on the creative team).
The next part of the new image would be changing X-Plosion from a re-cap show, to a real second show (just as WWE has SmackDown!, so too would I have Xplosion). It would still only be an hour long, but would be shown at prime-time on a Saturday night to excite a family audience and draw them in as they flick through the channels during a family evening. Everything would then point them towards watching the full two hour show on Thursdays. Thursday night Impact would be live, Xplosion would be taped. Matches would be booked for Xplosion on Impact and the two shows would follow on from each other to encourage you to watch both (so, instead of seeing Bobby Roode vs Kurt Angle next week on Impact, they're challenging each other for a match on Xplosion). Titles would be defended and change hands on there like it would on Impact or PPV, it would be just like SmackDown! used to be when it was relevant.
The final part of that image change would be new title belts:
IW Heavyweight Championship IW X Division Championship IW Television Championship - To be defended every week on Impact and Xplosion as the no.2 championship for heavyweights, it may not be contested on PPV. IW Knockouts Championship IW Tag Team Championship
All the belts would have brand new designs with "Impact Wrestling" on them, instead of TNA.
#2 - ADVERTISING
WWE has their champion or a representative on a radio station or television show every day of the year, I'd be doing the same with my IW talent. Morning til evening, there should be an IW presence on TV and radio as well as in magazine and other broadcast media.
I'd dip into my endless supply of fantasy money and buy space on every major television network in America and Europe to advertise my company "Impact Wrestling - For when you think you've seen it all" and have energetic X Division action blasting through the ad with a smoking hot knockout popping up with the key info every now and then.
Then it would be a case of billboards and posters EVERYWHERE when there's something coming up. I remember my school bus (and I'm in a very small town in England) driving past telephone boxes with posters covering the entire door, huge billboards even on smaller roads and smaller posters outside public buildings advertising WM 25, it was EVERYWHERE! And I'm talking about a completely inconsequential part of the world where the population is absolutely tiny. I'd be doing the same with my show.
#3 - FOCUS ON BEING IMPACT WRESTLING, NOT AN ALTERNATIVE TO WWE
For me, when TNA was just concentrating on being the best TNA it could be and not trying to compete with WWE, it was incredible. The second it tried to be the #2 wrestling company in America, it turned into a mess.
My focus would be on publicly ignoring the other companies. Impact Wrestling only cares about Impact Wrestling as far as everyone should be concerned and we should only be looking at last week's show and wondering how we can top it this week, maintain consistency and respect our fans by giving them what they want on their screens and at live shows.
The only time our work should be compared with WWE is when we're looking for the gap WWE is leaving in the market in terms of stories/concepts and filling those gaps with our product.
#4 - PLAN EVERYTHING WELL AHEAD OF TIME AND BEND THOSE PLANS ACCORDING TO DEVELOPING EVENTS
Too much of TNA (and WWE) programming is planned as it goes, and it makes the whole thing a total mess. I want my team to put everything together six months in advance and know where everything's going to finish before it starts. There is a whole load of space to play around with stuff according to what's happening on stage and how it's going over with the audience, but I want there to be a provisional plan in place for everything well ahead of time.
#5 - TALENT ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR HELPING WITH THEIR CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
The 90s was the way it was because wrestlers were able to come out and try stuff on camera and see where their characters developed as they meandered from storyline to storyline and the wrestlers were responsible for making that happen. The only current example of someone who has really developed their character and brought it to life is Bray Wyatt, who you can tell has had serious input into his gimmick.
As a result, there will be a roster of incredibly diverse and vibrant characters, and every match will have a story to it even if it's just a random match to open Impact.
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Post by Escape The Rules on Dec 31, 2013 2:21:46 GMT -5
I'd crack under pressure & give it back to Dixie. that.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2014 18:19:47 GMT -5
I would hire JACK EVANS!!, bring back AMW, make the x division a bigger deal with a lot of ultimate x matches with talented superstars (jack evans), bring back raven, and bring back bloody brutal matches including king of the mountain
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Post by Brad on Jan 7, 2014 19:25:33 GMT -5
Get rid of Taz & Tenay. Hire Matt Striker. Commentary needs a younger feel to it. Good god yes. Can I help fund your purchase? I got a dolla I can throw on it.
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Post by That 80s Guy on Jan 8, 2014 16:37:35 GMT -5
I would hire JACK EVANS!!, bring back AMW, make the x division a bigger deal with a lot of ultimate x matches with talented superstars (jack evans), bring back raven, and bring back bloody brutal matches including king of the mountain -- AMW wouldn't happen, as Chris Harris is dealing with cancer I believe. Unless he made an appearance to acknowlege a new AMW member to work with Storm. And I don't think Raven could go full time any longer. He would be a much better asset to the company (ANY company, really!), is if he were on the creative team. I will praise Raven's outlook on psychology in wrestling, up and down all day!!
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Post by He Hate Me on Jan 8, 2014 17:15:18 GMT -5
I would completely replicate early 90s WWF with new wrestlers without violating any copyright infringement and hope that Vince buys me out.
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Jan 8, 2014 17:52:41 GMT -5
Hire Jim Cornette, Kevin Sullivan, Raven, Paul Heyman, Bill Watts & Dutch Mantel as bookers. Get rid of the Joseph Park character. Do more shows on the road. Hire a production crew that can make the live shows look great on TV. Get rid of those stupid turkey costumes and any footage of Jesse Neal. Try to have a working agreement with other promotions & exchange talent.
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