How TNA can beat WWE in 3 easy steps

[reginaldpantsworth]

1. Break up the stupid "Kongterage". It's ridiculous that Awesome Kong, who is supposedly the most physically dominant woman's wrestler in the world, needs three friggin people to back her up. Hulk Hogan didn't need a posse, and he doesn't even have hair. Awesome Kong shouldn't need a crew that consists of half the knockouts division to back her up against such challengers as Taylor Wilde, ODB, Roxxi, and... uh.. yeah.

2. Fire Mike Tenay. His commentating abilities are average at best, and his reverse combover thing pisses me off. Plus he always looks like he just gave oral to Lemon Man, the most sour man of the 21st century.

3. Put Raisha Saeed on commentary with Don "Don't call me Don" West. Call them WestSaeed and have them talk like they're from the ghetto. They could constantly issue challenges to east coast rappers instead of commentating on the matches, which we all know are second to the antics of the announcers.

[Krimzon]

I've got a more realistic way:

1. Get magic lamp.
2. Rub magic lamp.
3. Ask for genie to grant 3 wishes, one being beating the WWE.

[estrada]

Breaking up the Kongterage will help TNA beat WWE? Suuuure.

[Z-A Sandbaggin' Son of a b!%@h]

Jan 17, 2009 21:10:59 GMT -5 reginaldpantsworth said:

1. Break up the stupid "Kongterage". It's ridiculous that Awesome Kong, who is supposedly the most physically dominant woman's wrestler in the world, needs three friggin people to back her up. Hulk Hogan didn't need a posse, and he doesn't even have hair. Awesome Kong shouldn't need a crew that consists of half the knockouts division to back her up against such challengers as Taylor Wilde, ODB, Roxxi, and... uh.. yeah.

2. Fire Mike Tenay. His commentating abilities are average at best, and his reverse combover thing pisses me off. Plus he always looks like he just gave oral to Lemon Man, the most sour man of the 21st century.

3. Put Raisha Saeed on commentary with Don "Don't call me Don" West. Call them WestSaeed and have them talk like they're from the ghetto. They could constantly issue challenges to east coast rappers instead of commentating on the matches, which we all know are second to the antics of the announcers.

Number 3 may be the greatest Idea I've hever heard... just get it tied in somehow with that Notorious BIG movie and it's a liscense to print money!

[Sir Woodrow]

1.Come up with idea to beat WWE.

2. ?

3. WWE beaten.

[Deleted]

I could see Kong having an entourage. The best athletes in the world, the biggest recording artists, all have legions of suck-ups attending to all their needs. Better to rent Kong's cars and arrange her plane rides than having her backfist you to death. It doesn't make Kong, IMO, look weaker, so much as show that all these heel knockouts are cowardly and latch on to Kong like remora fish latch on to a killer shark.

[Robbymac]

For a serious answer, the only way TNA will ever beat WWE will be for WWE to become huge again.

Sounds weird huh? Here's why...

WWE's big boom from 98-01 came in large part due to an increased viewership in their opposition WCW. With all the eyes on wrestling, people kept tabs on WWF as well. Once WCW's product started wain, WWF's was rising and therefore those eyes who were sort of watching WWF were now settled on WWF

If WWE's viewership booms again then the increased exposure to wrestling will get eyes on TNA as well. If around the time people get disenchanted with WWE again TNA is an improved product then TNA's viewership could pass WWE.

Its a long shot, but thats the only realistic scenario I could see it happening.

[Deleted]

Sounds about right, RobbyMac.

[GaTechGrad]

I'm not sure what the answer is, but I think it has something to do with blowing up Titan Towers... hey, it worked for WWE to get rid of that pesky WCW

[bob]

1 TNA gets a better time slot
2 get better creative team
2 replace the always yelling announcers

[Timmy8271]

Better time slot? Isn't that what TNA fans said when they are at 10 pm or 11 pm?

And TNA can beat WWE with three words: Hot Lesbian Action. They got Velvet Sky right there.

[Agent P]

If number 3 happened I would watch every week, travel to every pay per view, while still buying them and then buy the DVDs

[bretclark]

Jan 17, 2009 21:10:59 GMT -5 reginaldpantsworth said:

1. Break up the stupid "Kongterage". It's ridiculous that Awesome Kong, who is supposedly the most physically dominant woman's wrestler in the world, needs three friggin people to back her up. Hulk Hogan didn't need a posse, and he doesn't even have hair. Awesome Kong shouldn't need a crew that consists of half the knockouts division to back her up against such challengers as Taylor Wilde, ODB, Roxxi, and... uh.. yeah.

2. Fire Mike Tenay. His commentating abilities are average at best, and his reverse combover thing pisses me off. Plus he always looks like he just gave oral to Lemon Man, the most sour man of the 21st century.

3. Put Raisha Saeed on commentary with Don "Don't call me Don" West. Call them WestSaeed and have them talk like they're from the ghetto. They could constantly issue challenges to east coast rappers instead of commentating on the matches, which we all know are second to the antics of the announcers.

Idea number 3 was already done by a promotion called the Urban Wrestling Federation, they aired at around 3AM Saturday or Sunday night on the channel formerly known as UPN, and it was just rap/hip hop culture answer to the WWF Attitude era, and man did it suck. Here's 3 ideas that will definitely help TNA though in my opinion:

1. Start putting some dynamic storylines that will actually make people watch instead of the dried turkey sandwich being offered, nobody likes dried turkey sandwiches.

2. Get better commentators like Kris Kloss and Larry Rivera, one of the few things XPW got right was this commentating team.

3. Allow wrestlers to be an extension of themselves which gives them a natural personality. Like someone said before (I believe Jim Cornette) the best characters are the ones who are being themselves, but on volume "11".

- bretclark

[chairshotshurthead]

1. Collect Underpants.
2.
3. Profit.

[Deleted]

Jan 17, 2009 22:47:22 GMT -5 bob said:

1 TNA gets a better time slot
2 get better creative team
2 replace the always yelling announcers

The problem isn't necessarily the volume, it's how scripted it sounds.

Let's say Don West has a sentence he is about to say that's coming from his brain, about the beating AJ Styles is taking. West will get about 10% through the sentence ("And AJ Styles just ..")

BAM! The Pele! Naturally, it's out of nowhere.

Don West will hammer out the WHOLE rest of the sentence at light speed, then talk about the Pele out of nowhere, but by the time he brings it up, AJ is posing with his arms outstretched, hopping on one foot as he is wont to do, etc.

Mike Tenay is the same way. By the time he says "But so-and-so turns..", So-And-So has reversed the move, hit it, and is following up with a pin. Then, by the time Tenay has started counting out the count ("1.."), the other guy has already kicked out for a second.

It reminds me of lyrics of an old Benny Hill song:

"She talks so slow, one evening when
she went out with her boss,
before she could say 'I'm not that kind
of a girl,' she was."

Anyways. The commentary need to start, immediately, being willing to let an idea drop from their mind. At the risk of harping on my love of Pro Wrestling's Greatest Announcing Team EVAR, look at all the times Heenan would start in with a gag, and Monsoon would immediately fire out with the action that's come from a big reversal.. Heenan would put the gag back in the cooler and bring it up at a more opportune time.

It would go an immense way to making the commentary look more 'real' and less scripted. The idea behind good "plausibly live" commentary is that you have to believe the commentators are just as 'winging it' as you are.

That, and god forbid, if there's 2 seconds of no one talking, it's quite okay

[Bram wants to 'urt you]

Jan 17, 2009 22:18:48 GMT -5 Sir Woodrow said:

1.Come up with idea to beat WWE.

2. ?

3. WWE beaten.

#2 should read "Implement idea from #1".

Now GO TNA. Go like the wind.

[brettappedout (BLM)]

In my opinion it's really simple. It would still take time but, they would get there.

1.) Get a new creative team (PAUL HEYMAN!)
2.) Push your young talent & get rid of most older talent or replace older talent with older talen that will put people over. Young In (Joe, Styles, Daniels, Lethal w/o Macho man, Williams, etc..), Old Out (Nash, Steiner, Sting (retired), Kip James), Older/New In ( RVD, Lashley, Elijah Burke, Kevin Thorn, Lance Cade)
3. 4 sided ring

[TromboneMan]

WestSaeed might be the greatest idea I have ever heard.

That is all.

[Marksus]

Bring in and push Elijah Burke, it's the time of change in America and Elijah could capture a part of that feeling $$$.

[Nr1Humanoid]

1 Stop being WCW.
2 Stop trying to be/ compete with WWE.
2 Just be TNA, an alternative.