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Post by arthuradams2002 on Apr 3, 2010 0:41:08 GMT -5
Even after Nitro was introduce, WCW never skyrocket until they introduced the nWo angle. If you can recall, before that Hulk fighting off the Dungeon of Doom. Then you had Ric Flair spending Liz's divorce money. Though WCW gained a Monday Night spot, they never kicked ass in the ratings until after the nWo took off. Does TNA need an "nWo angle ?" When I say "nWo angle. I am referring to being able to come up with one fresh, defining storyline that will revolutionize pro wrestling.
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Post by barley96 on Apr 3, 2010 0:50:39 GMT -5
I think they do. Right now TNA is not doing anything totally fresh. I know this has been constantly said, but fire Vince Russo. He has enough trouble booking a coherent show let alone have the ability to book something revolutionary.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2010 1:06:48 GMT -5
If the TNA originals actually looked like a threat during it, the Main Event Mafia angle could've been the one. On paper, it made so much sense: why not have the vets come together to make a super stable that won through experience and bending the rules? Why not have an upstart team of, say, A.J., Joe, Daniels, and Black Machismo go up against them and get a star making rub? Why not have it push the envelope?
But it fell apart and became the New Blood vs. Millionaire Club 2.0.
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Post by Rorschach on Apr 3, 2010 1:33:02 GMT -5
If the TNA originals actually looked like a threat during it, the Main Event Mafia angle could've been the one. On paper, it made so much sense: why not have the vets come together to make a super stable that won through experience and bending the rules? Why not have an upstart team of, say, A.J., Joe, Daniels, and Black Machismo go up against them and get a star making rub? Why not have it push the envelope? But it fell apart and became the New Blood vs. Millionaire Club 2.0. One look at the people involved should tell you why that is. At any rate....I don't honestly know if a company like TNA is capable of pulling off an "nWo" angle to be honest. They can always do an angle to get their fans buzzing...but the nWo rocked the entire sport of pro wrestling. At this rate, the only way TNA is going to have an nWo angle....is to replicate the nWo angle. Do something so shocking, so surprising and so absolutely astonishing that the entire fanbase sits up as one and goes "Holy S***!!!" My suggestion? Move back to Thursdays for a while. Maybe for a full year. Rebuild. Rebrand. Let Hogan's contract run out. Then start making intimations about a legit company overhaul. Maybe start some rumblings about round 2 vs. RAW. Once you've got YOUR stars built up....once you've got YOUR people established....make the move. Kick off the new era of iMPACT on Monday Nights with a new name (iMPACT Championship Wrestling or something like that) and a thunderclap of a moment: The new show opens with TNA's "new owner" on camera...... Shane McMahon. He's got the bill of sale for TNA in one hand....and Hulk Hogan, Bischoff, and Bubba the Love Sponge's pink slips in the other. THAT would be the kind of thing that TNA would need for the genesis of their own "nWo" moment.
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Post by GaTechGrad on Apr 3, 2010 3:03:52 GMT -5
Shane McMahon is one of the few people who would make me stop watching TNA for good.
The next logical step is for them is to get out of the Impact Zone and take the show on the road. I'm thinking that their current tour is allowing them to measure where they will be able to best attract crowds for a live television show.
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Post by Bram wants to 'urt you on Apr 3, 2010 3:30:48 GMT -5
I actually think that the sacking of Bischoff, Hogan et al could do it, with a but. They'd need to replace them with someone else, someone totally unrelated to wrestling but well known in the business/entertainment field. Someone who would legitimately create interest by simple virtue of being completely unexpected to be part of a wrestling promotion. Someone like (and before the incredulous looks start, I'm not saying actually use him, but someone in a similar vein) Simon Cowell. Someone who is known for trimming the fat, sifting the chaff from the wheat and then making the wheat look like a million dollars. I honestly don't think there's a single wrestler or group of wrestlers that could make the ordinary man on the street as well as the established and even casual wrestling fan sit up and take notice anymore. The only reason that the nWo garnered such publicity imo was because of Hogan, a man who at the time was still thought of as being synonymous with "wrestling". Vince McMahon got burnt by Hogan. He learned his lesson and since Hogan's time has been very careful to ensure that he never built his promotion completely behind one individual as he did with Hogan. The upshot being that if you ask a random person "Who do you think personifies 'wrestling'?" you're likely to get an answer from a pool of several, rather than any one specific individual. Having an authority figure whose stance is "I may not know wrestling, but I know what's entertaining" and then having the bookers/writers script the shows utilising the wrestlers that the fans actually want to see, rather than the people that they feel deserve a push all the time, could make for a really successful product. Ramble over
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Post by AriadosMan on Apr 3, 2010 3:35:30 GMT -5
It doesn't have one, which is why it is where it is.
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Post by arthuradams2002 on Apr 3, 2010 4:29:31 GMT -5
What if TNA held a Pay Per View in Madison Sqaure Garden. That would be huge. There has never been another wrestling promotion that has broadcasted from the Garden.
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Post by xxshoyuweeniexx on Apr 3, 2010 12:04:36 GMT -5
They need a major angle that skyrockets them into the stratosphere.
I have no idea what that angle is, but you need a very big and current name to pull it off with brillant writing behind it. Does TNA have any of that right now?
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Post by kropotkin on Apr 3, 2010 15:03:18 GMT -5
They need to do something completely tasteless that makes everyone take notice. The racist Beer Money angle, some type of disturbing surprise secks angle, charging money in the impact zone, legit devil worshiping and animal sacrificing inring, Orlando Jordan putting young men's hands down his trunks while eating yogurt, Hulk Hogan on air heart attack, saying they are owned by WWE, real time inring abortion, full frontal nudity, N Words and F bombs a plenty. I'm sure at least one of these will work and if they still end up with a rating less than 1.0 than that truly means that TNA is tainted. I'll take one of each.
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Post by cabbageboy on Apr 3, 2010 15:57:35 GMT -5
Sadly, TNA's answer to the NWO is basically to get the same guys and bring them in to do a variation on the NWO. The problem is guys like Hogan, Bischoff, Hall, and Nash are old and washed up now and no one cares.
Why exactly does TNA have to hit the stratosphere anyway? Can't they just be a solid #2 promotion that produces solid wrestling? Are they hell bent on challenging WWE and being put out of business?
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Post by MysteryPartner on Apr 3, 2010 19:15:41 GMT -5
3 words, MILLION. DOLLAR. MANIA!
Honestly though, I think they had a big opportunity with RVD vs Sting if they booked it right, but that took about 5 sec to turn from Dream match to a Russo turd.
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Post by wcw on Apr 3, 2010 21:10:06 GMT -5
If the TNA originals actually looked like a threat during it, the Main Event Mafia angle could've been the one. On paper, it made so much sense: why not have the vets come together to make a super stable that won through experience and bending the rules? Why not have an upstart team of, say, A.J., Joe, Daniels, and Black Machismo go up against them and get a star making rub? Why not have it push the envelope? But it fell apart and became the New Blood vs. Millionaire Club 2.0. The Main Event Mafia angle was a great beginning to an angle. It was a natural angle and theme to TNA the old WWE/WCW guys vs the TNA originals. And it looked like thats what they were going for. But the whole angle should have been about the war between the Frontline and the MEM but it just ended up being about the MEM and the MEM went on for way too long as well. The MEM was just another Russo faction war that went on way too long and lost sight of the great natural build they had. Joe, AJ, and Daniels should have been the believable rivals of the Front line while Jay Lethal, Shelly, and Sabin all the breakout stars that rose to the challenge. Yet it all went for not because Vince Russo can't book a show in the new millennium.
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Post by Vampiro138 on Apr 3, 2010 21:17:31 GMT -5
just do what they did on south park.
or how about, they just work on building up there home grown talent.....joe should be a friggin monster who could kill anybody in a second if they just looked at him funny...and instead he gets kidnapped. they have daniels that just kinda floats around the roster and should really be a world champion, i think a good rocky type storyline with him would work...only if joe is the world champ would it work though. and make it a year chase....everytime they meet joe basically always kinda laughs him off...they finally brawl and joe cheats to beat him...and then joe continues to avoid daniels, which would cause him to cut a "joe is afraid of me" promo that only chris could cut. people would tune in to see when this monster will get his ass handed to him. and they would know that daniels would be the man to do it. and then have them finally have there match at bound for glory where they wrestle for say 45 min. where daniels finally beats him. i think if done right...that story would be huge, basically rocky vs drago only without the carl weathers death...
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Post by Dave at the Movies on Apr 3, 2010 22:54:22 GMT -5
They would have to get some really really big names from WWE to do what WCW did in 1996. Hardy is a good start but I think a lot of people expected it.
The only ones I could see making a huge impact by going to TNA(they way Hall and Nash went to WCW) is Randy Orton or John Cena.
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Post by Rorschach on Apr 3, 2010 23:02:09 GMT -5
They would have to get some really really big names from WWE to do what WCW did in 1996. Hardy is a good start but I think a lot of people expected it. The only ones I could see making a huge impact by going to TNA(they way Hall and Nash went to WCW) is Randy Orton or John Cena. Or go outside of wrestling and get (through some miracle or another) Brock Lesnar or Tito Ortiz to sign on. That might....MIGHT get some legit outside interest from people who wouldn't normally watch. *shrug*
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Post by GaTechGrad on Apr 3, 2010 23:24:29 GMT -5
They should bring in Tiger Woods and pair him up with a heel. He's pretty much the equivalent of Dennis Rodman back in the 90's, who gave the nWo a huge boost when he joined and appeared on Nitro.
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Post by Rorschach on Apr 4, 2010 2:44:04 GMT -5
They should bring in Tiger Woods and pair him up with a heel. He's pretty much the equivalent of Dennis Rodman back in the 90's, who gave the nWo a huge boost when he joined and appeared on Nitro. Why am I having visions of a Tiger lookalike showing up on the next iMPACT? I could just SEE them doing a skit with him and TBP or Angelina. "Tiger" gets busted by JB while he's "sexting" Velvet Sky. FEEL THE COMEDY!!! ;D
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Post by Kris Kobain on Apr 4, 2010 3:13:05 GMT -5
It was stone cold shark boy but they jumped the shark on it
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Post by hajimenoippo on Apr 4, 2010 5:37:00 GMT -5
The MEM was awesome, then they give aj the belt and dissolve their hottest Stable with no fanfair blah
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