What is TNA's nWo angle ?

[Tea & Crumpets]

They need to emphasize their original stars more.

What I'd do is what I thought they were gonna do/were doing when Hogan come in. Have Hogan appear all nice and fan friendly, but he's actually just using his position to get his buddies in and hog the spotlight. Have the veterans win a few matches but always through dodfgy means- cheating, referee bias, etc. (Not run ins, don't make the alliance obvious straight away). The TNA guys start complaining to Hogan and Bisch about their treatment, Hogan says he'll take it on board.

Build to a Triple Threat at some PPV, AJ (Perhaps with Ric, but not as a heel ripoff, have Ric act simply as his hype guy like with HHH), vs someone like Pope, vs 1 of the new vets for the TNA Title. Pope pins the vet, but Hogan comes out and states it was a fast count & the ref is obviously biased. Hogan names a new ref, in the end AJ retains. Pope gets a rematch next PPV and wins. But while this is going on you then spill that Hogan's just trying to make TNA his playground, AJ could go tweener with people questioning whether Ric is in on it with Hogan.

I'd actually have Bischoff as a face, who is sincerely out to put on a good product, but the faces don't trust him. You then get 3 camps- the TNA Originals, headed by Pope, Joe, Daniels, MCMGs etc., the TNA Neutrals made up of guys not well trusted, like AJ, Bischoff, Team 3D, and Hogans' crew, made up of Hogan, Nash, Hall, Waltman, etc.

Woudl blur the lines and if booked right produce good TV. The Originals would go over in the end, with some Neutrals siding with TNA (Aj amongst them), some Neutrals going for Hogan.

[Glitch]

Apr 3, 2010 22:54:22 GMT -5 Dave at the Movies said:

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.

It would be quite funny if cena went to tna after he becomes very stale in the wwe, and turns heel like hogan did.

[Bravo Echo November]

To get that kind of angle started you have to play up on facts that casual AND smart wrestling fans know are true. Like the nWo, it played on the fact that the WWF and WCW hated each other. The only problem is that their aren't any (that I know of) facts to really go off of and use as a catalyst for an angle.

[@TenaciousBe]

I still contend that the problem doesn't lie in wrestling itself, it's in our society. In the mid-late 90's, Gen-X was starting to die down but it was still hip and cool to be all counter-culture and anti-establishment. That kind of mindset has run its course, and nowadays, anyone acting that way just seems contrived and overdone. There is no big controversy anymore. 2010 doesn't have its own Marilyn Manson or Howard Stern to kick around anymore (I realize they're both still alive and kicking, but neither are at the forefront of the entertainment world like they were back then). Who do we have today, Lady Gaga? She's about the only real "controversial" character anymore, that I can think of, and that's only because she's batshit crazy with her wardrobe.

What do we have today? A struggling economy, a President that everyone loved a year ago and rags on today, and Web 2.0 ensuring that even the most boring people in the world can become overnight internet celebrities thanks to twitter, facebook, foursquare, tumblr, etc. TNA's been active in that Web movement, online shows on youtube, JB updating twitter and facebook 17 times a day, but they're still no "you're not a single lady" or "keyboard cat" or any of those things that take the net by storm for 2 weeks and disappear.

That, in itself, is another factor working against pro wrestling -- everything today, compared to 10 years ago, is more "instant gratification." If it happened yesterday, it's old news. If TNA actually were to find their diamond in the rough, and found something to spark interest, they'd have to find a way to sustain that interest for an entire week to ensure that people would tune back in a week later.

That, or they need to convince the network that the old TV ratings systems have become out of date with the advent of people watching online through live streams, Spike.com on demand, uploads to youtube, etc. I'm sure WWE has their share of online presence, but TNA is specifically shooting for that male 18-34 demo -- the same demo that, I would imagine, is the most plugged in to that tech sector.

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They do need an nWo type in angle in a way.

The nWo angle really helped define WCW as a company. It created a specific idenity for them.

If TNA could bring in some kind of story that would have a company wide effect and define the landscape of TNA, it could really make TNA.

[JMA]

I'd like to see an ROH invasion. There's enough real-life tension to make the fans believe and I think ROH is big enough now to at least be known to most of TNA's fanbase.