TNA Creative Member Possibly Gone

[Perigryn]

Ed Ferrara given his walking papers if this is to be believed:

Sources within Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA Entertainment) have told The Sports Courier that creative team member and head writer Vince Russo's right-hand man Ed Ferrara has been relieved of his duties.

It is believed that Ferrara was fired as early as last week. Ferrara, along with the always-controversial Russo, have been constantly criticized for their lack of character development and pure wrestling knowledge when it comes to booking the TNA product, in conjunction with their past failures in World Championship Wrestling's (WCW) dying days.

Sources say Ferrara was told to keep quiet and given a severance package upon his exit.

Source: thesportscourier.com/content/tsc-exclusive-major-shakeup-tna-creative

[Celgress]

It should have been Russo! It should have been Russo!


But seriously aren't "TNA Creative Team" & "TNA Creative Member" oxymoronic statements.

[Trent Valentine]

[Dynamite Kid]

Jun 30, 2010 11:40:43 GMT -5 Celgress said:

But seriously aren't "TNA Creative Team" & "TNA Creative Member" oxymoronic statements.

Not really fair. Would make more sense with WWE. TNA's guys are certainly creative, they're just idiots.

[AriadosMan]

www.youtube.com/watch#!v=eKGW2vRqjcU&feature=related

[Deleted]

Tenay/West High five in 5...4...3...2...1

[Lair of the Shadow MaDaBa]

[comahan]

I actually really like Ferrara after watching a shoot interview of his. Doesnt seem to think like Russo at all.

[MrBRulzOK]

One down, one to go!

[wcw]

Well anything associated with Russo I don't like so I guess this is a good thing. I have never been a fan of this guy at all. So good riddance lets hope Russo is next on the chopping block.

[SAJ Forth]

As long as Russo's still out there, my mission is not done. I must continue.

[AriadosMan]

Jun 30, 2010 14:12:07 GMT -5 SAJ Forth said:

As long as Russo's still out there, my mission is not done. I must continue.

Screw Russo, Bischoff and Hogan are the ultimate targets.

[Deleted]

Jun 30, 2010 12:20:50 GMT -5 Dynamite Kid said:

Jun 30, 2010 11:40:43 GMT -5 Celgress said:

But seriously aren't "TNA Creative Team" & "TNA Creative Member" oxymoronic statements.

Not really fair. Would make more sense with WWE. TNA's guys are certainly creative, they're just idiots.

Not to mention, they're certainly both "members".

[wcw]

Jun 30, 2010 14:30:07 GMT -5 AriadosMan said:

Jun 30, 2010 14:12:07 GMT -5 SAJ Forth said:

As long as Russo's still out there, my mission is not done. I must continue.

Screw Russo, Bischoff and Hogan are the ultimate targets.

Sorry but Russo is far more damaging to TNA then Hogan and Bischoff. Yeah they had a horrible stint from January to early April but they product has gone back to what it was quality wise from before they got there (Which is mediocre but could be so much more).

I think that other then a few generalities of certain angles and their characters Hogan and Bischoff have little to do with the booking. Russo has buried TNA far worse then anyone else and I for one am glad that his right hand man is gone.

Would I like to see Hogan and Bischoff gone? No but if they left I wouldn't be sad at all. Hogan seems harmless as far as on-screen goes and all his buddies got their runs and are now gone. Bischoff on-screen seems OK and the higher quality of production seems to help the product.

I think that if you gave Hogan and Bischoff a good writing staff and gave them only minimal input they could be useful.

[chipsgravy]

Didn't Dixie recently say that if she heard one more chant of "fire Russo", she would fire someone else on the creative team. Own up. Who started the chant?

[sabu]

Jun 30, 2010 13:38:28 GMT -5 MrBRulzOK said:

One down, one to go!

exactly.
Is this part of the "big surprise?"

Is a new creative direction far behind?

[Orange]

Here's something that confuses me. A lot of people think that TNA pre-Hogan was better than the current product, and, correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Russo have A LOT of say pre-Hogan? Everybody always calls for Russo's head, but they support him at the same time. As I said I could be wrong, but I think I remember hearing that Russo had a big creative say last year

[wcw]

Jun 30, 2010 15:03:19 GMT -5 Orange said:

Here's something that confuses me. A lot of people think that TNA pre-Hogan was better than the current product, and, correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Russo have A LOT of say pre-Hogan? Everybody always calls for Russo's head, but they support him at the same time. As I said I could be wrong, but I think I remember hearing that Russo had a big creative say last year

That's the thing though TNA now is about the same level it was before Hogan got there. People just use the oh it was so much better in 2009 stick just to shit on Hogan not realizing for most of 2009 TNA was dominated by the stale Main Event Mafia and towards the end of 2009 the booking was just as mediocre as it is now.

Bottom line even if the end of 2009 was much better then it is now I would like to point out that for all of 2010 Russo has been the head of creative with Bischoff and Hogan only making minimal changes to the process. So in that case Russo still sucks.

Fire Russo seriously its been 3 and a half years and you can't tell that this dude sucks?

[AriadosMan]

Post MEM was vastly superior to now. The lack of Hogan, deliberate underpushing of Abyss (plenty of us don't want to see him pushed period), the Conspiracy Gang, and Desmond at least looking like he'd get a push were better than what's going on now.

[Orange]

Jun 30, 2010 15:12:24 GMT -5 @wcw said:

Jun 30, 2010 15:03:19 GMT -5 Orange said:

Here's something that confuses me. A lot of people think that TNA pre-Hogan was better than the current product, and, correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Russo have A LOT of say pre-Hogan? Everybody always calls for Russo's head, but they support him at the same time. As I said I could be wrong, but I think I remember hearing that Russo had a big creative say last year

That's the thing though TNA now is about the same level it was before Hogan got there. People just use the oh it was so much better in 2009 stick just to s*** on Hogan not realizing for most of 2009 TNA was dominated by the stale Main Event Mafia and towards the end of 2009 the booking was just as mediocre as it is now.

Bottom line even if the end of 2009 was much better then it is now I would like to point out that for all of 2010 Russo has been the head of creative with Bischoff and Hogan only making minimal changes to the process. So in that case Russo still sucks.

Fire Russo seriously its been 3 and a half years and you can't tell that this dude sucks?

No no, I didn't hardly like TNA in '09 at all, but IMO Russo gets a lot more crap than he should. I'm enjoying TNA a lot more right now but it's not perfect. I thought that Russo didn't have that much say now and people were still calling for his head.