Where Does 2014 Rank for TNA?

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Is it the very worst? If not then where does it fall among the years TNA has around, 2002-2014?

Also, bonus question will 2015 be better or worse?

[El Cokehead del Knife Fight]

Probably second worst in their spike years after 2010. I can't see next year being worse than it but I'm not seeing any real improvement either.

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The Pits

[lionheart21]

I can't even see much of a next year for TNA.

[Mayonnaise]

Well let's see:
Most of their homegrown talent left without a second though.
They lost the ability to travel (late 2013) and had to move to the little kids room at Universal Studios and lost that as well.
Their big free agent signing and hometown draw for Lockdown 2014 screws up his knee on a non-TNA Euro tour 2 or 3 weeks before the show. TNA is taped up and cannot/will not acknowledge this.
Their secret deal with Vince Russo to write shows and produce the announcers (while common knowledge) was made public when Vince Russo cc'd Mike Johnson a TV script. He then went on to lie about everything and cause TNA to reveal the truth and order him to apologize before firing him.
The above helped infuriate SpikeTV.
Spike agrees to move them to Wednesday to help TNA since WWE was moving Smackdown to Thursdays. About 500,000 people don't cross the line.
Dixie, in order to impress SpikeTV and get a new TV deal with them takes part in a storyline ending with her being put through a table via top rope power bomb. TNA then spoiled it the week prior to air by showing the whole thing in a teaser video.
Dixie took that bump to her credit but broke her back.
Spike still did not renew them.
They limped along with nothing new after the first of Nov.
In late Nov. they finally sign a TV deal with Destination America, however the above means they had no way to tell the vast majority of their audience they were moving to a new channel, a new channel with half the reach of Spike and far less money.



So how was 2014 for TNA? They were begging for Morphoplex to return and save them.

[Deleted]

Worse than 2010.

[Emmet Russell]

In-ring wise, they had a lot of great highlights. Most of them involving Lashley, which if you'd told me that Lashley would be the highlight of TNA TV in 2014 last year I would have punched you for having such an idiotic mindset. He was great.

Business wise I feel it was their very worst, outside of the first year of their existence when they almost went out of business.

[JoDaNa1281]

I thought it was better than last year, 2010 & 2011. In-ring wise, it was fine, for the most part, but it was the offscreen stuff that drags it down.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

Among all the other business blunders, them losing AJ Styles at the end of last year, and the subsequent departures of Chris Sabin and Bad Influence were huge blows to the overall talent depth of the roster. Even though they still have some good talents on the roster, looking at TNA as whole, I see a very shallow talent pool, and some talents with some skill-sets that just aren't contributing much to the overall picture.

[kingoftheindies]

Mostly bad with a few gems here and there

[Reflecto]

On a scale of 1 to 10...the video of a monkey drinking its own pee.

[A Platypus Rave]

one of the worst if not the worst years TNA has had.

as for 2015 if there is one thing I've learned from TNA it's that it could ALWAYS be worse.

[Deleted]

Yeah, this is a contender to be worse than 2010, but the difference was that, in 2010, they had higher expectations, more talent, and bigger names.

I personally view 2015 as somehow being worse, because I view that, in spite of the "hard reboot", we'll be seeing TNA 2014 booking on a smaller network, and then in a few years, Dixie Carter will celebrate TNA going to local access television.

[A Platypus Rave]

Dec 8, 2014 13:05:16 GMT -5 @jdogindy said:

Yeah, this is a contender to be worse than 2010, but the difference was that, in 2010, they had higher expectations, more talent, and bigger names.

I personally view 2015 as somehow being worse, because I view that, in spite of the "hard reboot", we'll be seeing TNA 2014 booking on a smaller network, and then in a few years, Dixie Carter will celebrate TNA going to local access television.

Due to popular demand we're going to be in bingo halls like ECW!

[Hit Girl]

I wouldn't be surprised if 2015 is effectively their final year.

[Hypnosis]

Other than the Bobby Lashley title reign, 2014 felt like a very lifeless year for TNA with all of the departures and losing the Spike TV deal.

[CATCH_US IS the Conversation]

Dec 8, 2014 13:06:40 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

Dec 8, 2014 13:05:16 GMT -5 @jdogindy said:

Yeah, this is a contender to be worse than 2010, but the difference was that, in 2010, they had higher expectations, more talent, and bigger names.

I personally view 2015 as somehow being worse, because I view that, in spite of the "hard reboot", we'll be seeing TNA 2014 booking on a smaller network, and then in a few years, Dixie Carter will celebrate TNA going to local access television.

Due to popular demand we're going to be in bingo halls like ECW!

Honestly I think that's what TNA should be doing. Taping their shows in "bingo halls" and "high school" gyms. A decent set with decent lighting, camera and editing work could easily shake off the "bush league" aura.

[________ has left the building]

Right up there with the 2014 Oakland Raiders.

Dec 8, 2014 16:31:59 GMT -5 CATCH_US IS the Conversation said:

Dec 8, 2014 13:06:40 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

Due to popular demand we're going to be in bingo halls like ECW!

Honestly I think that's what TNA should be doing. Taping their shows in "bingo halls" and "high school" gyms. A decent set with decent lighting, camera and editing work could easily shake off the "bush league" aura.

Unless Impact is being taped in one of those super stadiums that Texas high school football is played, taping a show in a high school gym when you suppose to the number 2 wrestling promotion in the US is bush league. No amount of tarps, trick camera shots, and Christmas lights will change that.

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Dec 8, 2014 16:39:31 GMT -5 ________ has left the building said:

Right up there with the 2014 Oakland Raiders.

Dec 8, 2014 16:31:59 GMT -5 CATCH_US IS the Conversation said:

Honestly I think that's what TNA should be doing. Taping their shows in "bingo halls" and "high school" gyms. A decent set with decent lighting, camera and editing work could easily shake off the "bush league" aura.

Unless Impact is being taped in one of those super stadiums that Texas high school football is played, taping a show in a high school gym when you suppose to the number 2 wrestling promotion in the US is bush league. No amount of tarps, trick camera shots, and Christmas lights will change that.

Agreed. It's tough to look anything but indie in a high school gym. I mentioned before that TNA should take the OVW approach. Roller rinks and similar venues sell for as little as $250,000 (the price varies considerably depending on location, size, etc.). Buy one in a wrestling starved area or some place with a proven wrestling fan base and turn it into the TNA Arena or what have you.

Whether you agree with the idea, the fact is TNA has thrown much more money away on much less logical things.

[Chainsaw]

I don't see 2015 being much better. Take all of the issues they had this year, slash the budget and star power in half, and put them on a little seen network. Not exactly a recipe for recovery.