|
Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on May 31, 2015 4:11:10 GMT -5
I would rather have RoH, GFW, and whatever other dream promotion that isn't WWE spend the money on paying good talent well, paying for promotion, upgrading production, expanding touring. You know the shit that TNA couldn't/wouldn't do, then have them waste budget space on trying to recreate dead promotions past their prime, the one thing TNA always turned to when they started turning a corner to put themselves back in the dumpster. Yes WWE is the big evil, but it's also the only company that can afford to waste money on vanity pickups. If any small company wasted money on TNA it would be like that one friend everyone has who brags about the cool vintage toy they bought and bitches about not being able to afford rent. Except this wouldn't be "recreating" a dead promotion. It would just be absorbing a good chunk of its talent and intellectual property like championships WWE really CAN'T afford vanity pickups. If WWE feels that a purchase of TNA does not increase interest in their own product, or increase Network subscriptions, then they'll just release people to "compensate" for that loss, and that would suck for that wrestler in particular because he likely wouldn't fit into RoH's workrate heavy product and there wouldn't even BE a TNA for him to go to, so his career would effectively be over all because of WWE "making a vanity purchase just because they could". If WWE is the only promotion that can have it, then no one should have it.
|
|
|
Post by ritt works hard fo da chickens on May 31, 2015 4:42:40 GMT -5
WWE already has a developement system in Florida for talent and a system set up to edit, distribute and market a video library. It wouldn't be nearly the expenditure for them. It would be a vanity purchase for WWE, whereas it would be an investment for anybody that they would have to change their entire structure around. Yes WWE pissed on WCW however that's one out of ....
They could have buried OVW when they left them to put over their newer shinier better developmental system, but they did not. They could have buried OVW when TNA picked them up but they did not. They could have buried Smoky Mountain when Cornette was booking TNA, or whenever he is talking crap about them, but they haven't. Now especially with them picking up guys who have exposure on TNA they might even use that footage to their benefit, like Samoa Joe DVD's, maybe some of Christian, or Bubba Ray or Sting's work. They tend to like making money when Vince's vengeance isn't a priority.
If a small promotion needs TNA talent go ahead and pick them up, but not as a package TNA stable or any other horrible idea that will ruin your own future with the stink of TNA's failures.
|
|
|
Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on May 31, 2015 7:40:24 GMT -5
When have they done that outside of WCW? That was Platypus Mod's point. Because, they seem to do a pretty great job respecting the legacy ECW left behind with all the DVD's and shit they've done over the years. The wwf had a good relationship with ECW and worked them often exchanging talent. Not exactly the same interactions they had with TNA. Plus the fact that TNA was a company that rose up and tried to compete with wwe pretty much gives trips and vince an excuse to say "this is what happens when you try to create wrestling outside of us". Tna deserves all the flack they get, but most likely wwe will make this entirely about themselves. Probably on a much smaller scale than what they did to wcw, but it will continue even further the company's already established attitude that no one should dare rise up or even that wrestling exists outside of them.See, you posted all that without actually answering my question. When has WWE EVER done that with a company they purchased outside of WCW? The reason why they did what they did (and still do here in 2015) with WCW is because they were the competition. They were WWF's top rival and nearly put them out of business at one point. For f***'s sake, that was Bischoff's mission statement at one point. Of course they were gonna gloat. They won the war. At no point was TNA ever legitimate competition. Despite what they tried to claim, WWE has almost never taken them seriously. WWE would probably release a DVD about their death, gobble up whoever they wanted from the roster, and that would be it. No worse than what TNA has done to themselves "it will continue even further the company's already established attitude that no one should dare rise up or even that wrestling exists outside of them." Huh, guess I must have lost my mind and imagined that WWE has not only signed various indie guys, acknowledged their background, and SHOWED PICTURES/VIDEOS OF THEM WORKING INDEPENDENT SHOWS ON THEIR TV SHOWS. You know, I also could have sworn that Kevin Owens, ON MONDAY NIGHT RAW, brought up how he'd been wrestling for 15 years...outside of WWE. But hey, don't let logic and facts get in the way of your WWE paranoia.
|
|
Celgress
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
The Superior One
Posts: 19,009
|
Post by Celgress on May 31, 2015 10:46:09 GMT -5
Anyone but WWE, as they'll likely do nothing with it other than use the tape library for best of DVDs.
|
|
|
Post by xxshoyuweeniexx on May 31, 2015 10:53:26 GMT -5
Except this wouldn't be "recreating" a dead promotion. It would just be absorbing a good chunk of its talent and intellectual property like championships It would still be absorbing the debt and lawsuits that TNA has. I'd rather ROH or GFW do their own thing and not have to worry about paying off shit that has nothing to do with them.
|
|
|
Post by Saul Goodman on May 31, 2015 11:47:50 GMT -5
WWE already has a developement system in Florida for talent and a system set up to edit, distribute and market a video library. It wouldn't be nearly the expenditure for them. It would be a vanity purchase for WWE, whereas it would be an investment for anybody that they would have to change their entire structure around. Yes WWE pissed on WCW however that's one out of .... They could have buried OVW when they left them to put over their newer shinier better developmental system, but they did not. They could have buried OVW when TNA picked them up but they did not. They could have buried Smoky Mountain when Cornette was booking TNA, or whenever he is talking crap about them, but they haven't. Now especially with them picking up guys who have exposure on TNA they might even use that footage to their benefit, like Samoa Joe DVD's, maybe some of Christian, or Bubba Ray or Sting's work. They tend to like making money when Vince's vengeance isn't a priority. If a small promotion needs TNA talent go ahead and pick them up, but not as a package TNA stable or any other horrible idea that will ruin your own future with the stink of TNA's failures. WCW, JCP, WCCW, AWA and ECW are the only promotions that WWE bought that they show on DVDS or the Network. If TNA is bought out by WWE, then it will be yet another lost video collection in the WWE studios. WWE would not bury them, but they will just pretend that they never existed. WWE low balled an offer last year to buy TNA, they wanted to spend only $500,000 for it. I would find that as an insult and if that was the only amount I would get for it, I would try to sell it to anyone else besides WWE. If no one is interested in buying it besides WWE, I would file bankruptcy on the promotion, then I will buy it back for dirt cheap and sit on the video collection or sell the collection to Highspots. I have a problem against monopoly and I don't want the wrestling business to be owned by only one company. The WWE already owns around 85% of wrestling in the USA, they don't need 90%.
|
|
|
Post by Racksman on May 31, 2015 11:55:19 GMT -5
NEITHER. LET IT JUST DIE ALREADY.
|
|
|
Post by ritt works hard fo da chickens on May 31, 2015 12:35:37 GMT -5
WWE has used stuff from Stampede especially to highlight Bret's career. They've used OVW clips for Cena and Batista that I have seen and probably others. They've used UPW stuff for Cena, and that's just the stuff I've seen. Honestly, I skip a lot of their off brand programming because of the bad production. If Samoa Joe breaks out, which they seem to be giving him the opportunity to do, it would be nice to have a complete career retrospective. Plus who knows who else will be showing up in the E eventually. You can hate WWE for their monopoly but you can't just beat it by pretending it isn't the only ball game that matters. If TNA is absorbed by a wrestling promotion it would be a terrible investment, you'd be better off negotiating new contracts and making new belts. If they are absorbed by a video distributor they will be completely dead when they've printed the last of the profitable DVD comps they can in a dying DVD market.
|
|