Why is this happening?

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I cant help but wonder this: Why arnt Bob and Janice helping Dixie out budget wise?

Think about it. They had a "get out of jail" card last year when Jeff Jarrett and Toby Keith offered 50 mil for TNA. Panda were never going to profit on the sale of TNA but would have got something and been free to wash their hands at TNA.

They are the ones who said no. Bob and Janice are the ones that insisted their talentless Daughter be kept in her role. So they made their bed.

So why not increase her budget again and let Dixie try and rebuild the brand? I know Hogan and Bishoff raised costs insanely and were insisting that even more money be wasted. I agree that the Carters had to put a stop to that. But they have completely gutted TNA.

Every time a wrestlers contract comes up, they leave. How is that a good thing?

Look I admit it: I was wrong about AJ Styles. I said he was just a good worker and would be no real loss. God I was wrong. He was the heart and soul of TNA and without him, they are a shell of what they were. When Daniels and Kaz left, TNA might as well have shut down then and there.

So why are Bob and Janice doing this? Why keep TNA if you arnt going to support it.

Because they want to keep Dixie happy?? How could Dixie possibly be happy?

Shes constantly insulted by former wrestlers and backstage people. Wrestling forums crucify her and her twitter is full of hateful comments. If all that wasnt bad enough, every week something bad seems to happen. Ratings are decreasing and another company just signed on that better than hers. Loosing Spike cant of been fun and now that DA seems to have lost interest they are in real trouble. All of this must have taken a toll on Dixie.

I have a daughter too and there is no way I would let her stay in charge of a failing business like TNA. I would have pulled the plug when Hogan and Bishoff raised expenses as high as they did.

So whats the point? Let her go down with the ship?? Why? Do they love her at all?
I dont think they do.

Im not saying open the budget back up again to insane lengths. But they could restore 2009's pre Hogan budget couldnt they? who knows....Maybe TNA would have survived. At least everyone would have gotten paid on time.

[Mayonnaise]

Stop spending money on it (which they have I believe), hope it goes under and take a nice write off. They've given Dixie 12 years to prove she can run a business and bailed her out every time, so now Dixie has to do it on her own or why sink anymore on it?

[TWERKIN' MAGGLE]

Remember when Janice murdered Abyss?

[Savage Gambino]

On top of that, Dixie Carter if 50 years old. Bob and Janice are doing way too much to keep her happy at Dixie's detriment.

She's had a half century to learn how to sink or swim on her own. It's time to kick her out of the nest and see if she flies.

[xCompackx]

I still don't like the idea of rich parents letting their spoiled daughter run a business where careers and livelihoods are at risk. Let her run a restaurant or something, not a global wrestling entity.

[jimmyjames]

Was the $50 million offer ever confirmed?

This isn't that unusual. A lot of rich people have playthings for their offspring. Charities, the arts, sports teams. Something for them to do without them screwing up the family moneymaker and it keeps them happy. In this case, it's wrestling.

However, There's a lot of other reasons why the Carter's might have kept TNA. It provides losses to offset profits from other Panda entities, thereby lower Pandas taxes. Dixie, Serge, and any number of Carter family members are collecting salaries and royalties from TNA. It provides something for their daughter to do. TNA could be doing exactly what Bob and Janice want it to do. Maybe when the losses get to high or the profits from other Panda companies are too low or they strat to lose money, then the Carters finally pull the plug.

I think TNA to the Carters is what WKRP was to Mama Carlson.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Jim Cornette once said that when the business was failing that the booker made the money mark part off the show, that's right around the time Dixie got corrupted. After the Jarrett purge and when Hogan and Bischoff took over, Dixie became a focal point of the show.

There's no bigger high in the world that performing in front of a crowd and on tv. I think the business went to shit when Dixie wanted to become a celebrity.

Who knows maybe Vince McMahon could've been corrupted by fame, but unlike Dixie he got smartened up the right way, he worked shitty jobs for his father, his dad gave him the worst town to run on the territory. Another difference is that Vince gambles with his own money, Dixie just borrows from her trust fund.

[jagilki]

Maybe Bob and Janice should just buy Dixie a copy of TEW and a video camera so she can stream herself playing the game.

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Jun 29, 2015 23:53:38 GMT -5 xCompackx said:

I still don't like the idea of rich parents letting their spoiled daughter run a business where careers and livelihoods are at risk. Let her run a restaurant or something, not a global wrestling entity.

Yeah those people working at the restaurant don't mean shit!

[Magnus the Magnificent]

The Carters are happy to have Dixie play around in her wrassling company, because it keeps her from trying to get work at Panda.

[chrom]

Ditzy is your typical spoiled rich brat who never worked a day in her life and thinks she just has to throw a big enough tantrum to get whatever toy she wants.

[Aya Reiko]

Jun 29, 2015 23:53:38 GMT -5 xCompackx said:

I still don't like the idea of rich parents letting their spoiled daughter run a business where careers and livelihoods are at risk. Let her run a restaurant or something, not a global wrestling entity.

I'm pretty sure Gordon Ramsey would have visited that restaurant sooner or later.

[xCompackx]

Jun 30, 2015 1:15:54 GMT -5 @lovehater said:

Jun 29, 2015 23:53:38 GMT -5 xCompackx said:

I still don't like the idea of rich parents letting their spoiled daughter run a business where careers and livelihoods are at risk. Let her run a restaurant or something, not a global wrestling entity.

Yeah those people working at the restaurant don't mean shit!

Well.. that's not what I meant, but okay lol.

[________ has left the building]

It would be cheaper for Bob and Janice just paying a network to let her get on a reality show cast than continuing paying for TNA's existence. If Bob had his way, TNA would get a cash influx because Dixie is Daddy's Little Girl. But Janice is the one who dropped that hammer and went on a Budget Cutter frenzy that would make Randy Orton and DDP jealous. Reminds me of my old Construction testing job where the boss wanted to fire his worthless son but his wife was the reason he stayed employed. So the slacking, bi-polar bastard floats on earning a check while barely showing up or working when he actually does wake up.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Jun 30, 2015 8:06:30 GMT -5 ________ has left the building said:

It would be cheaper for Bob and Janice just paying a network to let her get on a reality show cast than continuing paying for TNA's existence. If Bob had his way, TNA would get a cash influx because Dixie is Daddy's Little Girl. But Janice is the one who dropped that hammer and went on a Budget Cutter frenzy that would make Randy Orton and DDP jealous. Reminds me of my old Construction testing job where the boss wanted to fire his worthless son but his wife was the reason he stayed employed. So the slacking, bi-polar bastard floats on earning a check while barely showing up or working when he actually does wake up.

The son sounds like Colin Farrell's character in horrible bosses...that would make a good storyline the guys trying to get rid of Dixie lol

[The Dark Order Inferno]

Ultimately Bob and Janice are still footing the bill as long as TNA remains owned by Panda Energy, they're just not giving Dixie a blank cheque to play EWR in real life anymore. TNA lost their biggest revenue streams and is being made to live within it's means, sadly it's 5 years too late to have real impact, now it's just making sure there are no big money contracts to pay when the doors close.

The Carters should have sold a stake in TNA to Spike when they were reportedly interested. If they had ownership of the programming they would still be on Spike and would be getting much better deals with Viacom owned channels internationally like Bellator.

[Can you afford to pay me, Gah]

Well it comes down for the last 12 years they helped Dixie and how many years should anybody throw money at any business that for the most part haven't been said to be turning a profit? They given her chance after chance to prove she can do it and she shown she can't. She doesn't belong in wrestling and doesn't have a clue on how to market it. That why she so relaying on every former whatever from the WWE, WCW, or ECW because she doesn't know anything.

She clearly never looked back on the business side of things on how a guy like Hogan is behind the scenes and because of that they milked her money and she should have know that because she should know that at the time Hogan NEEDED money and NEVER in his life was a clear booker to a show that wasn't all about Hogan.

[This Player Hating Mothman]

I'm convinced that TNA is a way for the Carters to at least game the tax system, if not be outright using it to launder money. They can't feed a lot of money into it because that cuts into the "profit" they get from it being around, but I wouldn't be surprised if even after they get the boot from DA, it finds some way to continue existing in the barest sense possible, just to keep it existing and alive. In fact, obscurity might do it wonders in terms of keeping the operation low-key.

[cabbageboy]

If TNA has no TV deal how exactly can it remain a viable company? They already don't run shows and the ones they were running were drawing flies. Thus, if you don't run shows and you have no TV deal, you cease to exist.

[Magic knows Black Lives Matter]

Jun 29, 2015 23:53:38 GMT -5 xCompackx said:

I still don't like the idea of rich parents letting their spoiled daughter run a business where careers and livelihoods are at risk. Let her run a restaurant or something, not a global wrestling entity.

You know, if their daughter wanted to be a TV star, all they had to do was buy up some time on public access TV spots doing infomercials or something. It'd be a hell of a lot less money than running TNA.