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Post by alexwrightspackage on Apr 27, 2016 2:01:32 GMT -5
I do wonder how many viewers got lost in the shuffle between Spike, Destination America and Pop and legit think TNA is already dead. There are enough viewers getting lost between people going from WWE to TNA. Was it Christian or Kurt Angle where someone came up to them, they asked why they retired then they had to sheepishly answer they were actually in TNA?
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Post by ayumidah on Apr 27, 2016 2:30:59 GMT -5
I think every former WWE person who's been in TNA told a similar story at one point or another, heh.
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Post by Emmet Russell on Apr 27, 2016 3:52:06 GMT -5
According to Wikipedia, Slammiversary 2015 had an attendance of 1,100 people. That's worse than WCW in its dying days. I bet there are indy shows that have bigger attendance than that. Only a few thousand people attend their shows, watch their programs, and buy their PPVs. Why even bother anymore? It's not worth it. There's been proof that it's not the guys in TNA that can't draw, it's the product itself that doesn't. An indie show headlined by EC3 vs Matt Hardy pulled almost 2000 people. A TNA show headlined by the same act draws less than a quarter as much and loses ratings in the process. The TNA name on anything is highly toxic in 2016.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2016 4:04:05 GMT -5
Over half of those there and at Bound For Glory were either Plants or those who they gave tickets to to attend the event. Yeah someone even tweeted a poster where it read that it was free entry. TNA is allergic to success. They can't sell tickets to it. It's part of the deal with Universal. This really isn't something to hold against them, because it's still more cost effective than running an arena elsewhere would be.
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Post by alexwrightspackage on Apr 27, 2016 5:25:40 GMT -5
According to Wikipedia, Slammiversary 2015 had an attendance of 1,100 people. That's worse than WCW in its dying days. I bet there are indy shows that have bigger attendance than that. Only a few thousand people attend their shows, watch their programs, and buy their PPVs. Why even bother anymore? It's not worth it. There's been proof that it's not the guys in TNA that can't draw, it's the product itself that doesn't. An indie show headlined by EC3 vs Matt Hardy pulled almost 2000 people. A TNA show headlined by the same act draws less than a quarter as much and loses ratings in the process. The TNA name on anything is highly toxic in 2016. New owners really have to get rid of the TNA then. I mean, along with the production values, writers...everything else. Excpet morale, of course. Keep that sky-high morale.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Apr 27, 2016 6:30:43 GMT -5
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Apr 27, 2016 6:38:22 GMT -5
And with Storm, he always tweets about meeting fans, and thanking fans for coming to a show. So that's not out of the ordinary for Storm.
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Post by Ryushinku on Apr 27, 2016 6:39:40 GMT -5
It's like when you get a bunch of tweets from the WWE wrestlers for a major media event or celebrity appearance, all using similar wording.
Always funny. But that's just media fluff. This is kinda sadder.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Apr 27, 2016 7:24:16 GMT -5
Yeah someone even tweeted a poster where it read that it was free entry. TNA is allergic to success. They can't sell tickets to it. It's part of the deal with Universal. This really isn't something to hold against them, because it's still more cost effective than running an arena elsewhere would be. Bound for Glory 15 wasn't at universal, it was at North Carolina. They could sell tickets only problem for them is that nobody wanted them.
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Post by Push R Truth on Apr 27, 2016 8:24:07 GMT -5
Bob Ryder: Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal. Investors: What happened? Bob Ryder: Uh, we had a slight income malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you? Investors: We're sending the Harris Twins up. Bob Ryder: Uh, uh... negative, negative. We have a High Morale leak here now. Give us a few months to lock it down. High Morale, very positive. Investors: Who is this? What's your operating number? Bob Ryder: Uh... [Bob shoots the phone] Bob Ryder: Boring conversation anyway. DIXIE, WE'RE GONNA HAVE COMPANY!
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Apr 27, 2016 8:33:00 GMT -5
There is no war in Ba Sing Se, sugar. Everything changed when the NXT Nation attacked. But I believe that Rockstar Spud can save the wrestling world, sugh! *Spud rides around on an air ball and smashes into a rock*
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Post by Chainsaw on Apr 27, 2016 9:57:19 GMT -5
Bob Ryder: Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal.Investors: What happened? Bob Ryder: Uh, we had a slight income malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?Investors: We're sending the Harris Twins up. Bob Ryder: Uh, uh... negative, negative. We have a High Morale leak here now. Give us a few months to lock it down. High Morale, very positive. Investors: Who is this? What's your operating number? Bob Ryder: Uh... [Bob shoots the phone]Bob Ryder: Boring conversation anyway. DIXIE, WE'RE GONNA HAVE COMPANY!Now I'm imagining Bob Ryder in Stormtrooper armor that is thisclose to flying apart, sweating and out of breath, falling down as he tries to run away from the other Stormtroopers. How dare you make me think that.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2016 9:58:41 GMT -5
Bob Ryder: Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal.Investors: What happened? Bob Ryder: Uh, we had a slight income malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?Investors: We're sending the Harris Twins up. Bob Ryder: Uh, uh... negative, negative. We have a High Morale leak here now. Give us a few months to lock it down. High Morale, very positive. Investors: Who is this? What's your operating number? Bob Ryder: Uh... [Bob shoots the phone]Bob Ryder: Boring conversation anyway. DIXIE, WE'RE GONNA HAVE COMPANY!Now I'm imagining Bob Ryder in Stormtrooper armor that is thisclose to flying apart, sweating and out of breath, falling down as he tries to run away from the other Stormtroopers. How dare you make me think that. Pictured - sweaty Stormtrooper Bob Ryder.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Apr 27, 2016 11:47:40 GMT -5
Now I'm imagining Bob Ryder in Stormtrooper armor that is thisclose to flying apart, sweating and out of breath, falling down as he tries to run away from the other Stormtroopers. How dare you make me think that. Pictured - sweaty Stormtrooper Bob Ryder. All it misses is Abyss and Spud dressed as Leia in the prisoners outfit. Bob is a sick man
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Post by Lancers on Apr 27, 2016 11:51:36 GMT -5
"Does anybody know where I can find a fiberglass tub, embalming fluid and Taylor Wilde's most recent home address? Asking for a friend."
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Apr 27, 2016 13:21:24 GMT -5
"Does anybody know where I can find a fiberglass tub, embalming fluid and Andrew Bennet's most recent home address? Asking for a friend." Fixed.
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Apr 27, 2016 13:43:45 GMT -5
"Does anybody know where I can find a fiberglass tub, embalming fluid and Andrew Bennet's most recent home address? Asking for a school project." Fixed.
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Post by Hit Girl on Apr 27, 2016 13:52:55 GMT -5
Dixie News Network reports morale is now at 0.5% and rising!
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Post by Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃 on Apr 27, 2016 13:54:03 GMT -5
"Does anybody know where I can find a fiberglass tub, embalming fluid and Rockstar Spud's most recent home address? Asking for a friend." Fixed
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 29, 2016 22:41:00 GMT -5
According to Wikipedia, Slammiversary 2015 had an attendance of 1,100 people. That's worse than WCW in its dying days. I bet there are indy shows that have bigger attendance than that. Only a few thousand people attend their shows, watch their programs, and buy their PPVs. Why even bother anymore? It's not worth it. In 1992, WCW could only get 3-5,000 in a building for a PPV, usually comping a large chunk of that audience. Their house shows typically drew less than a thousand, and there's even a few that only 2-300 people showed up for. And this was during a period of time when they had Sting, Steamboat, Vader, Rude and a ton of other A+ stars. Their weekly Center Stage Theater tapings were drawing 7-800 near the beginning of the year; the big Clash show in the same building barely got 500 to show up in September. It *can* be done. With a Billion dollar mega-corporation backing it. And by adding Hogan, the NWO, Piper, DDP, Goldberg, Bret Hart and Nitro Girl Spice. And by putting on shows that rivaled and out-classed McMahon's. And by being on a station that was already picked up by 90% of all cable/satellite viewers. ...But it *can* be done...
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