Ideas to Fix TNA

[Arturo Classico]

I was thinking about this and really the only way TNA can get any decent ratings is to go to Monday nights at 8 PM. The reasoning for this is generally if youre name is not WWE you cannot draw rating on other days of the week. Also TNA and Spike has to grow the balls to do this. I mean they want to compete with WWE? This is the only way to do it. To me Spike will never do this and so they have to go on a diffrent network and to do this. Also what TNA has to do is go on the road and do house shows and tapings on the road to get more money. Yes it could be costly but the only way you make money is to spend money. Also fire the booking staff and put an emphasis on wrestling but also on storylines and do relastic ones and not some of the ridiclous ones they are doing now. Any way this is what I think and any way it's sink or swim for them as I see it and if they don't do something very drastic it will just be a slow death for them anyway.

[CM Shelley]

I would watch TNA at 8...

and in a couple of months in, if they feel comfy enough to do it...

2 hour show monday at 8, it would really take momentum from WWE

[Old School Heel mark4Morishima]

No. That would not work. TNA is so crappy these days that putting it back-to-back with Raw would make it look even worse than it looks in isolation.

TNA needs to stop sucking.

[sabu]

they just need 2 hours 8-10p on some week night so they can stop rushing everything and have time to develop more angles and stories

[Aya Reiko]

Uh... Did you even remember what happened to TNA when RAW went head-to-head with them a couple of months ago?

Better ideas to fix TNA's boat.

* Fire the entire creative staff. Anyone can book better shows than this.
* Cut loose most of the ex-WCW/WWE guys. Specifically Sting, Angle, Steiner, VKM, etc. TNA can't afford them and they do nothing for ratings.
* Put more focus on the TNA originals.
* Fire Don West and get a heel commentator.
* Leave Orlando

[Deleted]

No. It just wouldn't work.


TNA isn't going to become as big as WWE is anytime soon. Why? They simply have no reputation or familiarity with 90% of the wrestling fanbase. Sorry, but it really isn't about having a two-hour timeslot to develop more characters, angles and storylines.

What they need to do is stick where they are for now. Alright, their ratings aren't that great, but does that really matter for now? They have their own timeslot on the own network, far away from where WWE is around. What TNA is trying to do now is build up as much as they can, to prepare for the future. If they are to be successful, they need to gain some respect with the majority of the wrestling audiences, which at the moment, they don't have and won't for a while.

[wwerules60]

No backstage segments. Get rid of the corny ass commentary. And they would look a lot more official if they had a normal ring and were not a side attraction at an amusement park.

[Timmy8271]

I think it would be better if they were on Tuesday's from 9-11 opposite of ECW. That and Fire Ductch Mantell.

[JMA]

First and foremost a new booking team should be put together. My choices for the team would be Terry Taylor (the head booker), Jim Cornette, Raven, and maybe Shane Douglas. Russo and Mantel should be given their pink slips. Jarrett should just take care of the financial aspects of the company and have no control over creative.

Any wrestler that was a main eventer or upper-midcarder in WCW should be released. The "old stars" stigma that WCW had is starting to infect TNA. The only exceptions to this rule are Jarrett (because he was one of the people who started TNA) and Nash (who is a non-wrestler now).

Get a heel commentator.

TNA shouldn't treat WWE signings better than their homegrown talent, and they shouldn't treat their homegrown better than WWE signings either. Furthermore, TNA should never let WWE sign any of their homegrown stars (like Brown).

[Arturo Classico]

jma said:

First and foremost a new booking team should be put together. My choices for the team would be Terry Taylor (the head booker), Jim Cornette, Raven, and maybe Shane Douglas. Russo and Mantel should be given their pink slips. Jarrett should just take care of the financial aspects of the company and have no control over creative.

Any wrestler that was a main eventer or upper-midcarder in WCW should be released. The "old stars" stigma that WCW had is starting to infect TNA. The only exceptions to this rule are Jarrett (because he was one of the people who started TNA) and Nash (who is a non-wrestler now).

Get a heel commentator.

TNA shouldn't treat WWE signings better than their homegrown talent, and they shouldn't treat their homegrown better than WWE signings either. Furthermore, TNA should never let WWE sign any of their homegrown stars (like Brown).

Agree with almost all of this. I would though have Shane Douglas be the heel Color Man and keep Tenay as the play by play.

I would also fire all of the booking staff. I like the idea about Taylor he's decent and definitely Raven as well but I would have Konnan be the main booker of the X-Division matches, since he knows what it takes to do entertaining, fast paced wrestling which is what the X-Division should be instead of a total joke.

Also I would fire Steiner, Angle, Sting, VKM, and Bob Backlund. Also I want to state making Backlund more important than Senshi and Starr pisses me off!

You know what sorry for going on my soapbox and rant but I will. Seriously what the hell is Bob Backlund doing on a wrestling program! Seriously am I missing something? I mean I don't mind seeing him every now and again thats fine he is a legitamate legend. But this is 2007! Not 1995! Not 1983! It's 2007 and Bob Backlund is getting more air time than the actual wrestlers? What thats stupid! See thats TNA's problem! They go and have guys who can't even go anymore and give them air time and make the other people on the roster look like garbage! They do it all the time! Oh and not only that they give guys gimmicks from twenty years ago! They aren't current whatsoever. People slam Vince for that but he wouldn't give Colt Cabana a "Jesse Ventura" gimmick. I mean what the hell is that about? Also making Sting, Steiner, and Angle seem so important is bad and really you can start to see there age is coming through I mean come on TNA! What are you WWF circa 1995! GOD DAMMMIT! BOB F'N BACKLUND!? Wow great! Why not bring back Scott Hall while you are at it! See this is why no one watches it's so much bgarbage! BLAH!

(off soap box)

Okay glad I got that out. Sorry I needed to rant there because alot of stuff in TNA has been really bugging me. But it could get better if they do the inverse of everything I just said in my little rant.

[drjayphd (feat. Pitbull)]

TNA, if it were going head to head with Raw, would be like the buzzing of flies to Vigo. Right now, that would be one of the top five most ill-advised ideas ever. TNA isn't anywhere near WCW, unless you mean near the end. Although then, WCW was swirling around the toilet, and TNA's still going up.

But what should happen to keep the trajectory climbing? Two hours would help, especially if they don't cram them like they have to now. But keep it on Thursday nights. No need to change nights and tilt at windmills. Also, sack Russo and Mantel, bringing in guys like Raven and Douglas. But see their current angles through to the end. No hard reboots in the style of WCW. A smooth transition through to the new team is the best way. Also, don't cram the card full of ex-WCW/WWE guys at the expense of deserving homegrown (as in, whoever made their name on TV primarily in TNA) talent. Monty Brown should've been a fixture in TNA's main event. Guys like him, Samoa Joe, and Abyss need(ed) to be on at least equal footing with wrestlers like Sting and Kurt Angle, if not higher. But, again, don't push them over non-TNA natives for the sake of doing it. Only do whatever would best serve the storyline. And, more importantly, keep building before going after the bigguns. TNA's been around for, what, five years? WCW's roots went back a whole hell of a lot farther, relatively speaking, before the nWo.