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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2013 19:09:16 GMT -5
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Post by HMARK Center on Sept 16, 2013 19:38:05 GMT -5
Ugh, I really hope they don't do this.
I preferred the idea that I saw bandied around a little while ago: picking a spot to shoot a "season" of Impact at, but only for a span of 2-3 months or something.
I just hate the idea of being in one location for an extended time; the Impact Zone just sucked.
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Post by Malcolm on Sept 16, 2013 19:42:16 GMT -5
Vegas, eh?
If they do pick Vegas, would FSW be in any trouble?
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Post by JTG Fan on Sept 16, 2013 19:55:20 GMT -5
RIP TNA
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2013 20:14:15 GMT -5
Ugh, I really hope they don't do this. I preferred the idea that I saw bandied around a little while ago: picking a spot to shoot a "season" of Impact at, but only for a span of 2-3 months or something. I just hate the idea of being in one location for an extended time; the Impact Zone just sucked. Does TNA being on the road add much of a thrill to the show now though? I haven't even really paid any mind to it past the first couple months of it. I know the Impact Zone got pretty dead at times but they used to be relentlessly overenthusiastic (which I found just as bad but if they're enjoying themselves) for a while too until Hogan and Bischoff seemingly came in and exhausted them with production changes and nostalgia. Maybe if TNA don't necessarily tour but have tape shows in the same location for like, 6 month stints but never overstay their welcome. TNA are losing guys left and right, I'd rather see a steady roster who wrestle in the same town week by week than this fleeting, "well we can afford Sonjay Dutt for a couple of weeks" revolving door roster we have right now on the road.
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Post by Error on Sept 16, 2013 20:19:18 GMT -5
If true, I'd love to hear the spin on this one.
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Post by metylerca on Sept 16, 2013 20:21:56 GMT -5
If true, I'd love to hear the spin on this one. Tenay: "Due to popular demand, we listened to the fans and are back at Universal Studios!"
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Post by slappy on Sept 16, 2013 20:22:46 GMT -5
Dixie, "I just got off the phone with Verne Gagne and he says Vegas is a great place for a wrestling show."
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Post by Kash Flagg on Sept 16, 2013 20:35:13 GMT -5
Where the hell can they go in Orlando? The WWE performance center?
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Post by BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps on Sept 16, 2013 20:38:11 GMT -5
Where the hell can they go in Orlando? The WWE performance center? At least we could get Zayn/Aries out of it. And do you really wanna pass up the potential meeting of Amore and EY?
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Post by kamero00 on Sept 16, 2013 20:39:56 GMT -5
Vegas would be interesting. It's such a tourist city, that the fans would not necessarily be the same every week
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Post by MiLB Fan on Sept 16, 2013 20:46:15 GMT -5
Where the hell can they go in Orlando? The WWE performance center? Wrestling returns to the Disney-MGM Studios! (I know it became the Hollywood Studios years ago but, whatever.)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2013 20:55:14 GMT -5
Vegas would be interesting. It's such a tourist city, that the fans would not necessarily be the same every week Wasn't that how the Impact Zone worked too? They had the same die-hards show up but Hulk Hogan made it a tourist attraction full of people who knew Hulk but then went to the show and realized "shit I'm at a wrestling show".
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2013 21:04:19 GMT -5
Where the hell can they go in Orlando? The WWE performance center? Wrestling returns to the Disney-MGM Studios! (I know it became the Hollywood Studios years ago but, whatever.) How did that work back then? Unlike the ol' Impact Zone at Universal, which was on the city walk that anyone can go to free of charge, everything at Hollywood/Disney-MGM requires paid entry into the park. Also, it won't be the old Impact Zone TNA goes back to. I believe I read here that it was rented/leased to some other company a couple months ago.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2013 21:06:20 GMT -5
I think one location can work if the crowd is hot every week. The problem with the Impact Zone, in addition to looking second rate, was that the crowds were lifeless. If they go to one location, and the crowds are into the action every week, it wouldn't be a bad thing, even though the company is visually more professional looking on the road. If they can't afford it, they can't afford it.
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Post by Glitch on Sept 16, 2013 21:06:22 GMT -5
I really they don't do another Impact zone type setting. The current crowd actually booed Jeff Hardy. We can't go back to the parroting impact zone crowd.
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Post by ________ has left the building on Sept 17, 2013 6:31:11 GMT -5
There was a reason why I was pessimistic about the move from the Impact Zone. Contrary to TNA's belief, the demand for their brand of wrestling was not out there in the US to make the move financially successful. It would be in their best interest to find some place affordable in a tourist trap like Vegas, Atlantic City or Reno. They also could film in Davis Arena or the former home of FCW in Tampa.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Sept 17, 2013 6:42:30 GMT -5
I'm not one of those 'TNA is dying!!!' people, but it's hard not to look at this and wonder if they really are in trouble.
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Post by jason1980s on Sept 17, 2013 6:56:53 GMT -5
I think TNA is like those old actors, in their 80s or 90s, that are on the death watch list every year but are still kicking. WWE may be the only immortal wrestling company but like those old actors it's just a matter of time for TNA.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Sept 17, 2013 7:09:47 GMT -5
Going off the road would be disappointing, but understandable if they're bleeding money. They need to look at the places they were booked in the past and find an area thwy got above average gates and start focusing on that region as their home base and find an arena to run regular shows there. In the mid 90s, the WWF was so down on it's luck, it was holding some TV tapings in highschool gyms, but it could always count on Madison Square Gardens and Europe for a good gate, a TNA 'home' arena and overseas tours should be TNA's focus to try and get themselves back in the black.... Here's hoping they don't end up somewhere depressing like the USWA.
Going to one arena for TV shows and holding PPVs on the road was the norm for a promotion the size of TNA, ECW had the ECW arena, WCCW had the Sportatorium, even WCW held TV tapings in one spot before Nitro, If they go back to the Impact Zone and receiving no income from their TV and PPV shows, they may as well give up on being a full time promotion and I can't see Panda indefinitely supporting a company that doesn't look like it will ever be able to turn a profit.
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