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Post by Andrew is Good on Sept 24, 2013 20:03:59 GMT -5
So recently I've listened to some podcasts, mostly from Live Audio Wresting, and it seems like there's talk of TNA looking to be sold. Maybe I'm completely wrong and this is utter nonsense, and I don't have a subscription to the Observer.
Now, there might be comments of oh, TNA doom and gloom, you want it to go out of business and all the nonsense I've read before. Personally, TNA should be sold, particularly to Spike TV. They're already using TNA to help promote Bellator, I bet if they had a larger stake in the company, they would want to promote TNA more as much as possible and be more up to giving TNA an extra show or whatever.
I don't think WWE would want it. They love their tape libraries, and you could add some to the collection and have extra footage of some guys, but no one really did anything of importance on the roster, unless they start pushing Xavier Woods and talk about how they brought in the "big stars" like the Nasty Boys and Scott Hall and kicked Woods to the curb. When CM Punk got hot in 2011, they promoted a bunch of Punk matches, even though he had a pretty obscure run as Raven's lackey. They could use it for some footage to bring in new stars, but NXT is pretty stacked at the moment. They have 30 men and 5 women who wrestle on the show. Four men have been hurt, inactive or in OVW and Taryn Terrell is pregnant. So the footage might be something they could grab for cheap, but I'm not sure the Carters would sell at a low price like for what WCW went for. So it might be better for them to sell to Spike for a decent price, as Impact still does a regular audience, even though the ratings are lower then usual (though not by much, their old average was 1.1, now it's 1.0. So yes, who do you sell it to? Or do you sell it?
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Sept 24, 2013 20:07:33 GMT -5
Ted Turner
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Sept 24, 2013 20:13:30 GMT -5
To me. I'd be willing to lay down a fiver for it.
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Post by slappy on Sept 24, 2013 20:18:16 GMT -5
I'll give them 3 crayons and my milk.
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Post by Djm Doesn't Find You Funny on Sept 24, 2013 20:20:30 GMT -5
Indie Go-Go?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2013 20:26:23 GMT -5
Five Dollar Wrestling: Gunner's worst nightmare.
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Post by Emmet Russell on Sept 24, 2013 20:29:07 GMT -5
Who's up for a kickstarter?
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Post by MrBRulzOK on Sept 24, 2013 20:30:21 GMT -5
Someone who has a clue how to run a wrestling company.
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Post by Emmet Russell on Sept 24, 2013 20:30:36 GMT -5
Five Dollar Wrestling: Gunner's worst nightmare. Least then he could become a true Viking.
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Post by ICBM on Sept 24, 2013 20:39:05 GMT -5
You ain't gonna like it, but I say if I it ain't Spike, than Eric Bischoff. Eric knows the ins and outs of it. He knows success and failure. All he has been in TNA is an adviser. If the damn thing was his, he would not have to worry with appeasing political wise as he did in wcw and TNA under Carter. He would be forced to make it work right or lose his own money. He knows marketing. Call him an inept creative force or shitty on air(wrong in my opinion) but from the business standpoint he knows what gets attention. He knows how to accentuate that.
If not him, than spike and let Bischoff run it for a while. You need a wrestling person with savy for producing TV. He has both. JJ is a dead end. I know Bischoff means hogan but hogan still gets main stream publicity. How many TNA wrestlers has Howard stern interviewed? Two. hogan and Kurt angle. You need something to pop out at old fans and to attract crossover
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Post by ICBM on Sept 24, 2013 20:40:45 GMT -5
Just please not wwe. I can't go thru that again
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Post by lildude8218 on Sept 24, 2013 20:44:45 GMT -5
Wrestling Is Action
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Post by Andrew is Good on Sept 24, 2013 20:54:15 GMT -5
I know it might be a joke but kickstarter would be a bad ass idea.
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Post by suave on Sept 24, 2013 21:10:21 GMT -5
You know what TNA needs? An insane Billionare who will go to great lengths and do insane shit for his company. Look at the Brooklyn Nets in the NBA. Mikhail Provorov (spell check on the name) is the teams owner, and he'll do anything to win. There's supposed to be a salary cap, and you're penalized if you go over it? This guy just paid 20 million in penalties and didn't even give a shit. TNA needs someone like that, who could literally not give less of a shit about the rules, and just wants to win.
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Post by kidglov3s on Sept 24, 2013 21:14:04 GMT -5
You know what TNA needs? An insane Billionare who will go to great lengths and do insane shit for his company. Look at the Brooklyn Nets in the NBA. Mikhail Provorov (spell check on the name) is the teams owner, and he'll do anything to win. There's supposed to be a salary cap, and you're penalized if you go over it? This guy just paid 20 million in penalties and didn't even give a shit. TNA needs someone like that, who could literally not give less of a shit about the rules, and just wants to win. There's also those guys who put a ton of money into UFC, that worked out well. I don't know about TNA. I think the best situation is that they're able to stop the money hemorrhage and keep going with the Carters. Better the devil you know.
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Post by Sephiroth on Sept 24, 2013 22:05:44 GMT -5
Hasn't he actually said on and off that he would like to start another wrestling company?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2013 22:18:59 GMT -5
You ain't gonna like it, but I say if I it ain't Spike, than Eric Bischoff. Eric knows the ins and outs of it. He knows success and failure. All he has been in TNA is an adviser. If the damn thing was his, he would not have to worry with appeasing political wise as he did in wcw and TNA under Carter. He would be forced to make it work right or lose his own money. He knows marketing. Call him an inept creative force or shitty on air(wrong in my opinion) but from the business standpoint he knows what gets attention. He knows how to accentuate that. If not him, than spike and let Bischoff run it for a while. You need a wrestling person with savy for producing TV. He has both. JJ is a dead end. I know Bischoff means hogan but hogan still gets main stream publicity. How many TNA wrestlers has Howard stern interviewed? Two. hogan and Kurt angle. You need something to pop out at old fans and to attract crossover Thing is, if Panda Energy's unlimited checkbook can't justify keeping TNA around, I don't imagine Bischoff, or really anyone can really afford TNA without taking some serious hits to production, staff, and venue options. TNA isn't Bischoff's baby like WCW is, I don't think Bischoff is as sentimental about TNA to a point where he's willing to buy the company and play with his own money like he was close to doing with WCW. To me it's either Spike TV buys it or the company just folds. TNA's sole existence for the past few years is just being that wrestling show on Spike TV that isn't WWE. Spike TV can provide the bare minimum dollars to put them in an "Impact Zone", shelve any hopes and aspirations and just coast on those inescapable 1.18 ratings. TNA got further than anyone expected them to, forced itself to expand inorganically, got in over their head and their legacy will forever be that company that just couldn't quite figure it out.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Sept 24, 2013 22:32:24 GMT -5
Aziz Ansari
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Post by Crusty Ruffles on Sept 24, 2013 22:59:14 GMT -5
Whomever comes up wit about tree fiddy first.
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Post by Glitch on Sept 25, 2013 0:10:11 GMT -5
This would be a great investment for FAN. We can finally have that long Snitsky title reign and a sombrero on Chris Masters(I'm sure they can be hired).
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