Ideally How Big Should TNA's Roster Be?

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I was just reading the NXT blueprint thread and it got me thinking about this. I kind of cringed at just the idea someone mentioned of bringing in more talent. A quick look of Wikipedia shows that TNA has about 45 male and female performers (with 7 inactive talents). Does anyone else think this is WAY Too many for a company? I mean I actually wish they could hire more talent, but with only two real hours of programming a week it is tough to really showcase 40+ performers in any meaningful way.

I really wish TNA had a B show. Yes, I know they have Xplosion, but I mean a real B show that you know people actually watched and that mattered. So given that TNA is not likely to get a B show that matters any time soon, how big do you think their roster should actually be?

The first number that popped into my head was 20, but that seems way to small. So somewhere in the middle. Perhaps 35? Of course, it would also be cool if they brought in performers for brief stints. They have done that now and again, but it would be nice if they could do it more.

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TNA could have a roster of 20 if everybody was different and appealed to different parts of the audience. Sadly they don't have that.

Ultimately they should have around 45-50 but they need to replace a lot of people. Guys who were fresh in 05-06 really need to go. Maybe keep a couple of the younger ones (Sabin) but guys like Bobby Roode, Chris Daniels, Eric Young, Samoa Joe etc need to leave. Not that they are untalented but they can't bring anything new to the table, we have seen it.

With the release of those guys you'd have a lot of money to burn up. You could sign a couple of bigger ex WWE talents and a few no name independent guys as well.

Went off topic a bit here. A number? 45-50.

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Considering that they only have a single two hour show every week, I'd probably say about 30-35.

You just need to break the roster down into different sections - main eventers, tag teams, X-Division guys, women's wrestlers and authority figures. Considering that each section will have perhaps one match per week, you can have a varied yet condensed division with about 7-8 people.

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considering. I would say they need 60-70 wrestlers. At the moment there is a lot of repeat matches. We have already seen most of the top guys wrestle eachother quite a few times. TNA is never going to sell a PPV with matches we have already seen.

The KNockouts division and X-Division need at least 5-7 new talents each to get them going again. TNA needs to also bring in talented people to job for the main roster. Those matches need to be good. Not squashes. If Impact each week had 4 matches where the roster guy beats a jobber in a good match with a star vs star main event. they would be much better off. By letting talent have a week off. They would build interest. IN WCW Sting was not on Nitro every week, so it was always great to see him and fantastic when he wrestled.

If I was TNA I would ditch the whole Tag division. Its a waste of time and money. The focus should be on keeping the heavyweights upto standard and rebuilding the X-Division and Knockouts.

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I think the male roster should look like this:

Abyss
Aries
Roode
Styles
Sabin
Daniels
Kaz
EY
EC3
Joe
Hardy
Jesse
Robbie
Ion
King
Magnus
Manik
Shaw
Angle OR Sting

and sign about 8-10 indy talents, at least 4 of them for the X-Division. On the female side, keep Gail, Rayne, ODB, Tessmacher, and sign 4 more women to round things out. Velvet Sky is better suited as a valet. That gives them about 35 on air talents, for a weekly 2 hour show and limited PPVs that should suffice.

Angle or Sting needs to go. Jeff Hardy should be their top "name" star. Who has more value, Sting or Angle? Angle is more viable in the ring, but is a trainwreck waiting to happen. Sting doesn't need to wrestle anymore, but he's a bigger name and a good influence, stays out of trouble. Honestly, they had Hulk Hogan and they lost money on the road with him, and since he left more people are watching their television show, so the whole "big name" thing is overrated for a promotion like this.

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All they need is Hulk Hogan, Sting and Angle.


They can hire local indie guys to job to those 3

[Mozenrath]

Dec 22, 2013 12:17:33 GMT -5 SOR said:

TNA could have a roster of 20 if everybody was different and appealed to different parts of the audience. Sadly they don't have that.

Ultimately they should have around 45-50 but they need to replace a lot of people. Guys who were fresh in 05-06 really need to go. Maybe keep a couple of the younger ones (Sabin) but guys like Bobby Roode, Chris Daniels, Eric Young, Samoa Joe etc need to leave. Not that they are untalented but they can't bring anything new to the table, we have seen it.

With the release of those guys you'd have a lot of money to burn up. You could sign a couple of bigger ex WWE talents and a few no name independent guys as well.

Went off topic a bit here. A number? 45-50.

I don't agree with some of your picks, but I do think you have a solid point, that some of the talent in the company have exhausted any ideas that can be used for them. Daniels, I think could be a top heel, but with Eric Young, I don't really know what new you could do with him. Maybe if he was like he was during World Elite, but that is so long ago now. Samoa Joe, much the same, what can be done with him at this point that isn't a rehash?

They do need to have more variety, and the potential signing of the AAA guy is good news, but they need some turnover of people they have worn out.

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30 guys, every show ends in a Royal Rumble where Sting is ALWAYS the surprise entrant #30 who wins until Eric Young figures out that Sting has been manipulating the space/time continuum so that he can always be on top of TNA, destroys Sting's time warp device after retrieving it in a ladder match in the main event of BFG 2014, and then everyone realizes TNA and Dixie Carter were all illusions created by Sting to keep himself relevant without ever having to work for Vince McMahon. Kurt Angle and Jeff Hardy realize they've slowly wasted their name value in this plot because of Sting's treachery, while Samoa Joe and AJ Styles lament the loss of their prime years to such a sham. After locking Sting in the Phantom Zone, they all decide to go find themselves. "Impact" becomes a show following each of their individual (and collective) searches for who they truly are after breaking the illusion of TNA. Then Billy Corgan buys TNA and switches the format back to a wrestling program, and that whole era is never spoken of again. They go on to rival MLW in popularity.

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just 1 - Hulk Hogan

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2 full time guys: Hogan and Brutus Beefcake.

Hogan would be the TNA Champion. Brutus would be the Knockout Champion (not because he is a woman but because his new gimmick is The Zodiac Barber Bootyman Knockout).

They would tag together and be the tag team champions.

Their only opponents would be jobbers brought in for the occassion.