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Post by ________ has left the building on Dec 23, 2015 22:22:02 GMT -5
Here's the thing: If TNA didn't try to expand big time in early 2010, when exactly would they have done it? They had just brought Hogan and Bischoff in, brought in guys like Hardy and Van Dam, had the guys they already had. The MNW stuff was foolish and ill advised, but at some point TNA did have to try and tour like a, you know, real wrestling promotion. That's always been TNA's problem. They were never a real wrestling promotion from day 1. They started as a weekly PPV series, then became a television show taped at one location. TNA was basically like watching WCW Saturday Night if WCW didn't actual run shows. Going head to head with Raw was stupid, if they wanted so much to compete with the WWE, they shouldve done it with Smackdown, and spend money to make MONEY in advertising(As Hogan said in one of his interviews). Smackdown would had done the same thing as Raw. TNA should had stayed in their own lane and bulit up their audience instead trying to pick a fight with a giant with a pea shooter.
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Post by Chainsaw on Dec 28, 2015 14:30:21 GMT -5
I get that you have to spend money to make money. The problem was, Hogan and Bischoff were spending money on the wrong things in my opinion, giving their friends big contracts, and then pushing the wrong people thinking that that's what audiences in 2010 wanted. No one wanted to see Sean Morley going over clean to Christopher Daniels in this day and age. No one wanted The Nasty Boys, no one wanted Orlando Jordan, and no one especially wanted that sack of crap Bubba The Love Sponge. They did what everyone expected them to do, abd it left a sour taste in all of TNA's fans mouths.
Honestly, TNA looked the best during the Hogan era. I loved the touring set, I loved how the PPVs looked (even though the TV execution was still bad), butb that was minor when you look at all of the problems they had. All Hogan was able to do was givevthem a name that would get Dear Old Daddy Bob to open the purse strings more.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 28, 2015 16:50:43 GMT -5
Going head to head with Raw was stupid, if they wanted so much to compete with the WWE, they shouldve done it with Smackdown, and spend money to make MONEY in advertising(As Hogan said in one of his interviews). Smackdown would had done the same thing as Raw. TNA should had stayed in their own lane and bulit up their audience instead trying to pick a fight with a giant with a pea shooter. This... TNA WERE NOT competition They didn't even beat ECW on most weeks from what I remember. But the thing is they never should have tried to be. They should have just accepted that the WWE was number 1 and focused on being the best damned Alternative they could be.
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Post by Emmet Russell on Dec 28, 2015 18:06:42 GMT -5
Smackdown would had done the same thing as Raw. TNA should had stayed in their own lane and bulit up their audience instead trying to pick a fight with a giant with a pea shooter. This... TNA WERE NOT competition They didn't even beat ECW on most weeks from what I remember. But the thing is they never should have tried to be. They should have just accepted that the WWE was number 1 and focused on being the best damned Alternative they could be. I originally got into TNA because they felt like an alternative to what I was seeing in the WWE. I didn't need to be constantly reminded while watching TNA that WWE exists, as that just brings attention to the bigger product. When you're sick of something and you look for an alternative, you don't want to be reminded about the thing you're sick of while watching the alternative. In WWE, the cruiserweight division was useless. In TNA, The X-division was the focal point of the company and even main evented a PPV. That's what got me into TNA: I felt like I was watching something different. When they went against the WWE, they felt like WCW lite with Flair and Hogan and Bischoff and Russo, stupid gimmicks everywhere, former WWE stars like Anderson and Hardy and OJ and the Nasty Boys showing up. It was a mess of an attempt and they paid for it.
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