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Post by timelimitdraw on May 27, 2018 23:28:32 GMT -5
Realistically, Anthem would have been better off to have started from scratch instead of buying TNA. Even though they've turned over much of the roster and staff, it's still carrying the lineage of a promotion that let its fans down over and over again.
At this stage, Callis and D'amore need to cut back on interviews because we're used to anyone running that company telling us how much things will change only to be disappointed. Don't talk about it. Just show us, and expect progress to come really slowly. Even NJPW took years to get turned around.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on May 28, 2018 0:03:37 GMT -5
Realistically, Anthem would have been better off to have started from scratch instead of buying TNA. Even though they've turned over much of the roster and staff, it's still carrying the lineage of a promotion that let its fans down over and over again. At this stage, Callis and D'amore need to cut back on interviews because we're used to anyone running that company telling us how much things will change only to be disappointed. Don't talk about it. Just show us, and expect progress to come really slowly. Even NJPW took years to get turned around. This. Hogan and Dixie gave a press conference about taking the company to the next level, nothing happened. John Gaburick did an interview on YouTube about the new direction of the company, nothing happened. Jeff Jarrett did interviews about saving tna, nothing happened. This company has rebooted six thousand times and never drew a dime.
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Post by octopus on May 28, 2018 0:44:41 GMT -5
I don't see where Callis said "I want Impact to be NJPW or NJPW lite". He was talking about fan response and booking style where he made comparisons to other companies, however that idiot TNAMarkFromIndia didn't quote all of what he said to Pro Wrestling Illustrated.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2018 2:57:50 GMT -5
I really just don't see WHY you would buzz about TNA right now. Nothing's really changed, it's still a scattershot mess where anything big that happens gets saved for or immediately undone on TV, people are still constantly coming and going to where you have no idea who the actual stars of it are, the storylines are still basically all incomprehensible at best and boring tedium at worst, and the only real changes that have actually been made are they've basically scrapped the rounds shit (though even then I have no idea if the Grand title is still an actual thing or if it's just a prop for Aries at this point) and rendered the X Division even more of a waste of time than it already was with the stupid-ass lucha rules that kneecap the entire division.
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Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on May 28, 2018 3:52:26 GMT -5
So Callis wants them to basically be NJPW lite All while they are trying to be LU lite Another case of "oh shit lets try go be all the cool companies at the sametime" and ending up with another company that has no clue what it wants to be Next will be find a Samoan and put him in riot gear.
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Post by markymark on May 29, 2018 13:24:30 GMT -5
I like Callis. He knows what the faults are, he and D'Amore are taking responsibility for the crap that happened in TNA when he wasn't even in the company, theey're trying to make things right with wrestling fans. Sad thing is though, as someone already put it, TNA is salted earth. They could convince Ted Turner to get back into wrestling, pump his money into the company and use his influence to get on a better network - it wouldn't change a thing. I appreciate Callis and D'Amore putting themselves out there, asking fans to give them another chance, but it's too little, too late. Fans have been burned by empty promise after empty promise. They're in a difficult position of trying to turn something around that can't be turned around.
I feel that the golden chance wouldve been in 2017, after Dixie was no longer TNA president, instead they got Jarrett and made the product WWE lite with Prichard, Karen, Patron being booked as the mexican Daniel Bryan, GFW rejects like Adonis, Morgan, trash feuds like Borash vs Josh, etc. Jarrett strengths was always in getting partnerships with other companies, he shouldve never being brought to be part of creative(HHH knows that).
Idk how people can expect Impact Wrestling to fix in 4 months the stupidity of the last 10 years? Thats insane. Besides Callis joined Impact thanks to Jericho, and we know Jericho isnt a retard.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2018 10:47:11 GMT -5
It's physically impossible for Impact to have fans buzzing with Josh Matthews on commentary. Everything about his commentary says "You should stop paying attention to this show. Check your phone or laptop about something. What you are watching isn't worth paying attention to."
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Post by markymark on May 30, 2018 11:31:11 GMT -5
It's physically impossible for Impact to have fans buzzing with Josh Matthews on commentary. Everything about his commentary says "You should stop paying attention to this show. Check your phone or laptop about something. What you are watching isn't worth paying attention to." There were plans of taking him out of commentary but JB joined WWE so those plans were nixed, Callis helps Josh being passable, wish Sonjay returns to the booth, he was improving.
I hate the old management for killing Mike Tenay passion for Pro-Wrestling.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on May 31, 2018 4:39:28 GMT -5
Callis wants to put in the best possible show with the resources available? Boo this man! Who does he think he is, aspiring to improve a show we don't watch, but hate anyway because of the actions of a slew of people no longer there.
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Post by Aya Reiko on May 31, 2018 5:23:39 GMT -5
The only thing buzzing about Impact are the flies hovering around its still shambling corpse.
And that ain't going to change for a long, long while (if ever).
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Post by wankah on May 31, 2018 8:33:04 GMT -5
Yeah, them recent two(or three?) episodes of Impact with Josh going solo on the commentary were really some low energy shit.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2018 9:35:30 GMT -5
At this point, can they even get the fans buzzing about Impact like the flies do about Impact? ![](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/51/68/3f/51683fd34d6d2ed76e10889673de94d4.gif)
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on May 31, 2018 11:26:55 GMT -5
Callis wants to put in the best possible show with the resources available? Boo this man! Who does he think he is, aspiring to improve a show we don't watch, but hate anyway because of the actions of a slew of people no longer there. There is a big difference between people calling him an idiot and giving criticism to this idea. Ultimately, people have given Callis his due and commend him for aiming high but we’ve heard and seen this song and dance before. Don’t talk about it Don, be about it. Every regime that came into TNA makes high goals but each fall short. You have to continue to make changes and show the fans this isn’t lip service is all people are saying. People have also critiqued what’s wrong with the show if you read again so I don’t see anyone talking out their ass just spewing hate from that regard.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on May 31, 2018 13:18:46 GMT -5
Realistically, Anthem would have been better off to have started from scratch instead of buying TNA. Even though they've turned over much of the roster and staff, it's still carrying the lineage of a promotion that let its fans down over and over again. At this stage, Callis and D'amore need to cut back on interviews because we're used to anyone running that company telling us how much things will change only to be disappointed. Don't talk about it. Just show us, and expect progress to come really slowly. Even NJPW took years to get turned around. It's just not the smartest idea to try to revive the decrepit pile of bones that is a company that had its previous management conspire to defraud an investor in good faith expressly because they knew he and his lawyer didn't know the little loopholes in Tennessee Finance Laws.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on May 31, 2018 14:01:02 GMT -5
Don I also want to apartment wrestle KC Spinelli but that ain't happening.
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Post by mrbananagrabber on Jun 1, 2018 7:06:25 GMT -5
Honestly, I'd be aiming to be like NXT.
NXT was a joke, a game show/competition that ended up becoming some weird comedy soap opera, yet with the birth of the WWE Network they turned it into a genuinely cool wrestling product; still PG and all that, but still an alternative to WWE that everyone; kids, smarks, whoever, can enjoy and actually become emotionally invested in.
Be THAT.
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Post by kingoftheindies on Jun 1, 2018 7:52:36 GMT -5
eh again, I think this is a case where he never really said anything too outlandish or bad, but because of the history of TNA it gets blown out of proportion a bit
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Jun 1, 2018 8:17:07 GMT -5
eh again, I think this is a case where he never really said anything too outlandish or bad, but because of the history of TNA it gets blown out of proportion a bit Here's my unfiltered take on it, for the nothing it's worth: Yes, what he said is well intended, and it's what he SHOULD want. However, as a fan, I've heard person after person after person tell me "Well, this is our grand ambition for TNA/GFW/Impact/Whatever", and then SHOW me the same old shit. Ergo, I think it's fair to be gunshy.
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Jun 1, 2018 10:49:49 GMT -5
eh again, I think this is a case where he never really said anything too outlandish or bad, but because of the history of TNA it gets blown out of proportion a bit But it's not rally being treated as outlandish or bad, it's getting scoffed at because the product right now is kinda shit and not anything that's going to generate that buzz. Nobody is piling onto them for wanting to be good, just laughing at the idea that "Eddie Edwards gets beaten by Sami Callihan so many times he starts hating women" is the ticket to get them there. A new regime putting out the same old shit isn't going to set the world on fire, and I feel like it's peoples' responses that are really getting blown out of proportion here.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2018 14:35:20 GMT -5
So Callis wants them to basically be NJPW lite All while they are trying to be LU lite Another case of "oh shit lets try go be all the cool companies at the sametime" and ending up with another company that has no clue what it wants to be Next will be find a Samoan and put him in riot gear. On the plus side, if TNA signs Riot Control it will lead to a new boom period(in the TNA section of FAN)
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