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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Dec 3, 2018 18:00:59 GMT -5
No. Smackdown never went to the pathetic 1.1 rating. The biggest tna rating ever was 2.0 during their first Monday night showing and the following week they went to 1.2 or around that number. Smackdown had bad numbers but never to the tna level. Yeah, the closest they ever got to was ECW on SYFY... and they couldn't beat them consistently... (this of course lead them to realize WE GOTTA GO HEAD TO HEAD WITH RAW!) Vince gave up on that show very very fast and tna couldn’t beat them, what the f*** made them think that they had a shot against raw?
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Post by Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃 on Dec 4, 2018 16:58:53 GMT -5
They could have been more, but they became THE solid #2 of the industry and a good lesson of how not to run your promotion (when Dixie was in charge)
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Dec 4, 2018 17:18:10 GMT -5
They could have been more, but they became THE solid #2 of the industry and a good lesson of how not to run your promotion (when Dixie was in charge) Everything not to do in wrestling she did. 1. Hire back Vince Russo despite ample evidence of his idiocy. 2. Getting worked by the talent. Apparently if you took Dixie to the bar and became friendly with her, she would give you a sweet deal without telling the people at talent relations. Kevin Nash did this shit constantly to her. 3. Get close to the talent. She thought that she was friends with Sting and bought him a Rolex watch. Sting repaid her by jumping to the wwe at the first sight of problems. 4. Treating tna like a vanity project instead of a business. She put herself on top and even tried to do a reality show based on her. 5. Hiring the people on the cover of the death of wcw to run her company.
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Post by Fauxnaki on Dec 5, 2018 13:42:22 GMT -5
All they had to do was be a solid number 2 company that actually makes money and wait for WWE to slip up and maybe have a chance for overtaking.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Dec 5, 2018 13:50:05 GMT -5
All they had to do was be a solid number 2 company that actually makes money and wait for WWE to slip up and maybe have a chance for overtaking. It was never going to be that easy
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Post by Fauxnaki on Dec 6, 2018 5:27:27 GMT -5
All they had to do was be a solid number 2 company that actually makes money and wait for WWE to slip up and maybe have a chance for overtaking. It was never going to be that easy Only because dixies was a damn idiot
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Dec 6, 2018 10:42:40 GMT -5
All they had to do was be a solid number 2 company that actually makes money and wait for WWE to slip up and maybe have a chance for overtaking. It was never going to be that easy No and even if they had momentum to take that shot Dixie never had the money to use on TNA to try it. If they were ran competently, still on what was Spike or an equivalent level cable network, and had the bank to take a shot they could have but I don't see a 1994 Hogan star out there like WCW had in mind. John Cena maybe but I don't know how regularly you'd get him considering he's working outside of wrestling these days more then inside it.
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Post by Slingshot Suplay on Dec 6, 2018 18:16:02 GMT -5
The ceiling was low and it had nothing to do with Russo. They had so many stars come through, had the best roster with star power and young talent. Nothing mattered because NO ONE KNEW IT WAS ON. They didn't advertise. Whether it was Spike or TNA or both, they didn't advertise the product well. Sting, angle, Christian, nash, Booker t... people would ask them when are they gonna wrestle again WHILE they wrestled on tv every week, because the general public or the lapsed fans had no idea that it was on tv.
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