Booker T Says TNA Had the Money to Succeed

[markymark]

Booker T touched on the rise of All Elite Wrestling and comparisons with TNA during his latest Heated Conversations podcast. While discussing the conversations that took place at Ric Flair’s birthday party, the WWE Hall of Famer said that he and Chris Jericho had a difference of opinion on why TNA didn’t work. Jericho thought it was a money problem, while Booker considered it more of an executive issue.

“We talked about how TNA had so much momentum back in the day,” Booker said (per Fightful). “We actually had…I wouldn’t call it a conflict. But he thought, TNA, the reason they didn’t stick around is because they didn’t have the money to advertise the way they have now with AEW. I think TNA did have the resources, I just think they had the wrong people in place to delegate those duties. I got paid $10,000 for a commercial they never used. They had the money.”

411mania.com/wrestling/booker-t-tna-had-money-succeed-paid-10-k-for-commercial-never-used/

Pretty much LOLDIXIE.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Ten grand might not seem much, but it all adds up every stupid decision and mismanagement. How much Pac Man Jones got paid and produced zero dimes? Jenna Morasca and the Jersey Shore rejects? The billboards in CT? Orlando Jordan?

[Peeetah]

Feb 26, 2019 19:44:31 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Ten grand might not seem much, but it all adds up every stupid decision and mismanagement. How much Pac Man Jones got paid and produced zero dimes? Jenna Morasca and the Jersey Shore rejects? The billboards in CT? Orlando Jordan?

I'm almost certain the Nasty Boys got prime Road Warrior money on the Hulksters says so.

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I love that Booker and Jericho are at Flair’s birthday party arguing about whether TNA had money or not.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Feb 26, 2019 19:54:51 GMT -5 Peeetah said:

Feb 26, 2019 19:44:31 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Ten grand might not seem much, but it all adds up every stupid decision and mismanagement. How much Pac Man Jones got paid and produced zero dimes? Jenna Morasca and the Jersey Shore rejects? The billboards in CT? Orlando Jordan?

I'm almost certain the Nasty Boys got prime Road Warrior money on the Hulksters says so.

And the end result? Knobbs got into a fight with a Spike tv executive in a party. f*** tna

[markymark]

Feb 26, 2019 19:44:31 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Ten grand might not seem much, but it all adds up every stupid decision and mismanagement. How much Pac Man Jones got paid and produced zero dimes? Jenna Morasca and the Jersey Shore rejects? The billboards in CT? Orlando Jordan?

And Bubba the Love Sponge...yikes.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Feb 26, 2019 21:37:38 GMT -5 markymark said:

Feb 26, 2019 19:44:31 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Ten grand might not seem much, but it all adds up every stupid decision and mismanagement. How much Pac Man Jones got paid and produced zero dimes? Jenna Morasca and the Jersey Shore rejects? The billboards in CT? Orlando Jordan?

And Bubba the Love Sponge...yikes.

Bubba actually went to his radio, when he was relevant, and proclaimed that tna paid shit and couldn’t afford him.

[fortknox]

Feb 26, 2019 21:32:27 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Feb 26, 2019 19:54:51 GMT -5 Peeetah said:

I'm almost certain the Nasty Boys got prime Road Warrior money on the Hulksters says so.

And the end result? Knobbs got into a fight with a Spike tv executive in a party. f*** tna

Really? Do tell cause this is the first I've heard of it.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Feb 27, 2019 2:03:50 GMT -5 fortknox said:

Feb 26, 2019 21:32:27 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

And the end result? Knobbs got into a fight with a Spike tv executive in a party. f*** tna

Really? Do tell cause this is the first I've heard of it.

Knobbs just being Knobbs.

www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2010/03/creed-confirms-tna-release-527007/

It’s not the first or last time he did something stupid while being drunk.

[The Dark Order Inferno]

They did, and they wasted it on past their prime guys like you, Booker.

[Facetious]

Feb 27, 2019 10:59:11 GMT -5 The Dark Order Inferno said:

They did, and they wasted it on past their prime guys like you, Booker.

Yup, as long as you had that WWE/WCW/ECW stink on you, you'd get a big contract and pushed over originals. Hogan getting all his buddies a big fat payday was the beginning of the end.

[bob]

this from the guy who if I remember right was pretty shellfish when he was there - he didn't come to help the younger talent or grow the company, he was all about himself - he wouldn't drop the tag belts clean so they wrote him out via injury during a title bout


am I remembering that right?

[Rican]

Feb 26, 2019 19:59:23 GMT -5 @akeemresurrection said:

I love that Booker and Jericho are at Flair’s birthday party arguing about whether TNA had money or not.

I like to think of how bored everyone around them was with the conversation. Sting has fallen asleep standing up, Steamboat is trying to flag down the waiter for more appetizers, and Charlotte is in the corner texting Andrade. Also Ric is blading for some reason.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Feb 27, 2019 11:04:59 GMT -5 bob said:

this from the guy who if I remember right was pretty shellfish when he was there - he didn't come to help the younger talent or grow the company, he was all about himself - he wouldn't drop the tag belts clean so they wrote him out via injury during a title bout


am I remembering that right?

Oh yeah lol even Booker admits that it was a two year vacation.

[The Dark Order Inferno]

Feb 27, 2019 11:03:23 GMT -5 Facetious said:

Feb 27, 2019 10:59:11 GMT -5 The Dark Order Inferno said:

They did, and they wasted it on past their prime guys like you, Booker.

Yup, as long as you had that WWE/WCW/ECW stink on you, you'd get a big contract and pushed over originals. Hogan getting all his buddies a big fat payday was the beginning of the end.

They went from finally turning a profit to bleeding to death in the space of a year thanks to Hogan and Bischoff's influence. It was like watching a company slit it's own throat on live YV... And then Dixie decided to try playing hardball in negotiations after Hogan et al fled with their loot having added nothing of value, and it's all been downhill since then.

[Rave]

Feb 27, 2019 11:04:59 GMT -5 bob said:

this from the guy who if I remember right was pretty shellfish when he was there - he didn't come to help the younger talent or grow the company, he was all about himself - he wouldn't drop the tag belts clean so they wrote him out via injury during a title bout


am I remembering that right?

I remember that as "had a hissyfit about putting Matt Morgan over clean and was written out via stretcher", but otherwise, yeah, dude was tagged the most selfish man in TNA at one point.

Booker is wrong about a lot of things, but he is absolutely correct about this. TNA had so much money while Panda was still backing them, and they frittered it away on billboards in a place they've never ran and hiring people who never should've been hired in the first place.

[Magic knows Black Lives Matter]

Yeah, Booker's right. They DID have money. They just consistently pissed it away on the wrong things, lmao.

[markymark]

The only good thing Booker did in TNA was Black Snow.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

I'm going to keep saying this whenever it's made obvious. Jericho is a bigger mark than we are.

AEW hasn't done anything yet. You can't be like 'oh well AEW has the money to advertise that TNA doesn't, so TNA failed.' AEW hasn't failed. It hasn't succeeded. It is a twinkle in the eyes of its founders. Wind your f***ing neck in, lads.

[fortknox]

Feb 27, 2019 11:31:20 GMT -5 Rican said:

Feb 26, 2019 19:59:23 GMT -5 @akeemresurrection said:

I love that Booker and Jericho are at Flair’s birthday party arguing about whether TNA had money or not.

I like to think of how bored everyone around them was with the conversation. Sting has fallen asleep standing up, Steamboat is trying to flag down the waiter for more appetizers, and Charlotte is in the corner texting Andrade. Also Ric is blading for some reason.

Blading? We're talking about Flair's forehead here. All he did was cough and blood started pouring down.