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Post by Yamashita Enforcement Division on May 29, 2019 7:07:07 GMT -5
A big difference between TNA 2005 and AEW is that AEW doens't have about 3 years of being absolutely god awful before getting to Double Or Nothing. TNA in 2005 didn't spring forth from a vacuum, TNA's version of All In was awful weekly PPVs designed around catching people looking for porn.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2019 7:37:46 GMT -5
Whilst I don't doubt he'll have a AEW title program at some point down the line Cody is far less of a mark for himself than Jarrett and that alone could be a big factor.
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Post by cabbageboy on May 29, 2019 8:07:49 GMT -5
I think AEW at least has a notion of what they're trying to be, namely an edgier, hipper promotion based around indie darlings and international stars. TNA though? It was like watching some weird mix of the remnants of WCW, with some ECW violence thrown in, filtered through the lens of the USWA.
Keep in mind TNA didn't have a full 2 hour show until later in 2006, around the time they felt the need to bring Russo back. What people never get about Russo is that his style worked exactly once in the WWF because they had a largely crap roster circa 1997-99, but the top guys were great at doing "sports entertainment" Crash TV style stuff (and at least Russo's style gave the lackluster undercard something to do). In WCW he had a strong roster of workers who weren't exactly ideal for Crash TV, or were old guys from a different era unsuited for it. TNA was much the same. Strong workers, but aside from Angle not really guys who were great at Crash TV silliness.
One problem TNA had as well is that they never really developed home markets. AEW has at least carved out Chicago over Labor Day weekend and now Vegas over Memorial Day weekend, previously times when nobody ran major wrestling shows. I was always puzzled that TNA never tried to develop the Louisville market better, since obviously Jarrett came here every week for years. Of course the Gardens also became defunct so there wasn't an ideal sized venue, though they did run Broadbent at one point.
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on May 29, 2019 12:37:18 GMT -5
All the rest of this I remember, but I do not remember Mideon being in TNA at all, what was the story there? All I know is that he was masked and did a run-in on a Tryton match and ended up eating the pin instead of Tryton. For reasons. For TNA reasons. I remember buying this PPV, and that was all a cluster. Did Shocker debut on this PPV as well? They were selling him as the second coming, and his reaction was lukewarm at best.
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Post by EyeofTyr on May 29, 2019 12:42:54 GMT -5
I think an understated factor, though it kind of goes hand in hand with social media being what it is today, is Being The Elite.
Say what you will about that YouTube series, it created a base from which AEW sprang up out of over the course of a few years of entertaining videos. The skits showed that the Elite boys were clever and had their fingers way more on the pulse of, well, everything than a lot of their competitors, and even a lot of their at the time employers.
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Post by The Spelunker! on May 30, 2019 14:34:10 GMT -5
Bizarrely, TNA took to YouTube way faster than WWE, and back in YouTube’s early days TNA was a decent size channel, iirc.
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