andrew8798
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Post by andrew8798 on Jan 12, 2007 14:23:04 GMT -5
There has been a lot of very negative talk internally about how the TV shows are presenting the company and the workers. The feeling is TNA can put on much better wrestling than WWE and have that as it's calling card, but because of the way Impact is booked someone watching the show for the first time would have no idea how good likes of AJ Styles, Samoa Joe or Christopher Daniels are because you when you only see 2:00 matches how can you tell?
They are still trying to bring in Chris Jericho, who is yet to either say whether he is or isn't interested.
Konnan's hip replacement surgery was due on 1/8 if he was healthy enough. He's lost 35lbs from the dialysis and dieting since the last TNA TV taping.
TNA contacted Sun Sports, which was the major outlet for the Xplosion show and told them in early December they would no longer be supplying tapes after the end of the year. The show will keep being produced to sell to foreign markets as it's very cheap to make.
The Imapact due for 1/25 will now air on 1/24 at 10pm.
Borash had tickets for Liddell-Ortiz but couldn't go as he had to be at the taping of the VKM skit at the Alamo that day.
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Post by Banned Member on Jan 12, 2007 14:26:19 GMT -5
Borash got hosed. The oldage outlaws are boring.
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Post by Michael Coello on Jan 12, 2007 14:30:20 GMT -5
Borash got hosed. The oldage outlaws are boring. Get with the times, Merc. Old Age outlaws is so 2004. Very Krappy Morons is in! ;D I don't see how Borash couldn't havemade it, as the Alamo thing was in the day, and the fight was at night. Could have caught a plane to Vegas and caught it. |
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Byakugan
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Post by Byakugan on Jan 12, 2007 14:37:32 GMT -5
THey can't do more than 2 minute matches. THe shows too damn short
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KLRA
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Post by KLRA on Jan 12, 2007 15:11:51 GMT -5
I thought they did a very good job last night of showing Christoper Daniels to be a GOD.
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Post by Solid Stryk-Dizzle on Jan 12, 2007 15:13:51 GMT -5
THey can't do more than 2 minute matches. THe shows too damn short ECW puts on 11 minute matches and they have the same time frame. |
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Post by Chainsaw on Jan 12, 2007 15:27:28 GMT -5
THey can't do more than 2 minute matches. THe shows too damn short ECW puts on 11 minute matches and they have the same time frame. They also don't feature as many wrestlers as TNA does. ECW has about 20 active wrestlers, excluding Terry Funk and Al Snow. TNA has anywhere from 30-50 active wrestlers, give or take since they keep adding and dropping indy wrestlers at any time. I have seen this problem, especially with the Chris Daniels/Chris Sabin/Jerry Lynn match. They've barely scratched the surface of these three guys' feud, and they've almost had to tie it to the Rhino/Styles feud. Yeah, they need a 2nd hour. |
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Post by amplifierWORSHIP! on Jan 12, 2007 15:30:39 GMT -5
THey can't do more than 2 minute matches. THe shows too damn short ECW puts on 11 minute matches and they have the same time frame. only the main event it seems.. maybe it was just this week's, but there were like 3 matches that were only 2-4 minutes i can't imagine how frantic WSX is gonna seem with just a half hour |
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Post by AmericanDragon420 on Jan 12, 2007 15:35:59 GMT -5
THey can't do more than 2 minute matches. THe shows too damn short ECW puts on 11 minute matches and they have the same time frame. Yeah and ECW also only has like half the roster and that roster is filled with people that no one cares about. I mean Lashley is kind of over and Van Dam could be big. Other than that you have jobbers, WWE midcarders, Punk, Sandman and Sabu who either aren't on every week, or have been crushed already. Meanwhile TNA's roster is loaded with guys who are over with their audience. ECW develops like two feuds with each show, TNA has to develop much much much more than that. |
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Post by HMARK Center on Jan 13, 2007 2:42:13 GMT -5
TNA also has to sell PPV's with at least 8 matches on them every month, unlike ECW.
My question is, what the hell are they supposed to do? Outside of the main event slot, there's literally not enough time on Impact to present that. Storylines need to be built up, PPV's need to be sold, and the wrestling, while important, suffers for it.
First person who answers by saying "Don't show VKM", know that I wouldn't mind them dropping them, but be serious, as the three minutes they'd gain from dropping that wouldn't help much.
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Ace Diamond
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Post by Ace Diamond on Jan 13, 2007 3:30:42 GMT -5
1. Drop VKM
2. Less commercial breaks.
3. Maybe make some interviews YouTube exclusive, use the partnership. Or do online matches at least so that some people can still get exposure.
those are just ideas, they're probably all implausible save for the first one.
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Post by -Lithium- on Jan 13, 2007 3:37:05 GMT -5
One thing I hate about TNA is they take too many commercial breaks and they dont know when to do them. Instead of doing them like during a long entrance they do it in the middle of a main event thats already only like 7 minutes long...
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Post by Error on Jan 13, 2007 3:43:16 GMT -5
Why couldn't they get a five minute over run? WWE has it for both Raw and ECW and that 5 extra minutes could make up for one commercial break and give us another match. It would be a start. EDIT: I know that Raw and ECW are live and that is the supposed reason for the overage but, why not give something like that to TNA even though it is taped? Further EDIT: i can't imagine how frantic WSX is gonna seem with just a half hour WSX will have a lot of matches, interviews and storyline building on their website. The TV show will be a musical preformance and two or 3 matches at the most. |
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Ace Diamond
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Post by Ace Diamond on Jan 13, 2007 3:52:31 GMT -5
One thing I hate about TNA is they take too many commercial breaks and they dont know when to do them. Instead of doing them like during a long entrance they do it in the middle of a main event thats already only like 7 minutes long... Yeah that annoys me too |
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Post by EJS on Jan 13, 2007 6:04:49 GMT -5
TNA has done longer matches on TV in the past... they just don't anymore. There is no need to get all 40 of their wrestlers on tv every single week to build a PPV like they do now. It makes all the matches short and the backstage segments weird hectic mixes of promos and "incidents" that are unrelated.
And yeah, they are awful at timing commercial breaks. Which is confusing, since with a taped show that should be easy...
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Post by CyberTwix on Jan 13, 2007 17:02:15 GMT -5
3. Maybe make some interviews YouTube exclusive, use the partnership. Or do online matches at least so that some people can still get exposure. Weren't they doing this for a while with an online show hosted by Borash and Hemme. Whatever happened to that show? It wasn't a half bad idea. |
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Post by kkliq on Jan 13, 2007 17:55:47 GMT -5
They still show it every few weeks, but no one watches anymore. :  |
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Post by Austin's Middle Finger on Jan 13, 2007 18:47:45 GMT -5
The only way round the timing problems is to get the 2nd hour.
Dropping various skits and interviews can only do so much, unfortunately.
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Post by "IcePic" Rick Cobos on Jan 13, 2007 18:57:12 GMT -5
Enough of the atrocious excuses about "they only have an hour, they need to hype up eight PPV matches, give them a break."
I give you:
Monday Night Raw 1995-1996
Now I admittedly was unable to find out when Raw went to a permanent two hour timeslot, but I'm pretty sure that during this period, the show was only an hour. Also, I don't need anybody telling me that this era of Raw had lots of horrible segments and gimmicks, I know that already. But at least the WWF during this era of Raw would sometimes give a match or two enough time to create drama, to get the crowd to CARE about what it's watching. And guess what? During this time, WWF had a PPV EVERY MONTH to build up to. Yes, most of the PPVs were only two hours, however, even when building up for the big three hour PPVs, some matches (ie Shawn Michaels vs. 123 Kid) were at least given enough time to actually hit the "good" region.
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Post by Error on Jan 13, 2007 19:38:09 GMT -5
Enough of the atrocious excuses about "they only have an hour, they need to hype up eight PPV matches, give them a break." I give you: Monday Night Raw 1995-1996 Now I admittedly was unable to find out when Raw went to a permanent two hour timeslot, but I'm pretty sure that during this period, the show was only an hour. Also, I don't need anybody telling me that this era of Raw had lots of horrible segments and gimmicks, I know that already. But at least the WWF during this era of Raw would sometimes give a match or two enough time to create drama, to get the crowd to CARE about what it's watching. And guess what? During this time, WWF had a PPV EVERY MONTH to build up to. Yes, most of the PPVs were only two hours, however, even when building up for the big three hour PPVs, some matches (ie Shawn Michaels vs. 123 Kid) were at least given enough time to actually hit the "good" region. Raw was one hour from the debut in January of 1993 to February 3, 1997. |
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