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Post by Michael Coello on Feb 2, 2007 17:59:38 GMT -5
Also, how long did it take WCW to actually "compete" with WWE? (I mean overall, not just the "Monday night Wars.") It seems like TNA is trying to rush things, and that can't be good, either. Wait for Vince to make a bigger mistake than losing Christian and Angle, and then try to be viable competition. I don't think Russo is the man for the job, unfortunately. 11 years, I think. Gotta check my "Death of WCW" book. You're right about Russo not being the man for the job,though. Hopefully, with the news that Tenay and Cornette seem to be joining the booking team, things will get better. |
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Post by maxx420 on Feb 2, 2007 18:05:39 GMT -5
Also, how long did it take WCW to actually "compete" with WWE? (I mean overall, not just the "Monday night Wars.") It seems like TNA is trying to rush things, and that can't be good, either. Wait for Vince to make a bigger mistake than losing Christian and Angle, and then try to be viable competition. I don't think Russo is the man for the job, unfortunately. 11 years, I think. Gotta check my "Death of WCW" book. You're right about Russo not being the man for the job,though. Hopefully, with the news that Tenay and Cornette seem to be joining the booking team, things will get better. Cornette & Russo on the same booking team? Somebody gon' get dey wig split! |
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Post by kickassforumguyme on Feb 2, 2007 18:07:42 GMT -5
Would we have all these threads about how tna sucks? Raw is so bad right now. Donald trump vs vince mcmahon is an actual fued that is taking up lots of time. But when tna has a promo people get all pissed off... "OMG there was 18 mins of wrestling and 20 mins of promos... oh Nooooooosssss. Tna iz teh dead." Why can't you just enjoy it? Because 95.469% of the people on here cant get girlfriends and are very bitter towards life. |
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Post by hollywood on Feb 2, 2007 18:08:01 GMT -5
I've skipped that past two weeks of TNA. I think they were averaging about 9 minutes of wrestling on a 1 hour show. Usually they had 2-3 matches, and they always, ALWAYS ended in a DQ or screwjob.
Yea, Russo's my scapegoat. I don't care. The man isn't half as great at booking as he thinks he is. Personally, I think he's a total hack and, based on his interview with RD and Blade, completely stuck on himself. ("Yoo hafta undah-stand...yoo jus' dun undah-stand...see, yoo gotta undah-stand...")
TNA was never stellar, but they were definitely better before Russo took over, even while on Spike.
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Post by The Wrestling Rambler on Feb 2, 2007 18:54:28 GMT -5
Also, how long did it take WCW to actually "compete" with WWE? (I mean overall, not just the "Monday night Wars.") It seems like TNA is trying to rush things, and that can't be good, either. Wait for Vince to make a bigger mistake than losing Christian and Angle, and then try to be viable competition. Good point, its a factor a lot of people are missing here. Suddenly TNA is starting to get a bigger fan base, and become more in the general public eye of the Wrestling World and people are straight away comparing it to its closest competition, WWE. TNA has come on so much, in comparison to other companies; and as much as I love ROH and CZW, in the same time frame, (longer in CZW's case) TNA has surpassed both of them, and landed themselves an hourly time-slot, which achieves an average 1.0 rating a week. And if anything TNA, have a harder uphill battle than WCW did. WCW, even though Dixie Carter has financial backing, had wads of cash thrown at it by Turner. TNA are lucky to get people like Angle and Christian, where as WCW were having loads of "the big names" jump ship whenever Bischoff wanted. One of the big problems with ECW, was that Paul Heyman was rushing it too fast. He was wanting to compete there and then. And when the big names started leaving, he tried to fight fire with fire, by paying them more money to stay, pay more money to keep his product up to the standard that TNN wanted and in the end we know what happened. As much as I know TNA could be better than what it currently is, for a company of its size, and for a company that has only been running for just over 4 years, TNA, if anything, is over-achieving. People really should stop being so damn picky when it comes to TNA, and appriciate that as frustrating as the product can be, its finally providing us with an alternative to the monopoly of WWE. |
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Post by hollywood on Feb 2, 2007 18:59:16 GMT -5
Also, how long did it take WCW to actually "compete" with WWE? (I mean overall, not just the "Monday night Wars.") It seems like TNA is trying to rush things, and that can't be good, either. Wait for Vince to make a bigger mistake than losing Christian and Angle, and then try to be viable competition. Good point, its a factor a lot of people are missing here. Suddenly TNA is starting to get a bigger fan base, and become more in the general public eye of the Wrestling World and people are straight away comparing it to its closest competition, WWE. TNA has come on so much, in comparison to other companies; and as much as I love ROH and CZW, in the same time frame, (longer in CZW's case) TNA has surpassed both of them, and landed themselves an hourly time-slot, which achieves an average 1.0 rating a week. And if anything TNA, have a harder uphill battle than WCW did. WCW, even though Dixie Carter has financial backing, had wads of cash thrown at it by Turner. TNA are lucky to get people like Angle and Christian, where as WCW were having loads of "the big names" jump ship whenever Bischoff wanted. One of the big problems with ECW, was that Paul Heyman was rushing it too fast. He was wanting to compete there and then. And when the big names started leaving, he tried to fight fire with fire, by paying them more money to stay, pay more money to keep his product up to the standard that TNN wanted and in the end we know what happened. As much as I know TNA could be better than what it currently is, for a company of its size, and for a company that has only been running for just over 4 years, TNA, if anything, is over-achieving. People really should stop being so damn picky when it comes to TNA, and appriciate that as frustrating as the product can be, its finally providing us with an alternative to the monopoly of WWE. That's all well and good, but they still don't entertain me. |
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