(Spinoff) If you owned the TNA for a year what would your objectives be?
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If you owned TNA for 12 months what would be your objectives/priorities?
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I'd ? the Joseph Parks ? .
I'd bring back the 6-sided ring but only for Destination-X.
I'd work on the X-Division.
? the TV title, change it to a different title. Something that's like a light heavyweight title.
Squash the Aces & 8's.
Make Samoa Joe TNA champion.
Push some new faces, TNA keeps ? around w the same ass dudes. -
A year ain't enough time.
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Liquidate.
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well ol' fred would just do errythang dat i wouldve done fo' wwe where i would:
make entertainin' storylines,promos,and segments!
push da right talent!
butt nekkid oily women gittin down and durty in da ring:lesbian style!
but,itll take a hell of a lot of years to save dis company just like how itll take a hell of a lot of years fo' obama to fix america after bush ? it all up! -
holla at Vince and try to get the most money I can get for the company
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You guys swear TNA is actually THAT bad.
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Rehire Jay Lethal
Rehire Kong/Kharma
Get rid of Tito and Rampage
End A&8s and come up with something fresher
End the Joe Parks storyline and make Abyss come back as a beast
Hire Jim Ross as head of talent relations
Remove Sabin from the main event picture
Try to get Ted Turner or someone else with big money as an investor -
You guys swear TNA is actually THAT bad.
TNA has problems on every level. In one year you can change the onscreen product but the business is still ? because the management is ? .
The onscreen issue is the easy part. -
dalyricalbandit wrote: »holla at Vince and try to get the most money I can get for the company
The realest answer basically an Invasion 2.0. -
Adios Hogan Bischoff bring back the pope pump up the x division and tag division raid ROH
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TNA is basically ROH with TV time. ? even Daniel Bryan said he could get more money working the indies than he could with TNA. Horrible storylines, bad booking, they got no knockouts division anymore, focusing on too many old WWE/WCW transplants, getting rid of guys like Jay Lethal, getting rid of the X-division and the 6-sided ring, and their biggest mistake? Attempting to compete with WWE and trying to be something they're not. I mean quite honestly TNA is kind of a sinking ship atm. JR. already said he ain't trynna come to TNA right now, Tara just came out saying her experience with TNA made her appreciate WWE alot more(even though she was dickriding TNA when she was signed there, but whatever), Jeff Jarrett talking about he's surprised they still in business and thinks they'll be done in like 5 years or so, and they can barely put people in the seats.
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Don't travel find your version of the Hammerstein Ballroom and have that ? jumping
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Don't travel find your version of the Hammerstein Ballroom and have that ? jumping
They had the TNA Asylum in the South (Tennessee) I believe.
Imo it is what it is. Nothing you can do to better your perception. The only thing TNA can really hope for that in tge states the fans change or evolve from just being WWE marks to just pure wrestling marks.
Focus on what they do best. Wrestling. Work with ROH as one and develop your talent from there. Theres no point in having a TNA and a ROH at this point. The only hope for a revolution is for these two seperate entities become one , and allow the brains behind ROH to fuel the storylines and ideals.
Even do something with ROH vs TNA ppvs every year until they organically become one. TNA can handle the financials let ROH handle the ideas, and let a real wrestling mind not named Dixie Bischoff or Hogan have the final say in filtering everything. -
Fire Hogan and Bischoff.
Fire Dixie Carter and never answer the phone if she tries to call me.
Re-hire Jay Lethal, Joey Ryan and try to get Christian Cage back in the fold.
Hire Kevin Steen, ACH, Eddie Edwards and fire Wes Brisco, Garrett Bischoff, Mike Knox and BroMance.
Let Kurt Angle go into TNA Hall of Fame then agreed to terms on a mutual release.(let him go back to WWE for one last match and retire for good.)
Make Velvet Sky and Brooke Tess as just eye candy, and hire Mia Yim, Seleziya Sparx, Ivelisse, Lei'D Tapa, Mercedes Martinez, and Amber O' Neal to help boost the TNA Knockouts Division
Keep Sting in an authority figure role, but limit his TV time.
Murder the Aces and 8s concept, Main Event Mafia, and Joseph Park ? .
Book Samoa Joe vs Kevin Steen for the TNA World Title w/ AJ Styles, ACH, Jay Lethal, and Austin Aries in a Fatal Four Way X-Division Title Feud. Out of that feud comes a one on one feud between X Division champion(ACH) and Jay Lethal, with AJ vs Aries in a no. 1 contender feud for TNA World title after that.
This ? ain't much, but it's just ideas to improve the product.
Manik would still be a character but would be in a TV Title feud against probably Sabin or Eddie Edwards. -
Rehire Jay Lethal
Rehire Kong/Kharma
Get rid of Tito and Rampage
End A&8s and come up with something fresher
End the Joe Parks storyline and make Abyss come back as a beast
Hire Jim Ross as head of talent relations
Remove Sabin from the main event picture
Try to get Ted Turner or someone else with big money as an investor
Jim Ross thing is crucial. Dude was in nwa wcw when it ran the south in the lates 80s to early 90s and came up just b4 and during the Attitude era. I think besidss Paul Heyman And Vince this guy is the BEST hope for TNA. Closest thing you can find to Vince overall. Id still wait for Heymans contract ti expire and give him whatever he wants for 3 years at least, and what I said about ROH included.
Youre gonna need every resource available to even have a CHANCE vs WWE. -
Y'all talking like ROH is that much better or some ? . ROH is on that ? as well. Kharma not coming back(she's trying to get back to WWE), Joey ryan just tried out at the WWE performance center and might get on NXT, J.R. just said he not coming to TNA anytime soon and rumors are he'll probably go to UFC before he works with TNA, how you gon' fire the owner of the company? lol, and Velvet Sky and Tessmacher can actually wrestle so...
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Samoa Joe ain't been ? since he was forced into that pathetic Taz jr gimmick. Hes also completely out of shape and unmotivated.
Hes still a good talent but not a franchise player like he used to be.
If any one person has to be TNA's centerpiece for a resurrection it would be Austin Aries right now. I'm also partial to James Storm but hes also irreparably damaged by ? booking.
You need a whole new talent pool anchored by things the wwe doesn't focus on, which means lightweights, women's wrestling, tag teams and luchadores.
TNA instead of competing should become the opposite of wwe. They need things that grab attention from a casual fan but cater mostly to the naturally small wrestling audience. The six sided ring was great for that.
The fatal mistake TNA made was thinking they were on a tier high enough to challenge wwe. Instead they should have kept the company small (letting it grown naturally) and continued showcasing things wwe stayed away from. -
Change it to ? N Ass league.
Fire all male wrestlers. Only hire female ones. They have to be sexy.
Turn it into a softcore porn type of show.
yeahh
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I'll break it down in bullet points cause what I would do is a handful. Primarily:
•Stop trying to make the product WWE Lite. Revamp the presentation.
One of the things that has been TNA’s biggest problem since 2010 is that the 1.5 million at most that watch Impact are WWE fans. What I mean is that a great chunk of that audience is people who are watching Impact are only watching it to get their “rasslin” fix on Thursday night. It’s not really a priority to them nor are they company fans.
A lot of these people are also the biggest TNA detractors yet they can’t stop watching for whatever reason. You can’t expect to entertain these people by giving them a small scale version of what they normally get on Monday night. It will never work that way. The circus of pyrotechnics and bright lights and all those little crinkets only work on a major league level. When a promotion with TNA’s budget tries it they look bush league and it falls flat because this audience knows where to get the real deal. You need to provide them with a real alternative to the norm if you want them to not be disingenuous.
I would make the presentation of the program more sports like. You would have the commentators and the announcers all being pro’s and not being forced to be patsies to the wrestlers and taking bumps. You would have main highlights at the top of the second hour or after something truly worth recapping. Not every 15 minutes. Otherwise it's match analysis and commentary taking up the down time as well as putting over the upcoming PPV's and other related events and sponsors.
I would get rid of the jumbo tron give the wrestlers entrances akin to what you see in boxing and ufc. I would also get some new composers to craft more professional, catchy and authentically recognizable tunes that fit the characters. The only themes I could recognize off the bat right now in TNA are Bully Ray, AJ Styles, Bobby Roode, Jeff Hardy, James Storm and Mickie James (well not anymore). Go more in that direction. Other guys including legends like Sting and Angle have lame create a wrestler music.
Same for Aries and Bad Influence some of the best talent on the roster. That’s a disgrace. Theme songs shouldn’t bleed into each other and sounding indistinguishable from the next. They need to have character and great opening notes that gets the audience hype to deliver that pop. Also stop riffing on other wrestling themes. Hogan’s NOT-Rockhouse theme is just shameless.
You would have wrestlers cutting promos, giving pre-match, post-match interviews. Let the promo cutting to be done in the ring. You need to have Borash interviewing wrestlers backstage all the time like Mene Gene. Any “backstage” footage needs to be special like wrestlers arriving, people sometimes getting into brawls and taking those brawls backstage. No more invisible cameras capturing awkwardly acted moments. Let the wrestlers pop with their own personality. The elevated concert style ramp just so Hogan could walk easier brother is also a joke that ? would go on day one.
•Clean house on a backstage level.
They've done a pretty good job dumping dead weight (Crimson, Taeler Hendrix, Jesse Sorensen) and solid talent that they just didn't know how to use (Tara, Joey Ryan, Matt Morgan, DOC). This is why we saw so much Aries and AJ and knockouts than normal on TV last week. It leaves room for the real standouts to have more prominent roles on the screen and you get less filler during air time.
I also give them props for getting Prichard the ? out which was badly needed. They brought in John Gaburik and paired him with Bischoff and within weeks the production format and overall presentation has improved. They need to continue and dump Dave Lagana and Matt Conway, at least Russo wrote crazy must see ? even at his worst, these guys have some dull concepts and pacing issues.
I would keep Bischoff cause he's delivered on what he was hired to do initially TV production, Impact now compared to the early days is like night and day from a production standpoint. He's also doing a decent job heading creative since being put there this fall so far. It's more consistent and he has a lot of experience in that department. I don't think he's the cancer most of the IWC ignorantly paints him as. On a restricted level he's a good asset and has proven to be a better investment than Hogan, there's somebody that needs to truly go.
Get a new marketing team, restructure HR and PR and R&D and re-establish a more formidable bond with OVW again. Reach out to other promotions like ROH to book events together too and trade talent on and off like the territories used to do and how Jarrett is currently arranging for them to do with Wrestle-1 in Japan. Unity is the only way these smaller promotions could truly eat together in an industry monopolized by capitalists like the McMahons. Use them as the dev element of my promotion much more prominently and truly bring up the most exceptional talent I could find there.
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•Use the roster more effectively; consistently.
Playing up on my first point, the focus would be on the characters and the matches themselves not on dragged out storylines. You’ll build up feuds between characters but always keep it an ensemble show where the characters come first. No need to be too convoluted and overbooking the show all the time which exposes the industry and makes the show look cheesy.
None of that overtly soap opera ? . Just a straight up wrestling show. Also cut back on the babyface and megaheel trend. Use more shades of grey. Give us authentic characters on TV again. This is why so many people whine about how they miss the Attitude era. That’s something that has been missing. The ‘tweener. Sometimes he’s a ? , sometimes he’s nice like regular people. Give them different moods and actual dimension. That has been gone for so long on national TV that it would be refreshing and make TNA a true alternative.
Look at last week’s episode for example for the most part or if you need a retrospective parallel look at ECW and NWA. Yes entertainment is a key component of pro wrestling but you need more balance it becomes ? when people start overcompensating with the "entertainment" and treating it like genuine dramatic TV. This ain't Sons of Anarchy.
People ? on Bischoff but I will say one thing about him now that he took over creative after Brother Love got fired. His booking of the last episode was far more balanced than Prichard’s. We saw Velvet Sky and Brooke T more than once, we saw Aries, Roode, AJ, Daniels, Magnus and Kaz get a lot of vignettes on top of just wrestling. These are the people that need to get pushed.
I’ll keep giving the other young guys like Kenny King and Zema Ion on TV because they have personality and could hold their own in the ring. Manik too. I would use all those guys along with Magnus to solidify the future of the company. I wouldn’t fire Robbie E or Jesse either. Again those guys have at least some personality (you hate them, you’re supposed to) and you need jobbers that are more than just some random guy in the ring.
These are the guys who will remain loyal to TNA in the long run. I would continue down that path the only thing I wouldn’t do is continue having stables (except EGO) and Dixie on TV hogging up valuable screen time that works better on using the roster’s favor since we only have an hour and a half of TV every week.
Use the former WWE guys that are loyal like Hardy and Bully the way they use them now. Effectively giving them breathing room and creative freedom but not to the unfocused extent of someone like Hogan. Using Hardy one of their most over guys to rebuild the X Division for example is a great move especially since his spot fest style is tailor made for that division in the first place.
Angle due to his health I would use as my TV authority figure. He will be a commissioner instead of GM and would still be able to take the occasional bump and wrestle once in a blue (like at a BFG) if necessary but I would drastically cut back on his TV time.
Sting is iffy on the one hand I admire that he’s been appearing there for 10 of the 11 years TNA has been around. It gives them a consistent legend in their corner. On the other Sting is overused but he’s still better than Hogan cause he’s not toxic for TNA he actually puts the company over.
I would book accordingly. He would be like The Undertaker type when it comes to putting on a match and I would mostly use him as a road agent and coach & even use him in the booking committee because he has a great mind for the business.
•Still tour but limit the market appearances.
When it comes to national touring jumping the gun cause Hulk Hogan told them too really cost them a lot on that front. They didn’t do the proper market research. I would find a state where I could solidify a good rep for the company in. Then only tour that state and then slowly spread across the region for the most part for TV tapings. Find a good 4 to 5 small arenas you could run TV easily in regularly and roll with that then organically expand.
Like the territories used to do. It would certainly not make it as monotonous as taping in one studio setting all the time and they could also still charge money this way. I would keep Impact tapings very centralized like how ECW used to run in Philly and at the Hammerstein every other week and tour outside the territory for the ppv’s.
•Reboot the Knockouts Division
This was the highest rated segment of the show back when Dutch Mantel used to book the division. Know why? because he gave a ? . He did the smart thing for business. Bruce Prichard hated women’s wrestling and his dismantling of the division in the past 3 years was ? disgraceful.
One of the worst things was when Sarita’s push was derailed completely because they brought in Tara. It was downright criminal. She was red hot and had a very unique style. She was a female luchador and put on matches with that hook. It was like nothing else on TV and she was ready to go to the next level.
Then they bring the former WWE talent and because she’s a former Diva they ? the momentum of their homegrown star that could’ve been the future to give Tara that monster push. Now Tara is throwing shade in their direction and they have a dead women’s division, funny how that works. Loltna.
You don’t need eye candy ? because the internet exists and people could see eye candy everywhere to their eyes content and nude. Not saying it hurts for a female wrestler to be easy on the eyes. It’s marketable but the chick also needs to really go in the ring and stand out. Mickie James, Sarita those are the types I’m talking about.
For the most part though get girls that really bring something to the plate. Scout around and grow a pair. Give Ivelisse the contract she deserved. Fall back on Lei D’ Tapa, I know she’s unique and could be a monster but she’s just not ready yet. Make Gail the face of the division make ODB number 2 face and book her the same way. Have Brooke and Velvet as the main eye candy of the division but also use them as valets more often since they aren't the most polished wrestlers. Then bring in the Blossom Twins. Scout at SHINE and SHIMMER who have some of the best women’s wrestlers in the world right now and get talent from there too.
People that watch a wrestling show outside of the horndogs actually would invest themselves in a good women’s division. It happened in the past in TNA and it’s happening now in WWE’s NXT which is hands down a superior women’s division to both the WWE Divas and the Knockouts right now. Paige and Emma for example are filled with distinct personality and are actually interesting to watch in matches.
This is the perfect time to bring women wrestling on a national TV level back to a level of prominence on the show but on a real wrestling show style. This is why the UFC women’s PPV set records a couple of months ago. They book it the way Wendy Richther and Sensational Sherri used to be big. Not only are those girls credible badasses but again they’re highlighted for skill first and if they have looks that’s just a plus. That’s a true alternative outlook compared to the other wrestling show on national TV. -
Gail Kim BEEN the face of the knockouts division though. She's the one who started it. Hell, she's part of the reason why the knockout's division is in the shape it is. She came back from that quick 2nd stint in WWE and they gave her EVERYTHING she wanted. Also they only got like 20 wrestlers signed atm.
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Gail Kim was not the focus when Brooke Tessmacher was the champ and going against Tara all the time last year nor was she when Velvet Sky was the star earlier than that. She didn't even get another prominent angle again till she beefed with Taryn Terrell. It is now that they're refocusing on her but for the longest time she was just "there".
Outside of anyone on hiatus (Ie: Taryn Terrell) they have over 30 active wrestlers right now who get used on TV throughout the whole month. That's more than enough for a company that has ONE TV SHOW. Again this is not WWE. Not every promotion has to have 70 plus wrestlers on staff and also this keeps them from giving TV time to people who aren't ready to be on TV like they used to. It's a much more balanced program now due to a more streamlined roster.
Now they just need to add people that are worth adding from now on. They need to be much more discriminate when scouting talent. Find people that will bring value and passion to the company in the long run. The days of hiring anybody that WWE let go off especially if they were upper card and still on good terms with the McMahons should be over and done with. It always ends up being a poor investment. Again refocus on the OVW relationship and mine talent from there and other smaller promotions around the world. -
Gail Kim was not the focus when Brooke Tessmacher was the champ and going against Tara all the time last year nor was she when Velvet Sky was the star earlier than that. She didn't even get another prominent angle again till she beefed with Taryn Terrell. It is now that they're refocusing on her but for the longest time she was just "there".
Outside of anyone on hiatus (Ie: Taryn Terrell) they have over 30 active wrestlers right now who get used on TV throughout the whole month. That's more than enough for a company that has ONE TV SHOW. Again this is not WWE. Not every promotion has to have 70 plus wrestlers on staff and also this keeps them from giving TV time to people who aren't ready to be on TV like they used to. It's a much more balanced program now due to a more streamlined roster.
They only have 20 active wrestlers atm. And Gail Kim started it and has pretty much been the face of the Knockouts division for a while. When you think of Tna's women's division, you think Gail Kim. I'm not saying they have to have 70+, but 23 active wrestlers? Come on son. You had some good suggestions, but in reality, TNA is close to SPIKE TV just buying them out -
You don't watch the show every week clearly. There have been more than 30 distinct wrestlers showcased on TV in the last 5 weeks alone. Spike TV buying them out would actually be a good thing. They would actually have the resources to properly reboot it and potentially run it the way it SHOULD be ran in the first plact especially if they keep Bischoff and Gaburik around.
