6 years ago today
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r.prince18
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the Monday night wars were suppose to start again. well we all know how that turned
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"TNA backed down like a scolded dog"
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TNA ? up
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Now everybody talks about how great RAW is every week. Happily ever after. We got a product to be proud of now.
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iT'S WHAT'S BEST FOR BUSINESS
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Competition isn't the same as "put a similar product on at the same time and hope to split the audience" , competition is to establish a strong product to pit against another. TNA wasn't strong enough to make that move.
WCW didn't come out the gate winning the MNW, they basically ? around for a year and then they had a storyline that took off and made people want to watch that rather than RAW. -
i always felt that TNA should have went the MMA route when it came to its presentation.
since WWE felt that MMA was their main competition and threat, TNA should have used the presentation model and made a hybrid pro wrestling MMA format that presented both worlds. Maybe keep the in-ring action as wrestling, but the lead matches had a Mayweather 24/7 feel, even the interviews are your basic sitdown in a quiet room and discussing the opponent and possible match tactics. Do a press conference for PPV events, of course have the staged brawl for the real intense matches; and most importantly, give the wrestlers talking points, but not script their entire promos/interviews. Let them be who they are.
i felt that if they used that model, they would have been competition on any night. TNA would have been the innovator of changing and merging the genre from purely wrestling to wrestling/MMA. ? , they want to incorporate MMA fighters into the company anyway, so it would have been a smooth transition for some who did crossover to wrestling, and those wrestlers who had the itch to go MMA, at least they wouldn't be fighting for real, but they could be in a similar MMA-type atmosphere when it came to everything else. The wrestlers would be looked at differently than just a wrestler, and it would peek some additional interest in this hybrid sport because it would have been presented differently than what everyone is used to.
instead, TNA simply went WWE-lite, spanked themselves with their poor decisions, and now they're just dead wood floating around. You can't fool the audience twice by using ex-WWE performers as the face of your company and say you have something new and refreshing. It worked for a while in WCW, then it got old, and without developing your young talent/future, you are doomed once the faces of the company start to falter and you have no respectable backups. That's in any sport, depth. If you have no depth, you are going to fail. And TNA didn't have any depth.
