May 28, 201510 yr comment_5670902 I wonder how much of the advertising phobia around TNA Wrestling is due to general pro wrestling stigma and how much is due to their ill-conceived initials? Even if the latter is just a small factor, it's another advantage in Ring Of Honor's favour. I thought they had all but phased out the TNA moniker and we're mainly calling themselves Impact Wrestling now? They did a half-assed job of rebranding where most people still call them TNA anyway (as seen in the memo posted above) and they didn't completely eliminate those initials. It's probably not a big factor, but can't help.
May 28, 201510 yr comment_5670904 The show is called Impact Wrestling. The promotion is still TNA. But they were so unclear about that when they rolled it out in a rebranding effort that it's been confusing people for years.
May 29, 201510 yr comment_5671090 I had to look at this TNA Mecca page, and this quote was in a main page post today: "Firstly, I'd like to address the rumor that Destination America is planning to cancel Impact in September. I think it's important to understand that this is a rumor until someone within TNA or Discovery confirms it. As for the rumor, there has been no evidence presented by the original source that indicates to me that this is true, because let me be clear, the onus is on the source of this story to report the facts and present his evidence." Holy shit. These people are just sitting there in a corner rocking back and forth going "Krusty is coming, Krusty is coming".
May 29, 201510 yr comment_5671141 Jeff Jarrett gave a short interview here:http://csrwrestling.com/one-on-one-with-jeff-jarrett and during the word association part at the end he's asked about Dixie Carter: Dixie Carter- “Great Family, Not Nice, a very nice lady.” RETRACTION! HE SAID A VERY NICE LADY! NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG
May 29, 201510 yr comment_5671181 Looks like the article has been updated since you posted it. It should have said "Nice, very nice lady".
May 29, 201510 yr comment_5671205 That's glorious. So I guess we owe Dixie Carter the TV character to Russo too. And we know why she loves him so much. Terrific.
May 29, 201510 yr comment_5671207 The thing is, aside from the part where he pushes for Dixie to be on TV, I largely agree with Russo. Which is a blind squirrel situation, but he is right. Of course, his ideas would f it up not too far after that, but the Joe/Angle thing was good, and LAX had a cool factor to them.
May 29, 201510 yr comment_5671218 Retraction... he said "Nice. Very nice lady." Too bad. That sounds like the story Foley tells of asking Owen Hart how his match with Dan Severn went. Owen: "He's a nice guy."
May 29, 201510 yr comment_5671246 If Killings ever clarified on who used racial slurs at him, it would be a real interesting fallout
May 30, 201510 yr comment_5671276 Russo does seem like the kind of guy who thinks the real expression is "worth our wild"
May 30, 201510 yr comment_5671280 That letter reminded me that I really enjoyed every TNA ppv from 2005 to September 2006 when they fucked up with Joe. Of course they could had got right back on track next month, but then Russo appeared.
May 31, 201510 yr comment_5671616 Don't we all remember the myriads of "southern 1980's rasslin' cartoons"? I actually couldn't tell you what Cornette ever did that could be described that way. Maybe Prince Kharis, but otherwise I'm drawing a blank at the moment.
May 31, 201510 yr comment_5671619 I actually couldn't tell you what Cornette ever did that could be described that way. Maybe Prince Kharis, but otherwise I'm drawing a blank at the moment. And really, that was all Rick Rubin wanting a wrestling mummy. And Mitchell's promo were dirtier than anything "shocking" Russo ever tried.
June 1, 201510 yr comment_5671981 Don't we all remember the myriads of "southern 1980's rasslin' cartoons"? I actually couldn't tell you what Cornette ever did that could be described that way. Maybe Prince Kharis, but otherwise I'm drawing a blank at the moment. By 2006, Cornette himself was the "Southern 1980s rasslin' cartoon" - looked totally out of place in a modern day environment. I love Corny, but that's the truth. Heck, even in 1995 WWF, he looked like a relic from another era - even though I loved having him there for the novelty of it.
June 2, 201510 yr comment_5672150 I've never bothered with this promotion. I will say though considering they had a wide world of wrestling at their fingertips when they started with only one show in town they place as the absolute worst promotion in terms of business practice and execution by far. When you consider the open market(s) and resources they had they are the steaming pile of shit that the 99% say they are. I believe it was Dirty Harry in Sudden Impact that mentions the three things that you do and/or happen to shit. That's TNA. Who in the hell selected the title for the company? If you were competing with Vivid that's one thing but as part of the Pro Wrestling market. Jesus Harold Christ on a F'ing rubber crutch.
June 2, 201510 yr comment_5672161 Watching the early PPV's, TNA had some pretty good wrestling content from the beginning. It's much much better than the last 1 1/2 year of WCW (then again, everything is), and also murders early WWECW which I happen to watch at the same time.
June 3, 201510 yr comment_5672229 Who in the hell selected the title for the company? If you were competing with Vivid that's one thing but as part of the Pro Wrestling market. Jesus Harold Christ on a F'ing rubber crutch. This is something that can't be overstated enough.
June 3, 201510 yr comment_5672316 Yeah, the name TNA has hurt them a lot I think. Too bad at some point they didn't rebrand. I've watched TNA off and on since they were doing the weekly PPV's (first show I bought was Killings winning the world title) and there has been good, bad, and ugly. The biggest problem I think is a lack of consistency and identity. They have never chosen a direction and stuck with it for very long. It's always felt like 'let's throw everything against the wall and see what sticks', but then they are unhappy with what sticks and start over.
June 4, 201510 yr comment_5672894 Ratings are in for their first night on Wednesday, as well as ROH's debut. PWInsider says 369k for Impact, 273k for ROH (includes replays). So TNA only managed to beat a non-first run showing of a practically unadvertised, worse-looking show by 90k. Not a good look.
June 4, 201510 yr comment_5672897 It's being mentioned how TNA is all about doing the full court press with social media pushing angles and whatnot, yet Mickie James was on twitter apparently fine after being seemingly killed by James Storm on Impact this week.
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