Foley on Twitter/TNA Attendance

[Brian in Austin]

Just saw this and thought it was pretty funny, especially from someone being paid BY TNA to help push their product. Says a LOT about the fanbase of TNA.

Or lack of...

Mick Foley took a fun jab at TNA's poor house show attendance during a Twitter back-and-forth with the Rock. The Rock had posted the following: "In the famous 'I Quit' match, I handcuffed Mick Foley and bashed his face 14 (times) with a steel chair. He bled. I won."

Foley then responded, "Maybe so, but two days later, I trapped The Rock under a pallet of beer kegs to win the WWE strap in an Empty Arena match a/k/a TNA house show."

 

[MB1025]

Just saw this and thought it was pretty funny, especially from someone being paid BY TNA to help push their product. Says a LOT about the fanbase of TNA.

Or lack of...

Mick Foley took a fun jab at TNA's poor house show attendance during a Twitter back-and-forth with the Rock. The Rock had posted the following: "In the famous 'I Quit' match, I handcuffed Mick Foley and bashed his face 14 (times) with a steel chair. He bled. I won."

Foley then responded, "Maybe so, but two days later, I trapped The Rock under a pallet of beer kegs to win the WWE strap in an Empty Arena match a/k/a TNA house show."

It says a lot about you when you continuously have gone out of your way to post negative things about TNA and their fan base just to get a kick out of it.

TNA gets 600 - 1500 people at house shows. Some weekends they beat WWE's attendance. Not all the time, but a few times in a 2 months span.

 

[It's Damn Real!]

Good god, man, who gives a shit? It was a harmless joke.

This also doesn't belong here, it belongs in the spam section considering it's hardly even news worthy.

 

[willross]

lmao when does TNA outdraw WWE in anything?!?!?

Shows how garbage a front office is when an employee can diss their company like that and still have a job. Whose running that place down there?

Fire Foley for publically critical of your company and then I will believe the ones in the suits have control of that place and not the talent

 

[Coco]

I take offense to this. Surely news belongs in the spam section as well.

 

[Clem]

I think Mick was just joking, but he's gone about it in such a bad way that I can't help but feel TNA will take major offense to it.

If he was tweeting with another TNA employee, like Jeremy Borash for instance, and he made a snarky comment about TNA, absolutely no one would think twice about it. That's a good nature rib being kept within the confines of the company.

However, to converse with a WWE "superstar" and make that same joke....ouch. It feels like it's behind TNA's back and Foley is more than happy to stick a knife in it.

I do wonder whether Mick has some bad feelings towards TNA at the moment. There were those reports on the site of him not knowing why he should bother re-signing with the company when his contract came up, that he didn't like the idea of being the Network representative and had initially shot it down, that they had to retape his Impact Wrestling announcement because it was done so poorly the first time, etc.

I'm not even going to pretend to know what Mick's relationship with TNA is currently like, but I always assumed his crossing the line was a good thing. He got to work a reduced schedule, had numerous title runs way past his prime, was called "the greatest acquisition in TNA history" (even though Kurt Angle was on the roster at the time) and continues to have a feature role on tv even though he can't wrestle anymore. Basically...don't be a dick Mick.

 

[Brian in Austin]

It says a lot about you when you continuously have gone out of your way to post negative things about TNA and their fan base just to get a kick out of it.

TNA gets 600 - 1500 people at house shows. Some weekends they beat WWE's attendance. Not all the time, but a few times in a 2 months span.

I guess you missed my post last week after Impact where I praised the show overall on the quality didn't you?


I also believe you're missing the larger point here, which is that when someone in Foley's position, joke or not, makes this kind of comment publicly, it says alot about where they are as a company. There is a grain of truth in what he's saying regarding attendance for their house shows and why I continue to say they have a long way to go yet.

Good news is that on so many levels they have nowhere to go but up.

 

[Coco]

CM Punk shits on the WWE publicly. I guess that company sucks too.

 

[Brian in Austin]

Good god, man, who gives a shit? It was a harmless joke.

This also doesn't belong here, it belongs in the spam section considering it's hardly even news worthy.

Actually if you pair this with the comments Hogan made last week regarding the need for TNA and Spike to work harder to expand the reach of their brand, if comes across in a very different, and bad, way for TNA.

Their struggles to sell seats and PPV buys is not a good thing, regardless of what the TNA faithful on this site will say. Empty seats and a lack of alternative revenue streams (like PPV buys) isn't good.

 

[Sinister Shadows]

I wouldn't read too much into it, i mean good god, Foley plugs TNA more than any other person on the payroll just about.

 

[Smooth Sexual Chocolate]

TNA fanboys take everything so fucking personally, like Foley made the joke while fucking your mother right after he killed your childhood dog then forced you to consume the discharge with your morning bowl of cheerios.

 

[shattered dreams]

Foley took a "jab" at Vince AKA the WWE in there as well but I guess that isn't as "newsworthy."

Probably not the best thing for Foley to say but it really is basically irrelevant, just like Al Snow's career. It is no secret the relationship is strained some. I wouldn't be surprised if TNA was writing him off soon anyway but then again I wouldn't be surprised if they smoothed this rough patch over.

I like Foley, I like TNA. None of this stuff, especially something this pointless is going to change that.

 

[Big Nick Dudley]

The Network told Foley to do it, BROTHER.

Controversy creates cash, DUDE.

 

[Pepe Silvia]

TNA fanboys take everything so fucking personally, like Foley made the joke while fucking your mother right after he killed your childhood dog then forced you to consume the discharge with your morning bowl of cheerios.

Captain Crunch bitch

It's like blading but in your mouth

 

[FitFinlay4Life]

The Network told Foley to do it, BROTHER.

Controversy creates cash, DUDE.

Good call, big lad. Think of it this way, Foley got TNA mentioned in a post with the Rock, this is like a variation of getting TNA acknowledged by WWe (with the 'Great Ones' prominent current storyline role for WM28). If this gets 1000 people to google TNA, 'discover' Foley works for them and then that Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Sting et cetera also work there and then gets them to either watch Impact or attend a house show then he has done his job. There is an old saying "There is no such thing as bad publicity." This is publicity hidden under a joke, he could hardly have gone on saying "TNA is the best" or it would have been just as derided and would probably have dropped his respect in Mr Johnson's eyes.

 

[Brian in Austin]

Good call, big lad. Think of it this way, Foley got TNA mentioned in a post with the Rock, this is like a variation of getting TNA acknowledged by WWe (with the 'Great Ones' prominent current storyline role for WM28). If this gets 1000 people to google TNA, 'discover' Foley works for them and then that Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Sting et cetera also work there and then gets them to either watch Impact or attend a house show then he has done his job. There is an old saying "There is no such thing as bad publicity." This is publicity hidden under a joke, he could hardly have gone on saying "TNA is the best" or it would have been just as derided and would probably have dropped his respect in Mr Johnson's eyes.

Isn't that akin to Foley having said something like "We're bad, just come check out how bad we are!" I mean, I get what you're saying and all, but I always enjoy it when the TNA fanboys take anything negative said by someone either with TNA or formerly with TNA and spins it into how it's really a good thing.


At the end of the day, low PPV buys and lack of ticket sales at house shows is not a good thing, no matter how it gets spun by hardcore TNA fans.

 

[Brian in Austin]

CM Punk shits on the WWE publicly. I guess that company sucks too.

This thread isn't about CM Punk or WWE. If you'd like to discuss that issue, feel free to start your own thread on the subject.

 

[FitFinlay4Life]

Isn't that akin to Foley having said something like "We're bad, just come check out how bad we are!" I mean, I get what you're saying and all, but I always enjoy it when the TNA fanboys take anything negative said by someone either with TNA or formerly with TNA and spins it into how it's really a good thing.

At the end of the day, low PPV buys and lack of ticket sales at house shows is not a good thing, no matter how it gets spun by hardcore TNA fans.

I'm a hardcore wrestling fan Bri and as such I want a strong competitive company to the WWe (especially as Vince has now gotten so complacent that he is trying to distance himself from that which made him the rich man he is).

Foley didn't say "We're bad, just come check out how bad we are!" (unless you think his empty arena match was bad). He has acknowledged that TNA struggles at times for house show crowds. How does this translate to "Don't watch us or attend our shows"?

You however have brought in PPV buy rates (which Foley never mentioned) and slagged off 'TNA fanboys' making this thread appear to be a veiled attack on TNA and it's fans and as such legitimising Wicked Val's WWe / CM Punk rebuttal (the irony here is, I don't even think Val is that big a TNA fan).

Why shouldn't TNA fans try to read this as a positive thing? It makes more sense that a TNA employee would be trying to get some interest in his company rather than burying it, which would be how a TNA hater might read between the lines.

 

[Coco]

This thread isn't about CM Punk or WWE. If you'd like to discuss that issue, feel free to start your own thread on the subject.

No. I want your opinion on my comparison and the WWE as a company. Right here and now.

 

[ABMorales787]

This thread isn't about CM Punk or WWE. If you'd like to discuss that issue, feel free to start your own thread on the subject.

Screw that. It's spam for a reason, bub.

At the end of the day, low PPV buys and lack of ticket sales at house shows is not a good thing, no matter how it gets spun by hardcore TNA fans.

No shit.

 

[Kenny Powers]

It was just a joke. After seeing Foley live at a recent TNA house show in my hometown with a small turn out, I can't blame him. TNA still had a better turn out this year then previous years, but your not going to see 10,000 people show up for a TNA house show or even PPV. It's common sense.

 

[Stuntz]

Wow alot of people taking a small comment out of proportion. Simple fact is neither WWE or Tna do that great at house shows. Foley made a funny comment and all you TNA Die Hards are all pissed off about it. How can he get fired(even if they wanted to) for telling the truth.

 

[poppycock]

Just a joke that is all. Foley has a sense of humour..some TNA fans obviously do not.

 

[whoopin' ass]

i think it was all meant in fun. from what i understand, TNA house shows actually do fairly well in terms of both attendence and match quality - not wwe in terms of attendence but still pretty good. from what i have read, the house shows are actually a lot better than the tv product. it happens a lot and with how much effort foley has put into tna, i don't think he was taking a cheap shot at them.

 

[UnBEARaBULLfan]

Just a joke that is all. Foley has a sense of humour..some TNA fans obviously do not.

I dont see TNA fans getting worked up over a joke, I see TNA fans getting worked up over someone (brian in austin) trying to make more out of it than what it is. Just a joke.