Excuse me fellas, but where did you get that precious information of pro wrestling not being big in India? Can you please offer some data in the form of research for instance? Something to solidify your claim? Or are you just being ignorant by stating that there's not a big wrestling following in India just because it's India and it's beyond your spectrum of information about other countries?
I'm Bulgarian and I remember that when our stations were broadcasting WWF shows in the late 90's it spread like wildfire. Every man woman and child was hot for it, we were collecting these little cards and dressed in wrestling T-shirts, buying all the fake WWF merch because they didn't ship to Bulgaria, so Bulgarian factories made WWF shit for us to buy because it was a craze. It's Bulgaria we're talking here, and it wasn't much better back then. Just some measly 8-9 years after the whole country broke down. If it was huge in that spit of land, then I'm guessing there's a following in India we just don't know much about it.
If TNA starts a project there, obviously they do it with a reason. If there was no particular wrestling following in India, why did the pick it? Surely there are plenty of countries that don't give a damn about wrestling.
And most of those countries don't have a rapidly developing market of 1.2 billion people. In fact, none of them do. China had something close to that, and they've already had their Western business rush. If you haven't been paying attention to the business pages for the past decade, and especially the past few years, there's a business rush on to India.
Obviously TNA/IW must have "a reason", but your mistake in thinking is making that second additional leap and assuming "and that reason must be wise and unknowable to anyone else".
There is a fan following in India for professional wrestling. As I said in another thread, the WWE has sold out cards in Mumbai for a while. But every time the WWE has tried to expand into India, they've ended up scaling back their plans and withdrawing. Using your same logic, if the WWE kills two projects in India, surely they must have a reason. You just don't have to worry your pretty little head about actually
thinking of what that reason would be, whereas I take that little extra lunge of thought and examine the fact that while competitive violence for profit has been a Western tradition since the Romans, India doesn't have near the West's history of paid pugilism.
Now if you're going to ask people to solidify their claim, you have to respond better in your own post than "surely they must have a reason, and I don't have to think about it". Not a very solid statement, is that one. Lately you've been doing that popular internet "ask someone for an impossible proof of an opinion thing", so you have to knock that shit off. No one here can say, yea or nea, that TNA India will be a success or failure, and prove it "solidly". That "solidify their claim" statement is a bullshit additive to claim your opponents are using poor fact checking while your post consists of an anecdote about a country a continent away, and "they must know better".
I've at least provided a historical narrative on why I believe that TNA India is a flawed investment, between this post and the one I made in the other India thread. (I've got a shitload to do today and absolutely do not have the time to make a grand, cross-referenced post. You get about three minutes of me typing.) Would you care to go deeper into that "obviously they must have a reason" and try to think of one so that you can approach this discussion with a counterpoint?
