JR: Impact and ROH Should Develope Working Relationship

[It's Damn Real!]

"It would be interesting to see Impact Wrestling and ROH develop some sort of working relationship as it pertains to the use of talent. It likely won't happen but it's worth discussing and no one has anything to lose by sitting down and talking."

http://www.jrsbarbq.com/blog/ross-r...oves-lesnar-has-headline-summer-slam-bah-gawd

This from his blog at jrsbarbq.com

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Years back, the two companies did have something of a relationship regarding talent exchanges, so this isn't completely foreign to think about. They had working relationships with Japan and Mexico as well from time-to-time, so it's not foreign as a tactic either — they've done it before, so it'd certainly be interesting to see them do it again considering how much ex-TNA talent has returned to ROH in recent years.

 

[MCMG]

This would be embarrassing for TNA. They should be in a position to take talent, at will, from ROH rather than sharing some of their best.

It is obvious WWE scout ROH talent. Those talent being involved in TNA would do these guys no favours. Imagine if Kevin Steen was showing up on Impact every few weeks... he would become less desirable to WWE which can't be a good thing.

 

[ABMorales787]

I doubt it. The Feinstein fiasco cut it short and then little by little, fickle disputes have popped up over the years. TNA and ROH are two totally different monsters that have become too proud of what they've become to work anything out in my eyes. ROH taking as many potshots at TNA as they can cannot be much help either.

 

[The Dragon Saga]

This would be embarrassing for TNA. They should be in a position to take talent, at will, from ROH rather than sharing some of their best.

You see, thing is, ROH isn't the same little company it was in 2005 when TNA would have been able to make a few phonecalls and sign a few guys over the span of a weekend like they did Samoa Joe for example. Now TNA has difficulty signing anyone from ROH because TNA doesn't pay their guys enough to make up for someone who is signed to ROH from making money between what their ROH contract pays and what they get from working on their weekends off on the indies.

Kevin Steen has said it at least two or three times during shoot interviews, as has Jay Lethal, nobody is thinking or dreaming about going to TNA. They want to go to WWE, and if that doesn't work out they're happy working for ROH and wrestling on the indies when they're not. They don't have to travel as much, they make good money; it makes sense.

As for an ROH/TNA working relationship, its been suggested so many times over the years, maybe in 2011 I would have liked it, but in 2014, ROH sure as shit doesn't need it. They have their working relationship with NJPW, they have a roster that includes the likes of Kevin Steen, Adam Cole, Michael Elgin, reDRagon, Jay Lethal, The Briscoes, AJ Styles, Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian, The Young Bucks, The Forever Hooligans and on and on, why would they need TNA at a time like this? Especially when TNA only last week contacted several of their workers, which Court Bauer who works for ROH has confirmed wasn't just Davey Richards, but people in TNA themselves!

A lot of interviews happened during the promotion for BITW and in many of them people were asked about possibly going to WWE, with the general answer being, "sure, that'd be great and I'd love to do that someday", but then take say Roderick Strong who was asked about working for TNA again someday after rumors last year said TNA were interested, and he said, "I don't see the gain". Not to mention Richards and Edwards haven't exactly been used as they should have been to my knowledge. Didn't they open Slammiversary and not even in a tag match?

 

[Fabulous Freebirds]

Don't like it simply because it does not benefit either company. The companies don't like each other; the respective fanbase does not like each other.

TNA would not gain anything from this. ROH seems to be happy in their niche spot.

If this GFW is a real thing, and they can get on TV. That is who TNA should really work with since Jeff Jarrett says he still owns a portion of TNA.

 

[Stormlor]

I don't see it happening. ROH has a bigger fan base than it did before.

What I do see is TNA working with indy leagues like House of Hardcore. I can see more of that happening and not ROH.

 

[Lowdown]

I doubt this would ever happen, mainly due to some of the former TNA stars that are currently working with ROH (Styles, Bad Influence, Jay Lethal). Now I won't pretend if I know if these companies "hate" each other, but I do detect quite a few sour grapes, like the Kenny King situation a couple years back. In a perfect world it could work, it it seems shaky at best.

 

[T2KFreeker]

As a fan of both promotions, I would actually love to see it, but as stated above, I doubt it would ever work out. I also agree that I don't see it helping either company. RoH has it's own thing going and has been on a slow growing spurt as of late. Seems if they went back to sharing talent with TNA, it would set them a step back possibly. Same with TNA as the last few weeks seems to point to the company somewhat getting a grip again, so I just don't see this helping them either. Well, like I said, from a fan standpoint, I'd love to see some matches from a thing like that, but I just don't see it happening, sadly.

 

[Jonny Ransom]

I think it would ultimately hurt TNA. Fans would get a taste of ROH talent, see that what is enjoyable about Impact comes from ROH talent or former ROH talent, and with current talent being given exposure on national television (given that the working relationship happened), it would drive a few fans away from TNA and towards ROH.

Don't get me wrong, it'd be great for ROH, because they'd get the exposure, but I'm not sure it would be great for TNA.

But who knows?

 

[Zeven_Zion]

I think it would ultimately hurt TNA. Fans would get a taste of ROH talent, see that what is enjoyable about Impact comes from ROH talent or former ROH talent, and with current talent being given exposure on national television (given that the working relationship happened), it would drive a few fans away from TNA and towards ROH.

Don't get me wrong, it'd be great for ROH, because they'd get the exposure, but I'm not sure it would be great for TNA.

But who knows?

I seriously doubt it works like that. First of all, you're assuming ROH is better by default. Secondly, if ROH was the tits it would've garnered a larger following already. Thirdly, don't assume viewers are morons who can be swayed that easily. If it was that simple, TNA'd be as big as the WWE right now. Viewers care about a lot more than the wrestlers on a show. Stories, look, how it all flows. Unfortunately for ROH, those are not their strong points. Awesome wrestlers, everything else is sub-par.

As far as a ROH-TNA thing, I say why not. TNA is not going out of business because of ROH and ROH can use some help. Some nice shows here and there, some guys get good opportunities and we get some nice moments? What's the harm. Not every cooperation needs to include people taking sides. If anything, ROH and TNA are cut out of the same cloth and the people who will pick sides are the morons who still think a "war" can happen. It won't.