Why Paul Heyman isn't needed for TNA to improve their product.
Introduction
TNA is a company with many problems, the booking is the root of most of them. Poorly thought out angles, pushing crappy wrestlers and things that make no fucking sense are just a few of TNA's problems. TNA's current booking strategy (or lack thereof) isn't working, and won't enable them to become the number 1 wrestling company. Something needs to change, but Paul Heyman isn't the man who should be making them for a number of reasons, which I'll go into in a moment.
Logic and reason is needed more than any person
A large part of TNA's problem is that their booking makes no sence to the average person. A healthy dose of logic would solve this problem. Anybody with common sence could supply this logic and reason, not just Heyman. In short, Heyman isn't needed to fix most of TNA's problems with the booking.
Paul Heyman is not a successful booker
Paul Heyman is one of wrestling's figures with a very devided opinion about him. He's either a genius, or an overrated fool. His supporters put forward that ECW was a revolution in the pro wrestling buisness. His detractors point out that ECW went bankrupt. ECW was indeed a revolution in the pro wrestling buisness, but once ECW started the ball rolling, other companies took their ideas and improved them. ECW introduced Luncha Libre to an American audience. WCW took ECW's Lunchadores and made the Cruiserweight division, something WCW is still fondly remembered for. ECW introduced the Bear drinking, cursing badasses. WWF created the Attitude Era and Stone Cold Steve Austin. Heyman comes up with great ideas, but it takes other men to profit from them.
In addition, Paul Heyman books beyond his means. He charges forward without no regard to how he's going to support himself afterwards. He gets national PPVs, he gets on cable TV but what happens? His shows don't cut it. The ratings and buys are poor and ECW gets canned.
Heyman is as good as gthe tallent he surrounds himself with. TNA has tallent in abundence, but for how long? How long will the tallent put up with him attempting to reach a level that they can't sustain. How long until the tallented workers have enough of being shocking for the sake of being shocking? How long until working frequent hardcore matches takes their tallent too far and injuries become an epidemic? How long until Heyman's booking kills another company?
Conclusion
Paul Heyman is one of the most overrated figues in Wrestling history. His revolutionalry ideas were not a success until other men took them on board and made them a success. TNA doesn't need to be different right now. It doesn't need to be the first promotion in America to do anything. It needs to be injected with industrial strength logic. When the cancerous booking is sorted, then it can try to be revolutionary. TNA right now needs to walk, not run. Heyman won't walk with TNA, he'll get it in a dragster and let it rip, forgetting to deploy the parachute and cause the company to die in a fireball. Just like ECW.
