miroa12004
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For the last 12 hours or so, this forum has been floded with TNA hate threads, with Total Nonstop bashing on TNA, how the new regime sucks, how Hogan and Bischoff are taring TNA apart, how TNA is domed to fail or that TNA is the new WCW and one thread even went as far as saying that Hogan & Bischoff are in TNA to steal money 
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Now this kinda amused me, that people start ripping a product they were just recently introduced to, people even compared WCW at its 8th year of existence to TNA's current year, ignoring a lot of things, as simple as how TNA has just entered a new regime or how WCW was backed by the non ending money of Ted Turner.
To think that TNA at this early stage of changing their program from Thursdays to Mondays are going to beat RAW on its usual time slot is very optimistic, now some people are going to say but WCW did it at their first year of introducing Nitro, well my response is that IMPACT won't be like Nitro at any way or form, you see, when Turner created WCW, he created it on the ashes of JCP, meaning that it had a lot of following from the Mid Atlantic region, and almost every casual fan in that area knew exactly what WCW was as JCP programming was on Turner's network and Ted advertised ths shit out of WCW on it, on the other hand, if you weren't a hardcore wrestling fan, you wouldn't have even known what the hell is TNA, the company was created out of nowhere and with almost non exsistent advertising.
Even at that stage and despite carrying the NWA belts (something that was huge at the time of the early 90s), WCW were doing very bad numbers in almost everything (ratings, PPV buys and revenue incomes) despite having some very recognized names like Ric Flair, Dusty Rhodes and Sting, TNA on the other hand started from scratch with no star power, poor production and poor PPV buys to their old Wednesday night PPVs, yet managed to stay in the buissness with this model for two years.
WCW buissness was turned around when Bischoff became the company's executive producer, production values were upgraded, the non ending cash from good ol' Ted helped him make the move to Disney studios signing the BIGgest names that fell out with Vince like Hogan and Savage in the process, yet WCW numbers weren't that great espciall in the ratings despite it being shown on Turner's network with a lot of advertising and a list of star power that is bigger than the WWF, TNA on the other hand had to be saved by Dixie Carter and Pande Energy and signed a deal in 2004 with Foxsports a network that is not viewed by so man people, and was never know to broadcast any wrestling shows before.
Now people are ripping TNA in their 8 year exsistence and compare it to WCW's numbers in 1998 (8 years after its creation) but they completly missed the whole point here, when WCW made the move to Monday nights, WWF was not the giant force that the WWE are now, most importantly WCW had a star power that was similar to or bigger than that of the WWF's, WCW was shown on a network that was close in numbers to the network that used to broadcast RAW unlike Spike TV and the USA network right now, Turner broadcasting advertised the shit out of Nitro every hour non stop while Spike TV while advertising TNA, they barely mention them outside the show and when they do it is poor and is not enough to make most of the casual viewers to know about their existence, Bischoff had the money to go live on the road and buy some production equipement that exeeded WWF's at the time, TNA to this day doesn't have the money to do that, and IMO the most important point is that helped WCW become a threat to Vince and the WWF and establish themselves in the wrestling industryTurner's money enabled Bischoff to sign whoever he wanted from Vince's roster as he offered them more money and less workload and that got him huge names from the WWF at that time like Luger, Hall and Nash, don't forget that the internet wasn't like today so it was easier to keep the surprises from the fans, thats like TNA signing the likes of Kofi Kingston, Chris Jericho and John Morisson and keeping it away from the IWC.
Now it took WCW five years to start being a threat to the WWF and six years to actually compete with them despite being more stronger than the WWF at the time and despite the non ending resources that they have, granted TNA did some stupid lame things in the new regime but then again who doesn't, and on the recent sets of IMPACT the postives outwighted the negatives to start ranting.
IMO, TNA's biggest problem is advertising, what they need to do is try getting new fans rather than trying to steal from WWE, they should promote the hell out of their show as being a must watch if you want an action packed over the top edgy entertainment, there is a lot of teens who choose to go to MMA because they think Pro Wrestling is for kids, these are those fans TNA need to garter to, should TNA try to convince them to cross the line, and with a must see program, I guess these teens would enjoy Pro Wrestling more and TNA's numbers might increase.
One last thing, for those who say Bischoff and Hogan went to TNA to steal money, I don't want to sound mean but you should laugh at yourself, I am not Hogan's nor Bischoff's, but I'm sure if they went to TNA solely for money, then they would've gone to the WWE where they'd been offered more lucrative deals without doing much work as they do in TNA.
Bottom line is TNA has been doing this change for three months and people start moaning when this change started, if you want it to suceed, try giving it time, if you just want to bitch and moan, then sorry but you should fuck off to the same repititive show and watch a midget trying to bore you to death, or two ugly twins trying to sleep with whoever the guest host is.
.Now this kinda amused me, that people start ripping a product they were just recently introduced to, people even compared WCW at its 8th year of existence to TNA's current year, ignoring a lot of things, as simple as how TNA has just entered a new regime or how WCW was backed by the non ending money of Ted Turner.
To think that TNA at this early stage of changing their program from Thursdays to Mondays are going to beat RAW on its usual time slot is very optimistic, now some people are going to say but WCW did it at their first year of introducing Nitro, well my response is that IMPACT won't be like Nitro at any way or form, you see, when Turner created WCW, he created it on the ashes of JCP, meaning that it had a lot of following from the Mid Atlantic region, and almost every casual fan in that area knew exactly what WCW was as JCP programming was on Turner's network and Ted advertised ths shit out of WCW on it, on the other hand, if you weren't a hardcore wrestling fan, you wouldn't have even known what the hell is TNA, the company was created out of nowhere and with almost non exsistent advertising.
Even at that stage and despite carrying the NWA belts (something that was huge at the time of the early 90s), WCW were doing very bad numbers in almost everything (ratings, PPV buys and revenue incomes) despite having some very recognized names like Ric Flair, Dusty Rhodes and Sting, TNA on the other hand started from scratch with no star power, poor production and poor PPV buys to their old Wednesday night PPVs, yet managed to stay in the buissness with this model for two years.
WCW buissness was turned around when Bischoff became the company's executive producer, production values were upgraded, the non ending cash from good ol' Ted helped him make the move to Disney studios signing the BIGgest names that fell out with Vince like Hogan and Savage in the process, yet WCW numbers weren't that great espciall in the ratings despite it being shown on Turner's network with a lot of advertising and a list of star power that is bigger than the WWF, TNA on the other hand had to be saved by Dixie Carter and Pande Energy and signed a deal in 2004 with Foxsports a network that is not viewed by so man people, and was never know to broadcast any wrestling shows before.
Now people are ripping TNA in their 8 year exsistence and compare it to WCW's numbers in 1998 (8 years after its creation) but they completly missed the whole point here, when WCW made the move to Monday nights, WWF was not the giant force that the WWE are now, most importantly WCW had a star power that was similar to or bigger than that of the WWF's, WCW was shown on a network that was close in numbers to the network that used to broadcast RAW unlike Spike TV and the USA network right now, Turner broadcasting advertised the shit out of Nitro every hour non stop while Spike TV while advertising TNA, they barely mention them outside the show and when they do it is poor and is not enough to make most of the casual viewers to know about their existence, Bischoff had the money to go live on the road and buy some production equipement that exeeded WWF's at the time, TNA to this day doesn't have the money to do that, and IMO the most important point is that helped WCW become a threat to Vince and the WWF and establish themselves in the wrestling industryTurner's money enabled Bischoff to sign whoever he wanted from Vince's roster as he offered them more money and less workload and that got him huge names from the WWF at that time like Luger, Hall and Nash, don't forget that the internet wasn't like today so it was easier to keep the surprises from the fans, thats like TNA signing the likes of Kofi Kingston, Chris Jericho and John Morisson and keeping it away from the IWC.
Now it took WCW five years to start being a threat to the WWF and six years to actually compete with them despite being more stronger than the WWF at the time and despite the non ending resources that they have, granted TNA did some stupid lame things in the new regime but then again who doesn't, and on the recent sets of IMPACT the postives outwighted the negatives to start ranting.
IMO, TNA's biggest problem is advertising, what they need to do is try getting new fans rather than trying to steal from WWE, they should promote the hell out of their show as being a must watch if you want an action packed over the top edgy entertainment, there is a lot of teens who choose to go to MMA because they think Pro Wrestling is for kids, these are those fans TNA need to garter to, should TNA try to convince them to cross the line, and with a must see program, I guess these teens would enjoy Pro Wrestling more and TNA's numbers might increase.
One last thing, for those who say Bischoff and Hogan went to TNA to steal money, I don't want to sound mean but you should laugh at yourself, I am not Hogan's nor Bischoff's, but I'm sure if they went to TNA solely for money, then they would've gone to the WWE where they'd been offered more lucrative deals without doing much work as they do in TNA.
Bottom line is TNA has been doing this change for three months and people start moaning when this change started, if you want it to suceed, try giving it time, if you just want to bitch and moan, then sorry but you should fuck off to the same repititive show and watch a midget trying to bore you to death, or two ugly twins trying to sleep with whoever the guest host is.