The Carters Selling TNA? / Future of TNA

[shalliin]

I have strong faith that TNA will continue to be operated by the Carters for at least the next couple years! The Carters make what seems like unlimited amount of money. Most families worth this much almost always make more than they spend for a couple generations. Some of them never spend at all. Their big spendings come in the form of donations towards relief efforts, charities, funding events, and investments. At the end of the day, people make money to spend it. Through Dixie Carter's eyes TNA is worth spending a lot of money. Not just from a business standpoint, but for the fans, and the careers/family of their main roster. This is HER company, her baby, her career! If the Carters were to sell TNA, Dixie would be out of a job. Now that won't effect her financially, but it would mentally. Dixie isn't the type of person to roll over and accept complete failure.

How do you know this? Do you know her personally? Whose to say she isn't exactly the type to cut her loses. Carters have unlimited money? since when? With her educational background, and family connections she could always go back to the work she was doing before they bought TNA. SO how do you know she won't get fed up with the downward trend and just dump it? she's likely smart enough to know when to give up a failing venture, and considering they only paid 250$ thousand for it back in 2002, it's not 11 years of loosing money(well they might have had 1 or two years of profit) how much do you think they've shoveled out for it? when will she admit it's enough?

On that note, I cant stand the way people automatically believe everything in the dirtsheets. I'm sure every company that matters often uses the dirtsheets to create some kind of conversation about their product. Isn't it coincidence that all these stories about TNA going out of business, and AJ being the next person out the door, are almost parallel with whats going on in the show?

No that's not a coincidence. That's what would normally be called supporting arguement. Coincidence would be if they talked about AJ being the next one out the door, and then he announced he'd signed with wwe. Two people or groups talking about the same thing at the same time is not coincidence. I think from the tone I get while reading your post, you are looking for the word collaboration, meaning they are working together to promote or hype an event or person. Coincidence is Dixie looking to buy a wrestling company just as one of them was being shopped around. Hogan looking for a job just as the release for the new 2k14 wwe wrestling game with the new Wrestlemania history mode is set to be released at the end of the month.

During last nights Impact Dixie told the crowd that they always have opinions on how she runs her wrestling business, but in reality they have no idea what is going on and what they are talking about. Wouldn't it be an Eric Bischoff idea to "leak" these "stories" and "reports" in order to have a storyline that reflects some of the rumors? Blending reality and wrestling, blurring the line? What about taking the Dixie haters general feeling and putting it on TV for us by making her heel? I mean who would have guessed they would have pubically acknowledged the Dixie haters demo the way they have? Eric B did this on a unprecedented level during the 90's and fooled most people.

the only thing i remember eric ever leaking in this sense is telling people at the start of a nitro that mick foley was going to win the wwe belt on raw. this back fired on him since he was trying to make a point that wwe must suck if they had foley as the champ, but instead it drove people to raw to watch foley win his dream and become champ. from that point on, the ratings were drifted over to raw and they didn't look back until they drove wcw under.

 

[shalliin]

If this does happen, and that's a big IF, then there are really only two scenarios that I can see that would play out to TNA's advantage.

1. Spike TV buys the company and either runs it themselves, or they put Eric Bischoff in charge of the day to day running of things. Essentially like WCW was run. Like it or not Bischoff made tons of money for Ted Turner with WCW and the shows under his guidance drew huge ratings that blew WWE out of the water for two years. If Bischoff learned from his mistakes in WCW and makes a few smart signings and combines his knowledge of the wrestling and television industries this is bar non the best choice for all concerned.

No, Bischoff lost Ted Turner a lot of money while running wcw like a schoolground pickup game. Only the most popular or strongest got what they wanted and got to pick who they wanted and those they didn't like or who didn't kiss up to them were routinely treated like dirt until they left. AOL should never have been able to buy out Time Warner. If anything, the merger should have been in favor of TW, but the mismanagement of money for WCW and other subsidiaries cost them their footing in the stock market and made them weak enough for AOL to buy them out.

2. This one is more far fetched but it still could happen. Vince McMahon waits until the company is worth so little that he can buy it for dirt cheap like WCW and then either rebrand it as a third brand like ECW was from 2006 to 2010 or wait out the contract with Spike and close the company taking his pick of the wrestlers and the rights to the entire video library like he did with WCW.

he could have done this back in 2002, when tna was sold to dixie for 250% thousand dollars. THis was a time when mcmahon was making that in interest on a monthly basis for his personal bank account, never mind what the wwe was bringing in. it would have fit as well since he had just bought wcw for a song, ecw for a chorus and tna would have been a jingle. tna doesn't have a video library containing any thing vince wants to market or promote. even his former talent that went to work for them don't interest him as he is known to watch and pay attention to nothing but his own program unless his stooges bring something to his attention. and tna has done too little for vince to want anything they have to offer. most of their talent are wwe rejects or wwe never were's.

If one of these two options doesn't happen it's only so long before Spike will simply give up on TNA earning a profit and they let it just die out slowly.

 

[HereComesThePain420]

Hopefully they will be gone by the end of the year so some of the talent can head to WWE they would benefit from signing some of tnas talent think of the storylines we would get

 

[IT Factor]

Honestly, I believe this is just another example of pure speculation that no one can confirm for sure. Ever since day one in TNA, dirt sheets have been speculating the demise of the organization and claiming it's imminent closing due to financial problems. So I am taking this with a grain of salt and considering it just a rumor until we see or hear confirmation that lends credence to this story.

I wouldn't mind seeing something like this happening, as I believe it could only help the company. Especially since the Carter family seems to know nothing about wrestling or how to run an organization that produces it. I believe selling it to a knowledgeable wrestling mind would help the company and also give up-and-coming talents the opportunity to become big stars. I just hope that it won't be another Bischoff/Hogan ordeal in which someone buys the company just to get another payday or media coverage to appease their own egos. I'd say number one at the top of those lists that could help the company as the head of it would be either Paul Heyman[unlikely] or Jim Ross[another unlikely]. Both guys know what fans want and will take gambles to see their objectives accomplished and they are big on giving talents the opportunity to become stars. Again, all of that may happen but it is all hinging on the rumor aspect which all of us are merely speculating on. Dixie Carter may run TNA until it succeeds or shuts down, either way time will tell. I just hope TNA as a company survives no matter what happens with the current owners.