Throughout my teenage years, I worked with my stepfather. Nominally, he was a 'restaurant consultant', with the idea that he would come into a failing restaurant and turn it around into a profitable enterprise. The real reality of it was this- television intervention specials aside, when a restaurant starts going under, the only thing it can do from then on out is lose money. It doesn't matter what you sell, what promotions you run, what you serve; your old customers say "eh, why go there, I went there a while back and it sucked", and you never get back the crowd you need to stay in business.
Now the restaurant consultant con is an old one (hence my healthy professional respect for how talented of a con artist Eric Bischoff is), but the parable is pretty obvious by now- I don't think it matters what TNA puts on the air. I always thought the KotM match was convoluted and weird, but I was interested in it because TNA, at that time, was able to sell it. How many people can TNA talk out of ($29.99? $39.99?) on two weeks notice these days?
Which is all kind of sad, and in a sad-sad way, not a sad-pathetic way. TNA's pretty much done everything that could be expected of them since getting dropped from Spike last year, they just haven't pulled off any miracles. They could certainly use one right now, and the KotM match is the Two Drinks for One Tuesday special of the professional wrestling world.
