I misunderstood you, no offense taken man it's all good lol... And I agree with all of your aforementioned points the Rhino/Bubba turns are completely useless. You could hear a pin drop when Bubba turned on D-Von last night, why? Because no one cares about these guys anymore, they lost their relevancy a long time ago.
TNA just needs to emphasize their uniqueness as compared to WWE.
If they can do that then maybe we will see some better competition between the two companies down the road.
You know, at that point, I don't give a rat's ass if TNA is competition to WWE or not. I always liked it
despite the fact that WWE crushes them in almost every department, except for the quality of their shows. Just because the company's smaller, that doesn't mean I'll stop watching it or not give it a chance. To me, it just seems like TNA will be that company that had good wrestling, the company that could but never did. As much as I love TNA and hate WWE, I seriously doubt that TNA will get to pull 2.0 ratings in the next 7 years unless something drastic happens. To me it just seems like TNA tries and tries and does good things but the fans refuse to like it and give it a chance. And once they do give it a chance, they chastize it for the stupidest reasons. Things that every company does, but somehow TNA's the one that gets crapped on for it. People are giving it TOO much of a hard time for things that WWE does as well, and they praise it. Every time I hear someone bitch TNA out cuz it has people who worked in other companies there, people who have bad history, you know, all the smarky reasons, it makes me wonder if the fans degenerated to such a point where they just can't see good wrestling anymore. TNA is nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be. But in the end it comes down to not who's got the better wrestling, but who's a better businessman, and THAT'S why I don't think we'll see TNA as being legit competition to WWE. WWE sucks, let's call a spade a spade, it's nothing like it should be, but the person on top is a genius businessman, and as long as a company has money, I don't care how much it sucks, it will be on top. And WWE will always have money. TNA's only hope is for Panda Energy to invest in them with time and finances. THese guys had some of the greatest pro wrestling matches in history in their early years, and noone was there to see it. Now they have some cool storylines and things happening, and nobody's there to see it. It all comes down to the money. TNA just doesn't know how to make 'em. Nostalgia doesn't work these days. We can enjoy it, it could be entertaining as a one time thing [ i.e WWE's Old School RAW ] but it will NEVER fly in the long run because we already paid to see these guys do their thing, and guess what -- we paid to see it 10-15 years ago when they were good.
Like you said, TNA needs to figure out a way to be unique. Right now they have enough star power to seem legit in the eyes of the common wrestling fan. Step two would be using the old farts who despite their age are pro wrestling legends, and the guys like Hardy who are mad popular to advertise TNA, step three is to make the company seem unique, or at least different from WWE.
Noone here can tell me that WWE has good wrestling matches. They don't. It's stupid on RAW, stupider on PPVs. TNA should focus on that. Bust your ass every iMPACT, and bust it twice as much on every PPV. Why? Because EVEN if your segments suck balls on any given night [ and it happens, they have bad weeks, and good weeks], people are still going to watch next week's episode cuz of your great wrestling.
Again, WWE's storylines are basic. Nothing fancy. They also recycle, they do nothing exciting, no cool twists on old SLs, nothing. TNA's whooping their ass in that department. They have nice storylines, TNA is creaitve, they think out of the box. They also have the basic stuff which work too, again, depending on who's in them.
TNA's better at building people up, giving them a chance to build a real gimmick. If you look at WWE's roster, 99% of the heels are the same, and same goes for the faces. They're shells. TNA gives their characters life. Not one guy on the roster is like the other, except some of the faces. There's variety.
They've got some things covered, but not the essentials. However, they're heading in a different direction with their shoot-style stuff, ReAction and all of that, so that's a ray of hope. Personally, I believe that TNA needs to be symbollic to "cool" and "badass". The place where big boys play. Something that's not for kids. An adult-oriented program. Noone likes kiddy shit. Especially in wrestling. TNA could and will take advantage of the fact that the WWE is so childish right now. They're already going in that direction. Bischoff LOVES to break pro wrestling taboos, he said it himself. After years and years of this business alive, maybe that's what needs to be done if TNA's to do something different. Don't forget, it was ECW and WCW who brought the Attitude Era. Vince didn't come up with it. Guy took it from Bischoff and made it his thing. It's what Vince does. He was doing his kiddy, gimmick-y stuff while ECW had all the violence and WCW was plain cool to watch. That right there is breaking a wrestling taboo. It was a taboo back then, at least. WWE set the rules, WCW broke them and succeeded. Between a rebel and a rich kid -- who would you choose?
