What are your thoughts on TNA Wrestling?
 

shit

Good wrestlers, run by morons.

Every time they take 2 steps forward, they do something that makes them take 1 step backwards.

Naitch says what's on my mind again!


Damn mind reader!

the gimmicks are garbage. Even with Kennedy. It just looks even worse on TNA television. Second rate mine friends

The Pope? What the fuck is that

And Abyss

The Pope is great.

Kennedy has gone stale.

It's pretty much a fact that Abyss is a shitty rip off of Kane and Mankind.

Talented wrestlers and bad writing.

I want TNA to do well, because it will be great for the industry. But time and time again they keep holding them selves back.

They are their own worst enemy.

Amazing talent, can know when to do something right (IE: MCMG vs Beer Money) and they're good with fan service. But, for the most part, the people in charge fuck everything up.

They've hit a brick wall in terms of ratings, and by now they need to realize that old ideas need to be put on the back burner for fresh ideas, like MCMG vs Beer Money.

Long term planning should be their goal, not shit like hotshotting great matches on TV or moving to Mondays. God Dixie is a fucking retard for listening to that suggestion.

Also, they need to stop trying to compete with WWE. This has been their absolute biggest downfall since about 2005. They need to establish themselves, not base it off of someone else's work. And no, I'm not talking about the old talent/"WWE rejects", because they CAN be beneficial to the company, but only if they know how to do it and integrate them into the roster instead of going apeshit about their past and automatically putting them on a pedestal.

Supposedly the house shows they run are awesome, should televise those instead.

Too many announcements.

yeah there houseshows are so much better then wwe's houseshows, it may be a good idea for them to make a dvd of some of there houseshows.

I used to love TNA back when Christian Cage was there.

Watched it consistently from the time Christian turned heel to around just before he left and just before all the Main Event Mafia stuff.

At times I definitely thought it was better than WWE. It still had its fair share of trash, but there were solid feuds and stories going all the way from the main event to the lower card.

The Pope is better than anything wwe has now.

he's a pimp or something, right?

fill me in

It's late WCW to the letter. Utter wank with a couple of bright points.

I honestly believe the bright spots appear to be better just because of the sheer amount of shit surrounding it.

This.

They have a lot of great in ring talent. Jeff Hardy, RVD, Kurt Angle, The Pope, Abyss, AJ Styles, MCMG, Beer Money, Stevie Richards, and more.

TNA's problem is behind the scenes. Their booking and writing is crap. We didn't need ANOTHER "one off" ECW show. We don't need Hogan and Flair. And dare I say it, the wrestling world no longer needs Sting. These were all guys who were signed to take TNA to "the next level" but never did.
You know what TNA needs? They need to have a meeting with Spike TV, and ask if they can rip off one more thing from WWE. Do something like the Pillman/Austin bit where Pillman pulled a gun on Austin. And do it with TNA guys. Don't do it with people who were in WWE, and don't sign on big names to do it. If they want to hit that next level then they need to do what WWE isn't doing. Shock me, wow me, amaze me. Bring back personas like J.J. Dillion who was a manager, instead of having WWE diva's stand by their kayfabe lover's side. Drop the F bomb on a PPV during a "shoot". Remind me that there are still people who are not in CZW that has balls.

I like TNA, but it's like WWE, for every good thing there's a bad.

It has a lot of potential but the people who run it need to get people who know how to promote and run a business better.

this potential,potential,potential but they keep goin around in circles

A fair amount of very talented wrestlers.

Maybe I'm a slave to production values, but when I turn it on it looks like a local show in a gymnasium with a bunch of people who I care very little for. And Ho Cogan just hanging around looking lost, BROTHER. So in essence, like the thread-starter said: shit

And now we battle... LOL.

1) Abyss and Stevie Richards shouldn't be mentioned with those other names.

2) I do agree that the entire ECW reunion show and having to see those guys hang on to the last 2 seconds of their 15 minutes in the sun is frustrating. I'm just going to say it, Tommy Dreamer is overrated by leaps and bounds and has only been built up by revisionist history. There's a reason why he was still at ECW while guys were getting their money from WCW and the WWF and it wasn't because he loved the company so much.

3) I disagree about Flair, Hogan, Sting, Nash, etc... no longer being necessary. All those guys can play a huge part in getting over the younger guys if Russo wasn't a fucking idiot and Dixie wasn't a fucking mark more concerned with being a "cool" boss than making the smart decisions.

Flair is one of the greatest on the mic while a lot of the TNA talent struggles with that. Putting him with a stable was great and they should have done it a lot sooner, although they're fucking retarded for not having Lethal go cocky heel after beating the "man" and joining with Fortune.

The guys like Sting, Nash, and Jarrett can help put the younger guys over and I honestly kind of like the thing they have going with Jarrett.

Hogan is the one who should fucking go. I don't need to see him three times per show. He has more value as an attraction who may show up once or twice a month for "big" announcements than as a regular character.

They try too hard.

Dixie needs more "ruthless aggression".

And another thing, whoever thought it would be clever to spell Fortune, Fourtune and emulate the Four Horsemen hand sign by replacing it with the universal symbol for "two in the pink and one in the stink" for a stable that has 7 fucking people should be relieved of their job immediately.

Needs to go Attitude era 2.0 - Get Matt Hardy in on it too.

They hired everyone from WCW late 2000, who are still trying to run it like everything was 10 years ago. Everyone is 10 years older, their "star" names don't mean shit, old guys clinging to a paycheck.

Stop announcing expected "surprises" and never use Twitter again.

LOL What? Fourtune's doing the Shocker!?

Full of potential since even before being filled with WWE rejects or friends of Hogan, their roster was full of talented wrestlers who could have been pushed as the "future" stars. TNA also focused on tag wrestling, women wrestling, and X Division (lower card) better than the WWE most of the time.

TNA also ends up doing some stupid mistake or booking that kills any momentum they gained. Their problem is being too focused on short term fixes and horrible booking in terms of match endings and storyline flow.

From what I've heard they make the most profit from the house shows. With the amount of talent on the roster they could split up and do two tours. One up the east coast and one toward the midwest or west coast and double the money. Start filming Impact from the house shows. That's the only way they seem more legit. Live shows from different arenas.

...Paul Heyman's take on TNA and the wrestling business as a whole is very interesting:

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Apart from the constant "TNA fans are the best" and the constant "let's thank Dixie Carter for creating the world and holding back the crab people" shit, I still prefer to watch TNA over WWE, whose PG rating has just ruined it for me. Hope they don't stop things like hell in a cell...

Five more minutes of no-selling that would make Cena go "damn man, sell a little".

Couldn't of said it better myself.

From the PPV thread:

Sums TNA up quite perfectly.

If you do not support TNA because of that then you ("YOU" as in generally speaking) should of never supported WCW.

it was declared a no contest because the guys were too beat up to go on. it made sense on the show.