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Originally Posted by DeZi MunDa
TNA + Eric + Money= boom shakalaka.
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The idea that Eric Bischoff is some kind of magical force of wrestling, and that everything he touches turns to gold, is the biggest pile of shit that keeps getting flung at me over and over and over again. Bischoff can't save a company. If he could, he'd have saved WCW. But the fact is that the man had like three good ideas: hire as much top WWF talent as possible, form the nWo, and heap as much shit on McMahonland as we can. It worked for a while because it was new and refreshing, but at the end of the day WWF programming was more desirable to fans. Bischoff couldn't have made WCW what it was without Hogan, Hall, Nash, and the rest of the WWF talent he pilfered. What's ge going to do today? Lure top WWE talent away? They've gotten enough WWE castoffs that they can't do anything with, and I doubt your Cena, Batista, or Edge is going to make tons of WWE fans change the channel. MAYBE if WWE and TNA had simultaneous Monday night programming, some real competition would ensue, but I doubt it. Mostly because WWE and TNA can both be called crap right now, but if so, then TNA is a steaming, fly-covered pile of crap in the middle of a field, whereas WWE looks like a carefully collected, sealed, and stored stool sample in a lab. Which leads me to this:
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I really do think Vince McMahon is the biggest enemy to another boom period.
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And it's not because he's a jerkass, or because he wants the product to fail. It's because he is far too set in his ways, and is very unlikely to rehash his style of presenting his product. And not only that, look at the people who are booking WWE and TNA today, for the most part it's the same names, faces, and ideas as we had ten years ago. The next "boom" period, when it comes, will come because of new ideas, thought up by new bookers and creative leaders, and will be presented to a new generation of potential fans. It won't be done by the old names using and rehashing the old ideas. Imagine for a moment: Bischoff is named creative God of TNA and given all the money he wants... what's he going to do? Hire away all of WWE's top talent and use them to form a mega-stable that attempts to "take over" TNA? Tell me you can't already hear the legions of fans complaining that it's just another rehash.