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Mind you I actually like TNA Wrestling. I watch it every week and I personally like it better than Raw, but it has a lot of flaws. By no means do I think it's perfect, but I enjoy it. That being said I have a few ideas...
1. The Announce Team: We all don't like Don West and Mike Tenay, but the saddest thing is Tenay is now the inferior announcer at the moment, West has gotten better. However, the first thing I'd do is give the both of them their walking papers. What I'd do then is make the TNA announce team consist of Raven and Taz. You have Raven be the play by play guy and Taz be the color man. Then whenever their is a Main Even Mafia match have Kevin Nash be a guest color man, until the MEM storyline is over and then have Nash join Raven and Taz.
2. The Arena: I don't like the six sided ring but it's unique and it doesn't take away from the action now that guys are used to it so leave it for now. What I would do is eliminate the elaborate set designe (you're not as rich as WWE don't try to look like you are). Don't light the audience either, showing how small your audience is makes them look bush league. Just have main lights on the ring and the entrance ramp. The entrance ramp can have a big screen to see back stage stuff but nothing more than then... I thinking the look of Raw in 98.
3. The Help: I'm not a one man booking machine I'd hire some people who have good reputations in the buisness and good wrestling minds. I'd hire Paul Heyman to help book (or almost completely book because of his experience) and get Mick Foley to help out.
4. Ask the Wrestlers: Instead of forcing guys to do stupid gimmicks (ie Black Machismo, Cody Dener & Dr. Stevie) ask these guys what the want to portray, find something in their personality that makes them unique and intresting, and exploit that. Wrestlers will give you all they have if they feel like they have some input on the course of their destiny. Have long conversations with guys that seem to be doing nothing.
5. Renewed focus on the X-Division: TNA boasts an X-Division roster where if they're with it contains Abdul Bashir, Alex Shelley, Amazing Red, Chris Sabin, Consequences Creed, Eric Young, Homicide, Jay Lethal, Kiyoshi & Kaz, why these guys aren't facing eachother and making the X-Division pretegious is beyond me. I've been watching TNA pretty regular and I didn't even know until I checked their website that Homicide is their X-Division champion... That's a good start but him winning it should have been a big deal not something I, a regular view, completely missed.
6. No More God Damn Clusterfucks!: This is TNA's biggest problem. They have such a big roster for a small organization that they try and fit everyone in their PPV's and we wind up seeing gauntlets, and 10 man tags, and 10 way matches... blah. Stop 4 Way matches should be the max. And 10 man tags should only happen when a faction is facing a faction. If you can't find a story line for these guys why do you even have them? Which bring me to...
7. The Following People should be fired:
BG James
Bobby Lashley
Cody Dener
Don West
Jeff Jarrett (I like him but I don't need a power struggle)
Jenna Moraca
Jim Cornette (I like him but who needs 3 athurity figures?)
Jesse Neal
Kip James
Mike Tenay
Khaka Khan
Rob Terry
Scott Steiner
Shark Boy
Sojoner Bolt
8. The Following People Should be Hired:
(I'm barring people I know wouldn't go)
Kenny Anderson
Claudio Castignoli
Brian Kendrick
Paul London
The Briscoe Brothers (I'm not sure if they'd come)
Kevin Steen
9. The Following people Should be in the Main Event:
AJ Styles
Abyss
Booker T
Christopher Daniels
Kurt Angle
Matt Morgan
Robert Roode
Samoa Joe
Sting (for as long as he stays)
Claudio Castagnoli (w/ James Mitchell)
10. No More Legends, Only Television: The Legend's championship should be eliminated and replaced by the TNA Television Championship. The Television championship would serve as what the Intercontinental championship used to be... I'd have Kenny Anderson win the tournament to crown the first TNA Television Championship and have him slowly build in mid-card feuds to a World title run in a year or two, if he doesn't get injured.
11. A Few Quick Ideas:
--Have Christoper Daniels build a feud to a match with Mick Foley at Bound for Glory and go over big time.
--Give Booker T a long World Title reign when he loses to put a young guy over.
--Have Claudio Castagnoli come in as a scilent assassin type build him huge with James Mitchell as a mouthpiece.
--London & Kendrick vs. The Briscoe Brothers vs. Motor City Machine Guns in a Triangle Ladder Match...
--No more all cage match PPV.
--Have Samoa Joe's joining of the mafia turn into him trying to take over the Main Event Mafia as that was his master plan, to take from Angle what he loves most.
--From Angle being expelled from MEM have Angle go on a losing streak and have him at the bottom of the card putting over young guys like Eric Young, Homicide, James Storm, & Robert Roode early on in PPVs. Then slowly build Angle back up to the main event taking on more of a goofy persona again.
--Have Mick Foley be a fair athurity figure and have his athurity bring some realism to the broad cast...
That's all I have for now...
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