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Originally Posted by MatthewAllenHanso
If jarrett is smart he will go back to strictly marketing his promotion at the CMT crowd and the south in general. Shit I would go full force and make the biggest Heel a NYC Liberal Queer. Pander to the southern christian conservative fan base! Become the Fox News of Wrestling.
That would never make billions but would be a solid paycheck.
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The problem is that TNA is not anything like those southern territories.
While I do not think highly of the South itself (sorry!), I have some degree of respect for the territories of that area. They knew how to tell a story in the ring, even if some folks didn't get a fair shake.
TNA is trying wayyyyyyy too hard to be the WWE. They need to think like Smoky Mountain of the early 90s or Jim Crockett Productions of the mid-1980s. The wrestling is what draws people in, not the banal storylines and fake characters. That stuff is all secondary to ring action.
TNA, in the first phase of their existence, understood that very well. Forget about it now.
I think that Jarrett can succeed if he takes the best parts of those territories and modernizes them, but with less gimmicks and flash. Kinda like Smoky Mountain was.