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Lol typical BS writing from The Obsever. It boggles my mind that anyone subscribes.
What usually gets lots on the wrestling "journalists" is that it is basically impossible to be successful nationally at sports entertainment if you are not WWE. Same reason that no leagues try to do pro football in the US that are not the NFL. Dave and those guys are still stuck in the territory days when you had multiple companies carving out a territory and having moderate success. WWE is all a fan of sports entertainment needs. There isn't this glut of fans just waiting for an alternative to WWE to show up.
That said, I applaud TNA for at least trying to compete with WWE. Did it work out? No. But not for the reasons Dave listed. You need stars to attract an audience. You can't just rely on indy guys nobody has heard of to carry a company to WWE heights. As for the head to head debate, well it worked for Nitro, so why not try it again? I don't know exactly why TNA has failed because Ive never worked there. But when you hear people talk who were in the upper management it sounds like Dixie was in over her head. She didn't have the drive of a Vince McMahon.
Its been basically 20 years since Eric Bischoff become the only person to have success against Vince. That was on the back of a company that had decades of history and some of the biggest current stars of the era. It's hard to imagine any company would have success against WWE in modern times. The best you can hope for is to maintain a small following and break even.
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