What will it take for TNA to surpass WWE and possibly start another Monday Night War?

[Tom Guycott]

As much as this thread is about making fun of iMPACT WRESTLING, I kinda have a legit answer:

Treat their business like a marathon instead of a sprint.

They keep acting like the next big publicity stunt (be it "celebrity", some recent WWE aquisition, or one of the 800 "they're coming" angles they ran) is going to instantly get them over. If it doesn't work in a couple weeks, they scrap it and go to the "new direction" card.

Honestly, even WWE didn't get where it is overnight. I remember some of the WWF shows that aired on TV when I was little (early-mid 80's)... shit wouldn't even fly at a HOUSE SHOW nowadays. Jobber vs unknown curtain jerkers, main events of "Brooklyn Brawler vs..." and if we were REAAAAALY lucky, we'd get a canned promo from someone we believed to be worth a shit.

Originally Posted by #1-wwf-fan Now if only women could wrestle...

Originally Posted by Kane Knight Now if only people gave a fuck about women's wrestling...

Case in point, they actually had a collection of women who could more or less do just that. They built a division, garnered interest, and even warranted an all Knockouts Impact once that was actually entertaining. They even had enough of a roster to have a women's tag title make sense. It was something that made them a bit different than WWE. Then what happened? Next new direction. Granted, this isn't the perfect example, as there were certainly a lot of pissed boys in the back wondering why uteri are getting more and more of their TV time, but you can apply this to pretty much every division in TNA at some point in time. Let's build the X-Division-eh, fuck them, let's emphasize tag t- oh, look, A BIG NAME, LET'S SIGN IT FOR INSTANT RATENGZ!!!

There is no reason there should be weekly clusterfuck finishes and bi-weekly heel/face turns from the same person to the point that no one knows or cares if they're face or heel. There should be no reason why when the fans decide to get behind someone (like Pope a couple years ago, or MCMG when they were arguably the most over tag-team, if not even ACT in TNA) they shouldn't be pushed to the moon, or at LEAST get *matches* sometime before the next PPV. There's no reason why someone like AJ Styles shouldn't be considered a GOD by now and be the franchise that Sting was to WCW or, er, "The Franchise" was to ECW.

There's no way TNA can succeed or grow, even with all the money or exposure in the world, even if they fired Russo, hired Heyman and legit got EVERY superstar from WWE that participated in that "walk out" (let's pretend it wasn't an angle, and everyone got pissed about HHH's comments about the broom) if they don't take TIME to cultivate anything they DO have and stop expecting instant results.

Seriously, we don't even care enough to actually consistantly call it iMPACT WRESTLING... they changed the name and we don't care. It's still TNA.