What would a Paul Heyman run TNA look like today?

**Steveviscious89** · 04-10-2013, 09:07 PM

The booking would probably be different, but not necessarily any more interesting than it is right now. Sometimes what looks good on paper doesn't matter if it's executed poorly on stage. I can appreciate Heyman's constant need to put over the young talent is a good one in concept, but it doesn't always work if that same young talent do not have a big enough stage to shine on. In TNA, you could push Magnus to the moon, but it won't make him a big star in the business. The Hardy's, Ray's, and Sting's of the world are already stars because they made their careers on the big stage(WCW, WWF). WWE can push whomever they want because the fans basically behave as though they are the only game in town, otherwise TNA would be more popular as a promotion. Prime example.....Fandango or whatever his name is, defeats Chris Jericho at Wrestlemania, this would never work in TNA, but in WWE it works because everyone saw it happen and the idea is that you now take Fandango more seriously(or at least that's what is suppose to happen).

We need to only look at history to prove this point. WCW became huge basically because of the names they hired away from the WWF(they had the money to do it), and then how they eventually used them. In the process we got guys like DDP, Goldberg, Chris Benoit, Booker T, and to a lesser extent Sting(he was already a star but rose a new level with the crow gimmick). Heck even Jericho was basically built in WCW. Without the big stage that those older guys created, we never would have the younger ones at all.

TNA's problem is and always will be money. They don't have enough money to hire away the necessary talent from WWE to cause a stir and create the big stage that they need to make guys like AJ Styles and Booby Roode household names like DDP, Goldberg, and Booker T eventually became. They don't need Heyman or new bookers, or even Hogan, they need money.

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04-10-2013, 09:07 PM	#20
Steveviscious89 We Want Sting! Posts: 358	The booking would probably be different, but not necessarily any more interesting than it is right now. Sometimes what looks good on paper doesn't matter if it's executed poorly on stage. I can appreciate Heyman's constant need to put over the young talent is a good one in concept, but it doesn't always work if that same young talent do not have a big enough stage to shine on. In TNA, you could push Magnus to the moon, but it won't make him a big star in the business. The Hardy's, Ray's, and Sting's of the world are already stars because they made their careers on the big stage(WCW, WWF). WWE can push whomever they want because the fans basically behave as though they are the only game in town, otherwise TNA would be more popular as a promotion. Prime example.....Fandango or whatever his name is, defeats Chris Jericho at Wrestlemania, this would never work in TNA, but in WWE it works because everyone saw it happen and the idea is that you now take Fandango more seriously(or at least that's what is suppose to happen). We need to only look at history to prove this point. WCW became huge basically because of the names they hired away from the WWF(they had the money to do it), and then how they eventually used them. In the process we got guys like DDP, Goldberg, Chris Benoit, Booker T, and to a lesser extent Sting(he was already a star but rose a new level with the crow gimmick). Heck even Jericho was basically built in WCW. Without the big stage that those older guys created, we never would have the younger ones at all. TNA's problem is and always will be money. They don't have enough money to hire away the necessary talent from WWE to cause a stir and create the big stage that they need to make guys like AJ Styles and Booby Roode household names like DDP, Goldberg, and Booker T eventually became. They don't need Heyman or new bookers, or even Hogan, they need money.