Ratings are in for "THE BIGGEST TNA IMPACT IN HISTORY!"

[Fox]

You mean TNA's fan base and ratings aren't exponentially increasing?

Well, shit.

I wonder if it has to do with brutally mis-using good stars with good gimmicks like AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, Christopher Daniels, Chris Sabin, Alex Shelley, and Frankie Kazarian by turning them into face-less losers to the "stars" like Kurt Angle, Christian Cage, Sting, and... Kevin Nash.

Or maybe if it has to do with their lackluster, uninteresting, unmotivated and witless storylines revolving around, of all things, Kurt Angle's wife Karen. Or maybe it's the gimmick matches, none of which are bad ideas, but that are used with such frequency that they've become hookers in Vegas at 1am: not much to look at for the tricks they put out. Or hell, could it be because they do stupid shit like the "Feast or Fired" Briefcase swapping, or the "kidnapping" of the X-Title by Team 3D.

Nah. It couldn't be any of those things.

[Kane Knight]

Originally Posted by Fox You mean TNA's fan base and ratings aren't exponentially increasing?

Yeah, I was shocked myself. I mean, it's more wrestling in a period where wrestling interest is largely on the decline. What could go wrong?

But yeah, misuse of talent could be the issue, but I think one of the big things isn't so much the matches or the stars, but the fact that it's more of the same. It's wrestling. It's done nothing to establish itself as anything other than WCW resurrected. I mean, hooray. Gimmick matches. Cages. Stupid crap that the fans are going to look down upon.

The only way a pro wrestling company is going to become a success is if they reinvent wrestling. I don't fully know how to do that, either, but if people are losing interest in WWE, which is considered the premiere company, why would they watch TNA? Or anything else for that matter?