"Ask A Question About TNA" - FACTUAL QUESTIONS ONLY!

[NewAgeHardcore]

Well I have deleted/closed alot of "quick question" threads as of late, I see them as spam. Well I have taken someone's suggestion about making a "quick question" thread.. so if anyone has a question like what time is TNA on TV? or like where is an ex-TNA wrestler now? basically any "quick questions" feel free to ask and discuss them here.

[realfnshow1]

Well I have deleted/closed alot of "quick question" threads as of late, I see them as spam. Well I have taken someone's suggestion about making a "quick question" thread.. so if anyone has a question like what time is TNA on TV? or like where is an ex-TNA wrestler now? basically any "quick questions" feel free to ask and discuss them here.

I want you to tell me this. In your own opinion. Why hasn't TNA grab WWE viewers or any new viewers? Do they think the product sucks or is it because of the rejects. I dont know, whats your opinion?

[NewAgeHardcore]

I want you to tell me this. In your own opinion. Why hasn't TNA grab WWE viewers or any new viewers? Do they think the product sucks or is it because of the rejects. I dont know, whats your opinion?

Well I think TNA has a lot of “WWE viewers”, I don’t think that there are a lot of TNA viewers who don’t watch WWE. If you look at TNA’s ratings when they were on FSN (about an average 0.2), when they moved to spike it jumped to a 0.8 average rating, now TNA does about an average 1.0.

I think the there are a few reasons TNA has low ratings;

TNA currently has a “Raw” style format now, that’s hard to do with only an hour a week. Impact is too crammed and the matches are too short. A lot of the guys in TNA are just as talented as WWE guys but to casual viewers, if they don’t see these TNA guys wrestle actual decent length matches on free TV, they won’t care about them. To casual fans you just can’t show some promos, 2 minute matches with stupid finishes or run-in’s.

A lot of TNA’s “recognizable” talent are in a sense “WWE rejects”, most of TNA’s ex-WWE guys were mid-carders. When people see these WWE mid-carders as top guys in TNA, to casual fans they instantly think that TNA is a second rate promotion and why do they need to watch a second rate promotion when they can watch 5 hours of WWE a week.

Another reason I think TNA has low ratings is the fact that they tape all of their show’s in the Impact Zone, I mean it’s a decent place to tape shows and all but in comparison to the huge arena’s WWE does their shows in every week, it really does make TNA look like a small time-second rate promotion.

[realfnshow1]

Well I think TNA has a lot of “WWE viewers”, I don’t think that there are a lot of TNA viewers who don’t watch WWE. If you look at TNA’s ratings when they were on FSN (about an average 0.2), when they moved to spike it jumped to a 0.8 average rating, now TNA does about an average 1.0.

I think the there are a few reasons TNA has low ratings;

TNA currently has a “Raw” style format now, that’s hard to do with only an hour a week. Impact is too crammed and the matches are too short. A lot of the guys in TNA are just as talented as WWE guys but to casual viewers, if they don’t see these TNA guys wrestle actual decent length matches on free TV, they won’t care about them. To casual fans you just can’t show some promos, 2 minute matches with stupid finishes or run-in’s.

A lot of TNA’s “recognizable” talent are in a sense “WWE rejects”, most of TNA’s ex-WWE guys were mid-carders. When people see these WWE mid-carders as top guys in TNA, to casual fans they instantly think that TNA is a second rate promotion and why do they need to watch a second rate promotion when they can watch 5 hours of WWE a week.

Another reason I think TNA has low ratings is the fact that they tape all of their show’s in the Impact Zone, I mean it’s a decent place to tape shows and all but in comparison to the huge arena’s WWE does their shows in every week, it really does make TNA look like a small time-second rate promotion.

Thanks for answering my question. You will be a great Super Mod someday. LOL. :hifo: :hifo: :hifo: :hifo: :hifo:

[schoondog]

just to add my 2 cents. people need to realize that a huge rating jump just isn't going to happen overnite. alot of people think that since there is an alternative to the evil empire people are going to tune in and watch. Well thats just not the case. WCW/NWA was around forever, taping there shows in front of a lesser crowd then watch there is currently at the impact zone and i'm not certain but i'm pretty sure the rating were alot less then what TNA is having right now.

In my opinion there are a few things that have to be done in the near future to get a spike in the ratings. The first one is obvious, #1 go to 2 hours. there is plenty of talent on the roster and i'm tired of quick matches. #2 start doing the shows live. with this day and age of the internet where you can read the results ahead of time why watch, unless there is a major thing happening. Look back at when the then WWF was taping there shows and WCW was airing the results. Most of the matches sucked so nobody watched. # 3 revamp the X-division, ever since daniels, joe and styles moved up to the heavyweight division it has become dull and #4 there needs to be bigger angles to keep the fans watching,esp if they go live.maybe by forming groups, kinda like this new group forming with styles, steiner, cage, and tomko. maybe bring paul heyman after his contract is up and lead a ecw group. but there needs to be something done. okay thats enough of my drunken rumblings that just my opinion

[The_Icon]

NAH hits the nail really well on the head. The problem TNA is having is that right now wrestling is somewhat in a slump to where it use to be. The contributing factors can be: all of the political isses like the War in Iraq, and that people don't have as much time or money to be investing on the rewards of life. I.E. paying for cable T.V. It sounds shocking but there are alot of people in the US that don't have cable tv or that they really don't watch TV. When you are talking about fans there just aren't that many hardcore wrestling fans anymore because to many people not knowing about the independant scene or knowing how to follow that scene for along time all the casual wrestling fans had was WWE. Now I will admit, WWE use to be great, and when they were battling WCW back in the day they were so good at making you want to tune in every week to see what would happen. All from The Rattle Snake Stone Cold Steve Austin to The Great One The Rock, to The Undertaker, to The Game Triple H and D-Generation X were people who were the top of the industry making their way into wrestling fan's hearts. All the story lines FOR the most part were good because to compete they had to be good. Once ECW went out for whatever reason they did, WWE took over the company. Once the great buyout of WCW there was no more competition. Once that happened there was a drop in match quality, the story lines became weak, and as a result alot of fans were turned off to wrestling all togeather. I can remember back in the day when you said you liked wrestling it was like saying you like Football or baseball. It was a hand and hand part of being an American, liking wrestling. Nowadays if you say your a wrestling fan you get that snotty attitiude as your some fat ugly old loser who has absolutly no intelligence about anything. People judge you as being a waste of life all because you find enjoyment in wrestling. Then they roll their eyes and think something is wrong with you because you like to watch. Now its to the point where when you say your a wrestling fan the first thing you hear is "you know wrestling is fake, right?" like your some sort of ingorant jackass who has the IQ equal to a doornob. Now I don't deny that there are fans with low IQ's who are wrestling fans but there are those of us who are intelligent people who like wrestling. People claim all day that wrestling is fake and blah blah blah, but then they turn around and watch all of these mindless, pointless shows about stupid insignificant subejects on ABC and Fox. To me and to intelligent people, that is called being a hypocrit. Getting back to the main point, to the causal fan wrestling has gone down the tubes. Then when another breaks onto the scene, there are always those hardcore fans like myself who know tons about the promotion because we have been following it from the beginning. But going back to the point that NAW made, to the casual fans they see all these WWE washouts and older legendary wrestlers main eventing and appearing on all tv shows they tend to think that TNA is just a second rate joke. This is why I advocate that TNA needs to start using the people who got them there, like: AJ Styles, Christopher Daniels, Samoa Joe, and Jeff Jarrett when he makes his return if ever. When casual fans start to see the awsome things that these guys can do, they will fall inlove with wrestling all over again.

LAX made a good point in another thread when he said that NOT alot of people know or have seen all that AJ Styles has done. They have not gotten the chance to experience why he is the Phenominal One. To me and to the hardcore fans that is a shame. The reason its a shame is because instead of showcasing people who are going to make the casual fans drop their jaws and say wow, or oh my god, or HOLY SHIT! they are backseated to WWE former midcarders that they lost intrest to, like Christian Cage, Tomko, Scott Steiener, Sting to some degree, and even pushing Kurt Angle. If those casual fans got a chance to see on TV some of the great AJ Styles in ring skills against Christopher Daniels, and Samoa Joe going one on one with Dan "Austin Starr/Aries" Solwold like they did in ROH, people would have something to talk about.

Also with TNA on the verge of becoming BIG time they are going to be needing to get a bigger areana or start having shows elsewhere because the small "impact zone" areana does make TNA look kind of bad.

[Matthew James]

There are many things that TNA does wrong that make it look bush league to the casual fans. The smaller arena, sure. Only having one hour for television doesn’t really help either. The sad fact is that AJ Styles did most of his best wrestling on the weekly pay per view, and now that he has a kid, he’s trying to slow down a bit. It’s understandable. I myself have a child, and even though I’ll be heading to wrestling school this summer, I’m not going to be a crazy spot monkey, for the simple fact that I enjoy holding my daughter and would rather do it not in the confines of a wheelchair. The argument however, about TNA using former midcard guys in main event spots is kind of mute. I mean, who knew that Chris Benoit, “Stunning” Steve Austin, Cactus Jack, Terra Ryzing and “Lionheart” Chris Jericho would someday go on to become megastars in the WWF/E? Rhino, Christian, Steiner and a slew of others were held down in WWE and forced to conform to an extremely boring style that few can pull off. In TNA, there seem to be fewer restrictions on your style. Christian SHOULD work a sneaky heel style, constantly relying on his amazing promo skills to get in opponents’ heads. Rhino SHOULD be involved in wild brawls. Steiner SHOULD be allowed to show off his impressive arrays of suplexes.

To the casual fans tuning in, these guys might look like WWE rejects. But, the fact is that during the original Monday Night Wars, many WWE superstars were really only WCW rejects. It’s all about showcasing the positives and hiding the negatives. Which is something TNA does very well. And everyone seems to forget, that people like AJ, Abyss and Rhino have all recently been offered WWE contracts, and every one of them have turned Vinny Mac down. If these guys were so bush league, and Vince so unconcerned with TNA, why would he have gone through the trouble of trying to raid them? For that matter, why did he threaten to sue the Dudleyz if they didn’t change their name? Hell, why did Hogan recently turn down Wrestlemania, opting instead to discuss contract issues with Dixie Carter? TNA may not be competition yet…. But give them more TV time to showcase their newer stars, a few more big names and maybe a few more on the road events, and they’ll be fighting tooth and nail with Vinny Mac within two years, mark my words.

[The_Icon]

There are many things that TNA does wrong that make it look bush league to the casual fans. The smaller arena, sure. Only having one hour for television doesn’t really help either. The sad fact is that AJ Styles did most of his best wrestling on the weekly pay per view, and now that he has a kid, he’s trying to slow down a bit. It’s understandable. I myself have a child, and even though I’ll be heading to wrestling school this summer, I’m not going to be a crazy spot monkey, for the simple fact that I enjoy holding my daughter and would rather do it not in the confines of a wheelchair. The argument however, about TNA using former midcard guys in main event spots is kind of mute. I mean, who knew that Chris Benoit, “Stunning” Steve Austin, Cactus Jack, Terra Ryzing and “Lionheart” Chris Jericho would someday go on to become megastars in the WWF/E? Rhino, Christian, Steiner and a slew of others were held down in WWE and forced to conform to an extremely boring style that few can pull off. In TNA, there seem to be fewer restrictions on your style. Christian SHOULD work a sneaky heel style, constantly relying on his amazing promo skills to get in opponents’ heads. Rhino SHOULD be involved in wild brawls. Steiner SHOULD be allowed to show off his impressive arrays of suplexes.

To the casual fans tuning in, these guys might look like WWE rejects. But, the fact is that during the original Monday Night Wars, many WWE superstars were really only WCW rejects. It’s all about showcasing the positives and hiding the negatives. Which is something TNA does very well. And everyone seems to forget, that people like AJ, Abyss and Rhino have all recently been offered WWE contracts, and every one of them have turned Vinny Mac down. If these guys were so bush league, and Vince so unconcerned with TNA, why would he have gone through the trouble of trying to raid them? For that matter, why did he threaten to sue the Dudleyz if they didn’t change their name? Hell, why did Hogan recently turn down Wrestlemania, opting instead to discuss contract issues with Dixie Carter? TNA may not be competition yet…. But give them more TV time to showcase their newer stars, a few more big names and maybe a few more on the road events, and they’ll be fighting tooth and nail with Vinny Mac within two years, mark my words.

I can understand that with Style's kid now here, he wants to slow it down. But he isn't slowing down his heat, TNA is turning it down. If they don't keep him on his toes doing what he does best he will loose that in ring ability that he still has. I understand about not wanting to be confined to a wheel chair but if AJ Styles was matched against Christopher Daniels, it would be alot safer since they have been wrestling each other for atleast 5 years. Being able to anticipate what the other person in the ring is going to do in relationship to phyiscal movement, then that wrestler can take an extra precaution of being careful that no one gets hurt.

Also you have to take into consideration that, if you can't take the risk then you don't belong in the ring.

I do understand about not knowing who will become a star, but those guys that came from WWE are WWE rejects. The reason why we like the TNA originals is because they AREN'T from WWE or WCW or that crap.

When you give the causual fans something completely different to anything they are use to seeing, then they are going to want to watch every week. But when its the same old stuff, you don't get ratings.

[!jimbo!]

I live in the uk and ive recently started to watch TNA and i dont know what the recent shows are and where to watch the recent shows on uk tv

[AVFC]

impact is the weekly show and can be downloaded from the media section here on friday mornings or they show impact on Bravo 2 on saturday(i think)

their next ppv is destination x and they show them on the wednesday after they take place in America on sunday.

[Order 66]

I think TNA could get more exposure to those former wrestling fans who have lost intrest by using the internet more. Maybe stream some shows, or just get their name out there more. That's what big names are for. Shoot...a week ago I didn't care what the hell TNA was. I used to be a hardcore WCW fan before the buyout, and just grew out of the wrestling phase. Of course, being a WCW fan, Sting was my favorite wrestler. When he just faded off the map, I really stopped trying to watch. I just found myself wondering whatever happened to him, and found out that he is in TNA.

Put some shows on the net, sell some ad space...banners...commerc ials.

[MeRs0]

A question. About TNA going on the road...

The buildnings that WWE shows run in, i see alot of different states etc.
Are those owned by the state or by WWE ? If they owned by WWE, I understand why TNA cant go on the road, but if they owned by the state... Why doesnt TNA rent the buildnings then ?

[NewAgeHardcore]

A question. About TNA going on the road...

The buildnings that WWE shows run in, i see alot of different states etc.
Are those owned by the state or by WWE ? If they owned by WWE, I understand why TNA cant go on the road, but if they owned by the state... Why doesnt TNA rent the buildnings then ?

No, WWE just rent's those big arenas for the shows, to rent a 10,000+ seat arena it would probably cost at least a few hundred thousand dollars, that’s why.

[JetSetAwesome]

A question. About TNA going on the road...

The buildnings that WWE shows run in, i see alot of different states etc.
Are those owned by the state or by WWE ? If they owned by WWE, I understand why TNA cant go on the road, but if they owned by the state... Why doesnt TNA rent the buildnings then ?

As NewAge has said, it is mainly about cost and the income the wrestling company makes. To rent such a huge arena like Madison Square Garden it costs quite a bit i'm sure. I couldn't tell you even an estimated figure. None the less, WWE can afford to do such a thing because they have money to allow it unlike TNA who's still young, growing, and lacking completey funding for such a thing.

It also brings up the fan base. Going back to my example, WWE wouldn't rent out MSG if they didnt think they couldn't fill it. They know they can easily sell it out which in turn helps fund the expense of renting out the arena plus allows the arena to draw in revenue off of food, beverages, and other stuff. There is logic to it all and sooner or later TNA will one day hit that level but for right now they're comfortably making due with what they can be and have access to.

[MeRs0]

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