Is TNA the worst wrestling promotion in history?

[kjh]

 

I wonder how much of the advertising phobia around TNA Wrestling is due to general pro wrestling stigma and how much is due to their ill-conceived initials? Even if the latter is just a small factor, it's another advantage in Ring Of Honor's favour.

 

I thought they had all but phased out the TNA moniker and we're mainly calling themselves Impact Wrestling now?

 

 

They did a half-assed job of rebranding where most people still call them TNA anyway (as seen in the memo posted above) and they didn't completely eliminate those initials. It's probably not a big factor, but can't help.

[(BP)]

The show is called Impact Wrestling. The promotion is still TNA. But they were so unclear about that when they rolled it out in a rebranding effort that it's been confusing people for years.

[EricR]

I had to look at this TNA Mecca page, and this quote was in a main page post today:

 

"Firstly, I'd like to address the rumor that Destination America is planning to cancel Impact in September. I think it's important to understand that this is a rumor until someone within TNA or Discovery confirms it. As for the rumor, there has been no evidence presented by the original source that indicates to me that this is true, because let me be clear, the onus is on the source of this story to report the facts and present his evidence."

 

Holy shit. These people are just sitting there in a corner rocking back and forth going "Krusty is coming, Krusty is coming".

[cheapshot]

Billy Corgan has really been showing himself up on twitter:

 

[goc]

Jeff Jarrett gave a short interview here:http://csrwrestling.com/one-on-one-with-jeff-jarrett and during the word association part at the end he's asked about Dixie Carter:

 

Dixie Carter- “Great Family, Not Nice, a very nice lady.”

 

RETRACTION! HE SAID A VERY NICE LADY! NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG

[RocketCrypt]

Looks like the article has been updated since you posted it. It should have said "Nice, very nice lady".

[goodhelmet]

Retraction... he said "Nice. Very nice lady."

 

Too bad.

[goc]

Oh well. I suspect she's probably not all that nice...

[goc]

 

[El-P]

That's glorious. So I guess we owe Dixie Carter the TV character to Russo too. And we know why she loves him so much. Terrific.

[Jesse Ewiak]

The thing is, aside from the part where he pushes for Dixie to be on TV, I largely agree with Russo. Which is a blind squirrel situation, but he is right. Of course, his ideas would f it up not too far after that, but the Joe/Angle thing was good, and LAX had a cool factor to them.

[PeteF3]

Retraction... he said "Nice. Very nice lady."

 

Too bad.

 

That sounds like the story Foley tells of asking Owen Hart how his match with Dan Severn went. Owen: "He's a nice guy."

[Stiva]

If Killings ever clarified on who used racial slurs at him, it would be a real interesting fallout

[C.S.]

Russo's not wrong at all though.

[EricR]

Russo does seem like the kind of guy who thinks the real expression is "worth our wild"

[Grimmas]

That letter reminded me that I really enjoyed every TNA ppv from 2005 to September 2006 when they fucked up with Joe. Of course they could had got right back on track next month, but then Russo appeared.

[Indikator]

Don't we all remember the myriads of "southern 1980's rasslin' cartoons"?

 

I actually couldn't tell you what Cornette ever did that could be described that way. Maybe Prince Kharis, but otherwise I'm drawing a blank at the moment.

[El-P]

I actually couldn't tell you what Cornette ever did that could be described that way. Maybe Prince Kharis, but otherwise I'm drawing a blank at the moment.

And really, that was all Rick Rubin wanting a wrestling mummy. And Mitchell's promo were dirtier than anything "shocking" Russo ever tried.

[C.S.]

Don't we all remember the myriads of "southern 1980's rasslin' cartoons"?

 

I actually couldn't tell you what Cornette ever did that could be described that way. Maybe Prince Kharis, but otherwise I'm drawing a blank at the moment.

 

By 2006, Cornette himself was the "Southern 1980s rasslin' cartoon" - looked totally out of place in a modern day environment. I love Corny, but that's the truth. Heck, even in 1995 WWF, he looked like a relic from another era - even though I loved having him there for the novelty of it.

[Wade Garrett]

I've never bothered with this promotion. I will say though considering they had a wide world of wrestling at their fingertips when they started with only one show in town they place as the absolute worst promotion in terms of business practice and execution by far. When you consider the open market(s) and resources they had they are the steaming pile of shit that the 99% say they are.

 

I believe it was Dirty Harry in Sudden Impact that mentions the three things that you do and/or happen to shit. That's TNA.

 

Who in the hell selected the title for the company? If you were competing with Vivid that's one thing but as part of the Pro Wrestling market. Jesus Harold Christ on a F'ing rubber crutch.

[El-P]

Watching the early PPV's, TNA had some pretty good wrestling content from the beginning. It's much much better than the last 1 1/2 year of WCW (then again, everything is), and also murders early WWECW which I happen to watch at the same time.

[Dooley]

Who in the hell selected the title for the company? If you were competing with Vivid that's one thing but as part of the Pro Wrestling market. Jesus Harold Christ on a F'ing rubber crutch.

 

This is something that can't be overstated enough.

[Flyin' Brian]

Yeah, the name TNA has hurt them a lot I think. Too bad at some point they didn't rebrand. I've watched TNA off and on since they were doing the weekly PPV's (first show I bought was Killings winning the world title) and there has been good, bad, and ugly. The biggest problem I think is a lack of consistency and identity. They have never chosen a direction and stuck with it for very long. It's always felt like 'let's throw everything against the wall and see what sticks', but then they are unhappy with what sticks and start over.

[pol]

Ratings are in for their first night on Wednesday, as well as ROH's debut. PWInsider says 369k for Impact, 273k for ROH (includes replays).

 

So TNA only managed to beat a non-first run showing of a practically unadvertised, worse-looking show by 90k. Not a good look.

[sek69]

It's being mentioned how TNA is all about doing the full court press with social media pushing angles and whatnot, yet Mickie James was on twitter apparently fine after being seemingly killed by James Storm on Impact this week.