TNA Wrestling on Bravo (Part 3)

But wouldn't going into large arenas that are less than half full (because there is no way TNA would draw enough fans to fill 5,000 to 10,000 capacity arenas every week) or going into smaller buildings (bingo halls) make TNA look equally trampy?
 
I never understand wrestling fans watching something they don't like. A lot of people have been looking forward to TNA this week.
 
TNA would have signed a contract with Flextech Television. Flextech was purchased by Sky and renamed the Living TV Group.

So TNA's contract will be with the Living TV Group. Since Sky own them, I would imagine Sky would have the option to screen Impact on any of the channels it owns.
 
The best attended house show tour was their first one over here - I went to the Coventry one, it probably had about 3,500 there. I don't think they get that in the US. And if they do, they're doing it as once in a blue moon, not every weekend. They don't venture up into the northeast very often as that is WWE/ROH territory...

WMG - what it 'can' hold, and what it 'does' hold are very different - according to The Observer and Power Slam magazine over here, average attendance for the shows is 950-1000. Nobody pays. Just get into Universal Studios, and get a numbered raffle style ticket from the guy by the Jimmy Neutron shop. Return at 4pm and they start forming lines based on your ticket number. They let you in about 30 minutes before the show starts (although I havent been since they relaid it out last summer).

Bischoff is a businessman. He underpays everyone he thinks he can get away with doing it to and saves his money for "celebrities" - see underpaid crusierweights and main eventers galore in WCW while Master P picked up almost a million per episode, and Leno and Rodman main evented PPV's.

An outdoor PPV - TNA Road Wild, anyone? Uncle Eric does love his bikes...
 
I agree that if you don't want to be spoiled, you're better off not checking up wrestling online at all...

They've turned Jeff heel for the sake of it because nobody saw it coming - but the problem is nobody wanted it either. Russo has done this before - with Goldberg, Sting and countless others. It's funny how everyone that caused WCW to fail is now running TNA with the same storyline...

To whoever said Bret was just a wrestler who's gimmick was that he was 'just a wrestler' - Austin and Cena's gimmicks... aren't they just wrestlers? On the contrary, it's USUALLY the over the top gimmicks that fail, and guys who are just wrestlers (Orton, Cena, Edge, Foley, HHH) with a little bit of a personality succeed greatly.
 
was Bound For Glory a 3 hour or 4 hour PPV? If its a normal size PPV i will be fine recording till 1:45am cause it goes off at 1:30 dunt it????
 
Impact does great rating last night.

Credit: PWTorch.com

Last night's live Impact special on Spike TV scored a 1.33 rating with a first hour 1.32 rating and second hour 1.33 rating.

The show peaked at a 1.44 rating for the Ric Flair vs. Mick Foley post-match angle.
 
On a more positive note, the opening video for Bound For Glory was brilliant. Particularly loved the shot of Sting in the rain and RVD meditating. A good, concise way of getting across the personalities in TNA.
 
not to burst the bubble but look at the latest figures after the ecw invasion ended week ending the 5th september total viewings for the week (top 10 information)

143,000 viewers total for the week, Bravo +1 showing not in the top ten.

week before total of 120,000 for the week and
 
I don't watch the program she is on but if she's all over the media in America it might be agood idea for her to do a few appearances. Only time will tell when the ratings come out.

Bret Hart had a lot of buzz after Montreal but the only people that benefited were the WWF. Bret was a wrestler in WWF. That was his character, the Hitman, the America hater, the excellence of execution. That was what he used to sell himself and people just weren't buying it anymore. When he went to WCW he might have changed the America hating part of his character but everything else was the same. He is a wrestler, whos gimmick was being a wrestler. You can't go far with that and the reason Montreal was so talked about wasn't because of some heroic thing Bret did, it was what other people DID TO Bret. He was the fall guy.

WWE do rely on Cena, Orton and Undertaker too much. But other than them and Rey Mysterio and Edge the rest of the roster is full of young guys. The only reason i criticized it was because every Monday Night Raw and PPV is just the same old people in the main events, just recycling the same old stuff. TNA on the other hand is about half and half when it comes to established stars and young stars and whether people want to admit it or not the established names in TNA have a lot to do with their ratings. Ric Flair and Mick Foley drew a 1.44 rating on Thursday. I don't know what 1.44 equals when it comes to the number of viewers. People tune into WWE for a certain style of wrestling, they tune into TNA for something different.

And your right enough i have no grasp of the business whatsoever. Neither do you or anyone else here because we don't work in it. You are in no position to say what is right and what isn't right. You read the dirtsheets and all that is is third party information. But from a fans perspective i know what works and what doesn't work. I know what has been successful in the past and what hasn't and as a fan i know what i like and what i don't like. I'm a fan that's all. And if WWE loses all it's viewers guess what? That's cool with me. If TNA goes bankrupt that's cool with me too because guess what? I'm just a fan! I cannot change anything that happens in wrestling.
 
Don't read this if you don't want to know about Impact.

I've just watched a pre air version of Impact and seeing Eric Bischoff in his office playing with his phone and puffing a cigar in Dixie's face is hilarious. She calls him a little smug shit so i guess just like at BFG they are gonna let some stronger language be used. Then again Flair said something at the start that was bleeped so i don't know what that was. They also showed someone in the crowd mouthing the F word during the intro video. Then again i don't know how diffferent this is from the TV version but i think it will be the same wont it? Nice to see the language getting a bit more realistic anyway.
 
Try what I do first .. just watch the PPV's. Read the taping reports so at least you have a general idea of storylines, but just watch the PPV's.

I'm finding I'm really not missing Impact at all, which I guess is a shame in a way.
 
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