TNA Wrestling on Bravo (Part 3)

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Ed Leslie (Brutus Beefcake) has been on Miami radio (according to pwinsider) saying that he's joining TNA as they are "starting from scratch and going NWO style"

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Those are worldwide buys in. That figure you posted is a worldwide buyrate. Infact WWE has been using combined buyrates for quite some time now. So when you look at those buyrates just remember that is America, parts of Europe and Australia all combined together. And feel free to google that too infact i am postive there are sites out there that will let you see what the PPVS sold domestically and what they did internationally infact.........i'm sure i posted it last month. I'll have a look again.

I see your point about TNA not increasing their number of viewers since joining Spike TV.TNA's highest rating was a 1.5 and that was for the live show in January. Last week Mick Foley and Ric Flair's match did a 1.44 and the Knockouts match did a 1.40. I'd say they have kept their audience and are slowly increasing it whereas WWE's ratings have been on a steady decline for years now it's just for some reason this year they have dropped dramatically. Especially the PPV buyrates but your right, they will still make a lot of money off them. But if they only did 63,000 buys in America coming off the heels of Wrestlemania then i can't wait to see the buyrates for the most recent PPVs. 3 of them within 5 weeks.

WWE does put it's main eventers in tag team matches prior to their PPV matches. It gives people a little taste of what is to come at the PPV. Another ending to Raw will be maybe a standoff so one is in the ring and the other will be standnig at the top of the ramp. Another ending to Raw might be a confrontation that enRAB up in a fight but just as the good guy goes to do his finisher the bad guy makes the lucky escape then the program enRAB with the camera on their facial expressions. It is a little predictable. It's just like someone gettting thrown to the outside a minute into the match. I know it's a commercial break. And your right about Orton and Barrett not touching each other but that's not what it is about is it? It's about Cena being bullied into Nexus. Their not forcing that title match on you. Infact they barely even mention it, all the focus is on Cena doing things he doesn't want to do.

I think both companies need to change the way they do things. If TNA had some of the things WWE has it would be amazing and likewise if WWE had some of the things TNA had it also would be great. TNA is a proper wrestling company though. All the characters and stories, you get some violence, you get some women, you have some comedy in there. That's what wrestling should be about. People want to watch and enjoy themselves and have fun.
 
funny thing is though, when he did it, i felt i'd come to the end of the road with it anyway so it was probably perfect timing. i didn't let him know mind, but i did ask him if he could at least write me out properly and he did.

my dual world champion competed in a sort of hybrid wargames/battle royal/marathon match and got right down to the last two. the commissioner came down the aisle and announced out of the blue that it would be a title match - with my character laying half dead in the middle of the ring :D

the other guy put his foot on him for the pinfall, and my dude was carted off on a stretcher, never to be seen again. which was a pretty good way to go out i think.
 
Speaking of wrestling merchandise,I was just looking at the TNA shop and was amazed by the few items they have out considering the popular names signed.

Just the one Rob Van Dam item! The guy is one of the most popular babyfaces of the last 10 years.Not much stuff from Nash or Foley either.Sting,Hardy and Hogan fair better,but there isn't a huge range.Contrast this with the WWE which must have at least 3 dozen relatively cheap to produce items for it's popular stars,as well as many other items with the famous logo on it.

Also,why hasn't this company got a magazine out? It would be an easy way of promoting the product and characters to the public without losing money.
 
He's not at all there, He looks like hes on something when he does his Youtube Videos, He spenRAB his life on twitter, I do want Matt in TNA but not in the condition hes in at the moment, Hes really out of shape aswell.
JeRAB in amazing shape compared to Matt.
 
Bubba Ray is hated by many backstage in WWE and rightly so. Bubba is old skool and certainly wasn't taught to work a certain way.
 
For me when I watch Impact you can really notice that the arena is starting to look it's age when comparing to RAW. The lighting isn't bright enough and the ramps just seem to small.
 
It's not bad, but I feel that Bischoff should change it to what WorldWide used to be like. A load of dark-matches, along with the best of the iMPACT! show.
 
You did it when they moved back to Thursdays aswell. So now your telling me the only time we can discuss it before Saturday is if your personally think the shows make sense or not? You've just told us how you fast forward through most of Impact anyway. You can no longer call yourself a real TNA fan grabbi.

The storylines don't need to be detailed. It isn't a movie. The people that watch wrestling are already accustomed to it. They know its low brow entertainment. Vince Russo could write the best script in the world but what good is it gonna do? The people that watched the week before will always watch and the people that tune in for the first time aren't gonna tune in for some great storytelling. WWE have a lot more women watching their shows now. Take a good long look at WWE and what they do on a Monday night then look at TNA. TNA in it's current form is already miles more realistic compared to the competition (WWE).

I don't see how TNA in any way could appeal to women. I think the only way you are gonna hook women into watching is if you do storylines that involve a lot of acting, a lot of soap opera stuff or you do something that is gonna attract kiRAB and then they get into it when they see their kiRAB watching it. But of course you wouldn't want either would you grabbi because any soap opera stuff would be toooooo much Vince Russo esque for you and you don't like him.
 
So, the President of the company can't fire people, and Eric 'I'm Hogan's Bitch'-off has to do it?

Well done Russo. Even you've surpassed yourself writing that segment.
 
I've done about 3 hours extra, not that i'm over exaggerating :D

The Virgin EPG still shows 'Xplosion' from 9-1am, but BFG actually started at 10pm, so you know already it's going to overrun for an hour into the program after it.

Anyway, watched the opener between the Gunns and the Bucks - amazing match. Very good indeed.
 
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