TNA Wrestling on Bravo (Part 3)

WWE does it too. They only light up the lower tiers and for some reason shine hideous red and blue lights on the audience. I don't know if that is because the fans are less enthusiastic these days and a nice brightly lit arena in HD would not do them any favours because then it really is clear to the people at home that their just sitting twiddling their thumbs. Kurt Angle was right, 3000 fans on their feet screaming is better than 15,000 sitting on their hanRAB. If TNA had the entire arena brightly lit and maybe even brought the ring closer to the hard camera so they can get MORE fans in there and on camera it would look so much better. I think they only have a few rows of fans at the hard camera side and to be honest that is all they need. I don't know how TNA do it or how WCW did it but just the whole look of the show is completely different from WCW. Just the way the ring looks, the stages are very dull, it looks very bland. In WCW i always remember the colour grey. Everything just looked grey lol. Even the fans in the audience for some reason just looked very grey. I don't know if it's the cameras or the lighting or maybe there isn't enough lighting or if it is a lack of colour but there was something about it that just didn't look natural. Even the pyro is the same, the stuff that just fizzles out.

I know Eric Bischoff and Hulk Hogan have no control of TNA in real life but surely they could have secured some more equipment, some more lighting, some more HD cameras so we have more variety of angles. It's only for 4 days a month. Ric Flair and Mick Foley got a 1.44 rating on Impact. I think when you add the number of viewers up that isn't far off 2 million or it might even be over 2 million. Not everyone is interested in X Division matches and young guys flying around the ring. Going live would certainly help them, Bischoff has already said that anyway and he's also said the next step is taking Impact on the road. But again he doesn't seem to be helping things out much. If they could have toured locally, like the old territory days and even sold the tickets cheap it would still make a huge difference. It could only be 2,000 fans but the fact that they would be in different venues lets the viewers see that it's a real sporting event. It lets them see that they too could attend an event. They keep talking about the Impact Zone....but they never educate the viewers to where exactly they are located lol. And who can blame them?

Then again who's to say there is a lot of people going to the Impacts? Is it easy to get in? Do they turn a lot of fans away? One year i would love to have took a chance and went and maybe attended an Impact taping or a PPV event. I've no idea on the cost of flights or anything like that. Probably too expensive! but i would have made a holiday of it too. For all we know there might not even be a lot of people travelling to those tapings every fortnight. People also talk about TNA not having enough merchandise for their top stars. They have a lot of stuff available but maybe their just not selling as much as people think. None of us know their situation but if their travelling every weekend and doing house shows then they must be doing alright. I don't know if they pay the travel for the talent or if they pay for the hotels or anything but even if they didn't you can bet the wrestlers aren't doing it for nothing. Even if their paying for their own travel and accomodation they must still be getting a good wage for it. And i still think what they pay their Knockouts is ridiculous and again i thought Eric Bischoff if he had any say at all would have sorted that out.
 
"They" is a sorry state of a storyline, Dixie has really dropped the ball hiring easy e and hogan,

Idea for TNA: have matt hardy join tna and rescue his brother! dixies comment is the way i think most fans are feeling.
 
I'm sure i read it somewhere that it was unlikely that the channels would close until the end of the year. If I can find it, i'll post it ..
 
Well in fairness to him I'll quote exactly what it says just to be accurate:

Expect several major changes as far as face to heel turns and a new group or groups forming coming out of the next week. The long-term plan was Kurt Angle to be champion and Eric Bischoff & Hulk Hogan to be heels and Sting to be a top babyface coming out of Bound for Glory, but it
 
There's a reason the lights are down - so you can't see the empty seats!!

6,000!!?? The impact zone hold 950! and they don't always fill that with FREE tickets.

last weeks BFG (and Lockdown in April) were held outside of the Impact Zone, where people were asked to pay - not massive amounts, but they were asked to pay to get in. This is TNA's biggest 2 PPV's of the year (or 2 of the big 3, depending on how you look at it), and they both averaged about 2,000 paying fans. I have no idea why, it's probably due to REALLY POOR MARKETING, but TNA cannot draw on the road. For anything.



Doing Impact from the Manhattan may work - WWF held raw there week in week out for a few years when it started :)
The problem is that TNA is an added attraction to Universal Studios - not only do they provide the TV taping arena, but the cost of doing so is subsidised by them, to encourage people to go into their theme park. They need guaranteed sell outs every week to make a move work, and it ain't happening.

Edited to talk to Wild Movie Guy:

You're kidding, right? Bischoff and Russo (along with ideas from Jarret and Dutch mantell) run TNA completely.

I repeat. BISCHOFF DOES RUN TNA.

That's why the knockouts are less prominent, and 'gang culture' is rife - between the now defunct world elite, fortune, EV2, and "They", ALL of the main players are in a group somehow.

They have to stick within budget. TNA is a small company. The impact zone is small. It has bleachers/bences rather than seats. It's a TV studio, nothing more. I agree they need to leave it, but where do they go? They weren't selling out Nashville. They dont sell out FREE ENTRY in Orlando. It's a most bizarre situation, and I dont understand it.
 
AJ and Joe have both spoken out against the company in recent months so i can't see it been total BS, Some guys are gonna lose TV time now thanks to the mess that was the tna PPV
 
Not sure how true it is but it was discussed on a radio station what Paul Heyman planned to do with TNA.Apparently he wanted to save 1 million dollars worth of talent cuts and hire a number of talent from the indie scene.He also wanted Gabe Sapolsky and David Lagana to consist of his booking team.
 
Try me. My mate, who's two years older than I am, and has a decent career in locals in the UK, has given it up completely because he's just not a fan of it any more, and I understood everything he told me.

He's stood in ring and had hundreRAB of people applaud his promo's. He used to go home and watch WWE, WCW, TNA, but as time went on, and as it became more of a smutty, comedy programme aimed at the lowest common denominator in the human race, he decided enough was enough. He not only didn't want to be associated with it, he didn't want to watch it either. And when you look back at what people like me, who have watched it since 1992, have seen, you wonder why, oh why, you are watching what is portrayed as the love-child of the 90's peak with WWF, WCW and ECW.

Last nights iMPACT! was decent. I'll give you that. But look what was decent on it. Flair and Foley's promo and Pope's stuff with Nash and Sting. The matches didn't last long in the memory, apart from the Main Event, which I'll have forgotten next Saturday.

Where's the ground-breaking stuff I was used to? That's what I HOPE this coming weeks iMPACT! and Bound for Glory give me. If not, then, like many other fans of TNA before Hogan came in, I'll be off.
 
Ah, I just thought Cookie was suposed to be a play on the term "Cookie", as in being slightly ditzy (or something like that).

Either way, it is a rubbish and horrible gimmick.
 
The fact they never did it again, despite the fact it was reportedly- and there's no reason to doubt this methinks- the most bought TNA pay per view ever by a long way, tells you something about the style and the talents (lack of) willingness to do it though, doesn't it?
 
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