Well, that's a little disingenous. The way you make it sound, everyone said the TNA model would fail and TNA, being the little wrestling promotion that could, proved them wrong. But the model did fail. If Panda hadn't stepped and pumped money into the product, we wouldn't be having this conversation right now.
Even with Panda's money, there were many people who didn't think the promotion would be around past 2002, let alone a year.
As for the sell out, I believe that they announced that the Anniversary Show was sold out a couple of weeks back. That was definitely the loudest crowd they have had EVER, so there must have been a lot of new fans in the crowd.
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