tommytomlin

I think the average buyrates after Wrestlemania can be attributed to the fact that the WWE's creative direction was abysmal. With the right logical, coherant storyline that plays to Hogan's strengths as the biggest name in the business, TNA can still make a crapload of money from him. The WWE pushed too far with the nostalgia act, and then put Hulk in feuds with guys like Taker and Triple H when he should have been elevating someone else. TNA won't have that problem, because they have a whole roster full of people who need elevating (even Double J).

And then, unless the hosts agree with their comments, they cut them off and make the conservatives look like the smartest people ever and the liberals like a bunch of pot-smoking hippies.

I think we're all overreacting. It was only at a house show. They probably just played the gay thing up to get some face heat for Dreamer and Richards (their opponents). I think we should calm down and not curse the WWE to eternal hellfire until it's on TV, if ever.

As The Truth said, an EA/AKI NWATNA (how's that for acronyms) game would be awesome. I believe AKI recently made Def Jam Vendetta, a wrestling game based on the No Mercy engine using rappers, and I don't think that EA would bother getting one of their other development teams to make an entirely new engine for a TNA game when they already have the best engine for wrestling games with AKI's. A No Mercy style game with TNA superstars would be the greatest game in the history of anything EVER.

How are they screwing over their fans by bringing in the biggest name in the history of professional wrestling, holding a three hour supercard and increasing their chances of getting a national television deal? Oh, and 'Night Of Champions' sounds good to me.

It's also quite a large shot of money for TNA. I remember reading that ECW made more money of their moderately successfull Acclaim video games than they did off a year or two of live events.

I think we're all overlooking one of the main reasons why Hogan will be good for TNA - a national TV deal. Yes, Hogan mightn't pop a huge buyrate these days (although that was partly due to the fact that the WWE Creative Team are a bunch of uncreative morons), but in terms of mainstream publicity and attention, there's no better free agent in wrestling. If the Sunday card is a failure in the short-term, it can still be a success in the long-term if Hogan can help get TNA a television deal.

Fatter and wearing a thong.

Knowing John Howard, he'd probably support it.

The attitudes shown towards Muslims and the Middle-East in this thread make me sick, and VERY glad I live in Australia, where the type of idiotic Christianity shown here is ignored. The fact that every neo-conservative in America feels the same way troubles me even more.

He was a black version of Rikishi, but fatter and with less mobility and skill.

Well, it's $10 for two hours isn't it? So wouldn't $15 for three hours make sense? Although they could probably charge $20 seeing as though Hulk and maybe Sting will be there. That's still $15 less than the WWE. It's a BARGAIN~!

But comparing TNA's buys to WWE's and saying that unless TNA get near WWE PPV buys they're not going to be able to compete is dumb. TNA may be getting less than a quarter of buys than the WWE, but I'm pretty sure TNA's overheads are a hell of a lot less than a quarter of the WWE's. TNA isn't paying Kevin Nash 700k guaranteed a year. Their highest non-staff member contract would be Raven, and he'd be getting 80k max. Not to mention their few office staff, small production budget, barely any transport costs and running the same arena each week. A Hogan show drawing 80,000 buys is still as much as a success for TNA as Wrestlemania drawing 900,000 for the WWE. It's all about the scale.