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"TNA...FREE ADVICE FOR TNA FROM SOMEONE WHO IS IN THEIR DESIRED DEMOGRAPHIC AND HAS SEEN THE RISE AND FALL OF ECW Every wrestling reporter has opinion of how a wrestling company should be run. So why is my advice any different or better. My argument would be that I am a 33 year old male who would watch a good wrestling alternative to WWE and I have juggled my marketing career with a career as a pro wrestling performer/associate television producer/direct marketer and I saw exactly what led to the rise and fall of ECW. Now that I have presented my credentials for all to judge, here is some free advice for TNA (which I would be happy to elaborate on privately if they asked me to) because I genuinely want them to succeed: 1.) Find another WWE or WCW Champion to win and lose the NWA Title Jeff Jarrett is a credible champion if for no other reason than he held the WCW title. TNA needs another former WCW or WWE Champion (Sting, Nash, DDP, Scott Steiner, Goldberg, Austin, etc.) to sign a contract agreeing to beat Jarrett and then within six months, convincingly drop the title to a TNA made champion (Monty Brown, Raven, etc.). Pure wrestling fans can scream bloody murder for A.J. Styles to get the belt again but it is a bad marketing move and never should have happened the first time. A.J. Styles is barely 5' 7" tall and barely weighs 180lbs. He is truly phenomenal as a performer but unless he uses the same "special supplements" that Chris Benoit and Eddy Guerrero used to bulk up to a rock solid 220 lbs., he is not a heavyweight and thus, should not be champion of the heavyweights. His holding of the NWA Heavyweight Title made TNA look minor league when compared to WWE's World Champions, even JBL. Good or bad, WWE sets the standard for what major league wrestlers look like and muscles sell more tickets and merchandise than work rate. It is a sad truth of the industry and it will never change etc. 2.) Have somebody under 35 years old who is from New York or Los Angeles book with Dutch Mantell and Jeff Jarrett and I don't me either because I am not "cool" enough for the job. Southern wrestling deserves to be relegated to WWE nostalgia footage in today's American pro wrestling industry. TNA needs to be young, cool, fast, loud and edgy or it comes off as a poor copy of WWE. The exact opposite of cutting edge is a WWE-inspired half-assed racial stereotype. Years ago, I told Simon Diamond he needed a more serious character like "Fighting Irish" Pat Kenney. A wholesome, educated, morally sound "good guy" who could still be hardcore. Instead, a few southerners come up with an Irish character that included jig dancing, leprechauns, Lucky Charms cereal, Irish Spring soap and lots of miscellaneous green stuff. How do you think those same southerners would feel about a WWE redneck wrestler with no teeth and no shoes having sex with his own sister and pigs? The most successful wrestling characters are the wrestlers' real life personas exaggerated. Even Joey Styles was just Joe Bonsignore exaggerated. I'll readily admit to not being cool but blushing at every sexual reference and claiming to watch CSPAN but not MTV was done to make me a more entertaining television character. Making me a "goombah" would not have have worked because while I am an Italian-American, I am third generation born in this country and the character would have been forced and transparent. 3.) Drop the dead weight! You know who they are. Friends or not, there are some people drawing a check from TNA who are not bringing revenue back into the company coffers. That is bad business. With only one hour of weekly TV and one monthly pay-per-view, quality of talent is much more important than quantity of talent. In short, TNA is run by smart and savvy people who are very capable of building TNA into a profitable company and it my sincerest hope that they do so. Joey Styles"

So if they want to do HHH vs. Orton at Wrestlemania, why push the fans towards having that as the main event at the next PPV?

I wasn't listening, what did she say? The suspense is killing all of us too, Coach.

That's one helluva good idea you got there. I don't know if you are being sarcastic or not, but I was actually being serious about it. He could have her get on a treadmill and hold a bag of cocaine just out of her reach.

So who's going to steal the briefcase...

Okay, who's going to actually call that number? It's probably for Val Venis' cell phone.

It's Bodydonna Nova! Good God, is it a requirement to have a horrible gimmick before they put you on TV these days?

Oh Nova, what the hell happened to you...

Kane will still hit it regardless. Anyone ever seen that Will Ferrell bad doctor skit? Kane should just use Chris Parnell's line from that one. "Let's go start making another one!"

Kane's baby is up with Al Wilson and Katie Vick in WWE heaven.

Hopefully he just teams with Rosey...no superheroes are needed.

The crowd doesn't know what to think of this match.

Snitsky, Hurricane, Tajiri, now Maven...it's Monday Night Heat.

Apparently only atheists, though.

Man, RAW is so fucking horrible right now.

Off topic, that avatar, and I'm seeing that right, is that AJ Styles doing what appears to be some Sunset-flip piledriver? It's Petey Williams' Canadian Destroyer, man!

But what happened on Smackdown other than Torrie being dressed like a dirty whore? DAMMIT I NEED TO KNOW~!~!~!~!

Now we just need some amnesia, a coma, an evil twin and a few midgets, and this will be the greatest storyline in WWE history.

Kane just found out Lita has a penis.

It was dumb to have them split from Trish. She could have added to the heel stable.

Cool lionsault spot, but this match is just there.

Well, Gangrel and Vis showed up on Smackdown... Hopefully we see the return of Beaver Cleavage (who holds a win over Christian) tonight!

Actually when he's just walking around backstage, he dressed like he did when he was in the Brood.

From Keller's report at the Torch: "If Eugene were smarter, he would have taken up Bischoff on the free ice cream, then hit him." Ahhh, Wade Keller. You're just plain brilliant.