syxx2001 0 Report post Posted July 27, 2003 I dont really like American Dragon, but he has talent equal to, if not exceeding those like Eddie Guererro, Dean Malenko and Chris Benoit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheFranchise 0 Report post Posted July 27, 2003 Hey syxx, I'm in Houston too! Good thing TNA has the business sense to wait for a good deal, however long it may be. I don't wanna wait until midnight or something on some crappy station everyweek. Stop right there chief... They hired Vince Russo. First TSM bought you 100 reasons why Steiner was better than Goldberg... NOW..... TSM brings you.... the one reason why TNA will fail! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest OSIcon Report post Posted July 27, 2003 Does it matter? They are all the same damn flippery floppers. That's just about the opposite of what Dragon is. I'll take it you've never seen him wrestle because he is pretty much all matwork and grappling. The extent of his high flying these days is a tope and a diving headbutt. London does more "flippy-floppy" stuff but his appeal to me as always been the fact that he can some cool ahtletic moves but then can turn around and hang around fine on the mat. Not to mention he usually does the gymnastic stuff where it makes sense and shown he can wrestle whole, good matches without using any of it (his 2/3 Falls match against Dragon and 6/14 against Styles to give two examples.) As for the topic, I don't really think that a spike in WWE's popularity is necesarily the determining factor for TNA or any company to get a TV deal. It couldn't hurt, but I don't think its the be all, end all. RAW's ratings are still generally top notch for cable. Its not like nobody watches wrestling theese days. If a company has a large enough fanbase, I think it would be possible that a cable station would take a chance it. I've always been confused by this. Even though wrestling is in a "down period" right now, RAW still draws upper 3.0's and lower 4.0's in the ratings which are still among the highest on cable television. Yet because the numbers are not as high as they once were, it is deemed that there isn't room for a second wrestling promotion on cable or network TV. Yet, somehow there is plenty of room for a million shows in every other television genre, half of which don't pull as good of numbers as the WWE in a downturn. Not to mention that there are also those wrestling fans who don't watch the WWE anymore but watch other alternatives (Indies) who could add to the numbers of a second promotion on national TV. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
