TNA to cease weekly PPV's

[Guest Astro]

Mike Johnson is reporting that TNA Wrestling is planning on making some major

changes to their company in the upcoming weeks. Johnson says he has heard from

numerous sources that TNA is planning on scrapping the weekly pay-per-view

concept and moving to the traditional monthly pay-per-view with November planned as their start date. He says sources have also told him TNA is planning on

moving the taping date for Impact to Tuesday nights. When all of this happens

TNA is also planning on running some small scale house shows as well.

[slimm44]

Sounds good. Maybe they are working on a better tv deal. If they are scrapping the PPV and just running an hour show they are headed in the wrong direction. However reports also said they were moving to Orlando at the beginning of August...time will tell I guess

[JustJoe2k5]

Running house shows could be a good move by TNA, especially if they tour around the Mid-Atlantic. They could easily produce low-cost shows with A.J. Styles, America's Most Wanted, Ron Killings, The Naturals, Triple X, and the X-Division. They wouldn't even need to book the higher-priced talent, although Jeff Hardy could probably draw in North Carolina. Hopefully, the ending of the weekly PPVs will mean more competitive matches on Impact! and I don't see any reason they couldn't get an extra hour each week.

[eirejmcmahon]

Well it's not like the weekly PPVs have ever come close to even breaking even, is it ?

[Guest TDinDC1112]

They made money 1 time - the Raven-Jarrett match.

[Guest Staravenger]

They made money 1 time - the Raven-Jarrett match.

And at the same time completely fucked everyone over with a horrible finish.

[Guest MikeSC]

They made money 1 time - the Raven-Jarrett match.

And at the same time completely fucked everyone over with a horrible finish.

Which is why they haven't made money since.

-=Mike

...Completing the thought...

[Corey_Lazarus]

TNA "jumped the shark" at two points:

 

1) The finish to Raven/Jarrett. It's not even that Jarrett won, it's that he won while making Raven, Perry Saturn, Justin Credible, New Jack, and The Sandman all look like complete shit. Now, say what you will about Credible, Sandman, and New Jack, but you DO NOT MAKE HIGH-PROFILE TALENT LOOK BAD. Sure, Credible isn't a HUGE name, but he does carry the fact that he is a former ECW World champion. Ditto for Sandman. New Jack is known for his character and the balcony dives, Saturn for his suplexes and overall awesomeness in the ring, and Raven? Too obvious. In one match, Jarrett made five people look like jobbers. One of them was TNA's only other certifiable main-eventer aside from Jarrett, and the other four were solid upper-card talents. To shrug off all of the punishment given to him in that match was something even HHH wouldn't have done, something even Hogan wouldn't have done.

 

2) The signing of Dutch Mantel. Mantel comes in, changes the entire direction of the product, modifies characters to be completely different than they were before (even as a face until then, AJ Styles was still cocky and arrogant, and he suddenly became some Ricky Steamboat-like squeaky-clean babyface; don't get me started on how Jarrett went from everyday man with a meanstreak to egomaniacal showboat with an entourage to protect him), killed the X-Division (Michael Shane, 'nuff said), nearly killed the tag team division (Redshirts didn't even start acting like a team until a few weeks before they split up), and took the biggest draw they had (Raven) and put him into an undercard feud (vs. The Gathering).

 

TNA should get rid of the weekly PPVs. Maybe with commercial breaks, the matches won't seem to suck as much, and with one big show a month (or preferably every two months) to build to the storylines wouldn't be all over the place all the time. Hell, I'd even order a TNA 3-hour PPV if I knew the matches would get more than 10 minutes and wouldn't be all about overbooking (since you'd have the weekly shows to do the overbooking; even Russo knew that during the start of the Attitude era).