If TNA emerged as a threat to the WWE,

[Guest Jason]

TNA. The only possible threat to the WWE in the coming years. They are the only threat that will ever put a questionm mark to the WWE's solidity within the coming years. Flash back to the Attitude Era, and the Monday Night Wars. WWE and WCW were in a big battle, as you all are already aware of. You all know the story but the fact remains that the ratings of WWE improved. Even in such a tense time, they would have had to have been happy with the product's ratings compared with Nitro's and the fact that more and more people started watching after publicity increased. The WWE could use the increased publicity and the ratings could improve to new levels.

 

Even if TNA only remotely gets close and once some publicity starts, people will be wondering what the whole problem is. Of course, the ratings and amount of merchandise increased would help the WWE out to score more ratings. WWE could really use TNA to help build it up more and more. Sure, they want to get as far and far away from TNA as they can but a little healthy competition is not bad for the company. TNA won't get close enough to make a serious threat and the WWE can use the "war" to elevate itself even more and to elevate its stars.

 

The merchandise the WWE could stand to make out of this would be pretty good , not to mention the ratings and extra publicity it received. The shows haven't received as much publicity and attention as they would like, since the years of Monday Night Wars. The WWE aren't prepared to take risks like they were in the Attitude Era, with like a do or die attitude. But now they seem to be taking it too easy and the common wrestling fan seems to be fading away into the older fan. Older fans tend to stay loyal to the programming and without taking risks and without the Stone Colds and Rocks, WWE are just going to stay the same and inevitably, fall down.

 

A TNA challenge could really help the WWE out. Just to pose that little threat to the World Wrestlign Entertainment company would be enough to get the WWE back into action, producing top notch shows like they used. They used to care about their mistakes, but now it is as if they just let it go because they know they are doing so well. TNA really could pose a challenge and if they did, so much the better. The ratings would improve a lot and what would Vince be complaining. In the end, he could do what he did to WCW and ECW and just buy the place out. Then he could get rid of the dead waste and use the ones we want, like Petey, A.J and Monty. Just to give the WWE a kick up the ass, so to speak, I reckon it'd be great if TNA started to pose a threat to the WWE.

[Guest LooneyTune]

TNA is going to be dead in 90 days. No company will ever be a threat unless Ted Turner buys a shitty company and buys stars from WWE again.

[bobobrazil1984 0]

Considering the many ridiculously moronic decisions they've made (really, they're approaching WWE-level idiocy), there's no way they can be a threat. Unless they suddenly get a new gajillion dollar backer.

[Hunter's Torn Quad 0]

TNA are absolutely no possible threat to WWE, in any way, shape, or form. I'd like a threat to WWE to appear, but it isn't going to be TNA, nor will it ever be TNA.

[Taker666 0]

TNA is is way below even ECW. How in the hell can that be considered a threat. look at TNA's stars, and look at the WWE stars. I mean really.

[Guest The Shadow Behind You]

The only way a threat occurs if Paul Heyman gets Ted Turner and they grab ROH and run with that and build it up ala ECW.

 

 

*Gabe Sapolsky would still be the head booker. Heyman would just be the top writer and he'd bring dreamer along with him

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

I like how this works under the premise that the WWE only sucks right now because there isn't competition (as if competition doesn't exist from external sources like Monday Night Football, CSI, etc), not because they're complete idiots. God, I feel dumber right now after reading that.

 

Oh, btw, The UFC's new show "The Ultimate Fighter", will be premiering after RAW on January 17th.

 

Just sayin.

[Guest Coffey]

WWE won't get competition until the other companies realize that the secret to success isn't to acknowledge WWE in off-hand ways, giving them free publicity. It didn't work for ECW, WCW or TNA. It'll never work. People watch the alternative for an alternative...not and update.

[Dobbs 3K 0]

What I don't get is...if these companies really want to succeed, why don't they work together? I mean, TNA and ROH alone are pretty small, but maybe if they combined forces... you never know.

[Sideburnious 0]

What I don't get is...if these companies really want to succeed, why don't they work together? I mean, TNA and ROH alone are pretty small, but maybe if they combined forces... you never know. They want to exceed, only on their own.

Id say its the "too many cooks spoil the broth" mentality. There would be too many clashes of egos, too many people trying to be in charge and also there would be less money for the owners.

[Guest Trivia247]

Perhaps reconsitiuting the old NWA from their broken fiefdom feds into a National company again, fund it with Turner but give him NO creative power whats so ever. Problem is, that the majority of the old and current Wrestling promotors and those who are capable of being promoters work for the WWE keeping them all in house.

[Fro 0]

The real problem is a lack of TV clearance.

 

It's very hard for any promotion to build up stars without it at this point. Eventually promotions will be able to use the Internet to stream their TV shows effectively though.

[Guest Regal Fan]

With Jarrett as Champion they'll never get famous

[Guest The Shadow Behind You]

With ANY of those people on their roster they wont and aren't going to even be marginally known and the company is dead.

 

Only Austin Vs Hogan would draw any interest and Vince would offer Triple what Jarrett and Panda offer.

 

Which would be $3.00. Because all TNA has is $0 dollars in their bank.

[jester 0]

What bothers me about TNA is their willingness to snap up WWE has beens. Nothing screams "wannabe" like picking up the guys WWE doesn't want anymore.

 

"Hi, my name is Kevin Nash. I fuck over wrestling companies for a living. I want a few million dollar to wrestle about five minutes each year, and spend the rest on my broken down ass eating Cheetos. I know approximately two wrestling moves, and 2000 ways to worm my way to the top at the expense of others. Allegedly I could cut funny promos in WWE about 40 years ago."

 

"You worked for WWE? You're hired!"

[humongous2002 0]

I see Vince buying TNA by next year just for the hell of it, TNA is not a threat at all since they have Double J as their world champion, even JBL laughs at Jeff Jarrett.

[Dark Age 0]

Which would be $3.00. Because all TNA has is $0 dollars in their bank.

 

Hilarious.

 

I can't believe the whole 'they need competition' argument. The company sucks right now because they're all idiots. End of story.

[Guest LooneyTune]

3 times $0 is $0. You can't multiply 0. (Slaps forhead)

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

What are you talking about? Vince McMahon is at his best when he has competition. When he has someone who pushes him against the wall and he is forced to steal their ideas push back.

[RHR 0]

What I don't get is this, allegedly Eric Bischoff had lined up $50 million to buy WCW, but, his investors backed out because of no TV. Now, with ROH and TNA out there, EB is just going to sit back and work for Vince? Why isn't Bisch out there, just as a $$$ man, and helping get a legitimate 2nd option out there? Granted the guy is a slimeball, but, he might be able to learn from past mistakes and do something.

[Promoter 0]

Yeah, can it be possible that the wwe is lame now because they can't steal anyone's ideas and make profit off it? What happened to them taking the tale of the tape? They couldn't even use that properly to build the story for the matches by the commentators.

 

TNA is just flat out atrocious imo. When I can see them on free television in Toronto like I do raw and smackdown then maybe this topic can be valid. They are on ESPN Classic for crying out loud in Canada. That same channel that gave us "classics" like Flordia Championship Wrestling with Dutch Mantell headlining

[Guest TheLastBoyscout]

What are you talking about? Vince McMahon is at his best when he has competition. When he has someone who pushes him against the wall and he is forced to steal their ideas push back.

You know, WCW stole more from the WWE than the other way 'round.

[Promoter 0]

What are you talking about?  Vince McMahon is at his best when he has competition.  When he has someone who pushes him against the wall and he is forced to steal their ideas push back.

You know, WCW stole more from the WWE than the other way 'round.

Well, maybe the 1993-1995 wcw did. You know how well those years went(although they did Hogan/Flair's program much better than Vince did). The Memorial Day nitro to the 1999 wcw I think Vince stole more from them than the other way around.

 

When Russo jumped ship can it really be fair to say that they copied the wwf when it was the wwf's head writer doing the same stuff he did under the wwf roof? I mean who could forget Stone Cold Hogan? How about The Book? WCW gets too many potshots for Russo's lack of creativity on this front.

[Guest TheLastBoyscout]

What are you talking about?  Vince McMahon is at his best when he has competition.  When he has someone who pushes him against the wall and he is forced to steal their ideas push back.

You know, WCW stole more from the WWE than the other way 'round.

Well, maybe the 1993-1995 wcw did. You know how well those years went(although they did Hogan/Flair's program much better than Vince did). The Memorial Day nitro to the 1999 wcw I think Vince stole more from them than the other way around.

What did Vince steal from them?

 

If anything Vince took a depleted roster and stole mercilessly from ECW to gain an edge on WCW. WCW got the edge in the first place by signing away a lot of stars that Vince created (Hall, Nash, Hogan) etc. Plus, Vince had prime time long before Nitro. Now, WCW did innovate live wrestling, but Vince started doing it to not look bush league, it wasn't "stealing" it was "keeping up with the jonses."