Tna news from Observer news letter 27/3/6!!

[Guest nokia]

Dave feels TNA is screwed, because they cannot expand outside of their core audience with their current booking strategy, and don't have a budget to compete with WWE in terms of production, stars, or marketting; yet TNA right now is trying to present themselves as WWE-like, which it obviously can't pull off.

 

They are having a hard time establishing themselves as an alternative, and seem to be trying to emulate WWE.

 

Dave questions the philosophy of cramming as many matches as possible into a single hour of programming and not giving X-Division guys enough time to develop a match. He contrasts this with ECW, who never had a strong lead in and were never in a position to benefit themselves as much as TNA is, but did better because they sometimes only had two matches on their shows, but built hot angles around it and made the matches seem special.

 

-Plymouth, MI show did very well, and although ICP promoted it, most of the fans came in because of TNA and not ICP. Dave doesn't understand the wisdom of having Scotty D'Amore do a Canadian Destroyer on the show, as a "super hot move" should not be made to seem like a manager can pull it off.

 

-Lots and lots of media pub for TNA angles with White Sox.

 

-Spike Dudley is probably going to come in to TNA.

 

-More on the BG James and Kip situation. BG was getting $1,000 per appearance with TNA. Kip got 2,500 for PPV and 1,500 for TV. BG wanted more, and management told him that due to losing 24 mil, they cannot give it to him. When BG complained, they told him that if he wanted, they would the money away from Kip and give some to him and he could explain to Kip why that happened (personal sidenote, that's fucked up). When this was said to BG, he told them he was quitting. At this point, management told Kip that if BG quits, he would be fired, because without BG, they'd have nothing for Kip to do. So, BG and Kip worked out with TNA a deal. Both are now getting 1,250 for TV and 1.750 for PPV.

 

-Konnan is getting experimental hip therapy by a doctor that performed this type of procedure on two members of the US Olympic skiing team. If successful, other wrestlers will follow suit.

[Vampiro69]

Never thought I would see the name D'Amore and Canadian Destoryer in the same sentence, and for him to be the one executing the move.

[luke-o]

I cant see why people are so upset by the whole d'amore candain destroyer.

 

Personally, i would love to see it, and i know my housemates (who i swear are getting more and more into TNA) would love to see it too.

[Astro101]

If it was on a ppv or Impact, I would see the problem. But it's a house show, so I see no big deal unless TNA was pimping the move on their site, which they're really not.

[luke-o]

Unless they were seeing if it was possible and to see how the crowd would react? i thought that was the point of house shows.