BOYCOTT TNA

[Nate]

ok some of you may not know me very well, i have been here for a few months, anyway onto the subject, over the last couple weeks TNA has seriously went from a great product to a shit hole suffice to say, i encourage you guys if your true fans and you want TNA to succeed they need to realize we wont stand for their piss poor standards any longer, its time we as fans put our damn foot down

[King Kamala]

Is sucking a serious enough offense for calling for a boycott?

 

 

I mean I thought boycotts were for some malicious act.

[Prophet of Mike Zagurski]

I have been boycotting (neglecting/forgetting) watching their shows. Does that count?

[Open the Muggy Gate]

This will end well, and by well, I mean bad.

[Obi Chris Kenobi]

I think TNA have proved enough that they don't care about their fan base, therefore a boycott of people who don't care/are oblivious won't really work. Saying that, I'm sure if they continue to book the crap they've been doing, and their buyrates totally dry up, maybe then they'll change their ways, but I doubt it.

 

TNA peaks and ebbs almost in some strange yearly pattern, it will have one great year, then dive bomb to total chaos and shit.

[USC Wuz Robbed!]

Let's see... TNA has terrible buyrates (like late WCW levels last I heard), not so impressive ratings (albeit for the network, it's impressive enough I guess), stale acts and storylines, bookers who won't listen to fans, rapidly deteriorated locker room morale... yeah a boycott will show them.

[geniusMoment]

No one cares enough about TNA to boycott, it's to the point where I don't even illegally download their stuff off pwtorrents because TNA ppv's suck so hard that they should pay me to watch them.

[Smartly Pretty]

Remember the FSN Days? TNA can survive without fans.

[Obi Chris Kenobi]

Remember the FSN Days? TNA can survive without fans.

 

Wasn't that due to the fact that Dixie Carter gets like $1m pocket money a month. Some kids buy collectors cards, she bought a wrestling promotion.

[Scroby]

...............your serious aren't you?

[Obi Chris Kenobi]

...............your serious aren't you?

 

I simply meant Dixie Carter kept TNA afloat when it probably shouldn't have. Perhaps my exaggeration didn't come across very well.

[RedJed]

For fucks sake.....

[Prophet of Mike Zagurski]

In one of the recent interviews Dixie did, she said that TNA was going to turn a profit soon.

 

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2007/06/13/4257346.html

[USC Wuz Robbed!]

Oh well if Dixie says so, it must be true!

[Obi Chris Kenobi]

In one of the recent interviews Dixie did, she said that TNA was going to turn a profit soon.

 

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2007/06/13/4257346.html

 

I mean bless Dixie Carter for trying, but she says alot of things and at times I feel like she's a great 'spin doctor'. I'm not sure how much of what she says is true, I'm sure she believes it, she seems like a very positive and driven person. However, when you read all these internet reports about how backstage moral sucks, and people are on power trips and Dixie Carter doesn't have a clue you start to wonder. However, they are just internet reports...

 

As for Boycotting TNA, I'll still watch it to until it ends, whenever that maybe. I have no idea why, but I like my wrestling and its not like I have to pay for it (we get the PPVs free over here in the UK). I guess there's people out there that really enjoy the product as well (at least the 1.0 ratings worth of people who seem to tune in every week), so to boycott just because you don't like it seems a bit harsh. Boycott Nescafé by all means, maybe even Microsoft.

[JustJoe2k5]

Ring of Honor doesn't seem to want to take that step to become a promotion on a national level (live pay-per-view or syndicated television show), so T.N.A. is the best alternative we have at the moment. Do I think the storylines are terrible? Yes. Do I think they push the wrong talent? Yes. Could I see talent like A.J. Styles, Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin, Christopher Daniels, Elix Skipper, Jay Lethal, Low Ki, and Samoa Joe on a weekly basis anywhere else? No.

 

I've supported T.N.A. from their first weekly pay-per-view in '02 and I'll continue to support them until their last pay-per-view.

[Sideburnious]

"Take your TNA merchandise to one of our many TNA Boycott posts"

 

[luke-o]

So, so far this boycott consits of:

 

Nate

Lance Storm

 

Well, it could have been worse.

[Jingus]

The fans have been boycotting their shows in droves for five years now.

[dubq]

ok some of you may not know me very well, i have been here for a few months, anyway onto the subject, over the last couple weeks TNA has seriously went from a great product to a shit hole suffice to say, i encourage you guys if your true fans and you want TNA to succeed they need to realize we wont stand for their piss poor standards any longer, its time we as fans put our damn foot down

 

TNA hasn't been anything close to a great product in some time dude. This is nothing new.

[HollywoodSpikeJenkins]

Only three people on this board watch TNA anyway...

[razazteca]

Its true its damn true that an hour long pull apart confrontation between Kurt Angle and Joe just isn't compelling television neither is low rate cheap comedy featuring pop culture references and middle school caliber dick jokes. Now if it was a serious wrestling promotion that had a match that lasted longer than 5 minutes with actual meaning that built up excitement to the PPV maybe just maybe people would pay more attention. But I guess the company is more into thinking that a big name from the past is all that they need to sell the product even though said superstar is 10+ years past their prime and can't have a match worth watching. Unless you actually protest in front of the MGM, Universal, Disney or whatever amusement park they are currently at this boycott won't mean a damn thing. Or you can do something productive like joining Mark Mero's crusade against drugs.

 

JUST SAY NO!

[bob_barron]

They won't let Ron Killings sit at the front of the bus?

[razazteca]

TNA refuses to offer mass transit for their employees but is willing to give the celebrity of the month a Limo, a room at the Hilton, and an iron chef to cook for them!?!?!?!

[dubq]

Which Iron Chef?

[DrVenkman PhD]

Where has my old neighbour Petey Williams been these days?

 

It was kind of funny, on WO.com Dave made a note they needed a new TNA Impact zone reporter because Alan Wojack was banned from bringing his laptop so he's boycotting and not going back. Frankly I don't see why Mr. Wojack wouldn't just roll old school and make notes (would any of you actually carry your laptop and type away on it during a wrestling event / sports game / movie?) but I'm not sure what rule he violated that - after writing these spoilers for MONTHS (years?) for WO someone says "hey, stop bringing that".

[bob_barron]

I always wondered why someone would go to a show and do copious PBP notes instead of enjoying the show.

[Jingus]

Alan's been a tireless reporter/cheerleader/defender/amateur fluffer since TNA's Nashville days. He always uses his laptop to write reports, even at little indy shows. This is just yet another instance of TNA being dicks to their fans at the live shows, for no good reason. It's especially stupid in this case because it's costing them one of their most loyal employees that they never even had to pay.

[cabbageboy]

I'm not going to boycott TNA, since I can at least tolerate the weekly show on a regular basis on DVR. The truly sad aspect is that OVW turns out a better TV show on a weekly basis.

 

That said, I am not going to watch TNA PPVs for a while. TNA has devolved into Kurt Angle jerking off in front of the world and right now I have zero interest in seeing that. Take a look at the past couple of months in TNA and you'll know why WWE was always hesitant to make Angle their unchallenged #1 star.

[dubq]

Where has my old neighbour Petey Williams been these days?

 

It was kind of funny, on WO.com Dave made a note they needed a new TNA Impact zone reporter because Alan Wojack was banned from bringing his laptop so he's boycotting and not going back. Frankly I don't see why Mr. Wojack wouldn't just roll old school and make notes (would any of you actually carry your laptop and type away on it during a wrestling event / sports game / movie?) but I'm not sure what rule he violated that - after writing these spoilers for MONTHS (years?) for WO someone says "hey, stop bringing that".

 

Maybe he should invest in a Blackberry..