Again, hype machine or not, I am sure Spike TV has a bigger audience than MyNetwork TV or Sci Fi.
I doubt it has a much bigger audience.
iMPACT is headlined by the likes as Kurt Angle. Sting, Booker T, Steiner, Joe, AJ, you keep going.
And she's proud that that roster is competitive with the show headlined by rookie Jack Swagger?
With the exception of Sting, NONE of those guys have ever been a proven draw. Irrelevant point.
Competitive? You call that competive? TNA, just by their roster, should be getting ratings that rival SD, not lame ECW. They are not competitive, and even starting an argument that they are on the same ratings level is rather dumb, especially when you compare WWE's C show with TNA's premiere show
How is it dumb when it's true? Why should they rival SD? They don't have ANYONE that comes close to the draws Smackdown has, not to mention the fact that Smackdown is now over 10 years old as a TV show, and debuted during the hottest period of wrestling in the last 15 years.
No, it makes MUCH more sense to compare to ECW, when you compare all factors. And when compared to ECW, TNA is competitive in ratings.
It's entirely her fault, as he clearly made the statement like that to mislead people. If she wanted to stick with the facts, she would have said TNA is being competitive with ECW
So, ECW is not part of the WWE now?
Give up, you lose. Just because you want to read more into her statement than is actually there, doesn't change the fact she's right.
Excuse me? I didn't misinterpret anything. I know exactly what she was trying to do with her statement.
Sure you did. You think that she was trying to imply that TNA was on Raw's level...she never even said anything close to that. She just said ratings were comparable to WWE, and she was right.
She wants her company to be seen on the same level as the WWE. So she deliberately puts out a vague statement that indicates that her company is on par with the WWE as a whole. Not that her company is in reality on par with their C level show.
Come on now, you're a smart guy when you choose to be, don't ruin it by being this dense. Anyone with half a brain could see that she is trying to inflate her company's reputation to higher levels than they actually deserve.
That's what you think. I don't really think so. And I'll tell you why.
In EVERY way, TNA is like ECW. They are a new show, who feature talent seen before with a great blend of talent not seen before. They receive approximately the same amount of advertising, and are expected to do approximately the same ratings. ECW, as people mentioned, is WWE's "C" show, but still probably receives more production focus and money than TNA Impact does, not to mention it is a traveling show, whereas Impact comes from Orlando.
YOU are trying to compare it to Raw, Dixie is not. And I would not either. Because Raw (and SD, for that matter) operate on a completely different level, on a number of different ways, not the least of which is life on TV and exposure through the mid-to-late 90s wrestling boom. So, when she says they are on the same level ratings wise as WWE, she is exactly correct. Just because people want to try and twist her meaning, doesn't change the fact that she is completely correct.
