10 Wishes to TNA

[Montana]

So there seems to be a handful of TNA haters, that still watch the product on a regular basis. A lot of the reasons people seem to dislike TNA appears to be very minor in my opinion. Last year, my favorite was " AJ Styles sucks as a heel" The whole time in my head, I knew AJ was going to turn back face, and come out a bigger star than before. So i want to know what 10 wishes would the wrestling fans grant TNA for 2009.

1) Increased Live Show attendences

2) Steadily increase the Ratings to 1.5

3) Bring in the talent ( Burke, Colt Cabana, ROH Talent)

4) A new franchise type of guy. Looking up and down the TNA roster, as great as it is, they don't have a John Cena, Steve Austin, Hulk Hogan, Rock, type character. They need someone with AJ Styles skills, and oozes charisma.

5) Decrease to 8 PPV's a year. In an effort to improve PPV's and differ itself from the WWE, they should focus more on the buildup to matches. This could also improve the television product by not cramming so much into each show.

6) Commentary Change. Maybe Don West can be a great heel manager? Perhaps put Kevin Nash in the booth. Joey Styles, Tony S, the ROH announcers, Jeff Jarrett. Something.

7) Try LAX as your badass faces.

8) A big BFG. I'm talking about a huge fued, and i don't see it at the moment. You have Sting's undefeated streak. I personally think they might be saving AJ Styles big win till BFG. So i could see AJ vs. Sting there. Or i could see Joe turn heel and win the belt, thus a AJ vs Joe fued heading in BFG. None the less, TNA needs to be careful how they play their cards with this show.

9) Simplify the storylines, just a tad. I like how they've added another dimension to some characters, however they don't need over the top, tune in every show storylines. I think TNA could benefit from keeping it simiple.

10) Beat WWE in certain areas. Yes TNA can be a entertaining show, BUT its built around charismic stars like the WWE. Focus on putting the spotlight on your positives and hide your negatives.


PS: Booker T's new accent is horrible!!! I hate it, he's gotta change it.

Looking back, around 2006 i had a few areas TNA needed to improve in my mind, and over the course of a year or two, TNA overcame those problems. They've created other problems, but none the less, they generally address the current problems.

 

[THE Brian Kendrick's Biceps]

So there seems to be a handful of TNA haters, that still watch the product on a regular basis.

Guessing this is kinda directed at me. I watch TNA because I love wrestling. It may be garbage for the most part, but I still love it.


1) Fix the booking squad. Basically, just make it Scotty D'Amore, Paul Heyman, Gabe Sapolsky and Raven.

2) Have Sting retire at Bound For Glory, losing to AJ Styles.

3) As Monty said, hide your negatives. Heyman would play a big part in this, as he's a master of it. Basically, showcase wrestling ability in the undercard and your stars/mainstays in the main event. Wrestling is what needs to be showcased.

4) Fire Tenay and West and throw Nash and Sapolsky in the booth.


Basically covered it in four because I'm assuming the new booking team would be able to take care of all the minor niggles by hiding the negatives.

 

[Double J]

Increased Live Show attendences

To be honest I doubt they can afford a bigger place.

Bring in the talent ( Burke, Colt Cabana, ROH Talent)

Ehhh yes and no. While I wouldn't mind seeing people like Paul London and Burke in TNA I also would rather use more of their original guys. Right now they're on this "Let's get rid of our original guys who helped build this company and bring in ex-WWE/WCW guys!"

A new franchise type of guy. Looking up and down the TNA roster, as great as it is, they don't have a John Cena, Steve Austin, Hulk Hogan, Rock, type character. They need someone with AJ Styles skills, and oozes charisma.

Yeah I agree. AJ Styles would be their face of TNA, but he does have the mic skills. Guys like Cena, Austin, and Rock had to be made into those 'icons' they are now. TNA may have a few guys who might be good on the mic and can be the true franchise but if they keep using nothing but older talent then they'll never find out.

Crap Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho, Steve Austin, Rey Mysterio, Big Show, Helms, all these guys were in WCW but since WCW were only using the people from WWF they WWF picked them up and made them something.

Decrease to 8 PPV's a year. In an effort to improve PPV's and differ itself from the WWE, they should focus more on the buildup to matches. This could also improve the television product by not cramming so much into each show.

I agree. It's dumb that they have a PPV and the very next Impact they are already talking about the next one. If they had less PPVs we wouldn't be getting Main Events like Ray, Devon, Angle, and Sting in a fatal fourway match.

Commentary Change. Maybe Don West can be a great heel manager? Perhaps put Kevin Nash in the booth. Joey Styles, Tony S, the ROH announcers, Jeff Jarrett. Something.

Bring managers back period. Maybe this new Heel Don West will help some but seriousl I would love to see Tony S back. Crap bring back Larry Zbysko.

Try LAX as your badass faces.

TNA Management is too busy trying to get them to go into singles routes to push them as a tag team....

A big BFG. I'm talking about a huge fued, and i don't see it at the moment. You have Sting's undefeated streak. I personally think they might be saving AJ Styles big win till BFG. So i could see AJ vs. Sting there. Or i could see Joe turn heel and win the belt, thus a AJ vs Joe fued heading in BFG. None the less, TNA needs to be careful how they play their cards with this show.

Yeah they need to take notes from WWE and Wrestlemania. Right after the Rumble they start building up Wrestlemania. Most of the time TNA's BFG almost seem like just another one of their normal PPVs.

Simplify the storylines, just a tad. I like how they've added another dimension to some characters, however they don't need over the top, tune in every show storylines. I think TNA could benefit from keeping it simiple.

Come up with new storylines and stop reusing old ones. Hmm a faction full of veteran wrestlers going by the name 'The MEM' vowing to take over TNA while destroying anyone who stands in their way....Hmmmm sounds really familar....

But yeah their storylines also just kinda lead to no where. Kinda like ODB apart of Frontline...Why exactly? So Matt Morgan and Abyss just decided to stop talking to each other and that's that. Both LAX members have title shots but they just kinda disappear from TV from time to time.. Ect,ect,ect.

PS: Booker T's new accent is horrible!!! I hate it, he's gotta change it.

Which one? He keeps going back and forth from the english King Booker, to the Jumangan African King, to his current Over the Top Ghetto accent.

 

[Montana]

To be honest I doubt they can afford a bigger place.

I just meant cram that little place full.

 

[THE Brian Kendrick's Biceps]

Aren't they getting a bigger place in Nashville?

 

[taikimoto]

They definitely should go after Paul Heyman as booker if he
can't make this work nothing will.