THEY JUST SAID IN THIS VIDEO THEY HAVE BETTER ATHLETES!!!! ARE YOU DEAF!??
And what comes FIRST in professional wrestling is drawing money. You know how you draw money? You connect with as many people as possible. Now which is gonna connect to more people? Someone going to his kids school and fucking with him (which is a scary concept IMO) or an Ultimate X match? Do you think Austin/McMahon will go down in history as one of the most compelling feuds of all time becuase of the "spots" they did in the ring? Vince falling off the cage, Austin cracking Vince with a chair? Shit no. Its gonna down as one of the greatest of all time because of the poisitions Vince put Austin in and vice versa. Making him ref the match to give someone else his WWE title. A First Blood Match with Kane. The Foley program where it was all about trying to screw Austin like he did Bret. How about when Austin made Vince piss himself out of fear? Or Austin crashed the ring with various things, zamboni and a beer truck? Which is gonna be remembered?
That's longevity, by how much the majority of the fans remember you and what you did. The old TNA style that they used to have is like watching fireworks. It's pretty but it was fucking meaningless. Now they are TRYING (not too successfully) to add meaning and these fucks don't like it because they arent getting their 15 phase high spots that are COMPLETELY MEANINGLESS!!!
Again, I agree with you to a degree. TNA isn't WWE, and never will be WWE, and it's quite likely that no North American promotion will ever be WWE. So, you have to mix it up. WWE goes for a 95% entertainment base for their shows. TNA should go around 50/50 to be different than WWE. And yes, that means having exciting matches, but also ones with good pshycology as well. The actual wrestling has to co exist with the entertainment, to be original, and to be an alternative to WWE. As much as some people say the actual wrestling isn't so important, well it is. EVERY feud will eventually come down to a match or a series of matches, if the match sucks, then why the hell would anyone remember the feud. Granted, there are many ways to make a match exciting and not every way involves good wrestling skills, which is fine. But the actual match holds just as much merit as anything else in the industry.