Bound for Glory 2023 - SATURDAY, October 21 - Live from Chicago - Only on PPV

[Leon TrotSky]

...and I just saw the ratings he gave to the other matches, definitely an Ospreay boost. Sabin/KENTA sub-3 stars? Really?

 

[Smart Marx]

Meltzer rated Speedball/Ospreay 5.25 stars... it's the end of an era, Styles/Daniels/Joe is no longer the highest rated TNA match

I try not to take issue with how people rate matches because everyone’s opinion is subjective opinion, but my only problem with his is now the new ceiling on the ratings. If he was always willing to go up to six there’s a chance that he might’ve rated that original triple threat higher so it’s kind of hard to compare the two matches.

That being said pretty awesome to see TNA get a five or higher rating for melts anyway so it’s awesome.

 

[Chris]

 

[Smart Marx]

It’s so surreal to see current day wrestlers referring to the company in the present tense as TNA.

 

[Leon TrotSky]

But it's still hype. TNA's honestly a better name

 

[Butters]

there's a local indy where i live that's also called impact wrestling so i'm glad they changed it so i stop getting confused. My brain only can work so hard.

 

[Smart Marx]

But it's still hype. TNA's honestly a better name

Preach. I’ve been leading that bandwagon since day one.

 

[Smart Marx]

It’s honestly hilarious how many companies have the word impact in their title. There is a New Zealand company called impact pro wrestling. WWN owns a Florida company called full impact pro wrestling. I believe there’s also a high impact wrestling and an impact championship wrestling and I’m sure there’s some others, so yeah impact wrestling was such a weird name choice.

 

[Smart Marx]

They should’ve at the very least did what most of those other companies did and put a third or fourth word in the title, though, so you could actually still have an acronym.

 

[Leon TrotSky]

The question is how many of those companies got the Impact idea from TNA's TV show

 

[Smart Marx]

The question is how many of those companies got the Impact idea from TNA's TV show

A couple possibly but I do know full impact pro wrestling pre-dates both the hard change, and the soft one.

 

[Smart Marx]

I would say that by the time they change the whole company’s name in 2017, they all existed.

 

[Leon TrotSky]

Buyrate for BFG was about 6K, depressingly. Typical, people talk up the company when a gif comes on their twitter feeds but don't actually watch

 

[Smart Marx]

TNA definitely has a visibility issue. It could be worse, though. I heard NWA Samhain did something around 212 or something insane like that.

I personally believe AEW is the outlier that can make seriously good money on PPV in 2023. which is why smaller companies are agreeing to be on Fite Plus.

Even ROH has gone to HonorClub subscriptions. It might be time to think about incorporating all events into Impact Plus. If you can raise monthly subscribers by even 20,000 because of that, and you’d have to treat each Plus special as a PPV, that would be way more beneficial than 6K buys 4 times.

 

[Comrade Khan]

200 buys is fucking sad damn if thats true , rough for nwa