Dixie says TNA has made WWE better

[rcoot93]

The fact that so many are ex WWE/WCW is what brought viewers in the first place such as sting and Angle.
Also if you look at their roster they have some good talent that weren't in WWE or WCW.

Plus you have to consider guys like R-truth moving from TNA to WWE, although it's a small amount and they were mostly burried (Monty Brown) it would be unfair to just criticise TNA

 

[Warren Static]

You should have made a list.

Someone should have made a list fo the WWE stars that jumped to WCW and vice versa.

Plus you have to consider guys like R-truth moving from TNA to WWE, although it's a small amount and they were mostly burried (Monty Brown) it would be unfair to just criticise TNA

But WWE doesn't bill R-Truth or Matt Bourne as Ex-TNA guys.

 

[John McHenry]

Not to mention that RTruth was released by WWE first so... He's not a TNA guy

 

[TheZig]

As much as everyone likes to say TNA is full of old men who are past it, Just look at few years ago when TNA had a vibrant young roster. I think at that certain point WWE started to pick there game up by bringing in new fresh faces and actually pushing them. Then maybe a year later came NXT which brought up some decent talent who overwise wouldn't have got a shot and the Nexus, which was the biggest angle of last Summer. So if thats what Dixie's getting at then yes, Otherwise she is sadly mistaken if she thinks some of the crap she has put out the past 2-3 has phased WWE.

 

[The Cork]

TNA may have made WWE better, but they've made themselves worse, so this is nothing to crow about.

Oh, and those questions were terrible. Somebody tell the interviewer to grow some balls.

 

[Slim]

Well another part of Marketing 101... build your own rep up. You don't down your own product even though you know what the truth is. She knows that her company didn't really help make WWE that much better but for her to say it didn't would just be further burying her own brand and that'd be a dumb PR move.

TNA's main problem is their overpushing of WWE talent. They had things right when they were focusing on the X-Division which was different, faster pace, intense matches and everything. Yeah they weren't the best at talking but they could deliver better in the ring than anybody else on the roster. And at that time they had the Knockout division that was on a steady rise. Plus there was also the 6 sided ring so you had all this stuff going for you and yeah the ratings weren't all there but they were doing something. They were achieving. then they decided it was time to bring in the big names. Starting with Hogan and then tearing down everything that they built up to start on something different... build around the weak main event scene. The X-division was developing these guys to become main eventers and they were put to the wayside and that is when things started going downhill for a second time with them.

But... eh. TNA is an alternative brand but they just gotta figure out what it is they are doing.

 

[Warren Static]

The ratings were low for TNA during when they were awesome back in like 05-07 because they rarely advertised their product. Why didn't I see AJ Styles on Conan? Why wasn't Samoa Joe doing Good Morning America? Why wasn't Jarret on ESPN talking up the young guys on the roster? TNA needed that and Dixie's family's energy company could have provided enough funding to put them out there on TV. The only problem I can see though is that they might not have connections to buy their way in. TNA's initial problem was Jarret selling to Dixie, had he sold to someone who had a very good financial backing, who was in the entertainment industry, and enjoyed wrestling, things could have turned very well for TNA imo.

 

[Troy]

TNA hasn't made WWE better but it has given plenty of wrestlers a second chance in the business so that is a positive. It gives them a bit more bargaining power when working out contracts since the wrestler could potentially go to TNA if they wanted to.

TNA's problem is the fact that they are no longer an alternative to WWE and they haven't been for a couple of years. TNA used to be completely different to WWE in that they pushed the smaller wrestlers in the X-Division, Tag team wrestling was huge and they actually pushed the KO's. Now they don't really do much of that and instead follow the WWE formula of pushing the big men and giving them half an hour on the mic each week.