General Chit-Chat Thread - No Spoilers

[Bobby Barrows]

and they were doing pretty good numbers for a while

They were pushing over 1 MIllion viewers consistently.

 

[Storm Trooper]

and they were doing pretty good numbers for a while

great numbers and they should have taken it on the road at that point. But they didn't and that's why they were a small company.

 

[Canadian Dragon]

but i can certainly see StormTroopers point about running a shitty ass venue lol

 

[Deezy]

Hard disagree because the wrestling business in the 2000s was absolute shit.

Wasn't.....thought it was the "indie resurgence" that were selling out all the time lol\

 

[Deezy]

They were pushing over 1 MIllion viewers consistently.

No they weren't

 

[Bobby Barrows]

I wouldn't say ECW counts at all tho as major

ECW was pulling around the same numbers that TNA was at their height so just saying.

 

[Canadian Dragon]

great numbers and they should have taken it on the road at that point. But they didn't and that's why they were a small company.

yeah no touring at that time was a surefire way to not grow your product thats for sure. aew doesnt tour either but i think a big reason for that was the pandemic and not rushing to going all in on new venues too fast (to their detriment now as een by ticket sales being less than stellar)

 

[Chris]

I pretty much just break things up about whether i consider you indie or not and i def have non-indie promotions that aren't "major" but my criteria to not be indie is literally signing most of your roster to contracts instead of booking per appearance

 

[Deezy]

Pulling a million viewers constantly....lmao....their bigggest audience was a 1 and that was like 08

 

[Canadian Dragon]

ig theres still regional vs national

 

[Deezy]

ECW was pulling around the same numbers that TNA was at their height so just saying.

No they weren't

 

[Canadian Dragon]

but then theres weird stuff like gcw that breaks the mold a bit lol

 

[Storm Trooper]

yeah no touring at that time was a surefire way to not grow your product thats for sure. aew doesnt tour either but i think a big reason for that was the pandemic and not rushing to going all in on new venues too fast (to their detriment now as een by ticket sales being less than stellar)

AEW tours. That's why they're a bigger deal. They play fairly big venues weekly. TNA should have run AEWs business model of 1 TV a week in a new location it would have grown exponentially. At the very worst do 2 weeks of TV at one taping.

 

[Chris]

ig theres still regional vs national

That's a debate in itself too mostly due to GCW who's most certainly an indie but also not regional cause they hit most of the country and even internationally

 

[Bobby Barrows]

AEW tours. That's why they're a bigger deal. They play fairly big venues weekly. TNA should have run AEWs business model of 1 TV a week in a new location it would have grown exponentially. At the very worst do 2 weeks of TV at one taping.

Would it have?