Impact Ratings for 5/3

[Dolph'sZiggler]

The scary thing is, even if you took away the sarcasm its still a valid point.

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: Indeed

 

[Snowman1]

But who would you guys push as the big stars of Impact Wrestling, and how would you do it?

I'd say Austin Aries, he has all the tools (except maybe his look), he's both really marketable and really over, and is a symbol of counterculture so the fans see something besides WWE-2.

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

A Double is the obvious answer IMHO. He is the man, plain and simple.

 

[seabs]

Aries has everything, aside from the fact he looks like a scaled down version of a real person. Even Punk towered over him in ROH. I can see that holding him back, Hardy is too unreliable but one person who has everything is Roode but as he's at his best as a heel and is currently on a great run so it would have to be a long term solution. Why they don't push Hogan, Flair, Sting and Angle on every talk show possible whilst bringing talent X Y and Z with them to build up an association I'll never know. Say you had Aries with Hogan on a breakfast show, you'll get some casual viewers saying oh look its Hulk Hogan, I wonder what he's doing now a days. They sit down they watch the show which midway through leads to the attention being put on say Aries, they cut to a package showing his best moments in TNA. Some of those casual viewers I'm sure will at least watch some of the show. Repeat this with various big names and young talent until you find someone who draws people in. Then use that new draw to work with another talent, you have a repeated cycle of draws then.

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[Snowman1]

Sending Angle or Sting, maybe Flair, to do interviews is a must. But Hogan proved he can't be relied on in the BFG buildup, when the main-event was "Kurt Angle vs. Some other guy."

Edit: Howard Stern Show right before BFG

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

The problem with Hogan is any time he winds up doing media nobody asks him about TNA and he never bothers to bring it up.

 

[Testify]

Knockout division is becoming like the divas division. Kim jobs to jobbers, wins on PPV's. Nice.

I was reading to your and Dolph'sZ's arguing here, and that was one thing that caught my eye and really bothers me. :facepalm1:

That's very ironic, because I have a thingy that's shaped like a turnip.

You serious? Like divas division? Divas? Let me get straight to the point - there's nothing worse than divas division (not even Garett Bischoff - sorry D'Z).

Your argument about Kim and jobbing proves that you don't even know what the story is about between Kim and Tessmacher right now, or any other challenger before her for that matter: plus you base most of your opinion(s) based on the frickin spoilers, which is a dumbass smark thing. Every challenger story was different and most of them was quality storytelling, except with Madison Rayne, but even that was passable tbh.

Almost every Knockout is a quality wrestler or at least decent (if we exclude maybe Sky or Rayne, but Sky is at least over).

My final point, your view of KO's is very primitive and I don't think it's fair to them because they actually wrestle more than 2 mins a week.