Here are the MAJOR things TNA will need to do to even get a decent footing to compete with the E:
1. Scrap EVERY person involved with creative. Russo, Mantlel, all those guys. They are more than proven ineffective and have done nothing to spice up or even improve the product. No more pointless swerves, no more re-hashing angles that have been re-hashed ten times before, no more nonsense. They need WRESTLING people to run what they aim to be, a pro wrestling company. And Eric Bischoff certainly isn't the answer. You need people are aren't marks for themselves, Mick Foley would be awesome, he has always done what is best for biz and throw in Jim Cornette or see if you can entice Paul Heyman as he is the father of bringing modernism to wrestling. Look how awesome SD! was from 2002-03 while he had the book there, or how awesome the One Night Stands were. He still has it. Dixie needs to also step aside, she knows nothing about the business and she has shown that with the people she has surrounded herself with to help run her business. She's the Al Davis equivalent to wrestling.
2. Drop all the stupid gimmicks. The six sided rings, nicknaming every single wrestler, stupid, overly complex matches, gimmick PPVs. It all needs to stop. Go back to basics. If you want new fans you have to offer some familiarities to the product. Plus I always thought the six-sided ring added a bit of cheesiness that screamed of generic.
3. Suck every last bit of drawing power out of their legends, which isn't much, and give all your young, homegrown talent rubs. If they object to it, send their busted asses packing, where are they to go? No one else wants them or will pay their price tag, yet TNA constantly does the opposite. With those rubs it will help legitimize your unknown talent in the eyes of new fans. Stop touting Jeff Jarrett as a big deal, he never was and never will be. Can't squeeze shit out of a famished Ethiopian. FOCUS ON THE FUTURE!
4. Push an angle that will garner headlines. Push Awesome Kong as a man-beater. Her match with Faggy Gunn was not only the highest rated segment of that particular Impact, it outdrew all the legends on that show that night. Proof enough that people are interested in new, fresh ideas and faces in the wrestling world. A believable woman beating male counterparts will accomplish media coverage and get people talking and buzzing about this new promotion on the block.
5. Have Impact take place in other places than the same fucking place week after week. You need a hot audience to make your product look like hot stuff and the Impact Zone audience sucks. They are theme park tourists who got in for free. Show the passionate fans that are excited to be there since they paid for their tickets. It's amazing how much atmosphere can bring out a product, look at the aura the ECW audience created for ECW.
6. Advertise better. TNA advertisements should be running where their target audience is watching. TNA advertisements should be running on channels like Comedy Central and during Adult Swim. No one is going to be aware of the promotion if spots only run on the network it airs on.
8. And this is probably the biggest thing: STOP trying to be something that has already been. Stop WWE impressions, stop trying to be awful WCW, stop trying to recapture ECW. BE TNA. Form a unique identity, but do it with a simple attitude, not the overly gimmicked, complex, swerve-laden promotion that is the current standard.
