Meltzer States Obvious News About TNA Creative Team

[Testify]

According to The Wrestling Observer, TNA creative now consists of Matt Conway and Dave Lagana handling the writing and the overall creative direction will be determined by John Gaburick and TNA co-founder and minority owner Jeff Jarrett with Jeff having a lot more input as of late.

Well no shit, we couldn't figure that out now that Bruce, Eric and Hulk are all gone.

 

[Action Jackson]

I think Cornette used to talk a lot of shit on Pritchard, but I might be wrong. I think Pritchard is almost at a Russo-level of disdain for Cornette.

I love hearing Cornette rant about shit, he's entertaining as hell.

 

[Testify]

Cornette has no clue how to decently run a company (creatively) and I consider him an idiot, but yeah, his rants are fun to hear (with 90% of them I don't agree btw).

Bruce P. is even worse than him, but he's not entertaining to listen, so that's big minus lol.

 

[seabs]

Cornette is hilarious mainly for the randomness.

 

[Testify]

Cornette is hilarious mainly for the randomness.

And of course the epic

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[Action Jackson]

Cornette has no clue how to decently run a company (creatively) and I consider him an idiot, but yeah, his rants are fun to hear (with 90% of them I don't agree btw).

Bruce P. is even worse than him, but he's not entertaining to listen, so that's big minus lol.

Ah dude Cornette is very smart. It's just that he has a purely old school approach to wrestling. I agree with him on a lot of things, like that the basics of booking wrestling will never change. However the way it's presented to the audience has to change and have the odd twist and variation here to keep us intrigued. I've enjoyed WWE so much more lately due to the old school approach and slow burn on feuds. That's why I really enjoyed TNA initially, because they had that epic feud between Sting and JJ. It was incredibly well done. Cornette was on Impact around then if I'm not mistaken as well.

There's a great 3 hour or so interview with Percy and Cornette just telling all these great stories about the territory days. A lot of funny shit about ribs in WWE too. Percy was the look out for Waltman while he shat in Jerry Lawler's crown, hahaha.

 

[Snowman1]

Cornette has no clue how to decently run a company (creatively) and I consider him an idiot, but yeah, his rants are fun to hear (with 90% of them I don't agree btw).

Bruce P. is even worse than him, but he's not entertaining to listen, so that's big minus lol.

Thought you liked Bruce P, TNA was great in 2012 under his watch... but he was ratings poison so he had to go. ROH 2012 says all you need to know about Cornette. He can go back to taking dumps and calling them "Raws" (best Jim C moment ever) (also how do we not have a Jim C appreciation thread?)

 

[Lockard 23]

I think Cornette used to talk a lot of shit on Pritchard, but I might be wrong. I think Pritchard is almost at a Russo-level of disdain for Cornette.

I love hearing Cornette rant about shit, he's entertaining as hell.

I love his rants on Russo and Bischoff (or Bitchoff, as he prefers to call him) the most. His long rant on the first ever Monday episode of Impact back in 2010 was golden. He hates Kevin Dunn with a passion too, but I don't recall him ever hating on Pritchard.

 

[Snowman1]

For those who missed it, here's the short version

 

[Stopspot]

Gotta agree with Jackson on Cornette, he has an incredibly solid if old school approach to wrestling. His main flaw (and I think even he himself has admitted to it recently) is not being able to adapt with the times. If he had been able to put a modern touch to his booking style a lot of the ROH product back when he ran it it could have been great, and even without a modern twist it was still very entertaining product and actually mattered to the ROH fanbase.

 

[Testify]

Gotta agree with Jackson on Cornette, he has an incredibly solid if old school approach to wrestling. His main flaw (and I think even he himself has admitted to it recently) is not being able to adapt with the times. If he had been able to put a modern touch to his booking style a lot of the ROH product back when he ran it it could have been great, and even without a modern twist it was still very entertaining product and actually mattered to the ROH fanbase.

And that is the problem. He can't adopt to modern times and that's why he sucks ass and shouldn't be around any major league anymore.

 

[Testify]

Thought you liked Bruce P, TNA was great in 2012 under his watch... but he was ratings poison so he had to go. ROH 2012 says all you need to know about Cornette. He can go back to taking dumps and calling them "Raws" (best Jim C moment ever) (also how do we not have a Jim C appreciation thread?)

I dislike Pritchard, but yeah - 2012 was fucking great year.

Wondering why he sucked ass in 2013? Because he SUCKS and drags stoylines to forever.

 

[seabs]

What Test said, Harley Race was incredible for his time but if he debuted today with the same moveset and look he'd be very difficult to back as a major star. The business has evolved and old elements are present sure but it's a different world.

 

[Action Jackson]

Gotta agree with Jackson on Cornette, he has an incredibly solid if old school approach to wrestling. His main flaw (and I think even he himself has admitted to it recently) is not being able to adapt with the times. If he had been able to put a modern touch to his booking style a lot of the ROH product back when he ran it it could have been great, and even without a modern twist it was still very entertaining product and actually mattered to the ROH fanbase.

Exactly.

And that is the problem. He can't adopt to modern times and that's why he sucks ass and shouldn't be around any major league anymore.

Mmmmm okey doke.

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

How many times has the creative team been drastically altered in the past 18 months? 3 or 4 now? Too many to have a cohesive product for damn sure