Not Looking Good For TNA Right Now

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- Paul Heyman did an interview with Bryan Alverez during the UFC 116 weekend in Las Vegas. He said he has no desire to join TNA unless he's given complete control and points in the company. Basically he wants to be Dana White. "I'm not interested in being a cog in the wheel," he said. "If I'm going to put my emotional investment into it, I want to get something financially and emotionally out of it." Heyman believes that TNA has a 5 percent market share of the industry right now with WWE controlling the rest. He said: "They need to redefine the company and take about 10 percent of that market share off the WWE. Then they make some serious money and bring in multi-millions. If I could take the company and turn it around, boost PPV revenue, work with Spike and make it work then it would be worth the emotional investment for me. There's nothing that I'm doing now that will pay $25-30million dollars over the course of the next five years. If that's a situation that can happen, and I can also put a team together and put together a five year plan, then it merits a lot of consideration. If it means anything less than that, I'm not taking the time away from my children."

I seriously doubt that TNA will give Heyman the ball without keeping their hands on it. They are impatient and Heyman's way is going to take time but it's going to be effective to say the least. If Dixie, Hogan and co. can get off their high horses and give this guy a the opportunity to possibly become an actual threat to WWE one day.
 

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They might improve, but I am not exactly sure they will be succesful. The thing is, Dixie Carter in her sick mind wants to actually beat WWE in the business they have controlled for like what, forever, run them out of business and get the entire monopoly. TNA should just look forward to become a player in the industry, manage to share the market with the WWE. Paul Heyman might get them there. But we have to remember that as brilliant as Heyman was, he still ran his company to the ground. Sure, he'll have more resources, but by the time he says the results will start coming in (5 years), TNA would be already a 13 year company and I don't think nor Panda or Spike will keep paying all these big names that long
 
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Well this is stuff I have already said many times already. He knows what he wants to do, and he is the guy that can get TNA that 10% market share they need to be profitable. The way I look at it, ECW had a 105 or larger market share during the 90's boom with only a mere fraction of the resources that TNA has and he was able to get noticed by the Big Two to the point where they blatantly robbed him of his talent and ideas. But with TNA workers under contract he will have no fear of Vince raiding his talent and with the PG themed WWE he wont have to worry about his ideas being stolen and bastardized too. But for any good to come of Heyman, Dixie Carter is going to have to get some guts and tell Hogan and Bisch to take a backseat to Heyman or take a walk, but as I said before, she is too weak to be that kind of boss.
 

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Dixie has no idea how the run a company.
 

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In a thought that actually makes me sad, should Hulk Hogan leave TNA, the odds of us seeing John Cena vs Hulk Hogan at Wrestlemania turn very likely.
 

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We saw HBK/Cena HBK/Hogan. It's only a matter of time but if it get a heelish Cena, I'm desperate for it.
 

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Nah, I am pretty sure they would build the match up from a "Cena respects Hogan....Hogan respects Cena" stand point, and Hogan just passing the torch as the kids babyface to Cena. (not that already has happened)
 
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I don't understand how they didn't turn cena into a heel forever ago. Who else would get more heat for it?
 
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Somebody in WWE creative suggested turning Cena heel a while back and about got his head ripped off for it. Cena makes way too much money in merchandise sales and ticket sales. As stale as his character is he's gonna stay a babyface for quite some time.

Back to the subject of TNA watch this video with Ricky Morton and Manny Fernandez. I want this DVD.

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I've said before that TNA is phobic of making money. Just take the RVD-AJ Styles match. I'll be damned if that wouldn't have drawn a decent PPV buy. And just to recap TNA's problems are

1. Can't build their own stars
2. Constantly bringing in has beens and never weres from the WWE
3. Rebooting the company constantly trying to find the next big "fix"
4. Russo and Bischoff in charge of things

There was another wrestling company that had problems very similar to those. Now what did they do to fix those problems? Can't quite remember...what...it...was...oh yeah they went out of fucking business.
 

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Dixie has no idea how the run a company.

THIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

She has increase expenditures in the form of salaries over the past few years so much, and has had little to nothing to show for it. If a CEO of any reasonable business multiplied his expenditure by God knows how much (think about how much they've paid Angle, Booker T, Nash, Kennedy, Hardy, Hogan, Bischoff, Hall, Waltman, etc) with as awful of results as Dixie has come up with, his ass would have been kicked to the curb a long time ago.
 
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Well most of the time whenever a heel gets any momentum they fuck it up or some top babyface refuses to job to them. See Triple H with anybody other than Orton, Sheamus, Batista or Cena or Rey Mysterio last year with Dolph Ziggler. Also see Jack Swagger as an example of what not to do when you want to push somebody to the title. Most of the time when somebody wins the title they have some form of momentum and are on a meteor to the top (Stone Cold in 98, John Cena in 2005). Jack Swagger on the other hand spent a majority of 2009 jobbing to the likes of Santino and Primo. And then when he won the title he jobbed on a fucking nightly basis. Way to make your champion and title look good idiots in WWE.
 
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I think Heyman could do something with TNA, however, I think in order for TNA to ultimately be successful, they need to "bury the hatchet" and try to work on a cooperative-friendly level with the WWE. Not directly working with each other, however, sharing a superstar for an occasional PPV or whatever promotional would help TNA. I'm envisioning an ECW/FMW-Japan type of thing where every once in a awhile, there would be crossover matches or "Dream Match PPV's". I think that's a viable option, short term, for TNA to try and turn things around. Of course, that would involve Heyman having to do alot of ass-kissing to Stamford, and alot of group therapy sessions and handshake apologies on both sides. I don't know if that's remotely possible.
 

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I asked this question before and don't recall getting an answer, so I'll do this again.

People talk crap about TNA for bringing in guys that were in WcW and give them power (Hogan/Bischoff for example) because the company they had folded and TNA are dumb for giving them power. But Heyman was the owner of ECW and that went under too. I don't even remember ECW or knew what it was til the Invasion angle. So I'm guessing it was a small company or one that just didn't get viewers. So why is it so great to bring in Heyman, when he's in the same position as those that were in WcW?
 
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Because Heyman is a booking genius. He didn't have the fat chequebook, nor did he have the most talented roster, but he knew how to get the best out of them. Then when he booked SmackDown! he knew how to get the best out of them too (the SmackDown! Six). He just has a great wrestling mind, and rather than being like the titanic hitting an iceberg (WCW), Heyman was the guy on the dinky little barge who somehow managed to survive for years.