TNA blowing their load?

[Montana]

Should TNA have saved some major events for later weeks of impact. We saw Sting, RVD, and Jeff Hardy return. And Hogan and Ric Flair wrestle for the first time in years....TNA isn't going to be able to rely on major twist and shocking events week in and week out.

Should TNA be spreading some of these surprises out?

 

[noumenon]

Nah, why wait. Get these guys in to draw in some audience. Wait too long and people are just going to say "fuck it, it's BS... they didn't sign them" and back away. This way TNA can take guys like RVD and Jeff Hardy and get them into programs as quickly as possible. I mean, and what else besides that is there? If you're counting the Sting thing it was more of a return than a surprise.
We've still got the whole Samoa Joe thing to look forward to and see what's going on.

 

[He who knows more than Nation]

What they really should have done was book the Jeff Hardy thing ALOT better. Having the guy do ANOTHER unexplained run in with 45 seconds to go was just pointless. He did that last time, give him some more direction instead.

 

[Great One]

I was just about to bring up Jeff Hardy. Once again, people underestimate how over and known this guy really is. His name should be everywhere since he's now on their roster, advertising it to EVERY fucking one. He's huge and a large part of the WWE audience would tune in to see him. He's still relevant. Aside from that, TNA just has too much damn talent to do shit with, I can't even fathom it being anything else but the clusterfuck that it is.

 

[the408kid]

I was just about to bring up Jeff Hardy. Once again, people underestimate how over and known this guy really is. His name should be everywhere since he's now on their roster, advertising it to EVERY fucking one. He's huge and a large part of the WWE audience would tune in to see him. He's still relevant. Aside from that, TNA just has too much damn talent to do shit with, I can't even fathom it being anything else but the clusterfuck that it is.

Problem is Jeff Hardy still has his drug trial going on right now, although that would make me question why they still brought him in at all.

 

[Kaptain KnicKy]

Nah, why wait. Get these guys in to draw in some audience. Wait too long and people are just going to say "fuck it, it's BS... they didn't sign them" and back away. This way TNA can take guys like RVD and Jeff Hardy and get them into programs as quickly as possible. I mean, and what else besides that is there? If you're counting the Sting thing it was more of a return than a surprise.
We've still got the whole Samoa Joe thing to look forward to and see what's going on.

You pretty much contradicted yourself right then. You say if they wait too long people just say 'fuck it (nothings happening' and then you mention the Samoa Joe thing. If they wait too much longer, like a month (as an exaggeration) - and Joe just returns, with a minor twist? That's totally underrated. He would need to come back, as a fucking psychopath, for it to be worth while. I myself am getting a bit bored already with the Joe thing. Yeh, they showed him being abducted, and I think two weeks later they had Tazz say "I CANT GET IN TOUCH WITH HIM. HAS SOMEONE CALLED THE POPO?" but that's it. You can't keep doing this and expect people to really care.

What they really should have done was book the Jeff Hardy thing ALOT better. Having the guy do ANOTHER unexplained run in with 45 seconds to go was just pointless. He did that last time, give him some more direction instead.

Yeh totally agree with this. Was it just my download, or did it cut out before Jeff hit the swanton? Lol, I'm assuming he hit it, because he ran in, took everyone out then climbed to the top rope.


Monty I think they're blowing their load WAY too quick. They had a LOT of big stuff to go with over the last month or two, and they've pretty much already used it all. If they wanna go at WWE for the long run, they're either going to need to slow their 'shockers' down, or continue to feed off ex-WWE talent, over populate their wrestlers and fuck themselves over royally.

I can see them really getting some decent ratings for maybe...another 3 months. Then, they would've used up Hogan V [entire entire roster here], RVD V [entire roster here], Anderson V [entire roster here] and [entire ex-WWE names here] debuts. The end.

 

[chessarmy]

Nah, why wait. Get these guys in to draw in some audience. Wait too long and people are just going to say "fuck it, it's BS... they didn't sign them" and back away. This way TNA can take guys like RVD and Jeff Hardy and get them into programs as quickly as possible. I mean, and what else besides that is there? If you're counting the Sting thing it was more of a return than a surprise.
We've still got the whole Samoa Joe thing to look forward to and see what's going on.

^^^ this.

They needed to make an impact (no pun intended) on week 1 of the Monday Night Wars, bringing in RVD and Jeff Hardy is the way to do that. Plus, they still have to USE these guys in interesting feuds/storylines that'll draw, and the Samoa Joe return could pop a rating if done correctly as well

 

[noumenon]

You pretty much contradicted yourself right then. You say if they wait too long people just say 'fuck it (nothings happening' and then you mention the Samoa Joe thing. If they wait too much longer, like a month (as an exaggeration) - and Joe just returns, with a minor twist? That's totally underrated. He would need to come back, as a fucking psychopath, for it to be worth while. I myself am getting a bit bored already with the Joe thing. Yeh, they showed him being abducted, and I think two weeks later they had Tazz say "I CANT GET IN TOUCH WITH HIM. HAS SOMEONE CALLED THE POPO?" but that's it. You can't keep doing this and expect people to really care.
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Nah, by waiting too long I was talking about whatever debuts they had up their sleeves. Joe is already a part of the roster and the storyline was already in place. People know he's going to be back, it's just a question of when he's coming in. RVD and Jeff were up until that point nothing more than rumors TBH.

 

[Christian 2.0]

They wanted all those guys to show up because now the anticipation should be who else they'll feud with or who else might show up. That was the catalyst for the old Nitro. Luger shows up at the first episode and then it became what will happen next?

If they've missed any oppurtunity it's interviews. Who didn't want to hear what RVD had to say or what Samoa Joe thinks of Jeff Hardy returning.

 

[Doomsday]

I was just about to bring up Jeff Hardy. Once again, people underestimate how over and known this guy really is. His name should be everywhere since he's now on their roster, advertising it to EVERY fucking one. He's huge and a large part of the WWE audience would tune in to see him. He's still relevant. Aside from that, TNA just has too much damn talent to do shit with, I can't even fathom it being anything else but the clusterfuck that it is.

It's good you addressed that. It needs more on Air Time in order to compete with WWE. I mean WWE has a fucking Magazine for christs'sake.

We've still got the whole Samoa Joe thing to look forward to and see what's going on.

If you ask me Samoa Joe was only good with the MEM, dispite the fact he is a fresh talent.