TNA Rebrand Discussion Thread

[Leon TrotSky]

You don't do shit like Jack Swagger as world champion if you don't know for a fact that you're unstoppable

 

[Smart Marx]

WCW actually made more money than the WWF in 1998 even though 1998 was the year they started to come back. It wasn’t until 2000 the WWF had broken that WCW profit record.

 

[Comrade Khan]

You don't do shit like Jack Swagger as world champion if you don't know for a fact that you're unstoppable

Laughs in Jinder Mahal while crying in Nakamura

 

[Leon TrotSky]

All the huge contracts were a massive problem, but they weren’t a problem until they stopped selling houses and pay-per-view buys. Hogan like you said had one of the largest contracts ever in 1998, but WCW in 1998 still become the highest grossing and most profitable wrestling promotion in history at that point in 1998 even with those huge contracts.

They stopped selling houses because they kept clinging to the museum pieces and their fat contracts rather than going with what actually drew. Remember when Goldberg went from Da Man to just another face in the crowd

 

[Smart Marx]

But how much of that uncompetitiveness is connected to lack of a rival?

A little, sure, but Rock and Austin would have left regardless I think.

 

[Leon TrotSky]

Laughs in Jinder Mahal while crying in Nakamura

I specifically mentioned Jack Swagger because he was World Champ while the WWE/TNA Monday Night embarrassment was happening. How cocky do you have to be to have that guy holding Big Gold while in what is supposedly a ratings war

 

[Hidden Blaze]

What sucks for me is I want a TNA taping here, but even the small arena here(9k something ) is probably to big for them. I mean I guess they could do the Auditorium which is like 2,688.

 

[Leon TrotSky]

What sucks for me is I want a TNA taping here, but even the small arena here(9k something ) is probably to big for them. I mean I guess they could do the Auditorium which is like 2,688.

2688 sounds fine for the current level

 

[Smart Marx]

They stopped selling houses because they kept clinging to the museum pieces and their fat contracts rather than going with what actually drew. Remember when Goldberg went from Da Man to just another face in the crowd

Oh, they drop the bomb on Goldberg massively, but that’s not why they stop selling. Hogan and Flair actually drew the second biggest WCW PPV buy ever in February 99 in the main event a SuperBrawl. Hogan still drew money. The problem is is that by March 1999 Nash had been given the book because they were panicking and they completely changed the way they were booking the product. That’s when they start imitating the WWF with their backstage segments and their goofy stuff and they just didn’t do it as well. They also for like two months didn’t put matches on the first hour of Nitro’s. Stuff like that.

 

[Hidden Blaze]

2688 sounds fine for the current level

Yeah, this place would look neat on TV

 

[Death By Looch]

I specifically mentioned Jack Swagger because he was World Champ while the WWE/TNA Monday Night embarrassment was happening. How cocky do you have to be to have that guy holding Big Gold while in what is supposedly a ratings war

The Wrestlecrap guys summed it up perfectly in their New Monday Night Wars induction.

 

[Comrade Khan]

Oh, they drop the bomb on Goldberg massively, but that’s not why they stop selling. Hogan and Flair actually drew the second biggest WCW PPV buy ever in February 99 in the main event a SuperBrawl. Hogan still drew money. The problem is is that by March 1999 Nash had been given the book because they were panicking and they completely changed the way they were booking the product. That’s when they start imitating the WWF with their backstage segments and their goofy stuff and they just didn’t do it as well. They also for like two months didn’t put matches on the first hour of Nitro’s. Stuff like that.

That last sentence is insane

 

[Leon TrotSky]

The Wrestlecrap guys summed it up perfectly in their New Monday Night Wars induction.

These days Raw would beg for that Impact demo

 

[Comrade Khan]

The Wrestlecrap guys summed it up perfectly in their New Monday Night Wars induction.

 

[Leon TrotSky]

That last sentence is insane

Kevin Nash, famously, hates actually wrestling, so he probably figured viewers hated it too and wanted to watch him and his buddies dicking around instead. That did not help the ratings