Victory Road Buyrate/TNA Twitter Use

[Chris]

Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

- Based on cable estimates, TNA's Victory Road pay-per-view bombed with around 7,000 buys. This is less than half of what Victory Road 2011 did with Sting vs. Jeff Hardy. Sting vs. Bobby Roode headlined this year's event.

- Despite reaction from fans, TNA will be using Twitter more often for upcoming pay-per-view events. They can't use Twitter that much during Impact Wrestling each week because it's not live. The new Twitter presence is an idea of Dave Lagana's although Eric Bischoff and Jason Hervey are behind it big time.

Wow, that's horrible, though it's deserved, the PPV was a complete travesty.

 

[Crippler]

 

[PHX]

Good lord that is bad. Curious if they make any kind of profit off their PPV with stuff like that. As far as TNA using twitter knew it was coming not only cause WWE does it but just because they have to keep up with the times.

 

[Chris]

There's a big difference between using and promoting Twitter and doing what TNA did at Victory Road. I don't think 2 minutes went by without a Twitter mention, they even had Aries tweet during his match. (That was kinda' cool though). I was so sick of hearing about Twitter at the end of this PPV, and I love Twitter, but it almost caused me to completely stop using Twitter completely.

 

[PHX]

I didn't watch the show so didn't see how bad it was. But if it was as bad as you just said it was then holy fuck they ran it into the crowd horribly.

 

[Chris]

They had a big TV set up behind the announcers showing the mentions and during matches, Tazz struggled at reading live tweets. A few of the interviews were done with fans' Twitter questions, JB was only there to read them aloud.

 

[Ben]

They don't market PPV's right plan and simple and it's cause of the booking, they don't build up matches...might be wrong but I think Lockdown with Joe/Angel headlining did something like 80k buys and that was some of there best booking build. Plus they never take down streams, you can find countless HD TNA streams for free. Should just dump PPV's all together once there contract ends.

 

[Heisenberg]

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[The Cork]

Somebody take this company behind the shed and end it.

Free Angle and Hardy, let them come back to WWE.

 

[rcoot93]

They didn't build up the matches and the card was aweful, the show wasn't to bad though. It got more viewers in the UK where it's delayed and full of adverts (although it is free)

 

[Dale]

I reckon the WWE could announce a 3-Hour Rock Concert Live on PPV and it would draw more buys than this travesty. Hell, he could take a shit in the ring and it would still likely draw more.

 

[chefboyardee]

the ppv was awful.tna is lucky no more than 7000 people watched this crud.just not a fan of anything tna is currently doing other than pushing bully ray.

 

[Troy]

Similar buyrate to what their previous PPV got. Terrible numbers and these numbers aren't viable at all, they are losing plenty of money if they only get this many buys. I still believe that they should reduce their PPVs by at least half and try to focus on promoting the PPVs properly. Had pretty much all the big names on the PPV as well.