The realistic side:
TNA does what? A 1.2 on average? So they'd need about 1.5 more million viewers to bump that number up, on a THURSDAY night. Of those 2.5 million people, how many are WWE fans just looking for a wrestling fix in between Raw and Smackdown? How many would prefer TNA Monday over Raw? TNA can barely afford to go live once in a blue moon, how are they going to go live week in, week out? They can't tape it since the spoilers would hit the net and ruin anything they had in the folds. They'd go belly up in a matter of months.
Now WWE has WWE Superstars, which is only available to 60% percent of the audience that TNA is available to and it's drawing a .9! TNA need not go any further in its hopes to compete with Raw if the WWE C-show is already creeping up on them with limited availability on an obscure network.
I haven't watched any TNA in forever, but I read spoilers and hear what's going on and it's easy to tell it's garbage. It's main event scene is composed of WWE throw outs, it's booking team is lead by the man who killed WCW and is complete and utter shit. Basically, TNA is running a homeless man's version of dying WCW with WWF throw outs and names that young fans don't even know or care about. It's lucky it draws what it draws and that Spike sinks so much money into it, because without Spike, this company would be belly up, Panda or no Panda. You can't compete if your imitating the bad parts of the dead competition and your using the Industry Standard's throw outs. TNA is going to have to do wayyyy too much before they can even dream about moving up to 1.5 and 1.6 territory, let alone competing with the A show. There's too much bad and awful in this company to even begin to dream of competition, it's just Kevin Nash being the arrogant guy he is and just speculating. TNA, as it stands now, doesn't have and never will have what it takes to compete with the shows the E actually puts effort into.
The optimistic view:
If TNA could manage to fire it's booking team, get rid of useless has beens like Kevin Nash and Booker T, or use them to actually make a young talent, and could separate itself in identity from the E, besides being the promotion with a stupid looking ring, and push it's young talent and provide what they claim they provide, "an alternative to sports entertainment" then competition would be great. It would push the WWE to actually care about it's products, force both to surprise the fans and use great gimmicks and storylines to keep the fans coming back. It would return wrestling back to the hands of the fans, and not have the companies force something down our throats. The excitement would return and leaving the E would actually matter since TNA would hypothetically be relevant.
But ultimately TNA is what it is, and that's an ass backwards promotion that has devolved with the increased funding and addition of Vince Russo to the booking team. The old, rickety washed-up talent is ALWAYS put over the young, unique, fresh talent that could help them establish their identity that they could build on. If they were to compete with the WWE in their current state, how many viewers would want to watch the show that has ex-WWE guys that the WWE doesn't even want? It won't happen, it's just pure speculation and wishful thinking from one of the most arrogant people to ever wrestle, Kevin Nash. The man thinks the nWo invented wrestling and takes no responsibility in WCW's demise and probably thinks he has a vital part of TNA's ratings sometimes being higher than ECW. Enjoy competing with the C-shows fellas.
