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Its incredibly shocking at how small TNA's active roster really is.
There are 7 guys in Aces and 8's (and two of them work matches with any regularity...Anderson and Bubba).
I count about 10 guys that I would consider absolute regulars (for posterity: Abyss/Joseph Park, Styles, Aries, Bobby Roode, Daniels, James Storm, Kazarian, Angle, Samoa Joe, Jeff Hardy - and I'm not sure he works house shows a ton -...I guess throw in...Magnus who is getting a lot more burn lately).
Sting doesn't work house shows and barely wrestles anyway. Hogan doesn't do house shows and he doesn't wrestle. They have guys like King Mo and Rampage on their roster page...they've had a total of 4 appearances in a year combined.
The rest are essentially part-time workers. The knockouts essentially rotate on a show-to-show basis. The X-Division talent and bottom feeders (say, Robbie E, bro and the like) aren't on every show and I am sure they shuffle them around to work house shows and the like. You have mid-card talent like Matt Morgan, Hernandez, Chavo...they aren't on every show and its not rare to see them go MIA for weeks at a time. You have wrestlers performing in two roles (Park, whoever plays Suicide on whatever week).
When it comes down to it, TNA's roster is pretty damn small. They only work TV twice a month and work maybe another 8 house shows during the month (and, from what I've heard, the cards are quite small, despite being over 2 hour events with an intermission). One PPV every three months.
In sum...TNA's main problem, as has been discussed before...they money they have available is being paid to the select few at the top of the card...which, is usually how wrestling is done...but lets be real, the guys at the top don't move the needle. You could main event Zema Ion versus Kenny King and in the grand scheme of things, will be no different than if you have Hogan, Sting, and Eric Biscoff in the ring. At least not enough movement to justify the money the make. You'll still get your baseline 1M viewers or whatever...you'll average your 1.2 or whatever their normal ratings are over the course of the year, and FIN. They work with such a tiny number, that the movement of the needle in either direction in the grand scheme of things, mean nothing, especially when you're paying the big dogs big money.
Oh, and I forgot...Jay Bradley...he won Gut Check and is still in the BFG Series.
There are 7 guys in Aces and 8's (and two of them work matches with any regularity...Anderson and Bubba).
I count about 10 guys that I would consider absolute regulars (for posterity: Abyss/Joseph Park, Styles, Aries, Bobby Roode, Daniels, James Storm, Kazarian, Angle, Samoa Joe, Jeff Hardy - and I'm not sure he works house shows a ton -...I guess throw in...Magnus who is getting a lot more burn lately).
Sting doesn't work house shows and barely wrestles anyway. Hogan doesn't do house shows and he doesn't wrestle. They have guys like King Mo and Rampage on their roster page...they've had a total of 4 appearances in a year combined.
The rest are essentially part-time workers. The knockouts essentially rotate on a show-to-show basis. The X-Division talent and bottom feeders (say, Robbie E, bro and the like) aren't on every show and I am sure they shuffle them around to work house shows and the like. You have mid-card talent like Matt Morgan, Hernandez, Chavo...they aren't on every show and its not rare to see them go MIA for weeks at a time. You have wrestlers performing in two roles (Park, whoever plays Suicide on whatever week).
When it comes down to it, TNA's roster is pretty damn small. They only work TV twice a month and work maybe another 8 house shows during the month (and, from what I've heard, the cards are quite small, despite being over 2 hour events with an intermission). One PPV every three months.
In sum...TNA's main problem, as has been discussed before...they money they have available is being paid to the select few at the top of the card...which, is usually how wrestling is done...but lets be real, the guys at the top don't move the needle. You could main event Zema Ion versus Kenny King and in the grand scheme of things, will be no different than if you have Hogan, Sting, and Eric Biscoff in the ring. At least not enough movement to justify the money the make. You'll still get your baseline 1M viewers or whatever...you'll average your 1.2 or whatever their normal ratings are over the course of the year, and FIN. They work with such a tiny number, that the movement of the needle in either direction in the grand scheme of things, mean nothing, especially when you're paying the big dogs big money.
Oh, and I forgot...Jay Bradley...he won Gut Check and is still in the BFG Series.
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