No thread yet on the new "Monday Night War"?

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Not really. WCW pre-Nitro wasnt all that much different than TNA today.

-WCW was losing money pre-Nitro. TNA is (slightly) profitable in 2009.

-WCW had very strong tv exposure and tons of support from Turner. TNA has good tv exposure, and tons of support from Spike.

-WCW had a very talented roster, that most felt was more talented than the 1995 WWF roster. TNA has a very talented roster, that many feel is better than the WWE roster.

-WCW aquired Hulk Hogan, TNA aquired Hulk Hogan.

The only real difference between the two, is WCW had a very loyal and decades long established fan base of southern wrestling fans. TNA has the same couple of million people who watch Impact every week, and the same couple thousand people who buy the PPV's. So they are working with a much, much smaller base audience.

You forgot money...biggest difference between WCW and TNA is money behind it...Turner would put an infinite amount of money behind WCW, including infinite amounts of TV time on his own channels...he could basically bring in any of the WWF's guys (and did...Hogan, Savage, Luger, Nash, Hall, Madusa, Bret Hart eventually...some of the biggest names in wrestling.)...and had the money to keep their own guys Sting and later guys like Goldberg.

TNA can't compete like that...they can't get those kind of names in their company (Hogan of '10 isn't quite the same as Hogan in '95)...

While TNA's general landscape has some semblance of early WCW, its booking is more closely resembling very late WCW.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

The Carter's may not be Ted Turner, or Time Warner, but they arent exactly Paul Heyman writting bad checks and scaming airlines in order to put together shows.

But yeah, WCW had deeper pockets. But to me that dosent matter. WCW was beating WWF before Eric Bischoff spent them out of business. Buying up the talent just widened the gap. Nitro was neck and neck (and mostly winning) BEFORE the Outsiders showed up.

EDIT-TNA dosent have to overtake WWE for this to be a successful move. The idea is to increase exposure, increase ratings, and ultimately increase PPV buys and profits.

They can do that without being #1. Let's not lose sight of that. Will it happen? I doubt it, but you never know.

 

[EmpireWF]

Nobody knows how long Big Papa Carter will go though. If TNA is still a money loser in two years, does he still want to fund his daughter's play pen?

In any way, TNA has an opportunity to do something better...but is there any reason to believe they will jump on this chance?

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Nobody knows how long Big Papa Carter will go though. If TNA is still a money loser in two years, does he still want to fund his daughter's play pen?

In any way, TNA has an opportunity to do something better...but is there any reason to believe they will jump on this chance?

Nope.

The complete incompetence of that company will only get worse with Hogan's manipulations.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

I'll tube in if I can see Hogan play the air guitar with his belt again...that shit = ratings

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

I'll tube in if I can see Hogan play the air guitar with his belt again...that shit = ratings

FWIW, I will watch TNA for the first time in close to a year (maybe longer) on January 4th (I don't even bother wasting DVR space on the shit anymore). I'm sure i'm not alone, so the curiosity factor will give them a bump.

They key, is they have 3 hours to hook me and get me to come back. Will they? I fully expect to abondon them again right after I hit "delete" on the DVR.

The misuse and killing off of Samoa Joe, when he was red hot and coming off the great Kurt Angle feud, still baffles my brain. Ratings were up, they broke PPV records, and had legitimate upwards movement. And they dropped the ball like Az Hakim.

 

[Kuzzy Powers]

They've got me moderately interested.. which is more then I can say about anything TNA has done in a long ass time.

 

[Epidemik]

When interviewed by Arda Ocal and Corey Erdman of the "Right After Wrestling" program on SIRIUS 98, Hulk Hogan predicted that Nielson ratings would triple to a 3.0 on his debut appearance on TNA Impact on Monday January 4. Hogan went on to list names such as AJ Styles and Matt Morgan as guys with "something there" and that he will look to mold and "bring to life".

The full interview will air on "Right After Wrestling" on Monday night December 14 at 11pm EST on SIRIUS Channel 98, Hardcore Sports Radio.

(c) ND

 

[EmpireWF]

Hogan believes he killed Andre, so....

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Hogan believes he killed Andre, so....

Did you know Andre weighed 1,000 lbs when Hogan slammed him at the Pontiac Silverdome, in front of 150,000 people?

 

[BazookaJoe5]

Hogan only said they would go to 3.0 so that when they are inevitably in the 1's, he can point out to Dixie the "guys who can't draw"...

 

[Liquidrob]

Question for you guys, Lashley is on TNA, does he ever promote any of his MMA fights when he is on TNA?

Just wondering, since he signed with Strikeforce and Hogan was on the UFC pomoting TNA I found that funny

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Question for you guys, Lashley is on TNA, does he ever promote any of his MMA fights when he is on TNA?

Just wondering, since he signed with Strikeforce and Hogan was on the UFC pomoting TNA I found that funny

TNA actually pushes the fact Lashley is an MMA fighter harder than they push him as a wrestler. He gets promo time to push his fights when he has one on deck, which is funny, because TNA does an awful job promoting their own fights, yet they give TV time to a guy to push fights that they dont make a single dime on. Great for Lahsley, great for Strikeforce, useless for TNA.