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MassRafTer posted:Keeping TNA just afloat enough to humiliate Dixie Carter and keep her losing money should bring people more joy. She doesn't need our help to humiliate herself, she does that every time she sends an email
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Chris James 2 posted:She doesn't need our help to humiliate herself, she does that every time she sends an email Without the support of viewers like you Dixie Carter might not be able to send emails much longer.
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TNA forgot to fill out the About Us section of their website: https://twitter.com/badboicasey/status/720036062396084224
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MassRafTer posted:Without the support of viewers like you Dixie Carter might not be able to send emails much longer. This needs to be a video with Arms Of An Angel playing.
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croutonZA posted:It is surprising that their UK tour was a bust though. I thought the good UK attendances and ratings were the few good things they had going for them. More people paid to see them on that tour than did in the states for the entirety of the previous year, but crowds were down from what they did the year before and for the size of the venues they did. They put a brave face on it, but the UK is a really hot territory at the moment, with indies getting bigger and bigger crowds. They expected much more. They also struggled to keep people at the venue's for the second tapings on two show nights. About half the 3 thousand they drew in Manchester left after the end of the first taping despite having the bigger second main event.
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croutonZA posted:lol Their UK tours have been declining for years.
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And now WWE and NXT are running shows in the UK, so they're not exactly starved for wrestling anymore. That was the biggest reason TNA was doing well over there.
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Mr. Carlisle posted:I've gotten my hopes up more than once about the hilarity of TNA finally dying and they still continue to zombie march forward TNA needs to be dead and in the ground for at least a month before I am prepared to celebrate its passing.
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karmicknight posted:TNA needs to be dead and in the ground for at least a month before I am prepared to celebrate its passing. But you'll have missed out on a full month of celebration at that point?
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Ballpark figures of how many Slapnuts Blvd signs they sold in total? I'm guessing two.
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MassRafTer posted:Keeping TNA just afloat enough to humiliate Dixie Carter and keep her losing money should bring people more joy. I nealy asked what humiliation is left, but this is Dixie we're talking about.
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Skinty McEdger posted:More people paid to see them on that tour than did in the states for the entirety of the previous year, but crowds were down from what they did the year before and for the size of the venues they did. They put a brave face on it, but the UK is a really hot territory at the moment, with indies getting bigger and bigger crowds. They expected much more. ICW sold out a 4k seat arena over a month in advance for their 18+ only big event last November, with the headline match featuring two TNA wrestlers, Grado and Drew Galloway. So it isn't a lack of interest in wrestling or the wrestlers involved it's just TNA people don't care about in the UK.
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rovert posted:TNA forgot to fill out the About Us section of their website: Only organic AJ's. 
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Should be fun to watch TNAMecca or Asylum or whatever spin this
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Oh even they don't bother spinning it. The roster page still having King Mo and like 10 other people that aren't there is a running joke with them too.
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flashy_mcflash posted:Only organic AJ's. The Team: NO ONE sounds about right
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Chris James 2 posted:
Jarrett gets a whole page to himself but Big Poppa Pump has to settle for a t-shirt? No wonder WCW went out of business.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:And now WWE and NXT are running shows in the UK, so they're not exactly starved for wrestling anymore. That was the biggest reason TNA was doing well over there. they also have a thriving indie scene that can draw pretty well and bring in some big name outside talent on occasion.
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Proliferation of the WWE network has probably helped wean UK audiences off of TNA programming now there's good wrestling available for much less than the cost of a sky sports package.
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RZApublican posted:Jarrett gets a whole page to himself but Big Poppa Pump has to settle for a t-shirt? No wonder WCW went out of business. they sold a ton of slap nuts shirts to edgy teens.
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coconono posted:they sold a ton of slap nuts shirts to edgy teens. Good point. I do like however that Jarrett is still trying to this day to get someone to buy a signed photo of him.
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I'm just laughing at the fact that ICW has replaced TNA in how many seats it's able to fill in the UK with them having a 13,000 Seater Venue in Glasgow at November and TNA are loving working in a garage. Maybe if they are lucky, Drew will just leave with the TNA title, destroy it and then just use the leather strap as the belt like they did with the old tag-team belts.
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Sounds familiar:quote:PWTorch obtained the following ad sales information capturing Pop’s business position. 
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Alain Post posted:Isn't TNA's deal mostly based on ad revenue sharing? There's always debate about that. But most people operate under the belief there's a 50/50 split.
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Blasmeister posted:Proliferation of the WWE network has probably helped wean UK audiences off of TNA programming now there's good wrestling available for much less than the cost of a sky sports package. The WWE network isn't the big factor but it's helped. TNA's popularity in the UK has always been hugely overstated, particularly by them. I could do a big effort post about it, but fans in the UK have always been willing to spend money on the WWE and been much more reluctant to do so on TNA. Ratings for TNA haven't taken that significant a dip in the UK. They've always appeared more popular than they actually are*. The key factor in why TNA did worse on the last few tours is that they have put on a product that people don't want to spend money on. (*Whenever Challenge does a "Bullseye" (an 80's darts quiz show) marathon it does better than TNA does.)
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Blizz Pizz Love Us posted:Dixie's intransigence aside, it's mind-boggling to me that they can still (apparently) find a potential investor at this point. The brand is totally toxic, between the sleazy name and the decade of mismanagement, and even if it weren't, I don't think there's much of an untapped market for more pro wrestling out there. Why would anyone want a majority stake in TNA in TYOOL 2016? What would they possibly have to gain? Dude, have you seen the size of the storehouse they are moving into? Storage space does not come cheap these days, and wrestlers are pretty strong so they should make formidable storemen. Chris James 2 posted:She doesn't need our help to humiliate herself, she does that every time she sends an email And just think of all the emails she was too dumb to send.
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It's the end of an era. Chris Regal's latest article on TNA Mecca is basically "WWE is better than TNA." The meccarites are not happy: quote:I am sorry but wwe's blatant cheap internet acceptance is the fact everyone was always a huge fan of wwe first and foremost. It's a clusterfuk of trying to make the iwc happy when the iwc is full of the most bi polar fans of anything. The iwc cries about which company is not like it was. Maybe the fans are the ones changing and the smarks have finally got to them. Make no mistake TNA is not perfect . I will admit that. But I have seen worst years in TNA. And do you still believe the headquarters are still thst small? Have you not seen the real size? Do you think talent is not getting paid? Did Dave Meltzer finally get to you? Skinty McEdger fucked around with this message at 11:39 on Apr 13, 2016 |
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So TNA revealed the address of their new facility, which is easily viewable though Google Earth, etc. And the Mecca response is "Do you really believe it's that small?" Yes? I mean, it's right there, I'm looking at it. Or is this "Who do you believe? Dixie? Or your lying eyes?"
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bradzilla posted:Repost from the twitter thread
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bradzilla posted:Repost from the twitter thread never stop, dixie
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Pope Corky the IX posted:So TNA revealed the address of their new facility, which is easily viewable though Google Earth, etc. And the Mecca response is "Do you really believe it's that small?" Maybe they think it's a TARDIS, and is bigger on the inside than the outside? Or maybe there's some super secret underground facility, going 10 stories down, like a supervillain's lair, protected by laser grids and swinging axes and acid pits.
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Skinty McEdger posted:It's the end of an era. Chris Regal's latest article on TNA Mecca is basically "WWE is better than TNA." HAVE YOU NOT SEEN THE REAL SIZE????
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flashy_mcflash posted:HAVE YOU NOT SEEN THE REAL SIZE???? quote:Sorry Chris you feel this way but i also disagree. The indy-riffick "great-in-ring-wrestling" that seems to have grown popular does absolutely nothing for me. Qiuet frankly.
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quote:Qiuet frankly i would rather not have to see the nxt-crowd in tna aswell. Just a bunch of narcisstic and disrespectful bunch of fans. They are also really dumb, paying for a product they dont like and instead of showing displeasure with the company by not paying, they instead pay the company but poo poo all over the talent. Exactly, unlike TNA that doesn't allow their fans to pay for the product at all. That's how you get real fans, and not ones that thought they were in line for the Backdraft ride at Universal.
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