I wouldn’t consider myself a TNA fan by any means. I consider myself a casual fan of WWE TV these days, and I watch TNA even less. IMPACT is one of those shows that I may watch if I manage to catch it as it’s on freeview here in the UK. I’m pretty indifferent on their product to be honest. TNA figureheads Dixie Carter and Hulk Hogan have made it quite clear in the past that they want to be the number one wrestling company in the world. They made this much clear when they went head-to-head with WWE Raw on Monday nights for a short while in 2010. Of course they want to be the number one company; why wouldn’t they? TNA have been around for ten years now, so what exactly is stopping them from becoming the number one organisation in pro-wrestling?
It certainly can’t be their roster of talent. TNA might not have the quality that WWE has but the company can boast ring veterans such as Sting, Kurt Angle, Rob Van Dam and Jeff Hardy. Their on-screen General Manager is a household name and the biggest name in wrestling, Hulk Hogan. As well as these wrestling legends, over the years TNA have built a number of their own stars such as AJ Styles, Samoa Joe and Bobby Roode. The company is no longer relying heavily on has-beens such as Kevin Nash, Scott Steiner and Jeff Jarrett. Sure, the roster could do with names like John Cena, CM Punk or Chris Jericho on the marquee but as it stands they definitely have the talent to attract a substantial audience. The veteran wrestlers attract an existing audience familiar with these characters, in turn making them aware of the less-known members of the roster.
TNA has a massive platform in the United States. Their weekly show IMPACT WRESTLING is at the former home of WWE Raw, Spike. After a successful summer of airing live, the company recently announced that it would continue to run the live format throughout the remainder of 2012. In addition to this, TNA successfully run one pay-per-view event per month. The company have definitely got the right exposure in the United States to challenge for that spot as the number one organisation, with no competition on the nights that they air their show. But still, WWE are able to rake in over twice as many viewers each week.
The company is known for outshining WWE in terms of its Women’s division. Over the years, WWE have been known for hiring models in most cases, as opposed to trained female competitors like TNA. TNA boasts a female roster containing wrestling veterans such as Mickie James, Tara and Gail Kim. As well as its Women’s division, TNA considers itself the innovators of the X Division; a high-flying, high-risk, fast-paced style of wrestling guaranteed to excite the pro-wrestling audience. Although this form is arguably not being utilised to its full extent at present, it’s definitely not facing neglect to the point of nonexistence like WWE’s cruiserweight division suffered years ago.
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I think WWE will alwaysbe number one Wrestling Company for least a century
All TNA needs is to make more people come to the show reason why wwe is in front is because of the atmosphere, when people go to the shows, they like the great atmosphere when there favioute wrestler wins the titles or the match. if they just had more room like 6000 people come to each shows they can take over wwe like nothing.
The only people that are watching wwe are mainly kids these days, they dont sell DVDs like before since there PPV are terrible, they change the names of them, sound like names made up by a kid, like over the limit or bragging rights. no way out.
Hell they have Extreme rules match and they only use 1 weapon throughout the whole match, or hell in a cell which is suppose to have blood, going through table, barbwire etc yet the best they can do is a chair and steel steps.
WWE is crap, there talent are rubbish and there wrestlers are all terrible, like ryback or the miz and Zack ryder or ziggler or kofi etc, these guys back in the day where on shows before the PPV started like rodney mack or 3 min warning, To tell you the truth, tarjiri is much more entertaining then 90% of most wrestlers in the wwe these days, hell maybe even all. there all boring, the good guy is so predictable and the bad guy is hard to tell.
like i said, tna just needs more people at there shows and they will kill wwe big time, only kids will be watching wwe
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I don’t agree tna goes against thursday night football
TNA NEED TO GET SOME REAL FIGHTERS INTO THEIR ROSTER. GO AFTER UFC BOYS. FIRST STEP GET THE BADDEST MAN ON THE PLANET BROCK LESNAR. IF THEY CAN CONVINCE LASHLEY N BATTISTA THATS A BONUS. I THINK KEVIN NASH N THE OTHER OLD DUDES HAVE A ROLE TO PLAY. DONT WRITE EM OFF JUST YET. YOUR ARTICLES ARE GOOD. HELPED ME CATCH UP WITH RECENT EVENTS IN WRESTLEING