TNA: Why More UK Wrestling Fans Should Watch

tna british boot camp The more TNA is filmed away from America the more America will want TNA. Wrestling doesn't have the same global audience as it has achieved in years gone by, and part of the problem is over saturation. There are many more professional wrestling live events, TV tapings, PPV shows and conventions in the US then in most other places in the world. If TNA filmed more of its tapings away from the US it would get more full arenas on its TV shows that air in the US. It would also starve the US of its product ever so slightly more and make it more special when TNA did appear in town. Is it better to have two shows filmed in the US with half empty arenas or one show with a full arena? The other show can be filmed with a full arena somewhere else in the world. It€™s success can be debated, especially considering that a second season has yet to be commissioned, but to their credit TNA did experiment with creating a new show for a foreign audience with its Ring Ka King promotion in India. The audiences and production values of those shows match if not top anything else TNA has produced stateside. It€™s just unfortunate that what they filmed out there was an unusual hybrid between catering for the Indian audience and what they usually produce for the west. Shows created specifically for places like the UK or Australia are instantly compatible with their current US viewers. As a second attempt at a foreign based show TNA British Boot Camp was less of risk then Ring Ka King, and certainly a big enough success that further ventures in the UK should be considered. boot camp TNA British Boot Camp did what the WWE hasn't done in years. Given the UK something just for us, and it also did something the WWE has never really done; given the UK something meaningful. When Raw is taped here the WWE mock us with clichés about our nationality and watered down rosters. They even used to insult us with exclusive UK PPVs which would run for just over two hours and in which you were certain titles would never change hands. On the flipside TNA has made a point of bringing its biggest names over to the UK, and hopefully Rock Star Spud will be better used in TNA then WWE so often treats the winners of its reality based shows. By supporting TNA's product it gives greater hope of there being more UK exclusives and events. It may even lead to a greater WWE presence in the UK. As it is TNA does better ratings here then WWE. Whilst this is a fact that TNA has mentioned on occasion most fans are aware that that this reality is because WWE airs on premium channels whilst TNA doesn't. Despite that, if TNA were to grow their audience significantly, it wouldn't be long before WWE took steps to redress the balance. After all history has shown that wrestling is most exciting when there is a strong sense of competition. Maybe, just maybe the next round of wrestling wars could happen on British shores.
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