When Hulk Hogan joined TNA, he and Eric Bischoff had one big idea after the next that was sure to turn things around. Unfortunately those ideas mainly only served themselves and their egos. For example, Hulk Hogan liked to be in front of a big crowd. He liked to travel, and not be confined to the Impact Zone. He was vocal in interviews that TNA needed to get out and hit the road. The idea of shooting Impact around the country would have been a fine idea if the company had any momentum. They had none. Hogan had failed to raise the ratings at all, and key areas like pay-per-view buys were actually down. The biggest thing going against them was the financial train wreck that the shows proved to be. It reportedly cost hundreds of thousands of dollars every time they went out. On top of that, they were only drawing a couple thousand of fans at best, which was a fraction of what Raw and SmackDown draw every week. Instead of looking impressive, it just looked sad. Again, Dixie had to retreat and go back to filming from a single location. Hogan did get his big crowd wish, though, when he went back to WWE and left his former company in shambles.
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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