Total Non-Stop Action wrestling has not been a profitable brand on Pay-Per-View. As the company has existed mainly as a private one, numbers visible online can often be sketchy at best. There's little indication suggesting that any published buyrate figures are 100% accurate, but it is true to say that not a whole load of wrestling fans were buying TNA's monthly Pay-Per-View events. Numbers ranging between 8,000-15,000 have been discussed, but whatever the true figures were, TNA decided to abandon monthly PPV in 2013. There's no way the shows can have been big money-makers for the promotion, but there was still an element of surprise when Dixie Carter announced TNA weren't running traditional Pay-Per-Views every month. Such a thing had been the backbone of major wrestling organisations since the mid-90's. In 2013 and 2014, TNA promoted only 4 PPV's, in 2015 that number is down to 2. There are 'One Night Only' and televised specials, but this was a bold and smart move by the company. Why continue to go down a road that's not making money? In similar fashion to hosting multiple TV tapings on the one night, this was cost-cutting, and an example of TNA realising their own failures.
Lifelong wrestling, video game, music and sports obsessive who has been writing about his passions since childhood. Jamie started writing for WhatCulture in 2013, and has contributed thousands of articles and YouTube videos since then. He cut his teeth penning published pieces for top UK and European wrestling read Fighting Spirit Magazine (FSM), and also has extensive experience working within the wrestling biz as a manager and commentator for promotions like ICW on WWE Network and WCPW/Defiant since 2010. Further, Jamie also hosted the old Ministry Of Slam podcast, and has interviewed everyone from Steve Austin and Shawn Michaels to Bret Hart and Trish Stratus.
