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Post by Icon Lord Jon Kellar on Jul 18, 2006 11:13:54 GMT -6
What timeslot does TNA currently have?
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Post by Head Booker on Jul 18, 2006 11:24:25 GMT -6
over here it has a poor timeslot of 11pm EST...hopefully with SpikeTV now seein' that a wrestlin' show other than an Evil Empire produced one can still draw they will look at TNA more than just "another show" but instead view it as "a show"...SpikeTV has more than made it clear that UFC programmin' is it's bread and butter as such should start to cater a bit more to wrestlin'...
I think regardless of how poor mainstream wrestlin' is right now there seems to be a geniune interest in it regardless of what product (hell I even watched Saturday Night Main Event...flipped back and forth but watched it nonetheless)...SpikeTV should look to give TNA a Tuesday night timeslot and let them compete against ECW...(which I'm thinkin' they might do anyway with Rhino doin' all his "shoot" antics on Impact recently)...nothin' would be loss from this course of action...it would give wrestlin' fans an alternative...make Emperor Vince up his game...and give TNA an outlet to build on their current angles/storylines/charaters which they try to do every week in an hours timeframe...
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Post by The Root on Jul 18, 2006 13:23:47 GMT -6
I honestly don't think TNA would do well against ECW. I mean ratings wise you are talking about TNA's .9 vs. ECW's 2.5. Granted you would have people go back and forth, but ultimately in the end TNA's ratings would drop and they really don't have that far to go. Besides, if TNA were competing aganst ECW we would definitely never see the end of RAW and Smackdown guys being on ECW. I don't really see why Spike TV thinks so highly of UFC...it doesn't really get that much higher of a rating...and while it shares some similarities, it is my belief UFC and TNA have different audiences. Most of the people I know that like UFC really don't like wrestling because "it's not real." I think TNA should talk Spike into get a replay of Impact or another show during Saturday morning. If they can grab the child audience they will be able to make a play. Children force their parents to buy merchandise and take them to shows lol. Shark Boy would be a star if they did this. They should also seriously get a lead in show on Spike TV before their PPVs. Have a great X division match to get people interested....or at least have poor Spike Dudley take a nasty bump. One thing I will give TNA is that they usually have great video packages so they already have a little of what it takes to sell PPV's. I honestly have not been interested in watching one TNA PPV since Christian won the title and that was mainly out of being biased towards the character. Well I wanted to see Samoa Joe literally kill Scott Stiener, but I knew that wasn't going to happen.  |
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Post by Icon Lord Sean "Magic" Fiery on Jul 18, 2006 14:57:31 GMT -6
Anyone else find it hilarious that they can take a pretty good wrestler like Edge and make him look like Cena's bitch night after night... But yet take a very poor wrestler like Umaga and make him pretty much dominate Cena, even beating him with the dreaded THUMB TO THE THROAT? And on top of that, considering that Cena does the SAME EXACT THING in every match, it just makes Edge looks sooooo much more bad. I mean, you figure if you lose to the same shit once, you could be able to muster up counters. Nope. Not so much a hint of that. But Cena can wrestler someone like Shelton Benjamin for the first time (I believe it was) and yet he can reverse an F-U? I wouldn't be surprised if Edge snaps one night and REALLY beats the shit out of Cena. I guarantee you, the fans would mark all over that and ratings would increase  This may be a bad thing to say, but I'm anticipating the day Cena gets injured... Enough to keep him out for MONTHS! Then they should put him back on Smackdown to feud with Batista or something. They've built both of them as unstoppable. That may be the only person Cena can feud with that WWE wouldn't make him squash every week. |
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Post by Icon Lord Leon Corbin on Jul 18, 2006 15:04:46 GMT -6
Anyone else find it hilarious that they can take a pretty good wrestler like Edge and make him look like Cena's bitch night after night... But yet take a very poor wrestler like Umaga and make him pretty much dominate Cena, even beating him with the dreaded THUMB TO THE THROAT? And on top of that, considering that Cena does the SAME EXACT THING in every match, it just makes Edge looks sooooo much more bad. I mean, you figure if you lose to the same shit once, you could be able to muster up counters. Nope. Not so much a hint of that. But Cena can wrestler someone like Shelton Benjamin for the first time (I believe it was) and yet he can reverse an F-U? I wouldn't be surprised if Edge snaps one night and REALLY beats the shit out of Cena. I guarantee you, the fans would mark all over that and ratings would increase This may be a bad thing to say, but I'm anticipating the day Cena gets injured... Enough to keep him out for MONTHS! Then they should put him back on Smackdown to feud with Batista or something. They've built both of them as unstoppable. That may be the only person Cena can feud with that WWE wouldn't make him squash every week.
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I agree...I can't wait to see Cena knocked off with some reason to keep him off TV, and say what you like about Batista but he got my vote when he was bashing Henry about like a bitch...
Jer? Are you sure that UFC fans don't mark even a little for TNA? They did have Tito with them for a bit... |
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Post by The Root on Jul 18, 2006 20:27:23 GMT -6
That was just to get UFC fans to tune in...and I think he was like on one show...maybe two.
It has just been my expierence that most people who like UFC do not want to even watch wrestling. They think it is beneath them
And Sean....maybe we saw a different match, but I saw Cena lose to Umaga thanks to interference from not just Estrada, but Edge and Lita as well....
Technically at points it was 4 vs. 1...
Cena still > Superman...according to WWE booking.
Besides...remember how they jobbed Angle out to Cena? That breaks my heart way more so than Edge...Angle is a machine dammit!
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Post by Rico on Jul 18, 2006 22:32:21 GMT -6
I also never get the fact that the WWE allows someone like Cena to hold the Big Show on his shoulders and be driven to the mat with that awful FU, but yet someone like Kane, Snitsky, Undertaker and Albert, men who are about the size of Show can not even pick him up. I guess they are making Cena look like Superman.
Cena is bad wrestling being shoved down our throats.
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Post by Icon Lord Leon Corbin on Jul 19, 2006 3:32:35 GMT -6
Cena is bad wrestling being shoved down our throats.
This is not new news  |
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Post by Icon Lord Sean "Magic" Fiery on Jul 19, 2006 3:35:15 GMT -6
That Cena is a bad wrestler or that Rico has bad grammar?  |
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Post by Icon Lord Leon Corbin on Jul 19, 2006 3:38:33 GMT -6
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Post by Rico on Jul 19, 2006 11:20:43 GMT -6
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Post by journeyman on Jul 19, 2006 16:09:35 GMT -6
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Post by Icon Lord Leon Corbin on Jul 19, 2006 16:16:15 GMT -6
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Post by Icon Lord Sean "Magic" Fiery on Jul 22, 2006 5:15:02 GMT -6
Damn... Lashly has elevated enzymes of the liver... And APPARENTLY Khali is having similar issues. Both are done for a short while, IF the Khali story is true. SOOOOOOOOOOOOO... -Henry is out. Match with Batista's been changed to Batista vs. Mr. Kennedy. -Bobby Lashley is OUT!! He's been taken out of his match and it's gonna be a classic Regal vs. Finlay match! -The Great Khali is (maybe) OUT!! The Undertaker would probably face The Big Show. lame... Wow. Smackdown is fucked |
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Post by Icon Lord Leon Corbin on Jul 22, 2006 6:31:31 GMT -6
Smackdown is fucked anyway to think that these people were/are there mid-upper card anyway...
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This may be a bad thing to say, but I'm anticipating the day Cena gets injured... Enough to keep him out for MONTHS! Then they should put him back on Smackdown to feud with Batista or something. They've built both of them as unstoppable. That may be the only person Cena can feud with that WWE wouldn't make him squash every week.
