Originally Posted by Hollie_Louise:
“Well the problem is probably their homegrown stars aren't well known enough because of years of dependency, and again I must stress (because I know you think I'm anti-TNA) that WWE are as guilty of not growing stars. I completely agree about what it says about your promotion, it either says we don't believe in our home grown stars or we simply haven't got enough.
Where I disagree is they don't have a choice. From little reading, USA don't really get involved with WWE from a storyline perspective (in terms of saying "We want XXX to be the champion, the face of WWE), you never really hear about it but a recurring theme in TNA is networks dictating to them. I think in the case of Spike it was down to them paying contracts, with DA there seems to be no reasoning for it other than being able to do it.”
“Well the problem is probably their homegrown stars aren't well known enough because of years of dependency, and again I must stress (because I know you think I'm anti-TNA) that WWE are as guilty of not growing stars. I completely agree about what it says about your promotion, it either says we don't believe in our home grown stars or we simply haven't got enough.
Where I disagree is they don't have a choice. From little reading, USA don't really get involved with WWE from a storyline perspective (in terms of saying "We want XXX to be the champion, the face of WWE), you never really hear about it but a recurring theme in TNA is networks dictating to them. I think in the case of Spike it was down to them paying contracts, with DA there seems to be no reasoning for it other than being able to do it.”
I think if TNA had just said: "Right, we're booking AJ, or Aries, or Roode, as our top star now" and followed through with it, it would have stuck. They kind of did that with Roode and it did elevate him hugely - although not to the extent that we don't still have ignorant TV execs pushing for great-but-rather-past-it Angle to be the star.
I guess we'll never know how much leverage TNA have against network interference. Certainly I'd imagine WWE have a lot more power to call the shots against USA than TNA have against DA though.




All the knockouts stuff was just rubbish, and just reminded us how bad Tarryn Tyrell is, both at wrestling and on the mic, unfortunately looks like we are going to see even more of her.