Originally Posted by seibu:
“TNA is very, very far from perfect. What I'm saying is that the internet has a tendency to mix opinion and rumour and pass it off as "fact" when it comes to TNA.”
It depends on where you go for your information. There's only a few places that have legitmate information. The rest either make stuff up or try and spin the major sites news as their own and add things to it.
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“I notice you avoid mentioning the one actual FACT we know about TNA's US audience: There are approx. 1.1 million TV viewers who will seemingly watch the show no matter what. Nobody has any idea about merchandise sales or PPV buys. Every house show is different - some sell out, but of course nobody ever talks about those!”
TNA's audience is happy to watch a free show, but not buy anything from the company. Thus hence the reduced house show schedule. Thus hence the reduced PPV show schedule. That stuff is visual. You can see it. TNA aren't cutting back on these things for fun. I don't understand how this is hard to grasp unless you're some hardcore fan in denial.
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“But very often the figures aren't just poor, they're more or less made up. That's my point.”
Even if you don't believe the numbers, TNA's reduction in PPV and house show schedule back up the fact that these revenue streams aren't successful.
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“Impact could feature Steamboat / Savage followed by the debut of the NwO, followed by the declaration of world peace, and James Caldwell would still give it a bad review. Anyway, I'm not saying everybody has to like TNA. I'm saying people should stop repeating unsubstantiated rumours about TNA as fact.”
The main sites on the whole that I've seen aren't overly critical of TNA. Meltzer and Alvarez are pretty fair. TNA does something good, they'll say so. If they do something bad, they'll say so. There's no point in talking up TNA for the sake of it.
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“I'm sorry, my "unsubstantiated rumour" detector actually exploded there.”
It's up to you if you don't want to believe it or not. Many of the bottom end guys aren't getting paid a alot. This is the same company that refused to pay for Zema Ion's medical bills when he had a bowel cancer scare. The situation with Jesse Sorensen etc.
http://www.f4wonline.com/more/more-t...pots-interview
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“I didn't know about this. It neatly demonstrates how big organisations can hold publications to ransom for positive coverage.”
Well it must not work as I've seen a ton of negative stuff about WWE over the years about things they've done and about the quality of their shows. It's not exclusive to TNA.
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“Totally agree. I don't think journalists lie awake at night plotting the downfall of TNA. But the FUD stories come from somewhere. Notice how they tend to appear across all the forums and newsletters at the same time (e.g. the "Sting in a gym" "story" the other day), so they're coming from somewhere!
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Sting in a gym???? I never heard that story. Who reported it?
If you want to get inside information, go to the main places and not the sites that I've mentioned before. It's amazing the amount of stuff that gets attributed to a guy like Meltzer and he's never said anything close to it.
Anyway thoughts on Impact????
I see Wes Brisco and Jay Bradley have been released.