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Keller on TV implications for TNA now SD is on Tuesday

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#1 · (Edited)
Now for the TV implications…

– TNA Impact. TNA has been on virtually every night of the week during its company history. Now, with two months notice on Smackdown coming to Tuesday nights, do TNA and Pop TV consider a move? Thursday nights are obviously available again, depending on whether WWE makes a second move shifting other programming to Smackdown’s current Thursday night timeslot.

Or, TNA could hold firm in their current timeslot and try to take advantage of increased attention to pro wrestling on Tuesday nights, hoping to piggyback off Smackdown’s move. The risk is Impact’s audience potentially leaving for a live Smackdown program, especially if WWE follows through with Smackdown feeling more like NXT and less like Raw.

WWE indirectly told TNA “we’re giving you two months to make a decision; your move.”
So there you go, WWE see TNA as competition.

Stand your ground TNA. Use it as a piggy back.
 
#16 · (Edited)
To be honest at this stage I don't know if many of the TNA fans that are still left would turn over channels for WWE instead. They've stuck with them through thick and through thin showing a pretty insane amount of loyalty. It would completely devastate any chances of growing the audience though at the same time to stay on the same day as a WWE program that is going live and likely getting a huge marketing push.

I'm sure some fans would use them moving days as a stick to beat them with for being 'cowardly' or something like that but it would probably be the smarter call considering they have a fanbase that while small is loyal and willing to move channels and times with them.
 
#33 · (Edited)
LOL @ people trusting a company that recently butt-fucked NJPW with a raid, booked several NXT showsd to go headXhead w/ ROH and tried to rape Lucha Underground with yet another talent raid.
Tna tried to sign the same new Japan guys that went to WWE first so were tna trying to butt-fuck njpw too? Tna were even talking with Anderson when he was still under contract to new japan

What raid on Lu? Real story is Lu went to WWE and tried to get on network (among the many avenues they tried because they need money) and WWE turned them down once they started bragging about being ahead of the game with their intergender stuff. Chris de Joseph comes out then and claims WWE tried to sign whole roster yet in 2 years WWE have signed just one person from Lu and only really shown interest in a couple of midcard guys and ricochet

If roh, tna or Lu had the money WWE have they would be sweeping up every talent they could. Bob Ryder this time last year went on mecca and said tna were going to aggressively go after roh talent.
 
#35 ·
This thread reminds me of why I actually started watching TNA a few years ago. It was because SmackDown sucks and it sucks so bad I stop watching it. I finally watched it again tonight and it still sucks almost as bad. Tna is not on spike anymore. I doubt WWE would've made this move if they were. Smack down is the definition of predictable wrestling show. One where you don't even have to read the spoilers to already know what's going to happen. On top of that half of the show feels like nothing more than a raw recap. Not a whole hell of a lot has changed in that regard. But being on a new obscure channel that not everybody has such as pop TV would make it quite difficult to actually "compete" even with a crappy show like smackdown. If they do not change the format of SmackDown all you're going to see is a live version of everything I just described which yes of course still sucks for the same reasons.
 
#17 ·
Yeah -- to Mondays!!! :lol :lol :lol :lol

Seriously -- if they did that and RAW stays the same shitpile it currently is, I think TNA could put a measurable dent in RAW's ratings. I honestly believe that unchanged, RAW is more vulnerable than Slackdown, especially a rewired and revitalized Slackdown. Of course that means TNA would have to turn it up a notch or two and stay on their A game, which I'm not sure they're capable of. But that's just me, and I really, really hate almost everything about RAW right now.
 
#31 ·
It is true. Vince is basically a guy who collects cards, pokemon, etc. He doesn't owe anyone anything. HE doesn't have to be fair, nice, or care if someone survives if their talent leaves to come to him freely since he isn't holding a gun to their head. It doesn't work that way in the real world. Walmart doesn't look out for the corner store owner bro.
 
#41 ·
same with meltzer, powell and kellner. It must be true that 90% of wrestling fans are a bunch of idiots paying these fat balding "journalist" for info on a fake sport.

I use to get upset when i read some these post on here then i think about what i wrote here and just laugh.
 
#2 ·
Re: Wade Keller on implications for TNA now SD is on Tuesday

Just because someone said that is what WWE was saying/doing does not make is so. I am sure this is more about USA wanting it on Tuesday plus the logistics of doing live shows. I mean now they do live back to back nights as opposed to having two days between the shows.
 
#5 ·
Yeah I don't think WWE's decision had anything to do with TNA they've always taped it on Tuesdays they are just keeping the same schedules.
 
#7 ·
Course they didn't. But to go live was TNA influenced.
 
#12 · (Edited)
Threat and Competition are two different words. WCW was the former.

TNA is competition, ROH is competition, LU is competition, CMLL is competition, AAA is competition

They are all in the same business their fore, competitiors.

WCW was the only "threat".
 
#14 ·
Sorry OP, I don't think WWE are shaking in their boots over TNA who reach a few hundred thousand people a week maximum.

Didn't WWE sell over 1 million PPV units for WrestleMania this year? I'd be surprised if TNA had sold a million PPV's in the past 5 years total let alone in one show.
 
#15 ·
Sorry but where did I say WWE were shaking in their boots or even imply it?

This is WWE flexing their muscles.
 
#20 ·
LOL TNA fans will do anything to convince themselves they're competition to the WWE.

There were never a Monday Night Wars Part 2, and I'd actually like to take the time to ask the ADMIN how much it would cost to trademark the term "Tuesday Night War" so nobody else could use it.
 
#21 ·
Not my fault most wrestling fans cannot understand the words "competition" and "threat" have two different meanings and have been using the wrong word for years.
 
#24 · (Edited)
@ST1TCH - Yeah well done, it doesn't matter if he even takes notice of what they're doing then he views them as competition, just like ROH/New Japan/LU/CMLL/AAA and so on. (But not a threat like WCW), so you've basically backed up my point.

@MKCS / SOR - Then you don't know Vince McMahon, especially during the Crockett era WCW and the cities and towns he purposely moved to to flex his muscles towards Crockett and hurt NWA/WCW at that time. Plus the Wrestlemania 5 move.
 
#38 ·
KELLER SAID:

" . . . .WWE indirectly told TNA “we’re giving you two months to make a decision; your move. . . . "


CRETIN SAID"
" . . .So there you go, WWE see TNA as competition. . . . "

Cretin:
Um, I hate to be the grammar police (thought I was a teacher at one time), but that's NOT what Keller said. Note the word "indirectly." In this context it means "They didn't actually say this, but by announcing it two months early, it gives TNA time to respond . . . "
 
#39 ·
I know what means.

WWE see TNA, ROH, New Japan and LU as the competition. They do not however see them as a threat to the company like WCW was throughout the 80s and 90s.

This whole "Vince doesn't care about other promotions" is bullshit.

Tna tried to sign the same new Japan guys that went to WWE first so were tna trying to butt-fuck njpw too? Tna were even talking with Anderson when he was still under contract to new japan

What raid on Lu? Real story is Lu went to WWE and tried to get on network (among the many avenues they tried because they need money) and WWE turned them down once they started bragging about being ahead of the game with their intergender stuff. Chris de Joseph comes out then and claims WWE tried to sign whole roster yet in 2 years WWE have signed just one person from Lu and only really shown interest in a couple of midcard guys and ricochet

If roh, tna or Lu had the money WWE have they would be sweeping up every talent they could. Bob Ryder this time last year went on mecca and said tna were going to aggressively go after roh talent.
Lol.
 
#43 ·
In regards to companies screwing each other over for talent, that's going to happen with every company, it even happens in some small indies. In my local scene there are tons of guys who won't work for X promotion due to their loyalty to Y and Z promotion and vice versa.

It's business. WWE wants to create the greatest wrestling company on earth with the greatest talent. They get that by stealing from their rivals much like companies such as TNA and ROH get their talent by stealing from the major indies and the major indies of course get their new talent from rinky dink indy companies. It's all a chain.
 
#44 ·
The difference is WWE signs guys not only to fill their roster but keep them from the competition. They did the same thing in the early to mid 80's and the late 90's. And with their deep pockets they can afford to sign guys to sit on the bench. They are like the NY Yankees of the late 90's.
 
#47 · (Edited)
Apparently Keller's a bit salty because Mike Johnson got the interview with Schwartz and he didn't.

"Rhodes wants a wrestling career, he won't get that at TNA"
 
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