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WWE trying to block possible TNA taping venues

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#1 ·
Mike Johnson (PWInsider) is reporting that WWE wants to sign exclusive deals with several arenas as a reaction to TNA announcing to go on the road. According to Johnson they are also going to do more houseshows on Thursdays to block possible areas for TNA to hold tapings in.

Makes me hate current WWE even more...
 
#6 ·
This should work in TNA's favour really. Will stop them running in venues that are way over their head. They shouldn't be competing with WWE for arenas because they are well below WWE's level in that game.

TNA should be running small venues and packing them to the rafters to build a super hot atmosphere to come across on TV. Remember ECW?

The last thing you want to do with TV tapings is tape in front of half empty arenas. Remember WCW?
 
#11 ·
This. Vince is a complete jackass, but who really cares? there are enough arenas in this world, hopefully Dixie and co. just ignore this, WWE's product can keep on being horrible and you'll be just fine.
 
#3 ·
If true, this shouldn't be a surprise. Vince has always been a overly competitive bastard. The thing that ticks me off is that WWE would rather block TNA than improve their own product
 
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#7 · (Edited)
If true, this shouldn't be a surprise. Vince has always been a overly competitive bastard. The thing that ticks me off is that WWE would rather block TNA than improve their own product
Just what I was thinking. I wouldn't be surprised if it is true. They're not above using tactics of that nature.

Pity. If their product is superior and TNA is "bush league", then what have they to fear?

And about the arenas' sizes, even if you book a larger arena they can adjust the seating to fit a less than capacity crowd.
 
#4 ·
Sounds like WWE. But mostly TNA does smaller arenas and WWE does big arenas. The only reason WWE would say book a smaller arena is just to dick with TNA. WWE could shadow TNA and book shows at the big arenas in the towns TNA is doing IMPACTS from.

So unless WWE is just trying to stick it to TNA, TNA is probably OK.
 
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Did you see the crowds they got last week? WWE knows that if there is an alternative to their product that offers something that is even somewhat edgey they could risk losing part of their market. The reason why WWE has worked so well is because they have virtually no competition in the mainstream. As long as TNA stays in one place, with small canned crowds, they will never ever become respected or get the exposure that they need to grow.

I completely believe that WWE would try to prevent a rival wrestling promotion from taping in areas they consider "their" territory. Any sensible, large, monopoly like theirs would. Why risk losing ticket and merch buyers who may see an ad for WWE but decide to skip that show because TNA is coming in two weeks and they can see Jeff Hardy/Bully Ray/Aries/Velvet Sky etc.

Over all I think TNA has had a much better episode to episode program than WWE. Unfortunately, my favorite wrestler CM Punk will never be on TNA--but that doesn't mean TNA can't rise and for the love of god please build its own stars to become a larger, respectable promotion.
 
#121 ·
Because he surrounds himself with glad-handed, non-sensical, douchebag yes men, like John Laurinaitis, who’s going to tell him everything he wants to hear, and I’d like to think that maybe this company will better after Vince McMahon is dead. But the fact is, it’s going to be taken over by his idiotic daughter and his doofus son-in-law and the rest of his stupid family.
 
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When selling a product, you need to appeal to your market, you need to draw them in and sell yourself. This is why Coke and Pepsi market their products differntly while selling pretty much the same thing. If Pepsi were to go out of business does that mean Coke would rake in a huge profit?

No.

Infact the death of Pepsi would damge the Cola market, which would in essence deflate sales of Coca Cola. Why? Becuase with no competition interest in Cola would go down therefore while Coca Cola now own the market they will not reap as many rewards as one might think.

The same can be said for wrestling. When WCW died did those fans then suddenly tune into WWE? No. They didn't otherwise WWE ratings would have doubled. Instead they stopped watching because their brand of choice was no longer around. They had had thier ability to pick something for them taken away and therefore no amount of Marketing by WWE is going to bring those fans in. (The same can be said for ECW fans and Attitude Era fans who stopped watching once that era was over, they only tune in every so often if someone like The Rock makes a return.)

So if WWE fans and wrestling fans tuned into TNA, and TNA started to take hold of a decent sized chunk of the Market, then WWE would benefit, not just financially but creatively. For wrestling to make a come back guess what people need to start doing? WATCH MORE WRESTLING. Not just WWE. It's simple. So if you want change in WWE, if you are growing tired of it; then watch TNA, give their ratings a boost and WWE will take notice. Instead of shitting on them and repeating things others say about the product. Just because you like The Walking Dead doesn't mean you can't watch Game of Thrones; this is how ridiculous wrestling fans are.

I watch both WWE & TNA, I enjoy both just like I enjoy Japanese Wrestling and Lucha.
 
#155 · (Edited)
When selling a product, you need to appeal to your market, you need to draw them in and sell yourself. This is why Coke and Pepsi market their products differntly while selling pretty much the same thing. If Pepsi were to go out of business does that mean Coke would rake in a huge profit?

No.

Infact the death of Pepsi would damge the Cola market, which would in essence deflate sales of Coca Cola. Why? Becuase with no competition interest in Cola would go down therefore while Coca Cola now own the market they will not reap as many rewards as one might think.

The same can be said for wrestling. When WCW died did those fans then suddenly tune into WWE? No. They didn't otherwise WWE ratings would have doubled. Instead they stopped watching because their brand of choice was no longer around. They had had thier ability to pick something for them taken away and therefore no amount of Marketing by WWE is going to bring those fans in. (The same can be said for ECW fans and Attitude Era fans who stopped watching once that era was over, they only tune in every so often if someone like The Rock makes a return.)

So if WWE fans and wrestling fans tuned into TNA, and TNA started to take hold of a decent sized chunk of the Market, then WWE would benefit, not just financially but creatively. For wrestling to make a come back guess what people need to start doing? WATCH MORE WRESTLING. Not just WWE. It's simple. So if you want change in WWE, if you are growing tired of it; then watch TNA, give their ratings a boost and WWE will take notice. Instead of shitting on them and repeating things others say about the product. Just because you like The Walking Dead doesn't mean you can't watch Game of Thrones; this is how ridiculous wrestling fans are.

I watch both WWE & TNA, I enjoy both just like I enjoy Japanese Wrestling and Lucha.
The thing oyur missing is WCW almost beat WWE. it may be better for a few years but pepole keep forgeting that odds are OPNE WILL LOSE you cant keep that up for ever in most cases

So no its not better for them as they may get improved numbers but they may also lose and Vince dont want to go trhough that again.

As for the fans thing, I disagree, bunch of WWE fans watched tna, and they alos watched WCW many have and do swithc, dose it double? no but raitings dont mean anything anymore anyways since no one watchs live

Tell me which is better staying on top for as long as you can or letting an up start come in to power with an equal chance of beating you?

coke and Pepsi are a lone exception, few and few betwen while most end with one or the other lossing, or them not
"competing" at all
 
#9 ·
Yep, doesnt really make much sense. Will just cost WWE a bunch of money. So I very much doubt this bit of "news".

And the US is a pretty big place so trying to "hold up arenas" doesnt make much sense either. Especially since they are booked like 6 months in advance.

"Oh no, the WWE has a house show on Thursday 5 months from now in Ohio. Whatever will we do. Were fucked now, back to the IZ!"
 
#10 ·
But i thought Impact Wrestling was not relevant to the wwe .Gotta love the denial yet constant stealing from the under dog.

Im telling you this is the start of something big. Impact wrestling is going to be the next big company. They are going to be so hot in a year.

The other guys have nothing exciting going other then trying to live off last gen.

The start of a boom period here we go.
 
#80 · (Edited)
Standard procedure if you knew anything about the live event business. Nothing new at all. WWF and WCW used to do it on each other. One of the reasons why WCW could never run MSG.



They have greatly improved their product over the last six-twelve months.
:lmao

That's actually scary to think that what they are doing now is an improvement.

WWE treats TNA's threat like a treat.


In other words, no, I don't think WWE sees TNA as a threat. I honestly think they fuck with them around just to show them who's the boss. I am not saying it is the right thing to do, but TNA is as much a thread to WWE as Bellator is to UFC. It's not even the same league.

Yes, TNA's product got better, but as a business they are not even playing the same game.
You WWE marks can try to spin it anyway you want. You don't spend this kind of money on something like this if you don't see something as a threat. And yeah, it's going to be a lot of money if they plan on going through with this.
 
#15 ·
This is bull crap IMO, #1 its stupid to atempt this as WWE house shows do bigger venues then TNA's biggest ppvs at times

#2 no facts just him saying they are going to
#3 as said, WWE hae nothing to worry about they are so big, tna is so under their rarar, TNA JUST got out of their home, WWE can go all over the world at the mer thought of it


Tna is doing the right thing, and this is huge for them, but they are still WAYYYYYYYYYY behind WWE, in short, I call BS.
 
#17 ·
I wouldn't be surprised if this was true, because Vince is a cocksucker, but somehow I doubt it, because it doubles the rent costs for WWE, it wouldn't be smart from a financial perspective.
 
#20 ·
I thought Vince liked competition? TNA shouldn't be going after them big arenas so as another poster said this COULD work as a plus and not a negative for TNA.
 
#26 ·
Meh it's business, but once again let's keep kayfab... WWE doesn't know TNA exists.
 
#27 ·
I have a hard time believing any of this. Why would WWE spend so much money on exclusive deals, if the shows are booked months in advanced? And let's face it, USA is a huge country with lot of great arenas in the same cities. If WWE books A then TNA just need to schedule B a few miles from there. I can't see how this can do any arm to TNA.

As for the programming, E already has probably more than 10 hours of shows every week. It's impossible for TNA to ran away if WWE decides to go head-a-head. But as long as TNA manages to stay away from the two major brands (Raw and SD) i can't why IW wouldn't be competitive.

Again, this rumors just seem positive for TNA's ego.
 
#28 ·
I have a hard time believing any of this. Why would WWE spend so much money on exclusive deals, if the shows are booked months in advanced?
Well I'll believe it when I see it.

This sounds like it could be another bullshit dirtsheet report to make a major headline.
Yet again WWE already does this. As does UFC.

Clear?

It isn't a a dirtsheet report. It came from an audio show on PWInsider.
 
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