Only problem is Spike TV wants the bigger name stars; The return of the MEM was spike TV's not TNA's.
Secondly, Spike TV doesn't really care about quality wrestling; they're more interested in Sports Entertainment.
It's all about ratings and that's what Spike TV thinks will draw.
There's a reason Spike TV paid a portion of Sting's, Angle's, and Foley's contracts because Spike TV wanted them.
Of course Spike TV want ratings and in order to do that you do need big stars to initially draw them in but just look at how TNA have booked those bigger stars, it is just as much TNA'a fault for where they are as it is Spike TV's for wanting those bigger stars in the company to begin with. At least Spike TV are paying a large percentage of the salaries in order to have the bigger names and yes they were the one's who originally wanted to bring back The Main Event Mafia but Spike TV were not the one's who were meant to be signing Sting, Kevin Nash and Booker T before pushing the storyline through which then went wrong and saw the storyline rewritten in a rush.
I don't really know how big of a tv channel Spike TV is but i can imagine that they are not as big as The Turner Network channel was and Kevin Nash whilst harsh in saying it in public is completely right as WCW got where they were because Ted Turner put his money into WCW by signing Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage to begin with and then followed that up by giving Kevin Nash and Scott Hall HUGE contracts whilst also signing there own major stars in Sting, Ric Flair, Lex Luger and The Steiner Brothers on HUGE long term contracts as well so WWE couldn't try and take them. It was that kind of investment coupled up with Eric Bischoff stealing an idea for a super stable from Japan that saw WCW take over as the biggest and best wrestling company in the world for around three years, in comparison TNA can't book for shit and still can't draw anywhere near what WCW were in 2001 when they were at their worst and were about to go out of business.
If TNA would make that amount of investment, then it would be better to listen to Heyman's long term plan.
This is what i have said since it was announced that Paul Heyman wouldn't be joining TNA because Dixie Carter didn't want to wait five years and use a long term plan and wouldn't give Paul Heyman the power to hire and fire as Paul Heyman could see that TNA wasn't in a position to go head to head with WWE anytime soon despite what Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff tried to convince us all. Where Paul Heyman has always been able to adapt with the way the wrestling industry changes people like Eric Bischoff and Vince Russo have not which is why with them running TNA alongside someone who has no idea at all about running a wrestling company like Dixie Carter i'm afraid that TNA is never going to move forward and won't ever even be as big as ECW let alone WWE or WCW.
I do not proclaim Paul Heyman to be the saviour of the wrestling industry but if you look at how he adapted from the early 90's in WCW through to the product we saw in ECW and then in his time with WWE as lead writer on SmackDown in between 2002 and 2004 you can see that every he has been has been a success, for those of you who say well ECW went bust i put it to you that had ECW had the same kind of money that WWE and WCW had it would have been a different story. The fact is that Paul Heyman changes the way he see's how things should be produced to go with the time's and Eric Bischoff and Vince Russo can not, i mean Bound For Glory and Immortal was a complete blatant rip off from Bash at the Beach which was also a HUGE fail and Vince Russo has done nothing positive since the late 90's and that is because they are one trick pony's who were successful in one thing and have lived off of that for over a decade and tried it again and again and failed everytime.
