Why do TNA Fans and WWE Fans hate eachother?

Question

Here I will refer to Professional Wrestling as a Sport- if you have a problem with that I suggest you leave. I entitle this video as one which is speaking to any and all fans- the hardcore or the casual- I am sick of the Internet Professional Wrestling Fan today. I challenge you for just a moment step back from your preference being a fan of TNA or WWE and realize that we are all fans of Professional Wrestling. Imagine this, Wrestling covering the week on primtime- Monday night Raw, Tuesday ECW, Thursday iMpact, Friday SmackDown! and PPV on Sunday. On CBS, ABC, NBC, taking timeslots of the NFL, American idol, anything you name. Instead Professional Wrestling is stuck on Sci Fi, Spike and USA. Basic cable reaches 85 % of the US, meaning only SmackDown has the ability to be seen by the largest amount of people, meanwhile the rest are seen at most by 60 %. We're missing a large part of the US alone simply because everytime wrestling spikes in popularity, it goes and kills itself again. For those people that say the Monday Night Wars were the best thing for Professional Wrestling, while it certainly contributed to what you see now, Now 6 years after the fall of WCW, professional wrestling is less popular today than it was 6 years before WCW began.

When Wrestling Spiked in popularity, everyone chose a side and decided to destroy the other. Bischoff publicly called out WWE, WWE invaded WCW shows. In retrospect, WCW made the mistake of going head to head, people couldn't enjoy both brands, they had to choose- and while the two brands killed each other, when WCW fell, so did their audience. Imagine WCW on Tuesday, two straight days of wrestling. In the fall NFL is on most weekdays, Professional Wrestling was on one day. Instead of growing outwards, professional wrestling kicked itself in the butt and shot itself in the foot.

I don't want that to happen today- I love WWE, I love TNA. Both have their faults, but I'm going look at the positives. I don't ever want WWE to buy TNA. I want WWE to continue to grow and improve its own brands. I don't want TNA to move to Monday Nights. I want TNA to get rid of Spike when it gets big enough and go to a better network that reaches a larger audience. Imagine TNA and WWE working together. Imagine WWE, at the end of their show, saying, "be sure to check out Total Non-Stop Action on Spike TV at 9!" Instead of hurting professional wrestling, encouraging the audience to grow, encouraging the audience not to just watch WWE, but PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING. All successful sports do it- NFL, NBA, NHL. I don't remember the Broncos playing the Chiefs and wanting to beat them so badly they wanted to put them out of business. They realize that (1.) competition is good and (2.) by encouraging their competition, their competition encourages them.

Getting wrestling on primetime is the first step is making Professional Wrestling the premiere sport today. Am I crazy? In 1997 Wall Street was so concerned because the NFL WAS LOSING MONEY TO PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING they took out an ad in the New York Times- "Don't Wrestle with your advertising Dollars this season"- Professional Wrestling had the NFL thinking they had some problems. Nearly 10 years later, professional wrestling is lucky to have a no-name NFL player come to a show- then they become the biggest thing there. The NFl should want WWE and TNA guys there in the stadiums.

Answer 1

Excellent argument. As a fan of both TNA and WWE I feel I benefit the most because I get to watch wrestling 4 days a week, yet I go on here and read about WWE fan boys claiming that TNA sucks while I bet most of them have never even seen an episode. I try to watch as much wrestling as I can, I even buy DVDs on a regular basis from indy feds like ROH, FIP, and CZW (ROH is by far the best wrestling federation out there today) one thing I don't agree with is that you want wrestling to rise in popularity because there is a problem with that, and that is the wrestling feds don't know how to attract a larger audience. Case in point is Kevin Federline, It was WWE writer Brian Gerwitz idea to get him to play a mini feud with John Cena in order to gain some mainstream appeal, yet all it did was ostracize actual wrestling fans, I agree that wrestling is great the story lines and superstars have such great potential, however the product delivered from the WWE has been trying its hardest to appeal to larger audiences while straying from actual wrestling. They need to find a way to get a larger audience yet still have 2 hours of wrestling rather than 1 hour and thirty minutes of skits and promos, 20 minutes of mediocre wrestling spread out between 4 matches, and 8 minutes of a decent main event. That is not recipie for success, and neither is having a rosie vs donald skit take up 20 minutes of air time and then send a press release to every news station hoping that raw becomes the water cooler talk when it actually just becomes a reason for fans to switch off.

You also mention that smackdown has the capability to reach the largest audience, yet it only gets an average rating of 2.7 a week.


and I'm adding a little more to this since the first responder to your question Jeff made an idiotic statement, the only 40 or 50 year old has-been on TNA that I know of is Scott Steiner, big poppa pump sure he may be a has been, but he's the only one, everyone else on the roster serves a purpose, and as for saying the rest of their roster wouldn't make it onto the WWE, you're dead wrong, AJ Styles, Senshi, Samoa Joe, Christopher Daniels, Paul London, CM Punk, and Jay Lethal, while they were all in Ring of Honor they were the men who vince himself said "Hire at any means necisarry" He only go London and Punk onto his roster because the other wrestlers preferred TNA's style. Don't bad mouth a company if you know absolutely nothing about the wrestling buisness.

Answer 2

It's not the "regular" fans that hate each other (I watch all the wrestling shows, WWE and TNA... I don't hate myself either). The hate comes from what you can expect to find in any area where there are competing choices, namely a subset of people that are polarized so much for choice "X" that they shun "Y" because it is simply "not X" and can't take the view of someone else and see what another person could like about "Y" and not like about "X".

So whether the polarized opinion is formed by an informed personal preference (tried it, didn't like it) or uninformed choice (I won't like it, so no need to even try it)... you'll have the polarized people taking a very vocal stance in favor of "X" and slamming "Y", and will react negatively to any criticism of "X" even if valid, and ignore anything positive about "Y", even if valid.

However, I think most fans are moderate, they can see the good and bad with WWE and TNA and can comment on both aspects of either promotion, and aren't out to troll and ask questions just to provoke the opposing view.

Answer 3

Well for starters i like both shows. I think they are both excellent but to answer the question i think TNA fans hate WWE fans cause the TNA is trying to establish itself as a major wrestling brand so naturally TNA fans are gonna support it and feel that one day the organization could possibly become better than the WWE.

On the WWE side the fans feel that TNA fans are supporting a bunch of has beens that coulden't cut it in the WWE eather cause of lack of talent or they coulden't handle the hectic travel schedule the WWE wrestlers have to go through plus it ticks them off to actually see former WWE talent actually thriving in a smaller organization like Christian, Rhyno, Gail Kim, Christie Hemmie, Jeff Jerret ect ect.. in the WWE they all sucked and the fans never liked them much but now in TNA they are like over night success stories basically..not to mention TNA was able to do what WWE coulden't and that was to sign Sting.. plus all the rumors that when Jericho returns he might defect and go there.

Answer 4

I do agree with you on a lot of points. However, your utopia-like concept of competion is likely to never take place because Vince McMahon hates Jeff Jarrett and vice versa. Also, both guys have too much of an ego to help each other out all because of one little spat they had in 1999. Plus now it seems like TNA thinks they're better than WWE by "giving their fans what they want." TNA continually mocks WWE week in week out and encourages their fans to do the same. If I know Vince McMahon he won't forgive that or support their product ever. In fact he doesn't even acknowledge they exist because he knows "when in doubt, buy them out." Adn I'm pretty sure WWE fans are sick and tired of hearing the same crap from TNA fans, so they bite back. So I hope I answered your question. I, myself am a WWE and TNA fan.

Answer 5

Everyone single one of you are complete idiots...are you kidding me WWE? What a load of crap! What actual moves do any of them do????? Beside RVD??? Poor guy needs to get his head straight and go to TNA. Some of you actually claimed to have watched TNA, and I honestly don't believe it...The only person that is in their 40s on TNA is jerry lynn and he is hell of alot better then any of those ***** on WWE! If you wanted TNA you could actually see a real match! They don't just do kick, punch, big ol body slam! OOO can't forget that GREAT STFU! What the hell is that crap ????? For any of you real TNA fans....WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT NO, WE AINT GONNA TAKE IT, WERE NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!! Why watch crap wrestling when you know there is a whole lot better out there, any of you WWE fans please take out the time and watch what some of these moves these guys can actually do better then any of that crap you are watching what a waste of time!

Answer 6

Lol I thought that vince owned tna since I saw christian, gail kim & kurt angle go on it.

I thought it was like a minor league of pro wrestling. Guess not.

Answer 7

I would be more willing to give TNA a chance, if they didn't have this thing about having their ExWWE people bash WWE. They should just stick to what they have going for them and understand that WWE is way ahead of them.

Answer 8

I enjoy both tna and wwe. Its entertainment i dont see why people get all weird and **** over it.Its either you like it or you dont, I am not going to be mad if you dont lie both of them,thats just silly

Answer 9

i agree wit you it annoys me when tna or wwe fans say when you dont watch the other show or say the other show sucks that you are not a real wrestling fan i watch both and i enjoy both instead of nitpicking on the shows faults

Answer 10

It's just like everything else. I like Pepsi I hate Coke. I like the Dodgers, I hate the Giants, I like Nike, I hate Reebok, I like Chevys I hate Fords, I like WWE, I hate TNA