Does tna copy wwe storylines a little?

Question

WWE had the big red machine Kane who wore a mask and didn't want to be shown. TNA now has Abyss who weres a mask and dosn't want to be shown. team lax is kinda like the mexicoons were. and eric young is kinda like eugene in a weird way. and the only reason vkm exists is cause tna wants a pop of wwe ratings

Answer 1

Everything gets copied and re-used. All of your examples were things WWE recycled.

Kane wearing a mask and not wanting to be shown? Wrestlers have worn masks for a very long time.

LAX is a ripoff of Mexicools? Mexicools could be considered a rip-off of the Latino World Order.

Eugene and Eric Young. Hacksaw and Rick Steiner have always been retarded.

Answer 2

TNA uses similar stories, but so does wwe.
Most of their stories are recycled wcw/nwa or old wwf/e stories.

But none of your examples work.
Abyss would have more in common with mankind than Kane, but there have been masked wrestlers for decades.

And the other make no sense. The only thing similar in LAX and Mexicools were that they're hispanic.

And eric young has nothing in common with eugene. they are both used for comic relief, but thats it.

But umaga came out once Joe became popular. hmm.. big dominant samoan.

Or right after Rhino and AJ had a critically acclaimed "last man standing" match for tna's jan ppv, wwe suddenly had the idea to make their own "last man standing" match for their january ppv

TNA still has more original matches and match scripting. The finish of the aj styles match for Final Resolution was great, and the reverse battle royal, where the first person of 30 to get INSIDE the ring over the top rope from the outside, that was ingenious.

Answer 3

Throwing it back at you, why do most fans seem to think that the WWE creates (or ever HAS created) original storylines and angles? The current Nexus "invasion" angle has been done before in other promotions. The nWo in WCW in the 90's. XPW tried an "invasion" of ECW in the 90's (including brawls featuring most of both rosters). And before that, a Japanese promotion (I believe it was FMW) did a similar angle and this is where Eric Bischoff got the idea for the nWo. The Main Event Mafia was based on, and patterned after, WCW's "Millionaire's Club" (not Evolution, which was a blatant "copy" of the NWA's Four Horsemen). Yeah, Vince didn't create that one, either. That angle failed simply because TNA failed to give the MEM credible opposition. The same reason the nWo ultimately failed. The confusion stems from the fact that Vince killed every promotion in North America, stole their ideas, put them on national (and eventually, global) TV, and either claimed to have created them, or led the fans to believing he did. Those promotions aren't around anymore to cry "foul" over this... But I am. Show me an angle or storyline Vince (or the WWE) claims to have created and I'll show where the idea actually came from...or at least an earlier version of it. Every promotion on the planet cribs ideas and concepts from every promotion on the planet. The WWE gets away with claiming credit for "originality" only because it is the largest promotion in the world, seen by more people than any other promotion. But they are by no means "original" in anything they do.

Answer 4

The fact is that the current head writer for the TNA creative team is Vince Russo who, along with Ed Ferrara, headed the creative department for the (at the time) WWF in the late 90s when they went up against WCW. He will have realised what ideas worked and will be trying to use them now in TNA. One that obviously springs to mind is the idea of VKM going to the competition's headquarters to call them out, something Vince scripted DX to do back in the late 90s.

Answer 5

Abyss has been around since 2003, before TNA even tried to make a push for wwe ratings. And hell you could say that Kane stole the mask gimmick from Mankind who debuted in WWE a year before. Wrestling plotlines, just like soap operas, comedies, anything will be done and done again.

Answer 6

Yes TNA or Total Non stop Action does copy from WWE World Wrestling Entertainment.
but the fact is that it is a entertainment world where every soap is a copy of the other.
just like you can say that the EPL (english premier league) is a copy of The Spanish league or might be Vice Versa.
only few diffrences are made to both like TNA has six sided ring and has entrance on both oppsite ends. and has low quality entrance music.

Answer 7

You all do have some sense to know that BG James and Kip James were the Road Dogg Jesse James and Bad *** Billy Gunn of DX...right?

LAX comes out on Lawn Mowers?

The Mexicools had their own ring announcer and had their own entrance?

You are just prejudice dude to the Latin culture. I take that offensive because you think that us Latins can only come out without being a team, and we can't be one combined. The Mexicools were far from being straight Gangsta. They didn't come out with Slapjacks and dickies; they came out with Lawnmowers and Jumpsuits. They wore bandanas, and they were Latino, and that is the only thing you can really compare them by.

And also LAX has only one cruiserweight; Mexicools was all cruiserweight.

Answer 8

Everyone copies everyone. Spirit Squad was WWE copying Team Canada. It goes back and fourth. They copy each other to try and outdo each other in every aspect. Now that Vince Russo is on the TNA storlyine crew, it's hard to say what he won't try and use against Vinnie Mac

Answer 9

Now I wouldn't say that TNA (Totally Non-wrestling Asswipes) copy their storylines a little. I WOULD SAY THAT THEY COPY IT A WHOLE LOT!!!!!!

Come on now think about it. Christian Cage (which is NOW he has a last name) is doing the exact same CRAP he did on RAW. He has help once again from his buddy Tyson Tomco (now he doesn't have a last name)!!!!

Answer 10

Notice his head jerks. The thumbtacks. If anything, he's a cheap, pitiful Mankind imitation.