Please, Honest Answers Only, Why TNA?

Question

I Can't Help To Notice, But This Site Has Become Flooded With TNA Fans! They Anwser WWE Related Questions With Either "Neither, TNA Rules!!!!" Or "It Doesn't Matter, TNA Is Better"! I Don't Get It You Would Be Lying To Deny That The WWE Is What Got You Into Wrestling, It Was The Show Everybody Watched, It Was "Wrestling", There Was No Other. But Now Everybody Wants To Jump Ship To This New Company, Just Like WCW When They Began! The Only Problem Is This Company Doesn't Have A Big Name Millionaire's Backing, It Has Dixie Carter. It Doesn't Have A Prime Time Spot On A Major Network Either. And Worst Of All It Has Vince Russo in Control Of Its Booking, The Same Man That Ran WCW Into The Ground!!! It's Ratings Can't Even Match The Lowly ECW! So Why Should I, A Twenty Year WWE Fan, Take TNA Seriously? And Why Does It Seem EVERY TNA Fan Is Here, In Yahoo Answers? Because I Can Tell You One Thing For Sure, If They Don't Fire Vince Russo, TNA Is Just Going To Become Another WWE Library!!

I Mean, If There Is Supposidly So Many TNA Fans, Why Aren't The Ratings Higher?

Answer 1

WCW got me into wrestling. Its true, its true (or that would be "its real, its real" now that Kurt's in TNA).

I think you answered your own question when you said "...It Was The Show Everybody Watched, It Was "Wrestling", There Was No Other. But Now Everybody Wants To Jump Ship To This New Company,..."

TNA is the alternative. Not everybody likes Vince McMahon's vision of wrestling. What was it Vince said to Ted Turner?

Ted: Hey Vince guess what? I'm now in the 'rasslin' business.
Vince: That's great Ted. I'm in the entertainment business.

Vince has the balls to push the envelope. How many billionaires sell recordings of themselves getting the *** whipping of their life. The problem is that for every one of Vince's strokes of genius, he tries to force feed us crap. He got really ballsy following the demise of WCW, when he had a total monopoly of the wrestling industry. TNA has grown in popularity simply because it is not WWE.

Answer 2

First off, I grew up in the south. We did not get a weekly show of the WWF instead we watched the NWA. The NWA then became WCCW after NWA split. Ted Turner then bought WCCW from Jim Crocket and renamed it WCW. I grew up with guys like Sting, Ric Flair, Dusty Rhodes, Magnum TA, the original 4 horseman, the Minnesota Wrecking Crew, and the Rock 'n' Roll Express. So your statement that the WWF was the only show in town is false.

Now being that I did not have the WWF doesn't mean that I didn't know that it existed. Every kid knew who Huilk Hogan, Macho Man, and Andre the Giant was. I did not watch them though. The product that the NWA, and WCCW used to show were young up and coming guys mixed in with a couple of veterans and it really put on a good show. These guys weren't getting the major contracts and in many cases, Vince McMahon would raid their talent and mimic their storylines, but he could never get the raw potential that they had. This is exactly what TNA has now . They have a bunch of young talent mixed in with veteran guys that go out and put on raw shows. You can tell that they work their butt off and would do anything to put over an angle.

As for Vince Russo ruining WCW, that company was headed down hill before he got there. What killed WCW is the same thing that is hurting the WWE now. They have a bunch of older wrestlers that have over-priced contracts and cannot bring it every night. These guys don't want to put their heart into it because they have been doing it so long. Alot of them seem to think that they can show up, get a couple of cheap pops and the crowd should automatically love them. They spend very little time developing a storyline.

Also, the WWE product seems to have hit a creative wall. The storylines are either rehashed, too predictable, or so childish that only fans under the age of 12 would be interested. I was one of the first guys to admit the same thing about WCW back in 1998 and for that I started to look for something else, just like I am doing now.

Answer 3

Honestly, TNA does put on a superior product right now. I've been a WWE/WWF fan since around '86, which makes up most of my life, and I love the history that they have. However, their product has fallen off drastically since '01 or so and I think it's because they need competition. The time that the WWE was at it's most creative was between '97 and 2000... During the time they were at war with WCW. I look at TNA as a good thing, in that case, because it can only serve to make both companies better. Why limit yourself to watching just one brand? Enjoy it all for the actual entertainment values and quit drawing a line in the sand between WWE fans and TNA fans. I'm a wrestling fan and if it's a good product, I watch it. If it's not , I don't.

Answer 4

I first began watching the NWA back in the day before I knew what the WWF was so that is what really got me into wrestling, then I began to watch WWF and was always a fan of both. Secondly I thought this was the Wrestling column, not the WWE column. To me that means all fans of any wrestling promotion should be able to speak here.

Personally I watch both. I'm not "brand loyal" to either because if something sucks, I'm going to find an alternative. If you area 20 year WWE fan like myself, then you have to admit that right now they are producing CRAP! The story lines suck and the Heavyweight Champion on each program is completely lame.

TNA gives an alternative to those of us that want wrestling and not strictly entertainment. A 20 year WWE fan would appreciate this because that means in 20 years you've seen WWE go from wrestling to entertainment to complete trash. TNA wrestlers put on a good show and it took the WWE many years to become this company that it is. TNA is 5 years old. Vincent J. McMahon began working on his promotion back in 1925 so it is silly to compare budget, fans, and accomplishments of the two companies. That like comparing your bank account and high school to diploma or degree to the accomplishments of a 5 year old. It's just dumb. Give TNA time then make your statements. But right now they are giving us quality over quantity which is very important.

Answer 5

The WWF got me interested in the 80s when I was a small child, but WCW made me a fan in the mid 90s. I didn't even start watching WWE on a regular basis until the WCW folded.
But to answer your question; I just feel that TNA has better stories right now and I've become bored with what WWE is throwing out there. I still watch WWE, but I'm rooting really hard for TNA to survive because I'm bored by the old dog with no new tricks.

Answer 6

Personally, I like WWE better and think TNA is horrible. But, I think a lot of fans like TNA because since even a regular fan would have trouble following their boring storylines, casual fans can just watch it once in a while and feel like they know what is going on. Also, I think a lot of fans seem to just gravitate towards an NWA product rather than a WWE one, because of NWA's history and tradition. By the way, did anyone else read that Kip James said on a radio show that he would return to the WWE in a heartbeat if the money was right? How could the whole VKM angle in TNA be taken seriously after one of its most major wrestlers pretty much said that he doesn't even believe in it?

Answer 7

Now I agree about TNA fans Littering this site. Now the WWE being what got me into wrestling is not true. When i was a yonker I was watching UWF, NWA, WCW whatever you want to call it. Rick Flair, Sting, Hot Stuff Eddie Gilbert, One Man Gang, Ted Dibiese, Arn Anderson, Fabulous Free Birds, The Rock n Roll Express, The Midnight Express, and countless others was what I watched all the time.

Answer 8

I think there are some things that both companies do well, and some that they do not so well, but it's like one person said. Not everyone is going to buy Vince's version of pro wres... oops, sports entertainment. TNA has a LOT of problems, many of them leading directly back to Russo, but it's biggest strength is it's huge roster of young hungry talent and veteran talent that's (mostly) willing to try and give them some rub and get them over.

Answer 9

TNA Sucks

Answer 10

that was a great answer tna just wants a pop of of wwes rating tna just dosn't got good story lines that click we see who gets higher rating thursday pssst its going to be the wwe no dout about it