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Post by db1091 on Feb 8, 2024 15:32:46 GMT -5
Well TNA had a good run anyways. That just sounds all sorts of corporate interference and WWE light coming up. I once spoke at length to Joe E Legend on a car journey and he described TNA as exactly this. Now this was quite some time ago, but it does feel there's a risk of it losing what differentiated it again |
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Post by on_the_edge on Feb 8, 2024 17:19:38 GMT -5
My hope, and I have little of it in the situation, is it is all a work. That Scott comes back saying if he cannot have TNA he will destroy it. He forms a new Team Canada to do so. In my dream scenario he would have Petey Williams come in and try and talk sense into him. Saying Scott is ruining the Team Canada name. Then they jump Petey. He forms his own Team Canada to fight Scott. Setting up a Hardcore War match where Petey is short a man. At the last-minute Eric Young joins him to turn the tide.
Back to reality, this is probably not a good move, but it is not the first we have seen and will not be the last. I do not see this ending TNA. Slowing the growth but who knows. It might lead to better things. Time will tell. All depends on what Anthem really sees in and wants from TNA. Interesting things going on either way.
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Post by Crimson Cross on Feb 8, 2024 17:49:59 GMT -5
Interesting times as always, I hope what they've been building keeps on going and it remains a fun watch, but if not it is what it is...
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Post by on_the_edge on Feb 28, 2024 20:46:20 GMT -5
I have been doing some thinking about the firing and I have a different opinion on it now than when I first heard about it. I have read somethings online about how you need a wrestling mind in control of the company, but I do not agree with that. You need a business mind in charge. Sure, they should at least like wrestling and want to see the company succeed both financially and critically. You want a wrestling mind in charge of creative. Just not running the whole thing. Two very popular companies of the last few decades, ECW and CHIKARA, had wrestling minds in control and things did not go so well with them. For a company to be successful you need a good product, but you also need someone who is financially wise. Look at the history of TNA. Dixie Carter came in and had a good business mind. She kept the company going and slowly built it up. It was when she became more of a fan and focused on what happened on screen more than the bottom line that things started to go south. My only real issue with this situation is the timing but I do not know what was going on behind the scenes so maybe it had to be done now and this way. Time will tell if Anthem just want to have this as an asset and programming like Sinclair did with ROH or if Anthem really wants to build TNA into something big. Even if it remains the 3rd wrestling company in NA but just as a bigger entity.
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Post by Sinclair Promotions on Feb 28, 2024 22:45:33 GMT -5
Reports are Scott tried to buy TNA from Anthem, so they may have felt that they could no longer work together after that. Anthem seems to picking up all the options they have on their contracted wresters now and that could be to try and stop Scott from poaching that talent if he tries to get a new company off the ground. I could see a lot of people loyal to Scott jumping from TNA if he did just that.
Scott it seems wanted to spend more money to bring eyes onto the product, reportedly he had a deal to bring in Braun Stroman for a brief run, but Anthem nixed it.
It will be interesting to see where Scott D'Amore lands after all of this. He could be a valuable creative mind to any promotion (if I was Tony Khan I'd be calling Scott to help with creative).
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Post by Bazzy on Feb 29, 2024 5:36:14 GMT -5
Feel sorry for Scott did wonders for TNA/Impact. Yeah I did hear that Braun story. Sure he will bounce back somewhere else?
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Post by on_the_edge on Mar 1, 2024 4:59:16 GMT -5
Braun would have been nice but not at the price. People might jump ship but Scott would only be a small piece of it. They would jump to AEW or WWE for more money. I don't see them jumping to a smaller company and paycheck for him. I think Anthem might have been worried Scott was on the path to being another Paul Heyman during his ECW days. Scott may have a good mind for wrestling but maybe not for business.
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