Message #2281

[Gnrfan]

Clearly we operate bias.  If your a big TNA fan you can "overlook" certain things, same goes for if your a big WWE fan.  Because I've noticed on many boards, a lot of people who defend TNA have veterans are the same people who slated WWE for letting Flair outstay his welcome.

When that same person is channel surfing and sees Steiner,Angle,Nash,Booker T,Sting,Foley they think, WOW, I use to love these guys, let me take a look at this for a minute and it stops them from changing the channel immediately.

I disagree. I have friends who rarely watch wrestling and they know who AJ Styles and Samoa Joe are. I don't think they see Foley, Steiner or Nash and say Wow, unless its followed by the sentence "Are they still wrestling"

TNA got semi popular through guys like Daniels, Samoa Joe, Jarrett & AJ Styles and then they made some clever signings like Angle, Sting & Booker T but they overdid it with the established names and now there are too many IMO.

I agree with D an up and coming company needs faces that are reconisable to general public. The problem is they are not the ones that will make TNA big. The way TNA will get bigger is to steal some of WWE fans and get some old wrestling fans who haven't watched in a while. When WCW was big you had Hogan & Co as the names but people (and by that i mean me and friends) tuned in to see Goldbergs Streak go on and on as well as guys like Jericho.

The problem is with TNA is they have too many "Big Names" and not enough excitment of rising stars. I mean even AJ has been around for ages. Where is the new blood in the World Title picture? Where is the TNA pureblood thats been on a fast rise that the fans really wanna get behind? No where. The MEM are a variation of the NWO, not that its a bad thing but its not fresh and new. It doesn't make me think "God this John Cena Match is boring, Lets see if *Insert Name* is wrestling on TNA".... I turned over for NWO & Goldberg, I don't care enough to turn to TNA.