What is it going to take TNA to do?

[Iron Man]

For almost a year now, TNA has been getting the same rating, 1.0, 1.1, and the same PPV buys from the same fans that have been watching since the start back in June 2002, or since they were on Spike T.V. They have tried alot of things to get more fans to watch, to get a higher rating, to get more PPV Buys, to finally be competition for WWE. Because lets face it, they are not Competition right now.

TNA has moved to a prime time slot, they have brought Sting in and it didn't help. They brought Christian Cage and it helped a little bit with PPV buy rates but not much ro say anything.Then everyone thought when they brought in Angle they would be getting higher rating and he did nothing. I think they got a point higher in rating this week but again nothing major. TNA has also had some dream matches for fans on Impact like AJ Styles vs. Kurt Angle, Kurt Angle vs. Sting. They also had some awesome matches with AJ and Joe and alot of others.

They are now trying to reduce the wrestling and do what WWE is doing and that is have more storylines and segments. That is not working either. They have had title changes on Impact and that did nothing. My question is what does TNA have to do do get more PPV Buy, to get Impact atleast to what Smackdown is doing in the 2.5 range. I guess the only thing I can think of is brining in someone huge like Hogan, Rock, Austin or brining in a huge talent currently working for WWE like Cena or Batista if and when there contract would expire but TNA wouldn't have the money for them.

Anyway, again what does TNA need to do to get a spike in there ratings and viewers. 2 Hour time slot? Bigger Names? More Wrestling? More Storylines?

[Deleted]

Bigger Names? More Wrestling? More Storylines?.

And RVD vs AJ Styles BFG imo.

[deskjet]

2 hour time slot. and develop more homegrown talent...more people will tune in to see something different rather than to see the same thing. I dont know, i like the show...part of it is the interent too...so much of the surprise factor is gone now in wrestling...there's alot alot of things that are outta there control, but they need to keep making the product distinguishable...fans are pretty fickle so you wont please everyone

[xshawnxwilliamsx]

Well first off, they need to stop booking the talentless wrestlers that they sign in order to "gain ratings". Examples: Scott Steiner, Tomko, Robert Rhoode, VKM, Team 3-D, Bashams etc.

They book all those guys every single damn week all over the card...and totally leave out their real and pretty much only talent which is the X-Division guys. The guys who put TNA on the map...and they just use them as show-fillers if you will.

They need to get rid of all these crap wrestlers that USED to be good back in the day, or just flatout suck like Rhoode and never were good no matter what day of the week it was.

They need to maybe get some storylines going that don't take away from the ammount of time they let people do matches...because for instance last week on IMPACT they gave Joe/Lethal/Sabin only 4 minutes for their match which is complete crap.

I don't really care about TNA at this point, I've gaven up all hope for them to get better at this status. I'm just glad the real talent they currently have is trying to get out of their contract like Low Ki and then we had Austin Aries who left last week.

If TNA continues to keep the X-Division as show-fillers I'm sure they will just keep losing more talent and their shows will just keep getting worse with them booking those talentless wrestlers.

[MX5]

Use the X-Division guys, its why I started liking TNA years ago. They stopped using them correctly, and hey I lost interest and haven't watch iMPACT in like two or three months.

[Rant Casey]

mxtreme5 said:

Use the X-Division guys, its why I started liking TNA years ago. They stopped using them correctly, and hey I lost interest and haven't watch iMPACT in like two or three months.

I got to agree, The X-Division gave us stuff we did not get from the WWE, now TNA has turned into a crapty version of the WWE with a couple of bright spots every now and then.

[comebackkid]

Push new talent, not WWE stale crap

[King Shocker the Monumentous]

To be honest, they can't be real "competition" unless they air opposite a WWE show more than once a year.

See, at least WSX was competition, albeit not very good competition, because you were forced to choose between them and the second half of ECW.

[taihyll]

It was proven names wont do craaaap. They just need to strat acting like there is no competition and do what they do instead of trying to race with WWE

[Cammi Oh]

They need to focus on what makes them "Different" than WWE.

[taihyll]

Exactly and that doesnt mean upsidedown everything matches.

They nee dto focus on there own guys and let the x division loose like it once was.