The Wrestling Observer Newsletter report Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff pushed the idea of moving Impact out of Universal Studios as a necessary game changer. TNA President Dixie Carter had stated that the move out of Orlando put the future of the company at risk. But there has been no increase in revenue to offset the added expense, and ratings have actually declined.

Since leaving Universal Studios in Orlando, FL and taking Impact on the road, the cost of taping Impact skyrocketed to $600,000 per taping. The increased cost of taping Impact with no increase in ratings and revenue has caused the company significant financial problems.

Might as well move back to Disney World. Mickey Mouse would probably be more over than half the roster anyways.

My dad called it. They're going back to the iMPACT Zone pretty soon. The move to Monday nights didn't work, so they moved back to Thursday's. Now that TNA On The Road isn't working, they're moving back to the iMPACT Zone in Florida.

The Impact Zone is occupied.

It's closed temporarily.

What would make them think that simply moving on the road would increase ratings, even if they did they would need to improve quite some for it to cancel out the 600,000 dollar production cost.

So it's not just internet moaning, Hogan and Bischoff are literally killing TNA. That's good to know.

TNA really needs to stop worrying about trying to imitate the WWE product. For the past several years they've slowly eliminated the things that made them unique from the WWE, so now instead of being a slightly edgy alternative program, they're a C-list version of the main stream. Only the most loyal of TNA fans can maintain interest in a product like that.

Don't worry about retooling your ring, changing your timeslot or going on the road to crowds who don't know Samoa Joe from Samoa Jack. Focus on delivering quality product, build your ratings, save the costly changes for when you can afford them. Right now they can't even afford to pay their talent.

^ That.

If TNA isn't too focused on what the hell WWE is doing, and not try to ruin their originality over the 'competition', then maybe its current state would be the total opposite. A good original example would be the six-sided ring they had.

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^ That.

If TNA isn't too focused on what the hell WWE is doing, and not try to ruin their originality over the 'competition', then maybe its current state would be the total opposite. A good original example would be the six-sided ring they had.

That's what I was saying on another thread, I completely agree, they need to create there own image and not try to beat WWE.

Going on the road was TNA trying to get the causal wrestling fans to come to their show, to become fans of their product. That is where the money is. Going on the road isn't a bad thing, but TNA jump the gun too fast. They should slowly exit from the impact zone, Stay within the south east states. Show more fucking ads on TV more than once a day on TV networks, especially your own. When Hogan goes on the late night shows, he needs to talk about TNA, maybe bring one of the guys along, introduce him to the causal fan. Because if you ask a causal fan "Hey did you know Chris Sabin is the TNA World Champion." They will be like. "Who the fuck is Chris Sabin?"
Which brings me to another point...they Need a John Cena type star. As in a guy who can draw, get women go crazy over him, get the little kids to look up to him.

Appealing to the Hardcore fans will only get you so far "ROH"

And it doesn't fucking matter what the goddamn ring looks like. 4 side, 6 side, it shouldn't matter.

Bull wrote:

they Need a John Cena type star. As in a guy who can draw, get women go crazy over him, get the little kids to look up to him.

^this has "John Morrison" writen all over.

Didn't we already know this would happen?

They weren't doing too bad when they only did a handful of shows outside Florida.

Bull wrote:

And it doesn't fucking matter what the goddamn ring looks like. 4 side, 6 side, it shouldn't matter.

I'm not saying how many sides you have matters, I'm saying that the six-sided ring they had was original and they should've kept it, people actually liked it too.

If people like something, there is no need to change it. I can understand that the ring shouldn't matter to the product, but if the fans actually enjoy seeing it, then they shouldn't deny the fans what they want just because they think there is no reason because the question is then this, if there is no difference in if its six or four, why change it all of a sudden?

But overall, TNA is a very unprofessional company and I am a big fan of TNA. If you're a global wrestling company, you should not be making mistakes like a cheap indy company. They have people in management who don't know what they want to do and there are too many people trying to have a say in what goes on so you've got everyone trying to make their own little projects because there isn't a stable force to run things. That's where Dixie fails as President. She doesn't know wrestling, so she surrounds herself with people who supposedly do. But fact is, there's a reason those guys in the back aren't working for WWE. TNA hires ex-WWE people all the time in backstage positions, but ever thought that if they were doing such a good job, why they were fired. It'd be better just to get someone outside of wrestling but still knows how to handle business to do the same job better.

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It's closed temporarily.

No, it's occupied.