thats pretty sad...............however the population total of Hot Springs is 35k so i think they were expecting low attendance. It sucks cause TNA throws great house shows from what I have heard. I wish they did a live event in Las Vegas I know I would go.
E would still at least draw 1k. I think there may have been more TNA employees at the event that fans.
E is also a more well known company that has more well known stars. It has been around 5 times as long as TNA as well. Now don't get me wrong those numbers are rather terrible and the lowest I have ever seen TNA get for a house show.
Live TV tapings in arenas. They know what markets are hot for them, bounce around them on TV already. They still have some decent turnouts are other events.
I'm actually kinda surprised that they're having their big PPV of the year on the west coast. But then again, they went out of their element last when they had BFG in Philly last year.
This. They need to leave that dump of an arena in Florida and take Impact on the road each week. I think they're worried about this happening at a live TV taping.
No crap but any smart corporation always puts an escape clause in a contract. Of course no part of TNA is smart but I can't imagine someone in that organization being dumb enough not to add some sort of escape. They need out of that crap hole is they want to be taken any kind of serious.
Universal pays them to have impact there. You bail on the Universal contract and you go on the road and it flops guess what you cant tuck your tail and go back to the people you back stabbed. TNA viewership in US may be somewhat down but its basically up everywhere else and they just announced TNA’s “IMPACT WRESTLING†has begun broadcasting on the popular FX Middle East channel at 10:30pm every Tuesday (local time.) The show is now seen in Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, the Palestinian territories, Qatar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, Yemen, Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Mauritania and Somalia. Do you know anything about business? It is much better for a smaller company like TNA to stay in a guaranteed spot where they are guaranteed a TV spot(SPIKE also pays for part of Sting and Hogans contracts) and an arena that will be full(tourist or not) rather then take a huge risk that will cost quite a bit of money to go on the road with no guarantee that that would be successful. Like I mentioned earlier you backstab Universal and they wont want them back. So the choice becomes go on the road with very limited potential growth and possible business failure or stay with a sure thing that brings you in revenue? Which do you choose if you are the owner of the company. The choice is simple. They are still growing and expanding you have to remember TNA is still a new company. They are only 10 years old and they don't have the name recognition that WWE has. TNA is almost always going to be hanging around a 1.0 rating with spikes on both sides. Smackdown will almost always be a consistant 1.8 rating and Raw will be around a 3 rating. Thats how its been for years and no matter how good of a show TNA puts on its growth is very limited due to the casual fans who do not really know about TNA. The only thing that could cause a huge change in ratings would be John Cena or CM Punk joining TNA other then that no one will give them a big jump in ratings. You do know that TNA has more viewers each week in england then Raw and Smackdown(Sometimes higher then both combined) TNA booked Ra Ka King which was getting 10m+ a week with TNA stars. TNA is not the so called "stupid" company you are depicting. They are here to stay they signed a 3 year contract with Spike and they have a guaranteed contract with
