WWE placing bids to buy out TNA?

[dh86]

Spike got out of the wrestling business and doubled down on combat sports and signed a PBC deal.
You don't think maybe Spike was shifting away from wrestling?
On top of that, how is TNA cancelled or fired when the contract runs out. If they knew what they were talking about they would have reported that Spike would not renew contract, not cancel the broadcast, two different things.

That didnt answer my question. Why was Vince Russo a secret writer? As proven by the email to Mike Johnson

 

[David_TheMan]

That didnt answer my question. Why was Vince Russo a secret writer? As proven by the email to Mike Johnson

You don't have a question to answer.
If I said Russo wasn't a writer or wasn't affliated with them you might have a point though.
Sadly for you, Russo working with TNA secretly or whatever wasn't my point, my point was that TNA wasn't cancelled because of Russo.
The contract was allowed to end and they moved onto something else as a network.

 

[DoubleJ13]

Corgan should honestly just start talking with the TV companies about keeping those slots & start fresh under a different name & sell off everything else. The TNA name doesn't have that kind of value to anybody but WWE at this point anyway

If he could keep his TV slots & the roster didn't get completely gutted (which with how TNA contracts are supposedly set up I doubt would happen) it ain't like it would matter.

 

[dh86]

You don't have a question to answer.
If I said Russo wasn't a writer or wasn't affliated with them you might have a point though.
Sadly for you, Russo working with TNA secretly or whatever wasn't my point, my point was that TNA wasn't cancelled because of Russo.
The contract was allowed to end and they moved onto something else as a network.

It's exactly my point, though. Vince Russo wrote for TNA for years and years. Why, in 2014 after a retirement, come back as a ghostwriter and Impact cancelled right after its reveal if not for the reasons stated by Meltzer? Note Mike Johnson from pwinsider reported the same thing.

 

[dh86]

Spike got out of the wrestling business and doubled down on combat sports and signed a PBC deal.
You don't think maybe Spike was shifting away from wrestling?
On top of that, how is TNA cancelled or fired when the contract runs out. If they knew what they were talking about they would have reported that Spike would not renew contract, not cancel the broadcast, two different things.

Wrestling could've worked in synergy with Bellator mma, Bellator kickboxing & PBC. Not TNA bullshyt though

 

[David_TheMan]

It's exactly my point, though. Vince Russo wrote for TNA for years and years. Why, in 2014 after a retirement, come back as a ghostwriter and Impact cancelled right after its reveal if not for the reasons stated by Meltzer? Note Mike Johnson from pwinsider reported the same thing.

What does your point have to do with what I've said though, nothing.
Impact wasn't cancelled.
Yet a lot of folks still think that because you don't really do anything but go with the BS Meltzer puts out.

Wrestling could've worked in synergy with Bellator mma, Bellator kickboxing & PBC. Not TNA bullshyt though

If you feel that way fine, from action we see that Spike doesn't, which is why they haven't persued TNA, a broadcast deal with RoH, and etc.
They have shown as a network they are not interested in pro-wrestling.

 

[Vinny Lupton]

Thats pretty much primarily due to the TV contract and secondarily due to UFC fukking its fighters. Vince lost longterm when transitioning Professional Wrestling from Sport to Entertainment as the big ticket advertisers doesnt want to associate itself with a joke.

Yeah, a 30-sec ad on Raw is $10K, UFC is $75k for the same 30 seconds. There's a reason USA Network used to throw WWE to the bushes for those Dog Shows - WWE ad rates are trash because WWE fans are seen as poor/cheap and low-class, which they are. USA made more money running ads ona low-rated Dog Show than when RAW was actually doing good ratings. Look how many people are in TSC tyring to get free streams of WWE PPV's when the WWE PPV is $10 a month, or they sign up for the free trial on 12 different accounts. Meanwhile UFC just did 1.65million buys at $60+ for UFC202

 

[trick]

Thats pretty much primarily due to the TV contract and secondarily due to UFC fukking its fighters. Vince lost longterm when transitioning Professional Wrestling from Sport to Entertainment as the big ticket advertisers doesnt want to associate itself with a joke.

Could you imagine if Vince actually listened to Shane and bought PRIDE or Strikeforce? Holy shyt, they'd have almost all of UFC's recent champions except for the guys at 145 and lower and Vince would've had another billion dollar empire

 

[TheGreatShowtime]

They probably just want to secure the video library for guys like AJ Styles and Samoa Joe

 

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

Even if ROH buys TNA, Moose and Lashley would be jobbed out immediately

Viacom owns PopTV right? Maybe they can finally buy TNA for less money 5 years later after their initial offer

Your thinking of spike. Viacom owns spike

 

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

No its not. ROH is on national television and has numerous international avenues for exposure, especially in Japan right now.

Just look at how many former TNA stars are in ROH prospering right now because they couldn't afford to keep them. TNA can't even draw a few hundred people at the moment.

ROH is not on national tv

 

[Jello Biafra]

It always amazes me how deeply some dudes have Vince McMahon's dikk in their mouths when they start rooting for other companies to die as if another company's existence effects them or their precious WWE in any way.

Also as long as this quote is true then I don't see anyone with intentions of killing the company just to score the tape library ever putting up a winning bid:

A complicated ownership structure also poses challenges in getting every stakeholder on the same page. In addition to majority owner and Chairwoman Dixie Carter, Corgan, Aroluxe Marketing and Canada’s Fight Network all have equity stakes.

 

[Dreamzeedream]

They would keep The Hardys, Moose, Lashley. That's it. Maybe send a few of the smaller guys to NXT.

They just want that video library.

Nah Jeff is going to continue is Main event run... Lashle would be pushed something like Brock until he faces brock

 

[mrken12]

Nah Jeff is going to continue is Main event run... Lashle would be pushed something like Brock until he faces brock

You know that's not happening.

 

[StatUS]

So much false information in here