What are some of the things WWE can learn from TNA?

[cero2k]

Just like the title says, what are some things that WWE could learn from TNA.

NOT HIRE HOGAN, DON'T HAVE DIXIE, BLAH BLAH ECW NOSTALGIA, ok, now that all the 2009 jokes are out of the way,

what are your opinions?

[Big Red Machine]

Hire Scott D'Amore as booker.

[Bob-O]

Good question! While, like you said, it'd be easy to look at this from a "don't do this, don't do that..." standpoint, TNA has done a lot of things RIGHT (in my opinion) that have been overshadowed by bad management or flat out not known about due to lack of awareness.

WWE could greatly benefit by...

-Don't just tell us you're an "International Company" broadcasting in 85 languages and blah blah blah, ACT like it! International tours seem like such an afterthought to them. They're hardly ever mentioned on the air, and why would they be? They're house shows. When was the last time ANYTHING significant happened off of American soil? They've even left Canada out in the cold in recent years. TNA makes a big freaking deal out of their travels to Japan, to England, and whatnot. They don't have to remind us before each broadcast that they're a worldwide competitor, because they incorporate that into their product. They tape shows in Japan and England, they make the American fans take the backseat once in a while, and THAT'S A GOOD THING! We want things we can't have, and more-so, there's an appeal to being a part of something bigger.

Maybe instead of dragging their feet on The Network (because why would we want other countries to have easy access to the product), and B-Grade House Shows (because we NEED CENA HERE DAMMIT!!!), they actually promote international shows HERE! TELL us what we're missing! TALK about how over Justin Gabriel is in South Africa, SHOW US the kind of crazy support Rusev has abroad, I want to see a Japanese arena going apeshit for KENTA in a WWE ring.

WWE has such an opportunity in this department with The Network. Whenever they do their international tours, they should be talking about what's going on. Daily Network Updates about what we're missing, THEEEEEEEN.... stream the last show of the tour. It doesn't even have to be budget straining! You're going live from Japan at 4:00am EST, I expect a shitty stream! I don't expect JBL and Cole to be calling the matches! I don't even expect a fancy set! But it's going to be one of those perks to the network I tell all my friends about...

[Big Red Machine]

Daily Network Updates about what we're missing

I've been thinking about this, and not just for internatonal tours. If you have a news sho that tell us that someone picked up wins on the weekend house show loop, then the guy getting an undercard title shot on Raw seems justified all of a sudden.


I definitely agree with everything else you said (ESPECIALLY the KENTA thing), but this one stuck out to me.

[cero2k]

Daily Network Updates about what we're missing

I've been thinking about this, and not just for internatonal tours. If you have a news sho that tell us that someone picked up wins on the weekend house show loop, then the guy getting an undercard title shot on Raw seems justified all of a sudden.


I definitely agree with everything else you said (ESPECIALLY the KENTA thing), but this one stuck out to me.

i think this would end up hurting a bit more than helping. They usually run the same card over and over again, sometimes testing out the feuds, turns, and matches before they happen at cannon. It would be cool for the network to run small news segments like MTV used to do MTV News and mention small things like 'WWE was at such and such with a huge crowd blah blah"

[Big Red Machine]

Daily Network Updates about what we're missing

I've been thinking about this, and not just for internatonal tours. If you have a news sho that tell us that someone picked up wins on the weekend house show loop, then the guy getting an undercard title shot on Raw seems justified all of a sudden.


I definitely agree with everything else you said (ESPECIALLY the KENTA thing), but this one stuck out to me.

i think this would end up hurting a bit more than helping. They usually run the same card over and over again, sometimes testing out the feuds, turns, and matches before they happen at cannon. It would be cool for the network to run small news segments like MTV used to do MTV News and mention small things like 'WWE was at such and such with a huge crowd blah blah"

That would work a lot better.

[Bob-O]

i think this would end up hurting a bit more than helping. They usually run the same card over and over again, sometimes testing out the feuds, turns, and matches before they happen at cannon. It would be cool for the network to run small news segments like MTV used to do MTV News and mention small things like 'WWE was at such and such with a huge crowd blah blah"

But then they're not learning anything from TNA. Save the testing for your domestic house shows and take your product, your FINISHED product overseas! When the NFL holds games in London, they don't roll their eyes and treat it like some sort of formality their fans won't care about. They don't send the practice squad or the backups! No! They hype a real goddamn football game just like we watch. They hype it for weeks, and you'd better be up at 9:30am if you want to watch it live (or earlier out west), then show clips and replys all day in case you missed it! That's what I feel like TNA tries to do within their means, and can only imagine how awesome it could be if WWE took it a little more seriously! I'm not saying EVERY show, but one from each tour would do.

Its the missing piece to how to get the most out of guys like Sin Cara, Wade Barrett, Cesaro, Justin Gabriel... guys like KENTA and Prince Devitt that (sorry guys) WWE won't know what to do with. WWE doesn't do so well with guys that look a little different or talk funny. They see comedic opportunity instead of international goldmine.

A lesson from TNA would change everything!

EDIT: I realize now you guys are talking about Network Updates from domestic house shows... Haha, yes, that would be cool too.

[Big Red Machine]

i think this would end up hurting a bit more than helping. They usually run the same card over and over again, sometimes testing out the feuds, turns, and matches before they happen at cannon. It would be cool for the network to run small news segments like MTV used to do MTV News and mention small things like 'WWE was at such and such with a huge crowd blah blah"

But then they're not learning anything from TNA. Save the testing for your domestic house shows and take your product, your FINISHED product overseas! When the NFL holds games in London, they don't roll their eyes and treat it like some sort of formality their fans won't care about. They don't send the practice squad or the backups! No! They hype a real goddamn football game just like we watch. They hype it for weeks, and you'd better be up at 9:30am if you want to watch it live (or earlier out west), then show clips and replys all day in case you missed it! That's what I feel like TNA tries to do within their means, and can only imagine how awesome it could be if WWE took it a little more seriously! I'm not saying EVERY show, but one from each tour would do.

Its the missing piece to how to get the most out of guys like Sin Cara, Wade Barrett, Cesaro, Justin Gabriel... guys like KENTA and Prince Devitt that (sorry guys) WWE won't know what to do with. WWE doesn't do so well with guys that look a little different or talk funny. They see comedic opportunity instead of international goldmine.

A lesson from TNA would change everything!

I don't think that "funny accents" are WWE's problem with any of the guys you listed. It's the same reason that other guys hit whatever their ceiling is: WWE doesn't want to spend the time to come up with a real idea for them.