TNA admits secondary status by hiring WWE legends
Don’t get Mr. Mal wrong, I’m as big of a WWF, yellow-finger era fan as anyone who ever grew up in that era — but does TNA really get any sort of rub from signing a handful of WWE Legends for this Sunday’s Slammiversary PPV? Granted, Kamala, Koko B. Ware, Jake “The Snake” Roberts and George “The Animal” Steele are all fan favorites. No doubt the pop will be good in the arena, and well-deserved for that matter. To varying degrees, these four pro wrestlers defined the eras in which they formerly appeared. But those eras are not this era, and more importantly, their arena was not that of TNA.
For an organization eager to establish its own identity such as TNA, why do they continually look to plum the scraps of the WWE in hiring both current day cast-offs and yesteryear’s WWF Superstars? Immediately, people don’t think: “Man! This TNA is awesome!” Instead, the thought comes to mind that, “Man! The WWE sure used to be fun” rings more appropriate. TNA needs to continue to strive to be the anti-WWE. Forget hiring former WWF cartoon heroes to supposedly pump-up PPV buyrates — Mr. Mal dares to say this won’t increase sales by much (who would actually buy a PPV just to see a guest spot??). Concentrate on building your own stars, in your own fashion, your own way. Then again, when the angle these men are set to appear in is taken directly from the 90s WWF, I suppose that’s too much to expect. Sadly, pale imitation is just par for the course for TNA.
- Mr. Mal
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June 4th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
I can understand why they bring in the newly released WWE guys, these guys have mostly been on TV and casual WWE fans will know them.
But sadly they now have a reputation as WWE’s dole queue.
June 4th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Exactly, Dean. Mr. Mal understands the reasoning behind it, he just doesn’t think it does much in the long run.
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