How is tna still in business

Corgan would pursue legal action to deal with all the money TNA owed him, and eventually reach a settlement. Therefore, by Spring the company had been renamed Impact Wrestling to match the name of its flagship program. Somewhat ironically, it was also during this time that Jeff Jarrett would be brought back into the fold, resulting in another albeit brief name change. The idea was to create, as the name would suggest, a genuine global wrestling brand, with international broadcasting deals and working partnerships with promotions in Japan and Mexico.

Even TNA's harshest critics will admit the roster is packed full of talented wrestlers who deserve better than the hands they have been dealt during all of the company's internal issues.

Being fired from WWE didn't used to be a huge deal because WCW would almost always be willing to hire anyone with name recognition, but those days ended in A few years passed where WWE Superstars had almost no options other than wrestling for peanuts in a high school gymnasium, but TNA changed all that.

Some of these people did so well in TNA that WWE chose to rehire them, and a few of them did even better during their second runs than they did in their first. The past few years have seen more promotions secure TV deals, meaning there are even more options for wrestlers once their careers in WWE come to an end, but for a long time, TNA was the only viable option to make good money.

Wrestling fans are a lot more fickle than the average sports fan for many reasons. We aren't simply hoping for one team to win. We are following the careers of many individual talents while also following an entire company. Because wrestling is scripted, fans might become bored with the product, even if their favorite Superstars are in prominent positions.

Keep in mind, this is all speculation and rumors at this point. TNA has long been considered the second-biggest wrestling promotion in the United States, but the company has never actually come close to being real competition for Vince McMahon and Co. There were times when TNA seemed to be on the rise, but despite employing some of the best wrestlers in the world, it never offered as much of an obstacle for WWE as WCW did at the turn of the century. Filming every episode in the same location helped save on expenses and allowed talents to stay in one place without having the hectic travel schedule that WWE Superstars have to deal with.

However, this also kept the company from building the kind of nationwide fanbase it was looking to create, because people are less likely to invest in a promotion if they can't see it live outside of Florida. TNA eventually started touring more often, but it was too late to salvage what was already a sinking ship.

The company ended up returning to Universal Studios in , which is where it has stayed ever since. If any company hopes to compete with WWE, it has to visit every state so people can see their favorite Superstars live, and TNA just didn't have the budget to sustain such a costly expense.

TNA can house a thousand fans at most in the studio, while WWE can fit several thousand more into every arena it visits. A smaller crowd can seem more intimate, but only hardcore fans actually care about that. Casual fans relate the size of a crowd to the popularity of the product.

When TNA first started touring the country, it had a few big crowds, but the numbers eventually dropped to the point where the company could no longer justify renting out big arenas. When it comes to pro wrestling and live sports in general, no company in the world can match WWE's production value. Every little detail is covered by someone on the staff of over people who make the show possible.

WCW only showed a profit for two years of its entire existence, and those profits were wiped out almost instantly when the company started going downhill. WWE is the exception, not the rule, and it took ruthless business practices, getting into the PPV market before anyone else knew how lucrative it was going to be, and about sixteen other factors, including an incredible amount of luck, to get to where it is today. And when Dixie Carter was suddenly forced to make her vanity side project profitable on its own, the fact that the company actually had no real ways to make any money became a huge issue.

And when TNA tried to run live events outside of the Impact Zone, they booked arenas far too large to fill with their actual fanbase, making the shows money losers instead of revenue generators. To be fair, their international shows actually did quite well, but those were only a handful of events every year. Unfortunately, those same people were regularly driven away by a single factor that scuttled every single attempt at a deal: Dixie Carter. The problem was, any sale of TNA always came with a caveat that would see Carter retain a role in the company, and given that her actions had regularly put the company into bad financial positions, anyone attempting to buy the company almost certainly did not want her having input into how it was run.

In addition, Carter had transitioned into an on-screen role that she reportedly did not want to give up without a fight. However, rather than stay small, develop their own homegrown talent along with a mix of veterans from WWE and the independent scene, create a loyal fanbase in a dedicated territory, and absorb some early losses in what would be a long and difficult journey towards even moderate success, TNA tried to have everything right away.

Unfortunately, everyone makes mistakes. Stephen Randle is an avid wrestling and film fan.