Reply With QuoteThe new booker should be Sydney Steele Starr aka TeamFarrell. Then he should buy the booking team a giant calender so they remember it is 2010.
It is being said that TNA has there story lines written out all the way to bound for glory in october. Supposidly that is when Vince Russo will be leaving and a new booker will be coming in. (Possibly Paul Heyman) Who do you think it will be or should be and what do you think the booking deparment needs to do to get TNA back on track.
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The new booker should be Sydney Steele Starr aka TeamFarrell. Then he should buy the booking team a giant calender so they remember it is 2010.
Last edited by Mr Bitches; 08-16-2010 at 05:08 PM. Reason: i trusted twitter to tell me TF's name and was duped
its not gonna be heyman. Heyman said in his interview acouple of hours ago that TNA is not ready for him.
Me.
I'll bring in a bunch of other guys from around here, Brill, Coach and whoever and we'll run that shit. Complete and total control though or no deal.
My vagina has two sets of lips
But I don't get monthly blood drips
My vagina hardly even used
My vagina's got lots of extra skin
They took my outtie and made it an in
Changing Donnie to Marie Osmond
Operation successfull
But now I gotta pee
Through a miniature hole
Gotta remember to put the seat down
And when I wipe my ass
I go from front to back
Cause I don't want a bladder infection
And we'll do it cheaper than Heyman. Well, slightly...
Heyman on TNA, ""They're not ready for me, they're not there yet." Stated 40+ yr olds wouldn't be happy either, "If you're over 40, I'd chop your f---ing head off.."Originally Posted by RexaR
All black e'rything fliying fucking escalade
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He's said that a couple times, about the 40 year olds. He's more generous than I. I'd cut 'em off at thirtyfive, save a couple for vets/agents.
My vagina has two sets of lips
But I don't get monthly blood drips
My vagina hardly even used
My vagina's got lots of extra skin
They took my outtie and made it an in
Changing Donnie to Marie Osmond
Operation successfull
But now I gotta pee
Through a miniature hole
Gotta remember to put the seat down
And when I wipe my ass
I go from front to back
Cause I don't want a bladder infection
Damn Paul, tell us how you REALLY feel!
I'd do it for free...
I like the idea of Tommy Dreamer being on board with TNA's creative direction. Maybe not full control or head booker, but definitely giving his thoughts and opinions of the company and where it should go. Raven as well. Paul Heyman would be a dream come true, though I doubt it would happen. The more and more I see of TNA, the more and more I think that Dixie Carter is actually a liability to the creative direction of the team. She seems to be one of those overly involved sports owners who is always trying to meddle with the actual on the field product. The job of a sports owner should be to hire the General Manager and then make sure that he or she is moving your team and organization in a positive direction (ie positive income, improved personnel on the field and throughout the organization, more wins). TNA seems to be a company that is being pulled in a multitude of different directions and each faction has a conflicting interest. You've got Dixie who want to ultimately make money for her family. Hogan and Bischoff who want to prove they can do it again. Jeff Jarrett because he and pops were "the founders" and he can't go back to WWE. And then there are all the wrestlers who have to be appeased.
Don't get me wrong, I watch TNA and often enjoy it (thought sometimes it does serve as background imaging/noise while surfing the net), but when you've got all these forces pulling in different directions you don't have an effective company. TNA needs a definitive and strong leader (aka General Manager, Head Booker, what have you) who makes the decisions, hires and fires, and is "the Buck Stops Here" man for the company. After that, everyone else needs to know their role and perform that role. Whether that means they are a main eventer, mid carder, curtain jerker, camera man, or whatever... Just do your job and help make the company and hence the product better. Surprisingly, I actually think that the recent EC2.0 deal has shown what it looks like to put the collective goals ahead of the individual goals.
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Duce.
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Thank's sean I would love to be head of creative.
Duce who is the TNA offices leaning towards besides Heyman?
If there is one thing we have learned, it is that just because Heyman says something like "TNA is not ready for me" does not mean he would not or is not coming in. For all we know he could already have a deal in place that's being kept hush. What better way to make one believe he won't be coming in then to make comments like the ones he made.
Right now I would put the chances that he does come in as quite slim but I wouldn't write the idea off just yet.
To be honest I truly think it will be heyman, I think his little interview was all smoke and mirrors, All of us know the new booker is coming in at bound for glory, Also at one point we where getting ideas from paul but then it surfaced on the net and that all got hush hush really quick. I truly think it will be him 100% but if it isnt for some reason I think it will be one of two things. The first and most likely is Tommy Dreamer and Bubba ray will take over in a interm role until they get somebody full time. Right now they are doing a lot of work helping and tweaking vince russos ideas. Lately he just doesn't give a shit and know's he is out in october so he just looks dejected and pissed off and doesn't care and as you can see by the product going out on air it shows. So a lot of his ideas are being worked over by Tommy and Bubba Ray. I also heard something the other week when we where in tappings at universal that was a little weird. I wont go into the exacts of who was having the conversation or what proceded this statment but here goes "If this fall's through we need a back up" long story short it went into a conversation about rumblings of a firing at rign of honor and that Adam Pearce might be getting the ax. I don't know but I would say that maybe they knew something already and maybe were trying to talk to him are they where going to talk to him if he got fired. I don't know the exacts of the end of the conversation but I think paul heyman is coming in but if he doesn't then they might be looking at this Adam Pearce guy as a back up maybe if things don't go throught with heyman for some reason. But like I said in the beging I think it is heyman because Spike T.V. has been helping TNA in the negotiation talks with him and I don't think they would step in unless they where truly serious about it.
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im not so sure about paul heyman being booker. yeah, the man is one of the best ever id say, but that was still a decade ago. bischoff was at one point a mastermind of wrestling to if you recall, and these days that is all but a distant memory. just because heyman was great in the past doesn't mean that he will be again. TNA should go after someone who hasn't yet had big time experience in a major organization, someone who is fresh and who can bring NEW ideas to the table. all these established guys have just brought back old ideas to the table, bring in someone new.
what is gabe sapolsky doing these days? why not get him as booker? why not get adam pearce, who was just fired as roh's booker? from what i hear both of those guys did a pretty good job, maybe they can bring something to TNA.
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Gabe is running EVOLVE right now.
Noc, you rule.
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Well like I said in my post if Paul doesn't come in I belive they are looking at adam pearce, but if it is adam and not paul he better change things and fast becasue If it is not paul heyman they are not going to be giving him a lot of time. TNA is in talks with spike t.v. about A LOT of things in the works right now and if rattings don't pick up where all fucked! I know if Paul Heyman comes in they will give him some leway with the ratings and give him some time because of his name recognition and his crediblity with UFC sence Spike is so in bed with them. If anyone other than paul comes in I think they will be given a ticking clock and will need to get results pronto because if not Spike may pull out on there talk's with TNA regarding another show and the live pay per views on spike t.v. . I just hope to GOD that it is Paul because if not I think we are truly FUCKED!
^i really dont see how TNA is completely screwed here if heyman doesn't show. like i said in my post earlier, heyman was great in the 90s, but that was the 90s. alot of things that were great in the 90s have been recycled by TNA and haven't worked out at all. now if what you say is true about spike pulling the plug on TNA if they cant get a big name like heyman, then by all means they should go after him as hard as they can. but they aren't screwed if they dont get him. spike has seen whats gone on there w TNA the past 5 years and knows just as well as all of us that no one established has made TNA big yet. so if they cannot get heyman, why not go out and get a new, fresh face like WCW did back in the 90s w bischoff and start new?
of course, if you are correct about everything you said regarding another show and live ppvs, this was pointless then lol
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Cult I am just saying Spike LOVES Heyman and would bring credibility and hopefully rattings, (Hulk Hogan and Eric Bishoff where suppose to be doing this but as you can see that didn't happen) I guess what I am trying to say it that if he comes spike will give us more time when it comes to getting rattings because A. They have faith in Paul especially with his work with brock in the UFC (Spike T.V.'s cash cow) so they will give him more time and B. The splash that him coming back to the world of profesional wrestling would make would be huge and Spike T.V. knows it. I am just saying if anyone besides him comes in they will have about and this is a very liberal estimate 3 months to change things and get the ratings back or Spike T.V. walks on these talks. That's just my feeling but i don't think I am that far off base.
^if that is the case, then they should go after heyman as hard as they can and hope that he can relive the 90s. my only point/concern is that a lot of ppl thought hogan and bischoff could relive the 90s and couldn't. im not so sure heyman wont do the same
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No way TNA is looking at Pearce.
All black e'rything fliying fucking escalade
-Team Sleep-
I think it should be an unknown. Part of the problem in TNA right now is that there are too many big egos that have to do things "their" way. Bring in just a solid writer/booker that isn't a big name, and maybe things will start to be straightened out.
Cult I am right there with you on that one man I don't know if he will be able to get back the ratings and the buzz like he had with ECW, I truly hope he can and I hope he can stear this ship back in the right direction but right now I feel like he is the only person who can truly pull it off. The bigest reason I fell this way is because besides brining in wisdom and experance I think he has some fresh ideas, also he has so many mma conections I am sure he will bring in and crosspromote UFC with TNA and vice versu, but the biggest thing he will bring in with him is time because spike will give him that If it's anyone else they won't.
^i am perplexed that they wouldn't give someone else more time though. whoever gets the job is going to need a great deal of time to turn this around here, including heyman. my opinion has been, as i posted in the wolfpack thread, to get rid of all the older guys from ecw/wcw/wwe (w the exception of nash, who has mic skills to be a mouthpiece/manager, anderson, whose style fits TNA better than wwe, and pope), get some indy guys, bring back chris daniels, keep samoa joe, then go from there building around styles. now if i were TNA, why not just get the new booker now and start putting that plan in for after BFG? that way, the older guys can be phased out after that and the new regime can take over? that would solve the problem of not giving someone more time
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I hope RVD means more TV time for younger TNA originals and world title for one of them and old hacks getting the fuck out of TNA.
Ratings? Heyman's ECW was on friday nights on tnn, and the ratings were awful. The wrestlers that worked under Heyman had more to do with the success of ECW then he did, and at the same time he had more to do wiht the failures of ECW then the wrestlers. It was the wrestlers that came up with most of the ideas for th storylines etc.
Here's a name for a booker: Raven.
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Does anyone in TNA even know who Pearce fucking is?
Oh noooo, don't stick your foot in there, guys.
You tried that, once before and you know it didn't turn out right.!
I think part of that problem is that Vince Russo is still around acting like he owns the place, I think bringing in anyone know would just be a bad idea. Vince is going to be around and I belive helping jeff jarret with house show booking so having anyone coming in early would just piss Vince off and to add to matters probably lead to bad blood and leave a bad taste in both the new person are vince russo's mouth. Personaly I think Paul Heyman is already on contract with us, he was giving creative ideas and then once it leaked on the internet those calls "dried up" I think personaly he is still giving them ideas so I think me and you's conversation is tottaly a mute point. But love the debate as always.
Well Terry I know Raven has been in creative meeting so who know's he may just be listening in or he maybe gving ideas but just being allowed in those meetings at all is a big deal so who knows. But I do know TNA knows who Adam Pearce is because I heard his name brought up a couple of times at the last tapings at Universal so yes that at least know who he is.
I wouldn't. But at the same time, it's not just booking. It's the whole TNA business model and leadership.
TNA needs more than a competent booker. They need people who know how to create a positive and functioning media environment, not people who want to keep TNA as an independent wrestling company. They need strong financial planning, long term assest management, they need to learn how to exploit the market, exploit the strong qualities of performers while strengthening their weaknesses, they need a quality production crew for tv and live events, and then maybe they'll be posistion to create a worthwhile product that can be profitable.
Duce.
Please, knock off the working for tna gimmick. I know more about you then you think.
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oooooo, cryptical.
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I know right Mr. Chop. By the way congradulations on joke of the day.
See Terry there, that guy up there, he runs the site. I'd listen to him, drop the "I work for TNA" schtick.
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This is TNA's problem, they think that they themselves aren't good enough. Whether it's their booker or their workers, the grass is always greener on the other side. They put RVD over AJ Styles, Kurt Angle over Samoa Joe, and are constantly thinking that there is someone out there that is better, and when he is brought in they will finally succeed. So they've booked only the immediate, hardly ever the long term, with the hope that their flavor-of-the-month will come in and he will be single-handedly turn everything around. The thing is, guys like Heyman and Bischoff were successful in their time period. If Bischoff was up-to-date, he'd still work for the 'E. These guys knew how to work a crowd then because they were capable of producing fresh new ideas, because they were new. They can't recreate that today however, because they use the same style they did back then because they are familiar with it.
TNA needs to rely on someone who can be TNA as opposed to Ex-ECW or Ex-WCW etc. They need to rely on guys like AJ Styles and Samoa Joe because these are the guys that present a newer product. They need a booker who hasn't booked before to book a new vision if TNA wants to be a new alternative. That's going to sound crazy, and it will see its faults early on, but it's the only way for TNA to become a true alternative, as opposed to a rehashed commemoration to the past generation.
heh.
I think Paul has proven himself to be a great modern booker because of his work in Smackdown. I don't think there will be a problem in him reliving the 90s.
Screw it. I've had enough.
You don't work for TNA. You work for an insurance company in winter haven Florida as a receptionist. In fact 2 of the co owners/agents are related to you.
Anyways. If you've read Lance Storms comments about TNA then maybe he should be the new booker.
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