TNA's Identity
"Ok, over the past year I've come across people who love to rant on TNA being like ECW or WCW. They've come to these disoriented views on which is which and skewed visions of what they read on message boards. What comes up freaquently is the calling TNA a ECW want a be or another WCW. Which also leads to the question of TNA's indentity.
Now for one thing TNA is not ECW, that's a fact. It's not trying to be like ECW that's another fact. It stuns me when I read around that TNA is trying to be like ECW, or the fans are trying to be like ECW fans. When all it comes to is that TNA is just a company who shares simaliar characteristics with the other company and the fans who chant do too. They're not trying to be like ECW fans just becuase they chant this is awsome, or becuase they have the dueling chants. It's something that fans share universly and isn't just trademarked by ECW. Another thing, people love to bring up how TNA has no rules(which leads to them being called an ECW knockoff). First they have rules, second they have these brawls so their heavyweight division can seem more interesting; yet people want to call that knocking off ECW. What TNA is, is not ECW.
Now for the WCW act alike comments. Why is it that people call TNA the new WCW? Not in a positive way neither. It's getting pretty annoying when people are calling it the new WCW with negative intensions just because they have superstars from teh old WCW days. What strikes me crazy is that people don't seem to bring up the WWE and how their talent is from other places but that's something to bring up in another discussion. TNA does have alot of competiters from teh old atitude era who's from WCW but there's no way you can call it the old WCW for that reason. The people are there because for the power of pulling ratings and well puting over younger talent. Then the nagging of JJ. You can't get passed that because he owns the company but it's still fair to say that he's TNA now and not WCW. Now isn't that were the negative comparisons end?
Now finaly. Who's TNA. What identity does it have for themselves? Will it be remembered as an/a ECW/WCW knock off or the wrestling company setting new standards for wrestling? So if TNA isn't a knock off what's it identity?
So basicly I think it's not a knock off but they still haven't built a pure identity to base themselves on at the moment. So what do you guys think about the whole TNA's Identity statement?" -Storm (great post)
I got this topic from Bustedquad.com. I thought it would be great to discuss on these boards.
"Ok, over the past year I've come across people who love to rant on TNA being like ECW or WCW. They've come to these disoriented views on which is which and skewed visions of what they read on message boards. What comes up freaquently is the calling TNA a ECW want a be or another WCW. Which also leads to the question of TNA's indentity.
Now for one thing TNA is not ECW, that's a fact. It's not trying to be like ECW that's another fact. It stuns me when I read around that TNA is trying to be like ECW, or the fans are trying to be like ECW fans. When all it comes to is that TNA is just a company who shares simaliar characteristics with the other company and the fans who chant do too. They're not trying to be like ECW fans just becuase they chant this is awsome, or becuase they have the dueling chants. It's something that fans share universly and isn't just trademarked by ECW. Another thing, people love to bring up how TNA has no rules(which leads to them being called an ECW knockoff). First they have rules, second they have these brawls so their heavyweight division can seem more interesting; yet people want to call that knocking off ECW. What TNA is, is not ECW.
Now for the WCW act alike comments. Why is it that people call TNA the new WCW? Not in a positive way neither. It's getting pretty annoying when people are calling it the new WCW with negative intensions just because they have superstars from teh old WCW days. What strikes me crazy is that people don't seem to bring up the WWE and how their talent is from other places but that's something to bring up in another discussion. TNA does have alot of competiters from teh old atitude era who's from WCW but there's no way you can call it the old WCW for that reason. The people are there because for the power of pulling ratings and well puting over younger talent. Then the nagging of JJ. You can't get passed that because he owns the company but it's still fair to say that he's TNA now and not WCW. Now isn't that were the negative comparisons end?
Now finaly. Who's TNA. What identity does it have for themselves? Will it be remembered as an/a ECW/WCW knock off or the wrestling company setting new standards for wrestling? So if TNA isn't a knock off what's it identity?
So basicly I think it's not a knock off but they still haven't built a pure identity to base themselves on at the moment. So what do you guys think about the whole TNA's Identity statement?" -Storm (great post)
I got this topic from Bustedquad.com. I thought it would be great to discuss on these boards.