TNA again insults its fans on latest episode of Impact Wrestling

I get it. Tna is giving away something for free that people, however few they may be, paid good money for. And they did it twice, if you consider the You Tube video another give away, which I don’t because it seems that sites like this provide the same sort of information for free in real time as the ppv is happening. There’s no one in the world who is really into wrestling that would wait until the following episode of Raw or Impact to find out the results of the ppv, and if there are, they are few and far between. So to throw a dig at Tna for that seems a stretch.

As I’ve been trying to get through to Asterisk, there isn’t another sport that acts in the manner. Do you see the Nfl charging for the Super Bowl or Mlb charging for the World Series? You also don’t see something that’s self described as an “episodic” show charging for the finales or pay off episodes. It’s just insane to think that you can’t expect to see anything of ppv quality on a weekly episode of Raw or Impact because they have to save that for the ppv. I’m not suggesting the whole show be ppv quality, but the main events from time to time should be ppv quality, belts should be defended and we should see something that gives the paying audience their moneys worth.

If you’d bother to keep reading, you’d see that I acknowledge that the pre-ppv dominated mode of business is antiquated and not likely to ever return.

If you bothered to keep reading, you’d find that during the pre-PPV era of wrestling, free TV had even less important matches shown on it than at any point in the PPV era because advertising executives will never give good amounts of money to a TV show they perceive as having a lower economic demographic than what they would draw with Law & Order reruns.

Fine, my memory is hazy in terms of seeing main event matches on a weekly basis on Prime Time or Wcw Saturday Night, but I don’t recall ever thinking that I was missing out on something because they saved all of the good stuff for ppv. That’s just how I remember the wrestling of my youth.

That’s because you were a kid, and kid’s always accept things at face value without feeling like they’re missing out on something as long as movement is occurring in front of them. I guarantee that not a single important wrestler ever appeared on Prime Time or Saturday Night in any form other than for a pre-taped promo, and in the highly unlikely event that anybody important did appear on those shows, it was for the purposes of squashing a jobber.

Now the ppvs are crammed down your throat and promoted endlessly and at the expense of providing the paying audience, the very ones who should have felt ripped off to the point of rioting over the atrocious show on Monday Night, with anything the even resembles a high quality match.

The only time TV wrestling was at a higher quality than it is today was during the peak years of the Monday Night Wars, and that only occurred because the guys who were in the midcard at the time were at a ridiculously high level, and Vince McMahon had yet to start up the practice of cutting to commercial during the heat segments of the matches.

TNA, in general, has mostly had very high quality wrestling on for free at every point, but the matches are promoted so horribly and run into the ground so often that no one cares when two big names face, and the PPV results are often negated the next night or week by the same such matches.

Again, my overall point is that, regardless of historical accuracy and economic necessity, there isn’t one series or sport that builds up weekly episodes to a ppv conclusion like wrestling.

Boxing and MMA do exactly this. Both are seen as low class, and thus are given table scraps by advertizing companies, so they air promotional shows and lesser fights on free TV, and then air the fights with Pacquiao and Overeem on PPV.

Maybe when you leave the podium and concluded your history lessons, you could at least concede that much.

Considering that it makes no sense to say that no other medium uses wrestling’s format when boxing and MMA do use just that formula, no, I won’t concede.