Bigpapa42

Out. Quite simply no reason. TNA is not competition to the E at this point, despite being in the same business. TNA doesn't take guys that the WWE wants to sign - it takes guys that are not or no longer wanted.

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DevilBingo

Out. WWE is alot bigger than TNA so they posses no threat so no reason to buy out. And TNA are getting bigger stars. By the end of the year they'll be bigger than they are now.

Marshall

Out. I think it will happen but not this year

RaiZ-R

Out. Superstars is in a different timeslot for a start, but other than that TNA is barely on Vince's radar, and if it continues doing so badly on PPV they'll die out before Vince even begins to worry about them... And if they do get to that point? I doubt Jarrett or Dixie would sell to Vince, knowing they were starting to bother him. It would be confirmation they were on the way up and would be able to make a lot of money off the TNA product.

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relapse

One of the Nascar companies offered $150 million to panda which they turned down to buy Panda's TNA stake. With that in mind it could mean that the E would have to offers somewhere around $250 to actually buy the whole company. Now when the E are currently only making a couple of million per quarter and they are deserperately trying to cut costs do anyone really think that the E has $150 million sitting around to buy a rival company.

Even if they were on level pegging McMahon would be crazy to buy it.

McMahon bought the rights to WCW for peanuts, he bought a tape library and the tradmarks and thats it for around 2 million. That is an entirely different story than TNA which making a profit and would cost more than 100 times what McMahon paid for WCW just to buy them.

McMahon thought by buying WCW that he bought Nitro's audience as well, but the same reason why they didnt cross over to Raw is the same reason there are those out there that only watch TNA.

iamthedestroyer

If Vince wanted to kill TNA he could do it very easily at the expense of his own profit. All he'd have to do is restore single brand PPVs so that he'd have one brand with no PPV every month. (ECW could Feature on each PPV as they don't have enough guys to merit having their own.)

Each month Vince would just have to give away a free PPV caliber show for whichever brand doesn't have a PPV that month. He could bring back the In Your House brand name. The point would be to schedule the free In Your House during the same timeslot as the TNA PPV. Every TNA fan knows about WWE but not every WWE fan knows about TNA. If you had the option of paying 40 bucks to see a PPV, or seeing a PPV caliber show with even bigger stars FOR FREE unless you are a huge TNA fan(boy) you'd choose the free show.

Such a business practice would hurt WWE's PPV revenue slightly, as certain fans wouldn't feel inclined to purchase Smackdown's PPV in the same month that RAW has a free in your house with say Randy Orton taking on John Cena and vice versa. But once WWE eliminates TNA's PPV revenue, and kills TNA as a result they can revert back to the double brand PPVs.

Aside from such a business practice, the only wly (and I mean slowly.....like three years slowly) rising in ratings.ay TNA will die at the moment is if they lost their TV deal. From what I've heard they are a profitable company (if even by a bit). Despite their poor product they still are slow

horrorfan_1986

Welcome to the 1980's. If Vince wanted to, he could hurt TNA easily. However, he doesn't care about them. After all, this is the guy who decided to run the first ever Survivor Series the same day as Starrcade (First PPV from the Crockett's) and threaten to PPV providers that if they showed Starrcade, they wouldn't get the rights to show Wrestlemania 4. At the end of the day, only 4-5 PPV providers was still showing Starrcade. This is the same guy just a couple months later aired a free cable TV show at the same time as JCP's next PPV. Once again he threaten PPV providers that if they showed the PPV he wouldn't allow them to have Wrestlemania. But then he went as far to try to make his free TV show be as similar as the PPV as possible. JCP had a weight lifting contest, WWF had one that aired sooner and used more "Weights". JCP had a battle royal (Bunkhouse Stampede) as it's main match, the WWF had the Royal Rumble as it's main match. Vince's snake like ways started years earlier. He is the guy who bought a little Georgia Championship Wrestling's TV Show (WCW) just so Bill Watts couldn't buy it. And what did Vince do with the show? He fucking loaded it with a bunch of short squashes.
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If TNA is smart, they will try to stay as far away from a war with the WWE as possible. The likes of Ted Turner, Paul Heyman, Bill Watts, Verne Gagne, The Crockett's and others can attest to what a terrible idea that really is.

Even though Vince could destroy TNA, he has no reason to. Currently, Panda Energy can write TNA's debt off every year. So even if TNA loses money, the Carter's can get it right back. Unlike in the late 80's, it wouldn't be smart to try and counteract every move TNA makes. With Panda not losing money, it'd be like trying to kill the unkillable. It'd be pointless especially considering what a tiny mark on PPV buyrates TNA makes on the world of wrestling.

As for the main topic at hand, OUT. Vince has no reasons to go after TNA hard and TNA isn't going to be forced to close up shop.

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Crest Fall

Out.

WWE hardly has any interest in most of the talent TNA has anyway... I mean most of TNA's talent was their old talent anyway, haha. But making an offer wouldn't make any sense economically because they really don't have any places available for them on any of their shows.. And hell, that'd mean most of the TNA roster is out of a job with next-to-nowhere to go. Vince isn't that cruel.

I'd say that TNA will end up killing themselves, but unfortunately bad booking isn't what speaks to TV executives, you know? Right now, they're doing pretty well when it comes to ratings, and that's pretty much all that matters.

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iamthedestroyer

I am aware that Vince used those same tactics in the 80's. I am not saying he would be either smart or dumb to do so, I am just saying that if he were to want to kill TNA that would be the easiest way.

I agree that there is no reason as to why Vince should be worried about TNA for now.

RaiZ-R

This little group called WCW got bought out by Vince once, ever heard of it? The majority of it's roster got buried and were fucked for places to work. Vince is all business, and business is cruel. Full stop.

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