Konnan on: how will Tony Khan react to TNA overtaking AEW?

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[Jatshariff]

TNA deserves the #2 spot. They ultimately fixed their situations and lots of wrestling fans grew up on TNA. We never forgot!

[fithealth]

Matt Hardy recently said that TNA is looking to get on a bigger network to get more viewership. I always loved TNA and I love how TNA is trying their best to put in good shows and storylines that make sense.

[mansion]

Tony Khan is already out there trying to start feuds with GCW, he's that desperate for a W.

[johnnytheworldowner]

The crazy thing is that AEW has become so awful that being in TNA is better for your career.

[Anicade]

Since day one of AEW I've said that if TNA were on a better network TNA would do higher numbers and keep them

[dfrancis]

Tony wouldn't like it, but TNA has the potential to be better than AEW. That's just what it is.

[philwalsh]

AEW has become so bad that a multi-billion budget means nothing now

[liamstewart]

AEW Dynamite just pulled in their 4th lowest TV rating ever, Tony Khan has no one to blame for AEW's failure them himself.

[dkupke]

When Omega won the TNA title, fans were so stoked; this is it, all the promotions are going to work together to take on WWE! Now, TNA is growing again, thanks in part to a partnership with WWE that they are actually benefiting from.

[gimmiebackmybike]

if AEW is still on TV in 2025, I think there's a fair chance that AEW & TNA will have very close tv ratings.

[jackiejones]

We're going to find out pretty soon because I was just reading that, even though it was only day 1 of the tickets being on sale, the All In 2025 stadium show tickets are off to a really bad start.

[markmann]

in my opinion, TNA has already overtaken AEW. TNA is better than AEW in every possible way. I just hope that their ratings start to get better.

[SwagAli]

I've been saying this for a long time and I believe it even more today. If you put any wrestling show on TBS/TNT Wednesday night at 8pm, it's going to get similar ratings to AEW. TNA, MLW, they wouldn't do any worse than AEW is doing. AEW is getting the bare minimum amount of viewers for a wrestling show on that station and timeslot.

[joetroller]

I don't see WWE trying to buy TNA but man, AEW's stock has fallen so far that Tony Khan really needs to have a talk with himself.

[Mr.Majestic]

Tony & Shahid Khan's All Elite Wrestling (to include Tony Khan's Ring of Honor) has a revenue of over $300 million, annually, with a television lucrative television deal with Warner Brothers Discovery, which airs AEW Dynamite, AEW Rampage and AEW Collision on either TNT or TBS, and AEW has a streaming deal with MAX.

Anthem Sports & Entertainment's Total Nonstop Action Wrestling has a revenue of about $20 million, annually, and airs TNA IMPACT! on the Anthem Sports & Entertainment owned AXS TV.

At a certain point, reality has to set in. The question is Outside of Endeavor TKO's
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE: Raw/Smackdown/NXT) and Shahid and Tony Khan's All Elite Wrestling (AEW to include Tony Khan's Ring of Honor) and New Japan Pro-Wrestling, which of these five promotions, listed below, has the potential to be 4th most successful Pro Wrestling promotion:

[1]. Anthem Sports & Entertainment's
Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling
Locations/Headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee and in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦

vs.

[2]. Billy Corgan's
National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) and NWA's territories:
[1] NWA World League Wrestling
Owned by Lealand Race (son of the late Harley Race).
Location/Headquarters in Troy, Missouri;
[2] NWA Texas'
Dogg Pound Championship Wrestling
Owned by Jazz (Carlence Moore-Begnaud) & Rodney "Mack" Begnaud.
Location/Headquarters in San Antonio, Texas;
[3] NWA Exodus Pro MidWest
Owned by Michael Hutter (EC3).
Location/Headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio;
[4] NWA JCP Southeast
Owned by Joe Cazana.
Location/Headquarters in Coalfield, Tennessee;
[5] NWA Chicago
Owned by Billy Corgan.
Location/Headquarters in Chicago, Illinois;
[6] NWA Kross Fire
Owned by Kenzie & Kylie Paige.
Location/Headquarters in Sevierville, Tennessee.

vs.

[3]. Court Bauer's
Major League Wrestling (MLW)
Location/Headquarters in New Rochelle, New York

vs.

[4]. Lee McAteer's, Martyn Best's, Matt Farmer's and Jim Perry's
Progress Wrestling +DEFY Wrestling
Locations/Headquarters in London, England 🇬🇧 and Seattle, Washington.
Progress Wrestling and DEFY Wrestling merged promotions on February 9, 2024.

vs.

[5]. Scott D'Amore's
Maple Leaf Pro (MLP) Wrestling
Location/Headquarters in Ontario, Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦, to include the Pro Wrestling Alliance that consists of:
[1]. Cam Vale's Oceania Pro Wrestling (OPW)
Location/Headquarters in
Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺;
[2]. Ali Al-Marafi's Qatar Pro Wrestling (QPW)
Location/Headquarters in the Middle East/ Africa 🌍 .

Which of these five promotions is better????

[karlm]

There was a gap in the market for AEW 5 years ago, there isn't now. It's simple business... BROTHER!!!

[Quebradanet]

I like TNA, and they were good and improving 1-2 years ago, but they've lost all their talent, starting with getting rid of D'Amore. No one is coming back once their deal is up. Their X division is dead because Bailey just signed with AEW. All the WWE thing is doing is introducing Grace to their women's division before signing her in a few months. Since Tony has already squandered Deonna, that will be the end of TNA's women's division since Masha won't have anyone useful to wrestle. WWE already got Machine Guns, Ali left, Alexander will be gone in 2 months. Tony can't book, but TNA can't beat him with wrestlers both WWE and AEW have no interest in.

[TheGreatestBabyFace]

TNA is the smaller brand but doesn’t come across as indy. I can see TNA x NXT becoming the new Raw vs Smackdown. I trust Nick Khan do make this happen

[thehorrorhound]

TNA deserves to be either the 2nd or 3rd biggest promotion. I said two years ago that if TNA had AEWs time slot and budget they would easily be pulling 600, 000-800, 000 a week just off of who they had. And people laughed at me and called me a mark and stuff. Said I was delusional. But TNA on their tiny little channel no one has was pulling the same numbers rampage were pulling on a channel everyone has. Therefore it was logical to believe if more people had access to it they would want to see it.

Fast forward two years and TNA is far hotter now than it was then, with bigger venues, bigger names, a deal with TKO sports and WWE. There is no reason to believe they couldn’t be pulling those 600, 000-800, 000 numbers on a better channel.

[BIPOCShakur]

For me TNA is the best thing going in wrestling right now. I saw a match between Dani Luna and Jordynne Grace and it was the best women's match I'd seen in this current era. Max The Impaler vs Kenzie Paige was a great match also. It just shows you that the promotions outside of the two main companies are giving true wrestling fans great matches and go figure, in 2024 the matches can be the focal point of a show. WWE seems to be ignoring that, and AEW needs to understand that high spots and trying to be ECW-light isn't always the right course for your promotion. TNA and NWA have the best wrestlers right now and it's not even close. Kenzie Paige and Max the Impaler are both awesome.