[Centraal] Pro Wrestling topic #62 Bragging Rights

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Jerry Jarrett, one of the founders of TNA Wrestling, posted the following comments on his Facebook page today regarding TNA's new partnership with Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff:

The hot news currently is all about Hulk Hogan and Eric Bishoff signing with TNA. I sincerely wish them well and from the one comment I read, Hulk might be able to bring a positive shift to the company. Hulk stated that he wants to help the new talent learn and appreciate the "Art of Professional Wrestling". If he is allowed to do this, the product will greatly improve and it will be positive for the business.

The "Art of Professional Wrestling" has been lost recently and I place the blame squarly on the shoulders of the promoters of the business. Wrestling talent currently is over-produced to the point that most wrestlers are reduced to trying to be actors, (which most are not) by giving scripted interviews and robotic matches. To make matters worse, the scripts are written by producers who don't have a clue what professional wrestling is all about.

In about five years the business changed and in my opinion for the worst. I discovered in 2002, when we started TNA, that the heart of the business had been removed and all that remained was the illusion of professional wrestling. I walked in the building in Huntsville, Ala. to find the ring filled with wrestlers rehearsing every move that they planned to make during their match. I watched as wrestlers sat reading and memorizing interviews. I was dumbfounded when I discovered that basic principals of the business were alien to the new wrestlers. I felt that I was talking in a foreign language. What is heat? What is a ring general? What is selling? What do you mean when you say listen to the fans?

I was told after I broke into this business that it was our duty to teach the new talent the "Art of Professional Wrestling".I was told when we began TNA that the business had changed and it was not possible to go back to that art form. I have my personal excuses for not going in that direction, but I regret not trying and this is why I truly hope Terry can do what I could not do.

The business today has truly changed. The new wrestlers are taught in "training camps", or wrestling schools. It seems to me that if you put twenty wrestlers in a school and one man teaches them all, they would tend to be somewhat clones of each other. Wrestlers should be taught the business by other wrestlers in live situations. A student who goes to a wrestling school will learn everything he is going to lean at the school in 90 days. He will never advance until he learns from veteran wrestlers in live match situations. Far too much emphases is placed on in ring work anyway. I think this is the result of wrestling websites, written by people who have never had a match, telling wrestlers that they have a 5 star match or a 2 star match. I'd guess that Hulk Hogan has never been given one 5 star match rating in his career. I'd also bet that he had drawn more money in the wrestling business than all the 5 star rated wrestles combined.

Superstars of the wrestling business become Superstars because of their personalities and not because of their in-ring wrestling abliity. Verbal skills are much more important that physical skills when it comes to drawing money in this business. You don't develop verbal skills in a talent by writing a script and allowing the talent to read his lines. How can a writer of these interview scripts not produce clone interviews? The unique personalities of wrestlers are hidden and only the thoughts of this one writer are expressed.

The uniqueness of professional wrestling and it's great public appeal is based on the interaction of personalities of the talent. To not understand this concept is to fail. If you take a walk in your memory and remember the great stars of professional wrestling, you will find that you best remember the personality and not the matches of these stars.

So Terry, good luck in your efforts. You have a big job in front of you.

Jerry

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Op maandag 2 november 2009 22:31 schreef kidkash19 het volgende:

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Although we reported that this past Thursday's edition of TNA Impact finished with a 1.2 cable rating, which is up from the previous week's 1.1 number, it should be noted that the Hulk Hogan video which aired on the program was part of the lowest rated quarter hour of the show. The final quarter hour of the show, which contained the video, drew a 1.18.

It's a scary stat for TNA when you consider that they spent the whole show hyping up his segment.

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Hulk Hogan spoke to Minnesota's City Pages newspaper this week and made some interesting things to say about his relationship with Vince McMahon in the 1980s, how much power he'll have in TNA and what it meant to announce his partnership with TNA at Madison Square Garden. To read the whole interview, visit Citypages.com.

Hogan claims that Vince "didn't really understand the business" after buying the company from from his father, Vince McMahon, Sr. "I moved in next door to him in Connecticut and taught him all about lifting weights and riding motorcycles and partying like a mad man; and then I taught him about the wrestling business and making money," Hogan said. "And now I'm doing that again with TNA Wrestling."

Hogan also talked himself up as the savior for TNA. He said the company agreed that he could have a "Vince McMahon role" calling the shots for TNA. Hogan says he will be "unofficially" running the promotion and will have the same if not more influence than he had during his run in WCW.

"All I told these guys was that they should give me a chance. If they didn't like what I was doing they can tell me to take a hike, but let me have the chance to come in and take a shot at it," Hogan said. "Let the fans and the other wrestlers take a look and decide for themselves what they're in to and I'm confident that I will get this thing rockin'."

Hogan is already crediting himself with generating the most buzz for TNA in its history and explains the significance of announcing his partnership with TNA Wrestling at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

"The proof is already out there. In the course of a few days we've got more buzz going for TNA Wrestling then it's had in seven years. For example, no other wrestling organization had ever been able to get into Madison Square Garden in New York for like, 100 years, because Vince owns it and his family owned it before him. So I came in and was like, 'Watch this.; And we did a press conference at Madison Square Garden.

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Op zaterdag 7 november 2009 14:35 schreef The-Brahma-Bull het volgende:

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Mag je er wel bij zetten dat het in Impact zat

Maar het was erg vreemd ja.

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- During a Yankees ticker tape parade on the streets of New York City yesterday, former WWE ring announcer Lillian Garcia was assaulted. She was thrown to the floor after somebody tried to grab her cell phone.

Garcia is OK but was shaken by the ordeal and grazed her elbow during the fall. Police hope to catch the culprit from CCTV footage after Garcia filed a police report.

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-- As seen on Thursday's episode of iMPACT!, TNA President Dixie Carter addressed the numerous changes made by the company in recent weeks to the talent roster. One TNA wrestler has gone on record with his thoughts regarding her speech. Here is what he told Mike Aldren of the Wrestling Globe Newsletter: "I have no idea why Dixie wanted that to air. She sounded terrified. After the meeting there were a lot of guys rolling their eyes. This locker room isn't one big happy family as [Dixie] wants us to portray publicly. Everyone is divided over the idea of Hogan coming in, and not in a good way."

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Op zondag 8 november 2009 20:46 schreef The-Brahma-Bull het volgende:

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TV? Dat lijkt me sterk maar een house show kan misschien wel. Zou wel leuk zijn eens

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Op zondag 8 november 2009 21:04 schreef Tazmaniac het volgende:
Ok ok, stel ze komen naar NL

welk sign nemen jullie mee (naar RAW)!

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Op zondag 8 november 2009 21:04 schreef Tazmaniac het volgende:
Ok ok, stel ze komen naar NL

welk sign nemen jullie mee (naar RAW)!

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Op zondag 8 november 2009 21:13 schreef Paxlie het volgende:
"Cena is een vuile mongool volgens 100 miljoen miljard mensen"

inclusief tekening van Kabouter Wesley eronder

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Op zondag 8 november 2009 21:17 schreef s0ul1991 het volgende:
"De Mizz ruikt naar boerenkool"

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Op zondag 8 november 2009 17:37 schreef Wessiej het volgende:
Iedereen moet voor volgende week tijd vrijnemen in zijn agenda voor Smackdown, pielemans uit de broek en genieten van de Main Event, namelijk:

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Okay, let's break this down. Austin and the Rock were two of the biggest stars of all time, and, you forgot this, the other one was also active during this same period in WCW tearing it up. No arguments here, it was a magical time of star power unequaled before or since.

You point out that wrestling was aimed at 18-30 year olds instead of kids. What you mean is that the WWE, specifically it seems, aimed their product directly at you, and what you liked and understood, and that you love it for covering your entertainment bases so throughly. Which is great. But to say that like the current product is somehow lesser because they simply stopped pandering as much to your demographic is not only unfair, its entirely missing the point. The product has CHANGED. It has not gone in the toilet, it has not "abandoned the real fans", it has simply evolved to a new place, appealing to new fans, in new ways. If this turns you off of the product then so be it, but to call it a lesser product simply because you don't like it is both selfish and ignorant.

Then you brought up the heavily lauded "characters" of the Attitude Era. How every guy had a character and a gimmick. Can we examine these for a moment? A porn star who also wrestles? Some black guys who are black and hate Mexicans. Some vampires. And you helpfully forgot to mention the guy who could throw up on command, the guy who impregnated an old lady, and the women who were degraded in every single segment of the show, other than the one who looked like a man.

The spotlight can be shone on any era of wrestling, but as great as the peaks of this one were, the valleys were absolutely dire, and inexcusable.

Admittedly, the unscriptedness of the shows did give it a unique, spontaneous feel, but it also detracted from the overall production, and Vince's ability to know what he was getting from his performers. Maybe things were better with less scripting (and it was only less scripting. Vince Russo scripted everything out in detail for the entire duration of his WWE stay), and maybe they weren't. But I will argue that many stories simply had no structure at all. And very few of the storylines displayed the forethought, and careful orchestrations that they do today, which, in my opinion, lead to more satisfying conclusions.
A case could certainly be made for the shakiness of things after Vince Russo left, and the very spontaneity you laud offers LESS structure than the more tightly focused and concentrated approach we see today. In those days, it seemed like anything could happen, because it very probably could. Wrestlers jumping ship, wild, lewd and violent things on your television, rebellious people breaking all the rules. But it is not 1998 any longer. Both that era and all of us are a decade older, and much like most other things from a decade ago, its simply not what many remember it to be.

But I have no hate in my heart for the Attitude Era. It was entertaining television, with many memorable moments, stars and matches. I simply think that the knee jerk reaction to assume that I either hate it or love it is indicative of the greater problem. Attitude Era Syndrome.

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Op maandag 9 november 2009 18:45 schreef kidkash19 het volgende:
hahahaha Kennedy zn filmcarriere is van start gegaan! en hoe!!!

Fighting the Still Life

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Op maandag 9 november 2009 20:58 schreef Wessiej het volgende:
Haha gefopt, ik blijf lekker hier en we zijn van renwan af, wat een daad van mijzelf

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Op maandag 9 november 2009 21:02 schreef Hoogstaande het volgende:

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Heb geen tijd om mezelf te updaten met worstelen
Wanneer zijn de Survivor Series?

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Op maandag 9 november 2009 22:05 schreef kidkash19 het volgende:
Plannen voor een trip naar de VS voor een PPV zijn in de maak

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Op maandag 9 november 2009 21:04 schreef Wessiej het volgende:

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Volgende week zondag, en je gaat maar kijken
Googlen naar SS was ook te moeilijk toch