Jump to content
Posted

TNA WRESTLERS FRUSTRATED WITH PAY ISSUES, THE COMPLETE STORY

By Mike Johnson on 2015-04-12 16:29:31

While the TNA TV product has been strong since it's move to Destination America, the company is still dealing with internal issues, PWInsider.com has confirmed.

 

TNA is well behind on pay to their wrestlers, according to many talents who reached out to PWInsider.com under the agreement of anonymity over the past several weeks. One wrestler claimed the company is behind two pay periods while others have claimed they are still owed money dating back to February. With no TNA dates scheduled until the live Impact broadcast on 5/8, it has been a growing source of aggravation for TNA wrestlers as they are working the indy scene to supplement their TNA income,

 

In asking sources within the TNA office in Nashville, I am told that the pay issues are legitimate and have been a source of great frustration within the TNA offices over the last several weeks as well. While one source I spoke to denied they were behind two pay periods, they did concede they have been behind on checks being cut to talents and that it was something TNA was trying to get a handle on over the last week.

 

One of the factors involved is that TNA's checks are not cut in Nashville by the company but are outsourced to Dallas, Texas where TNA's parent company Panda Energy is headquartered. This alone adds another step to the process. Complicating that of late is that Panda recently moved their offices and while that move was ongoing, the department that handled issuing checks for TNA personnel and talents was completely closed. As you might imagine, that lead to a backlog on checks being issued the last several weeks.

 

I was also told that since TNA taped so many One Night Only PPVs during their last series of events in Orlando, FL at Universal Studios, that also led to a lot of payroll expenses while the company wasn't generating revenue from those PPV tapings as they were free and the PPVs won't air for several months. This additionally led to a backlog as checks were not cut for the talents working those shows yet.

 

As I noted, it's something those working out of the TNA Nashville office have been very frustrated with and they have been working to rectify the situation. They, however, are likely nowhere near as aggravated by the situation as TNA wrestlers have been.

http://www.pwinsider.com/article/93013/tna-wrestlers-frustrated-with-pay-issues-the-complete-story.html?p=1

  • Replies 348
  • Views 36.4k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Featured Replies

I do feel sorry for TNA. If TNA was on Spike they would get twice the ratings. The channel isn't great but TNA are one of the highest rated shows, they also had decent ratings for Spike. I think these channels expect TNA to be WWE. It isn't going to happen. TNA gave both channels decent ratings for the channel itself.

Edited by bigmatt

I do feel sorry for TNA. If TNA was on Spike they would get twice the ratings. The channel isn't great but TNA are one of the highest rated shows, they also had decent ratings for Spike. I think these channels expect TNA to be WWE. It isn't going to happen. TNA gave both channels decent ratings for the channel itself.

 

.

 

He says that Destination America are struggling to attract advertisers to advertise during Impact. Despite the relatively good ratings for that channel, their existing advertisers aren't interested in advertising during Impact.

I think I summarised Meltzer accurately above:

 

He says that Destination America are struggling to attract advertisers to advertise during Impact. Despite the relatively good ratings for that channel, their existing advertisers aren't interested in advertising during Impact.

 

If that's correct it means that the advertisers that are happy advertising on the likes of Amish Haunting, Ghostly Encounters and Hillbilly Blood are turning their noses up at TNA Impact.

Destination America has cancelled TNA:

 

Dave Meltzer:

 

The word internally was that while they considered the ratings good, the ratings were not good enough to justify the cost of the programming. The other problem was that so many regular station advertisers specifically did not want to advertise on the show.

www.wrestlingobserver.com

I do feel sorry for TNA. If TNA was on Spike they would get twice the ratings. The channel isn't great but TNA are one of the highest rated shows, they also had decent ratings for Spike. I think these channels expect TNA to be WWE. It isn't going to happen. TNA gave both channels decent ratings for the channel itself.

 

I guess we'll never know what it would be like if TNA was ever on Spike. I bet their ratings would have been great.

 

Also, it's not the channels fault, and it's not about expectations; it's about economics. It costs more money to make episodes of Impact than the amount of money the episodes make the channel. That's a combination of different people's "faults", but it's got absolutely zero to do with D.A. "expecting TNA to be WWE". If TNA was capable of making a show that cost less than it made, it would still be on the air, no matter what the rating was. All this talk of "for the channel itself" doesn't help anything at all when the economics don't work, there isn't some magic conversation rate where Destination America money is a different currency to Spike money or FOX money. It didn't get cancelled because of bad ratings, everyone in the universe has said that, in this very thread, and you haven't bothered paying attention. The original statement from Dave Meltzer said Destination America was pleased with the ratings, but the show was unable to cover it's own costs. If you buy a football team in the Championship, spend a billion dollars, bankrupt the club, and then go "Hey, but we won the Capital One Cup!" no one's going to give a shit, it's not about success, it's not about ratings, it's not about relativity, it's not about your literally almost decade long obsession with defending every single thing that happens involving TNA to the very hilt, it's to do with an investment on Destination America's part not paying off economically, and them deciding to throw their old car out before the wheels fall off mid-drive and everyone dies.

 

Please now ignore everything everyone just said and say something ridiculous about how Dixie Carter's hair is the second incarnation of Christ or something equally insane.

so apparently Dixie carter accidently sent destination America an insulting email calling the suits ''dummies''.
Please God let them respond with an e-mail that says "Takes one to know one"
Good lord, Dixie. :lol:
TNA are so in denial. Sue me.
Watch out everyone, Dixie's got them probably-fictitious, definitely frivolous lawsuits coming your way!
Meltzer has already said if they think they can sue then why haven't they? He notes Billy Corgan is taking the same line Vince Russo took when a different journalist printed an unfavorable story only for it to turn out Russo had sent the info to the journalist by mistake himself.

It's good to see Corgan's complete inability to deal with negative press has found somewhere it can feel at home at least.

 

Question to the Observer readers, has anyone gone against Meltzer and won, either legally, or with the threat of lawsuits? From memory, it seems like the other party always backs down from these sorts of things after their scary "I'm going to sue you for being mean" talk gets the laughter and mockery and deserves.

I would classify myself as a TNA fan and I have been all the way back since the FSN days,but even I don't watch Impact anymore. Is TNA the worst run promotion ever?
According to Bryan Alvarez, and I'm quoting him, because I refuse to do this myself, if you look back at WCW in late 1999 and 2000, it puts TNA firmly into perspective as very much not the worst major wrestling promotion ever. Nothing as bad as death-bed WCW has ever existed before or since, and Bryan recommends people look back on it before judging TNA too harshly.
Oh it's definitely been overexhaggerated, but TNA will certainly have the infamy of being the ones who ultimately killed themselves over and over again to be the top promotion, despite the good fortune of having so many retries!
They might have a shout with the record of "worst for the longest". WCW and WWF were/are both good or at least average for longer than they were demonstrably bad, where as TNA had a very short run of greatness, and a looooot of shit.
I think they've leapfrogged ECW in the league of terribly run companies now.
Couldn't be that bad they lasted longer
Couldn't be that bad they lasted longer

 

They are bankrolled by an energy company. Existing isn't difficult.

TNA had an order of magnitude more finance that ECW, they had a massive company backing them and they still fucked it harder than Heyman did with ECW. It's difference between being hit by a car because you didn't pay attention and allowing yourself to starve to death surrounded by food. One happens an awful lot, the other takes a special kind of idiocy to achieve.

for myself I thought when Jerrett left that was when it all started to crumble. It is a shame because for a part in their history they were better than wwe in terms of what they offered and delivered (I'm not counting the ratings as we know they still wernt even close)

 

And then they got silly with the product and with business. And their legitimacy as a company is pretty much gone.

 

If Jerretts global force wrestling picks up some speed I reckon it won't be long til tna falls down the pecking order

Couldn't be that bad they lasted longer
Coronation Street has been running for 55yrs, so by your logic that should make it the best damn show in the history of television.

 

To be fair to TNA, the shows over the last few months have been a lot better than the shite on show when Dixie was the top on-screen heel, but they have had practically the same rating for the last 6+ years and have shown no overall growth or a genuine idea of where to take the promotion in the future.

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

What's Trending