"Then, of course you have the performance of the boys. If they have to wrestle twice in one night -- that second match just may not be as good as the first — no matter how hard they try. Why do you think that when a team plays a double-header in baseball, very, very few players play BOTH GAMES. The same goes with their mic work. How much verbiage can you ask any human being to become familiar with in one night? The first promo is always going to be better than the second. Again, you're dealing with wrestlers, not actors, and human beings, not machines. This problem lingers over to the backstage pre-tapes, where the talent and producers, and writers are getting content for not just ONE show, but maybe two, or three. I know that there were nights in the Impact show where I would shoot 30 -- yes, THIRTY — pre-tapes from morning until we went back to the hotel at night.
"And here's something else that NOBODY has ever realized, or put into consideration. Being that you are already asking the audience to stay for a minimum of at least three hours a night, in an effort to move the show along as quickly as you can -- you don't have the option of playing the pre-tapes to the crowd -- that were shot to build the match! Therefore, on many occasions, the audience is seeing what they view as a "cold match", when on TV, that same match has been built up for two hours! In other words, the response is going to be far inferior than what it should have been had you had the luxury time you needed to correctly tell your story.
"And lastly–I'm not going to even get into what happens when the star of your show gets hurt in show one, day one, and you have him booked in THE major angle of the next two shows that are going to be shot over the next three days. Looks like the writers aren't going to get a good night's sleep tonight.
"All these issues are what TNA has to deal with on a weekly basis in order to make their company successful from a financial viewpoint which is all that really matters. Are there solutions to these problems? Of course there are . . . in time. Look, TNA has only been around for 10 years – many people forget that. Vince McMahon Sr. had the WWWF on TV in 1955, TWENTY-SEVEN years before he even handed it over to Vince. Under Vince, it's been another THIRTY-TWO YEARS on the boob tube, that's FIFTY-FIVE years of television experience – and time for the WWE. Does anyone think that "back in the day", Vince Sr. wasn't faced with the same challenges that TNA is today?
"That's why, every time I view the TNA product – I'm viewing it with all things in mind. I understand fully what it's taking them to produce that wrestling show. And – most importantly – I GREATLY appreciate their efforts. I've said many times, if you spoke to any Hollywood writer, or Hollywood producer, and explained to them the QUANTITY of product that TNA was churning out, and the QUALITY they were achieving in a minimal amount of time – they would accuse you of LYING, saying that's physically and mentally impossible. But guess what – it's not — because they are doing it every week.
You can read the full blog with a lot more commentary at Russo's official website by clicking here.
Read more at http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/2014/0606/576764/vince-russo-on-challenges-facing-tna/#uXbVeek2tRsqX6hT.99
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