“The people from TNA in the past are happy for us. Obviously, the current locker room is ecstatic about the growth. When I came here, it was not like this, I know sometimes we were in Nashville or even Toronto, we had 350 or 500 people. But we believed in ourselves. Now we have the audience size that feels right and we deliver every time. Every time we’ve had a sold out crowd, we’ve never not had a good show. We’ve never wasted an opportunity. Bound For Glory is going to be another one, we’re going to capitalize on that audience, we’re going to send the message out to the wrestling world, we’re here. We’re knocking on the door. You better look out because once we get that TV deal, we’re number two man. I know Tony Khan has lots of money, I get it, but the fans speak. The fans dictate who’s number one, number two, number three, not your bank account. Of course WWE is number one, they’re so far ahead that we’ll never catch it in my lifetime. Number two is attainable, number two is something we can really do. If we accomplish that, that’s humongous.”
Silly Santino, TNA already is #2. TNA has been a huge steaming pile of #2 for a good long while now.
I’m happy for TNA’s success (though I wish it didn’t come to them as a feeder league for WWE), but this is ridiculous. TNA is nowhere near the level where they can fill Wembley, for example, and I don’t think a better TV deal changes that. They had the better TV deal, after all, and they were legitimately #2 in the US, and even then, they couldn’t manage what AEW has been doing. And that was when TV deals were more meaningful than they are now.
Yeah someone at TNA management gonna need to rub a fucking magic lamp if they think TNA is gonna be number 2, depending how we’re counting they’re barely in the top 5