Hogan blames Spike for bad PPV sales

[Lucky]

Hulk Hogan thinks he knows why TNA wrestling is struggling to get viewers to order pay-per-view events. Hogan, appearing on “The Lawâ€￾ on Sirius Radio via “Lords of Pain,â€￾ blames Spike TV.

“A lot of it has to do with awareness and the fact that we can get to the people. If I go into my hotel room in Chicago there are certain cable networks that are on like USA Network – there is no Spike TV.

Hulk is upset when people tell him that the PPV sales are terrible.

“A lot of it depends on who you can get to and who you can reach there is a lot more than ‘the fans aren’t buying it’ there is more to the equation and that’s a very shallow statement and that’s not a fact. The people that see it are buying it, there just aren’t enough people seeing it.â€￾

Hogan says TNA must work with Spike TV to get it available to more cable companies, in order to help PPV sales.

“We have to work with Spike TV and boost them up the ladder. I don’t know how many cable networks there are in the States if it’s 25 or 35 but in the paper it shows you who the top ten are so if we can get Spike up to that number one position the whole equation would change on how many people are buying it and change the equation and someone wouldn’t say ‘no one is buying it’ well the people that are seeing it are buying it so it’s creating that awareness to make people more aware that the product is there and that they can get it and when they walk into a hotel in Brantford that Spike is available.â€￾

Do you agree with Hogan?

 

[Deezy]

Bullshit, The UFC became a mainstream success based off their reality show on Spike TV. Hogan is simply shifting the blame because the brother just doesn't get it. No on is buying their PPVs because there is no build up to it. Simple as that, you have PPV matches announced a few days before it and they expect people to buy it?

TNA is at the point where they should just start streaming their PPVs, since most if not all their buyrates are in the toilet and continue dropping. If they wanted people to buy their damn PPVs, heres a nobel concept........Structure a legible show and build up some goddamn interests in your PPVs. They try to cram 234857349 inane angles or arc angles that have to involve the whole fucking roster that it makes it difficult to follow the shows and thus, people change the channel and don't even bother with PPVs.

Hogan is either full of shit or just that dumb.....I don't know which one he is anymore.

 

[Troy]

Not only do the UFC have huge PPV sales based partly on their partnership with Spike but does Hogan forget that RAW was on Spike for five years and WWE was pulling 4.0 ratings and their PPV buyrates were very strong back then as well.

The blame is with TNA and the way the book shows. TNA don't use Impact to promote their PPV's enough, they rarely book the card early it is normally left until the last two weeks to put the show together which gives them no time to promote the show to make people want to buy it. TNA are more interested in getting higher ratings than getting PPV buys which is the wrong way to think about it because PPVs are where the money is. Wrestling TV shows are there to sell PPV's that is the point of them, you save your big matches for the PPV so that people are willing to pay money for it. TNA creative are just not very bright and evidently don't know how to book a show.