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Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week; Breaking the New Market
By: SheriffLonestar Date: August 3, 2013, 4:13 pm
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Okay so sorry about the lateness caused by my international jet
setting lifestyle but there you have it. Six train rides, a
plane and a van and I'm home now back to scheduled programming.
This week the videos are not actually PPV's, its a TV show, and
its by TNA. It was a joint venture between, TNA, TATA steel (a
good company because they employ a lot of my friends in
Scunthorpe) and Endemol the company that brought you Big
Brother. As this week TNA announced its new Indian TV deal it is
worth looking at this show to see what happened last time TNA
tried to break a brand new market, in fact the very same one.
Ring Ka King was a concept designed by TNA writers Jeff Jarrett,
Dave Lagana, and former TNA star Sonjay Dutt, with input from
Dutch Mantell. Now I am not going to post all 26 episodes two
should give you a flavour what they where offering and give us
enough to analise what happened. Just follow the links on the
side of the youtube page if you want more.
The key concept behind Ring Ka King was presenting a modern
style of wrestling that had enough local culture to make it work
in a broader sense for its audience. To that end local workers
where brought in to give the show some local flavour, it was set
in an Impact zone style TV Studio and taped like always for TNA
in a tearing great hurry. However it was well executed and used
the right people to tell the right stories at the same time
laying the foundation for the current TNA renaissance in India.
The locals where taken down to OVW for training by former WWE
wrestler Savio Vega, now Savio you may recall as an upper mid
card heel and face in WWE, but his background is a lot deeper
than that. He actually tried out for WWE when he was 18 and was
told to get some seasoning. So he did starting back home in
Puerto Rico he became the number two draw behind Carlos Colon
(Carlito's Dad) no mean feet when you consider that Carlos is
more over in Puerto Rico than Hulk Hogan is in North America, he
also had years as a main eventer in NJPW eventually becoming
The Great Muta's regular tag team partner (that's why his Muta
impression Kwang was not a bad knock off in WWE). A guy who has
literally done it all to a very high standard. Jeff Jarrett we
all know about and his ability to bring a project forward and
develop it into a workable entity. So all the pieces where in
place. How did they do it? Keep it simple, simple story lines,
simple matches, nothing complicated and have fun.
So Abyss went back to being the monster we all love. Matt Morgan
became the unstoppable force we all know he is capable of being,
Magnus had his first taste of single glory as a very marketable
English snob (nice simple cultural tensions are a hallmark of
Dutch Mantell, more on that later), Harry Smith could be Harry
Smith and get off the Titan treadmill and laid the foundations
for his return to NJPW and his own feelings about wrestling
generally. Nic Dinsmore could have one more run playing
something other than Eugene, The local guys could get experience
and exposure wrestling some of the best workers in the world in
a new format. Scott Stiener could be well Scott Stiener. TNT
could have one last deserved run, all in all a win win for
everyone.
Dutch Mantell has been on record about his stormy relationship
with the TNA booking crew here him and Lagana where given
totally free reign to develop story lines that would get over
quickly. So they stuck to tried and tested formulas; a
tournament that introduced the characters, a smattering of
racial tension, some borrowed ideas from WWE (The Masterlock
Challenge anyone?) and they had a hit. What is more important
for all of them is that for most of the workers it led to
regular employment.
Like I said before Harry Smith went on to work for NJPW, Magnus
showed he could be a draw and an entertaining worker leading to
his current TNA prosperity, Nic Dinsmore got a training job with
OVW, Dave Lagana went back to TNA and took over as head writer,
and Dutch? Well nowadays he is known as Zeb Culter and "We the
people" know exactly what he is about, pretty much the same guy
who walked into Puerto Rico 30 years ago and owned the island
with some well chosen racial profiling. Whether you agree or not
that that is a good thing is by the by, it works and its heat
(personally its not to my taste however Dutch was kind enough to
let me have the Oil Trough Texas home town for my band Sheriff
Lonestar and the Deputies of Heartbreak and was lovely to me on
email even though we have polar opposite political views, full
disclosure and all that), so here is how you break a new market
the TNA way, and I think they did a good job and lets face it,
the biggest growing English speaking market in the world, who
doesn't want a piece of that?
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC9jp6ldPKs
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcYsRezF5D4
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Re: Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week; Breaking the New Market
By: tnafanforum Date: August 4, 2013, 6:36 am
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The vids not working :(
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Re: Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week; Breaking the New Market
By: SheriffLonestar Date: August 4, 2013, 10:43 am
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See and if I had spent 30 more seconds looking I would have
found them in high def. But working now :).
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Re: Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week; Breaking the New Market
By: tnafanforum Date: August 4, 2013, 3:49 pm
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Yer now it works lol :)
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Re: Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week; Breaking the New Market
By: ROBERT LAIRD Date: August 8, 2013, 10:13 am
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kind of interesting that Dutch Mantell is helping the TNA people
when he's under contract with WWE at the moment.
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Re: Sheriff Lonestar's PPV of the Week; Breaking the New Market
By: SheriffLonestar Date: August 8, 2013, 10:48 am
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This was a while back Robert 2011 just after he left TNA and
before he started as Zeb Colter. I think this was just before
his daughter was killed. I know that slowed him down a lot bless
him.
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