The second question: How long will it take them to fail?
TNA chief executive airhead Dixie Carter may actually put a clock on R&F. If R&F don’t reach a certain ratings level by a certain point, they’ll be out. I hope that’s true. Accountability shouldn’t be a dirty word when it comes to booking. It should be a watchword.
Problem is, Carter is using the wrong criteria, further extending her streak of consecutive stupid decisions made. Success should be measured by PPV sales, not ratings. If higher ratings guarantee continued employment, R&F will deliver payoffs (such as they are) on Impact, not PPV. But PPV is the name of the game. Always has been.
It’s clear now why the ax dropped on Jim Cornette when it did. Cornette hates Ferrara even more than he hates Russo because Ferrara incorporated symptoms of Bell’s palsy into Oklahoma, his on-air WCW character that imitated Jim Ross. Cornette, in fact, once marked his anger by spitting in Ferrara’s face at an independent show.
Cornette also phoned my house and asked my late mother if she could stop performing fellatio on black men long enough to take a message. The man clearly oozes class. But I digress.
TNA would have stood a better chance by canning Russo and appointing Cornette head booker. But TNA never makes a decision based on competence or the product. It’s all about agendas, and right now the agenda is to freeze out Jeff Jarrett and his cronies.
I know Jarrett is screwing Karen Angle. I don’t know that he ever screwed Dixie Carter. But she sure acts like a spurned lover.
