>>15211910They would have had a way bigger TV deal on TNT though and all the inherited WCW mega stars like Steiner, Sting, DDP, Booker, Goldberg etc. Fusient had agreed to buy out all those contracts. Plus an established brand in WCW and likely a bigger budget than the relatively small amount the Carters were willing to inject into TNA. TNA didn't even have a real TV deal until Spike in late 05/06. They were on weekly PPV, had zero marketing, had a brief run in an awful afternoon FS1 slot, then they legit had no TV deal at all for half of 2005 until Spike came along. TNA were streaming shows on their website at one point in 2005 because they had no television distribution at all
TNA legitimately had to build from basically nothing and I don't think they get anywhere near enough credit for that. The Carters didn't even have any connections that could help them
