• Wrestling News & Wrestling Rumors – WWE & TNA

WWE head honcho Vince McMahon, who keeps relatively tight lipped about his thoughts on TNA wrestling was recently interviewed by the Hollywood Reporter and had this to say about the distant second promotion. “My concern with TNA is not in terms of competition. My concern with TNA is that they are TV-14, and we are PG. They have to change with the times. I think some of the things they do on television are reprehensible, but it is a TV-14 rating. That’s the only bone I have to pick with them. Their TV ratings are a fraction of ours.”

[Although Samoa Joe hanging Sheik Bashir, threatening him with a knife and beating him with a bat, whilst saying "go back to where you came from" is distasteful to say the least, going by WWE's track record of questionable content Vince shouldn't be the one to comment. And if changing with the times means going PG, have we all found the fountain of youth?]

On the flip side when asked about Triple H using the sledgehammer in Orton’s home he commented “Right. What we try to do in situations like that is use things that you can’t find around the house. You will never see us use a baseball bat. You don’t find folding metal chairs around the house. We are very selective. You can go up to the line. It’s storytelling; that’s how our business thrives. If you have well-defined characters and put them in the right story line against other characters, people care about their welfare.”

In regards to UFC, which undeniably battles WWE for PPV numbers, DVD sales and the respect of pop culture’s former wrestling fringe fans, McMahon said “Most people thought at one point that we would be competitors. But it turns out they are not competition to us at all, or hardly at all. They are sport, we are entertainment; it’s a huge difference. The revenue they have cut into is that of boxing.”