Bischoff Says TNA Will Never Beat WWE And the Similar Comments He Made In 2009

His reaction to Jim Ross' recent comments regarding TNA being able to compete with the WWE in 2011 and that TNA will "never" overtake the WWE in the marketplace:

"I agree 100 percent. WWE has been around for a long, long time. They've been well-entrenched and well-established in cable television for the last 20 years. It's a television juggernaut. TNA comparatively is a Kool-Aid stand compared to Coca-Cola in terms of its resources and infrastructure. The idea of TNA ever being able to compete with the WWE, although I've been out there, and I've been promoting it as such: I believe in a lot of ways we do compete.

"There are a lot of things about TNA that are better than the WWE on an individual basis. But you can't compare TNA as a company to WWE as a company. I don't think anybody within TNA realistically felt we were going to compete on a business level with the WWE."

Bischoff made similar comments in a February 2009 interview with The Sun:

What would be your advice to them (TNA) if they want to become a true challenger to the WWE like WCW was?

The people that are involved in the creative process and vision for TNA are people that couldn’t get a job in WWE or shouldn’t have had a job in WCW.

There’s no vision for that company. They are people who have never been to the dance. They’ve never been a part, really, of any of the decision-making processes that led to the success of the industry.

Some of them happen to have been working there while other people did it, but have never really done it for themselves. They just don’t have the feel for it. So that’s the reason we(Bischoff & Hulk Hogan) wouldn’t want to be there.

For me to sit down and say “listen guys, this is what you have to do to be successful” would be like telling a three-year-old how to fly an aeroplane. You can try all you want, they’re never going to get it.

partial source: wrestlezone.com & mondaynightmayhem.com