TNA blocking talent from working with AEW wrestlers

[Big Jean Studd]

Exhibit A on unionization

 

[Chris]

Brutal

 

[Lethal]

Amateurs

 

[Barry Poppins]

Exhibit A on unionization

Damn you Hulk Hogan.

 

[Chris]

The most baffling thing is why they didn't just leave the already announced matches in place and just make this a for the future rule.

WCP Owner Comments On TNA Pulling Talent From Events - Fightful | WWE News, AEW News, Pro Wrestling Backstage News

WCP owner comments on TNA pulling talent from events.

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“Working with talent on an independent level, after clearing everything, and doing business, only to have said talent pulled after the fact, high or low profile, gives me zero reason to work with anyone from said company making said arrangements.

“Abysmal dogshit.

“When you have an understanding and it gets cleared, all parties involved have weighed risks. To get it cleared by multiple channels and by multiple companies, to then have said company go BACK on it, is garbage, and a Memorial show at that.”

 

[Chris]

Nic Nemeth on Busted Open today courtesy of Fightful

“You know, I was really looking forward to this. I was really, really excited… But yes, as of yesterday, as I was flying in, I found out it’s because of certain partnerships and brands. TNA President Carlos Silva had to make a difficult decision and protect a couple of brands down the line and things that are actually contractually obligated to happen. Ya can’t just kind of do whatever we want, even though I think some things were approved at a different time when it became the situation that it is now with a couple of different things happening at once… I’m crushed. I was very much looking forward to doing this but, it’s unable to happen at the moment so, we’re still doing the Create-A-Pro show and refunds will be available and also, MJF’s gonna do an open challenge there and he’s still gonna (be) signing and doing all the things at Create-A-Pro for that big show, and all of those things will happen. I’m going to wrestle Bear Bronson for the first time ever. I hate that it had to come out this way, I hate that this wasn’t all taken care of in the past but, that’s something we can all work on. I gotta start reading some fine print and we have to protect people that we actually work with and we have partnerships with. Usually, I’m pretty great about that so, I’ll stay on that for everything that we do because a lot of different things that TNA talent do, two out of three weeks or three out of four weeks are independent shows and getting paid that way and being able to go out there and have that leeway from the company but, we just need to be a little bit better communicating with each other going forward and I’m bummed out. I’m gonna try and make this match happen one day, and hopefully soon, but at the moment, it is currently not happening but, Friday, May 1st, I’ll still be there, Melville, New York for Create-A-Pro…”

 

[Big Jean Studd]

They also did this immediately after Mercedes dropped the belt to one of their talents, how convenient. Silva is a virgin loser tbh

 

[Chris]

MJF: What Carlos Silva Is Doing Is Disgusting - Fightful | WWE News, AEW News, Pro Wrestling Backstage News

MJF is continuing to throw shots at TNA and Carlos Silva.

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MJF is really pissed, dude is not letting up. From Busted Open today:

“Let’s talk about TNA and the fact that they are pulling young talent off the shows when they are barely paying them any money whatsoever and telling them, ‘Hey, you can’t wrestle because there is a guy from another promotion that is wrestling on this show.’ Does that help young talent grow? Does that help young talent become better inside the squared circle? More over, does that help young talent put food on their plate and table so they can eat? What Carlos Silva is doing is disgusting. If anybody supports him or that company at this point, it is very hard for me to wrap my head around."

And then it says he says this is all a conspiracy just bc Nemeth was scared to fight him to bring it back to kayfabe

 

[Barry Poppins]

MJF is the ultimate worker

 

[Big Jean Studd]

MJF: What Carlos Silva Is Doing Is Disgusting - Fightful | WWE News, AEW News, Pro Wrestling Backstage News

MJF is continuing to throw shots at TNA and Carlos Silva.

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MJF is really pissed, dude is not letting up. From Busted Open today:



And then it says he says this is all a conspiracy just bc Nemeth was scared to fight him to bring it back to kayfabe

That's some harsh ass words

 

[Looji Nagata]

That's some harsh ass words

I mean... someone has to say it. Actually... way more people should say how it simply is.

 

[Big Jean Studd]

I mean... someone has to say it. Actually... way more people should say how it simply is.

He's bang on too

 

[Blazehausen]

Its wild to me though that they don't want one of their stars to lose to MJF, but have no problem letting NXT talent beat their guys... they let Trick(and this is no disrespect to him) hold their title for MONTHS, but don't want Bear Bronson or Nic Nemeth to lose to MJF? And I'm probably the biggest Nic fan here but in no world should he beat MJF.

 

[Hoss]

Its wild to me though that they don't want one of their stars to lose to MJF, but have no problem letting NXT talent beat their guys... they let Trick(and this is no disrespect to him) hold their title for MONTHS, but don't want Bear Bronson or Nic Nemeth to lose to MJF? And I'm probably the biggest Nic fan here but in no world should he beat MJF.

Well, they're selling themselves out to WWE/NXT with the expectation that their business will benefit from it, which so far seems to be true. They really don't stand to benefit anything from letting their talent wrestle people from "rival" promotions, and do get the benefit of brownie points from WWE by playing their role in trying to stick it not just to AEW, but the entire wrestling ecosystem in whatever way they can.

 

[Chris]

Also entertaining the idea that talent losing to MJF or anyone really as the actual reason is silly tbh. We know that's not true and just bc Carlos Silva lies and says it is doesn't mean we then need to ask logical questions like Blaze has done lol it's wild to you bc it's simply a lie