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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Jun 20, 2016 23:00:15 GMT -5
"Dixie was more of a fan of guys who she saw on TV than guys that got her to the ball."
Full quote from AJ Styles on the stone cold podcast. This is damning and confirms our long running joke of who if you been on WWE tv you will be all set and good. It was a pretty good interview and shed a little more insight on the state of TNA from their top guy.
Also Stone Cold asked him about why he left and he responded with
"When you work hard... You should get paid for that."
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Jun 20, 2016 23:03:18 GMT -5
Did he mean that she preferred the former wwe guys or reality show guys instead of her home grown talent?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2016 23:04:28 GMT -5
Did he mean that she preferred the former wwe guys or reality show guys instead of her home grown talent? Yes. |
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Post by chrom on Jun 20, 2016 23:08:27 GMT -5
They've just signed another Tough Enough alum so he's not wrong about it.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Jun 20, 2016 23:16:27 GMT -5
They've just signed another Tough Enough alum so he's not wrong about it. Who? And im against the idea that having previously worked in WWE should disqualify someone from working elsewhere. So once a talent leaves WWE, they should never wrestle again because no promotion should ever hire "WWE rejects"? |
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Jun 20, 2016 23:22:00 GMT -5
They've just signed another Tough Enough alum so he's not wrong about it. Who? And im against the idea that having previously worked in WWE should disqualify someone from working elsewhere. So once a talent leaves WWE, they should never wrestle again because no promotion should ever hire "WWE rejects"? The girl that was stalking Lashley that is now managing Robbie E and Steriod Mcmuscles. & don't try to make this into a rheortical thing. There is a difference between getting a opportunity and being featured front and center on the 2nd company in the US without the amount of credentials one deserves for the TV time. Edit: Also he didn't just say WWE Tv. He said TV in general. Which includes reality. |
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Post by jimmyjames on Jun 20, 2016 23:22:55 GMT -5
"When you work hard... You should get paid for that." Listen to how ungrateful AJ sounds. All of a sudden he's to good to get paid in almost expired Burger King coupons. |
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Post by chazraps on Jun 20, 2016 23:24:58 GMT -5
They've just signed another Tough Enough alum so he's not wrong about it. Who? And im against the idea that having previously worked in WWE should disqualify someone from working elsewhere. So once a talent leaves WWE, they should never wrestle again because no promotion should ever hire "WWE rejects"? Absolutely nobody is saying that. AJ's point is that all the hard work the guys in TNA were doing always was in vain as they would regardless take an immediate backseat to whoever was arriving after a WWE run. |
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Jun 20, 2016 23:25:28 GMT -5
They've just signed another Tough Enough alum so he's not wrong about it. Who? And im against the idea that having previously worked in WWE should disqualify someone from working elsewhere. So once a talent leaves WWE, they should never wrestle again because no promotion should ever hire "WWE rejects"? They just signed that lying home wrecker Megan Miller. |
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Jun 20, 2016 23:30:05 GMT -5
Who? And im against the idea that having previously worked in WWE should disqualify someone from working elsewhere. So once a talent leaves WWE, they should never wrestle again because no promotion should ever hire "WWE rejects"? They just signed that lying home wrecker Megan Miller. Wasn't she wrestling on the indies before Tough Enough? Edit: She started wrestling on the indies after TE, but she was trained by Lance Storm. And I find it hard to believe that Dixie would even remember who she was in the first place. |
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Post by Rave on Jun 20, 2016 23:50:09 GMT -5
If that doesn't sum up TNA, nothing will.
Dixie is the grown up version of that one person we all knew as a kid who had all the latest stuff, which they proceeded to play with once or twice before they got bored with it, put it in the toybox (or broke it) and went off to the store to buy something new.
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Post by jagilki on Jun 20, 2016 23:53:23 GMT -5
Did he mean that she preferred the former wwe guys or reality show guys instead of her home grown talent? Yes. |
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Post by jagilki on Jun 20, 2016 23:55:11 GMT -5
"When you work hard... You should get paid for that." Listen to how ungrateful AJ sounds. All of a sudden he's to good to get paid in almost expired Burger King coupons. Tommy Dreamer: "Almost expired, I better run to Burger King!" -edit to add- Raven: "You never run Tommy." |
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Post by Brood Lone Wolf Funker on Jun 21, 2016 7:48:47 GMT -5
They just signed that lying home wrecker Megan Miller. Wasn't she wrestling on the indies before Tough Enough? Edit: She started wrestling on the indies after TE, but she was trained by Lance Storm. And I find it hard to believe that Dixie would even remember who she was in the first place. A wrestler usually will have a resume or a highlight tape of what they have done so it will show Tough Enough on there. |
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Post by cabbageboy on Jun 21, 2016 9:51:39 GMT -5
TNA has always been run like a money mark operation. The problem with TNA is that they didn't view their own guys as equals of the WWE/WCW hasbeens that they would bring in. As such they never really used the WWE cast offs to put over any of the TNA regulars, or when they did it was quickly followed by them bringing in another WWE cast off guy who went over the TNA guy.
That's really the sad tale of Styles' career. TNA never could figure out if he was "The Man" or if he was some up and coming youngster. Eventually he left the Titanic right as it hit the Spike TV iceberg.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jun 21, 2016 9:55:48 GMT -5
TNA has always been run like a money mark operation. The problem with TNA is that they didn't view their own guys as equals of the WWE/WCW hasbeens that they would bring in. As such they never really used the WWE cast offs to put over any of the TNA regulars, or when they did it was quickly followed by them bringing in another WWE cast off guy who went over the TNA guy. That's really the sad tale of Styles' career. TNA never could figure out if he was "The Man" or if he was some up and coming youngster. Eventually he left the Titanic right as it hit the Spike TV iceberg. They never treated him as "The man", he was always the future... and he'd be the man in like 2 years. Even after winning all the titles, and being the longest reigning world champion. He was still never really treated as the focus and was that young up and comer! At absolute best they treated him as the person that built the X-division... but he was never the focus of hte overall company despite the fans basically relating AJ Styles to TNA. |
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Jun 21, 2016 10:01:11 GMT -5
TNA has always been run like a money mark operation. The problem with TNA is that they didn't view their own guys as equals of the WWE/WCW hasbeens that they would bring in. As such they never really used the WWE cast offs to put over any of the TNA regulars, or when they did it was quickly followed by them bringing in another WWE cast off guy who went over the TNA guy. That's really the sad tale of Styles' career. TNA never could figure out if he was "The Man" or if he was some up and coming youngster. Eventually he left the Titanic right as it hit the Spike TV iceberg. They never treated him as "The man", he was always the future... and he'd be the man in like 2 years. Even after winning all the titles, and being the longest reigning world champion. He was still never really treated as the focus and was that young up and comer! At absolute best they treated him as the person that built the X-division... but he was never the focus of hte overall company despite the fans basically relating AJ Styles to TNA. His theme song actually calls him Mr. TNA and yet they still couldn't grasp that he was the man or should be built like the man. |
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Jun 21, 2016 10:46:54 GMT -5
They've just signed another Tough Enough alum so he's not wrong about it. Who? And im against the idea that having previously worked in WWE should disqualify someone from working elsewhere. So once a talent leaves WWE, they should never wrestle again because no promotion should ever hire "WWE rejects"? Literally nobody is saying that, but TNA has a fetish for people who had been on WWE TV. Between all the derailed pushes, the worked shoot promos crapping all over Vince, stables like the Main Event Mafia and EV2.0 that were rooted in the fact they had been on TV somewhere else at some point and now were in TNA, all the overpaid celebrity guests who received fat paychecks for doing nothing while their employees were taking second jobs because of how little they were getting paid... It's the difference between a company announcing a booking for "former WWE wrestler Cody Rhodes" and " FORMER WWE WRESTLERcody rhodes". |
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Post by chrom on Jun 21, 2016 11:19:31 GMT -5
TNA has always been run like a money mark operation. The problem with TNA is that they didn't view their own guys as equals of the WWE/WCW hasbeens that they would bring in. As such they never really used the WWE cast offs to put over any of the TNA regulars, or when they did it was quickly followed by them bringing in another WWE cast off guy who went over the TNA guy. That's really the sad tale of Styles' career. TNA never could figure out if he was "The Man" or if he was some up and coming youngster. Eventually he left the Titanic right as it hit the Spike TV iceberg. They never treated him as "The man", he was always the future... and he'd be the man in like 2 years. Even after winning all the titles, and being the longest reigning world champion. He was still never really treated as the focus and was that young up and comer! At absolute best they treated him as the person that built the X-division... but he was never the focus of hte overall company despite the fans basically relating AJ Styles to TNA. As I've mentioned before in another thread, TNA always seemed to resent and hate Styles and whenever the first chance arrived they'd make him an afterthought in favor of shilling their flavor of the month. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2016 11:24:08 GMT -5
They've just signed another Tough Enough alum so he's not wrong about it. Who? And im against the idea that having previously worked in WWE should disqualify someone from working elsewhere. So once a talent leaves WWE, they should never wrestle again because no promotion should ever hire "WWE rejects"? There are guys that spent some time in WWE that, as soon as they went elsewhere, managed to become even bigger successes and helped promotions far more than what they actually did in WWE. I mean, who would have thought that Mark Jindrak would be one of Mexico's biggest names? Just because you worked in WWE doesn't mean that should be your biggest success. The argument isn't "You shouldn't bring in ex-WWE guys" but instead "You shouldn't bring in ex-WWE guys and make them the focal point of your company because they were on WWE programming". A guy like Rhyno is an exception because, after 2001, he was a complete afterthought and should have become a key guy in TNA's main event (son of a bitch had to work a battle royal, a hardcore match, and a lengthy title match all in one night, and was loved for doing it), and EC3 is another exception because he didn't actually do anything in WWE except be part of that endless NXT season, but the issue is more of bringing in midcarders who didn't do much in spite of being on programming for 5+ years and suddenly deciding they are a higher priority than your own, homegrown talent. Kurt Angle is one thing (though him defeating Samoa Joe right from the gate was a really bad idea), but guys like Orlando Jordan, Mr. Anderson, Sean Morley, Chavo Guerrero... what makes you think they should be higher than an AJ Styles or Christopher Daniels? Because they spent time doing random stuff in the big brand? If you think about it, "TNA Originals" (i.e. guys who made their name in TNA instead of coming from somewhere else where they were a name) have had the worst time in the company because it seems that Dixie is enamored with the latest "flavor of the month" droput. See what'll happen when Alex Riley shows up. |
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