Jay Lethal Deserves So Much More

[Toates Madhackrviper]

Good god he was brilliant in this segment. I just watched a shoot interview where he talks about this with Kevin Steen and none of that was scripted (Source) which is incredible to me. He was brilliant throughout that segment, both with his perfect Ric Flair impression and when he was just acting as himself as the bewildered fan who's hero was turning on him for what he believed to be a tribute. That segment was perfect, I actually loved the whole Lethal/Flair feud.

He's only 28 so he's theoretically got a lot of career left but he deserves so much more than he's got so far. I hope WWE sees it and picks him up eventually or something, or TNA picks up the peices somehow and brings him back. He's not even really getting the due he deserves on the indys/ROH as far as I can tell from results I've read and stuff. He's SO good and he deserves so much more.

Edit: Can we also talk about how cool he comes off in that interview? So down to earth and humble and appreciative. I really like Jay Lethal

[________ has left the building]

Jay Lethal got TNA'd. Dude was not only passionate about the business, he truly cared about TNA. The Impact crowd cared about Jay. Every time you got the feeling Jay was about to break through, he cracked his head on the glass ceiling. He went toe to toe with Jeff Jarrett in a match during the Planet Jarrett era. And he got sent right back to the X Division. Have a breakout match against Team 3D, stay stuck in Hotel X Division. Score a clean pinfall victory over Kurt Angle for the X Division title during Angle's All of the belts phase. A moment that should had been the start of him moving to the upper tier was tossed in the garbage by not capitalizing on it. Then he got to not only feud with childhood hero Ric Flair but get a semi rub from Hulk Hogan. What was the follow up? A feud with Robbie E that eventually lead to him getting fired. Lethal is one of the guys every wrestling promotion needs on their roster.

[Wolfaga]

Oct 26, 2013 9:36:20 GMT -5 ________ has left the building said:

Jay Lethal got TNA'd. Dude was not only passionate about the business, he truly cared about TNA. The Impact crowd cared about Jay. Every time you got the feeling Jay was about to break through, he cracked his head on the glass ceiling. He went toe to toe with Jeff Jarrett in a match during the Planet Jarrett era. And he got sent right back to the X Division. Have a breakout match against Team 3D, stay stuck in Hotel X Division. Score a clean pinfall victory over Kurt Angle for the X Division title during Angle's All of the belts phase. A moment that should had been the start of him moving to the upper tier was tossed in the garbage by not capitalizing on it. Then he got to not only feud with childhood hero Ric Flair but get a semi rub from Hulk Hogan. What was the follow up? A feud with Robbie E that eventually lead to him getting fired. Lethal is one of the guys every wrestling promotion needs on their roster.

Never agreed with this comment more.

When Maffew does the "Sonjay Dutt deserved more" during Botchamania, I always wanted to replace that with Lethal. Guy is awesome.

[Hit Girl]

Jay Lethal should have been signed by WWE as Black Machismo

He would have been a solid mid-card comedy act with that persona.

[Full of IT.]

His Russo impression is spot on. He is definitely an amazing talent.

[y4j1981]

too bad that All Wheels Wrestling never took off for J.R. Lethal

[HMARK Center]

I really never, ever understood why he was given an angle with Ric Flair, got a rub from Hogan...and then just vanished. Made no sense whatsoever.

Of all the guys who used to be in TNA who should be allowed back in, he may top the "most deserving" list, possibly even more than Alex Shelley.

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Agreed. Lethal's depush in 2010 was baffling to me. As mentioned, he feuded with Flair and got endorsed by Hogan, but people forget he beat AJ Styles at Slammiversary and then Flair the following month. Yet, for some reason, he went right back down to the X-Division after that, culminating in being fodder for Robbie E before he left the company. I'm not sure why they didn't pull the trigger on him back then, although they were loaded from a roster standpoint, and with Russo handling the booking it was probably a combination of quantity of the roster mixed with Russo's erratic storytelling.

But Lethal would be a great guy to bring back now. The roster has thinned out and they can push him right to the top of the card now. With now being cost cutting mode for the company, they have a great opportunity to bring back guys like Lethal and Shelley and push them to main event status.