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Post by Rave on Feb 27, 2019 17:12:02 GMT -5
So I failed to mention this in my other post in this thread, but during my visit to the Gut Check archive, I recognized a few more names. I hypothesize now that TNA had the potential to head off at least part of the NXT-UK monopoly and ally with ICW in the process through both Lionheart and Red Lightning. Of course, since TNA were utter morons with the Gut Check thing as a whole, we'll never know if that actually could've happened. The problem with Gut Check was that, in the end, it wasn't designed to introduce aspiring talent to the TNA audience. The concept was to introduce everyone to Wes Brisco, the most absurd lump of muscles known to man. TNA figured that WWE didn't know what they were missing out when the son of Gerald Brisco was dropped by them, unaware about how awful he was in FCW. While I agree with you about Brisco, Gut Check was indeed s'posed to be about introducing aspiring talent. The problem was that the people in charge of it were absolute shit at finding that aspiring talent, even before they decided to revive it. All the older incarnation of it resulted in was Sirelda, and she was terrible.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2019 17:37:28 GMT -5
Didn’t the wrestlers have to pay some sort of fee to get into the gut check pool or am I thinking of something else?
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Feb 27, 2019 19:13:32 GMT -5
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Post by Main Eventer on Feb 27, 2019 23:16:42 GMT -5
I actually started watching Impact when they first got on FSN back in 2004, and Don West was promoting Gut Check. Does anybody know if anybody note worthy came from that Gut Check?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2019 23:32:33 GMT -5
I actually started watching Impact when they first got on FSN back in 2004, and Don West was promoting Gut Check. Does anybody know if anybody note worthy came from that Gut Check? According to Wikipedia, the winners were Jaime Dauncey and Jon Bolen. Jon Bolen was one of Jeff Jarrett's undercard boys on Amped and the baseball stadium tours. Sirelda (Dauncey) has already been mentioned.
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