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TNA Knockouts are on “borrowed” time? And WTF Did Russo say now?
From Mike Aldren of Declaration of independents;
“Regarding Roxxi, she was told she wasn’t going to be booked moving forward due to her appearance. I assume this comment didn’t come direct from Dixie Carter, but that’s what Dixie’s management claimed before her career vs. title match against Rayne on Sunday. In WWE, when Vince decides to fire talent, barring extreme cases, John Laurinaitis tells them that creative had nothing for them or that they were a victim of budget cuts. To say anything else opens up a can of worms and leads to lawsuits. By all accounts we’ve been told that Roxxi has always been a model employee. From shaving her head for little compensation to working through various injuries to dealing with the stress of Kurt Angle’s wacky ex girlfriend, the general locker room consensus is that she’s been crapped all over, but through all this has never once publicly spoken out against the company, as others have done.
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This really does depict the way TNA treated Roxxi and most of The Knockouts! Russo can be a real ASSHOLE!! Plain and simple. A sexual discrimination suit will happen to TNA eventually and don’t forget, that Dixie Carter is THE BOSS.
There is a lot of concern about the future of the Knockouts division. The division has been decimated this year with several key departures, and has been on a downward spiral since the firing of agent Dutch Mantell last summer. Mantell would usually put together most of the women’s matches and angles which consistently drew the best ratings on Impact. Present day, it sometimes seems the writing team is going out of their way to destroy that with some really wacky illogical booking. The remaining regulars are Angelina Love, Daffney, Hamada, Lacey Von Erich, Madison Rayne, Velvet Sky, Sarita, Taylor Wilde, and newcomer Rosie Lottalove–nine women feuding over two sets of titles–five of which have been sidelined with injury or have been inactive in recent week’s.”
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Yup! Because it was Dutch Mantells concept and idea, Dixe and Russo just HAD to kill it! “Cutting off their nose to spite their face”.
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about 2 months ago
Well, my review of S8 said it best
“The knockouts are dead on the vine..”
since Ditzy decided to dump “The father of the knockouts” Dutch Mantell, we ALL knew after that, the knockouts would be treated like the nitro girls were as WCW was going into the toilet, as just a filler to the commercials..
Dutch took a good idea and made it something TNA never heard of..A RATINGS HIT!!!!
The Knockouts outdrew, outratinged, outclassed not only the rest of the TNA roster, but HUMILIATED the wwe Skanks to the point where they are copying them (deny it if you want layla in the WWe ,but if it quacks and walks like a duck..)
but little by little, peice by peice, the knockouts were slowly being disMANTELLed *Pun intended* by not only Ditsy..but the evil monkey russo .
The knockouts deserved their own show on spiketv, but that would not happen…
So here is the epitath to the TNA knockouts
You were the ratings QUEENS, you kicked ass and took names, you created a fanbase that topped the rest of the roster, you were WRESTLERS, not strippers, pole dancers, models,ex porn stars..YOU WERE WOMEN PRO WRESTLERS!!!
We shall remember who you were , and what you represented.
To all the knockouts, our heads are lowered as the casket that contains the ashes of what was the most popular part of TNA IMPACT slowly gets lowered to the hallowed ground of wrestling vallhallah.
R.I.P TNA KNOCKOUTS
about 2 months ago
I don’t see any of the knockouts suing TNA since such a stunt will only make other promoters reluctant to book them. As for the Knockouts division going kaputsky whadja all expect with Hogan at the helm?
about 2 months ago
Let’s get this straight. Roxxi shaved her head for that company? Broke her ankle for that company? Tolerated a basket case of a star wrestler’s ex-girlfriend for that company? And this is what they do?! If common sense was money, TNA will be more in a red than it is right now! Deplorable! Sexist! And despicable! If I were a lawyer, I’d convince Roxxi, Kong, and any other woman wrestler who was hosed to come together and absolute daylights out of that company.
Russo is a self-proclaimed religious, creative genius who is really nothing but a non-talented hack who cannot even write his own name. The only talent he has is keeping a job which is sad. In these times, I don’t like to see anyone in the unemployment line. Holy smokes, this man has to go. I hope the buyout from GNC is true. Someone should have this man in the nearest soup line coming up with an angle on how to be a competent writer!
Such atrocious idiocy proves much more that Russo and Dixie are nothing but conversational pieces with oxygen! Had they got a competent writer who can book and kept Dutch Mantell. They would be kicking ass and taking names. Unfortunately, they’re at the precipice of being nonexistent. That is sad! And a shame! It is another proof TNA is a parody of a wrestling company!
Thanks for checking in! Honestly I appreciate you taking time to address this because its just plain wrong! The passion in your comments shows it pisses u off as much as it does me.
about 2 months ago
Pissed Off Fan hits it right on the head.
How can it be that a total NO TALENT like Lacey can have a strap, but a great worker like Roxxi, no strap.
If there is anyone reading this who goes to the impact zone, and you agree that Roxxi’s firing was a crock, let your voices be heard.
Keep up the good work Randy. Btw have you seen the CM shoot where imitates you?