WWE acknowledging TNA
 

Has WWE ever acknowledge the existence of TNA on WWE television.

I've never seen it happen.

I think the closest they came to it was Todd Grisham saying "TNA sucks" or something when some TNA fans called into Byte This online.

Jeff Hardy mentioned them on a dvd.

Did he also mention how easy was for him to steal money from them?

Pretty sure Christian said something like "Im not gonna lie, I was with another promotion" on his return, not actually saying 'TNA' though.

WWF barely mentioned WCW

Joey Styles made a reference to Kid Kash as "Mister Total Non-Stop Attitude" at the first One Night Stand. Sort of a vague roundabout reference, but a reference nonetheless.

They'd always show Anti-WCW signs. And I've seen where Vince blatantly mentions WCW from the announce booth. And lets not forget the DX Army vs WCW.

This is true....

They acknowledged them on Vance Archer's bio, saying he worked for a regional promotion in Florida

Yeah but this is when they were still behind in the ratings once they gotten Ahead they really did not mention them at all aside from a few times.

To be fair, WCW and WWF were in a ratings war. They were in direct head to head competition. Each promotion was trying to up the other and show the other as inferior.

As with TNA and WWE, WWE doesn't acknowledge them because I don't believe they view them as a threat right now. So to acknowledge them on TV would be to give them exposure, and therefore risk viewers checking it out.


Basically, totally different ball game, at least right now.

When Angle went to ECW he opened a challenge to anyone from 4,6 or 8 sided rings. Which must of been a nod to TNA

As in the new ECW of course. Not back in the 90's

Vince acknowledged them once (sort of) on the byte this after angle left. He basically referred to them as if he wasn't sure of their name, said something along the lines of "i think theyre called tna".

Quick google search brought this up, not sure about the sources though.

I laugh at Vince thinking some of the things TNA does on tv is "reprehensible".

Eric Bischoff commented on that interview, saying that coming from a guy from Vince who a couple years earlier was telling Eric to promote HLA, hardcore matches, and owns a boat called 'The Sexy Bitch', it's just hypocritical for him to say anything that TNA does is 'reprehensible'.

I'm pretty sure they will have meant FCW.

They used to have TNA Results on their webpage in their "industry news" section.

I think the only worthwhile thing I've learned here is Vince McMahon has a boat named The Sexy Bitch

Did anything ever come out of this on TNA's behalf? I'm pretty sure WWE would start throwing around lawsuits if TNA had WWE results on their website.

TNA was probably thrilled to be on the WWE website.

They made a storyline out of it. :shifty:

wwe had a tag team dedicated to TNA , with Trish, Test and Albert :shifty:

This is the guy who had two minstrel show characters mock the guy who played Kramer for being a racist. I'm pretty sure he can say anything with a straight face.