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Originally Posted by DarthTedious
Out of TNA's listed roster on their website:
14 released by WWE in the past few years:
Brother Ray
Christy Hemme
Gail Kim
Kip James
Kurt Angle
Raven
Scott Steiner
Tomko
Brother Devon
Brother Runt
Christian Cage
Kevin Nash
Konnan
Rhino
Six released by WWE at some longer point:
BG James
Jeff Jarrett
Kevin Nash
Ron Killings
Shane Douglas
Bob Backlund
Other guys I can think of that were in TNA that were WWE-grown:
X-pac (whatever the hell you want to call him)
Scott Hall
D-Lo Brown
Jeff Hardy
The biggest name they have that was never in WWE is Sting. The biggest guy they have that was never in WWE or WCW is Samoa Joe. And then Abyss. You could argue that they did some good shit with Monty Brown before he went to WWE. Pretty much the rest of their home-growns are in Spot-Monkey Central... erm, I mean, the X Division.
Point being, there haven't been a lot of even mildly recognizable names that haven't sailed ship for TNA after leaving WWE. Jericho comes to mind, and he's about it. Matt Hardy would have ended up there if the WWE fan's hadn't demanded him back. And there is also the perception that any time a wrestler's imminent WWE release is mentioned, the immediate reaction is "TNA, here comes ________!" TNA is basically the desktop recycle bin for released WWE talent.
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I still maintain that "TNA, here comes ______!" is more to do with people trying to be funny. And failing. I guess they're trying, though.
TNA does hire a lot of guys released by the WWE. I'm not arguing that, I was just being an ass and pointing out that they didn't hire "everybody" the WWE has ever cast off. I just tend to take the side of a company that is actually somewhat successful rather than a cynical jackass on a computer trying to be funny and failing miserably.
It's admirable that you researched the list, but I was already aware of the talent on TNA's roster that has competed in the WWE in some point during their careers. I'm just against boring dickheads like Kane Knight cracking the same joke every time a WWE wrestler gets released.
Hey! Maybe, just maybe, the reason guys released from the WWE end up in TNA are because of the following two reasons:
1) They are the #2 wrestling promotion in America
2) The WWE can't utilise the real talents of guys for shit, so they end up releasing a lot of guys with amazing potential, and TNA takes it upon themselves to unleash said potential
This is more in reference specifically to Kane Knight, but any idiot who doesn't want to hire talent with potential, and bring in a guy with the credibility of a Kurt fucking Angle, doesn't have the right to make jokes about them. Hell, they don't have the right to make a joke about anything.