That was the exact reason for his and Petey Williams' release. Management did not see either of them progressing up the card and thus decided to release them. .
whose f***ing fault is that?
I understand that as in that they weren't considered to be fit for an uppercard push and had done enough as it was in the midcard.
we all understand that one, management were just being short sighted idiots
Off topic, I would agree about Petey not being an uppercard wrestler, but I'd never get bored of seeing him in the midcard.
fpalm where he is on the card doesn't determine how entertaining one is and HE'S PETEY F***ING WILLIAMS
but still the least they could have done is job petey to aj on his out
I never liked him in any of his roles..
he certainly wouldn't have been my first choice but was still a better wrestler than most and with joe in the main event, aj and daniels in the tag division and Kaz and senshi both in a slump he was the best choice for the undercard push
He was generic with his initial gimmick which he ended up with during his final run.
let me reiterate, he was a better wrestler than most on the roster
Didn't stand out in the very least as a character and was nothing noteworthy in the ring. .
how many talented African americans were on the roster at the time?
He was very good but after a few months I lost interest as I didn't see anything more to him than that.
tna did drop the ball with him at first
He lacked charisma, presence and match psychology..
I think the term you're looking for in this is REALISM
His Macho Man gimmick was a very annoying period of his tenure and I was glad when he got it over with. .
me too, lethal was fine on his own and didnt need that s**t
It just made him a secondary character to be passed on without the aggrevating segments and promos which made me hate seeing him. .
a secondary character to who? and
off course he wasn't centre stage he was on the lowercard at the time what did you expect?
than just float around the card aimlessly.
you want to see wrestlers flounder around without cause or purpose, just take up a slot that someone else could use even though it would be just bad booking and bad planning on managements part
Furthermore, we never got to see him play a heel and I believe the reason was they realized he wasn't going to be good at it..
not every wrestler needs to be a heel, talk about redundant
At the end of the day, his release was an item of news I was happy to hear.
this is the kind of attitude that is hurting tna
Still, even I ackowledged how much of a waste the effords to put over were.
anyones efforts would have been pointless at that point considering all the butchering he went through leading up to his last months, had someone given him his due earlier though......
He beat Angle while he was at the peak of popularity with his Macho Man gimmick. He was played an ultimate face role in a six-man street fight because he was the top merchandize seller then. He then went on to beat Flair, was put over by Sting and all that for management/creative to drop the ball on him and scrap the efforts of putting him over at the expense of legends and a handful of solid workers. A shame, I must say.
1. beating angle gave him enough of a rub to make his way to the uppercard at least for the sake of consistantcy
2. merch sellar or not he was still a great wrestler that along with kaz and senshi and daniels and young maybe even shelly and kid kash could have been the trendsetters to help take tna to the top, at least in the quality department
3. my memory is hazy but im pretty sure sting didn't lose to him cleanly and everyone has beaten flair at this point so whoopdedoo
4 Expense of legends?! :no: with their over inflated salaries GET OUT OF HERE!
5. the only shame here is that tna hired him at all just to have him flounder on and die, really makes you wonder why they even hired him,
THIS IS WHY YOU NEED A 5 YEAR PLAN IN WRESTLING