@TellumSiege I don’t know why, but Simon Gotch has really caught my attention. Gives me Edge vibes.

@JelloBrains @GeekFTW to be honest, I can see why TNA want to keep him if they can. I kind of don’t blame them. But from a talent management standpoint it’s not a good indicator of how he feels about the state of things. It arguably looks worse if they let Josh leave because it sets a precedent that Anthem will let you leave. But you can’t treat people like assets on a spreadsheet.

Real solution is rehiring Scott D’Amore.

@GeekFTW maybe Josh would have still wanted to look around even with D’Amore at the helm, but the fact that he wanted to look is not a good look for Anthem.

@Montagge @GeekFTW lol that’s hilarious, the new graphic is VERY clear now

@GeekFTW hold up. The title says that TNA is extending the contract, but the graphic says he resigned. Which is it? Normally it doesn’t matter because you probably want to stay at your wrestling promotion, but in this case I wonder if this is Anthem keeping Josh Alexander on lock? Idk, I’m just sus about everything they do now, lol.

@GeekFTW NGL, it’s a clever way to mess with fans and drum up hype to something. I imagine it’s something at Impact or No Surrender only because I would be surprised for them to have a public show of their displeasure with Anthem.

In my heart I want it to mean that Scott D’Amore return incoming lol

@ThatSportsChick @wrestling and Edge. AEW is unfortunately good at making top stars feel like mid card people.

@GeekFTW I don’t understand the appeal of Shotzi. Idk, I don’t vibe with her performances.

@GeekFTW the way he talked about it makes me think that he suspects TNA was losing money. Maybe that has been the state of things for a while and what they wanted out of TNA was to start being profitable or cut costs. But if D’Amore was asking for money and to increase budget, that’s just not a guy who will do the cost cutting that they need. Theory: they let D’Amore try to increase revenue but his time was up and now it’s time to contain costs.

@GeekFTW yeah, that sounds real possible. I can only imagine how intimidating organizing a strike would be so I don’t blame folks for not wanting to. Especially if you’re employed in a highly competitive industry for the third largest promotion.

@SquaredCircle legit might go back to Twitter just to ask about this idea

@GeekFTW @Montagge context: Moose is the current TNA world champion.

@TellumSiege I will remind us that no one suspected the Netflix deal. I think WWE is choosing what they tell us right now.

Also the way I square the conflicting reports is that Meltzer reflects the plans among TKO leadership and SRS reflects reports from WWE creative down. Different parties knew different things.

@GeekFTW if they go through all this trouble of acknowledging the online discourse and don’t give us what we want, they’re crazy.

@GeekFTW Rock bad, Cody good

I can understand their decision, but it’s not what I wanted and if they can switch gears (clumsily or not) I would prefer it.

@GeekFTW he’s right. Despite all the goodwill in the world I may want to impart to the rest of WWE who were also under McMahon’s thumb for their entire existence, the response to this situation and all the others we don’t know about needs to be handled. For the good guys in the company, you have to throw off the habit of covering things up and show radical transparency and improvement.

@GeekFTW @GoodandPlenty put Slim Jim in a trios match with Tom and Nick

@GoodandPlenty @GeekFTW you mean that’s not what’s happening? Bruh Jim needs a push already

@GeekFTW I did not think things were that bad.

@cupcakezealot off topic, but what space do you think NXT currently fills? That’s the other show that I regularly watch is why I ask.