Taz on lähtenyt TNA:sta. Syynä maksamattomat palkat, jotka vaivaavat vissiin muutenkin rosterissa. Oivoi...
PWInsider kirjoitti:Taz's final TV appearance was this past Friday's episode of Impact Wrestling, which was filmed several weeks ago.
As I reported on Monday, PWInsider.com was told that Taz did not come to a planned voice-over session in Nashville, TN last Friday as scheduled to do commentary for several weeks of Impact Wrestling. Sources within TNA claim that pay issues led to Taz effectively refusing to get on his flight from New York. So, the same pay issues that we wrote about yesterday that have been frustrating TNA wrestlers for weeks was obviously a factor in Taz leaving the company.
Taz had been with TNA for five years, signing with them in 2009 after leaving WWE, He had been a regular fixture on Impact Wrestling TV and TNA PPVs and at one point, had been connected on screen with Samoa Joe. He also was utilized as a Judge in the TNA Gutcheck when that was a regular fixture of Impact Wrestling. TNA sources indicate Taz was under contract until sometime this summer.
Taz has been working as an announcer since 2002 when he officially retired from the ring after a 16-year career that saw him win every championship in Extreme Championship Wrestling as well as the WWE Hardcore and Tag Team championships. He had a long run as one of the voices of WWE's Smackdown brand before opting to leave the company.
Given his proximity to Connecticut (Taz lives in Long Island, NY), one could think that WWE would be interested in utilizing him in some form, especially since he'd be a fresh face with credibility that could be utilized on the WWE Network - and like current announcer Scott Stanford, he could very easily be used around his other broadcast responsibilities elsewhere - but it's too soon to know for sure.
As far as the question of Taz's TNA replacement, we are told that Al Snow received a tryout several weeks back as an announcer alongside Josh Mathews. Whether he ends up as Taz's replacement on Impact Wrestling remains to be seen. I believe Josh Mathews did voice-overs for this week's episode of Impact Wrestling solo, but that could change if TNA decides to add someone else to the booth as they have several days before the episode needs to be turned into Destination America.
As of this writing, Taz has not commented on why he's left TNA, but given his radio/podcast platform with CBS Radio and
www.Play.it, one would suspect that sooner or later, he will be explaining his departure.
Sinänsä jo kustannussyistä näkisin, että äijä olisi häipynyt viimeistään kesällä diilin ollessa katkolla. Olettaen siis, että ukko tienasi vielä vanhojen hyvien aikojen peruna jotain supertähtirahaa. Taz ei kuitenkaan ole korvaamaton selostamossa, ja muuta hän ei käsittääkseni firmassa tehnytkään. Hauska sinänsä, kun muistan kuinka mies aikanaan TNA:han siirtyessään kommentoi, että tärkein syy lähteä WWE:stä oli päästä tekemään jotain muutakin kuin selostushommia...
Toisena uutisena, on taas se aika vuodesta. Ei vielä WWE:n kevätsiivous, vaan se, kun Briscoet tekevät uuden ROH-sopparin.
PWInsider kirjoitti:Ring of Honor announced today that ROH champion Jay Briscoe and his brother Mark have each signed new two-year deals with the company. While the signings were announced this afternoon, I believe they were actually signed about a month ago. I heard rumblings among ROH talents the second week of March that The Briscoes had agreed to new deals but could not confirm it.
WWE sources indicate that the company made a "top flight NXT level offer" in their attempt to sign the brothers but a number of factors led the pair to instead sign new deals with Ring of Honor.
For one, the Briscoes have each had a big part in growing ROH and have been there since the first show and there was an extreme sense of loyalty to the company. Secondly, each of The Briscoes have a big family (Jay has three children while Mark has three children and a fourth on the way) and uprooting all of them from their family in Delaware and moving them down to Florida was not going to be an easy transition for any involved, especially given what a strong family bond the Briscoe family has. The way the family is portrayed on TV (in terms of being such a strong family unit) is 100% legitimate to who they are as a family. Third, the brothers have outside business prospects in Delaware, including their family's farm and like ROH, they did not want to walk away and abandon something they have worked on their entire lives to build for an NXT deal. Fourth, obviously ROH made the brothers an offer that was to their liking.
My gut feeling is that if WWE had offered The Briscoes something that would have sent them right onto TV on the main roster for main roster money, we'd have seen The Briscoes leave, but them to walk away from ROH and their entire family's lifestyle for the promise of just NXT, it wasn't going to happen....and who knows, it might happen one day, but it won't be at least for several years, but it also might never happen.
Online rumors that Jay Briscoe was offered the ROH booking position in an attempt to get The Briscoes to stay is great science fiction, but nothing of that sort was ever discussed.
Puskista tuli kyllä, mutta hieno uutinenhan tämä on. Saas nähdä minkä aikaisia jaksoja sieltä tulee.
