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Spoiler alert<\/a>: Trinity Fatu confirmed to have signed deal with Impact Wrestling, will debut soon<\/span><\/p>\n As much as I appreciate and find enjoyment in the post-TNA era of Impact Wrestling, there\u2019s no denying the overall perception of the promotion is that they\u2019re very much no higher than third-tier.\u00a0 WWE and AEW are the easy #1 and 2 promotions in America, and Impact is basically where anyone who is unable to land a job in the big two end up.\u00a0 The roster is full of quality talents and strong workers, but there\u2019s no denying the fact that nearly all of them have experience with \u00a0WWE and\/or AEW and have landed in Impact mostly out of lack of better options.<\/span><\/p>\n It’s still a means to remain on camera, and in lots of cases, it\u2019s a good low-pressure environment for workers to reinvent their characters and put in work, while still getting paid and keeping a foot jammed in the doors to bigger opportunities.\u00a0 But there\u2019s no denying that the overall perception of Impact still has the stink of Dixie Carter\u2019s and Jerry Jarrett\u2019s TNA all over it, and such alone is one of the highest hurdles for the brand to overcome on a daily basis.<\/span><\/p>\n The bottom line is, professional wrestlers don\u2019t perform in their careers with the dream and intention to land in Impact Wrestling.\u00a0 They all dream of getting to the top<\/a> of the industry, or doing their best to make themselves into<\/a> the top of the industry; love them or hate them, but that really means, making it to the WWE or joining the hopes and dreams hype train of AEW.<\/span><\/p>\n So all that being said, I can\u2019t imagine that the hopes of Naomi, when she walked out of the WWE along with Sasha Banks, was that she was going to land in Impact Wrestling. \u00a0I imagine she hoped that the impact of her and Sasha walking out would cause a movement in the WWE creative machine to where they would be welcomed back with open arms, and some more legitimate respect would be put onto the women\u2019s division, the women\u2019s tag division, and maybe some more money would be thrown in their direction too.<\/span><\/p>\n However, what they failed to realize was that Vince McMahon was still the head dick in charge at that time, and he doesn\u2019t even care about the Intercontinental championship<\/a> much less the women\u2019s division, and not only was their bluff called, the situation was even brought up on the air, just to punctuate their general unimpressed nature of what they had done.\u00a0 Sasha would go on to Japan, become Mercedes Mone, immediately win the IWGP Women\u2019s Championship, and is supposedly making six-figures per appearance, while Naomi has been on her ass since.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Personally, this was not surprising to me; as much as I like Trinity Fatu and think she\u2019s a strong performer, she was no real loss to the WWE.\u00a0 Sasha Banks however, was a game changer, a franchise player, and a woman whom the division could be built around; but her conduct and general perception of her attitude put them both into a position where an old unapologetic fuck like Vince McMahon had no choice but to call their bluff and let them walk, because doing anything else is an L in his book, putting two performers above the business that nobody is bigger than.<\/span><\/p>\n The thing is, from the moment it happened, beyond thinking it was just a work, when it was confirmed that it wasn\u2019t, the first thing I thought was that this was entirely Sasha\u2019s idea, and Naomi went along with it.\u00a0 Sasha has already demonstrated her willingness to walk out like a spoiled brat when things weren\u2019t necessarily favorable for her, but when she decided to do it again, it\u2019s clear she felt that she had to bring Naomi with her in order to feel like she was strengthening her leverage, even it if meant potentially harming another person\u2019s career.<\/span><\/p>\n When the bluff was called, Sasha knew she still had demand and options, and cashed those in.\u00a0 But unfortunately Naomi wasn\u2019t as fortunate; this isn\u2019t to say that she doesn\u2019t have the capability of being a franchise player, but over the last decade, she\u2019s been portrayed as nothing more than a good team player and a transitional champion at best, and no promotion is going to offer premium dollar for such perception.<\/span><\/p>\n And now, Naomi is now in Impact Wrestling.\u00a0 The third-tier promotion that most wrestling fans don\u2019t even know what channel to tune into in order to watch.\u00a0 Even if she is shot to the top of the card to go up against the likes of Deonna Purrazzo and Jordynne Grace, she\u2019ll still be making a fraction of the money that she would\u2019ve been making as a WWE mid-carder.\u00a0 Now I doubt her and her husband Jimmy Uso are ever going to sweat on the financial front, but there\u2019s no denying the trajectory of her personal career has been seriously derailed, by a decision that wasn\u2019t necessarily her own.\u00a0 And as much as I like Impact now, the detour through Impact usually takes a good bit of time to reroute through.<\/span><\/p>\n Which brings us back to the image above, I most definitely believe that Sasha Banks screwed Naomi, and I don\u2019t really think that I\u2019m going to change my stance on that opinion.\u00a0 The intentions of their actions weren\u2019t bad, but the execution of it was something that you just don\u2019t do in any line of work and expect positive results, and there\u2019s not a single part of me that doesn\u2019t think this wasn\u2019t solely Sasha\u2019s idea from the start.\u00a0 I feel that she used Naomi like a pawn to try and strengthen her objective, but when it failed, she basically poisoned Naomi\u2019s career, while she went onto to find a lucrative alternative.<\/span><\/p>\n Even before she married into the ultra-loyal Anoa\u2019i family, Naomi was the consummate pro who got the business and seemed to understand that at some point, everyone in history eats shit sandwiches from time to time.\u00a0 She may have been a former Smackdown women\u2019s champion before, but she\u2019s also done her share of jobs to the IIconics, Lana, Mandy Rose and other weak workers she could wrestle into knots if she wanted to.\u00a0 There\u2019s no part of me that believes she would ever think to walk out of the company on her own accord.<\/span><\/p>\n Of course, nobody will ever admit to any finger pointing or sour grapes, at least not while careers are still active.\u00a0 But inevitably, both Sasha and Naomi will be back in the WWE, because on a long enough timeline, everyone comes home eventually.\u00a0 They better pray that Vince McMahon is entirely out when that day comes, because that man holds a grudge like no other, and he would 100% resume whatever he had in mind for them prior to their walkout, just to prove a point, before he jobs them around for a minute, as a receipt for their past transgressions.<\/span><\/p>\n Speaking of receipts, to me, the real telling point would be the inevitability that Sasha Banks steps in the ring for a match against Naomi.\u00a0 I would be ohhhhhh like I were watching a dunk contest<\/a> if Naomi absolutely potatoes the fuck out of Sasha with like a kick to her head that\u2019s a little too snug, as retribution for the likely 2+ years of her prime that were squandered on a really foolish idea.\u00a0 Because again, nobody will ever say what they really feel, but the actions will definitely speak for them, and I\u2019m sure Naomi is smart enough to have realized, Sasha screwed her.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Spoiler alert: Trinity Fatu confirmed to have signed deal with Impact Wrestling, will debut soon As much as I appreciate and find enjoyment in the post-TNA era of Impact Wrestling, there\u2019s no denying the overall perception of the promotion is that they\u2019re very much no higher than third-tier.\u00a0 WWE and AEW are the easy #1 … Continue reading Yeah, not going to change my mind on this one<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,152,83,54,55],"class_list":["post-49347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cashmoney","tag-gambling","tag-observations","tag-wrestling","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49349,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49347\/revisions\/49349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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![make themselves into<\/a> the top of the industry; love them or hate them, but that really means, making it to the WWE or joining the hopes and dreams hype train of AEW.<\/span><\/p>\nSo all that being said, I can\u2019t imagine that the hopes of Naomi, when she walked out of the WWE along with Sasha Banks, was that she was going to land in Impact Wrestling. \u00a0I imagine she hoped that the impact of her and Sasha walking out would cause a movement in the WWE creative machine to where they would be welcomed back with open arms, and some more legitimate respect would be put onto the women\u2019s division, the women\u2019s tag division, and maybe some more money would be thrown in their direction too.<\/span><\/p>\nHowever, what they failed to realize was that Vince McMahon was still the head dick in charge at that time, and he doesn\u2019t even care about the Intercontinental championship<\/a> much less the women\u2019s division, and not only was their bluff called, the situation was even brought up on the air, just to punctuate their general unimpressed nature of what they had done.\u00a0 Sasha would go on to Japan, become Mercedes Mone, immediately win the IWGP Women\u2019s Championship, and is supposedly making six-figures per appearance, while Naomi has been on her ass since.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nPersonally, this was not surprising to me; as much as I like Trinity Fatu and think she\u2019s a strong performer, she was no real loss to the WWE.\u00a0 Sasha Banks however, was a game changer, a franchise player, and a woman whom the division could be built around; but her conduct and general perception of her attitude put them both into a position where an old unapologetic fuck like Vince McMahon had no choice but to call their bluff and let them walk, because doing anything else is an L in his book, putting two performers above the business that nobody is bigger than.<\/span><\/p>\nThe thing is, from the moment it happened, beyond thinking it was just a work, when it was confirmed that it wasn\u2019t, the first thing I thought was that this was entirely Sasha\u2019s idea, and Naomi went along with it.\u00a0 Sasha has already demonstrated her willingness to walk out like a spoiled brat when things weren\u2019t necessarily favorable for her, but when she decided to do it again, it\u2019s clear she felt that she had to bring Naomi with her in order to feel like she was strengthening her leverage, even it if meant potentially harming another person\u2019s career.<\/span><\/p>\nWhen the bluff was called, Sasha knew she still had demand and options, and cashed those in.\u00a0 But unfortunately Naomi wasn\u2019t as fortunate; this isn\u2019t to say that she doesn\u2019t have the capability of being a franchise player, but over the last decade, she\u2019s been portrayed as nothing more than a good team player and a transitional champion at best, and no promotion is going to offer premium dollar for such perception.<\/span><\/p>\nAnd now, Naomi is now in Impact Wrestling.\u00a0 The third-tier promotion that most wrestling fans don\u2019t even know what channel to tune into in order to watch.\u00a0 Even if she is shot to the top of the card to go up against the likes of Deonna Purrazzo and Jordynne Grace, she\u2019ll still be making a fraction of the money that she would\u2019ve been making as a WWE mid-carder.\u00a0 Now I doubt her and her husband Jimmy Uso are ever going to sweat on the financial front, but there\u2019s no denying the trajectory of her personal career has been seriously derailed, by a decision that wasn\u2019t necessarily her own.\u00a0 And as much as I like Impact now, the detour through Impact usually takes a good bit of time to reroute through.<\/span><\/p>\nWhich brings us back to the image above, I most definitely believe that Sasha Banks screwed Naomi, and I don\u2019t really think that I\u2019m going to change my stance on that opinion.\u00a0 The intentions of their actions weren\u2019t bad, but the execution of it was something that you just don\u2019t do in any line of work and expect positive results, and there\u2019s not a single part of me that doesn\u2019t think this wasn\u2019t solely Sasha\u2019s idea from the start.\u00a0 I feel that she used Naomi like a pawn to try and strengthen her objective, but when it failed, she basically poisoned Naomi\u2019s career, while she went onto to find a lucrative alternative.<\/span><\/p>\nEven before she married into the ultra-loyal Anoa\u2019i family, Naomi was the consummate pro who got the business and seemed to understand that at some point, everyone in history eats shit sandwiches from time to time.\u00a0 She may have been a former Smackdown women\u2019s champion before, but she\u2019s also done her share of jobs to the IIconics, Lana, Mandy Rose and other weak workers she could wrestle into knots if she wanted to.\u00a0 There\u2019s no part of me that believes she would ever think to walk out of the company on her own accord.<\/span><\/p>\nOf course, nobody will ever admit to any finger pointing or sour grapes, at least not while careers are still active.\u00a0 But inevitably, both Sasha and Naomi will be back in the WWE, because on a long enough timeline, everyone comes home eventually.\u00a0 They better pray that Vince McMahon is entirely out when that day comes, because that man holds a grudge like no other, and he would 100% resume whatever he had in mind for them prior to their walkout, just to prove a point, before he jobs them around for a minute, as a receipt for their past transgressions.<\/span><\/p>\nSpeaking of receipts, to me, the real telling point would be the inevitability that Sasha Banks steps in the ring for a match against Naomi.\u00a0 I would be ohhhhhh like I were watching a dunk contest<\/a> if Naomi absolutely potatoes the fuck out of Sasha with like a kick to her head that\u2019s a little too snug, as retribution for the likely 2+ years of her prime that were squandered on a really foolish idea.\u00a0 Because again, nobody will ever say what they really feel, but the actions will definitely speak for them, and I\u2019m sure Naomi is smart enough to have realized, Sasha screwed her.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spoiler alert: Trinity Fatu confirmed to have signed deal with Impact Wrestling, will debut soon As much as I appreciate and find enjoyment in the post-TNA era of Impact Wrestling, there\u2019s no denying the overall perception of the promotion is that they\u2019re very much no higher than third-tier.\u00a0 WWE and AEW are the easy #1 … Continue reading Yeah, not going to change my mind on this 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![ohhhhhh like I were watching a dunk contest<\/a> if Naomi absolutely potatoes the fuck out of Sasha with like a kick to her head that\u2019s a little too snug, as retribution for the likely 2+ years of her prime that were squandered on a really foolish idea.\u00a0 Because again, nobody will ever say what they really feel, but the actions will definitely speak for them, and I\u2019m sure Naomi is smart enough to have realized, Sasha screwed her.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spoiler alert: Trinity Fatu confirmed to have signed deal with Impact Wrestling, will debut soon As much as I appreciate and find enjoyment in the post-TNA era of Impact Wrestling, there\u2019s no denying the overall perception of the promotion is that they\u2019re very much no higher than third-tier.\u00a0 WWE and AEW are the easy #1 … Continue reading Yeah, not going to change my mind on this one<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,152,83,54,55],"class_list":["post-49347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cashmoney","tag-gambling","tag-observations","tag-wrestling","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49349,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49347\/revisions\/49349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/i.gifer.com\/406f.gif\"){kind=link}