Black Reign has been released

[chessarmy]

It looks we've seen the last of Dustin Rhodes, 39, as a full-time performer on national television. TNA removed the profile of his alter ego, Black Reign, from the roster section on the company website earlier in the week, which should confirm his departure from the organization. When you visit his former profile page, for some reason it re-directs to the profile page of TNA Knockout Angelina Love.

Black Reign had been off television for three months and counting, his last appearance taking place on the 4/24 Impact during a tag team title tournament. Rhodes debuted at last year's Victory Road pay-per-view to start a program with "Wildcat" Chris Harris. He debuted his "Black Reign" persona at last August's Hard Justice pay-per-view, losing to Harris via disqualification. Later he was involved with the likes of Abyss and Rellik, participating in a "Monster's Ball" match, a "Shop of Horrors" match, as well as a "Match of 10,000 Tacks" match in subsequent pay-per-views. Reign then entered a program with Frankie "Kaz" Kazarian as well as Eric Young. Reign and Rellik lost to Kaz and Young at the Destination X pay-per-view. He worked a few more shows through April before disappearing.

Around the time of his disappearance, TNA started devoting more television time to the Knockouts, giving them at least two segments per show instead of one because they often scored the highest-rated segments for Impact. Due to the additional Knockouts segment(s), that basically squeezed out fringe characters such as Black Reign and Rellik from getting any television time.

Rhodes was believed to be on a pay-per-appearance deal. In an interesting note, sometimes performers actually make more with a pay-per-appearance deal than a long-term contract.

Source: 24

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Yes! This is great news. Tomko getting released was horrible but at least Rhodes is gone too. Now Kip and BG need to go and TNA will have a (near) perfect roster lol.

Thoughts?

 

[gamebreaker]

he needed to be dropped
he should return to wwe as goldust again lol

 

[Dre]

Well to me, it was pretty obvious that Black Regin was going to get release soon. They didn't book him in a match for a while. They basically Tomko his ass.

 

[J]

Awesome i hated him and as for what you said about Kip and BG. I agree with Kip but hell BG has been with TNA for a while and should not be dropped. He's one of the few TNA originals still around.

 

[Vandy316]

Dustin should comeback to WWE and have a program with Cody. Trying to talk him out of being partners with DiBiase and then bring Dusty into it later. I dont know how it would end but i would like to see it

 

[Soulpower]

This is worthy of its own thread?

 

[PeepShow]

Was Killer ever released? What happened to that dude.

 

[chessarmy]

^ yea he was released a few months ago I believe

 

[McLovin]

God damn TNA, can't you notice true talent when you see it, first you fire ReliK, that's killer spelt backwards if you didn't know, and now Black Reign. Pah I have had enough.

 

[Soulpower]

^^Agreed. If they fire Kip James, I might just stop watching TNA :shifty: