Major Knockout Star Leaves TNA

[Soulpower]

To Roxxifanboy and Gashface... Read the latest Impact spoilers, and look at what goes on with your Knockouts.

 

[gashface]

IF TNA ever do anything like this again I'll be seriously pissed off. That whole impact sounds terrible.

 

[chessarmy]

The primary reason Gail Kim left TNA for WWE was due to the significant discrepancy between the kind of money WWE offered her and what TNA offered her. According to multiple sources, Kim really didn't really want to leave TNA, but she felt she had no choice but to accept WWE's offer due to the massive difference in money.

Despite being the most consistent TV ratings draws for the company, it appears that no matter how successful the female performers are for TNA, they're still not going to make much money, at least in comparison to the guys. The company still saw the top babyface in the division of what has become, from a television ratings standpoint, their most successful entity, as a low-budget expenditure. TNA offered their top female babyface star well under $100,000 per year, a figure that can only be met if she appears on a target number of shows, so if she gets hurt, she's not getting all the money. TNA's offer to Kim was said to be less than one-third of what WWE was offering - a six-figure downside guaranteed contract for three years. Also, Kim can potentially earn significantly more from appearing on pay-per-views and house shows, not to mention merchandise such as action figures. Additionally, TNA's lackluster offer to Kim probably doesn't bode well for the other girls in the company when their respective contracts come up considering that the top star couldn't even get a six figure offer.

Kim's friends had to talk her into leaving for WWE due to her strong sense of loyalty and happiness with TNA. While Kim loved TNA as well as her friends in the company, she couldn't justify not taking the significantly better offer from WWE. One friend of Kim said she really had no choice but to go for the financial security that only WWE can provide. One TNA source disappointed in her decision said she chose to be unhappy for more money rather than stay happy with the smaller company that made her a star.

There was said to be a huge void backstage at this week's iMPACT! tapings as a number of her friends couldn't believe she was gone, especially without saying goodbye before she left.

One friend of Kim's with knowledge of TNA's apparent lowball offer deemed it to be "insulting" and "possibly sexist.

Source: 24wrestling

 

[Tsaalyo Phoenix]

I agree with the source. She’s chosing money over happiness, despite warning of all the former-WWE guys she's worked with, and I doubt she’ll last long in WWE. Then she’ll be wished the best on her future endeavors and have a multi-year no compete clause in regards to TNA. Pretty clueless on Gail’s part.

 

[Rawkus Keyes]

Apparently she's back with WWE

according to wikipedia.org

Gail Kim has signed a WWE contract.

 

[_-_-Magnus-_-_]

Didn't See This Coming... ><

Gail should make an interesting addition to Smackdown. That would suit her best in my opinion.

 

[Kaedon]

Wikipedia Said It!? Well Then It Has To Be True!!

 

[phantomgerald]

^^^LOL. If it is true, then money does mean everything.

 

[humankiller99]

she should go on ecw and team with lena yada

 

[Evil Austin]

well if she is on smackdown hopefully she can give a bit of class to the "divas" championshp

 

[chessarmy]

Pretty much everyone expected this to happen, this is the only reason she left TNA.

 

[Enigma22]

i doubt shes gonna go to smackdown. the whole knockout thing is that they arent just divas so i dont think she would want the diva championship. id much rather see her on raw...

 

[-TJ-]

Interesting to say the least. She could go to SD has a tweener. That's the best choice in my opinion. She can even start a stable with the twins who full house'd Victoria last week. :shifty:

 

[★Chuck Zombie★]

First of all, Wikipedia can't be a trusted source for things of this nature since so much information is going around and anybody can put up what they hear.

Secondly, it was reported that Gail Kim was leaving TNA to go to WWE before she even left TNA.

We can now confirm that Gail Kim is jumping ship and heading back to World Wrestling Entertainment. They are reporting that she was offered a very sizeable offer and has taken them up on the deal.

Gim's contract is up about to run up and she will be free to start working for WWE once it expires. The decision for her to leave TNA for WWE was completely financial as she had been happy in TNA. The deal she was offered was a big one and hard to pass up.

Kim left TNA on extremely good terms and the door is always open for a return.

Gail will appear on iMPACT! tonight in a street fight with Awesome Kong.

That was posted on the 21st.

 

[gamebreaker]

She should go on Smackdown and go for the Divas Title
This is a steal from TNA and I think its gonna work out good for WWE