News Trent Barreta in TNA

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Has WWE ever propped up a jobber like Baretta as if he was a huge deal? Chavo is lame, but he does have a decent resume in WWE/WCW before he came over at least.

Who is the lamest WWE guy that TNA has pushed?

Every good thing Chavo did was ruined when he feuded with Hornswoggle.
They went crazy like Tiffany was a big deal. Seem to remember the commentary overselling Knox and Gallows as well.

None of these people have been pushed particularly hard based solely on their WWE runs (Taryn's matches have earned it) but the way they thought they were such big deals was just embarrassing.
 

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Every good thing Chavo did was ruined when he feuded with Hornswoggle.
They went crazy like Tiffany was a big deal. Seem to remember the commentary overselling Knox and Gallows as well.

None of these people have been pushed particularly hard based solely on their WWE runs (Taryn's matches have earned it) but the way they thought they were such big deals was just embarrassing.


lol when was Knox or Gallows made to be a big deal? Did either even have a singles match in TNA?
 

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Like who? And he is on a pay per appearance, he isn't under contract.

Will he not get any kind of weekly wage?

Looking in the X Division there's guys like Sonjay, Petey, Christian York, Kenny King, Suicide or whatever his name is now. They're all decent workers and not really doing much just now. I don't really see what Trent offers that guys like them don't.

There's probably a few more names in the X Division I'm forgetting as well.
 

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Will he not get any kind of weekly wage?

Looking in the X Division there's guys like Sonjay, Petey, Christian York, Kenny King, Suicide or whatever his name is now. They're all decent workers and not really doing much just now. I don't really see what Trent offers that guys like them don't.

There's probably a few more names in the X Division I'm forgetting as well.

Christian York is a hack lol. Fuck him. Pretty sure Sonjay and Petey are also pay per appearance. Suicide is a cornball wrestler and King is the man, but he still needs more guys in the X Division.

With the current corny ass set up of triple threat matches being spammed all over, they need more warm bodies to compete.
 

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Christian York is a hack lol. Fuck him. Pretty sure Sonjay and Petey are also pay per appearance. Suicide is a cornball wrestler and King is the man, but he still needs more guys in the X Division.

With the current corny ass set up of triple threat matches being spammed all over, they need more warm bodies to compete.

I guess the whole pay per appearance does kind of change things.

York's not the worst, although I always found him to be too big to actually pull off half the moves in his moveset.

I dunno, Trent is decent, but when guys like Joey Ryan are being future endeavoured I find it strange that they're going after a guy like Barretta. Still, the whole pay per appearance means they don't even have to use him at all I guess.
 

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Nobody deserves to have a job when you consider Ryan getting the ax, but such is life.
 

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As Dolph's said, Trent doesn't really do anything for me. I mean, people portray him as a big thing in the indies now and I just feel it. His matches compared to the other's have been less enjoyable in my opinion. A friend of mine wondered how he can have a sort of stale match with Roddy Strong at ASW night 1 or 2, I didn't think it was too bad, but definitely the weakest of the show. He's not bad or anything, I just can't buy into his hype, nor did I really care for him when people told me to check out his NXT/Superstars matches in WWE.

Alright worker though. Definitely something people will take note of as we've already seen, so it ain't too bad of a choice to hire him if he's staying for long.
 

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Christian York is a hack lol. Fuck him. Pretty sure Sonjay and Petey are also pay per appearance. Suicide is a cornball wrestler and King is the man, but he still needs more guys in the X Division.

With the current corny ass set up of triple threat matches being spammed all over, they need more warm bodies to compete.

I'm guessing you're not a fan of TJ Perkins eh? I gotta say that's a first.
 

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I'm guessing you're not a fan of TJ Perkins eh? I gotta say that's a first.

I mean Suicide the character or whatever the fuck they call him now. Perkins is fine, I neither like nor dislike him.
 

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I mean Suicide the character or whatever the fuck they call him now. Perkins is fine, I neither like nor dislike him.

The Suicide character is definitely outdated, but if it means TJ Perkins can wrestle on TV then I'll take it.
 

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Looking in the X Division there's guys like Sonjay, Petey, Christian York, Kenny King, Suicide or whatever his name is now. They're all decent workers and not really doing much just now. I don't really see what Trent offers that guys like them don't.

A WWE tenure :pity2: We know how Dixie goes for that.
 

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The Suicide character is definitely outdated, but if it means TJ Perkins can wrestle on TV then I'll take it.

The fact that they just changed the Suicide name to the über silly Manic and just removed the name from the suit instead of doing a major character overhaul or just letting TJ wrestle as fricking PUMA is beyond me.
 

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lol when was Knox or Gallows made to be a big deal? Did either even have a singles match in TNA?

(Forgot to reply to this, suits the discussion we were having in the other thread)

It's not what they did with them, it's how the commentary spazzed when they were unmasked.



OH MY GOD THAT'S MIKE KNOX FROM THE WWE! This wasn't "OMG Massive!" but it really felt like "Oh boy, the Aces got an ex-WWE guy, we're all screwed!"
With Greg they didn't mention anything about his past, he just showed up.

Also lol @ that weak ass beatdown by Sting.