WWE declined to allow AJ Styles in TNA's HOF

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Lol the funny thing is it could play right into the current story line. Wild they give NOAH more than TNA
 

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Lol the funny thing is it could play right into the current story line. Wild they give NOAH more than TNA
Didn't they cuck them with a Santino trademarks too? Such a great, totally fair partnership that is totally not one sided at all. But TNA sold a lot of tickets featuring a singular low card NXT star so we should thank WWE for their great benevolence on bringing eyes to TNA (even thought their ratings were higher with a certain other promotion that apparently is the devil)

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Lol the funny thing is it could play right into the current story line. Wild they give NOAH more than TNA
I'm guessing the timeline between them starting the angle and this induction was too short since I imagine they were going to play on him being in a crisis and doubting whether he still has it anymore etc.
 
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Pretty sure going into the hof of another company can be worked around or just ignored. Wwe being this self absorbed is insane to me and I'm sure lots of ppl will somehow defend this lol
 

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Lol the funny thing is it could play right into the current story line. Wild they give NOAH more than TNA
To be fair it actually hinders the AJ storyline.

If AJ is down on his luck why would you do a storyline where he's literally inducted into a Hall of Fame? That's gonna be the antithesis of that.

I would have been perfectly fine with that dichotomy given that it's AJ Styles. and there can't be a TNA Hall of Fame without him. But it may not fit what they have going on. Also do we know if AJ even wanted it? Maybe he said nah not right now.
 
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The storyline is that he's old and can't go anymore which is when people get inducted into HOFs
 

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As I said , putting a midcard story over another company's hof is wild lol. It's just a fake storyline and it's not that serious. Let the dude and tna get their flowers, ur already poaching half their main eventers :heston have a heart
 
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Plus it’s not like they actually have to even acknowledge it on WWE tbh. :lol AJ was the heart and soul of TNA forever, so him going in would’ve been great. I’m sure he’ll get in eventually, but still.
 
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Plus it’s not like they actually have to even acknowledge it on WWE tbh. :lol AJ was the heart and soul of TNA forever, so him going in would’ve been great. I’m sure he’ll get in eventually, but still.
Bro they even let AJ do message on the Bob Ryder tna hof induction so it's just so...like wtf lol
 
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Such a great, totally fair partnership that is totally not one sided at all. But TNA sold a lot of tickets featuring a singular low card NXT star so we should thank WWE for their great benevolence on bringing eyes to TNA (even thought their ratings were higher with a certain other promotion that apparently is the devil)

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Shouldn't surprise anyone really. This is a content creator partnership á la "You give us actual things, while we give you 'exposure' as pay.", which in pretty much all cases only benefits one party (the one that gets the actual stuff) overall. It was always going to be like this.

Fuck storylines, denying this HoF induction is garbage and it reminds me of how Vince would handle this, quite frankly. He would never agree to anything, that would give a wider audience of the WWE a chance to see how a current WWE talent being glorified for what they've accomplished in a more or less competing company AND where that talent actually was build up to be the big name it already was, when it came into the WWE.
 

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Hey look at this it was AJ saying no not WWE.
 

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Never disputed that part just the part where their storyline not making sense for the HOF was told to me it was a good reason for WWE to deny it...which he's saying wasn't true either lol
 

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Still a weird decision by him imo. You can be honored while still being active and he’s been gone from TNA for like a decade.

But whatever.