i don’t understand how people are claiming that hiring jenna morasca shows disrespect to the knockouts, though? she was a zlist celebrity and wasn’t brought in as a wrestler. if anything, her match vs sharmell lasted longer than 75% of the diva matches over the last couple years, surely her and sharmell were respected enough to be given that time, even if it was a shambles?

the drunken streetfight is no more disrespectful than the gimmicky matches half the male roster end up in. and unfortunately it fits odb’s gimmick. the fact that the majority of the knockouts have some sort of gimmick, let alone a voice and the chance to prove themselves in backstage segment after segment shows, to me, that they do have the respect they deserve.

i think there’s a big difference between respecting the workers and respecting the fans. if tna doesn’t fully respect anybody, it’s the latter.

After all the rave reviews of the Kongmada-Saritaylor match, maybe as a sign of respect, give all the knockouts a higher salary, they are still heavily underpaid compared to the male wrestlers who put on boring matches every week.

If you really want to attempt lulz, perhaps send it to the lady herself? You never know, she might just have it flash on her entrance movie next week. Haha.

I’m kidding. Haha.

Vince Russo is a bit chaotic with his booking and over the years it’s been both a gift and a flaw. With the Knockouts, the booking sways from inconsistent to inexplicable, but the one thing I do admire is that you can never truly predict the outcome of a match; whereas on WWE the booking is often so transparently in favour of who’s most popular. In TNA, half of the time wrestling ability seems to count as a factor.

As for respect for the Knockouts… well, the gimmicky stuff that involves the Beautiful People works well within the ethos of the stable, but so long as mud matches and lingerie matches don’t interfere with the title pictures, I won’t complain much. Whenever the frivolous has taken place, there’s usually been a flipside of serious competition. There’s an element of tongue in cheek with TNA as well, whereas WWE were wearing the voyeuristic so thin they were almost exploiting the Divas for a couple of years.

Ebmich- either way if he respects the knockouts so much they could’ve thought of another angle for the beautiful people. So your comment is invalid

To the gimmick matches the Knockouts have had that people have knocked, it fits whoever is doing them.

TBP think they are hot stuff. Nash booked the mud match and got the best of all three involved. Velvet’s ego is so large that she didn’t care she was “degrading herself” as long as SHE was the ratings maker. Lacey is so dumb that she didn’t care she was “degrading herself” as long as TBP were the ratings maker. And Madison felt so left out of the match that she was just happen to be involved. That’s three different scenarios for the same group.

That’s actually clever booking. But since some many people put the Knockouts on a f’n pedestal, it’s impossible for them to try to do anything with them that doesn’t include spotfests and no character building. Cuz, you know. That is what wrestling is about.

Wow, I honestly never thought that photo of Maryse I photoshopped onto Jesus’ body yesterday would catch on this quickly. It’s nice to know my “artwork” has finally found solace on the internet. lol.

as for the current booking of the knockouts, it’s the lesser things like, as melanie points out, the drunken street fight before the ppv, or even odb winning that tournament that annoys me rather than any strip poker/makes sense in context mud match.

This is the same guy who had Kevin Nash book the Beautiful People in a mud wrestling match, right?

And I would be scared if I were a Knockout or a big fan of any of them. Russo has a scary mind. haha