As witnessed just moments ago at TNA’s Slammiversary pay per view, Roxxi is done with the company after losing an impromptu ‘Title vs Career’ match against Madison Rayne. However, it seems there is a bigger story behind this shock departure.
Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer writes:
I had heard earlier that there was a ton of backstage heat over a last minute angle change that involved Roxxi, so apparently she showed up and found out she was done with the company. Roxxi was in tears when it was over, but they cut away so fast to show a video for the next match that it didn’t really mean anything on the show.
We often scold TNA for their shitty booking but that is beyond shitty — totally tactless. Poor Roxxi.
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That is AWFUL! They have no respect for the women whatsoever.
this new tna doesn’t deserve roxxi. i wish her the best.
That is just flat out disgusting.
I was getting excited about TNA bringing in Mickie and the rumor that TNA are also interested in Katie Lea, however now, I’m scared for their career’s
What’s the old saying “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me”?
How many times has Roxxi voluntarily came back to the company?
Roxxi should just never go back to Tna. Every time she does, she gets fired from the company. Tna really just doesn’t really give a damn about their knockouts except the TBP and Angelina Love. They don’t care about anyone else.
I can’t remember the last time wrestling has pissed me off so much
They need to stop fucking around with her. :/
Roxxi, forget about TNA. She start having
trouble in TNA when she got into a flight
backstage than after that she kept coming
back and leaving coming back and leaving.
I want to know more about her leaving TNA,
what really happen between her and TNA.
But Roxxi is a beautiful girl, and I wish her the best.
“They need to stop fucking around with her.”
Shouldn’t that be the other way around? I am sure someone backstage likes her, but if I got fired from a job, I wouldn’t try to go back there… Then again, I am too proud sometimes. >_<
I think they do care about their women’s
more than WWE. But I just think they
don’t like or care about Roxxi.
I swear is TNA purposely trying to piss their fans off? FUCK TNA!
“I think they do care about their women’s more than WWE. But I just think they don’t like or care about Roxxi.”
Really? WWE at least have contracts to make you feel safe in your own job, Roxxi was obviously still working on an open contract, hoping to get a written one, now it turns out she’s been cut loose? WWE would never pull a stunt like this, the only instance they have open contracts is for guest stars and visiting opponents. TNA’s ethics have stooped so low, as much as I like Roxxi, I hope she realises enough is enough. Mind you, I’m surprised they didn’t give this storyline to ODB afterall.
WWE at least acknowledges Divas have fans, they try and do it in the wrong way by ‘rewarding’ us with lame gimmick matches and competitions, but at least they don’t just use the women as an when they want them. 9/10 times you’ll see most of the Divas in the same week, TNA just picks and chooses then cuts loose as it suits them.
ebmich: How many times have you seen other wrestlers get fired by a company and then go back? This is a business. Sure, Roxxi has went back to TNA after get released by a couple of times, but that in no way justifies this act of complete unprofessionalism display by the company.
Oh god, if Taz called Madison a ‘Career Killer’ surely that’s just code for “We’re going for a female Randy Orton gimmick’ so in short, Roxxi was released to give Madison a ‘fresh’ and ‘original’ gimmick, ‘never done before by the WWE’ because this time its a woman doing it. I figure somehow if it is a gimmick change, it’ll still give Madison no personality whatsoever.
“How many times has Roxxi voluntarily came back to the company?”
Considering there aren’t exactly a lot of options for women wrestlers to get exposure, she can’t be blamed.
If this is true, it’s both tacky and deplorable.
Appalling.
Like I said, WWE don’t care about the divas.
I’M DONE
OFICALLY DONE WITH TNA
GOD WHY IS TNA DOING ALL, THIS SHITTY F**KING BUISNESS
THIS IS WORSE THAN THE LOCKBOX CHALLENGE, THE CUT IMPACT! MATCH AND THE INJURIES. I FEEL SO BAD FOR ROXXI.
I find this very very direspectful, from TNA and rude, Roxxi, every time TNA called to have her come back, she agreed and came back, and this is how TNA repays her by telling her when she arrives for a match, before a live PPV event, very tacky and once again direspectful, Dixie Carter and them are more worried about this surpise they have, then the actual wrestlers they already had and isnt it sad that TNA always need to have surprises at there PPVS to make fans interested,
To be honest, how many more title vs career matches is TNA going to have, its getting OLD!
I have said it many times before and I will say it once again, TNA doesn’t give a rats ass about the womens division…if its completely gone soon, I will not be surprised.
I just wonder who’s next in line to be fired, I mean especially since TNA is supposedly suppose to have a huge release wave coming soon.
Can anyone confirm if this is a story line or not, because it just doesn’t seem likely for TNA to get rid of another knockout and especially not Roxxi since she has been heavy used in the past month or so…..
WWE don’t care about Divas, but TNA obviously do by purposely re-writing a storyline to get rid of one of their workers? Regardless of gender, race or age that is just low and tacky.
I guess the nice surprise only applies to friends of Hoganhoff and co.
“WWE would never pull a stunt like this, the only instance they have open contracts is for guest stars and visiting opponents.”
Wendi Richter begs to differ… Kinda. At least Wendi was a big deal to her company.
And Shanti, since we are talking business, them losing Roxxi isn’t a big deal. Just like every other time she came in, she had a good start, only to fade a few weeks later and get released. I really doubt a good chunk of people watch iMPACT! every time she’s been in TNA JUST for her. I really doubt a good chunk of people ordered PPV’s or merchandise JUST for her. What this a low brow move ethically? I dunno. I didn’t know pro wrestling companies had to give notices to wrestlers they are going to get rid of. At least someone had the guts to tell her she was gone to her face instead of calling her on her day off.
I wonder what the details of her contract was.. If she had one. TNA has such an open door policy.
to Roxxi TNA is probably just a check, i think if she ever makes an appearance again we should remember this, so what next TNA? sojo bolt?
oh wait i hadn’t read the update, that just makes them seem like bastards
EBMIch: Actually Richter was on contract with WWE the whole time, she refused to sign a new one after the Original screwjob and it expired and she left. Plus at the time, you’re talking about Richter or Moolah, Moolah was as big, if not bigger than Richter in terms of wrestling.
And yet the “Gail Kim, I hope it was worth it” still exists, and many are still rooting for Mickie James among MANY others to jump over to TNA? Ha.
TNA SUCKS I’M PRETTY UPSET ON HOW THEY FIRED HER THEY NEED TO STOP BRINGING HER BACK ONLY TO FIRE HER THEY WANT TO PLAY WITH HER LIKE SHES A TOY ONCE THEY ARE TIRED OF PLAYING THEY GET RID OF IT FUCK TNA I’M DONE.
“And yet the “Gail Kim, I hope it was worth it” still exists, and many are still rooting for Mickie James among MANY others to jump over to TNA? Ha.”
Seriously. This should be a warning to any female performer out there.
OH MY GOSH. I knew that TNA was shitty, but this is just ridiculous. OMG. This is just terrible. I feel so bad for Roxxi. She deserves better.
It’s not right at all. I wonder what on earth their problem with Roxxi is? A great women’s wrestler… wasted. And for what reason? They keep doing this to her, but why? I’m really confused and kinda shocked. I saw them giving Roxxi the biggest push she has had and they drop her, just like that?
The only reason i can think, and it was said in the post.. that she was there as a filler for Angelina.. and Angelina has healed quicker than expected… so get rid of Roxxi?
I don’t know. Either way, it’s not cool. And TNA are losing their fans respect each day, and it’s fine by me. Ruin the division.. go right ahead. But don’t treat those girls who work so hard to get where they are like crap.
Rule number one : Listen to the fans….. TNA go away.
Is any body else sick of Angelina Love, always getting a push, over ever other knockouts, CAUSE I AM
Now this ticks me off. The TNA Knockouts have a lot of talent and TNA is just giving them crap. The ol’ Knockouts division is gone forever. R.I.P. What the hell was Eric BIrschoff talking about?
Am I the only one who sees this as a screwjob? Because of the way the report is written, it may seem that it really is. The way I see it, it is just as disrespectful as to what WWE did to Wendi, Bret, and Mickie (even though she wasn’t screwed).
TNA are douche bags. Enough said.
This just goes to show that TNA has no respect for their Female wrestlers wat so ever or the ones they care about I should say….This goes for WWe aswell…
If this is how they r going to treat some of their best knockouts that their company has ever had… (excuse my french! ) Then TNA can kiss my ass b cuz I would be dammned if I see Mickie or Katie go 2 TNA only 2 b screwed over….If Tara/Victoria ddnt last long in TNA due to money issues then what’s to say Mickie & Katie would….
I hope Roxxi leaves TNA in the past , its fuking sad this girl ddnt even know until she got there 2nite…..PATEHIC this is the worst of the wrost that TNA could do…..
Now we gotta sit here and watch the 3 most annoying knockouts every week talking about themselfs…..BP my left foot….
We should blast Dixie with tweets of complaints. Roxxi gave way more than TNA deserved to them and they crap all over her time and again.
Yes, I totally agree that Roxxi got the shaft. Roxxi is a damn fine wrestler and TNA needs good female wrestlers. Why in the hell that TNA would do this is beyond me. I do have a theory that TNA strongly believes that they are going to be able to sign Mickie James at the end of July. If Mickie does sign with TNA, they will most likely put the Knockouts Title on Mickie. Even if this theory is true; TNA could have put the title on Roxxi and have Roxxi drop the title a month and a half later back to Madison. What ever the case, Roxxi got the shaft and its an insult to all female wrestling fans and to Roxxi herself.
It wouldn’t surprise me if TNA deactivated the KO division within the next year. At this rate, I’d rather have Mickie go to SHIMMER or maybe even AAA. The Diva’s division is looking SO hot right now…
This is so ridiculous. She has done alot for that company who are such a joke at the moment. The hell with TNA and their piss poor bookings. I am just so angry at them. Poor Roxxi, just when I thought the knockout division had some chance of being interesting again.
What the hell? Roxxi deserved way better then this, could they not have just let her lose and have Angelina come back in and take top face position. They’re drowning their women’s division, they’re drowning their company. Somehow I think this is the new way TNA is going to drop it’s Knockouts. Watch out ODB, Hamada and Daffney.
what was the point of bringing her back?
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All I can say is that I’m stunned. TNA, your leaving me with so many damn questions!
Why did they do this?
Why would they do this?
How could they do this?
Why rehire Roxxi and then immediately give her the boot?
Why give Roxxi a immediately push and give her the boot just as quickly?
What the fuck?
What the shit?
What the hell?
What the piss?
What the holy godmother of godfuck?
WHY!?!?
This is enough to make me quit with TNA entirely! You bastards are lucky you made RVD World Champion!
Hogan!!!!!!!!!! Bitchoff!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is complete bullshit… When told of the plan Roxxi should’ve just refused to appear
I’m still trying to figure out what the hell is wrong with Dixie. After all, she said not too long ago, that the roster cuts will only affect the males cuz TNA is very short on Knockouts. I smell a conspiracy here… I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again:
Slammiversary VIII = Survivor Series ’97
bye bye tna. never liked you, never will.
OMG, that’s awful! Roxxi deserved so much better than that :(
What on earth is happening at TNA?! They went from having this amazing women’s division, to absolute shit in record time. Dixie seriously needs to grow some ovaries and throw out all of the washed up has-beens that are ruining what she helped to create. Everything that ever made TNA even come close to competing with WWE had been washed away in the past few months.
EBMICH: LOL. Your logic continues to make me laugh. I love how you always “TRY” to be the devil’s advocate. Don’t worry. You’re already “special.” ;)
For anyone saying WWE is treating their Divas better than TNA is, then I’m seriously speechless. TNA and WWE both care less about their women and their respective divisions.
WWE has done just as many stupid moves as TNA. Now remember how WWE got rid of Mickie James….yeah they both made foolish mistakes.
“You’re already “special.””
Damn straight! My birthday is in a few weeks haha.
But seriously, if your boyfriend cheats on you and you still go back to him.. IMO, you have no reason to be upset if he cheats on you again. This isn’t the first time Roxxi has been late go under “shady” circumstances.
I am just wondering how many people proclaiming how they are done with TNA like watch the product. Just curious. lol
Absolutely disgusting. If anyone thinks she brought this on herself by coming back to the company time and again, that’s bullshit. Because she wanted to work at a ‘larger’ company & gain more exposure, that gives them the right to fire her? BULLSHIT. She’s a person, a steady competitor, a hard worker. She didn’t deserve this whatsoever. And then they expect her to go out and perform – which to her credit she did. She took the high road absolutely. Then they cut away when she cries at the end of the match…pathetic. So freakin’ pathetic. She put up with a lot of crap, she bled for TNA, got injured, shaved her head…and this is how they repay her.
Nice. If I was a woman wrestler, this would completely turn me off of working for them. Way to show your support for the women who work for you TNA. Great job.