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    4 hours ago

    Fine going out on your back but to Tessa Blanchard? Come on now, so they’re replacing Grace with Blanchard basically. I don’t know but this almost feels the same as certain companies dropping DEI programs and certain social media platforms allowing forms of verbal abuse. The timing of hiring a scorned bigot as their next big star makes it seem like it was an easy decision.

    If Jordynne Grace is WWE bound, maybe I’ll follow. At the very least I’m more interested in checking out NXT than I have been in a long time. Although watch Tessa Blanchard get regularly used in this crossover that they’re doing anyway.

    Feeling like jumping ship a little right now. AEW kinda comes across as a little smarky for me and as someone that hasn’t watched much, doesn’t sound like they give women’s wrestling nearly as much focus as TNA does.

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      If Jordynne Grace is WWE bound

      She def is and is almost guaranteed to be debuting in the Rumble. Alexander is on his way to AEW (as last rumoured, but that could change, is def gone one way or the other). Both wanted out of TNA when Scott was fired but TNA picked up their extra year options so they did the professional thing and kept their mouths shit and rode their terms out.

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        Starting to make sense why Motor City Machine Guns (another good reason to switch) just packed up and left without so much as a mention on TV. Those guys bled TNA.

        Edit: and I wonder if any of this has to do with Giselle Shaw disappearing.

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          Giselle is engaged/married to D’Amore, when he got canned, she had no reason to stay.

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            Holy shit I had no idea. If these guys hadn’t all kept their mouths shut, I might’ve been considering jumping ship earlier myself. There was brief panic after Scott was relieved of his duties but basically everyone on the inside was like “settle down everyone, nothing to see here”, so it seemed all good.