Gail Kim Reportedly Finished With TNA

That's because she can try different things knowing that it can be covered if she botches.

There are worse wrestlers than her in WWE anyway.

*cough* takers fluffer *cough*

It was a quite a good match with Natyla and Maria, some girl who's name I can't remember inetrfered, and it was still okay, then Michelle came down and ruined it all.

invincibleILeak wrote:

It was a quite a good match with Natyla and Maria, some girl who's name I can't remember inetrfered, and it was still okay, then Michelle came down and ruined it all.

Say it with me Leak, Mar-yse, like Morris, or Maurice or Mar-ees. Oh yeah...

Wasn't she supposed to team with Deuce 'N' Domino and replace Cherry?

who cares ones been sacked anyway.

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maria was doing moves that meant all the work was on natalya anyway. still shite she is - LEARN TO RUN CONVINCINGLY and then she should improve (but she wont)

no point in getting your good wrestlers to try and make shit look like mud.

Since is turning into a general diva's discussion, how is my favorite belt faring? I get a feeling they only introduced it to make me vomit, then put it on Deadman's fluffer, as bazz accurately named her, and now it is forgotten.

Has all that throwing up been for naught?

-- The primary reason Gail Kim left TNA for WWE was due to the significant discrepancy between the kind of money WWE offered her and what TNA offered her. According to multiple sources, Kim really didn't really want to leave TNA, but she felt she had no choice but to accept WWE's offer due to the massive difference in money.

Despite being the most consistent TV ratings draws for the company, it appears that no matter how successful the female performers are for TNA, they're still not going to make much money, at least in comparison to the guys. The company still saw the top babyface in the division of what has become, from a television ratings standpoint, their most successful entity, as a low-budget expenditure. TNA offered their top female babyface star well under $100,000 per year, a figure that can only be met if she appears on a target number of shows, so if she gets hurt, she's not getting all the money. TNA's offer to Kim was said to be less than one-third of what WWE was offering - a six-figure downside guaranteed contract for three years. Also, Kim can potentially earn significantly more from appearing on pay-per-views and house shows, not to mention merchandise such as action figures. Additionally, TNA's lackluster offer to Kim probably doesn't bode well for the other girls in the company when their respective contracts come up considering that the top star couldn't even get a six figure offer.

Kim's friends had to talk her into leaving for WWE due to her strong sense of loyalty and happiness with TNA. While Kim loved TNA as well as her friends in the company, she couldn't justify not taking the significantly better offer from WWE. One friend of Kim said she really had no choice but to go for the financial security that only WWE can provide. One TNA source disappointed in her decision said she chose to be unhappy for more money rather than stay happy with the smaller company that made her a star.

There was said to be a huge void backstage at this week's Impact tapings as a number of her friends couldn't believe she was gone, especially without saying goodbye before she left.

One friend of Kim's with knowledge of TNA's apparent lowball offer deemed it to be "insulting" and "possibly sexist." Also, Kim couldn't risk getting hurt or being jobbed out once her decision to leave TNA was made.

-- There were a ton of empty seats at last Saturday's TNA event in Topeka, Kansas as the house show only drew 500 fans to the Kansas Expocentre, which can hold 8,000 seats. Additionally, house shows the week before in Dallas, Texas (8/15) and Muskogee, Oklahoma (8/17) drew poorly as well. However, the 8/16 house show in Lawton, Oklahoma reportedly drew drew okay.

Well the money for Mick foley's contract has to come from somewhere, why not make it from the biggest draw in you're company?

I hope Kong powerbombs Foley on her way out.

I agree Bazz

TNA really do put a lot of effort into there knockouts division and have spent a lot of time on developing Gail Kim into someone who seems to be a house hold name in the wrestling community now, however what is the point of building her then low-balling her on a contract offer?

I am sure if she was as happy as stated in TNA then it would not have taken TNA to give her anything out the ordinary, just a rise in proportion of what she has done for the company and where she has helped take the woman's division.

The Knockout Division is a major part of iMPACT! and its that reason alone that they should have done all they could to hold onto one of there major rising stars, that for me is the difference between TNA making it and just being a middle of the road venue for guys to ply there trade until its time to get a call once again from the big leagues

This is the sort of thing that should piss off TNA's die hard fans, its proven that she is the company's top draw(yep, more than king Kurt) and they lowball here like this, and as an extra slap in the face they are bringing in an extremely fat/ extremely past it Mick Foley.

Stupid, stupid business.