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Wie Christopher Daniels gestern via Twitter offiziell verkündete, hat er TNA Wrestling verlassen und ist seit Mittwoch, den 23. April 2014, offiziell ein Free Agent:

"I became a free agent & a published comic book writer on the same day!"

Es bleibt abzuwarten, wohin der Weg für Christopher Daniels nun führen wird. Während Christopher Daniels bereits schon seit einiger Zeit Independent-Bookings entgegen nimmt, wurde gestern bekannt, dass die neue Wrestlingpromotion GLOBAL FORCE WRESTLING von Jeff Jarrett Interesse an einer Verpflichtung von Christopher Daniels haben soll und ihn bereits kontaktiert hat (WrestlingCorner.de berichtete darüber bereits gestern an anderer Stelle).

(Quelle: Twitter / TNAsylum)

Sehr sehr schade und eine traurige Entwicklung, aber wen wundert es? Für die guten Talente will man kaum Geld bezahlen, weil man keines hat und setzt stattdessen lieber auf billige "No Names", von denen man eigentlich schon genug im Roster hat und von denen viele Leute nicht wirklich interessieren, weil ihnen das gewisse Etwas fehlt.

Auch wenn die Shows aktuell recht ordentlich und unterhaltsam sind, fehlen TNA ein paar frische große Namen, die die Shows tragen können. Wenn im Laufe des Jahres auch noch Kazarian, Kurt Angle, Samoa Joe und im kommenden Frühjahr auch noch Jeff Hardy TNA verlassen, sieht es richtig übel aus. Die "No Names" werden TNA auf Dauer nicht wirklich voranbringen, sondern eher weiter in den Abgrund reissen.

Von den damaligen Glanzzeiten mit X-Division, Tag Team Division, Hardcore Division und eine starke Knockouts Division ist TNA derzeit weit entfernt, da es derzeit diese Divisionen kaum bis gar nicht gibt. Somit hat TNA in den vergangenen Jahren nach und nach immer mehr sein Gesicht verloren und nun spart man sich kaputt. Schon seit Monaten bekommt man bei TNA nicht mehr das "bessere Wrestling" zu sehen, mit dem man sich immer gegenüber der WWE gebrüstet hat. Seit Monaten ist die WWE TNA in Sachen "besseres Wrestling" meilenweit voraus. Von "Wrestling Matters" ist bei TNA weit und breit keine Spur zu sehen.

Kann auch verstehen, dass Daniels da kein Bock mehr hat und sich lieber anderweitig umschaut, zumal er sicherlich im Indy-Bereich oder demnächst eventuell bei GFW deutlich besser aufgehoben ist, als bei TNA, wo er unter Wert verkauft wird. Bin mal gespannt, was nach dem Daniels-Abgang aus Kazarian wird. Der dürfte wohl auch in einigen Wochen ca. Mitte Mai die Company verlassen, wodurch man einen weiteren guten Mann verliert.

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Bad Influence tag member Christopher Daniels has been removed from TNA's roster page, signaling Daniels has parted ways with TNA Wrestling.

Daniels's contract was set to expire this week. Daniels's tag partner, Kazarian, is still on the roster, but his contract is due to expire in May.

Daniels has now been moved to TNA's new "Alumni" section on their roster page.

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Former TNA star Christopher Daniels recently spoke with Bryan Alvarez of F4Wonline.com. Here are a few highlights:

His TNA departure:
"I always found it funny when I heard reports that I was one of the higher paid guys on the roster. I‘d look at my paycheck and I never thought I was one of the higher paid guys. Essentially my contract was one of those where you only made a lot of money if you worked a lot, and I certainly wasn't working as much near the end of my contract as I was a year ago. I don't think that financial reasons were the reason I wasn't renewed. I don't know if they thought our act was tired or they wanted to go in a different direction. I'm not sure why that's the case, especially when I felt like there was a simple and great program in the works between us and Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards, but apparently the guys on the creative team didn't have the same desire to see that program take place."

Was he surprised about getting released?
"I was as surprised as everybody, or maybe I was more surprised than everybody because I didn't think it would happen. I had heard the internet rumors as early as January and I was like, 'This can't be true. How is this gonna be?' But it happened and they made the decision to not keep me around, so there you have it."

Wie Mike Johnson vom PWInsider berichtet, hat Kazarian nach Christopher Daniels nun ebenfalls TNA Wrestling verlassen. So sind die beiden One Night Only Pay-Per-View Tapings in Orlando, Florida, am Samstag, den 10. Mai 2014 die finalen Auftritte von Kazarian für die Company gewesen.

Der Abgang von Kazarian ermöglicht ihm und Christopher Daniels nun, in Independent-Promotions als Bad Influence aufzutreten.

Wie WrestlingCorner.de bereits berichtete, soll die neue Wrestlingpromotion von Jeff Jarrett namens GLOBAL FORCE WRESTLING (GFW) angeblich an einer Verpflichtung der Beiden interessiert sein.

(Quelle: PWInsider)

Das war abzusehen und ist keine Überraschung. Christopher Daniels & Kazarian dürften nun mit Chris Sabin schon mal drei sichere Kandidaten sein, die man zum Start der GFW fest verpflichten wird.

Wie WrestlingCorner.de bereits berichtete, hat Kazarian nach Christopher Daniels nun ebenfalls TNA Wrestling verlassen, nachdem er am Samstag, den 10. Mai 2014 bei den beiden One Night Only Pay-Per-View Tapings in Orlando, Florida, seine finalen Auftritte für die Company absolviert hat.

Nun berichtet der PWInsider, dass Kazarian deshalb TNA Wrestling verlassen musste, weil die Company Kazarian schlicht und ergreifend keinen neuen Vertrag anbieten wollte. Die Entlassung von Kazarian soll ein Teil der bereits seit den Sommer 2013 andauernden notwendigen Kosteneinsparungen sein, im Zuge dessen man sich bereits schon von namhaften anderen Leuten wie AJ Styles, Sting, Christopher Daniels und Chris Sabin trennen musste und sich auch in naher Zukunft noch von einigen weiteren namhaften Leuten trennen muss, sehr wahrscheinlich u.a. von Kurt Angle (September), Samoa Joe (Dezember) und Jeff Hardy (Februar).

Innerhalb der Company soll man der Meinung sein, dass Kazarian neben den oben aufgeführten Personen zu der Gruppe von Leuten gehört, die von der Company deutlich über dem bezahlt worden sind, wozu TNA Wrestling aktuell eigentlich in der Lage ist. Deshalb soll man sich auch innerhalb der Company dazu entschlossen haben, sich von einem Großteil der Veteranen zu trennen und stattdessen neue, junge, noch unbekannte Talente zu verpflichten, weil diese schlicht und ergreifend billiger sind. So soll u.a. das bisherige Gehalt von Kazarian so hoch gewesen sein, dass sich die Company für dieses Geld bereits mindestens zwei von den besagten neuen, jungen, noch unbekannten Talenten leisten könnte.

In diesem Zusammenhang wird einmal mehr betont, dass TNA Wrestling aktuell jeden möglichen Cent einsparen und drastische Personalkürzungen vornehmen muss, um "überleben" zu können.

(Quelle: PWInsider)

Das wird auf Dauer alles nicht wirklich gut gehen. Wo TNA drauf steht, ist schon lange kein TNA mehr drin ...

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Kazarian spoke with Between The Ropes about a variety of topics. Below are the highlights:

What led to his departure from TNA:
"My contract with TNA is up in early June. To be honest, I saw this coming a long time ago, just the way the company is going and the direction they’re going. Chris Daniels, his contract was up before mine and he had a talk when we went to do a One Night Only taping and they basically told him that they're going in a different direction. At that point I saw the writing on the wall. I went for the tapings two weeks in a row, and after the first week John Gaburick pulled me aside and said 'Hey, I want to talk next week.' So I got to the next week and we sat down and talked. I explained my side of the story and they explained theirs. They said 'We wish we could afford to keep you but we can't' which I understand from a business line to go forward and wanting to be cost efficient. I told them that TNA is my home, but I made up my mind about this for a long time. The door's always open; I never want to end any type of business on bad terms. But I've prepared myself for this, mentally, for 4-5 months. Right now I think it’s really for the best."

If he would have stayed in TNA without Christopher Daniels:
"I don't think so and here's why. I know that they can never match the deal we’re making now, and I’m not saying that I’m making ridiculous money. The last contract I signed, I knew that they weren't going to offer me that, just from talking to friends and talking to AJ Styles and stuff like that. I invested a lot of myself into TNA, but I also invested a lot of myself into the tag team with Chris Daniels – there’s so much chemistry and there's so much that we haven’t done yet. I just think that's the better option right now than sticking around in TNA. Even if the offer was there, it would have taken some convincing for me to stay."

His last few months with TNA and being lost in the shuffle:
"I understand wanting to cut costs, but if you want cheap wrestlers, expect cheap wrestling matches. Honestly, since after Bound For Glory, there just wasn't any direction for Bad Influence as a tag team. We continued to ask questions, we continued to pitch ideas and it was just like "Okay, we're thinking of this or that" but we never got a straight answer and we were just kind of floating. It kind of bothered us because, honestly, we're too good for this. We should really be involved in something. When Davey (Richards) and Eddie (Edwards) came in, we were kind of licking our chops. Sweet! This could be six months, a year. A lot of folks on the internet and within the wrestling community were excited for the potential match-up of us and The Wolves. So were we and so were they when they came in. So we thought we were going to get back in the fold and it never happened and we never got a straight answer other than we're going with other teams. What can you say other than okay? After the UK, we did Lockdown with Muta and Sanada. That was great and after that we were left off television. Right then it was like okay, they literally have nothing going on for us. And here we are now. The direction they’re going, it doesn't really include guys like us, AJ Styles and Chris Sabin right now."

Seeing so many longtime TNA wrestlers leave the company:
"It's different. My last day at TNA, I said this to a few people, I didn't feel like I was leaving TNA because I didn't feel like I recognized the company. There was still people I'll miss but it didn't feel like I was leaving TNA. Honestly, there was a couple of red flags, and this was even preceding when I was starting to make up my mind about my current situation, AJ Styles leaving obviously, because I'm very close to AJ and knowing what he was going through and talking to him, that was huge. I was like wait a minute. I say this as his friend and I say this selfishly, I don't understand why they didn't do whatever it took to keep him there. And I'm not just saying that because he's a friend. I'm saying that because he's a franchise guy. He's one of the best in the world. He's a good human being. He's a guy you can continue to build the company around. He leaves and real soon thereafter Jeff Jarrett leaves so that was a big red flag being waved. Wait a minute ... things are changing. I don't know that they're changing for the better. It could just be me. Internally, management, complete turnover, people on the creative team, people in management. It really is just different."

On the talk last year of TNA being close to being sold:
"I didn't know. I heard the rumors and there's no one I can really ask. It's not like I can call Dixie Carter and go hey, are we being sold? I could but I would never do that. Obviously, it's none of my business. I would hope and pray that if that were to go down that they would call a meeting and say "hey guys, by the way, we're selling the company". When it was all going down, I had people here in the gym near where I live asking me if TNA is being sold. I was like I don't think so. And then we all got an email from Janice Carter one day saying, first email and last I promise you I'll get from Janice Carter believe it or not, saying please don't believe the rumors, we're not being sold. And I thought that was odd because I was like wow, all these years and all these rumors of TNA and everything that's ever been said and now we finally get a letter saying don't believe the rumors. Okay, all I can do is take that at face value but we later found out that maybe that was ... I still don't know what the situation was because that's all part of the business side. I had hopes that whoever wanted to buy it wanted to buy it because they were passionate about wrestling and wanted to try and do something different with the product. But apparently it's not being sold, it's not for sale, there's not a for sale sign on it."

On the talk of TNA being too much like WWE:
"Trying to be like WWE does not behoove any wrestling company. I understand why wrestling companies want to because WWE is the industry leader – they always have been and they always will be – so I understand the thought process behind wanting to follow suit. But at the same time you’re never going to do it as good as they’re doing it, so what you do is like what ECW did back in the day: You hide your weaknesses and you accentuate your positives. I think TNA’s positive for a long time was the roster; I don’t think it was ever exposed the way it could have been. We should have been having 15-20 minute matches with guys like the Machine Guns, Austin Aries, Samoa Joe and AJ Styles. There are so many talented guys there, and a lot of times we were handcuffed to 3-5 minute matches. Do something production-wise to make yourself stand out. Like I said, I get the process behind wanting to see what the big dogs do and maybe do something like that, but sometimes you have to think outside the box, especially to a very smart television audience. I think that’s what’s missing with TNA. I think they can go in a different direction and be successful. I don’t know if the drive is there or if they are afraid to take that risk. I just think the wrestling fans and the TV audiences are primed to grasp something like that."

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