So, we are stupid for believing the horse's mouth but It's certainly okay to believe dirstsheets that tell us Nash wasn't signed when they began this angle right?
While Nash himself admits, he signed an ACTUAL CONTRACT. Then asked for his release to join WWE. Which are details Bischoff cannot talk about.
But Nash was covering his ass just like Dixie did with her tweets!!!11!
Please, stick to WWE. It fits your thought process.
No, you completely missed the point and of course through in the inevitably WWE line. Always fun from the TNA mark.
What I said was that you must take it with a grain of salt from the horse's mouth because he is employed by the breeder. Eric Bischoff works for TNA and thus is going to paint said company in the best possible light. That's how every talent in the history of the business works. If you are employed by someone, you say the right things at the right time. This isn't some giant mystery.
When you no longer work for that company and are a free agent of sorts, you can speak a lot more freely. In doing my interview with Shannon Moore last year before he signed with TNA (December of 09 so about a month before he signed there), he was able to be candid about his career because he was answering to no one. I would guarantee that if I interviewed him today, it would go quite different due to his employment status.
All I'm saying is that no matter if a guy works for TNA, WWE, ROH, AAA, CMLL, New Japan, etc, when asked about that company, they are going to paint it in a quality light. If they don't, it usually doesn't bode well for them. In the past year, the only two instances where a talent remotely badmouthed the company he/she was in on the record were Kaval and MVP due to their lack of push. Both asked for and were granted their release as a result.
All I'm saying is that to pick and choose who is telling the truth on the internet is hard. You get interviews from guys employed by the company, you get info leaks, you get writers speaking off the cuff, etc. The best thing you can do is put the pieces together yourself and come up with a logical conclusion, taking into account what kind of info was provided to you. To take one piece and point to it as fact over any other piece is silly.
I say draw your own conclusions.
On top of that, I know that when you have chosen to be a fan of only one wrestling company and to feel a sense of disdain towards another (which is silly in my opinion), you begin to look for any positives about that company and begin to feel hurt when anyone says something that can remotely be taken out of context to be bashing. I hope you know that I am someone who is a fan of TNA, a person who tunes in each and every week to Impact and has seen every PPV over the last year (basically since I could afford to do so). That said, I'm also a journalist and I know that there's a such thing and "coachspeak". In wrestling terms, I guess it would be "companyspeak", which is when you highlight the good, limit the bad, and paint and overall positive picture. That's the nature of life, and it's not a knock on Bischoff or TNA. He did everything you could expect him to do in that interview.
Again though, keep in mind he is working for the company. Thus, take his comments, combine them with EVERYTHING else you hear, and draw a logical conclusion. That's what I have done and why I cautioned to take it with a grain of salt. You can't take Bischoff solely at his word and completely discount everything else because you simply like his take on the situation. That's not fair. What is fair is that his comments are part of the solution. That's what I would take from it.
