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Has a Dark Passenger on board...
source: www.pwtorch.com
As seen on this past week's episode of Friday Night SmackDown, Michelle McCool made her return to television after suffering a leg injury at a house show a few weeks ago. It can be said that no tears were shed in the TNA locker room over her untimely mishap.
Among people in WWE, McCool has a reputation for being a negative side of a diva and having attitude issues, but in TNA she has heat for stealing AJ Styles' finishing maneuver, the "Styles Clash."
Generally speaking, the proper etiquette among wrestlers is that if you want to blatantly use a maneuver that someone else is using as their signature, you must first ask permission to do so unless they are no longer active. If the maneuver is something that has been used among wrestlers for decades, it is no big deal, but if it something that comes of as the wrestler in question invented it or at least popularized it it is proper etiquette to at least ask first. That is very much the case with Styles' "Styles Clash" as he popularized the maneuver several years ago.
McCool is well aware that another wrestler presently active in wrestling is using the very same maneuver as her. The Pro Wrestling Torch has it on good authority that a person in WWE asked McCool herself if she realized she's using a move someone else is using. When asked, McCool replied saying something along the lines of seeing "some wrestler in TNA" use the move and thinking it was cool. The feeling is that she didn't even know who AJ Styles was or what the move was actually called. When word of her reaction got back to people in TNA, it got her even more heat among wrestlers in the locker room.
While no wrestler wants to see others get hurt, suffice it to say, there were no tears shed over her knee injury.
Michelle Mccool is basically using the Styles clash with no blatant knowledge of who AJ Styles is or apparently no acknowledgment of his career or accolades,this is either one of two things
She is stupid and basically likes doing things that she thinks is cool.
Or she has no respect for Aj's career and likes to bury TNA any way possible, if thats so I can understand why the TNA locker room is angry, the fact is she should have at least asked, Styles is an acessable person, he could easily have given the go ahead for her using the move just like he did Jimmy Rave and the departed crash Holly when both used the move as their finisher at one time or another.
Aparrently she is known as a very negative and angry person backstage, maybe its because of her relationship with the Undertaker, she probably feels untouchable due to her paring with the dead man, but IMO respect is respect and the fact that she shows no respect for AJ styles despite who he is or what company he works for is blatantly out of order and has no place in the wrestling business.
Thoughts?