REALLY..TITO ORTIZ...REALLY COME ON MAN COME ON....DIDN'T HE GO OUT AS A LOSER IN MMA...SO WHAT NOW HE'S GONNA SAVE TNA...YOU GUY'S HAVE A WORSE BUILD UP AND LET DOWN THAN WWE... OF ALL THE WRESTLERS AND YES I SAID WRESTLERS IN THE WORLD WHO COULD HAVE HELP MAKE THIS COMPANY BETTER YOU PICK THIS BUM!!!! RAMPAGE WAS BAD ENOUGH SO HOW MANY MORE MMA GUYS ARE YA GONNA BRING IN TO PATCH THE HOLES IN THIS STINKING SHIP....AT LEAST LET A.J. STYLES,BOBBY ROODE,JAMES STORM AUSTIN ARIES SOMOA JOE AND AND SELECT FEW GET OFF FIRST!!!!!!
Alright, who would you have gone with?
Let's look at the options people suggested:
Kaval: it might have been nice for a match with Sabin to lead up to the cage match where odds are he loses the title. The only way I see it going the other way is if they are turning Andersen face, by having Bully lose and then insist on taking Ken's BFG spot. To bring Low Ki in for a one off match might have got a pop in Nashville and possibly Florida, but in Wichita, Texas, not too much.
Tomko: problem solver references aside, last time he showed up anywhere, the only shape he was in was round. Would have flopped.
Adam Pearce: I like Adam. Have met him a few times and he's a good guy with a lot of talent. He would have come out to crickets. In fact, in order to mask the silence, they probably would have used crickets as theme music.
Goldberg: the guy won't even get on board to do a DVD that the E is going to release anyway. Fact is, he'd have been paid more to contribute some face time to the DVD than he'd get from TNA, and given the 'cost cutting', the Jesse Sorensen fan boys would have shit kittens at everyTNA show.
Batista: well, he's filming a movie, so that's one strike. The only way this would have even been a remote possibility is if big Dave were to be going to Bellator, which would be a circus given he has one fight under his belt.
Lashley: he was the most likely of the 'big names' that were talked about. He could have legit gone to Bellator and done the cross promotion.
The bottom line is, really, the bottom line. Bellator and Spike are probably picking up a decent amount of the money being paid to Tito. Tito is a big recognized name that allows the use of Rampage to have a point. Before Wednesday when they announced Tito vs Rampage, I thought the crickets and Adam Pearce was the most likely. when Tito came out for Bellator, it became very obvious.