Twenty-four hours after he was arrested for stalking his current (or is it ex-?) girlfriend, Trenesha Biggers, and for driving with a suspended license, Kurt Angle was punished by TNA by being allowed to keep his TNA World Championship. Yeah, sorry if it's hard for me to hide my sarcasm, but that's a bigger joke than anything this sorry excuse for a wrestling company has done in the last year, whether it be having one broken down old geezer defeat another broken down old geezer for the World Title while several able bodied young potential franchise players were running around going all emo about how they couldn't live up to Jeff Jarrett's standards or threatening people with knives after painting dicks on their faces. A bigger joke than all the "__________ on a Pole" matches they've run. A bigger joke than the 2349823th rehash of the nWo storyline, even more watered down than the last rehash.
Any other company would have at the very least taken the title off of him. You could have argued that it was a lose-lose-lose situation, given that his challengers were one of the aforementioned broken down old geezers (Sting) and possibly the worst wrestler in the company (Matt Morgan), but at this point, I'd have taken either one of them over a potential Benoit situation by doing nothing with Angle. TNA shows that they clearly don't care about their wrestlers, because if they did, they would have taken Angle off the show and mandated rehab, therapy, counseling, SOMETHING that would curb this at-risk behavior that he's been showing his entire fucking career.
From here on in, it will be very difficult to take this company seriously. Wrestling isn't an industry notorious for loving care shown to its performers. However, at least the WWE has a Wellness Program in place (a paper tiger you could argue, but still more than TNA does) and actually disciplines its wrestlers for fucking up legally. Until TNA imitates the WWE in this regard instead of just for the in-ring product, it'll remain a joke.
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