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| Totally buy sunglasses from her Photo Credit: TNAWrestling.com |
This is kind of an old article, posted in September of this year, but I just stumbled upon it thanks to the AIW Facebook page. Some of the stuff written here about the way TNA treats its workers is downright appalling. The underpaid female thing may be par for the course with the rest of America, but I doubt the WWE is underpaying its Divas like TNA is its Knockouts. I mean, Taylor Wilde (and her delicious bustline with plunging tops) was working at the fucking Sunglass Hut? Gail Kim goes to the WWE because TNA offered her less than what I make at my day job WITHOUT covering travel expenses? That's fucking low.
What's most galling to me is the stuff about medical benefits. Here's an excerpt:
On the F4W message board Dave Meltzer, in a discussion about WWE, TNA and promoter responsibility, painted a frightening picture of TNA, a company which citing budget reasons refuses to outright pay for medical costs or surgery for injuries that occur on their watch...ECW, a company that was hemhorraging money so bad at the end that paychecks were bouncing, still paid for wrestler injuries suffered on their watch and TNA, a company that as soon as you bring up their "money problems" as reported by Bryan Alvarez the fanboys will immediately say "Alvarez is biased! TNA's doing well!", doesn't.
TNA is not an indie group: they are a national promotion, with a well-paying television deal, big name stars and a multi-million dollar budget. A wrestler refusing to go to hospital despite desperately needing to because he cannot afford it is utterly disgraceful. Offering to loan them the money isn’t generous either, many of the undercard don’t make much money anyway, and taking money out, on top of all the other expenses would leave many of them with little or nothing. Even the frequently demonized WWE pays for this without question, and no-one is about to accuse the folks at WWE of being too nice for their own good. WCW did too. As did ECW, despite spending most of its nine year existence languishing in a financial quagmire, and never having the backing of a billion- dollar energy company.
TNA is doomed to fail, but you know what? They deserve it, even if only a quarter of the things in that commentary are true.
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