Source: Kayfabe Kick Out
Kid Kash recently did an interview with KayfabeKickOut.com and seemed to be soured on TNA. Here are the TNA excerpts, for more including his thoughts on WWE and other subjects check out the link.
Richard: You’ve worked for TNA in several occasions, do you agree with most wrestling fans when they compare TNA with WCW in terms of the lack of leadership and older stars still in top positions?
Kash: I do. They just keep recycling the same people over and over and and don’t push the ones who have actual talent in the locker room. And unless they drastically raise their budget they’ll continue on the same path. They don’t pay like any other “it” company. ECW paid me twice the amount as TNA ever did and that’s the truth.
Richard: Staying on the topic of TNA, who was your favorite wrestler to work with in the ring, and who was your least favorite?
Kash: I’d say my favorite would be Hernandez. He’s extremely talented for a man of his size. Austin Aries would be my least. His arrogance with calling a simple 5 to 10 minute match was ridiculous. Like pulling fucking teeth.
Richard: Do you think smaller wrestler’s like yourself have received a bad rap with regards to not being as over with fans as larger wrestlers?
Kash: I think that in the beginning TNA showed the true talent the smaller guys had which made the show, then somewhere in that 10 years that shifted. As far as talent we have it. With bigger guys there will be one out of 100 who have actual working ability. The thing I do know in this business is if the promoter wants you over to sell seats you will be. That’s up to the promoter. Politics is so crazy that if one person in the booking committee doesn’t agree, they don’t waste time and shit can it. There’s no hashing it out or working on it, it’s just done. They may bring it up again, but until that one pushes it you’ll be that shelf wrestler.
Typically, I comment on these stories by exposing the hypocrisy that ex-TNA wrestlers have for the promotion. And I think that would be easy to do here by simply saying that Kid Kash is no longer with TNA because, quite frankly, he doesn’t draw. And he speaks of how TNA keeps “recycling the same people over and over” when his in-ring style and approach to his character hasn’t changed in a decade.
Pot, meet the kettle.
But instead of going into more detail on the hypocrisy and inability to accept blame that so many ex-TNA wrestlers have, I think Kash gives us a GREAT example of a negative mindset that many of today’s performers have about the business. He says, ” The thing I do know in this business is if the promoter wants you over to sell seats you will be. That’s up to the promoter.”
Bullshit. The rise of The Rock, Stone Cold, and even someone like Goldberg in WCW all disprove Kash’s comment. There is a certain something that big stars have and you can’t duplicate that aura, that charisma. Kash doesn’t have it and he’s mad that TNA couldn’t force it on him. Like we’ve said before on this site – TNA is NOT WWE in that they don’t have a ready-made machine to push a character to the moon and back. In TNA, you have to earn every fan’s dollar and Kash just couldn’t cut it.
Which is a shame because I’m actually a fan of the guy.
Agreed. It’s very hypocritical of him, he was a “recycle” project as well. He can’t honestly look in the mirror and believe that he at 44 years old and a few steps slower than in his prime would have got a spot on a national tv wrestling program if not for his ECW fame.
It’s nuts how people act like using former stars is a bad thing. Imagine if the rest of the entertainment industry was like wrestling and people whined when a star got a second show years later, it’s nuts. “I can’t believe How I Met Your Mother is using Doogie Howser!”.