As a member of the TNA Wrestling roster in 2008, Booker T by no means imagined {that a} partnership between TNA and WWE may type. Quick ahead to 2024, nevertheless, and that partnership is now a actuality, with expertise from each firms crossing over to the opposite on a number of events. On a latest episode of “Perception With Chris Van Vliet,” Booker T, now a commentator on “WWE NXT,” defined why this collaboration is useful for the entire events concerned.
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“Now I can see [WWE working with TNA] simply because TNA shouldn’t be a menace,” Booker stated. “I feel having the ability to cross promote and work with an organization like TNA, it advantages the expertise greater than something. I feel it helps the corporate keep alive and their markets that they do have, they’re gonna maintain, they are not gonna go wherever now simply because they see the collaboration. So I feel it is a good factor for everyone, simply because all people shouldn’t be gonna have the ability to work in WWE at one time and have the ability to get shine. It is simply not gonna occur.”
Just lately, the WWE-TNA relationship has yielded the crossovers of NXT’s Izzi Dame and TNA’s Joe Hendry, in addition to the reunion of The Rascalz (Wes Lee, Trey Miguel, and Zachary Wentz). Within the case of Dame, her look got here within the type of an unsuccessful problem to TNA Knockouts Champion Jordynne Grace on the July 11 episode of “Impression.” Former TNA Digital Media Champion Joe Hendry returned to “NXT” final week in a tag match alongside former NXT Champion Trick Williams.
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