WWE Hall Of Famer’s Role In TNA Completely Abandoned

Slammiversary was a huge night for TNA Wrestling, but one WWE Hall of Famer has now revealed that their role in the show was pulled.

Slammiversary saw Trick Williams retain the TNA World Championship against both Mike Santana and Joe Hendry as the WWE star kept TNA’s top title. It was more bad news for TNA earlier in the night as NXT Women’s Champion Jacy Jayne captured the TNA Knockouts Title from Masha Slamovich.

A huge tag team match was made for Bound For Glory as WWE Hall of Famer Bully Ray confronted The Hardys. But it seems another WWE Hall of Famer was surplus to requirements.

Ex-WWE Champion No Longer Needed In TNA

Speaking on the Something To Wrestle podcast, JBL revealed that he had originally been part of TNA’s plans for Slammiversary before his involvement in the company was completely dropped:

Last night at the show I was supposed to be there initially and I was originally supposed to have…really a part that people wouldn’t have believed how big it was. That did not work out. The reason that got ended in TNA, it wasn’t because of me..it was a decision made by someone that was no longer there.

I was supposed to have a real escalation of what we were doing in TNA. We had the whole thing planned out…all that stuff was going somewhere. I told everybody it was and it was, it was going somewhere and I thought it was. I was very, very excited about it. I was training for it, I got in really good shape for it. I was ready to go and then they called me one day and said hey, we’re changing our mind.

And that’s their prerogative…the person that said it is no longer there and what they changed to it never happened…I never got brought back into it after that. There is a reason it all kind of got put on, not on the backburner, taken off the burner completely.

JBL did note that the decision to abandon his storyline in TNA was not made by Tommy Dreamer or current company president, Carlos Silva.