Let the Bloodletting Begin...

Holy cow, does it feel like WWE is in disarray right about now. For those of you who care, they've released no less than ten members of their roster in the space of the past few days:

-Billy Gunn, former member of DX and 10 year veteran of the company

-A-Train, big bull of a guy who never really did much

-Test, former "fiancee" of Stephanie and Stacy Keibler's real-life main squeeze

-Nidia, co-winner of the first Tough Enough

-Rodney Mack, relative rookie and Jazz's husband

-Jazz, because we wouldn't want Mack to be lonely, I guess

-Gail Kim, ANOTHER pretty talented female wrestler

-Chuck Palumbo, former tag team champion

-Johnny Stamboli, member of the Full Blooded Italians

-Rico, really talented worker who actually looked like he was starting to get over

Man alive, that's a lot of people right there. I mean, sure, none of them are drawing serious money for WWE right now, but NO ONE is, including Vinnie's beloved son-in-law, HHH. I mean, a lot of them were never even given the CHANCE to get over. Here's Rico, who's older than most of the roster, sure, but he's a good worker and a great personality, who has worked hard for years in middling roles, and now, just as he's finally starting to carve out a niche for himself on Smackdown, he's given the boot. What amazing short-sightedness.

What this comes down to is that profits are down, morale is down, and the stories the product is telling pretty much all stink. So, naturally, rather than an overhaul on the CREATIVE side, the first impulse is to cut workers, while we're STILL trying to insist that the stupid "brand extension" nonsense hasn't been a colossal failure, and we're trying to fully cast two weekly two hour shows, not to mention the secondary shows that air every weekend. And, not to mention, we've been trying to have two PPVs per month over the past few months, both for full price.

And all this while Vince McMahon apparently still pays himself in the neighborhood of $10 million a year, and allows his precious son-in-law to dominate his product.

There's a company called TNA that's having its first 3-hour PPV this Sunday. "Victory Road." I highly encourage any and all wrestling fans to check it out. Not only because it features good workers (which it does), spotlights much more interesting action (which it has), and has no sign of HHH (which it doesn't, though it does have Jeff Jarrett, who's becoming pretty bad, as well). But because I think it's crucial that wrestling fans get behind something, ANYTHING else right now. Because WWE needs competition, or, I fear, this art form, which I hold very dear, may never recover.