TNA Star Shoots On WWE, NXT & Triple H At Evolve Show
Are WWE and TNA now feuding through Evolve?
The relationship between World Wrestling Entertainment and Evolve is confusing enough at the best of times, but it is fairly clear that the latter works as something of a developmental farm for the former. It has been reported that Evolve is to focus more on potential WWE-signees and will also be running more shows going forward.
Which makes it all the more peculiar that one of the top performers in TNA tody would show up at the Evolve 61 show in New York to deliver a promo that doesn't hold back in criticising all of the sacred cows of WWE. Ethan Carter III (ECIII) stormed the ring at the end of the show to stand alongside current TNA World Champion Drew Galloway, who had started something of an anti-NXT angle at recent shows.
ECIII's promo didn't exactly pull any punches. He referred to both Galloway and himself becoming world champions outside of WWE, claiming that 'The King of Kings' (Triple H, obviously, blew it). As various members of the Evolve roster rushed the ring Galloway and ECIII fought them off, as Carter warned them of the fate that awaits them in NXT.
Carter would go on to rag on the format of NXT he took part in and various individuals behind the scene, with Bill DeMott getting the brunt of it all. He finished up with by telling the assembled throng that, along with Galloway, he was 'the last bastion of the independents here. We are two men we werent failed football projects. We werent models. We werent body builders pulled out of a gym. We sure as hell werent anyones kids! We are two men who love this industry, who breathe this industry. To us this isnt a game this is our god damn lives.'
So does this mean TNA and WWE are now feuding under the Evolve banner? Is that what this is? We'll wait and see what happens next.