3. Better Luck Next Time Tapa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flpYGOgGuH0 Here's a good question, why should we care about anyone in TNA? Everyone just leaves, most of them without so much as giving us a goodbye or a friendly hug. Over the past 15 months, Hulk Hogan, Sting, A.J. Styles, Doc, Devon, Brooke Hogan, Joey Ryan, Christian York, Alex Silva, Crimson, Douglas Williams, Kid Kash, Matt Morgan, Taeler Hendrix, Tara, Jesse Sorensen, D'Lo Brown and Bruce Prichard were all released from the company, or had their contracts run out. All of these TV characters just went away, and were replaced with newer, cheaper talent. For the past six months, Lei'd Tapa was the Tamina Snuka to Gail Kimm's AJ Lee. Was it a great pairing? Nah. But there was no story to the breakup. Just last week they split up without any signs of prior tension between the two, and then this week they fought in a match with the added stipulation (with no advanced hype) that if Tapa lost she'd have to leave the company. How is that fair? Why did she even agree to that? Well, considering she didn't utter a single word in her entire run we just don't know. MVP sure dropped the ball on booking that match! Just think about the strange tale of Tapa for a second. She originally got her job after losing to Ivelisse in a match. Ivelisse, despite winning, did not get hired. Tapa then wrestled two singles matches in her entire run, and then had Kimm turn on her with no build-up and left the next week. You just never know what's going to happen next in TNA, and 9 out of 10 times that's not a good thing. Maybe Mike Tenay will turn on Taz next week and reform the NWO the week after that, that would make about as much sense as this did.
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