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Other News: Chris Harris stuck in no-man's land - says why he hated WWE; screwed for TNA return Jan 11, 2009 - 2:33:28 PM
Former TNA tag team champion Chris Harris left TNA in 2008 searching for greener pastures after his post-AMW singles run in TNA resulted in an unsatisfactory experience.
Harris wound up in WWE and was quickly brought to the ECW brand where Harris claims he was set up for failure.
"When I got there they changed everything - my personality, my look, my name," Harris said on the Monday Night Mayhem radio show. He added that it was the most miserable experience of his life and only resolved the "what if?" question in his head.
Harris says he was brought into WWE and didn't expect to be thrust on camera when he debuted on ECW TV in July 2008. He claims WWE gave him 20 minutes to come up with a new look and name before going out for his debut match against Armando Estrada.
"These guys are supposed to be pros, it's a billion dollar company, and for them to just throw me out there like that, I think it was set up to fail," Harris said. He added that the quick gear and look change is where "I got that stupid singlet."
As for a return to TNA, Harris says he wasn't thinking about that when he left for WWE. There were creative differences, which was turned into an Impact storyline of him always complaining about not having enough TV time. Now, discussions haven't turned out well for Harris to return to TNA, where he picked up his first national exposure.
"They're not feeling the same way (about a return) because they're a little bit more pissed off than I thought," Harris said. He closed that he hopes he can still have some sort of working relationship with TNA in the future.
Harris' problem was that he was kept off TV for several months and trained
down in FCW to get in shape and when they finally used him he looked like
he has spent those months drinking beer and eating McDonalds. The guy has
no right to complain after the way he looked. They had to make him wear a
singlet to hide his freaking gut. Not to mention he showed a total lack of
charsima and talent. Thank god TNA is pissed at him, now we don't need to
see him on TV at all. Sorry 'bout your damn luck Chris.
I don't think tna will re-sign him. JB, Alex Shelley and mick foley have
slammed him on the various spin cycles on the tna website. tna will be
crazy to re-sign a guy who is bland and dull as a knife. good luck, chris
and it pays to be rude.(roode).
Rex Reed
11 Jan 2009, 11:16
I feel Chris Harris got what he deserved,If anyone wants to discuss this
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robbie
11 Jan 2009, 14:26
Thats what wwe does. They hire in talent from other orgs not because they
have any real intention of using them They just want to get them away from
the other company. Thats how they ran ECW out of business.
jackson
11 Jan 2009, 14:31
Storm was the better of the two in Tna. Chris harris should have seen what
they did to monty brown and soon will do to r truth. If vince didnt make
you you are nothing. I never heard about rtruths heavy weight title reign
mentioned on wwe tv.
Vince
11 Jan 2009, 15:13
robbie, you're totally wrong. What everybody else said is correct.
tim
11 Jan 2009, 17:16
seriously, that's what wwe does. they take outside talent and paint them as
inferior to show that their "superstars" are so much better. it took
booker t, a former wcw champion years to get over in wwe. jericho came
over from wcw and was immediately jobbing to the road dogg. this is why
the wcw invasion failed misersably. vince's ego. no tna talent will
succeed in wwe. ever. joe, aj, none of them. those two, at best, would be
an ecw champion or at best, five years in, an ic champ.
robbie
11 Jan 2009, 17:50
I wasn't disagreeing with anything anyone else said. WWE hires talent from
other orgs, not because they plan on using them but because they want to
get the other orgs talent away from them. Its a small price to pay for WWE
in order to hurt other orgs.
Vince
11 Jan 2009, 19:23
Jericho needed to be built into a main eventer; he wasn't going to be a
main eventer right away in WWE. Furthermore, he had some initial heat in
the locker room.
Booker is a different story. He went from being a big fish in a small WCW
pond to being among superior talents in WWE. WCW was awful when Booker was
champ there.
CM Punk was in TNA, and he's already been ECW Champ and World Heavyweight
Champ in WWE.
Finally, as far as the invasion goes, Booker was the only guy worth a damn
among the WCW "talent."
Gregg
12 Jan 2009, 07:48
Couldn't agree more about Chris Harris. A decent wrestler, but lacks any
charisma to be a serious singles wrestler in WWE or TNA. Not to mention, he
was getting pretty fat towards the end of his TNA days; which also seem to
follow and hurt him in WWE.
Vince never had any intention of making this guy into anything. It was to
get him out of TNA than bury him. Even JR alluded to it on his blog, by
basically indicating, albeit sugarcoated, that Harris would need to "work
extremely hard" to make it in WWE. Bascially implying that TNA and WWE are
two different worlds.
I liked "Wildcat" but it's clear if he's not part of a tag-team he can't
draw individually. However, I wouldn't mind seeing some kind of "surprise"
return where he comes back and rips WWE.
Jonny
13 Jan 2009, 03:18
Beer Money Inc. is way better then AMW.....................but AMW had a
way better name lol.
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Former TNA tag team champion Chris Harris left TNA in 2008 searching for greener pastures after his post-AMW singles run in TNA resulted in an unsatisfactory experience.
