God

Before even more new talent debutes in TNA lets rate the current bunch of former WWE employee's.

Grading Scale:
A+ Major Success.
A Very Successful.
A- Succful.
B+ Well worth the chance.
B Worth the chance.
B- Good, but not great.
C+ Good enough.
C Just about good enough.
C- Should be better.
D+ Not worth the chance.
D Not worth the spot on the roster.
D- Not worth anything.
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E Failure.
F Massive Failure.

N/A No rating for whatever reason.

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Christian Cage A+
His promo's are nearly always gold & he always puts on solid matches.

Kurt Angle A
He's not as good as he used to be, but still very close.

Rhino B
He can slot in anywhere and its believable. Main event to lower mid card.

Scott Steiner B-
He can be brilliant with promo's but then be awful with wrestling. He has however shown enough to get a high enough grade.

Rick Steiner D+
He is clearly out of shape so an F would be in order. But he has been retired for the last ten years so i cut him a little slack.

Kip James D
When he started as The Outlaw he was enjoyable. When he was cutting the early VKM promo skits, he was enjoyable. Other than that he's been awful.

Tomko C
Without Cage i think Mr. Tomko will struggle a lot. He needs to improve his mic skills to keep his job if he & Cage are ever split up.

Black Reign / Dustin Rhodes D
This gimmick has to go somewhere fast. Right now it just seems like a Goldust rip-off.

Team 3D C-
If they hadent turned heel it would be a lot lower. Team 3D excele as heel's & for the life of me i dont know why it took so long for them to turn.

Matt Morgan N/A
He hasent even wrestled. Doesnt look like he will either.

Andrew Martin N/A
He's only had one match. But he could go on to be a successful signing.



Clearly i havent rated everyone who once worked for Vince as i feel Raven, Ron Killings, BG James etc are under the TNA banner now. The guys i have rated have all joined in the last two or so years.

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Balla

u dont consider kip james under the tna banner yet? he joined up when i started watching tna, that was a while ago but on to the topic couldn't agree with u more, but i would give angle an F due to personal reasons

God

Not yet. He has been in TNA for a little over two years. Had he joined a couple of months earlier and i wouldent have included him. Next time round he wont be.

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Tyler Durden

Nice idea God, I've just started watchig TNA again, so my opinion isn't nearly as valid, but I'll have a bash too.


A+ Major Success.
A Very Successful.
A- Succful.
B+ Well worth the chance.
B Worth the chance.
B- Good, but not great.
C+ Good enough.
C Just about good enough.
C- Should be better.
D+ Not worth the chance.
D Not worth the spot on the roster.
D- Not worth anything.
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E Failure.
F Massive Failure.

N/A No rating for whatever reason.

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Christian Cage B+
Has carried on with what we already knew (except Vince) that is an excellent talent that was severly underused in his previous incarnation. My only problems with him, and it's a TNA, not Cage, problem is that (as with so many others) he never was allowed to have clean wins as the heel on top of the group. I think that hurt him being able to be seen as a genuine wrestling main eventer especially as he very desperately needed this.

Kurt Angle B-
I'm pleased for him if he is truly happy now, especially if he's able to be healthier. I dislike the current storyline greatly. However he is performing well enough and lends a level of credibility to TNA as a group that they didn't have previously.

Rhino C-
Should be a lot better. Not so much his fault, he's proven that he has learnt to cut better promos in TNA and is a heck of a talent in the ring. Just grossly misused, you only need to look at his win/loss record over the last couple of years to see that. He's basically jobber to the upper mid carders.

Scott Steiner A-
Way way better than he thought he would ever be again. Of course, he has to be limited, but WWE really dropped the ball on their use of this guy. Used correctly, he could have made them a lot of money. Being put in with the boss's son for very lengthy matches at a time when Hunter was not excelling was totally the wrong way to go.

Rick Steiner F
Absolutely useless. Hated him ten years ago, still hate him now. He is there because Scott is there. He is Scott's version of Karen Angle!

Kip James D
The guy is way past his sell by date. Never was much of a fan, his only real career success came on the back of Road Dog's mic work and the DX gloss over. He's never been up to anything outside of that.

Tomko C
Worth perservering with but will likely never (for me) be anything beyond Cage's bodyguard.

Black Reign / Dustin Rhodes E
The guy is good on the mic, but I already hate this gimmick. Plus he is hugely out of shape. It's a shame because he's not exactly old yet, if he could get in the shape he made in 2002/3 then with his mic work he'd be an excellent mid carder, but he flat out phails in this run so far.

Team 3D D
They're okay but nothing more. Sweet jesus they've gotten so fat! They're time has gone, just save money and let them go.

Matt Morgan N/A
Shame if they don't use him, I used to see him in OVW and he's much the better big man than someone like Tomko. Good on the mic when allowed to be too (kinda ironic that WWE took that away from him with the stutter gimmick)

Andrew Martin N/A
Hoepfully things will go well. I always kind of liked Test in a warped kinda way so it'll be interesting to see how this develops.

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