ace cuts tres twice

I yelled “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” at my computer when I saw the latest bunch of cuts, by the way. Even if you don’t agree that Gail, Nidia and Chuck are useful, you can laugh and the complete lack of even short term planning going on

– Chuck gets a higher profile match than usual and mic time, a first since jumping to RAW
– Gail attacks Lita to help Trish (you do it with someone else or you do the same as the Shelton/Vis stuff if you know she’s gone on Monday)
– Nidia is going to be on Heat THIS SUNDAY unless they cut things

I don’t know the slightest things about these people, so this is baseless speculation, but I’d guess Chuck shows up in a lot of those legend reunion type shows and gets occasional TNA work, Gail wrestles a bit north of the border and is a recurring name on women-only shows for now, and Nidia only shows up spordically.

They’re not saving a lot of money with these cuts; Palumbo had to be working cheap to be kept around since they could have anyone or no one for his spot, Nidia started with the big Tough Enough contract but had to redo it to be kept around, and you didn’t have to wind up Meltzer much for him to go on about “women wrestlers are getting paid under six digits (before expenses) and are stuck riding four to a car just to break even.”

Maybe you can turn 3 full time cuts in to 5 developmental deals, but I don’t really know (or know which five people you’d give deals to.) I think this is move, as opposed to last cut, is more a deck clearing move to open up spaces for new characters to be booked horribly.

Since everyone’s guessing, I’ll throw out Stamboli, Danny Basham, and the offical release of Linda Miles as the next threesome cut. Though I was guessing Maria takes Ivory’s place based on Monday, so maybe her too?