2. Chavo Guerrero Talks About TNA Almost Firing Him After “Feast Or Fired” Storyline
During a recent interview with WrestlingInc, Chavo Guerrero talked about TNA Wrestling almost firing him after “Feast or Fired” storyline. Below is what he said:
“You know what? It’s the craziest thing. They didn’t tell anybody. All of a sudden you’re in a storyline and you get to work that day and you’re in this match called a Feast of Fired Match. Four briefcases on poles, three have title matches, one has a pink slip. So we did it, and after that match a production guy came up to me like ‘are you leaving?’ and I ask what he’s talking about, so there’s obviously some inside scoop there. I start thinking that this can’t be right. I ask ‘is that the way you guys are letting me go?’ I was pissed. It was very underhanded and conniving, and unprofessional. One of the most unprofessional things I’ve had happen in the wrestling business.
After that happened I talked to my lawyer and he looked over the contract, and he said they can’t do that. There’s a clause in my contract that prohibited something like that. I went to them, and a good friend of mine was Bruce Prichard, who was in talent relations and had also been let go unprofessionally. I called him up and asked if they could do this, and he said no way. My lawyer CC’d his lawyer and CC’d everybody, and said ‘you guys can’t do that.’
We came to a mutual understanding to part ways, because out relationship is a little burned and won’t be the same, but I had some say-so in how it was done. Usually I don’t. It left a really bad taste in my mouth. You treat a talent like that? I came in from a wrestling family and from WWE, I was on the booking committee helping out and all these different things, and you’re doing that? I didn’t want to work for them after that anyway. I’d probably never want to work for a company like that ever again.”
