4. Former WWE Writer Talks About WWE Stealing TNA’s Final Deletion Idea
Below is what former WWE writer Kevin Eck wrote about TNA’s Final Deletion match and WWE’s New Day/Wyatt Family compound fight being very similar:
“Very few of us on the team watched Impact or had any knowledge of what was happening on the show. In fact, a number of writers had never even seen a single episode of it and were only familiar with WWE. Speaking for myself, I watched TNA on occasion during those years, but I also went months at a time without seeing it.
On the rare occasion that someone on the team unknowingly pitched an idea that resembled a TNA angle and another member of the team pointed it out, the response from the powers that be in WWE was: ‘Who cares what TNA is doing?’
The feeling was that we know we’re not stealing their idea, so if we want to shoot an angle, we’re not going to nix the idea just because it may be similar to a TNA angle.”
