Posted February 19, 200619 yr comment_4538345 I was watching a couple of matches of Velocity yesterday and I just couldn't get over the fact that it seems this guy has a fulltime gig now. I really can't think of any positives to hiring the guy. Has the guy even had a really good singles match?
February 19, 200619 yr comment_4538755 He's rumored to be Matt Hardy's surprise tag team partner tonight. And, no, I don't see the upside to his rehiring.
February 19, 200619 yr Author comment_4539088 It'd be really sad to see him win a title tonight when he didn't hold one during his big run with the company a decade ago.
February 19, 200619 yr comment_4539202 Yeah but Ludvig isn't around anymore, so not Tatanka has a shot at gold!
February 19, 200619 yr comment_4539267 He's lost the weight he had the last time he made a cameo on TV, and he seemed to be decent in the matches I saw of his on Velocity. I don't think he's horrible, and considering how depleted SD is right now he'll be fine in a midcard role. Better him than another not-ready-for-primetime callup. I think we'll all be begging for more Tatanka matches when Giant Singh starts.
February 19, 200619 yr comment_4539365 Why not at least bring in a guy who actually got over when he was in his prime? Marty Jannety would have been a much better choice to keep around, rather than hiring Tatanka. Jannety knows how to work WWE style and he proved it with his strong showing against Angle before WM 22. Tatanka was never any good, as far as I can remember the only purpose he served was for Bobby Heenan to make jokes about.
February 19, 200619 yr comment_4539382 If Marty could have kept off the drugs, he probably would have had a job in WWE still since everyone was raving about his match with Angle. As it was, he got busted (again) soon after and got released.
February 20, 200619 yr comment_4542382 If Marty could have kept off the drugs, he probably would have had a job in WWE still since everyone was raving about his match with Angle. As it was, he got busted (again) soon after and got released. Dustin Rhodes beat the shit out of a woman like six months ago and got arrested, and that is way worse than anything Jannetty did, and they rehired him. I swear the Tatanka thing MUST be some kind of an inside joke that only like three people in the company are in on. It's just so random. I feel bad for Matt Hardy and all, but it was kind of funny to see everything WWE has done to him over the last six months be punctuated by a mystery tag team partner of Ta-fucking-tanka. Wackyness.
February 20, 200619 yr comment_4542398 You won't get an argument from me, but I'd imagine the way WWE looks at it Dustin's woman-beating isn't going to lead to him hurting himself or someone else in the ring and drugs could. I still don't see what the big deal is, I don't think Tatanka's going to be getting world title runs or main eventing PPVs. If anything he's someone who can job so guys you do like don't have to.
February 20, 200619 yr comment_4544434 There's also the fact that Dustin is related to a certain someone.
February 20, 200619 yr comment_4544470 True, but WWE has already established that woman-beating isn't a career ender.
February 20, 200619 yr comment_4544595 Under WWE's strange moral code, you're more likely to burn a bridge if you jump to the competition than you are if you beat women.
February 20, 200619 yr comment_4545164 What's this stuff about Jannetty being let go for drugs? I thought he was released after he was arrested for a "domestic dispute" with his girlfriend after being on probation for DUI. And I, or someone at least, is going to have to e-mail Meltzer and ask about this Tatanka thing.
February 21, 200619 yr comment_4547752 Why not at least bring in a guy who actually got over when he was in his prime? Marty Jannety would have been a much better choice to keep around, rather than hiring Tatanka. Jannety knows how to work WWE style and he proved it with his strong showing against Angle before WM 22. Tatanka was never any good, as far as I can remember the only purpose he served was for Bobby Heenan to make jokes about. Vince? Is that you?
February 21, 200619 yr comment_4547768 Marty Jannety would have been a much better choice to keep around, rather than hiring Tatanka. Jannety knows how to work WWE style and he proved it with his strong showing against Angle before WM 22. Oh my. Hi Shane.
February 21, 200619 yr comment_4547865 BTW, Marty's arrest info can be found here. Looks like he's been tagged as a three time DUI offender and was on probation when he got caught up in a domestic dispute and was sent to jail. He's on probation till 6/28/2007.
