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TNA Star Says WWE Blacklisted Him; Working With Paul Bearer,
Being Hated &More
DIR By: tnafanforum
Date: June 12, 2015, 1:36 pm
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TNA star and member of The Rising Eli Drake appeared on the
Pancakes and Powerslams Show to talk over his career. Drake also
recalls when the WWE had blacklisted him from the company, and
recounts Paul Bearer leaving items for him when he passed away.
You can see the highlights below:
Working with Paul Bearer:
"He was always very welcoming. Almost ecstatic to give advice or
some sort of direction. I can remember many times I was at a
crossroads of what I want to do or where I want to go, "Should I
do this?" "Should I do this?" And, I trusted him because he's
done so much in his career and been so many places that I would
send him a message – email, Facebook, something – and he would
give me the most thought-out answer, and express extreme
gratitude on the end that I was even asking; he seemed so
touched and happy at the fact that I was asking him these
questions. So to get that kind of attention is incredible;
especially from a guy who has done as much as he has."
"To take that one step further, when Percy (Pringle) passed
away, he made a specific point to leave a message for me and a
package of some things to give me. He just wanted to say that he
loved me and that I was going to do big things, and don't give
up. You know, the man knew he was going to pass away, and he was
thinking of me in that time. That's incredible. Growing up with
that guy on my TV and now the fact that, you know, he spent the
last three years with me going to the ring, and he thinking of
me at a time where it's gonna be his last moments on earth, and
I pop into his mind. That's incredible."
WWE blacklisting him:
"I was on the black list there for a while. One of the guys who
used to work in Talent Relations – I'll leave him nameless – he
got fired around early 2012, apparently not very liked in the
back anyway; I guess he was kind of a jerk to a lot of people,
for whatever reason, would bury me in the office. So I was kind
of just, nobody could touch me; nobody would touch me. So for a
lot of years it was frustration and wondering what I'm working
toward and why isn't these guys taking my calls. And I finally
started getting some of the details of why this guy was burying
me. There was talk of them picking me up in 2011, I was there
for SummerSlam, and then and the follow-up Raw and SmackDown,
and everything went incredibly well. But all of a sudden it was
like radio silence on their end and I hadn't quite understood
why until I spoke to this person, and he was like, "Well, we're
gonna go in a different direction." I'm like, "OK?" and he's
like, "You can check out Ring of Honor or TNA or whatever."
"So I think maybe five months after I had spoken to him on the
phone, he'd gotten fired, which was a great day for me. I don't
wanna see anyone lose their job, but if you've keeping me out of
a job, here's to ya. So, I was more than happy to see him go.
And so this new guy comes in, and the beauty of it is that with
the footage I had from (Championship Wrestling from Hollywood),
I would take some of this great-looking television footage that
was on every week and put it together with a short little
paragraph just introducing myself and a resume and some photos.
Emailed it to this guy and he immediately responded to me and
was interested but then found out that I was on this blacklist
or whatever. So for the next few months I had to just wait and
keep trying to establish this rapport. Eventually, these tryouts
kept getting pushed off. First he offered me a tryout until he
found out that I was on the blacklist. Then, a few months later
I got offered a tryout but simultaneously, I also was offered a
TNA tryout. So, my TNA tryout was on a Thursday and my WWE
tryout was actually that following Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday. I was ecstatic because I have the two biggest
companies vying for me and it's perfect. Thursday I go into
Impact and that goes well, then Sunday I get an email and I'm
told that I can't come to the (WWE) tryout. They couldn't say
why, but I'm pretty certain it was because there was a lawsuit
going on between TNA and WWE at the time."
#Post#: 30928--------------------------------------------------
Re: TNA Star Says WWE Blacklisted Him; Working With Paul
Bearer, Being Hated &More
DIR By: mrmrmr
Date: June 12, 2015, 5:58 pm
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Ok what does it mean when WWE blacklist u
#Post#: 30951--------------------------------------------------
Re: TNA Star Says WWE Blacklisted Him; Working With Paul
Bearer, Being Hated &More
DIR By: sharkboy1200
Date: June 13, 2015, 11:22 am
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--- Quote from: mrmrmr link ---
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> Ok what does it mean when WWE blacklist u
>
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A company blacklisting someone means they won't hire them. It's
a universal term for many, if not all, industries.
#Post#: 30970--------------------------------------------------
Re: TNA Star Says WWE Blacklisted Him; Working With Paul
Bearer, Being Hated &More
DIR By: tnafan
Date: June 13, 2015, 3:29 pm
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--- Quote from: sharkboy1200 link ---
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> [quote author=mrmrmr link=topic=7112.msg30928#msg30928
date=1434149930]
> Ok what does it mean when WWE blacklist u
>
--- End Quote ---
A company blacklisting someone means they won't hire them. It's
a universal term for many, if not all, industries.
[/quote] not like he is never going to get work.. WWE have got
to get it in their head their is so many brands people can go to
now days after WWE.. Places like JAPAN , ROH, TNA, PCW and so on
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Re: TNA Star Says WWE Blacklisted Him; Working With Paul
Bearer, Being Hated &More
DIR By: tnagirl
Date: June 13, 2015, 6:06 pm
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The bucks are one that comes to my mind when I think about a guy
who did not need WWE to come big
#Post#: 31022--------------------------------------------------
Re: TNA Star Says WWE Blacklisted Him; Working With Paul
Bearer, Being Hated &More
DIR By: mrmrmr
Date: June 14, 2015, 3:40 pm
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I am not a fan of him anyway . He is not the best worker
#Post#: 31105--------------------------------------------------
Re: TNA Star Says WWE Blacklisted Him; Working With Paul
Bearer, Being Hated &More
DIR By: tnafan
Date: June 15, 2015, 11:07 am
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He is no big time player and I am not a fan of his work . He is
a good worker on the mic but that is it really
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