James Storm Recalls Getting Fined In The Bischoff/Hogan TNA Era For Speaking Up About Younger Talent

The Hulk Hogan/Eric Bischoff era of TNA was certainly interesting, though fans can pick and choose their own descriptive terms to summarise these years in a less PG fashion if they’d wish. During this time, many old-timers were given a lot of focus on TNA programming including the likes of Hogan, Mick Foley, Ric Flair, Kevin Nash, Booker T, Eric Bischoff, and more, with many of the younger and more talented names trying to fight their way to notoriety lower down the card.

Someone who achieved plenty of success in TNA over the years, James Storm, recently recalled incidents on Insight With Chris Van Vliet where he was fined for speaking his mind about the lack of opportunities received by the younger talent. Despite being asked to cut promos from the heart, he had the scorn of Bischoff sent his way. 

“I remember I got in trouble. I got fined. Of course, I got fined so many times, just because I did a promo where I was saying, ‘The days of someone coming out here and talking for 30 minutes and taking up time for the younger generation is over. These people are paying to see the people that have brought this company to the forefront’ and all this.

“I remember Bischoff calling me. He’s like, ‘Why would you say that?’ Blah, blah, blah. I’m like, ‘Well, you asked me to speak from the heart, this is what I believe. This is what all of us kind of built this company on, is priding ourselves going out there and working.’ Then when I start seeing Hogan not really plugging TNA, when he would do these talk shows and everything, he would talk about everything else, except for TNA wrestling, it’s like, that’s what they’re paying you all this money for? So that’s when I was just like, all right, this is not good.” 

Hogan and Bischoff once again joined forces recently to form the American Freestyle Wrestling company. 

H/T WrestlingNews.Co

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