Reported by Adam Martin of WrestleView.com
On Monday, September 26, 2005 at 12:12 PM EST

Chris Cash sent in the following recap:

Joe E. Legend had the following to say in the TotalWrestling.net message boards after a member asked him about his run in TNA. You can check out the forums and ask questions to Legend and other wrestling personalities including Kevin Kelly, David Penzer, Kid Kash, D'Lo Brown, Barry Buchanan, April Hunter, Matt Morgan, and Mark Jindrak.

Joe E. Legend Response:

"...Jeff Jarrett is a no talent incompitant who is terrified that the rest of the world will find out this fact. He surrounds himself with sorry little hillbilly butt-kissers in the office who fear for their jobs so they rub themselves up against Jeff to stay on his good side. I came to TNA on the agreement that I would be getting a decent payoff for moving halfway around the world from Germany to work for the company. Jeff had seen me work for WWA on PPVs in Europe and New Zealand and said he had big plans for me as TNA was in a building process and was "weak in heavyweight talent not exposed by WWE".

I came in and was immediately put in to a program with Jeff near the top of the card. Every match, Jeff asked me to put everything together for him and let him know what he needed to do. To his credit, he usually followed through with most of my program and seemed to understand the psychology behind what I was trying to get across. However, when it was time to build me up and put me over Jeff to build some steam for a return, Jeff decided to lie to me and tell me that the show was running long and we had to cut things short to fit in to the PPVs allowed time. Instead of the 15-18 min we were supposed to do, we had to shorten it to 3 min. No heat for me and Jeff shines until I screw him with a cliched finish.

After the match I got heat from production. They wanted to know why we went so short and kept me from getting over as a killer. I explained Jeffs "time-constraint" arguement and apologised that I didn't have any time to do anything productive. They told me that this was impossible as the whole PPV went 10 min UNDER TIME!! Jeff simply didn't want to sell for me and then do a job. He's an unprofessional, no talent who simply kills every territory he cons his way on top of.

After this program I went back to Germany for the annual Hannover tournament and was assured a good spot on the TNA roster upon my return. By the time I got back to North America, Dutch (Jeffs boyfriend) Mantell took over the book and magically didn't have any idea what to do with me. Being I was just in a top tier program and had some kind of plausibility with the audience, I would imagine that someone in a CREATIVE position would be able to find something to do with me. In his genius, he saw that I had long, dark hair and a beard and so did Kevin Northcutt. He thought "even though it makes no sense what so ever, I'll take a guy we brought in as a killer and say that he used this as a springboard to a career in security".

I argued up and down, but was assured that they had "big plans" for Red Shirt Security. The officed was impressed that no matter how much they buried us, no matter how foolish they tried to make us look (ie. having their "monster" tag team have their butts handed to them by a football player... de-valuing everything every wrestler on the roster has accomplished and making wrestlers look second rate to any other kind of athlete out there... ON THEIR OWN SHOW!!) we were still able to generate heat in our matches. Instead of capitalising on this as a way of making money, they decided to run us in to the ground.

The final straw was when they had Jeff sucker-shot me with a guitar and then I did a promo on the way out of the arena stating how I would "make Jeff pay" (or words to that effect), and was preparing for a big comeback next week. Dutch decided it would be better to have me sit at home for a few weeks as it would "build heat". Think about that. Make sure people forget about me and make me look scared to get back at Jeff for suckering me.

Needless to say, Dutch is an idiot and between his booking and having Jeff on top, TNA has so far lost more than $20 million dollars. Now Jeff is back on top just in time for their Spike TV debut. The guy is money cancer and has the stench of failure with every promotion he's ever headlined for (Music City Wrestling- dead, WCW-dead, TNA-$20 million to the bad and worsening by the day, etc.). It's not that he's just so bad on his own, it's that he brings down everything he touches with him and would rather the promotion die with him on top than succeed with one of the actual talents he holds down getting pushed on top.

Scott D'amore is now the top guy in the office and I believe he's smart enough to book things with the fans first and push ego waaaaaaayy down the list. Unfortunately, he has to deal with the pressure Jeff gives Panda energy to put on him. I just hope that the Panda Energy people will really see a "cause and effect" scenario as the interest in the company dies as Jeffs time on camera broadens. With any reasonable amount of attention to the product, they should smarten up, fire Jeff, his dad and anyone he has pushing for him in the back. Just step back, give Scott the reigns and let him get the task underway of trying to salvage what's left of the promotion after Jeffs done screwing it up. There's a lot of talent on the roster who deserve better treatment and more TV time. I hope they get it before Panda gets fed up with flushing money down the toilet."