TNA Wrestling has released ex-Women's champion Angelina Love (aka Angel Williams) from the company, reports PWInsider.com, in what amounts to a stunning blow to TNA's Knockouts division.
The TNA Knockout and one half of the The Beautiful People tag team had a work visa that was either about to expire or had already expired. Without a valid work visa, TNA can not legally employ the Canadian national anywhere in the United States, making her an effective non-entity.
Love's release comes at an inopportune time for TNA. The entire concept of a women's tag team title was built around the notoriety achieved by The Beautiful People faction of Love and partner Velvet Sky. Without Love and her heel skill set, the act no longer exists. Since Love can't even get a final write-off, TNA won't get a fair resolution of her storyline.
If/when Angelina Love can get her visa issue resolved, TNA could still bring her back into its fold. Of course with Love now a free agent, WWE would also have the same opportunity. Ultimately though, Angelina Love has to take care of her own legal concerns before she can resume her path to pro wrestling stardom.
TNA releases Angelina Love due to work visa issue
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ODB wins TNA Women's title in intergender tag farce
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ODB and her partner/storyline boyfriend Cody Deaner defeated Angelina Love & Velvet Sky in a TNA Hard Justice PPV intergender tag for ODB to become the new TNA Women's champion.
If my wording seems vague, it's because the scenario was too. The originally announced singles match for the Knockouts title was changed to a bizarre intergender tag, which Deaner won for his team by pinning Sky. After ODB was announced as the champion, Deaner to physical possession of the title belt and ran off.
The match itself made a joke out of sexual harassment, a bizarre line of booking considering the Kurt Angle situation. Even apart from that though, having the title decided in such a manner made a joke out of a once credible women's division.
Blame can be laid on one Vince Russo whose 'unfiltered' booking shined throughout the PPV, leading to disputed finishes in most of the major title matches. As close as I can figure out though, Samoa Joe won the X title over Homicide and Kevin Nash beat Mick Foley to regain the Legends title.
Angelina Love scores disputed pin to regain TNA Women's title
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Angelina Love pinned Tara in the opener of the TNA Victory Road PPV to regain the promotion's Knockout Women's title, though not without more than a little controversy. Tara (fka Victoria) had her foot draped on the bottom rope during Love's pinfall attempt but referee Slick Johnson counted her down anyway.
The referee claimed to have simply not seen Tara's foot on the rope which would have broken the count. However, a later segment on the pay-per-view implied that the good referee had instead received a sexual favor from Love's Beautiful People stablemate Madison Rayne in exchange for the bogus decision.
At any rate, the title switch back to Angelina Love comes as a surprise, airing only ten days after Tara's pretaped victory for the title had been shown on Impact. In real time, Tara's title reign lasted 24 days.
